Oh msbelle, I can so get that. Sorry mad mac, mom is right!
Happy birthday Strix! You share the day with one of my favoritest people on the planet, a no-longer-little girl who TURNED TWELVE today!
You know, it's funny. We went to war never looking to come back, but it's the real world I couldn't survive.
Tracy ,'The Message'
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.
Burrell - Aug 23, 2015 2:59:24 pm PDT #3935 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Connie Neil - Aug 23, 2015 3:19:30 pm PDT #3936 of 30003
brillig
People really need to reconsider their email addresses when they start using them as identifiers in online communities. thunderbooboo@aol might want a different impression in the world.
Jessica - Aug 23, 2015 3:30:15 pm PDT #3937 of 30003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Happy birthdays!
Mac, listen to your mom.
I had my hair colored by a professional today for the first time in over ten years, and I am in heaven. The back is all nice and even, and my forehead doesn't have any purple splotches on it, and I don't have to clean my bathroom!
(The last time I had my hair done professionally, it was such a disaster that I've never trusted anyone else since. But this place specializes in color and several of the stylists have blue or pink hair themselves, so I thought I would give it a shot. Totally worth it!)
sarameg - Aug 23, 2015 4:38:13 pm PDT #3938 of 30003
I met a birthday twin today at the pool. "Girl, you just don't stop. But I got 50 laps in, not bad for an old guy, right?" That's awesome. You can't be much older than me, though. (I'd give him a decade on me.) " You're maybe 30, right? I'm 71. 1944, July 9." That's my birthday! 75, though, so thanks.... daaaaamn, you look good. I'm not gonna look that good at 71. My Mom doesn't look that good (sorry, mom) and turns 71 soon.
It disolved into silliness over whether my 'advanced age' meant it would be appropriate to flirt without him being a dirty old man, but me pointing out in 2 decades, I'll look older than him. He disagreed, but was all 'I'll go flirt with your mom.' Just, fun.
I'm glad to get back to my pool, but it's fun to meet new characters.
Laura - Aug 23, 2015 5:02:25 pm PDT #3939 of 30003
Our wings are not tired.
Oh msbelle, I can so get that. Sorry mad mac, mom is right!
Yep. Right with you msbelle!
Happy birthdays!
Yay for pretty colored hair!
I'm exhausted and heading to bed. Zoe decided that breaking the screen out of the porch and getting herself hit by a car was a good idea. She will be okay. She broke a chip off her shoulder and has a couple good gashes in her chest that will all heal. Vet says she will be ouchy for a while. I'll build a ramp up the steps before I pick her up tomorrow. I was mostly concerned about her staying at the vet's because as a rescue she has severe anxiety about small or enclosed spaces. The vet promised she was going to be so loopy on morphine that she would think she was in doggie heaven. Dogs. Kids. Stressful stuff.
Kat - Aug 23, 2015 5:49:31 pm PDT #3940 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Ugh. Laura, poor you and Zoe!
Nora Deirdre - Aug 23, 2015 5:56:44 pm PDT #3941 of 30003
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
ZOE! Not cool, baby girl.
Zenkitty - Aug 23, 2015 6:16:13 pm PDT #3942 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Hope you had a wonderful birthday, Strix!
msbelle, you're right and mac will understand someday. Like that helps with the angry teenager now.
ZOE, NO. Good gosh, I'm glad she's okay.
sarameg - Aug 23, 2015 6:20:04 pm PDT #3943 of 30003
I'm glad she's going to be ok. Jeez.
I love the spirit of this city. A weekly illegal dirt bike ride got shut down again by police (I hold complex and contradictory feels about this, suffice to say, authorities could handle it better than they do and the rides do have their good points) and so a group of guys decide to RIDE HORSES down Penn & north like they'd ride bikes. Including falling off. I just can't stop laughing. iPod, black dude on horse riding past a burnt out CVS, jamming out. Cheers from people filming them. I love this city.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 23, 2015 6:22:35 pm PDT #3944 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
Happy Birthday Strix!