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'Bring On The Night'


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.


Susan W. - Nov 20, 2016 8:18:22 am PST #2547 of 30002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I'm going to an early T'day dinner this evening at a friend's house and I Don't Wanna. Friend is becoming somewhat annoying, drinking too much, and other attendees are strangers to me, so I'm hoping to be able to cut out early.

That sounds Not Fun in ways that go beyond introversion! Fingers crossed it's more fun than expected.


Zenkitty - Nov 20, 2016 8:22:12 am PST #2548 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Oh, good, so I'm not just being a crazy hermit for not wanting to do this!

Ugh, gotta go dye my hair so I look presentable.


shrift - Nov 20, 2016 8:33:54 am PST #2549 of 30002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I'm flying to Michigan this afternoon. Not sure how this is going to work out. I may donate to the NAACP for every racist thing people say in my presence, after I give them hell for it.

Friend is becoming somewhat annoying, drinking too much, and other attendees are strangers to me, so I'm hoping to be able to cut out early.

Man, sometimes I cancel plans with people I really like just because I can't manage it. This situation sounds like a recipe for awful.


Consuela - Nov 20, 2016 9:47:12 am PST #2550 of 30002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

So my sister & BIL's party went off pretty well, although I may have ordered way too much food. OTOH the food didn't go to waste: we sent a lot home with my niece's friends who did a lot of the work, and I got a nice pile of goat cheese and about a pound of leftover salumi. NOM.

Got in a dog walk, and now it's raining while I sit here and do some online banking. What did we do before we were able to apply for lines of credit while sitting on the couch?

Today would be a good day to make bread, but I don't really have anywhere to put it. Maybe I'll make pastry for Thanksgiving pie.


sj - Nov 20, 2016 10:13:56 am PST #2551 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I'm starting to get concerned about some of the messages ltc is getting from her grandparents now that her language skills are improving. Not sure what I should do about it.


Jesse - Nov 20, 2016 10:30:26 am PST #2552 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Just keep talking to her, I think.


meara - Nov 20, 2016 10:39:33 am PST #2553 of 30002

Are they using specific words you don't like, sj, or is it more a message/tone issue? I feel like specific words are a lot easier to ask someone to not use (be they curse words or derogatory language). But tone and message are of course much harder.


sj - Nov 20, 2016 11:25:33 am PST #2554 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Meara, both. I guess I really don't want to get into it with them. So is it okay just to reinforce in private that that is not what Mommy feels or language I find appropriate? I'm particular sensitive to gender normative and other such language at this moment in time and I'm worried eshe is going to start internalizing messages that I don't want her to internalize.


Jesse - Nov 20, 2016 11:59:40 am PST #2555 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Not a parent, but I would say so. You'll be her primary influence for a few years yet.


sj - Nov 20, 2016 12:05:01 pm PST #2556 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Thanks, Jesse. Maybe I'm worrying too much.