What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.

Angel ,'Conviction (1)'


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.


Ginger - Oct 23, 2015 1:03:38 pm PDT #7714 of 30003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Yay Maria!

I'm getting a transfusion. Yay?

I want oysters too, except that these days so much food sounds good right up to the point that I start to eat it. This Taco Bell burrito, for example. Maybe if it wasn't left over from lunch.

The LPN who was giving me my weekly shot at first said I hadn't had my blood work done, even though those results are why I'm having a transfusion. Then she read the medicine amount wrong. I can only hope I got the right stuff. The LPN who was actually helpful hasn't been there for several weeks. She was the one who gave me the direct number to the nurse's desk, and last week I was told sternly that I wasn't to call that number. I'm supposed to call the advice nurse, a woman whose brain moves very slowly. I have talked to her maybe 10 times, and she still can't get anywhere near the pronunciation of my name. She wastes about five minutes every call talking about how she's usually good with names. I fear there's been some upheaval that is not in my favor.


meara - Oct 23, 2015 1:38:34 pm PDT #7715 of 30003

Found out a couple friends are in Puerto Vallarta (with a bunch of their friends) right now. Scary, though one of them posted on FB that they're OK for now, as of a few hours ago. Having vacationed there many times it just scares me a little, like, I don't know WTF I would do if there were a huge hurricane coming and the flights were canceled! Especially if I'm not staying in a hotel, and am at a condo or something instead? Yes, it's a much rougher time for those people who live there, and whose homes may be destroyed and will have to choose to stay there or go, if there's devastation after, and months of rebuilding. Totally worse for them. But in the moment...they speak Spanish. They maybe have a car and can evacuate, or know when/where busses run and can at least try to get a ticket. I wouldn't.


Tom Scola - Oct 23, 2015 2:04:30 pm PDT #7716 of 30003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I'm eating oysters right now!


Sue - Oct 23, 2015 2:12:09 pm PDT #7717 of 30003
hip deep in pie

You oyster loving people are strange. t nothing from the sea


Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 23, 2015 2:20:01 pm PDT #7718 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

Oysters chopped up, breaded, and baked with mushrooms and cheese or herb seasoning are great. I wouldn't eat raw oysters unless I were literally starving.


Burrell - Oct 23, 2015 2:25:14 pm PDT #7719 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

FRANK???

Jesse wins!

It's nice, but part of me is like why put me through it in the first place?

Right? I have my suspicions, and they don't reflect well on the higher-ups is all I'll say.

Oysters Rockefeller are delicious, but I've had less luck with raw oysters for some reason. Although when I had them crazy fresh, just harvested off the Pacific coast in the San Juan Islands? Delicious.


Kat - Oct 23, 2015 2:33:57 pm PDT #7720 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Congrats, Maria! Hope you have a relaxing and wonderful weekend.

I'm exhausted. As per usual. Again.


Lee - Oct 23, 2015 3:04:14 pm PDT #7721 of 30003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Found out a couple friends are in Puerto Vallarta (with a bunch of their friends) right now.

A high school friend of mine is there too. Hoping he is okay.

Completely unrelatedly, now I want oysters.


Jesse - Oct 23, 2015 3:13:18 pm PDT #7722 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The hurricane situation is terrifying.

msbelle, are you flooding? The news looked bad.

I wish I had oysters.

I didn't know off the top of my head, and the paperwork is all at home, but I was able to find the answer in one of the old Natter threads. Yay old Natter threads.

Love that.

I fear there's been some upheaval that is not in my favor.

That all...does not sound great.


Anne W. - Oct 23, 2015 3:13:44 pm PDT #7723 of 30003
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Congratulations, Maria! That is AWESOME news!

As for weekend plans, I am doing absolutely jack shit, and that is exactly the kind of weekend I need.