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.
Mal: Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you're supposed to make me look respectable. Kaylee: Yes, sir, Captain Tightpants.
'Shindig'
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.
Steph L. - Jan 13, 2020 5:06:34 pm PST #3007 of 3153
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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.
Pix - Nov 08, 2020 9:42:24 am PST #3016 of 3153
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I just felt like I needed to post here to celebrate our new Jamaican VP. Miss you, ita!