Timelies all!
I mostly remember what month my friends were born in. Family I remember exact dates.
Faith: A kid. Angel's got a kid. Wesley: Connor. Faith: A teenage kid born last year. Wesley: I told you, he grew up in a hell dimension. Faith: Right. And what, Cordelia spent her last summer as… Wesley: A divine being. Faith: Uh-huh. Can I just ask--What the hell are you people doing?
'Why We Fight'
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.
Sheryl - Aug 20, 2016 10:37:47 am PDT #26365 of 30003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Connie Neil - Aug 20, 2016 11:30:16 am PDT #26366 of 30003
brillig
Heard at the bagel place this morning as I got something to eat, from a youngish girl turning to talk to her friend:
"Are you Aaron Burr, sir?"
Her friend just kind of sighed very patiently.
Calli - Aug 20, 2016 1:43:36 pm PDT #26367 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I went to a local arboretum with a friend today. Afterwards, in the parking lot, she said "Yo" and I ran with "Turns out we had a secret weapon" through, "favorite fighting Frenchman!"
She is the person who gave me a copy of the Hamiltome as a thank you for introducing her to the musical, so she just laughed at me.
Steph L. - Aug 20, 2016 5:03:00 pm PDT #26368 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Afterwards, in the parking lot, she said "Yo" and I ran with "Turns out we had a secret weapon" through, "favorite fighting Frenchman!"
Yaaaaasssss.
Sparky1 - Aug 21, 2016 2:48:13 am PDT #26369 of 30003
Librarian Warlord
My mother famously forgot my sister's birthday one year. This is all the more remarkable because she remembered my birthday and we are only one day apart.
My parents' retirement community (which has houses for active folks through nursing and dementia care as they need it) has a TV channel that posts birthdays, from which you can opt out if you don't want the whole place knowing.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2016 4:51:20 am PDT #26370 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So I just ordered new plates, which are the first ones I've every really bought myself! When I was in college or just out, my grandmother gave me a set, and then I got the ones I'm currently using from msbelle! (For free or cheap, I forget.) So somehow this feels momentous. And like the first step on my journey to a new mattress, the other "adult" thing I've never properly bought. I got my current mattress used (!!) 20+ years ago, so.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2016 4:51:47 am PDT #26371 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, they are these: [link]
Calli - Aug 21, 2016 5:02:09 am PDT #26372 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Very elegant, Jesse!
Steph L. - Aug 21, 2016 5:20:45 am PDT #26373 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Nice! We registered for everyday dishes for the wedding, since we had been using a combo of his dishes + my dishes since I moved in. And they're fine...except the bowls don't nest well. If you stack more than 3 (we have 8), the stack falls over. So I'm thinking new bowls in the same color, but different brand, will be our 3-year anniversary gift, and Goodwill gets 8 ornery bowls.
WindSparrow - Aug 21, 2016 5:34:26 am PDT #26374 of 30003
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I like those, Jesse. I've bought various inexpensive dishes over the years, but when it comes to the possibility of "good china" I want, Want, WANT ones just like the chipped, broken, incomplete set of porceline dishes I got at a garage sale for my first apartment in college. Only, you know, new and complete. Friends were known to ask to use our place for a romantic dinner because we had such elegant dishes (out of service for eight, there were still two perfect plates with no chips). But I have never seen any exactly like them since. For some reason similar but not quite the same seems worse than totally and completely different. Second choice is Blue Willow ware and/or Calamityware.