I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


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 - Jan 13, 2014 4:30:52 pm PST #17168 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

On the way up the steps tonight Matilda asked, "Does Cowgirl Jesse know where we live?"

After I sussed that she was NOT talking about the character from Toy Story, I assured that she did, and had, in fact, been in our very apartment.

Matilda was curious about the sender of the parasol.

Just as Emmett had been curious about the person who sent him the monkey head for his scooter (that would be msbelle).

In short: you are known to my children.


Jesse - Jan 13, 2014 4:31:46 pm PST #17169 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I do know where you live!


Jesse - Jan 13, 2014 4:32:24 pm PST #17170 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

But still am not a cowgirl.


DavidS - Jan 13, 2014 5:00:10 pm PST #17171 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

But still am not a cowgirl.

Not according to my daughter.


billytea - Jan 13, 2014 6:44:14 pm PST #17172 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

We're having a week of hellacious weather here. Today the maximum is 43 degress (109 in Fahrenheit). This is ushering in four days of 40-degree weather (104F+).

I'm not saying I'd swap with Chiberia Chicago, you understand. Just that I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.

Oh, the kicker: for the month of January, the rail company is doing upgrade work on my line, which means a three-station segment is closed. Both to and from work, I need to catch a train to one station, go find a bus, take it to the other station, then wait for a train to take me the rest of the way. I'm so looking forward to the rest of this week.


meara - Jan 13, 2014 6:49:01 pm PST #17173 of 30000

I'm not saying I'd swap with Chiberia Chicago, you understand. Just that I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.

...I would totally take Chiberia over 109 degrees. Ick.


aurelia - Jan 13, 2014 7:01:36 pm PST #17174 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Why do people not understand not to reply all?

The entire cast and orchestra of The Jungle Book wished each other Happy New Year by using reply all on a performance report. It went on for days.

I'm not saying I'd swap with Chiberia Chicago, you understand. Just that I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.

I might consider a swap. Although my battery operated socks just arrived today.


billytea - Jan 13, 2014 7:20:13 pm PST #17175 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Oh, and get this: my mother-in-law decided that today was the perfect day to travel into the city with Biyi to buy some new luggage. By train. By train-and-then-bus-and-then-train-again. And then back.

I'm working from home today. I insisted that I at least pick them up from the station where they'd have caught the bus. (Biyi at least needed no persuading.)


Burrell - Jan 13, 2014 8:17:13 pm PST #17176 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

What a PITA about the train, bt.


sarameg - Jan 14, 2014 2:49:08 am PST #17177 of 30000

I won't complain about the unseasonably mild but rainy weather. Dreary, to be sure.

Pumpkin is about as enthused as I am about getting up in the morning. She stays curled up on the pillows a good 5 minutes after I'm up and about, cracking just one sleepy eye at me. It amuses me.