Much love, ita. I’m so glad you’re there with your family.
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Pix - Oct 12, 2011 6:21:13 pm PDT #1466 of 30001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Kat - Oct 12, 2011 6:49:53 pm PDT #1467 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
much love to you too. ita. I am amused at the idea that you travel all the way to Jamaica to mark papers. Had I only known! I have papers you could mark right here in LA.
HA! I was so thinking this! As ever, I have papers to grade.
Tom, I am so sorry you have to deal with the suck of your childhood but I so admire your strength and bravery in doing so.
le nubian - Oct 12, 2011 6:55:40 pm PDT #1468 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Hil,
FYI - the new season of "Work of Art" on Bravo has a contestant on there from Malaysia who was born Deaf.
Liese S. - Oct 12, 2011 8:05:13 pm PDT #1469 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Elk are out again tonight. Further off so I can hear them but not see them. Didn't help that I knocked down firewood trying to carry my stool out to the deck. I left the Flip running out there. Will check again later.
Consuela - Oct 12, 2011 8:14:57 pm PDT #1470 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Elk! I want elk in my yard. The closest I get to wildlife is the occasional skunk smell on a pre-dawn run, or the turkeys when I visit my folks out in Contra Costa.
ita, it sounds like you're getting the full family experience, and I love that your mom is so popular. Glad to hear she's recovering well.
My cousin's daughter made us a wonderful (and totally unhealthy) jambalaya for dinner. NOM.
Liese S. - Oct 12, 2011 8:17:51 pm PDT #1471 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
We have skunks too. For a while I thought there were some living under the deck. And we have mice and squirrels and regular rabbits and giant killer jackrabbits and foxes and coyotes and mule deer and antelope and ELK!
Liese S. - Oct 12, 2011 8:20:04 pm PDT #1472 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh yeah, and my nephew and his wife finally had their baby. I think she was, like, two weeks past her due date. She was supposed to be induced last night and the hospital had no bed for her. If the baby girl had held out another ten minutes, she'd have shared my sister-in-law's birthday.
So it's a happy night.
meara - Oct 12, 2011 8:37:17 pm PDT #1473 of 30001
Ugh. Day started bad (crazy nightmares about murdering someone and then freaking about getting caught), got ok (work, work, more work), got good (dinner with relatives--but ones I like and wish I could spend more time with!), and then bad again (possible drama with Atlanta girl). Sigh.
But tomorrow I meet up with Nonian and give her Trader joes goodies!
Strix - Oct 12, 2011 8:43:10 pm PDT #1474 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
My whole week has been Onerous Task Day with the garage sale prep. And my Getting Shit Done on Twitter was a masturbatory exercise. Oh, well - it made me step away from the Garage Sale Prep of Doom and I got an onerous e-mail written and 8 pages copyedited in a hour, even with Twittering.
Guys, it looks like a thrift store threw up in my house. The ex left SO MUCH STUFF. Granted, Dan and I are getting rid of some stuff of our, and my mom, dad and sister filled up my car with stuff for the garage sale (pre-laundered, thanks, family) but 85% of the stuff is leftovers from the ex. She never threw ANYTHING away. I've done 15 loads of laundry, maybe 2 of it my stuff, and 5 loads through the dishwasher, maybe 1/2 a load of it mine.
Tomorrow is a Garage Sale Prep Only day. Anything that's left after Saturday will be Freecycled for 1 day, and then I am packing it up and hauling it to Goodwill on Monday.
Only problem is this couch and two chairs that I'm not sure anyone would want to buy. I'm going to vacuum and Febreeze the hell out of them, and mark them for sale for $5 each. Hell, I'd PAY $5 each for someone to haul them away. I may put a sign up to this effect.
amyth - Oct 12, 2011 9:21:05 pm PDT #1475 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
msbelle, I'm so sorry. I wish things were better, and that you could be here more.