So who all was seriously jarred by Facebook memories feeding them a big old square of pink gingham with the information that it was five years ago?
Right. Piano. Because that's what we used to kill that big demon that one time. No, wait. That was a rocket launcher.
Xander ,'Touched'
ita's thread
A place where we can talk about ita, miss ita, and share information about memorials. The hugging started over here in Natter.
P.M. Marc - Jan 13, 2020 5:03:07 pm PST #3006 of 3153
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Steph L. - Jan 13, 2020 5:06:34 pm PST #3007 of 3153
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
My FB memories hit me with the picture I posted of ita getting her custom action figure at the LA F2F, and that was a gut punch.
Also: how the FUCK has it been 5 years.
askye - Jan 13, 2020 5:26:07 pm PST #3008 of 3153
Thrive to spite them
I wasn't going to look at the memories today because I'm missing vermont and cold weather again and didn't want to feel that and then I thought "well I'll see what else happened"
And saw my post about ita. AND the first person who commented on it was my Mom's best friend who died last year.
-t - Jan 13, 2020 6:07:27 pm PST #3009 of 3153
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah. 5 years, how can that be?
meara - Jan 13, 2020 7:47:38 pm PST #3010 of 3153
Yes, my FB memories were saddening today.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 14, 2020 5:57:02 am PST #3011 of 3153
"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
Thanks for the warning gang, I avoided facebook last night. Sad memories + migraine would not have been a good combination.
Dana - Jan 14, 2020 6:48:20 am PST #3012 of 3153
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
sj - Jan 14, 2020 11:11:21 am PST #3013 of 3153
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
It doesn't seem possible that it was 5 years ago, but I was pregnant with ltc at the time. So, somehow the math works.
amyparker - Jan 28, 2020 7:46:16 am PST #3014 of 3153
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
In light of the most recent episode of Doctor Who and the mother of the actor in question being Jamaican, I thought "ita would be rampaging through the thread singing, and then looking for someone to make her a coat." And oh, the hunt for the right glasses . . . .
SailAweigh - Jan 31, 2020 7:55:03 am PST #3015 of 3153
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I avoid FB like the plague, except for my kids and the Buffistas, so I got missed by that. What I did get was an e-mail from the memorial archive for her. I did go look to reread some of the things people had posted about her. ita was such a strong personality, she could never be forgotten, but it's always nice to be reminded of just how remarkable she was to others besides us.