I got carded today for the first time in many years. It was at TJs, and I mentioned I was turning 50 soon.
Book: Where's the doctor? Not back yet?
Zoe: (beat) We don't make him hurry for the little stuff. He'll be along.
Book: He could hurry... a little.
'Safe'
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.
tommyrot - Jan 31, 2015 10:15:09 am PST #17764 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Consuela - Jan 31, 2015 10:24:25 am PST #17765 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Reader, I hung up on her, but before I did she said, "Okay, nobody loves me, bye." 65 or 5, you tell me.
Oy, flea. That sounds strikingly like my mother in the last years of her life.
What a morning.
Sadness: a childhood friend of my nieces, who went to MIT and met a lovely young man and got married a few years ago and now is in grad school at Cal -- well, her lovely husband died last night. Nobody seems to know why, possibly a heart ailment. So A is widowed at 25. The mind reels. So shocked and horrified.
Better news: I have overhead lights in my house again! Finally got an electrician who was willing to poke around, and he determined that I have both modern wiring and knob-and-tube wiring, and while the breaker box was good, there was a loose fuse in the fuse box. Fixed! I no longer have to run an extension cord across the kitchen to get my oven to work!
Annoying: The overhead light in the dining room still doesn't work, it appears to be a flaw in the fixture. Which means I will have to replace both the overhead fixtures in the kitchen...
Great news: Kat is getting married, yay! Congratulations!
amyth - Jan 31, 2015 10:24:41 am PST #17766 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
OMG, flea.
"Okay, nobody loves me, bye."
I think I'm going to try and end at least one phone conversation this way this week.
Edit: That is so sad about your nieces' friend, Consuela.
Yay, Kat and K!
meara - Jan 31, 2015 10:54:23 am PST #17767 of 30000
Secretly winning at color co-ordination: my yellow bra matches the "kaboom"s on my wonder woman underwear AND the lettering of my "I am the kwisatch haderach" t-shirt
That sounds like winning to me!
And yeah, Suela, look around at credit unions again--here BECU is big--it used to be Boeing Employees Credit Union, but now anyone can join (or maybe just Washington residents, or something).
I have spent all the money at Target. But my house is looking really nice! I love the new dining room table I got last weekend from my ex-coworker. Worth the bruises and car rental and so on.
My mother is kinda whackadoodle sometimes, but not like flea's mom, dang!
Laura - Jan 31, 2015 10:55:40 am PST #17768 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Oh dear, Consuela. May she find comfort.
Sheryl - Jan 31, 2015 11:27:22 am PST #17769 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Congrats Kat!
msbelle - Jan 31, 2015 11:41:32 am PST #17770 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
My head and sinuses were hurting and it just started raining. Add me to the human barometers.
sj - Jan 31, 2015 12:08:41 pm PST #17771 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Consuela, I'm so sorry. All good thoughts for your friend.
Burrell - Jan 31, 2015 12:58:55 pm PST #17772 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oy flea, your mother!
I was just given the gift of the day to myself. It was lovely, and yet? Now the guilt weasels are crawling out from the corners.
-t - Jan 31, 2015 1:08:31 pm PST #17773 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Begone guilt weasels! Burrell does not need you.