What? I'm not allowed to hit people? Wesley: Not people capable of genocide. Angel: Those are exactly the types of people I should be allowed to hit!

'Just Rewards (2)'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

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.


meara - Jul 31, 2016 9:06:11 am PDT #25358 of 30003

That's a pretty cool tour, aurelia!

Well, I slept for 12 hours. (I mean, I woke up at like 7am and used the bathroom, and where I'd normally fall back asleep for an hour or two, I just woke up ten minutes ago.) ...since getting enough sleep is not normally a problem for me, thumbs down on the edible. Boo!


Kat - Jul 31, 2016 9:21:01 am PDT #25359 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Well, meara, at least it was a relatively cheap experiment.

I have to start back at work this week. WAH. Do not want.


msbelle - Jul 31, 2016 9:53:21 am PDT #25360 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I somehow got logged out of Pokemon Go! and do not remember my login/password. In trying to retrieve it, I have set up 2 new games. UGH! do not want. I want to old game.


msbelle - Jul 31, 2016 10:00:35 am PDT #25361 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

AHA! I have found the solution. I have defeated the evil login monsters and I AM VICTORIOUS!!


meara - Jul 31, 2016 10:31:59 am PDT #25362 of 30003

Ugh, I left my phone at home I feel so discombobulated. (I have my iPad, as I was planning to read a book,and stopped in Starbucks to download another book once I realized my phone was not with me). Now I have to stop home on my way to the movies later (seeing Star Trek with a friend)


-t - Jul 31, 2016 11:12:10 am PDT #25363 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I hate when I do that, meara. [ETA leaving my phone at home, that is. I usually am pretty stoked to sleep 12 hours. Lately I have been getting around six hours a night and I don't know why or what to do about it. I drop right off when I go to bed, which I do atmy usual early time, but I wake up in the middle of the night and am just awake for 1-4 hours, sometimes not getting back to sleep at all before it is time to get up. Sunday is the only day I can completely just forget about the alarm and sleeping for 10-12 hours then (by going back to sleep multiple times and resolutely not checking the time) seems to do me a lot of good]

Winning, msbelle! For real.

Ok, yard work time. Here I go. This is me going outside to rake mulch. On my way.


Steph L. - Jul 31, 2016 12:27:09 pm PDT #25364 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I'm officiating at our BFFs' wedding Saturday (a week from yesterday), and the groom just emailed me the ceremony -- except it was a recipe for black bean chili. I cannot overstate how totally typical that is for us.

(I eventually got the ceremony, and now I have to practice so that I don't weep through the whole thing, because they wrote a really beautiful ceremony. [I have no shame in some tears while I officiate; I just don't want to cry so hard I can't speak, because that would make it hard to actually do my job.])

t edit And the recipe sounds really good, too!


msbelle - Jul 31, 2016 1:41:51 pm PDT #25365 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I was looking at some pew polls on the election

[link]

and it looks like the group that pulls Trump over Hillary is older white religious married men, the less educated they are the bigger the gap. Not sure that is a group that is gonna be swayed much.

Trump doesn't lead in an age group until over 50. The ONLY category of women that he leads in is the total pool non-college grads.

Across white/hispanic/black distinguished demographics, Clinton polls 10 points higher with women vs. men. If I get called about doing voter registration, I am totally focussing on getting as many women registered as possible.


amych - Jul 31, 2016 2:02:15 pm PDT #25366 of 30003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

except it was a recipe for black bean chili

I would pay actual dollars to see the video of you officiating using the black bean chili ceremony as written.


-t - Jul 31, 2016 2:05:35 pm PDT #25367 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Well, the mulch is raked even, and the lawn is about half mowed. I thought I'd clip som blackberry vines out of the rose bush on the side of the house, and after 45 minutes of that it is not very close to being done. I think I'm gonna have to abandon that for today and finish the lawn.