They just burn out and stop working.
Buffy: I was regrouping. Spike: You were about to be regrouped into separate piles.
'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.
Jessica - Mar 05, 2014 4:35:07 am PST #21509 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
lisah - Mar 05, 2014 4:38:47 am PST #21510 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
I'm ready for my stick blender to die so I can get a more powerful one! I love what it does but it takes so long to do it. Still it's much easier than blending soups in the blender. The blender I mostly use for smoothies.
msbelle - Mar 05, 2014 4:41:59 am PST #21511 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I cook so little now that I think my kitchen appliances will last forever. I need to start cooking more.
mac is giving up donuts for lent. he's adorable. He asked me what I am doing for lent so I better have an answer for him tonight. Daily exercise would probably be the best thing for me to add.
Jesse - Mar 05, 2014 4:50:04 am PST #21512 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So here's a question: has Lent become more of a thing in the larger culture in recent decades than it used to be? I have always heard about it, but I grew up in a Catholic community with a Catholic family. My mother was saying that she was in a pre-Lent session at her (Baptist) church and most of the people in the group were saying they didn't really know what Lent was and/or had never heard about it growing up.
-t - Mar 05, 2014 4:52:48 am PST #21513 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I grew up Catholic in a Catholic neighborhood, so I don't know.
They just burn out and stop working.
Rats, my stick blender is definitely not at that point.
brenda m - Mar 05, 2014 5:02:48 am PST #21514 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
It was totally a Catholic thing when I was growing up. We all commiserated with our Catholic friends for their chocolate or whathaveyou deprivation.
Wait, that's the giving up things for Lent. Other branches of Xtnity certainly recognize it, but not in that sense.
msbelle - Mar 05, 2014 5:05:30 am PST #21515 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Jesse, I think so. I never remember doing anything with lent, and not being aware of it until college (I had never seen ashes on foreheads), but my Methodist church does ashes now and we have a special Ash Wednesday meal (less food, less meat). The Reformed Church I attended in NY did a whole series on lent each year and also did ashes.
Amy - Mar 05, 2014 5:05:43 am PST #21516 of 30000
Because books.
I grew Presbyterian, and I knew about Lent from church, even though we didn't have to give anything up.
lisah - Mar 05, 2014 5:06:16 am PST #21517 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Jesse, I feel like a lot more non Catholic people talk about what they are doing for Lent now then they did when I was growing up. But I also grew up in a predominantly Catholic culture.
Theodosia - Mar 05, 2014 5:15:36 am PST #21518 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"
There were more than enough Catholics (and a parish school) in my home town that it was a Known Thing (and also grew up Presbyterian). But it wasn't until I was in a majority-Catholic state that it hit a critical mass.