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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.


Laura - Sep 08, 2018 3:57:42 pm PDT #29258 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

I had recorded the match and just got a chance to watch the end. It was horrible for both Serena and Osaka. Serena was so warm and comforting to her. Man. That was tough.

Busy day! Up early doing chores including driving into town 12 miles away to go to the dump which is near the top of a ski mountain. Then shopped for food stuff because my brother was visiting from Florida. Had a bunch of family over socializing for about 5 hours in my chilly house. Finally gave up and put portable heaters on for them. (the wimps) Then my niece wanted to go hiking on a mushroom seeking mission with a identification book looking for edibles with her 8 yo son. That was fun. Founds tons of shroons, but held off on eating them pending gaining expertise. The coral mushrooms were clearly edible though, but we left them. The dogs smooshed a lot of them because if we were closely examining the ground clearly that meant they should jump around.

Lots of phone calls and texts in between because my SIL was getting her appendix removed but apparently it was a busy hospital day because there were several people in the queue before her. But they had her morphined up and pretty much napping while waiting. My son Bobby was updating me.

So now I am wiped out!


Steph L. - Sep 08, 2018 4:29:57 pm PDT #29259 of 30002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

It's been pouring here all day with more heavy rain forecast tomorrow (our backyard is a damn swamp right now), so I hope the books at flea's library are safe and dry.

And it's in the 60s, which is a crime against all warm weather-loving people like me. But rainy + 60s means I made chili for dinner, which was tasty. My chili recipe uses 2 cans of crushed tomatoes, which I completely forgot to buy. After rummaging in the pantry, I came up with a jar of mild salsa to make up for the lack of canned tomatoes.

I am here to tell you that mild salsa actually works in chili. Which makes sense, because salsa is tomatoes and onions and peppers and spices. Chili crisis averted! Though in the future I'll go back to the canned tomatoes.

And we watched Wreck-It Ralph like the grownups we are. (We had never seen it, and the trailer for the sequel looks great, so we wanted to watch Wreck-It Ralph before the sequel comes out later this year.) (Like the grownups we are.)


Laura - Sep 08, 2018 4:31:24 pm PDT #29260 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

DH just called with his update and his sister's appendix had ruptured at least a day ago. Going to be much more complicated. She's going to probably be in for a week. Very dangerous. Please send the ~ma to my sweet Becky.


Steph L. - Sep 08, 2018 4:44:50 pm PDT #29261 of 30002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Yikes, Laura. Thank goodness she's in the hospital, though. Antibiotics can work wonders. Fingers crossed for her.


Laura - Sep 08, 2018 5:11:52 pm PDT #29262 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

Yeah they have her on the heavy stuff but have to watch for abscess in case they have to do more surgery. She is a big woman which complicates. She had been in pain for days but has work and a 5 year old so waited too long. My zero pain tolerance got mine out in time.


-t - Sep 08, 2018 5:19:03 pm PDT #29263 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, man, Laura. All the ~ma!


Zenkitty - Sep 08, 2018 7:40:07 pm PDT #29264 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Lots of ~healing ma for Becky! That's frightening. I hope she does well.


Jesse - Sep 09, 2018 2:31:53 am PDT #29265 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh man, Laura! Best thoughts to Becky.


Shir - Sep 09, 2018 2:39:27 am PDT #29266 of 30002
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

(~mas and fingers crossed as needed and wanted.)

I'm skipping to say that, hi, buffistas? Shana tova. And may it be a better one than last year. Health and love and happiness to you and yours.

(I still don't know how my next year will look like, in any direction - I will move to another place and I will have to change job and maybe I'll study a bit and complete a diploma I neglected a few years ago and with the SO we're in the beginning of finding out if we need a break to figure out things because we now live in different cities - but I really really hope all of these changes will be for the better because these are a lot of changes all at once, dear lords).


juliana - Sep 09, 2018 3:01:57 am PDT #29267 of 30002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

That is a LOT of change, Shir. Wishing you the best outcomes.