I'm so sorry, Laura. I thought your Mom was a wonderful person when I met her.
I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.
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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.
Tom Scola - Oct 23, 2016 5:18:05 pm PDT #29945 of 30003
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Kat - Oct 23, 2016 5:22:59 pm PDT #29946 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
When Rob was playing, I remember one game where the mascot was paged to the locker room ASAP. We didn't see the mascot for the rest of the game, because Rob was now sitting on the bench in his goalie gear as the emergency backup. (There were 2 or 3 guys who took turns putting on the costume at home games. It just happened to be his turn that night.)
That's hilarious.
K has a female friend who she played with either at Brown or Minnesota who got to be the mascot for an NHL team because she could skate. Depressing to consider. But better than the shovel girls.
Zenkitty - Oct 23, 2016 5:33:48 pm PDT #29947 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm so sorry, Laura.
Maria - Oct 23, 2016 5:36:41 pm PDT #29948 of 30003
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
That's another thing I love about the Bears. Outside of Coco the Bear, there are no other official team whatevers. It's average people clearing the ice during stoppages, and sometimes youth hockey players. Hershey is a very traditional franchise. The concept of cheerleaders hasn't ever been raised. Hell, you couldn't even buy beer in the old Hersheypark Arena. Alcohol sales were only permitted after the Bears moved to the Giant Center in 2002.
JZ - Oct 23, 2016 5:39:37 pm PDT #29949 of 30003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I am so sorry, Laura.
sarameg - Oct 23, 2016 6:57:55 pm PDT #29950 of 30003
Laura, I'm so sorry. I'm deep in mom issues.
Tonight on our walk around the lake, I told my mom "your index is just getting corrupted." And when I went on to explain how I was perceiving her memory issues as she's been describing them (she remembers shit, it isn't lost, but just not retrieved with her usual cues) as much like when that happens to our databases or when our data location db contents get corrupted:"the contents is still there, we just can't find it using the prescribed paths," she said that sounded just about exactly how it feels,but she'd never even thought of herself as a database. Or knows how they work. But our conversation lead her to a conclusion that she should start journaling daily activities, especially those outside the routine, so she can use those as reminders.
Unprompted, for example, she'll ask when I was last in Cruces. It was last summer. She gets nothing. "Tyler's shitfit about going to MY favorite Mexican place for MY 40th birthday?" And it all comes flooding back, down to, "he was sullen until he figured out the chips and salsa were self serve and so served us all too much!" So.
Her memory finder databases are getting corrupted. Gotta rewire. And figure out if there is an underlying cause other than just old cells.
Lee - Oct 23, 2016 7:15:36 pm PDT #29951 of 30003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I'm sorry for your loss, Laura.
Kate P. - Oct 23, 2016 7:21:16 pm PDT #29952 of 30003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I'm so sorry, Laura. Sending peace and comfort to you and all who knew her.
WindSparrow - Oct 23, 2016 7:34:50 pm PDT #29953 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.
That is a very interesting metaphor, sarameg. I hope it leads to some practical solutions as well as guiding the medical types in diagnosis.
Laura, I am so sorry for your loss. I am thankful for your mother's sweetness because it comes through in you.t
aurelia - Oct 23, 2016 7:39:06 pm PDT #29954 of 30003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Laura, I'm so sorry.