Pretty bouquet, Teppy!
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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.
Scrappy - Aug 13, 2013 9:29:16 pm PDT #2447 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Calli - Aug 14, 2013 1:21:14 am PDT #2448 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Pretty, Steph! I like the wee snail.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 14, 2013 2:16:33 am PDT #2449 of 30000
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
Also (though I haven't looked for photos of him from his porn days, so I could be wrong here), I assume he engaged in some competitive tanning while he was doing porn, and years of tanning will age a person prematurely.
Yeah, I was unaware of the meth use, but I recall a lot of poolside photography that probably required hours filming in the sun as well as the general tan maintenance beforehand.
Steph L. - Aug 14, 2013 3:52:07 am PDT #2450 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Pretty, Steph! I like the wee snail.
That's for Tim's mom. She loved the outdoors -- worked for the Park District, took the family camping every weekend basically from May through early October, built a house in the woods. And inside their house, she collected little critters -- little plastic animals (bugs, lizards, frogs, etc.) that she perched in plant pots, on picture frames -- everywhere. She was all about the critters.
So I thought a good way to honor her memory and have her at the wedding in spirit was to incorporate a critter into my bouquet and Tim's boutonniere. The snail happened to work perfectly because it's actually on a stick, so I could just wrap it in with the flower stems.
Tim hasn't picked out his critter yet, though he's leaning toward a blue tree frog.
sarameg - Aug 14, 2013 4:00:50 am PDT #2451 of 30000
Excellent job, Steph.
There's not enough coffee in the world to deal with the contents of my inbox this morning. Uhg.
And I've got at least 3 phone calls to make, and you know how I love that.
-t - Aug 14, 2013 4:43:35 am PDT #2452 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Very cool, Tep.
I would really like to go back to bed now. But I will not. Because I am a professional, dammit.
Amy - Aug 14, 2013 4:48:10 am PDT #2453 of 30000
Because books.
Really pretty, Tep! Although as soon as I saw it I realized I was subconsciously expecting something blue.
t /weird
Cass - Aug 14, 2013 4:57:15 am PDT #2454 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.
My sister had a talisiamen for Dad in her bouquet, I think a small photo. And I didn't know beforehand but Dad had a 'reserved' seat for the ceremony with a framed photograph of him and a little bouquet. It was really emotionally touching to me. He was there as much as life allowed.
msbelle - Aug 14, 2013 5:08:16 am PDT #2455 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Technical difficulties continue in the office. No phones.
Amy - Aug 14, 2013 5:31:37 am PDT #2456 of 30000
Because books.
Can anyone help with Excel? I was typing the name of the news site I was posting to into a cell yesterday, and I must have hit something because now it shows whatever I'm typing up in the top left of the document (next to something that says "fx") and no matter what I do, it won't put the text in the correct cell.
I'm a total novice with Excel, if that wasn't clear.