ARGH. I have been up since 3. K left for Zion about an hour ago and I'm already tired. I should go back to bed, but am feeling hopeless at the thought of falling asleep and being woken again.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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 - Nov 23, 2012 2:50:04 am PST #1853 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jesse - Nov 23, 2012 3:24:35 am PST #1854 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Easy to say from where I'm standing, but DO IT. I mean, seriously--you're here on hand for all of this drama and trauma, and I'd totally get if my sister just threw her hands up in the air and went incommunicado for a while.
Yeah, I know. Life is rarely practical that way. But it would be nice.
What ita said. Good luck, Suela. If nothing else, Monday will come.
You can leave the house, right, Juliebird? Go to the movies. Or whatever.
Jesse - Nov 23, 2012 3:33:33 am PST #1855 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Drat, the one today-only special from Lands End I was going to get is already sold out.
ION, I'm going to hang out with my mom! My dad is going to his day program, and she has the day off work, so I'm sure she feels like she's playing hooky, but I don't know when we last spent time just the two of us. It will be nice! I continue to be thankful that I like my family.
brenda m - Nov 23, 2012 4:19:08 am PST #1856 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
We are just getting ready to go do Thanksgiving.
Theodosia - Nov 23, 2012 4:37:10 am PST #1857 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"
I'll be off to PA for combination cleaning-Mom's-out AND bonus salvaging-destroyed-Shore-house -- if I am allowed to come out to the island (they're very finicky about who and how many are allowed in at a time). Otherwise I stay back in PA and manage on my own....
Theodosia - Nov 23, 2012 4:44:19 am PST #1858 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"
Cereal: 'Suela, when my Mom was being obstreperous, it was AMAZING how much better she responded to my brothers than me. With Women Of A Certain Era, there's more of a habit of compliance when a Guy Says It.
Seriously, my brothers kept wondering why I was complaining that I couldn't get Mom to take her meds, et cetera, because THEY never had a problem, at least until they were hanging out and saw how she was responding....
If you have to pretend you have a headache and go sit out in a coffee shop for a couple hours, it may save a life or two, or at least give a possibility that your mom won't get wound up and diffuse a potential explosion.
Sheryl - Nov 23, 2012 5:00:34 am PST #1859 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Later today we head to DarkoverCon. Nice relaxing weekend...
Hil R. - Nov 23, 2012 5:18:08 am PST #1860 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
And also why most African Americans today have some Native American blood.
I don't think this is actually true. On that PBS show with Henry Louis Gates looking at African American genealogy, practically everyone he talked to claimed, "My grandmother said that her grandmother was Cherokee" or something like that, but the DNA tests didn't bear it out at all.
msbelle - Nov 23, 2012 5:54:19 am PST #1861 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
mac is a happy happy boy. Fed Ex just brought by his Christmas present. Even though Fed Ex tracking said it wouldn't be here until Monday. Another Thanksgiving miracle.
Consuela - Nov 23, 2012 6:18:05 am PST #1862 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
msbelle, may my fedex carrier learn from yours: Mom's anti-anxiety drugs are supposed to arrive either today or Monday.
Thanks, everyone. I got to bed at a reasonable hour, and then woke up at 2 and spent an hour or so listening to an audiobook before getting back to sleep. (I find Bujold's The Curse of Chalion really good comfort reading, for some reason.)
This morning I'm going to walk the dog, stop by my sister's house and make a couple of turkey-berry sandwiches, pick up some jeans at the tailor's, and then go out to my folks' place to pack things. At some point I have to run back in with the Big Box O Meds to hand it off to the folks at the facility. And then home, feed the dog, and then go to the airport at 8 to pick up my brothers.