Angel: Connor, this is Spike and Illyria. Guys, this is Connor. Connor: Hi. umm...I like your outfit. Illyria: Your body warms. This one is lusting after me. Connor: Oh...no, I--I--it's just that it's the outfit. I guess I've had a thing for older women. Angel: They were supposed to fix that.

'Origin'


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.


tommyrot - May 23, 2013 4:02:07 pm PDT #23486 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.

Stuff I have done in the last three weeks:

  • Cleaned most of the things
  • Put up two sets of shelves
  • One new dresser
  • Had four posters framed and put them up
  • New shower curtains
  • New pillows
  • Fluffed the futon
  • New towels and washcloths

Also, had the maintenance guy:

  • replace the fridge
  • replace the stove
  • caulk the shower
  • put up towel rack
  • replace sink trap

And had the women who sells me refurbished furniture fix my chair.


-t - May 23, 2013 4:03:19 pm PDT #23487 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That is a lot of nesting, tommyrot! Go you.


le nubian - May 23, 2013 4:03:46 pm PDT #23488 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

party at tommy's!


tommyrot - May 23, 2013 4:04:40 pm PDT #23489 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.

Thanks. My apartment no longer looks like a depressed person lives here.


Jesse - May 23, 2013 4:05:42 pm PDT #23490 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Woo to Tommy and Suzi both!


lisah - May 23, 2013 4:16:16 pm PDT #23491 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

Way to go, Tommy & Suzi!!

I'm a total traveler worrier. Mostly about Bob. We have a whole text when getting on the plane, text when landed thing that works.

With all of sarameg's car talk, I'm getting anxious about working out getting a new car before the situation is an emergency. I am still hoping to get to 200k (am at 191,500 now) and a good amount saved for a down payment but I think I may at least start test driving some cars so I really know what I'm going to be looking for.


sarameg - May 23, 2013 4:26:37 pm PDT #23492 of 30001

I have now given my broker all the documents but the ones I have to sign and return. Cause I need a working printer. That's at work.

It's a miracle that someone with my organizational DISASTER was able to actually find everything. At least so much of it lives online these days.

YOU GUYS! It is RAINING and I'm not worried about how swampy stinky my car is gonna be!


billytea - May 23, 2013 4:29:51 pm PDT #23493 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I just read the Pope article. Holy shit, he actually used Jesus' words to back up his point about people doing good works?

He did! (Plus, I like to imagine him thinking to himself, "Take that, Lutherans!")


sarameg - May 23, 2013 4:32:50 pm PDT #23494 of 30001

This was the first I have bought a car when I have an actual functioning car. Ok, one I expected to die randomly all the time, but still. I got real $ for is, too. Buh?

I gotta say, the 0% is nice. I technically could have bought the car in cash. But that would make my savings account slashed in half. So, no.


§ ita § - May 23, 2013 4:42:05 pm PDT #23495 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm a total traveler worrier. Mostly about Bob. We have a whole text when getting on the plane, text when landed thing that works.

I was watching a procedural the other day where the cops thought it was fishy the disappearance of a travelling spouse hadn't been reported earlier. But apparently they'd parted on bad terms, which was why they'd gone three days without talking.

Whuh-huh? I know my father was a professional traveller, but come on! We don't check in that often when we travel, and my parents check in with each other less. Don't be ridic.

However, lisah--the reason I quoted you was--you chose to worry about Bob. I mean, this is relatively recent for you, but no less important for you. Isn't that a bit weird? And cool--cool and weird. That at one point, you didn't know this guy, and at another point maybe you knew him but der, he could travel for ages who gives a fuck??? But now he's an intrinsic part of your life, dammit, and it's important that you are assured pf his safety and such, because it's a priority of yours.

Life changes. And you can't predict shit. "Don't go on a first date on Valentine's Day, bon!" "Sure I can temporarily do another martial art to get in shape for capoeira!" "It's okay that you're vanilla, Teppy!"

You just don't really know. Which is why if you're sure right now that your life is going to be some way, including that you're going to be alone, miserable, poor or whatever--sure, maybe you will. But stuff you wouldn't have predicted keeps happening, so don't get too caught up in prognostication.