Here's a picture we had the server take of us.
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[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.
Here's a picture we had the server take of us.
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For those who enjoy such things, photos of pets undergoing holiday indignities.
Well, drat - I tried to link to a specific photo - a dog with a big doggie grin with only his nose and mouth sticking out from under a Santa hat.
Hooray, Aimee!
Aims, that's awesome! You guys look so much alike!
Aimee, that's wonderful--so happy for you!
I have so far avoided post-holiday crowds, but I think I will assay a few stores tomorrow. I need to check secondhand athletic equipment venues for a stationary bike, but I'll probably wait about a month for the post-New Year's realization to kick in.
Aims, that's awesome (re your sister)!
Thanks for the good wishes, all. So, shivas are horrible. Give me a good drunken Irish wake over this any day. And ours only last one day. I would really, really like some wine. At 12.30 in the afternoon.
Oh, dear.
Can I amuse you with horrible shiva stories? Like the time when a friend's family started a huge argument on who is more orphan: the aunt without the mother, or the aunt without the father? Or the one, in my grandfather's shiva, where I heard an hour and a half lecture about the fascinating world of fire security protocols in aviation? (after 40 minutes, I leaned towards my sister and asked "oh, and you thought the funeral was the hard part, didn't you?").
(Yes, shivas are a bit like reality shows, where you have to survive one's family).
And Aims - I'm so happy for you. That's really awesome.
Can I get some general ~ma for myself right now? As some of you know, I've been kind of up and down for a month, and right now I'm really, really down, and really feeling like a failure at everything, to the point where I'm on the verge of making it a self-fulfilling prophecy at work. I'm feeling physically removed from my closest friends, and I'm feeling like it wouldn't make any difference to anyone but my mom if I never left my house again.
Oh, Anne. I'm sorry that you are struggling. Are you able to take some time to pamper yourself?