Oh and forewarned is definitely forearmed for Sara but dang poor SIL
I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
meara - Dec 26, 2013 7:31:40 am PST #15552 of 30000
Lee - Dec 26, 2013 7:33:55 am PST #15553 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Happy birthday Jesse and Theo!
Jesse - Dec 26, 2013 7:51:58 am PST #15554 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Thanks, everyone! And a happy birthday to Theo and Rayne!
My day has been pretty good so far! Fancy breakfast, hanging out with some family friends, now some errands, and a show later. Nice! I'm going to have a dinner party over the weekend with some friends, to properly celebrate the big 4-0.
Calli - Dec 26, 2013 7:58:30 am PST #15555 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Happy Birthday Theo, Jesse, and Rayne!
I'm hanging out with my sister and niece before heading to the airport. Every time I visit it becomes clearer that moving to MI would be a good thing for me. Now I just need to combine that with employment.
hippocampus - Dec 26, 2013 8:02:27 am PST #15556 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
Happy birthday Jesse, Theo & Rayne!
Scrappy - Dec 26, 2013 8:45:19 am PST #15557 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I'm at work AND DON'T WANT TO BE.
Trudy Booth - Dec 26, 2013 8:45:31 am PST #15558 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Holidays are gonna be hard for my mom for a few years.
Yes. We lost my father's mother at Christmas and it was hard for a long time. It was a good and bad kind of hard though. The sweetness in the bittersweet moments is worth clinging to.
Liese S. - Dec 26, 2013 9:17:59 am PST #15559 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Was it refined sugar? Sugar in processed foods? Just sugar? Woes! I'm not actually done with all my pie yet!
Yeah, that is hard, Trudy, but that's a nice sentiment.
We had an awkward tablet moment too, this Christmas, because mom & dad have a ton of airline points, so they wanted to spend them and called me up for advice. We chose a nice iPad Air for dad, which he got, but they still have points left over, so they offered to get me one too, yay! We're waiting on the rewards store to stock the Retina mini. But she's buying one for me and not for my sister, so while I was having them set dad up w/ the giftcard we'd sent them, I had to avoid talking about my incoming one, because I don't know if my sister knows about it or not!
Steph L. - Dec 26, 2013 9:22:30 am PST #15560 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Was it refined sugar? Sugar in processed foods? Just sugar? Woes! I'm not actually done with all my pie yet!
Basically any sugar that isn't naturally in a food (like in fruit or milk). (I mean, I suppose sugar is naturally in sugar cane, but that's not really what they mean.)
Liese S. - Dec 26, 2013 9:25:07 am PST #15561 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yes, yes, that is what they mean! I can chew on raw sugar cane and it will all be fine!
(Ha, though, my dad grew up on a sugar cane plantation and they actually did all do this. It's amazing any of them have their teeth.)