I'm so sorry, sarameg.
Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
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Laura - Apr 27, 2017 3:41:00 pm PDT #10505 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Jessica - Apr 27, 2017 3:57:19 pm PDT #10506 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm so sorry, sarameg.
All the kids in my son's school are obsessed with Fidget Spinners. Which every store in town is sold out of, naturally.
sarameg - Apr 27, 2017 4:07:29 pm PDT #10507 of 30002
Thanks. It's been on the horizon a long time, but it still sucks when the inevitable moves from a nebulous place in the future to days away. And I never got one of his amazing pottery bowls made for me (he was a potter, among other things, like world-sought biochemist, before the dementia.) It was something he did for us kids' big milestones like weddings and births, but I didn't do the usual. He promised me one once, but then stuff happened. I may ask my mom for one she has, they have a lot of his stuff. I do have a paper box from his papermaking days.
Dana - Apr 27, 2017 4:08:25 pm PDT #10508 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm sorry, sarameg.
sarameg - Apr 27, 2017 4:19:59 pm PDT #10509 of 30002
But hey, I gave the old full bedframe away to a random neighbor who needed one, so at least someone's day got better & I got it out of the house.
Connie Neil - Apr 27, 2017 4:28:19 pm PDT #10510 of 30002
brillig
they don't want you to think they have some kind of compulsion about this.
I love Billy's brain.
And transitions suck.
Connie Neil - Apr 27, 2017 5:59:56 pm PDT #10511 of 30002
brillig
There's a show on PBS this Sunday, a Dickens mash-up called Dickensian. Has anyone else heard anything about it? It looks like it could be hysterical. Part of it is the investigation of the murder of Jacob Marley, and I'm not very familiar with the other Dickens stories. I play D&D on Sundays, so I hope I can find it online.
Zenkitty - Apr 27, 2017 6:13:27 pm PDT #10512 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm so sorry, sarameg.
Praying mantises are not team players. Not real sociable. Maybe that's why I like them... We had a lot of mantises around here one summer, but lately not so many. I think when the feral cat colony dissipated, the birds came back, and they ate the baby mantises.
My anxiety around travel is always about all the stuff that has to be done in preparation for travel, right up until I sit down at the departure gate. For this trip, I have special anxiety, because I realized that long trips, no matter how fun, exhaust me and after I come home I fall into a depression that can last months. I'm going to try to take better care of myself this time, but obviously I don't want that to happen again.
WindSparrow - Apr 27, 2017 6:16:10 pm PDT #10513 of 30002
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'm sorry, sarameg.
Zenkitty - Apr 27, 2017 7:44:53 pm PDT #10514 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I think I just had a little breakthrough about where all that irrational free floating anxiety comes from (short answer: family, of course) but now that I know wtf do I do about it?
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