How can getting the kids on the bus make me tired enough to want to collapse? And I still have the day's worth of work ahead of me. Clearly I need to get on the coffee train with msbelle and ChiKat.
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
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.
Burrell - Nov 02, 2012 5:45:51 am PDT #28208 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Sophia Brooks - Nov 02, 2012 5:55:53 am PDT #28209 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Jessie's Girl just came on Spotify, and it makes me smile and think of our Cowgirl Jesse.
Consuela - Nov 02, 2012 6:09:58 am PDT #28210 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
It's my day off, but the dogs don't believe that, so I still had to get up at 6:15. At least I was able to have breakfast before I took them out for a long walk.
I need to get them to let me sleep in at least a little bit, or next week (post-time change) is going to be ugly.
Jesse - Nov 02, 2012 6:19:57 am PDT #28211 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jessie's Girl just came on Spotify, and it makes me smile and think of our Cowgirl Jesse.
It took me a long time to be able to enjoy that song.
DavidS - Nov 02, 2012 6:19:58 am PDT #28212 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
How can getting the kids on the bus make me tired enough to want to collapse?
All I've done since 5am has been about commuting kids to school. Driving Emmett to Albany for a workout at 6am, then back in time to take the whiniest girl in the world to school.
It is a ten minute walk to school. Her litany of complaint included:
- We forgot to put up her favorite Halloween pumpkin drawing for Halloween and now we missed it and it was ruined. (Tears)
- Her forehead was cold. It was freezing. Her thoughts were actually regressing to absolute zero and it wouldn't be possible to think at school today.
- Her eyes were burning from the car exhaust. (There may have been one car two blocks away from us at this point.)
- She hated car exhaust. (coughing and spitting) She couldn't breathe! (No cars visible at this juncture. Tears)
- She was so tired. So very tired. It's not fair that she has to get up so early for school. It's wrong and bad and she feels bad and she's determined to make everybody in her immediate vicinity (me) feel her bad tiredness.
- She didn't get to watch the end of Superwhy!
- She didn't need to wear her whole soccer uniform for practice today and I shouldn't have packed the whole thing. Implied: You're stupid, Daddy.
- Oh no, we forgot to bring in her UNICEF box filled with money for poor starving kids and it's due today! (tears)
That took up six minutes of the walk to school so at that point I forbade her to speak anymore.
Generally speaking, the whiny tendency has abated considerably so that is no longer a regular feature of Matilda's day. But today it re-asserted itself.
tommyrot - Nov 02, 2012 6:20:44 am PDT #28213 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Don't forget that Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend. Fall back and all that.
It's my day off, but the dogs don't believe that, so I still had to get up at 6:15.
So I guess your dogs will be waking you up at 5:15 now....
Jessica - Nov 02, 2012 6:25:46 am PDT #28214 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Implied: You're stupid, Daddy
There are some days I would pay cash money for an *implied* "You're stupid, Mommy"
So I sympathize.
flea - Nov 02, 2012 6:29:58 am PDT #28215 of 30001
information libertarian
I am ready for the end of daylight saving time. Right now sunrise is after 8am. It is DARK, yo.
Consuela - Nov 02, 2012 6:32:38 am PDT #28216 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I guess your dogs will be waking you up at 5:15 now....
Yes, which in fact they did the other day. So, I can look forward to 4:15 on Monday, no doubt! SIGH.
I'm so tired of going to work in the dark, though. Bring on Standard Time, please!
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2012 6:47:08 am PDT #28217 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It took me a long time to be able to enjoy that song.
It would simplify things if you'd just start sleeping with women. Why are you being so difficult?
I actually read an IO9 article on tumblr that irritated me so much I had to re-tumbl and kvetch. The paradigm is entirely wrong. I doubt I'm doing that again. It's dumber than the zombie argument that just disappeared.