Yay, sj's cousin!
Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.
'War Stories'
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.
Fred Pete - Dec 29, 2011 3:43:00 am PST #4827 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
amyth - Dec 29, 2011 5:04:10 am PST #4828 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Yay for your cousin, sj!
Shir, I hope everything works out as stress-free as possible.
SailAweigh - Dec 29, 2011 5:04:24 am PST #4829 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Medical~ma for your mum, Shir. And smooth-sailing~ma through Sunday for you.
JenP - Dec 29, 2011 5:57:33 am PST #4830 of 30001
Smooth sailing, Shir. I know that feeling (who doesn't, right?), and I wish for you that everything holds together and goes as needed to keep you on our side of the edge!
Congrats to your cousin, sj!
Anne -- I am keeping you in my thoughts. It can be so hard, but even if you can't see it yourself right now, we all can -- you're amazingly talented and kind and skilled.
Connie Neil - Dec 29, 2011 6:48:33 am PST #4831 of 30001
brillig
Some adjacent drama in our house this holiday season--our housemate hasn't talked to his family in years, but last week he got a call telling him that his youngest brother tried to cross a freeway on foot in the middle of the night out in Sacramento and didn't make it. The location of the incident was 30 miles away from anywhere he usually goes, and the tox screens aren't turning up drugs or alcohol, so the reason for it all is still a mystery.
Our housemate is only now beginning to get any kind of financial stability in his life, so he's pulling together money to go out there and find a motel to stay in, because none of the resident family wants to see him, due to some decades-old grudge that seems to be the signature of those particular family members. Also, most of the rest of the family wants nothing to do with their father, due to the reasons why Mom is in one state and Dad is in another. Dad lives a couple of miles from our house and isn't a pleasant person, aside from being not quite competent in the life-management arena.
So our housemate is dealing with grief and family shenanigans, plus he was the one who got to go tell Dad that one of his sons was dead. Also, he learned last night that they've decided to go with cremation, due to the state of, as Mike put it, "what's left."
These kinds of things are hard enough to cope with without people indulging in soap operas.
erikaj - Dec 29, 2011 8:10:20 am PST #4832 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
"Christmas" dinner with the old man tonight. Can't wait to bask in that Teutonic warmth. Bazinga!
DavidS - Dec 29, 2011 8:12:37 am PST #4833 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"Christmas" dinner with the old man tonight. Can't wait to bask in that Teutonic warmth. Bazinga!
Bring your dirty looks and a full supply of under-the-breath muttering.
erikaj - Dec 29, 2011 8:15:52 am PST #4834 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
I always do. Although I'm not being entirely fair, he spent four whole minutes Liking Facebook updates of mine...obviously the sign of a caring individual.
Kate P. - Dec 29, 2011 8:26:27 am PST #4835 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh, Connie, how awful for your housemate. Good god.
WindSparrow - Dec 29, 2011 8:29:27 am PST #4836 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.
Connie, peace~ma for your roommate.
Continued medical mystery~ma for your mom, Shir. And some holding it together~ma for you.