You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.

Xander ,'Help'


Spike's Bitches 49: As usual, I'm here to help you, and I... are you naked under there?

Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Katerina Bee - Oct 12, 2017 7:15:39 pm PDT #2198 of 8214
Herding cats for fun

My cats have to get big enough before I will submit their tender little bodies to surgery. that way they have some physical reserves.

Mishka had already been neutered when I adopted him and it made me uncomfortable because he was still tiny and I'd never seen it done so young. It took him days to sleep it off.

He grew big and tall for a cat, but his last year he had arthritis in his hips and knees, poor guy. Maybe that wouldn't have been so bad without early neutering. I'll never know for sure.

He was probably cast from the same mold as Fred's Coco. Big, black, fluffy, calm. Kind to the other cats. He made me happy every day of his life. He wasn't scared of dogs, toddlers or parties. My teddy bear boy. I miss him.


Beverly - Oct 12, 2017 11:38:13 pm PDT #2199 of 8214
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Aww, Mishka. Sweet boy.


Katerina Bee - Oct 13, 2017 5:46:55 am PDT #2200 of 8214
Herding cats for fun

Here's a Mishka story I like to remember.

I always believed that he could hear me thinking. One day he had tenderly washed my face. Suddenly I had a silly thought and I wondered, would my nose fit into his mouth? He leaned forward and gave me an intent look, so I knew something was about to happen. Slowly he opened his mouth wide, and, you betcha. My nose DID totally fit all the way into his mouth. I had a moment to think, wow, if he bites down it will Suuuuuuck. Then he let me go and sat back, totally pleased with himself. He had answered my question.

There was much happy laughter and petting then. Good times.


Hil R. - Oct 13, 2017 7:25:54 am PDT #2201 of 8214
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I'm feeling totally fine today, so yesterday was probably just allergies.


askye - Oct 13, 2017 8:35:08 am PDT #2202 of 8214
Thrive to spite them

So the info I got on the phone about hours and chances for things like benefits at this store may not have been accurate. So now it looks like everyone is part time . But the pay is still higher. And there is no promise of anything after seasonal.

So now I'm waiting to meet with someone else and I have to decide.


askye - Oct 13, 2017 9:23:15 am PDT #2203 of 8214
Thrive to spite them

And I now have a second interview for a permanent position . I was going to be hired on the spot and basically traded a guaranteed seasonal position for a chance at permanent postion.


askye - Oct 13, 2017 9:32:39 am PDT #2204 of 8214
Thrive to spite them

I need advice on how to handle the job offer I have with this other interview. I don't know what to say and I'm supposed to go in and fill out paperwork on Tuesday.


brenda m - Oct 13, 2017 10:28:08 am PDT #2205 of 8214
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

It's at the same company? When is the second interview?


askye - Oct 13, 2017 10:47:39 am PDT #2206 of 8214
Thrive to spite them

Two different companies. 2nd interview is on Thursday for Target but on Tuesday I'm supposed to go full out paperwork and start orientation for the department stor


aurelia - Oct 13, 2017 2:26:00 pm PDT #2207 of 8214
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

You could ask to reschedule paperwork and orientation for the following week.