It's not like she blew me off. She just left with another guy, that's all.

Riley ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


Nora Deirdre - Oct 01, 2011 8:30:13 am PDT #527 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

meara, I'm in a waiting period until Dec 1st, and my new plan doesn't offer vision or dental.

Holy crap, a three month waiting period for benefits? That SUCKS.

Stephanie, I saw your FB post. Hope it is OK for you.

Today: meet with NA officers (check), get cat food (check) got get a massage, return Lands End stuff to Sears, go to Old New Orleans Rum distillery (Tom is low on rum, which is a TRAVESTY), and maaaaaybe go to City Park for the LASPCA beer fundraising event New Orleans on Tap, Then some vegetarian food at someone's house.


Stephanie - Oct 01, 2011 8:45:58 am PDT #528 of 30001
Trust my rage

Thanks, Nora. It's sort of weird - "I'm sorry" is the appropriate response, I think, when someone mentions a pending divorce, but I really don't feel loss at the moment. That was months ago.

But if people wanted to send ~ma, i got an email from Joe that might possibly, maybe represent a change in direction from the rather ugly ways things had been headed. So, any "step away from the brink" vibes that could be sent Iraq-ward would be very appreciated.


askye - Oct 01, 2011 9:03:57 am PDT #529 of 30001
Thrive to spite them

Sending ~ma your way Stephanie.


beekaytee - Oct 01, 2011 9:05:56 am PDT #530 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant

Stephanie, I so hope the change of direction is much, much for the better. ~ma headed your way.


P.M. Marc - Oct 01, 2011 10:23:08 am PDT #531 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Much hopes for less bitter.


Calli - Oct 01, 2011 10:40:50 am PDT #532 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Frankenbudda, I'm glad your mom's doing better.

Thanks, y'all. Amyth's loads of fun to travel with, as are the other people in the group.


Kate P. - Oct 01, 2011 10:43:30 am PDT #533 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Much, much ~ma to you, Stephanie. (Also, I owe you an email!)

Today I have gone on two separate errand runs in which I procured bagels, gas for the car, cash for me, a set of spare keys, one maternity shirt, two non-maternity dresses that I hope will still look and feel OK with a growing belly, a burrito, and a 34-lb bag of cat litter. That's more than I've done in at least the past three weeks. And now I nap.


SailAweigh - Oct 01, 2011 10:53:46 am PDT #534 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Improvement~ma for your mother, Frank.

Easing-tension~ma for you, Stephanie.

I have got nothing done today that I meant to do. I'm being held hostage by tumblr. I'm already following 41 people and I just joined yesterday.


Beverly - Oct 01, 2011 11:07:54 am PDT #535 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Good news about your mom, Frank, and may she continue to improve.

Less-bitter-ma, Stephanie.

Dayum. Sail. I've been on about six months and you've already got me beat. I've deliberately gone very slowly though. It's my happy visual place. I could probably be content with Good Stuff, books and handwriting, interiors, things tea-related, and landscapes. Objects, perspective, and humans only as a curve or a shadow or a line.


Burrell - Oct 01, 2011 11:19:42 am PDT #536 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Sending ~ma to Stephanie, and a little ~ma Iraq-ward.

Soccer was a gauntlet today. Franny had a double header. Oof. Now it's over, kids are home, fed, and bathed. Time to relax, right? Oh and do laundry and grade.