Hope you had a good birthday, Consuela!!
Kat, any interest in a sweatshirt?
Zenkitty, would it help any to shorten the trip?
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Dec 12, 2014 2:45:51 am PST #12377 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse - Dec 12, 2014 3:38:05 am PST #12378 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
ION, I went to bed plenty early last night, but woke up a couple of hours later so cold I thought my heat had turned off. It happened last year -- the boiler needed more water or something -- but I couldn't deal with thinking about getting up and going to the basement. So I got my heating pad, but had the worst time trying to get back to sleep! The heat was not broken, and when I got up at least, the house was 62 like it normally is, so I'm not sure what my problem was. But now I'm tired and not that mentally prepared for my day.
Laura - Dec 12, 2014 3:59:17 am PST #12379 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
My dad was in WWII but he never spoke of it. He had enlisted in the Air Force and was a pilot. He had always had allergies, but they stationed him in SoCal, and for the first time in his life he had asthma. They kept him in the hospital there and grounded him. He never got to go serve the way he wanted to and it was devastating to him. Men of his age, graduating HS in 1940, served. They talked about it. It was like a horrible shaming experience for him. He was angry and bitter about it since all other geographical areas weren't an issue, and there were no enemy in San Diego.
-t - Dec 12, 2014 4:43:34 am PST #12380 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
He never, ever, wanted to talk about it.
That's all my relatives who served in the Pacific (which is all of them that served, as I recall)
Steph L. - Dec 12, 2014 4:57:54 am PST #12381 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
My grandpa was stationed in Northern Africa for most of his WWII service. Years and years later, when he was retired, he had a huge crazy vegetable garden in their back yard, and he would go out in the middle of the day in the hottest part of the summer and work in the garden for hours. My grandma, who loved central air as much as I do, would yell out the window at him, "Paul, it's too hot! If you die out there, I'm leaving you where you fall!"
And my grandpa would reply, "It's not too hot! I was IN AFRICA!" (My grandma's rejoinder to that was "You weren't BORN THERE!!!" And then she would slam the window and go back to watching her stories. Good times.)
lisah - Dec 12, 2014 6:00:10 am PST #12382 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Congrats on passing the test, Anne!
Kat - Dec 12, 2014 6:15:21 am PST #12383 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
aurelia, anything college-related is perfect. Wednesday I wore K's Minnesota State women's hockey shirt.
Jesse, sweatshirts would be awesome!
Rainy day today (woot!) but I think it's making me stupid. I put my skirt on inside out today. And I'm wearing rainboots all day.
Strix - Dec 12, 2014 6:31:32 am PST #12384 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Does anyone remember what part of Fl Laura lives in?
Jesse - Dec 12, 2014 6:42:11 am PST #12385 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, sweatshirts would be awesome!
I have a Penn sweatshirt I would lend you, but I think I'll want it for my 20th reunion in May....
Ginger - Dec 12, 2014 6:58:25 am PST #12386 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Laura is near Ft Lauderdale, iirc.