...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


meara - Mar 07, 2014 2:03:27 pm PST #21696 of 30000

"chest of drawers"

What do y'all call it instead? A dresser? A bureau? Some other word I don't know?

I spent some time at the pool earlier today, then walked until I found a grocery store, bought some food so I don't really need to leave unless I want to, came home and ate lunch and had a beer, and the combo of beer and sunshine promptly made me take a two hour nap. Yay vacation?

I'm still a bit sleepy but thinking of getting ice cream in a bit. Also finished the new Incryptid book, which was fun, but needed more Aeslin mice.


Jesse - Mar 07, 2014 2:16:04 pm PST #21697 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yes, dresser or bureau.


Theodosia - Mar 07, 2014 2:21:14 pm PST #21698 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's also the occasional highboy.


Burrell - Mar 07, 2014 2:31:46 pm PST #21699 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

There's also the occasional highboy.

Not to be confused with the occasional highball.


Connie Neil - Mar 07, 2014 2:32:37 pm PST #21700 of 30000
brillig

the religion that was founded on invisible gold tablets that only one guy could see frowns upon light mindedness?

Yes, it's true. Watching college kids out being college kids comes with an air of uneasiness, because you occasionally catch them with a look of uncertainty. "Are we doing this right? People are staring. Should we stop?"

There are people who can be spontaneous and giddy and delighted in the universe, but the kids who go to Brigham Young University oftentimes come across with a mix of defiance and "check the list, we're supposed to be doing a fun activity tonight and we've got instructions."

Monday evening is Family Home Evening, where the family gets together to socialize and sometimes go over the assigned church lesson. Board games are big. We know not to go to the family restaurants on a Monday evening, because that's a favorite activity. The college students are away from their families, so they get assigned to "family" groups. I don't know if this is still done, but one girl gets assigned to be "mom", ie, arrange the snacks, and one boy is "dad", who leads the lesson. The groups often have an assigned activity, such as a trip to the grocery store together or scavenger hunts. If we went to the grocery store near BYU, there would often be groups out on various quests.

Friday night at the grocery store is "put on your make up in the parking lot with your girl roommates/tidy your hair and your clothes in the parking lot with your boy roommates"--no co-ed roommates at BYU--then go grocery shopping and mingle. Hubby and I would have fun watching The Hunt as they looked each other over.


-t - Mar 07, 2014 2:35:37 pm PST #21701 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

We did also call them dressers. Although "dresser" might also refer to a vanity. Which also has drawers. Bureau is something I understood but wouldn't say myself. Furniture terminology, not so precise.

Trying to think what the furniture store called them when we bought our bedroom set. Can't recall. I think one piece is a lingerie chest?

I do not know what a highboy is.

Unrelatedly, I think my brain shut down two or three hours ago. I hope I don't have to re-do everything I did this afternoon come Monday. And now I really want some kind of cocktail but finding some way of combining my meager choices of spirit with at least as sparse array of mixers is beyond me.


Steph L. - Mar 07, 2014 2:37:14 pm PST #21702 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Also finished the new Incryptid book

Wait, what? There's a new one already?


SuziQ - Mar 07, 2014 2:46:39 pm PST #21703 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I have a dresser (short, wide, has 3 sets of 3 drawers), lingerie cabinet (taller, not very wide or deep, has 7 drawers) and an armoir (tallest but not as wide as the dresser, has two drawers at the bottom and cabinet doors at the top).


-t - Mar 07, 2014 3:05:22 pm PST #21704 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Cocktail crisis averted: I was able to cobble together something not too far off from a sour. Using an egg white that's been in my freezer for a year and a half. This may be a good use for those frozen egg whites as it gets hotter, very refreshing.


le nubian - Mar 07, 2014 3:06:50 pm PST #21705 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

"dresser" or "bureau" were the only terms I knew to call the damn things. CoD was a strange new thing.