That's so frustrating & fraught, Kat. I hope you can find a channel on which you're not getting caught in a game of emotional telephone.
I need to scrub the litterbox. It's an outside-with-the-hose job. It's raining.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
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.
sarameg - Oct 08, 2017 4:38:31 am PDT #17533 of 30002
Sue - Oct 08, 2017 5:44:50 am PDT #17534 of 30002
hip deep in pie
Buddy!
Kat, I'm so sorry about your dad. You can spend time with him in the respite care?
My parents' 60th anniversary was yesterday and today is Thanksgiving, so it's a weekend of eating all the things.
sarameg - Oct 08, 2017 5:51:11 am PDT #17535 of 30002
I've coffeed, showered, and eaten. I guess this means I can't put off the litterbox any longer.
Jesse - Oct 08, 2017 6:03:50 am PDT #17536 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Happy Thanksgiving, Sue! And also all the rest of Canada!
I finished the laundry, properly set up the new tv stand, and got most of the packing stuff into the trash and recycling as appropriate. Next on the list is cleaning the bathroom (ugh) and going to buy Nature's Miracle (ugh), but it's also raining here, so that's not so appealing either.
Laura - Oct 08, 2017 6:09:01 am PDT #17537 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
I think the trick at this point is to try and at least build social capital out of it, rather than end up losing social capital. Like if I don't get the appointment this time, maybe I can rotate in later.
That sounds like a good strategy. If possible try the expect the best prepare for the worst philosophy too.
I'm sorry about the situation with StuntHusband, Jilli. Having eyes wide open about friends is easier said than done.
Yay new kitty! When possible pictures please, Jesse.
I'm sorry about the parental concerns, Kat. It is so hard.
We went for a drive to Canada yesterday, basically because we could. I have to come up with better reasons to tell them I am crossing the border than just for a nice drive. It was super pretty and now I want Buffista Island to be on the St. Lawrence.
sarameg - Oct 08, 2017 6:35:23 am PDT #17538 of 30002
Litterbox done. But Uhg, it's only 75, but so fucking humid, I think my hair got wetter and not just from sweat. Debating what to do next.
sarameg - Oct 08, 2017 9:38:37 am PDT #17539 of 30002
Woo! Monster ac on a moving dolly rolls easily into the back of the closet! Will have to figure out if I can get the other in there as well, might have to put up a shelf.
Still so fucking humid.
aurelia - Oct 08, 2017 10:21:24 am PDT #17540 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Primary debates with a lot of candidates are exhausting to watch.
Kat - Oct 08, 2017 11:05:25 am PDT #17541 of 30002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Yes. We'll go see him in respite every day. In fact, it's close to the Y with the really awesome pool.
I think the thing that we are really working with, though, is that she wants him to be in respite so she can spend more time with us. So I'm trying to be empathetic with what she feeling, but then she said, "You could go to DC for the day."
Really, Mom? Really? We are there for 4 days. I don't want to go to DC. I don't want to go to Michigan to see my brother who I am still not talking to because he voted for Gary Johnson. I just want to hang out with my family.
Sheryl - Oct 08, 2017 3:13:02 pm PDT #17542 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I'm sorry things are so hard, Kat.