Make that 7 bags of leaves. Damn trees to the north. And people who haven't raked theirs and they blow down to us.
See, Vera? Dress yourself up; you get taken out somewhere fun.
Jayne ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
sarameg - Nov 25, 2012 9:36:08 am PST #2043 of 30001
Jesse - Nov 25, 2012 9:39:56 am PST #2044 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Feminist Hulk, CaBil. It's so old, but I still love it!
Jesse, can you put a footstool, or a box, or even a suitcase at the spot where he most often jumps up? With a gimpy three-legged cat we had to provide "steps" to the best off-the floor spots. The funny thing was, he'd use them to get up, but jump straight down.
Yeah, I was thinking about that. A suitcase would be hilarious, because he LOVES lying on a suitcase, so it would be a real decision for him if up on the bed is better than down on the suitcase. And yeah, he's still jumping down off even the arm of the sofa fine. A little sloppy, but nothing bad.
hippocampus - Nov 25, 2012 9:42:49 am PST #2045 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Consuela - what everyone's said. More strength to you. I'm sorry this vacation is so hard.
le nubian - Nov 25, 2012 9:49:18 am PST #2046 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Yeah and I don't think it should be called a "vacation." It really is "Time spent with family."
flea - Nov 25, 2012 9:52:59 am PST #2047 of 30001
information libertarian
Okay, Silent Night is actually hard, yo. I can manage a B flat and E flat chord, but my fingers do NOT want to make an F 7. I need more Christmas carols in C major.
Jesse - Nov 25, 2012 10:29:39 am PST #2048 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hey, does Michael's sell wrapping paper and stuff?
brenda m - Nov 25, 2012 10:34:24 am PST #2049 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
Yes, pretty sure.
Jesse - Nov 25, 2012 10:48:17 am PST #2050 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Awesome. There's a huge new one near my parents. I don't know why I'm so on the ball this year with Christmas shopping, but I sort of don't want to lose the momentum I seem to have. (Of course, next I'll spend three weeks not being able to figure out what to get the hard-to-buy-for people, but whatever.)
askye - Nov 25, 2012 10:57:18 am PST #2051 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Michael's sells wrapping paper, tissue, boxes, tins, bags, and all kinds of containers.
If you are looking for really good deals go in the morning of/day all the Xmas stuff goes 90%. You can get wrappiing paper or bars of chocolate or whatever for really cheap.
Beverly - Nov 25, 2012 10:58:50 am PST #2052 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Vehement hoorays for perfectly unremarkable, ita, and may that continue, along with the no-stick-having.
After decades of fraught tree-shopping with a must-have-real-cut tree H, we both are so laid back and easy-going about our collapsible, pre-lit fake tree inna box. I punked out on the ornament sorting pre-move, too. We have a few treasures, but the "meaningful" ones were all left behind. I mourned, for about twenty minutes and then? Lightness, freedom, forward-looking. Our outdoor decorations are the shame of our neighborhood. We're used to Old Salem standards of a single candle in the windows, a wreath on the door, a Moravian star on the porch, and a lit evergreen swag along the porch railing, which apparently are half-hearted at best, by the standards of our colored light-bedecked, flashing reindeer and snowmen on the roof neighbors.