I'm home now and he's in an ambulance headed to the VA. A transport ambulance, I should say, not lights and sirens. I'll go up tomorrow but he won't really be fully aware tonight. The VA is about an hour away mostly on country roads.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
brenda m - Oct 16, 2016 4:21:34 pm PDT #29391 of 30003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
shrift - Oct 16, 2016 4:23:11 pm PDT #29392 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
In less distressing news, Lee and I are about to leave on an excursion to Phillip Island to see some koalas and penguins!
brenda m - Oct 16, 2016 4:23:57 pm PDT #29393 of 30003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Nice! So jealous. In the happy for you way.
Calli - Oct 16, 2016 4:28:59 pm PDT #29394 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Much health~ma to your dad, Brenda.
Cass - Oct 16, 2016 4:33:48 pm PDT #29395 of 30003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
All ~ma for your father, Brenda. Very scary.
It is taking me forever to get through a single novel anymore. And my list of things to read is really long.
I had to just start from scratch. And if I don't set aside a block of time, I know I won't get a chance to read. So one day of the weekend, after I take care of the dogs (oh, I have dogs now), I can sit and read a while.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 16, 2016 5:02:04 pm PDT #29396 of 30003
"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
I know whereof you speak Laura. It seems like any time I settle in with a book to read these days I'm asleep within a few pages. Used to read 60+ pages of fiction a day. (To be fair, I do tons of reading online and as a part of my job, but rarely sit down and get through a book anymore.)
Connie Neil - Oct 16, 2016 6:12:38 pm PDT #29397 of 30003
brillig
Ziploc bags are the salvation of the collector/gamer/crafter who's moving and has piles of loose things that need corralled in a semi-organized fashion.
Steph L. - Oct 16, 2016 6:24:13 pm PDT #29398 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I think I'm going to be Louise Belcher (from Bob's Burgers) for Halloween this year. I already had the hat, and I just found a perfect green t-shirt dress on Amazon for $13. And I would probably make pigtails out of black yarn. It's so easy it feels like cheating.
-t - Oct 16, 2016 6:52:18 pm PDT #29399 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
-t - Oct 16, 2016 6:55:00 pm PDT #29400 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Excellent!
My costume is coming together, although it doesn't entirely seem like a costume to me. Head to toe, it'll be a purple witch hat something like this , a spider-web poncho , elbow-length black leather gloves, this spider skater dress (why are they called skater dresses? Ice skating?), Vampire Bat hosiery , and these shoes . And maybe the purple dragon wings I picked up at the Ren Faire this past weekend, although I suspect they won't work with the poncho. The color scheme is right, though.
I've worn the hat and shoes a couple times before on Halloween but I was never happy with what I had to go with it. I think this might look pretty good. But I don't know what to call myself when people inevitably ask me what my costume is.
I could almost get a Fairy/Witch swap going, like, tiara, wand, and wings to hat, cauldron, and poncho, but I'm not sure that the concept is worth the effort.