Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


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.


hippocampus - Feb 10, 2014 10:56:48 pm PST #19788 of 30000
not your mom's socks.

Seconding the tamari. There are also GF pizzas, and salads / chicken grilled with veggies.

Ugh. Yesterday was beyond terrible in so many directions. Including a screed from a relative for not supporting her efforts to have "relationship moments" with HPF. Those moments being, apparently, the moments when she comes over an hour late (see also Xmas day and HPFs birthday), then immediately asks HPF to run up three flights of stairs to get her house shoes. Which is when I made a noise that earned me the happy fun screed. IDEK, but I think what HPF is going to remember from that is a lot of waiting and feeling like she was not a priority in this person's life. Is it too much if I put the house shoes in the person's bag so she doesn't need them fetched by anyone upon arrival?

Yes, same person who gave me a bill on my birthday. Why am I surprised/upset.


Kat - Feb 11, 2014 3:04:01 am PST #19789 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Oh, Sox. That absolutely stinks. Perhaps HPF won't remember it that way at all (I hope) and instead filters out what makes her feel valued.

consuela, I watched that yesterday and woke up singing "Take a load off, Fanny." Well, not singing aloud, really, but just in my head. I really am charmed by Jimmy Fallon.


flea - Feb 11, 2014 3:29:03 am PST #19790 of 30000
information libertarian

I am with you, Sox. I am trying to decide if I really have the strength to go on vacation with my mother for spring break. I have so much going on right now that I do not have the time or energy, and I pretty much never have the inclination for, the power struggle over where we go and what we do she is trying to enact right now. She is not teaching this semester and IT SHOWS. I tried to get her sidetracked into genealogy or something to keep her from pestering me, but so far that is not working.

Also, somebody apparently peed on a bookcase in the library last night. The antics of public library patrons are almost endless.


Jessica - Feb 11, 2014 3:32:34 am PST #19791 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Why *does* soy sauce have wheat???

Flavor! [link]


Zenkitty - Feb 11, 2014 3:38:59 am PST #19792 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I didn't know mold was used in making soy sauce! My extreme allergic reaction to mold may explain why I always have a bad reaction to Chinese food: I don't react to the ingredients separately, but I do tend to slather the dish in soy sauce.


Jesse - Feb 11, 2014 3:45:38 am PST #19793 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The last couple of seconds of that Jimmy Fallon clip are especially fun, if you didn't finish watching.

"Take a load off, Fanny."

I always thought it was Annie! Huh.


Jesse - Feb 11, 2014 3:55:48 am PST #19794 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Actual Marmaduke: [link]


-t - Feb 11, 2014 4:03:14 am PST #19795 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Nobody tells that dog what to do.


Steph L. - Feb 11, 2014 4:03:51 am PST #19796 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

That's my kind of dog.


Sparky1 - Feb 11, 2014 4:09:50 am PST #19797 of 30000
Librarian Warlord

Ugh, Sox. I'm sorry that relative dwells on things that happened so many months ago and then unleashes the perceived slights on you. If she unleashes on HPF, then you have a much larger problem. On the other side of the family, HDE and HGE weren't even told about my Dad's surgery... those brothers!

Since my DH follows kosher rules but also is a very picky eater we have looked into the question of what he tells the people with whom he's interviewing with - the accepted practice seems to be that you may tell your interviewer ahead of time about being kosher/vegetarian/vegan, etc., but you may not tell them that you just don't like seafood. So he can refuse shrimp, but he has to suck it up if they give him salmon. Which is basically the same rules as a dinner party.