I'm home with a sick kiddo today (currently napping), and finally catching up with my Buffistas after a busy weekend and two days of my new job. (Asking to take today off, after having worked only two days, was really not in my plans for my first week on the job, but I'm lucky that my new boss seems very understanding.) The job is good and interesting, but man, I forgot how tiring it can be to start a new job and have to meet everyone and learn lots of stuff very quickly. I feel like I could sleep for days.
You got fired, and you still hang around here like a big loser. Why can't he?
Cordelia ,'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.
Kate P. - Oct 23, 2013 9:11:58 am PDT #9863 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
aurelia - Oct 23, 2013 9:22:13 am PDT #9864 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Arrrgh! My landlord just suggested I get wireless headphones for late night tv watching. MY TV WASN'T ON!
DavidS - Oct 23, 2013 9:27:45 am PDT #9865 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Speaking of GdT, I walked into Booksmith the other day and found out that he's the editor of a horror series for Penguin Books, and wrote a really interesting introduction.
P.M. Marc - Oct 23, 2013 10:03:49 am PDT #9866 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
All I've found with FB is it gives my family another platform to not communicate.
TOUCHE.
This is really kind of amazing. I've discovered ancestors back to 1767 on one branch and 1700 on another.
I clearly need to have a family member who's done a bunch of work!
I do have a family tree drawn up in the 1930s (I believe), but it's only one branch, and some of it putters out... interestingly.
Consuela - Oct 23, 2013 10:11:04 am PDT #9867 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Argh, aurelia. I'm sure you told the landlord that, as well.
Jesse, I think I need to share this baby alpaca with Good Stuff followers. IJS.
I think I've just discovered another down side of unemployment: when the weather gets colder, you have to heat your house on weekdays. Hmm.
Jessica - Oct 23, 2013 10:12:30 am PDT #9868 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Since Buffistas know everything....for my dad's 65th birthday the sibs and I are supposed to be getting together and buying him a broken down boat he can restore. Anyone know where (in the DC area) we might find something like that??
Sparky1 - Oct 23, 2013 10:22:08 am PDT #9869 of 30000
Librarian Warlord
Not knowing what you mean by boat, exactly, maybe start calling the area yacht clubs and/or marinas for suggestions of where to start looking/how to look?
Jesse - Oct 23, 2013 10:26:17 am PDT #9870 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, I think I need to share this baby alpaca with Good Stuff followers. IJS.
So sweet!
On the heat front, my first year out of college, I lived in a rowhouse in DC with two roommates. It was the worst winter ever, so we were home from work for a week or more, in a house that was super drafty, especially on the first floor, where of course we were all hanging out. AND I was a temp, which meant I wasn't getting paid for the snow days, but did have to pay for the heat. The worst.
shrift - Oct 23, 2013 10:33:31 am PDT #9871 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Also, shrift, I found a *YourLastName* in my family tree, so I'm now convinced that we're related.
Ha. Out of curiosity, I just checked how common MyLastName is, and while it's no Smith, there are a lot of us.
beth b - Oct 23, 2013 10:44:30 am PDT #9872 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Apparently I would rather *read* Unfuck Your Habitat than actually unfuck my habitat. I am made of lazybones and slothful organs
Interesting place to read . I like the tone better than fly lady - except for one thing. I refuse the label lazy. But that is a big label I had had to fight to peel off.
They don't look like they emphasis routines. That 's been a big thing for me . I get up and do x, y , z and sometimes a . when I get home I do e, f and g. And if I miss a day - because I do these things all the time, there is no heap of stuff, just a little extra.
Our heat is now set to go on in the am if it is under 68 degrees in the house. I forgot that I set it to run a little longer on tuesday ( work later ) and wednesday ( the day I am most likely to be off) . Glad I don't have to think to much about it.