Connie - that is an amazing side effect: long may it continue.
Glory ,'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.
Interesting story about a mass graveyard of fossilized stranded whales. What I don't understand is why the graphic doesn't include a drawing of the aquatic sloth.
AQUATIC SLOTH people! Why don't they understand what is important???
In my mind, an aquatic sloth is basically a manatee.
In my mind, an aquatic sloth is basically Aquasloth, who is like Aquaman, except slower.
It's practically a blizzard out right now. Visibility is under 50 yards. Radar tells me it is just a strong band and it will be over soon, but eeks!
Connie, like, whoa. If anyone's gonna get superpowers from radiation, it'll be your Hubby.
Still I will take the cancer that got my Dad over the more than a decade decline into dementia and no mobility that my Mom is still going through.
This, a million times. I would take that end-of-life "option" for myself as well, although given my family history, it's more likely to be the bad one.
In vacation news, my face and arms are slightly sunburned and swollen after days of driving in bright sunshine, but today on the beach it was cloudy and cool and breezy and perfect.
Still I will take the cancer that got my Dad over the more than a decade decline into dementia and no mobility that my Mom is still going through.
Oh ND, I hadn't quite realized before how closely your parents' decline mirrored my parents'. I will always regret the specifics of my father's death (which involved a massive heart attack and a coma) but not the fact that his passing was quick.
God, dementia terrifies me. Or the failing of my abilities while my mind is still aware but unable to reach out. So many worse ways to go.
Heard over the wall:
re: something on the girl's desk: "OK, I'll tell you, but there's some backstory. See, I love garden gnomes--"
(someone else): "Hang on, I have to hear this backstory."
The older I get, the more firmly I believe that one of my grandfathers had nearly the best death possible: He was sick for six months, but not in pain until the last few days.