Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.

'Get It Done'


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.


Steph L. - Aug 29, 2013 9:45:14 am PDT #3843 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Also, I am totes buying a new mattress this Monday. Our old one came to us in 1996 and was not new then, which now that I type it out, that is embarrassing. Man.

Original Mattress Factory. They rock. Plus, they're one of the only places that still sells flippable mattresses.


Sue - Aug 29, 2013 9:48:24 am PDT #3844 of 30000
hip deep in pie

You guys, can we talk about money? I want to go to Paris in the winter/spring, and need to hire movers, and probably get a bunch of new furniture (and I'm sick of cheap furniture), AND I need to replace a crown for $500. I do not have money for all of these things! But I think I should still do them all. Going back into debt for a little bit is OK, right?

I pretty much paid off my Dublin trip all winter and spring. It was worth it. I don't regret spending a penny. Most of the time I wonder why I waited so long to go. I am itching to travel again, but I am still not entirely debt free, I am a terrible saver, and there are lots of things I need. I am in the same boat.

I am also obsessed with looking on Google flights...There was a cheap flight from Halifax to Paris for weeks (for October), and then suddenly there was a flight to Dublin yesterday...But since I have been applying for jobs, I feel too unsettled to plan a vacation.


Jesse - Aug 29, 2013 9:51:32 am PDT #3845 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I myself would not cheap out on the movers--having moved many times, it was so incredibly worth it to have other people do it the last time I moved. But if you're not moving (much) furniture, it might be OK.

Yeah, I'm all about good movers. Especially since they had to take off my apartment door to get the sofa in...


Jesse - Aug 29, 2013 9:51:55 am PDT #3846 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am in the same boat.

Is it a cruise????


Sue - Aug 29, 2013 9:56:18 am PDT #3847 of 30000
hip deep in pie

Is it a cruise????

As long as it's a transatlantic one with air/rail links to Paris.

I keep applying for these Int'l Org jobs. Mostly because I'm like...oooh, I'd like to live in Brussels or The Hauge for two years!


-t - Aug 29, 2013 9:58:45 am PDT #3848 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, right, budgeting is totally something I need to do...


Jessica - Aug 29, 2013 10:00:26 am PDT #3849 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I need a more professional way to say "I am rejecting this video because this ass-backwards gender normative bullshit is not appropriate for students or in fact anyone at all."

So if anyone could suggest a classier way to say "ass-backwards gender-normative bullshit" that would be just great.


javachik - Aug 29, 2013 10:03:40 am PDT #3850 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

"No thank you. It doesn't meet our standards."


Cass - Aug 29, 2013 10:07:07 am PDT #3851 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.

Am I likely damaging anything by not minding the pain as much as I could

In my unfortunate experience, its possible. And some of that pain could be a pretty constant reminder.

I myself would not cheap out on the movers--having moved many times, it was so incredibly worth it to have other people do it the last time I moved.

Just get written stuff on bonded and insured. I had the most uncompensated damage using movers. Me packing? A pain but awesome on the survivability because I was ... careful. And used 50+ lbs of wrapping paper.


Jesse - Aug 29, 2013 10:08:38 am PDT #3852 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh god, I could not let anyone pack for me. That would make me more crazy than packing for myself. (And packing myself makes me pretty crazy) (I don't like people going through All My Things.)

As long as it's a transatlantic one with air/rail links to Paris.

Good one, good one.