Zoe: Nobody's saying that, sir. Wash: Yeah, we're pretty much just giving each other significant glances and laughing incessantly.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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.


Juliebird - Aug 21, 2013 2:00:35 pm PDT #3224 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Aspertame and diet sodas are gross. My go-to sodas are Dr. Pepper and Ginger Ale. With Root Beer and Cherry Cola a close second, but those are too sweet to be more than an indulgence. Iced cold Root Beer is good, too.

That school clerk was the BOSS. Glad there was a happy ending there, for once.

Although that article made me mad, as any article about school shootings does, when they basically liken a school shooting to a rampant epidemic. They're (school shootings) horrible, they're wrong and to be avoided, yes, and one is too many. But the fear mongering I see in the reporting that makes it seem like dozens are happening in every state every month for the past three decades (hyperbole in reaction to a hyperbole) raises my hackles. I might be wrong and hypocritical, what with my belief that of course once is too many times. I just despise the press's bent on making it seem like every school everywhere is having to deal with gun-toting maniacs on a regular basis.


SuziQ - Aug 21, 2013 2:01:44 pm PDT #3225 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I drink very, very little carbonated beverages. One sip has me burping like...a burping thing that burps. My beverages of choice are tea, water, flavored water, and whiskey. Occasionally leamonade.

I have already had a shot of whiskey tonight. Before 5pm. Eeep.


Jesse - Aug 21, 2013 2:11:57 pm PDT #3226 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I did it! I queued up Good Stuff all the way through the weekend! Now I just hope the queue works.


Amy - Aug 21, 2013 2:20:53 pm PDT #3227 of 30000
Because books.

Are there more comprehensive day programs he could attend, Jesse? I know there are some with medical staff, where you can get meals and transportation, and Medicare covers a lot of them.

I'm a little surprised that Cassandra Clare was just a Jeopardy question. Right after a question about F. Scott Fitzgerald .


Jesse - Aug 21, 2013 2:24:33 pm PDT #3228 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

He doesn't need medical care, is the problem.


Steph L. - Aug 21, 2013 2:25:56 pm PDT #3229 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

was just a Jeopardy question.

Seriously? I assume it didn't have anything to do with plagiarism, did it?


Jesse - Aug 21, 2013 2:28:12 pm PDT #3230 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

And the only thing my mother's really having an issue with is overnight. And the transitions during the day, but I think we've gotten that covered (and she's retiring in 6 weeks).


Amy - Aug 21, 2013 2:31:04 pm PDT #3231 of 30000
Because books.

Sadly, no, Tep.

It gives me the feeling (with the movie out right now) that you might be able to buy placement in a Jeopardy question. I could be entirely wrong, but still.

He doesn't need medical care, is the problem.

Oh! But he doesn't have to. I just had to write a piece about this topic, and I think over 50% of participants in all programs nationwide had either dementia or Alzheimer's.

Does your mom need help overnight regularly, or is it just if she's traveling?


Jesse - Aug 21, 2013 2:32:48 pm PDT #3232 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Regularly -- it's that he gets up many times in the night, and has started to pee on the floor a couple of times. Theoretically they could make the apartment back into a 2-bed and sleep separately with a health aide in the room with my father, but how terrible does that sound? (To me, terrible.)


Amy - Aug 21, 2013 2:34:44 pm PDT #3233 of 30000
Because books.

Oh yeah, that's hard.