Y'all, I have been honest to god networking tonight and having substantive conversations with relevant and important people. It's like I don't even know me! I can't wait to tell my therapist.
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
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.
brenda m - Oct 22, 2013 6:59:44 pm PDT #9810 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Connie Neil - Oct 22, 2013 7:06:03 pm PDT #9811 of 30000
brillig
Facebook has been the saving of my relationship with my last remaining sister. I've communicated with her in the last year more than I have in the previous 20.
sarameg - Oct 22, 2013 7:10:48 pm PDT #9812 of 30000
My mom is one of six. Oddly enough, I got my aunt Sue's letter tonight (addressed to her sibs, but it was forwarded to some of the niephews.) Seems topical tonight. And FUCKING HELL, to bed with me!
To my sisters and brother-(2nd sister) used the term ‘collective ego’ to describe the fact that when one of us hurts, we all hurt. Certainly the love and support that has come from all of you may be a sign of that fact. I have realized in the past, that we were a particularly close family and have certainly reaped the benefits of this closeness from time to time, but the concept became particularly powerful with Frank’s passing, Even before I made that very tearful phone call to Marcia [my mom] from St. Anthony’s when I realised that this was the end for my dear husband, I could feel the support that I knew would be there from all of you.
I am lucky. Very lucky.
SuziQ - Oct 22, 2013 7:12:38 pm PDT #9813 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Allergies.
Zenkitty - Oct 22, 2013 7:13:52 pm PDT #9814 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
brenda, that's quite a success!
aurelia - Oct 22, 2013 9:48:56 pm PDT #9815 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
That's lovely, sarameg.
Oh, cool, I want one of those. Where do you get them?
Think Geek has one. Just to counter the sporty suggestion.
aurelia - Oct 23, 2013 12:17:20 am PDT #9816 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
So my upstairs neighbor just woke me up complaining about tv volume. My tv has been off since midnight but he refuses to believe that the Bravo infomercial bothering him is not coming from my apartment. Dude, I don't even have cable. What incentive would I have to lie? If it's me, I apologize and turn it down so you go away instead of arguing in my doorway while I freeze my bare legs off.
brenda m - Oct 23, 2013 12:50:58 am PDT #9817 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Do you have a long broomstick? I feel like some random ceiling banging is in order.
brenda m - Oct 23, 2013 1:04:31 am PDT #9818 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Zen, thanks. It's a big thing for me to shrug off the avoidance and not be looking for the exit.
ION, I just fell asleep - okay just woke up - in the enormous bathtub. Still warm after two hours. I considered getting my pillow and mask and getting back in.
[I'm going on the theory that if you're not super drunk, which I'm not, or doing drugs, ditto, you'll wake up if you go under. But also my feet are enormous raisins so I will go to regular bed.]
sarameg - Oct 23, 2013 2:41:08 am PDT #9819 of 30000
Please don't drown, brenda!
I slept in! Until 5:30. I don't think that counts.