Just cost me $47 to ship cookies from Massachusetts to Vancouver in any kind of timely fashion. WOW. I knew it would be a lot, but.... $47 was unexpected.
Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.
'Serenity'
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.
zuisa - Dec 16, 2014 8:53:33 am PST #12743 of 30000
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 16, 2014 9:03:37 am PST #12744 of 30000
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.
A co-worker is working my last good nerve pushing some homemade candy she brought to the office today. While it's a nice gesture, I don't like the stuff and don't need to be reminded that it's still in the kitchen during every conversation. Said co-worker is also a neighbor of my cousins and brought the same candy to our extended family Christmas gathering this weekend. And talked about it last night at the office Christmas dinner. ENOUGH ABOUT THE DAMNED CRACKER CANDY!
shrift - Dec 16, 2014 9:05:18 am PST #12745 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I got to work this morning and wanted to light the world on fire. Then I made myself go meditate for 15 minutes, and that got me through a couple of hours. I just pulled myself back from another rage bender. Maybe it's time for lunch.
brenda m - Dec 16, 2014 9:10:27 am PST #12746 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
I am so on the edge of that right now. It will be a miracle if I make it to the end of the week.
Jesse - Dec 16, 2014 9:13:10 am PST #12747 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ah ha ha -- the meeting that I had instead of going to most of my department potluck gave me a rage attack. I'm actually doing OK, generally, so should be able to walk back from it enough to write the follow-up email.
msbelle - Dec 16, 2014 9:21:59 am PST #12748 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am just trying to focus on doing tasks that will get physical papers off my desk. These may not be the most important tasks, but I need the mess gone.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2014 9:31:32 am PST #12749 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am just trying to focus on doing tasks that will get physical papers off my desk
Scissors, I'm just saying.
Today I search my apartment and shred old/unwanted paper. I've already filled one shopping bag with my version of snow, as well as messed up the carpet with it.
hippocampus - Dec 16, 2014 9:36:33 am PST #12750 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
I'm just out of the revision cave / hiding in GWW / lurking and wanted to send you hugs and hope that tonight sleeps easier, sinuses calm down, work gets better, and people do right by my buffistas in 2015.
Sparky, I saw your note in beep and I cannot thank you enough. I'm very lucky to have a cousin as wonderful as you.
meara - Dec 16, 2014 9:51:57 am PST #12751 of 30000
Today is actually (so far cross your fingers) going pretty well for me, work-wise at least. Ideally I'd be told I get to go to a training tomorrow that right now I'm not supposed to (but "not supposed to go" is still better than "supposed to lead it and write the report about it before I go on vacation, while using a new system"). And I seem to have worked it out with folks that I will NOT be going to Kansas, Nebraska, and Texas in January, but instead just California and Arizona and Nevada. Whew.
I'd prefer if my personal life were a little better, but ah well.
Connie Neil - Dec 16, 2014 10:08:38 am PST #12752 of 30000
brillig
I feel both smart and dumb. For months now, I've been having the symptoms of tendonitis in my ankles. It became bad over the summer, and I thought it was because of the sandals I was wearing. Turns out, not so much. Then I finally noticed that when I'm sitting at my desk at work, I'm bracing my feet hard against the floor, because the desks here at the new building are higher than the old ones, so I have to have my desk chair higher, so my feet don't rest flat on the floor. A foot rest hasn't helped, because they're too narrow and they put stress on my knees.
So I've finally dropped the chair so my feet rest unbraced on the floor, and I'm working on the angles of my monitors. And my ankles no longer make me limp when I stand up.
Yay, logical deduction, no matter how long delayed!