We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.

Mal ,'Serenity'


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Calli - Aug 17, 2014 6:05:56 am PDT #4336 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Day-um. I slept for 9.5 hours last night. Haven't done that in a while. Like, a 35 years while.


Jesse - Aug 17, 2014 6:22:16 am PDT #4337 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Sounds good to me, Calli!


Theodosia - Aug 17, 2014 6:26:47 am PDT #4338 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

When I do oversleep -- which isn't often -- it feels like I get my best quality sleep between 6-8 AM, which is just WRONG.


Calli - Aug 17, 2014 6:28:23 am PDT #4339 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

It was great. But now my sense of time is way off. It feels like 9:30 local time, but really it's nearly 11:30. Luckily I have no time-sensitive tasks today. Just getting in a walk, taking the cat out for a bit, and trying these odd gourd things in a zucchini bread recipe.


sarameg - Aug 17, 2014 6:49:38 am PDT #4340 of 30000

My neighbor is very lucky I took a break from vacuuming. I therefore could hear him yelling for me.

He'd accidentally locked himself out on his deck, but the second floor balcony was unlocked, so I could go out on mine and into his house to let him in.

He's now off to Ace to make spare keys for me and Teresa ( neighbor on the other side.)


Laura - Aug 17, 2014 7:04:12 am PDT #4341 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Good neighbor!

This reminds me of locking myself out of my house when I was 8 months prego with Brendon. When I got out of the shower I noticed that there was a dead animal on the outside patio and I wanted to get a paint bucket and brick to cover it until DH could get home to deal with it, and so the dog would not get into it. I wrapped a huge towel around myself and went out to take care of it, and found I had locked myself out.

I knew the neighbor across the street very well, but not so much the one next door. So I watched carefully for no traffic in sight and dashed across the street. They weren't home!!! So I as discretely as possible dashed across again to the neighbor next door. (Mary Hartman! and her DH Warren) Mary was working, but Warren answered and called my friend that had a key to the house for me.

A few weeks later I ran into the son and his father had told the family about the incident, but he never mentioned that I was clad only in a towel. I thought that was just so sweet and gentlemanly of him.


sarameg - Aug 17, 2014 7:12:38 am PDT #4342 of 30000

Well, considering I've been: rescued from the roof, borrowed a ladder to get on the deck when the cats locked me out, and had to retrieve spare keys at least 2x when I locked myself out doing yard work in the back, I'm happy to rescue someone else.

Wow, that's a lot....hmmm.


Zenkitty - Aug 17, 2014 7:43:13 am PDT #4343 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I'm very glad my current front door can't lock me out. Unless I lose the key when I'm outside and then I have a spare hidden on the porch.


Laura - Aug 17, 2014 7:44:52 am PDT #4344 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

I never lock my doors, so I must have somehow pushed the button in or something.


meara - Aug 17, 2014 8:26:18 am PDT #4345 of 30000

Wow, that's a lot of locking out! I've done it twice in my current place--both times I had my car keys but for some reason not my house keys (the front door is a deadbolt, if I"m not driving, but the garage door is a flip lock). Once I had to call a locksmith and once I was luckily going the same place as my roommate at the time, so just let him know and worked it out. But there've been a few times where I just got lucky. I keep thinking I need to install one of those keycode locks on the front door, but haven't gotten around to hiring someone (in theory I could do it but I worry if I tried I'd screw it up and end up with no lock on the front door!)