Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.

'Dirty Girls'


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.


sumi - Mar 20, 2012 4:12:11 am PDT #27320 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Yep, there is a group on Ravelry for Vagina knitters to gather.


Toddson - Mar 20, 2012 4:37:46 am PDT #27321 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

In re misspelled signs - years ago I worked for a PR firm; it was long enough ago that there were no PowerPoint presentations, we had professionally prepared placards. Big ones - about two feet by three feet. We did the copy, sent them out. We were representing some group advocating butter rather than margarine, so the word "margarine" got used a LOT. When we got the placards - at the last minute, it being typical PR production - we discovered that the company had oh so helpfully gone through and corrected our spelling to "margerine". So, at the very last minute, we had to go through with white-out and a marker correcting their corrections.


tommyrot - Mar 20, 2012 5:11:49 am PDT #27322 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Happy Vernal Equinox for those folks above the equator!


msbelle - Mar 20, 2012 5:16:11 am PDT #27323 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I want a handyman husband. I would also like the orb. second day of grey rainy yuck. At least the wind stopped overnight and the wether people say the rain will end this afternoon. WOULD LIKE ORB, OR BEDTIME.

I would also like to be taller and more toned and also a house cleaner, you know, while I'm being all whiny whiny wah wah wah.


Jesse - Mar 20, 2012 5:24:36 am PDT #27324 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It is beautiful here! But I'm pretty sure I won't get a good night's sleep until the generator around the corner is gone.


§ ita § - Mar 20, 2012 5:30:28 am PDT #27325 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Speaking of house cleaners, I actually do want to get one. My mother won't stop nagging, and I figure I should actually do it and not lie, because my house could use a professional deep clean.

So...how does that work in the first world? I mean, I guess I can find a service from Angie's list or if anyone local has good referrals, but what are the logistics of it? Are you usually here when they clean? How does it all work?

And...shit...I think I'm working from home again today.

Please force me into the office tomorrow. I'm just...I'm so dead today. Unpresentable.


msbelle - Mar 20, 2012 5:34:57 am PDT #27326 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

When I had house help in New York, I was home for the first visit to show where things were and what I would like done. After that, I was rarely there.

After I get back to debt load zero, I should really look into having someone come in every couple of weeks to mop and dust and seriously clean the bathrooms. That would probably be less about 4 hours of work, so only 8 a month.


Sparky1 - Mar 20, 2012 5:37:21 am PDT #27327 of 30001
Librarian Warlord

ita, our house cleaner has a key and just does her thing while we are at work.

Since you may have issues with what they use to clean that will be something you need to talk about, and/or supply. Otherwise, s/he generally brings everything s/he will need. You'll also need to discuss what happens when you need to be home and s/he is scheduled to come - if you can't have them cleaning around you, then you will need to know about cancellations and when you can do so without penalty.

My house cleaner generally spends about 5 hours at my house.


askye - Mar 20, 2012 6:07:00 am PDT #27328 of 30001
Thrive to spite them

Dad has housecleaners come every two weeks. They dust mop vacuum clean coumter tops and bathrooms and a few other things. Theu use his supplies and he is never there. They go in and clean and leave notes of they need more sjpplies and he leaves them a check I was lived with him for a while and was there once. They said they felt bad taking his money because je would clean up before they came over.


§ ita § - Mar 20, 2012 6:07:03 am PDT #27329 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah, I don't know if my cleaning stuff is the most effective, but I do at least know it's stuff I can tolerate. I might not have remembered that complication until it was too late.

Thanks. I have a card someone left at my door. I'll start by seeing if I can find references for them, and go on from there.