And I'm pretty sure my friends wouldn't mock me for my irrational fear of the vacuum cleaner.
(If you're vacuuming, you can't hear if anything is sneaking up on you. I SAID it was irrational.)
She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic.
Wash ,'War Stories'
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.
Atropa - Oct 10, 2013 5:07:05 pm PDT #8597 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
-t - Oct 10, 2013 5:10:50 pm PDT #8598 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's pretty rational, as vacuum cleaner fears go.
Connie Neil - Oct 10, 2013 5:16:17 pm PDT #8599 of 30000
brillig
I was looking at hard cases for my tablet, and I came across some that were made of vegan leather. What is vegan leather? All I can think of is fruit leather or some synthetic.
Cass - Oct 10, 2013 5:19:26 pm PDT #8600 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.
I'll vacuum for you anytime, Cass.
And I'll dust.
Honestly, sometimes my Mom will come over and spend ten minutes with a vacuum cleaner and I will happily make her dinner and clean up. I swear I get the better deal. If she wants to mop, I will cook the damn frozen turkey that has lived in my freezer for months. All the trimmings.
Zenkitty - Oct 10, 2013 5:33:22 pm PDT #8601 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Vegan leather is any leather substitute. It could be made of PVC, or microfiber, or a couple other things. Not necessarily environmentally friendly. The world is better off with someone using real leather than PVC (poly-vinyl-chloride).
Connie Neil - Oct 10, 2013 5:37:22 pm PDT #8602 of 30000
brillig
It sounded as weird as kosher bacon --which is possible, I guess.
DavidS - Oct 10, 2013 6:11:51 pm PDT #8603 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My apartment could be nigh perfect and my mother would still run her finger over my fan to pick the dust off and show me her dirty finger
Ha! If my mom or dad ever did that to me (and they never would) I would've just laughed at them said, "I guess you fucked up."
Kat - Oct 10, 2013 6:49:20 pm PDT #8604 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
This weekend our house needs a thorough clean. I can usually mop one room between my AM swim and getting to work. But it means the floors are never all clean at the same time. It would also help if the fucking dog would stop shedding.
My problem, currently, is I have different levels of clean. There are Grace-related health care items that I routine clean daily. Even when she skips a bath, her medical stuff gets cleaned.
Then there are things I can't stand dirty anymore. Usually floors, windows and mirrors.
But the floor in my bedroom? Hasn't been mopped in an age and the dust has blow in on all the windowsills.
It's too overwhelming to contemplate.
§ ita § - Oct 10, 2013 7:51:04 pm PDT #8605 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The pie turned out pretty well. My sister made me sob until I was sick . And then there was pie, and another headache.
I just don't understand how she can have any awe left for me, any of the "but that's my BIG sister" where I see myself as "the one they have to help when she breaks". Aside from "the one who can't" that's the only hat I wear.
Typo Boy - Oct 10, 2013 9:35:54 pm PDT #8606 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Because you are still functioning at all in the face of everything. I'm fucking awed at you, and I'm not related.