Whatever happened to the still beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.

Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'


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.


SuziQ - Sep 29, 2013 8:28:25 am PDT #7199 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Andi - would you forward to my profile addy too?


WindSparrow - Sep 29, 2013 8:32:40 am PDT #7200 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Their lives are so short, and they give us so much love, so much joy. It is a challenge to keep the worries at bay, to enjoy them as they right in the moment, lest we smirch their presence with fear. This is my mantra when I hold a purring Harvey: I am holding you right now; right now I am holding you.


WindSparrow - Sep 29, 2013 8:35:02 am PDT #7201 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Suzi, insent.


flea - Sep 29, 2013 8:52:43 am PDT #7202 of 30000
information libertarian

We just got a school directory today, is how I knew. (Also, their teacher's last name is Bidlingmeyer - possibly even more German! Also I know a Berghausen family. I like to think of you now as Teppy Bidlingmeyer-Berghausen. Von Strauss. Just so you're forewarned.)


Zenkitty - Sep 29, 2013 9:00:20 am PDT #7203 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Their lives are so short, and they give us so much love, so much joy. It is a challenge to keep the worries at bay, to enjoy them as they right in the moment, lest we smirch their presence with fear. This is my mantra when I hold a purring Harvey: I am holding you right now; right now I am holding you.

This is how I feel about mine, too. I get seized with the fear of the inevitable, and I try to put it aside and live in the moment with them.


Jesse - Sep 29, 2013 9:04:56 am PDT #7204 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Teppy Bidlingmeyer-Berghausen

That reminds me of a donor at an old job whose name was Budenhagen, and we took to using it as a curse. "What in the Budenhagen??" We actually felt better when we learned we were mispronouncing it (according to the actual people): they said budden-hay-gen, we said BOO-den-hah-gen.


Steph L. - Sep 29, 2013 9:13:10 am PDT #7205 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I like to think of you now as Teppy Bidlingmeyer-Berghausen. Von Strauss. Just so you're forewarned.

That's how it feels. Longest name EVAR.


Kate P. - Sep 29, 2013 9:30:24 am PDT #7206 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Dang, Hil, I'm impressed!

All the genealogy talk reminds me: Can anyone recommend a free or very cheap source for making family trees? I've downloaded a few free templates, but none that you can edit in Adobe; they're just for printing out and filling in by hand. I'm looking for something I can do on the computer.


Hil R. - Sep 29, 2013 9:52:39 am PDT #7207 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Gar, I just looked through those records again, and I'm a lot more certain now that the immigration record is the correct one -- the last name given for his aunt in NY is the same as his mother's maiden name on his death certificate, and the aunt's immigration records show her coming from the same part of Belarus as him.


Hil R. - Sep 29, 2013 9:54:50 am PDT #7208 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

All the genealogy talk reminds me: Can anyone recommend a free or very cheap source for making family trees? I've downloaded a few free templates, but none that you can edit in Adobe; they're just for printing out and filling in by hand. I'm looking for something I can do on the computer.

Just about any genealogy software will have a bunch of different types of trees you can print out. There are reviews of a bunch of free ones here: [link]