Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.

'Shells'


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.


Amy - Dec 13, 2016 11:41:09 am PST #3724 of 30002
Because books.

I just want to cry. I worked 7 am to 4 pm today, with no lunch break (we never get one), and Sara's chorus concert is tonight, plus I have to finish a freelance assignment. Then I get to work 7 to 2 tomorrow. Andmy boss is being aggressively awful, and then I try to think about the world and my brain goes, "Too much! Stop!"

I need kittens. And maybe cupcakes. And a nap.


-t - Dec 13, 2016 12:14:31 pm PST #3725 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yay raise and bonus! Boo headache. Yay free treatment.

{{{Amy}}} Kittens,cupcakes, and a nap sounds excellent.

I filled out the form for a passport, and they wanted my parents' info and Hubby's info, even though I marked that I was a widow.

Really? Huh. I wonder if I had to give them that information at some point. It's not on the renewal form. And I'm widowed since my last renewal, but no name change, so, huh.

I suppose it might be all right for me to mail in my passport now that I have a temporary DL to augment my expired license, but I think I will wait until I have the real thing. Does it matter if I mail the renewal a few days after the expiration date? Flea, do you know?


msbelle - Dec 13, 2016 12:18:35 pm PST #3726 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I will join Amy with a cry. I start feeling sick around 4 because I do not want to go home from work most days.

Today Mac would not get ready in time for school so I left and he was to catch the bus 15 min later. He did not. I went home at 10:30 to check and he was in bed. I've already received a warning letter about truancy and I think with 1 - 2 more unexcused absences, I can be fined. Seriously. Either late for work or truant kid, those are my choices.

But I have to go home because we need to clean up glass from a broken window. It seems last month sometime when he was mad at me (I told him he would have to be more specific since that was every day), he threw a Lysol can in his room and broke the window. He did not tell me, he did not clean it up IN ANY WAY, and there is a basketball size hole.


Amy - Dec 13, 2016 12:31:35 pm PST #3727 of 30002
Because books.

Oh, msbelle. I'm so sorry. That's not okay, and he should know that.


Sheryl - Dec 13, 2016 12:33:12 pm PST #3728 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Mr. S has a fever. Last night he had a fever of 103.4, so we kept him home from daycare. Luckily the fever was much lower this morning, so we could get someone from the nanny service to stay with him.(They won't send someone out if the child has a fever of 103.) Of course, the fever's back. Gave him infant Tylenol, and we'll see how things go.


-t - Dec 13, 2016 12:55:37 pm PST #3729 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Health~ma for Mr. S.

Sigh, msbelle. I don't even know what to say to that. You have my sympathies.

What's y'all's opinion - wearing my Halloween sweater to the Ugly Sweater contest at my department XMas lunch, good idea or no?


Jesse - Dec 13, 2016 1:43:47 pm PST #3730 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Poor Mr S!

Either late for work or truant kid, those are my choices.

Oh ugh, msbelle. What a shitty situation. I know it's no help, but I know several people who fucked up their lives at that age and have turned out to be OK adults.

What's y'all's opinion - wearing my Halloween sweater to the Ugly Sweater contest at my department XMas lunch, good idea or no?

You're not Christian, right? I like it.


-t - Dec 13, 2016 2:00:59 pm PST #3731 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Sweet. It'll amuse me and at least one co-worker, anyway.


smonster - Dec 13, 2016 2:11:02 pm PST #3732 of 30002
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Oh, Mac. I'm sorry it's so hard, msbelle.

Amy, that is a crap day. May you have a better evening.

I wish I had a magic wand to make things just a little easier for all of us.


Theodosia - Dec 13, 2016 2:11:31 pm PST #3733 of 30002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I'm seeing Allegiance tonight! No, not as exciting as Hamilton, and in a movie theatre, but still.