Sounds like a step in the right direction, tommyrot.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Fred Pete - Aug 08, 2014 8:56:35 am PDT #3737 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
SuziQ - Aug 08, 2014 10:16:06 am PDT #3738 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
In GISHWHES news, one of the items was to deliver flowers to residents of a retirement home. K-Bug used to work at an Assisted Living place, so we went there armed with a few boquets. Everyone was so delighted. One gal, gratefully accepted her bundle, hugged me and K-Bug, and then handed it back so we could make someone else smile.
Everyone we talked to knew K-Bug and were so happy to see her. Elated, even.
Then I offered to help with anything they needed (another scavenger hunt item) and ended up learning how to play Bunco. One of the best couple of hours I've spent in a long time.
-t - Aug 08, 2014 10:17:35 am PDT #3739 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Aw, that's great to read, Suzi!
Also cautiously pleased with tommyrot's father breathing. Go lungs.
I have lost the will to work.
Jesse - Aug 08, 2014 10:21:27 am PDT #3740 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's so sweet, Suzi! What a nice scavenger hunt.
Scrappy - Aug 08, 2014 11:08:06 am PDT #3741 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I noticed early this week that my roots were growing out and looking bad. Red hair + Grey roots = Not A Pretty Sight. They didn't have the root-touch up dye at the CVS, so I came to work and thought, let me check to see if the Floyds I go to is open tonight--they are, and I got an appointment at 6pm! I KNOW I would have meant to find touch-up dye and then put it off and run out of time and felt dowdy all week long, so, I am very pleased with my gumption. If making a hair appointment counts as gumption.
§ ita § - Aug 08, 2014 11:12:05 am PDT #3742 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Floyd's charged me over ninety dollars to colour my hair. They still have my clipping business, but next time I go blonde it's in my bathroom.
EpicTangent - Aug 08, 2014 11:14:37 am PDT #3743 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Continued ~ma for tommy's dad. Glad to hear things may be on an upswing.
One gal, gratefully accepted her bundle, hugged me and K-Bug, and then handed it back so we could make someone else smile.
Then the story made me smile - smiles all around!
If making a hair appointment counts as gumption.
My past-my-waist hair up in a messy bun says, "Yes, making a hair appt would require gumption." So yay you.
Calli - Aug 08, 2014 11:28:11 am PDT #3744 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Got another job application rejection this afternoon. It was for a position near Saginaw--not an ideal location. But still, it's getting a little depressing, much as I'm enjoying the whole sleeping in thing.
-t - Aug 08, 2014 11:29:53 am PDT #3745 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hey, I finally got a nameplate! I can't put it on my cube because the holder that is already in place is the wrong shape. Supposedly, I will get a new one on Monday (it took 14 months to get the nameplate, so we'll see how long the holder takes...) and meanwhile I have my nameplate on the empty cube two spaces down with arrows pinned to the walls leading to me.
Connie Neil - Aug 08, 2014 11:52:18 am PDT #3746 of 30000
brillig
Yay -t-dad's tube!
Just picked up first disk of Avenger EMH. Here's to new voices coming from my TV.