Okay, so I'm not going to look the most related, but this is my backup dress. Haven't decided on shoes.
You got fired, and you still hang around here like a big loser. Why can't he?
Cordelia ,'Chosen'
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.
§ ita § - Sep 02, 2012 6:24:56 pm PDT #20754 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kat - Sep 02, 2012 6:30:07 pm PDT #20755 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Our house is unbearably hot right now, but it's our house and every family member is in it.
My parents, who were here this week, had the worst trip ever through no fault of their own or my own. And I barely got to spend time with my dad who is in a steep funk and decline. But they got to see the kids which is what matters.
Dad is bad off. He loses the car in the parking lot. I'm trying not to resent the fact that my parents travel everywhere with a shit dog, because it's my dad's fave companion of late.
Grace responded to antibios and is home a day early than I thought she would be. This AM when the nurse mentioned putting in a PICC line, I actually had to leave the hospital and walk to Coffee Bean 8 blocks away because I was pretty outraged and upset. Luckily she was wrong and Grace is asleep in bed. I have to give her some amoxycillin, but not quite yet.
Connie Neil - Sep 02, 2012 6:30:57 pm PDT #20756 of 30001
brillig
In a less amusing overheard conversation, I heard the following at the local convenience store: "Dude, tell him to never stop playing football. He doesn't want to play baseball and for sure not basketball. Those are no sports for a white man." My neighborhood, ladies and gentlemen.
DavidS - Sep 02, 2012 6:33:12 pm PDT #20757 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"Dude, tell him to never stop playing football. He doesn't want to play baseball and for sure not basketball. Those are no sports for a white man."
I don't know where he's getting his information because Football is a black dominated sport in California and Baseball is mostly whities.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 02, 2012 6:46:35 pm PDT #20758 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Yeah, that's some seriously sports ignorant racism.
Connie Neil - Sep 02, 2012 6:52:40 pm PDT #20759 of 30001
brillig
Well, BYU football is dominated by nice local boys with some Polynesians and the rare imported black kid.
Not a hotbed of larger world knowledge, the town I live in.
Cashmere - Sep 02, 2012 6:58:37 pm PDT #20760 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I need to be up at 4 am to leave by 5 to get to a television interview by 6. I am not a morning person.
aurelia - Sep 02, 2012 6:59:49 pm PDT #20761 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Kat, I'm glad you and Grace are home.
le nubian - Sep 02, 2012 7:39:11 pm PDT #20762 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Cashmere,
but you are a STAR!
Stephanie - Sep 02, 2012 7:50:48 pm PDT #20763 of 30001
Trust my rage
Besides me, and Hec, are there other divorced parents with younger kids? (Suzi?)
I am a good mom and I know that. But every time my kids come back from being with Joe, they talk non stop about how much they miss him and how much more fun he is and how they like him better. They say it in a nice way but it really hurts. Even worse, I know that it makes me disengage from them, even though I try not to. Why do they do that? It worries me a lot. I'm sure there is some reason for it but I can't see it. Sometimes I just want to quit making rules and buy them the crap they are always asking for and that daddy always buys them.