But just being in the presence of three highly-intelligent sub-six-year-olds is exhausting over the course of a day.
Unintelligent ones are worse, I assure you.
Lorne: Snakes? Uh-huh. And they came out of your what? Okay. Okay, well, did they get up there themselves or is this part of a, you know, a thing? No, I'm not judging...Do we fight snakes? Angel: Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons. Are they giant demon snakes? Lorne: Well, unless this guy's 30 feet tall, I'm thinking they're of the garden variety.
'Lineage'
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.
DavidS - Dec 26, 2013 6:21:43 pm PST #15597 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
-t - Dec 26, 2013 6:39:14 pm PST #15598 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That sounds fun,'Suela, especially the Hot Wheels!
You know what? If I'm tired enough to want to go to sleep at 8:30, fuck it, I'm going to. YOLO.
Liese S. - Dec 26, 2013 6:44:12 pm PST #15599 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Damn right, -t. Stick it to the man.
meara - Dec 26, 2013 6:46:16 pm PST #15600 of 30000
So I'm in my BFF's wedding on Sunday. And holy god, remind me to elope. Because if i had my way, all the tables would be bare and there would be none of this ridiculous "we are making centerpieces and things to go down the aisle and also welcome bags for everyone and bags for the kids during the wedding, and and and" Jesus. (Also, I luckily noticed the typo on the "itinerary" in the "welcome bags" that said the wedding was Saturday, not Sunday. Of course, that then meant we had to go back to Kinko's and reprint all of them (which was a whole other cluster). Aaaaagh. This is the sort of thing where I think "yes, I'm girly on the outside, but so not on the inside"
DavidS - Dec 26, 2013 7:01:19 pm PST #15601 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yeah, I don't like this party favor biz.
The party IS the favor. We feed you cake! You show up. Party ensues. Go home!
sarameg - Dec 26, 2013 8:31:17 pm PST #15602 of 30000
Also, hire movers.
Or maybe that is just me. Waiting for the last goddamn load of laundry * in this house to finish.
- realty gods willing, we did a midnight drive by and the staging furniture is still there. My ill SIL flatly stated that either it is gone, they now own it or they'll rent them storage at $100/day. There is a nice piece or two there....
Steph L. - Dec 26, 2013 10:17:56 pm PST #15603 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Yeah, I don't like this party favor biz.
The party IS the favor. We feed you cake! You show up. Party ensues. Go home!
Miss Manners agrees with you. (As do I. But my mom had Very Strong Feelings about our wedding having favors, and since she contributed a significant amount of $, we capitulated and had them. But it was Godiva, already in tiny boxes, so all I had to do was pick them up at the store and tell Tim's nieces to set them at each dinner plate. And people thought it was awesome, because, hey, chocolate. But if it had been our own $, we would have skipped favors entirely.)
NoiseDesign - Dec 26, 2013 10:44:49 pm PST #15604 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
We had favors at our reception. We did Sharpies with our wedding date and the word "Permanent" printed on them.
erin_obscure - Dec 26, 2013 11:27:23 pm PST #15605 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
I still have that sharpie. Those were awesome favors.
Theodosia - Dec 27, 2013 2:37:13 am PST #15606 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
You know, once you get financially stable enough to own a house, you really should employ movers for the bulk of your goods. (Yes, there's often quite a few things that you may still want to move on your own, like plants, and Great-granma's fragile cut-crystal candelabra.)
(And indeed, the movers told me I saved an hours' worth of their expensive time by moving a bunch of small book boxes by myself before Moving Day, but that was me, in my spare time, being Cheap, and not obligating anyone else.)
Here's hoping the Actual Move will go smoothly!