I have been for a few months, actually.
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
Lee - Jun 26, 2012 1:55:12 pm PDT #11340 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Beverly - Jun 26, 2012 2:00:43 pm PDT #11341 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Very pretty, javachik.
Hello, Karl. You've been in my thoughts.
We were in the waiting room with my dad, and whenever anyone else came into the waiting room (doctor, nurse, random stranger), my dad and I immediately switched on into "charming, set people at ease" mode. Neither of us were aware we were doing it, but we did.
Yes. And so very difficult *not* to do it.
flea, I posted here, on LJ and DW and a couple of other places when it happened to my account. A couple of people mentioned it and I apologized, and that was it. I don't think a mailing list apology is called for, really.
javachik - Jun 26, 2012 2:03:12 pm PDT #11342 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Um. That's not really how I would characterize adoption.
Lee, of COURSE it isn't, which is my point. Well-meaning people, when they hear that I am struggling with not having kids, pipe up very eagerly with "you can always adopt!" It irritates me because adoption IS NOT simple, and it feels a lot like they're not really listening to me or caring. It feels very dismissive about what I might actually be struggling with.
billytea - Jun 26, 2012 2:09:18 pm PDT #11343 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Signed, sorry, everyone, and you should really use my gmail anyway, I just never closed my yahoo address because have you met my mother?
I still have my yahoo address because for some reason, I can't open any attachments I receive through my gmail account. I have no idea what's up with that; but I need to forward anything to my yahoo account before I can open it.
Cashmere - Jun 26, 2012 2:11:02 pm PDT #11344 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Yahoo is connected to my flickr account and I use it for several email groups. It's still convenient.
Lee - Jun 26, 2012 2:15:06 pm PDT #11345 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Lee, of COURSE it isn't, which is my point.
Ah! I guess it never would have occurred to me that people suggesting adoption would think it was that easy.
-t - Jun 26, 2012 2:15:52 pm PDT #11346 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Remember the kale and chorizo with poached egg thing I was making a while ago? On a similar note, every bit as good with mixed greens, bacon, and some dried chile. And that's all stuff in the house!
Oh, good, I think that's what I had in mind when I was trying to think of something I could make with bok choy and eggs. And I have bacon in the freezer. Dinner, ahoy!
Amy - Jun 26, 2012 2:16:46 pm PDT #11347 of 30001
Because books.
I guess it never would have occurred to me that people suggesting adoption would think it was that easy.
Not in this day and age, anyway.
Kat - Jun 26, 2012 2:20:51 pm PDT #11348 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I used to get all upset at people who responded to my difficulty to getting pregnant with "you should just adopt."
Oh yes. Because that process is easier? Bah.
I am wiped out but good today.
javachik - Jun 26, 2012 2:22:47 pm PDT #11349 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Yeah, they're definitely not people who've been adopted or have adopted. They're usually well-meaning friends with biological babies.
What's interesting is that in my bio-mother's immediate family (herself and siblings), there are literally more babies adopted out than not. She, her identical twin sister, and their baby brother had 5 kids among them adopted out. I am not even counting myself because my grandfather adopted me, so I stayed in the family. Counting me, six of 8 of my cousins were adopted out. Three stranger adoptions, two step-parent adoptions (my aunt and my uncle both had children with others and relinquished all rights and allowed the new parent to adopt - never to see their offspring again).