Buffy? I like that. That girl's so hot, she's buffy.

Forrest ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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 - Oct 31, 2016 7:00:45 pm PDT #484 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.

And I did find out that I will not be expected to master payroll by 10am tomorrow. So yay for that. I do need to figure out if it is going to be physically possible to make it back in time from the training in Friday morning that is fifty miles away in order to make the training in the afternoon here in town Friday afternoon.


Consuela - Oct 31, 2016 7:43:16 pm PDT #485 of 30002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I skipped Halloween, didn't want to have the candy in the house. So I went to chorus rehearsal instead, but not before getting yet another call from Dad bitching about the food at his facility. He's got just enough capacity to be super demanding, and not enough to understand that his diet is limited because he's at high risk of aspirating. What he basically wants is a steak and vegetables and fresh homemade bread at every meal. Which, surprisingly, they don't do at most memory care facilities.

I've signed up for Munchery and they will deliver dinners to him this week, which the staff will have to heat up.

We're paying twice my salary to keep him at this place, and he still needs outside caregivers to keep him from falling or choking, and they can't feed him quality food that he enjoys. I'm pretty close to moving him, despite the stress. It's not as bad as Mom, but I'm starting to dread answering the phone when he calls.


Atropa - Oct 31, 2016 8:50:08 pm PDT #486 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

We left the house dark when we went out to discourage trick-or-treaters. Because we had tickets to an eternal-life-and-vampires themed theater performance. Aerialists! Very bendy people in red and/or sparkly clothes!


Calli - Nov 01, 2016 1:48:02 am PDT #487 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

We didn't have any trick or treaters. Some years we've had a couple, so I had a small bowl of candy. Oh well. Maybe I'll take it in to work. (No, I won't.)


SuziQ - Nov 01, 2016 4:42:39 am PDT #488 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Because we had tickets to an eternal-life-and-vampires themed theater performance. Aerialists! Very bendy people in red and/or sparkly clothes!

That sounds very cool.

Last year we only had two small groups of trick or treaters. This year, Kelly's bf C was very excited to hand out candy, so he had control of the door while I had Jack upstairs with me so he wouldn't frighten off the wee costumed neighbors. And this year we had a bunch of trick or treaters. I missed the adorableness, but C was very happy.

Tonight a group of friends are going to go to a Serenity party at Alamo Drafthouse. I remember seeing it with a bunch of Buffistas when it first came out.


WindSparrow - Nov 01, 2016 5:03:24 am PDT #489 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.

Suzi, that sounds like a good night. C sounds like a good person.

Consuela... yeah... I got nothing. It sucks, that's all there is to it.


SuziQ - Nov 01, 2016 5:08:58 am PDT #490 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

C is. He and Kelly are adorable together. They communicate very well together, which is HUGE for a young couple. He has started calling me Mom, which is both very strange and completely sweet.

Who took my motivation? It is gone, gone, gone this morning.


Glamcookie - Nov 01, 2016 5:35:07 am PDT #491 of 30002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

We had a bunch of TOTers but since we had to TOT ourselves, we missed a lot, too. Had many older teens this year - I'm cool with it, just surprised by how many. I swear, S loves handing out candy as much as he enjoys getting it!


-t - Nov 01, 2016 6:17:08 am PDT #492 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

So, it is possible to burn oatmeal in the microwave. Yay learning.


Dana - Nov 01, 2016 6:44:13 am PDT #493 of 30002
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Phone call with my boss will not end, will not end, will not end...