Or my FiL.
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Scrappy - Jun 14, 2013 10:16:47 am PDT #921 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Fred Pete - Jun 14, 2013 10:56:09 am PDT #922 of 30002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Steph, you are a delight, and the world is richer for your presence.
Steph L. - Jun 14, 2013 11:10:41 am PDT #923 of 30002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Thanks, all my bridesmaiddudepeople!
And here's the thing: I know my mom loves me. She was raised by a mean alcoholic whose levels of dysfunction I shudder to imagine (seeing as how he was mostly passed out by the time I came along and knew him, so I never really got to know him), so she didn't have a good model (or even a passable model) of a healthy family. And I love her. She really actually has mellowed with time.
The good part is where *I* have actually gotten perspective and some measure of mental health with time, and I totally get what she's doing when she posts teasing-mean comments on FB. I still don't like it, and I wish she wouldn't do it where Tim's family can read it, but I get it, and -- I suppose this is the most important part -- it doesn't impact my definition of myself. My self-image isn't contingent on her opinion of me any more.
Besides, I can be a pain, but not any more than anyone else. Tim's family has been on week-long vacations with me 4 times now -- and while I try to be on my best behavior and not swear like I'm in a Mamet play, they still have some idea of what I'm like. And they still love me. Because I am an endless fountain of delight.
Tom Scola - Jun 14, 2013 11:17:02 am PDT #924 of 30002
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Steph is my hero.
Steph L. - Jun 14, 2013 11:28:52 am PDT #925 of 30002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
It took a LOT of work and a LONG time to get here.
Also, all bets are off for the wedding. I don't even know what to expect. My mom will probably be tipsy and charming but possibly obnoxious as hell, my dad will probably corner people he doesn't know so he can tell them at great length about his medical history OR he will be strung out on percocet and say really REALLY inappropriate things, probably of the racist and/or sexist variety.
Nothing but good times ahead.
erikaj - Jun 14, 2013 11:38:04 am PDT #926 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!
J. family teasing is often like that.(So was my mom's mom. I am amazed every day that she is, well, not a complete wreck.Also, mostly awesome.) My extended family still believes I don't have a sense of humor. Really? Aw, Tep. If I had a transporter I'd visit and be the buffer. "What happened" to me could probably eat up twenty minutes,combined with how we met and avoided sexual slavery.
Maria - Jun 14, 2013 11:55:03 am PDT #927 of 30002
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Steph, you are awesome and I'm glad you realize it.
My advice for the wedding? Let them do whatever they want. It's your day and they cannot ruin it. It does not reflect on you. Or Tim.
Steph L. - Jun 14, 2013 12:08:05 pm PDT #928 of 30002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
My advice for the wedding? Let them do whatever they want. It's your day and they cannot ruin it. It does not reflect on you. Or Tim.
That's my plan. It's not so much that I'm expecting the worst; more that I'm just calculating the possibilities so that *if* they act in a way Miss Manners would not approve of, it won't surprise me and then I can just get on with enjoying myself.
Ginger - Jun 14, 2013 12:45:26 pm PDT #929 of 30002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think the best one can hope for in a wedding are disasters that make good stories.
SuziQ - Jun 14, 2013 12:46:30 pm PDT #930 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Come up with wedding bingo. After the reception, see how many boxes you can cross off.