Health~ma to your mother, Dana.
Willow: It feels like we're going around in circles. Xander: Our circles are going around in circles. We got dizzy circles here.
'Sleeper'
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.
Sheryl - Apr 26, 2013 5:41:06 pm PDT #20741 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Beverly - Apr 26, 2013 5:41:41 pm PDT #20742 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh the littlest Hulk is my favorite one, ita !
Dana, all best possible to your mom, calm and strength to you.
Connie Neil - Apr 26, 2013 5:43:31 pm PDT #20743 of 30001
brillig
One thing Facebook is great for is keeping in touch with my sister Linda. (Huh, used to be I'd punctuate that as "my sister, Linda", to differentiate her from Sharon. And while Sharon is still my sister, the odds of talking to her are low, so therefore no need for a comma to indicate which sister I'm talking to.)
Anyway, the house and land I grew up in/on have been sold to her daughter. They're going to tear down the house and build a new one. I'm thrilled the land is staying in the family, and while I'm sad about the house, I'm not surprised. It's a nearly 150-year-old farmhouse with rooms tacked on top and behind. The most interesting parts of it are the stone cellar--I loved the smell of that--and the half-round spiral staircase that ran up inside the wall beside the old fireplace.
Aside from the stone slabs that make up the floor of the cellar, there are also gigantic sandstone blocks making up the walls. Linda is keeping those and the old floor timbers to build something at her new house. So it's a bit melancholy but in keeping with the life cycle of old buildings.
-t - Apr 26, 2013 5:45:08 pm PDT #20744 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The superhero girls are fantastic!
sarameg - Apr 26, 2013 5:52:18 pm PDT #20745 of 30001
Connie, that's nice. The family farmhouse built by my grandparents is gone. I don't think my uncle re-used anything. But one of his sons is taking up farming with him, the land and business is staying in the family.
§ ita § - Apr 26, 2013 5:53:31 pm PDT #20746 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, that felt like the whole building shaking.
aurelia - Apr 26, 2013 5:58:19 pm PDT #20747 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
3.2 - 3km SE of Marina del Rey, California
§ ita § - Apr 26, 2013 6:01:33 pm PDT #20748 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's weird that every time I think "was that an earthquake?" it wasn't, but when I think "that was an earthquake!" it was. Why still do the former, then?
le nubian - Apr 26, 2013 6:03:14 pm PDT #20749 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Dana,
did you read that article this week in the NYT re: mammograms? it has a bunch of stuff about breast cancer treatment in it. I'm not sure if it would be helpful, but I found the article very informative.
erin_obscure - Apr 26, 2013 6:05:41 pm PDT #20750 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Everyone who can should move to Portland. As long as you can deal with water falling from the sky on a regular basis. I was at Montage 2 nights ago and they are still going strong as one of the few places that serves real food until the wee hours of the morning, plus amazing cocktails and impressive tinfoil sculptures for leftovers.