I'm so very sorry for the hole in your life your mother leaves behind, Frank, but I'm glad she passed as she wished, when she was ready and surrounded by her family. And I do hope your father was waiting for her.
(My grandmother, for the entire month before she died, kept seeing my grandfather, who'd passed several years earlier, peeking through doorways or just disappearing around corners with a smile on his face; she was certain he was there because he wanted to be ready to meet her when she was ready to leave. Whatever I may believe, I don't know if it was true, but I do know it gave her joy and solace, and I wish all the same to your mom in her departure, in abundance.)
Oh ita, what a PITA about the card. Like you needed that.
I think part of why I get to experience these stories is that I've become more engaging of the Peoples willingly. And I like it and it feed something in me, which wasn't always the case. But part of it is also my environment.
I find the citibank commercials empty. But their customer service has always been good, knock on wood.
Which reminds me--that Citibank card about the guy who gets dumped for being boring...is it just me, or is he still boring at the end of the ad?
Oh yeah. That guy is still boring.
Frank, deeply sorry for the loss of your Mom.
I'm sorry for your loss, Frank.
new post to ask: where did we talk about Sherlock? I just finished up the second series tonight.
Why, why, why do I wander around the Atlantic website beyond the safe haven of TNC's blog? No good can come of it.
Latest installment: pompous blowhard insists that the 2012 Dem party platform on abortion is Bad Bad Bad because it talks about things like affordable healthcare and childcare and various social services aimed at enabling women to choose to carry their pregnancies to term without fear of impoverishing themselves or their families -- which by most estimates would eliminate roughly a quarter of the abortions sought each year -- but has dropped the word "rare," which clearly means they're trying to ignore the moral dimension. The practical effect of enactment of this platform, 25% fewer actual abortions performed, is less meaningful to pompous blowhard than the presence or absence of the word "rare," because practical good works are apparently less moral than finger-wagging.
Please, please keep me from engaging with this fucknugget.
Maybe I should demand that Hec make me a second martini, which would render me incapable of finding the keyboard. It may be the only solution.
I'm about to go to bed, but tomorrow is going to be People Day on the Good Stuff. I have four lined up. Anyone want to pick a lady/picture off Provocateuse?
Jesse: I vote Audrey, Claire Danes or Iman.
