Well put, Nicole.
This is not funny. This... this is a morality tale about the evils of sake.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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.
quester - Jan 17, 2015 5:59:30 pm PST #827 of 3156
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Trudy Booth - Jan 17, 2015 6:42:38 pm PST #828 of 3156
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Yes! Her never getting to get better seems somehow additionally grossly unfair.
SailAweigh - Jan 17, 2015 6:46:14 pm PST #829 of 3156
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Ditto. Which is super lame, but there's really not much to be added to what Nicole said. I wish we could, as the Buffistas en mass, walk into whatever ER it was that ita usually ended up with and give all the doctors that gave her less than adequate care a good talking to. Make them see ita as a person, a real person, with hopes and dreams and aspirations, not just another person to be shut of one way or the other. Thinking about that sends me into "Hulk smash" mode.
smonster - Jan 17, 2015 7:06:07 pm PST #830 of 3156
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Very well said, Nicole.
Betsy HP - Jan 17, 2015 7:24:25 pm PST #831 of 3156
If I only had a brain...
"She managed to be fairly private but also seem like an an open book, she could intelligently hand you your ass, if needed, and still be one of the most welcoming members of any online community and although she was entirely capable of killing you with her pinky, she could still convey warmth and caring and acceptance."
Thank you for catching all of this, Nilly. Especially the combination of the privacy and the kindness.
I just saw Deb's picture of her on Facebook and started crying in relief, because that particular picture was my memory instead of overwriting my memory. (If you see somebody with a floral name, it's me, and I friend back.)
Betsy HP - Jan 17, 2015 7:24:29 pm PST #832 of 3156
If I only had a brain...
Lush barely puts glitter in any of their bath bombs nowadays. How sad is that?
Steph L. - Jan 17, 2015 7:33:07 pm PST #833 of 3156
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Betsy, I sent a friend request; I have the long-ass name that came with the husband.
Burrell - Jan 17, 2015 7:36:59 pm PST #834 of 3156
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Allibelle, that is a great story. I remember when she met you -- when I met you too -- she teased you mercilessly because you didn't like it when your food touched.
SuziQ - Jan 17, 2015 7:37:12 pm PST #835 of 3156
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
BRQG for the pain.
Erin G: Hey, all. I'm not dead or anything. Just black.
ita: You'd be surprised how many times I say that, myself.
Alibelle - Jan 17, 2015 7:44:25 pm PST #836 of 3156
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Nicole, that was perfect.
Burrell: I'm dying of laughter. I remember that too. And I DISTINCTLY remember repeating myself, MULTIPLE times (that night and over the years), that I truly don't care if food touches. I care if leaky gross food, like pickles, touches and contaminates good food, like french fries, so that the good food now tastes like the bad food and is ruined. Which is a totally different thing altogether. She absolutely refused to recognize that distinction.