Buffy: Where are the burgers? Riley: Yeah man, I'm starving. Cow me. Xander: I'd love to make with the moo but the fire's not cooperating.

'Lessons'


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.


Theodosia - Sep 30, 2012 3:15:42 am PDT #23981 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Now I'm going to have to look up Belize, because I thought it was Spanish-speaking! (Not that I have much chance of recognizing a non-Rasta Jamaican accent anyway.)

Stuff you didn't know about your family department: last week, when discussing stuff with my aunt, Great Disasters came up, and she casually mentioned seeing the Hindenburg go down. "Yeah, there were all sorts of pictures," I said helpfully. "Even color stills -- there were all sorts of press there."

"Oh yeah," said my 83-year-old aunt. "But I was there."

She went on to explain that my grandfather had taken her, my grandmother and my great-grandmother to see the landing -- THAT landing -- which was only a couple miles away. She was 8 (if I've got the math right) and remembers my grandpa pointing out the passengers waving from the windows as the zeppelin circled the field so that it could land facing the wind.

Which is mind-blowing enough... but get this: in 53 years I've been alive, nobody in my family thought to mention that they saw the Hindenburg go down. O.o


Kat - Sep 30, 2012 4:09:12 am PDT #23982 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

ita, we had Helen when we were there. She was nice.

What does a blood clot feel like?


Jesse - Sep 30, 2012 4:15:50 am PDT #23983 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Which is mind-blowing enough... but get this: in 53 years I've been alive, nobody in my family thought to mention that they saw the Hindenburg go down. O.o

That's classic. My grandmother still comes out with stuff my mother doesn't know, but nothing that extreme!


§ ita § - Sep 30, 2012 4:33:21 am PDT #23984 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

She's now telling me anecdotes about her (younger) sister each time she comes in. It's really sweet, and therefore sad.

How creepy would it to tell her I know a patient of hers? Was it for Grace or the kidney stone?


Kat - Sep 30, 2012 4:42:14 am PDT #23985 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

It was Grace -- just tell her that she had two moms and a trache and a pneumonia and the moms didn't want to go to Sanata Monica.

Also, we've decided that if Grace ever needs to go to the ER again, we're going straight to Santa Monica because the wait time is nothing and its the same staff.


Kat - Sep 30, 2012 4:42:51 am PDT #23986 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Our pear tree is crazy. I might make this [link]


§ ita § - Sep 30, 2012 5:13:48 am PDT #23987 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I used to do Santa Monica, when we'd just replaced the ER, because people didn't know about the increased capacity yet. But that soon levelled out, and there wasn't an effective difference in time anymore. The staff was nice, but my migraine doctor seems to have a shade more authority here. I take what I can get. Also, privacy. Only one shared room here.

The shift changed before I could mention you, Next time, next time.


Jesse - Sep 30, 2012 5:47:45 am PDT #23988 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Our pear tree is crazy. I might make this [link]

Ooh, that looks good. I've been making excellent gingery crisps (peach, apple, pear), but hadn't thought of maple.


sarameg - Sep 30, 2012 6:57:19 am PDT #23989 of 30001

Apparently 10 am at TJs on a Sunday is Dad Shops with Kids.

I fixed my car! OK, it was a little thing- the screw holding the armrest pocket/window controls inset thingy's plastic punched out/through, so it rattled and I was in danger of pulling the whole assembly off. So a couple of washers and a new screw, and it is all secured again. Inordinately proud of that.

I was going to take on my deck door overhang, but now rain is predicted and I can't caulk, so.


meara - Sep 30, 2012 8:59:50 am PDT #23990 of 30001

I managed to get a huge crack in my windshield just a couple weeks after spending $600 on the car. Argh.

Trying to do about 80 things today...we will see how many get done, but the one that might drop is the one thing that shouldn't because today is the last day to redeem the groupon. Oops.