Riley: Oh, yeah. Sorry 'bout last time. Heard I missed out on some fun. Xander: Oh yeah, fun was had. Also frolic, merriment and near-death hijinks.

'Never Leave Me'


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.


WindSparrow - Apr 02, 2018 6:30:58 pm PDT #24005 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 am totally in favor of blue streaks.


P.M. Marc - Apr 02, 2018 6:50:11 pm PDT #24006 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Puberty...

AHAHAHAHA.

The Tatums are splitting? I am oddly saddened by that, more than I ought to be.

Right? It's the end of an era!


meara - Apr 02, 2018 7:02:24 pm PDT #24007 of 30002

Also must remember that bad-ass as the women on instagram and google images look, I am (a) not bone-structured like that and (b) don't have the willingness to "do" my hair every day. So it is unlikely to look like this:

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WindSparrow - Apr 02, 2018 7:11:33 pm PDT #24008 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.

That is an utterly badass hairstyle, meara, and it does look like a lot of fuss and bother.


DavidS - Apr 02, 2018 7:25:12 pm PDT #24009 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Good luck with puberty, JZ and Hec.

We got tears at bedtime too! The perfect bracket of weeping.

Tears before going to school and tears before going to bed.


Jesse - Apr 03, 2018 2:26:20 am PDT #24010 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

To be fair, those are prime crying times. (Along with most times in between.)

I am also sad about the Tatums!


Zenkitty - Apr 03, 2018 3:46:34 am PDT #24011 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Not eating fattening food and not unnecessarily spending money are two of the three bugbears harrowing me lately. The other is cleaning the house. I need to either Nike Just Do It, or quit caring about it somehow.

ION I may be getting a bicycle. I've been wanting one, but it may be pointless. There are so many hills around here.


-t - Apr 03, 2018 3:52:16 am PDT #24012 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yay potential bicycle!

I had to ponder for a bit to figure out who these Tatums are, but I pinned it down and, yeah, that's sad.

That hairstyle is awesome, meara, but definitely would not look like that on me (mostly because of my "oh, shit, gave I combed my hair?" approach to styling)


Calli - Apr 03, 2018 4:33:06 am PDT #24013 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

they let some issue build up for months without saying anything to me about it, finally say something, I tell them "Ok I will have a chat with ..., let me know if there are further issues". I talk with the person, nobody says anything for months, I assume the little chat took care of the issue, but meanwhile the thing is still going on, but the experienced staff are back to not saying anything and letting their frustration build up until it explodes.

I can see where that would be annoying. If they're not coming to you with further issues, but history suggests further issues continue, perhaps you'll need to work weekly, 5-minute check-ins into your schedule. "We had a discussion about X. What's been happening since we talked? Are the younger staff stepping up the way we hoped/are the older staff communicating about needs and requirements? What would you like to see happen next?" Then if experienced staff still explode three months down the road you can say (perhaps even have documented), "You said things were fine at week 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Why am I just hearing about this now? If this was a problem throughout, why didn't you say something about it when I specifically asked you?" It puts the responsibility for speaking up back on them, and they have to choose between actively lying to you so they can wallow in their sense of old-timer superiority and actually getting stuff fixed.


Scrappy - Apr 03, 2018 4:37:57 am PDT #24014 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

What calli said.