Kate, can you send a food type gift to the house? Either from a local company or from some place like Harry and David.
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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.
sj - Feb 23, 2014 6:24:03 pm PST #20764 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Amy - Feb 23, 2014 6:36:21 pm PST #20765 of 30000
Because books.
Or send her a Starbucks or Dunkin giftcard and a note asking if there's anything you can do to help out while she's away from school, since you don't leave near her?
Cass - Feb 23, 2014 6:51:03 pm PST #20766 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Coffee or easy food gift cards are good. And, really, everyone wants to help around the funeral but the hardest time to remember to take care of yourself and eat or even just take ten minutes away and survive on coffee is before that, in my experience.
Consuela - Feb 23, 2014 7:14:23 pm PST #20767 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
mmmm, sushi good.
much fish
many talking
yum
Lee - Feb 23, 2014 7:28:35 pm PST #20768 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
What Consuela said, plus it was awesome to see Consuela.
NoiseDesign - Feb 23, 2014 11:59:22 pm PST #20769 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
She will also need support in the weeks after the funeral and memorial. There is some much activity around death but the really hard part for me came in the weeks and months after when things return to normal.
tommyrot - Feb 24, 2014 4:03:09 am PST #20770 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The train I'm on (a big double-decker diesel train) has been stopped for 20 minutes because someone is on top of it.
Seriously. We even heard the person running over the top of our car.
Jesse - Feb 24, 2014 4:06:18 am PST #20771 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
tommy, are you sure you're not in an action movie? Maybe take cover!
I am back at work, and ugh! I would like more vacation.
tommyrot - Feb 24, 2014 4:10:06 am PST #20772 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Heh
The authorities are here. They're still trying to get the person down.
-t - Feb 24, 2014 4:30:56 am PST #20773 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's wild, tommyrot!
My symptoms seem to have subsided today, which is nice for my experience of living through the day, but kind of annoying in that I have my doctor's appointment this afternoon and will have to go in and say "well, I'm fine now, but..." and hope she doesn't just say "come back in if it happens again".