When I get baby gifts, I tend to avoid either pink or blue. Nobody has ever complained about receiving a green baby gift.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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.
Fred Pete - Dec 21, 2018 3:27:26 am PST #4953 of 8218
Ann, that's a ferret.
Laura - Dec 21, 2018 4:15:02 am PST #4954 of 8218
Our wings are not tired.
I would just get a brown paper bag from the grocery store
Katie Bee! That is quite perfect since I have a bunch of Christmas Trader Joe's bags.
Jessica - Dec 21, 2018 4:28:51 am PST #4955 of 8218
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I have sent many an angry email to online retailers who insist on dividing their stores into Boys Clothes and Girls Clothes, when I just want to see ALL THE FREAKING COLORS OF GLOVES ON ONE GODDAMN PAGE.
Katerina Bee - Dec 21, 2018 6:21:26 am PST #4956 of 8218
Herding cats for fun
Laura, that is an excellent and festive idea.
aurelia - Dec 21, 2018 6:24:48 am PST #4957 of 8218
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
That is a excellent list, Debet.
DebetEsse - Dec 21, 2018 6:48:23 am PST #4958 of 8218
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Jessica, right?
Thanks, all. My most proximate circles are all 100% behind the "rainbows, unicorns, dinosaurs, and power tools are amazing, no matter what bits you have" ethos. It's that next circle out that people are more likely to be more rigid. I've tried to work around it by talking about hand-me-downs for the next one.
-t - Dec 21, 2018 7:19:31 am PST #4959 of 8218
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Your exceptions are cracking me up, Debet. I kind of want a picture book in which a fossa and a saiga antelope go on a time-traveling adventure in an El Camino to meet all the William Hoopers
P.M. Marc - Dec 21, 2018 7:27:29 am PST #4960 of 8218
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Honestly, the first few months, they might as well just live in those entirely gender-neutral white, bleachable, Gerber onesies when it comes to clothes.
DebetEsse - Dec 21, 2018 7:30:00 am PST #4961 of 8218
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Add to that that this is a tropical summer baby. I think it's gonna be a case of "nothing but diaper" at home and "add a t-shirt or onesie when we go out, for propriety's sake."
I'd be totally down with the huge stack of white onesies, but my mother loves buying baby clothes, and this is the first grandkid.
Laura - Dec 21, 2018 7:50:47 am PST #4962 of 8218
Our wings are not tired.
That was all my kids wore, Debet. Even when they went to school it was just t-shirts and shorts. Not having to deal with outer garments with kids is awesome.