Glad for the good news, Callaluna! Hope your mom continues to feel better. Vomiting, headache, and vertigo is no fun.
Spike: You pissed in the Big Man's Chair? That's fantastic! Gunn: Spike, can you please turn off that warm fuzzy? Spike: What, the Lorne thing? Worn off. I just think that's bloody fabulous.
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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.
amyth - Jan 20, 2015 12:56:19 am PST #16246 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
sarameg - Jan 20, 2015 3:16:06 am PST #16247 of 30000
It took 25 minutes and a reboot to log in this morning. I'm over it.
Jesse - Jan 20, 2015 3:58:43 am PST #16248 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That sounds promising, Callaluna!
On the beets front, I also love pickled beets. And then you can put onions and hard-boiled eggs in the pickling liquid and they come out all pink and pretty.
Callaluna - Jan 20, 2015 4:12:01 am PST #16249 of 30000
I have never met a beet I didn't love. I love that earthy flavor they have. Plus, pretty!
Artsy types, I have a question. How do you let go of something you've created when its time to send it out into the world? I've only been painting for less than a year, so the painting I am working on now is the first one I will not be keeping. I am flattered and amazed that people want my paintings (yes, actual people!) and the idea of something I created hanging on a friend's wall makes my heart happy (strangers are another story). But how on earth am I going to let this go? Its like giving away a baby. Is that insane? Do other people feel that way? Does it get easier? I find myself painting slower and slower (and I am slow to begin with) because the day I have to give it up is getting closer and closer. I think I may have issues.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 20, 2015 4:20:51 am PST #16250 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am glad your mom is feeling better and does not need immediate surgery, Callaluna.
I, too, Love beets, although I always get the pink urine and briefly think I am dying. They are really good in a salad with cottage cheese and Italian Olive salad as well.
Tom Scola - Jan 20, 2015 4:31:11 am PST #16251 of 30000
hwæt
Callaluna - Jan 20, 2015 4:34:18 am PST #16252 of 30000
You mean like this?
Yeah. But with fewer squished babies.
I should have stuck to digital art, where it can be reproduced a zillion times and I never have to feel like I've lost anything. The first painting I have to give up and I'm all, "My preciousssss!"
JZ - Jan 20, 2015 4:38:22 am PST #16253 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
So glad for your mom, Callaluna.
Also, feeling mildly parentally comforted -- about half the things we make are "too spicy" for Matilda, including things no spice has ever approached. It's somehow soothing to know that she isn't the only one with this issue. (OTOH, she loves ketchup and would probably eat spice-rubbed spice wraps if she could dip them in ketchup.)
Jessica - Jan 20, 2015 4:41:56 am PST #16254 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
about half the things we make are "too spicy" for Matilda, including things no spice has ever approached.
My kids think garlic is "spicy." So no, you're not alone.
(OTOH they will both happily eat moderately spicy chili without blinking an eyelash, so maybe the real problem is my kids don't know what the word "spicy" means.)
Sophia Brooks - Jan 20, 2015 4:42:34 am PST #16255 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
The art thing is a good question. Working in theatre, even the physical things we make are ephemeral, so I learned pretty quickly that they weren't precious and would be changed and possibly destroyed. I have worked with non they're seamstresses, and it is really hard to tell them to change something because they have loved the thing, and I love the show.