Aims, that is wonderful! Good for Emeline!
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
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.
Anne W. - Dec 05, 2012 4:01:43 pm PST #3328 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Aims - Dec 05, 2012 4:01:58 pm PST #3329 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Sometimes (ok, a lot of times?), as a parent, you wonder if you are doing *anything* right. Every so often, your kid(s) do something that makes you so proud and shows you that you're doing a good job.
Burrell - Dec 05, 2012 4:09:21 pm PST #3330 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Suela, I've been in a similar space so I know what it feels like, the totally overwhelming. Sending you love, and I'm happy to be an ear if you need one. If you can take a day to yourself, please do.
§ ita § - Dec 05, 2012 4:29:21 pm PST #3331 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Aims, that's definitely a kindness to be proud of.
I guess I forgot to leave at 5. Boss walked by and had the everyone-else-is-gone-didn't-we-grow-up-similarly conversation.
I told the co-worker who's been looking to me for advice that the single most important thing when you start managing projects for him is that although there's no official direct reporting from you to him? Anytime you see him, tell him exactly where your project is. This current project I'm helming got jammed solid, stopped dead for two weeks as our issue got promoted to the #1 bug the vendor is working on (well, apparently). Three months ago, he'd have taken my head off. But now I'm making sure he gets almost daily conversational updates, and even if he forgets everything with his million other projects, he doesn't feel blindsided by anything.
I am not too old to learn, it seems.
Okay. Home. Groceries and then home...
Lee - Dec 05, 2012 4:33:54 pm PST #3332 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
GO EM, and Aims!
Burrell - Dec 05, 2012 4:40:25 pm PST #3333 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Wow, go Emeline! Such a great girl, Aimee.
Beverly - Dec 05, 2012 4:41:59 pm PST #3334 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh wow, Emeline! Good work, Aims.
sarameg - Dec 05, 2012 5:15:52 pm PST #3335 of 30001
Good job, Em (and Joe and Aims!)
Consuela, my spare room is always available. And I could teach you the ways of ignoring all phones. But you might wake up to all three cats on you...
Neighborly wine night. Rest are off to watch the Jennifers, but I'm all mellow and cramming into Golden West, even for a relatively early night by Joe's standards, is Too Much for me on a weeknight. Told tales and laughed a lot and caught up. We're determined to get more regular about this.
shrift - Dec 05, 2012 5:20:41 pm PST #3336 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
My team took off this afternoon for a fun event. We took a cooking class and made Thai meatballs and samosas and spring rolls and things. We cooked and drank beer and ate stuff as it was ready. I totally would do that again.
Lee - Dec 05, 2012 5:40:41 pm PST #3337 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
That does sound like a good afternoon, shrift! YAY
I am sorry others did not have good days, and hope it gets better soon.