I'm sorry, shrift ~ma for you and everyone in your family.
That's the thrill of living in the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of fiends and devils and ghouls to engage ... Pardon me for finding the glass half-full.
Giles ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
sj - Feb 25, 2015 10:20:17 am PST #20503 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
-t - Feb 25, 2015 10:21:49 am PST #20504 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, no shrift. Good outcome~ma, whatever that might mean in this situation.
shrift - Feb 25, 2015 10:29:13 am PST #20505 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Thanks, all. My grandfather has been struggling with health issues for a long time. He recently was in hospice for a while, but he improved when he was there. This seems sudden even though it probably isn't?
He's my last grandparent still living, so that isn't helping. I talked with him at Christmas and he told me about going to the 1964 World's Fair in NYC.
beth b - Feb 25, 2015 10:31:02 am PST #20506 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
dad ma~~
grampa ma~~~~
Ginger - Feb 25, 2015 10:42:09 am PST #20507 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Best possible outcome~ma to the families of shrift and -t.
Apparently we're going to get all the precipitation today. So far we've had rain, sleet, fluffy snowflakes and something that was either small hail or large sleet.
JZ - Feb 25, 2015 10:49:23 am PST #20508 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.
Out here, it's bright and sunny but deceptively so, as there's an actual mean little bite to the air (nothing like the East is getting, but it's a cognitive-dissonance shock when it comes along with blazing sunlight), and it continues to stubbornly refuse to precipitate so much as a drop or flake or wisp of anything. If all y'all can figure out a way to shoo yours westward, we will happily take it all.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 25, 2015 10:50:53 am PST #20509 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
~ma to -t's and shrift's families.
sj - Feb 25, 2015 10:51:15 am PST #20510 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
It is beautifully sunny here today and 30, which pretty much feels like summer at this point. JZ, I would be more than happy to ship you our next batch of precipitation.
SuziQ - Feb 25, 2015 10:55:17 am PST #20511 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Our snow has started again. The shop just called and my car is done (only $240 in repairs). CJ isn't out of school for another hour-ish and I just want to go get it before the roads get bad.
tommyrot - Feb 25, 2015 11:01:04 am PST #20512 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.
Today is my younger brother Dan's birthday. The rest of us siblings all sent him emails wishing him a happy birthday and telling him we love him. Hopefully he'll get them, as he's been avoiding communicating with us since November.
When my Dad died in August, his life insurance policy payout all went to us kids and the church. We each got about $15,000, but from that we each had to pay about $2,700 for my Dad's funeral. Dan never paid his share and stopped communicating with us when we asked him about it.
So the rest of us siblings each paid an additional $900 to cover his share. To me, $900 seems like such a trivial amount for him to cut himself off from us. We've emailed and texted him saying that we love him and we don't care about the money, but we still haven't heard from him. Our mom (who has Alzheimers) doesn't understand why Dan hasn't been talking to her or visiting her. It's just so sad, but we don't know what do do.
eta: Yes, we've confirmed that nothing bad has happened to Dan.