These girls have the most beautiful dresses. And so do I -- how about that?

Kaylee ,'Shindig'


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.


Jesse - Mar 09, 2012 5:36:10 pm PST #26057 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It's probably worth doing, sure.

I really should be a regular church-goer, because I kind of love being a church lady -- singing in the choir AND baking for the reception.


Amy - Mar 09, 2012 5:40:35 pm PST #26058 of 30001
Because books.

I kind of love being a church lady

Well, isn't that special.


Jesse - Mar 09, 2012 5:41:20 pm PST #26059 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

EXACTLY THAT KIND.

Except not at all.


Tom Scola - Mar 09, 2012 5:42:31 pm PST #26060 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I just narrowly avoided a double post just now.


Amy - Mar 09, 2012 5:42:50 pm PST #26061 of 30001
Because books.

I like participating at church, too, actually. Not so much with the actual "going to services" part of it, however.


Jesse - Mar 09, 2012 5:45:33 pm PST #26062 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My parents' church is really like my family, but not really the community I want to be in right now, if that makes sense?

Crap, I need to go to bed.


§ ita § - Mar 09, 2012 6:01:20 pm PST #26063 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm sorry, Lee! I don't know why they only made 6. Such a tease! Crack whore, they made me, and I can't work out where to put out...


Cass - Mar 09, 2012 6:01:36 pm PST #26064 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.

Public brownies maybe need to be more solid than my ideal. Still, squidgy brownies at my memorial, please.

I am not sure why I'm so painfully OCD about my drinking glasses. But the highballs I just bought not so coincidentally look like most of the highballs I already have, just with a thicker base. And they were the only ones in BBaB that fit the bill. All the others made me twitchy.

I am awkwardly precise about glassware sometimes. Even when I have a lot of wine glasses, I can explain why my favorites are my favorites. And updating never works because I don't like any of the ones that don't have the right feel. The right feel being exactly the ones I already like. Water glasses are just pint glasses because I like them too. The only variety is in old fashioneds because my grandfather used to collect random crystal ones and I got in on the divvying after he died. And got one I bought him back! But those are most often the cat glasses on my coffee table because I am total class.


javachik - Mar 09, 2012 6:04:14 pm PST #26065 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

I loved going to my aunt Sharon's church, and they're totally like family.

I was out with a good friend and her kids this weekend - we met after they went to church. And the seven-year-old started reciting the story of Adam and Eve. She got to part where "God created Eve so that Adam wouldn't be lonely" and my jaw just kinda dropped. She went on to talk about it being Eve who handed Adam the fruit and how it was all Eve's fault and the entire thing just hit me like a hundred pound bag of rocks. Yikes. I was reminded why I don't subscribe to that newsletter. I am personally appalled by so many parts of religious doctrine/texts. YET I am the biggest fan of Jesus Christ and marry *his* teachings. So I stick to direct passages about Jesus to inspire me, and the rest I chuck. In perhaps the most offensive FCM ever.


§ ita § - Mar 09, 2012 6:07:49 pm PST #26066 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have the most boring taste in highballs too! Plain cylinders with a centimetre and a half base. No embellishment. That's it. All the glasses were trying to fancy it up, bar one set. One set.

I tried to mix it up, and I bought a multi-sided set, but somehow that's the set that got broken the most, so I only have one left. Oops. I'm so clumsy.

My parents had a really cool brand of highballs they bought repeatedly that I liked that were different from the plain cylinder--they were basically a shorter curved pilsner glass with a thick heavy base. But I want *exactly* those, so I'm doomed never to find them.