Daniel, ~ma for your ma. And massive hugs to Maria and Strix and anyone else who needs them.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Sue - Jan 16, 2013 3:35:54 am PST #25029 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Zenkitty - Jan 16, 2013 3:45:13 am PST #25030 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Maria, please don't even think about holding back here. This is the safe place where you can say the things you'd never ever say anywhere else. No one's judging you badly for it.
Strix, good GRIEF. Were you just going through your quota of illness for the next five years to get it all over with at once? I'm glad you're finally getting your spoons back!
My life is pleasantly dull by comparison. The biggest thing going on here is painting my house. The inside, that is. It's time to get rid of the renter's-special boring ecru and pick my own colors. I'm finally starting to feel like this is MY house, not just another place I'm living in for a while.
Strix - Jan 16, 2013 3:47:34 am PST #25031 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Doc says I am germ-free, just recovering like a Victorian maiden.
I have put in a load of dishes and laundry, taken out the office trash and recycling, drank some Harney's Tower of London tea, and I think I must have a lie-down before I shower or try anything else.
Baby steps -- this left me utterly buggered.
Strix - Jan 16, 2013 3:51:39 am PST #25032 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Zen, it felt like it. It was ridiculous, and I was doing EVERYTHING right to feel better. Just kept snowballing, and making me feel like Job.
And M, poor noodle, had the pinkeye(one eye), and the flu, too, when he got back to the coast, albeit less severely, thanks be.
Laura - Jan 16, 2013 4:00:15 am PST #25033 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Germ free - well in that case, tacklehug!
Nora Deirdre - Jan 16, 2013 4:35:37 am PST #25034 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Yikes, Strix! Thanks for checking in here- I was worried about you. Gentle hugs to aid your recovery.
{{Maria}} hugs for it all; and pointing to the wise things said before me. And the best buds thing- people (like this Katie) sometimes look for drama to enrich their lives. And having an acquaintance who tragically passed away is an easy in for their own self-mythologizing. I bet you a nickel that's all her and her issues.
WindSparrow - Jan 16, 2013 4:45:49 am PST #25035 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Ah, Strix... allgergic reaction to eye drops... may not be the worst thing, but it definitely makes a Top Twenty list. Do be gentle with yourself.
Steph L. - Jan 16, 2013 5:07:25 am PST #25036 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
but when I didn't even know about her but they were "best buds,"
And the best buds thing- people (like this Katie) sometimes look for drama to enrich their lives. And having an acquaintance who tragically passed away is an easy in for their own self-mythologizing. I bet you a nickel that's all her and her issues.
My opinion? They weren't. I know there are probably lots of things you didn't know about Rob, but this isn't one of them. She sounds like the kind of person who enthusiastically decides that some person is her BFF 4EVah!!1!, when the other person is like, "Eh? Uh, yeah, I know her."
It's all from her POV, and, despite not knowing her or Rob, I would bet good money it's all a one-sided "best buds" dealie. Someone like that is best ignored, but it's got to be hard when you see it on Facebook. I wouldn't be able to ignore it, because things like that drive me insane.
But since I'm at a remove from it, my opinion is that it was all one-sided, and it's really easy for people to mythologize their "best bud" -- and the nature of their friendship, such as it is -- when they've died.
Cass - Jan 16, 2013 5:20:34 am PST #25037 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
If I go too fast, I know I will relapse;
Smart woman. Feel better, Strix.
It won't have fully kicked in yet but I got my flu shot on Monday. I wish I'd done it months ago.
I have been stirring a spoon of almond butter into my oatmeal. Makes it all flavory and feels dense. Like I'm eating an actual breakfast and not just shoving oatmeal in that open spot of of my face.
Expecting plumber. Who called about twenty-five minutes ago to say he was running a little late due to all of the local hard freezes and associated 20-hour days of plumbing jobs. Whatever. I am not awake yet.
SailAweigh - Jan 16, 2013 5:23:10 am PST #25038 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Egads, Strix, you don't do anything by halves, do you? As a note, I got my flu shot this year and I've still come down with an ick. Probably not as bad as it could be, but they can't formulate the flu vaccine to cover every single variety out there. It seems like half our division is out with a mild form right now that seems to be a sniffly, sneezy, muscle-achey version. I know I feel like a limp noddle and even going in for four hours last night ran me out of spoons and my voice. I'm home on the couch, again, monitoring my e-mail in case a fire only I can put out comes along.