Doesn't winter seem more like archiving season?

Willow ,'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.


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.


Consuela - Sep 30, 2012 9:01:35 am PDT #23991 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

in 53 years I've been alive, nobody in my family thought to mention that they saw the Hindenburg go down. O.o

Hah! I just found out that my dad saw the Hindenburg go overhead on its last voyage. He grew up in Hackensack, I think.

Spent a long time with the folks yesterday; for once we had a reasonable conversation about the move, without any yelling. (She is still afraid and can't remember having seen the place, but she wasn't hysterical.) Sorted through Mom's jewelry, much of which is crap, but she has some old pieces from her mother, so I took a few to the jeweler to get cleaned & repaired.

Then climbing & pizza/salad/beer with a friend, then Dr. Who & bed. This morning we did another long run in the woods on a route we hadn't done before. And yay it was over 4 miles, which is great.

And now I have to fill out forms for my parents, and do laundry. Woot for Sundays.


le nubian - Sep 30, 2012 9:12:40 am PDT #23992 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I was looking at the tv listings tonight and it seems that ABC and CBS are trying to battle for my soul.

ABC: Once Upon a Time, Revenge, 666 Park Avenue

CBS: Amazing Race, Good Wife, Mentalist


Theodosia - Sep 30, 2012 9:18:05 am PDT #23993 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"

Fingers remaining crossed for your parents, Consuela. Alas, she may well not remember that she agreed and was reassured many times, but it will be worth it, even if you have to feel like a bully before its over. (You're really NOT. Sometimes, even when somebody is yelling and crying and whatnot, you are being the best child possible under the circumstances.)

I am SO glad that Mom got into Ann's Choice (an "independent living community"), as I feel it gave her some extra years in comfort and safety with the support she needed.

Next weekend is another marathon cleanout session in her PA apartment, which at least has the bonus of together time with family I love very much.


Consuela - Sep 30, 2012 9:22:15 am PDT #23994 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Thanks, Theo. The Buffistas have been really helpful keeping me driving forward on this: reassuring me that this is the way to go has really helped.