On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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 - Nov 04, 2016 4:55:51 pm PDT #875 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.

May the surgery team be at the top of their game for your dad, msbelle.

I just stress-ordered a bunch of fancy chocolate. Assorted milk and dark chocolate bars of rose with candied mint, orchid, lilac, and geranium. This totally makes me a rational grown-up, yep.

Yep. Totally rational adult thing to buy chocolates in fancy flavors. If you were a kid, 1) you wouldn't have a credit ot debit card to make the purchase with; and B) you'd buy Reese's or Snickers.

I have to hold monthly staff meetings to keep the staff up to date on training and other nonsense. My predecessor set the November meeting for this Tuesday at 9:15am. Yeah, no. I rescheduled the thing. I feel powerful. Next Tuesday, thank you. And let's make it earlier so we can be done earlier. (Don't know about anyone else, but I go home and nap before my shift.) Also I have an interview on Monday morning. By which I mean I am going to interview someone I might subsequently hire. Aaaaaaaaaaah!


Strix - Nov 04, 2016 4:56:47 pm PDT #876 of 30002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

As soon as I read "Marry me Rachel Bloom" the chorus to "Fuck Me Ray Bradbury" rang in my mental ears.


beth b - Nov 04, 2016 5:04:44 pm PDT #877 of 30002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Dad ma~~` msbelle

I like my Whaler's rum - very dark - inexpensive. other rums are smoother, but i like the hearty flavor of whalers


-t - Nov 04, 2016 5:07:48 pm PDT #878 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Go, WindSparrow! Wield your power for good!

Oh, hey, it's later. I can look at those marked posts. I had kinda hoped to leave work early today, but instead stayed half an hour late because Stuff to Do. Sigh.

And now I'm going to stay up late to Clean All the Things (that are visible to a casual visitor) since I've got DirecT coming by tomorrow. I know if it were anyone else saying that I would tell them to relax and not worry about the judgment of a person who doesn't know this hypothetical not!me person at all, but, y'all, it's really an embarrassing level of squalor. It needs doing sometime, I'm never going to actually have surplus time to do it, so why not now? I've got spiral-sliced ham to nibble on, and a pizza I can pop in the oven, coffee, Diet Dr. Pepper, leftover Halloween candy, and I hope to God enough trash bags. And no other plans for the weekend, so once I get to an acceptable level of squalor I can sleep as long as I want.


Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 04, 2016 5:08:37 pm PDT #879 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Fingers crossed for your dad's surgery, msbelle!


Zenkitty - Nov 04, 2016 5:10:57 pm PDT #880 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Surgery~ma for your father, msbelle!


-t - Nov 04, 2016 5:15:41 pm PDT #881 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Marry me, Rachel Bloom.

That was fantastic! You know, it wasn't until I heard her on Wait, Wait that I put together that Crazy Ex-girlfriend was connected to Fuck Me Ray Bradbury [I feel like punctuating that is problematic and I'm not going to try]

Oh, I forgot to mention, Gingerbread Lattes at Starbucks! I am way more into these than PSL, personally.Nom-diddly-icious.


Gudanov - Nov 04, 2016 5:37:11 pm PDT #882 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping

I wanted to use a different e-mail for my GitHub account so I deleted my old one and made a new one. One of the checkboxes when setting up your profile is whether you'd consider new jobs. I've been contacted about eight times about jobs this week and I'm completely out of the market. Crazy.


DavidS - Nov 04, 2016 6:52:40 pm PDT #883 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

But, if I had friends who were Trump voters, they would no longer be friends. I cannot be friends with someone who would support someone like that.

Same.


brenda m - Nov 04, 2016 7:20:48 pm PDT #884 of 30002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

My mystery sisters (I've told you guys about my half-sisters right?) both chimed in to support an anti-Trump, anti-third party post of my, um, regular sister's on FB yesterday, and I was so god damn relieved