Jeez. First we had the PG&E "planned" power outages, then the earthquake, now a refinery in the East Bay is on fire. Rough time for the area.
Occasionally I'm callous and strange.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
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.
-t - Oct 15, 2019 1:10:34 pm PDT #12331 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
EpicTangent - Oct 15, 2019 2:09:08 pm PDT #12332 of 30019
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Sounds like someone's been reading Latin in front of the books again...
msbelle - Oct 15, 2019 2:28:00 pm PDT #12333 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Applied for 3 jobs. Cover letters remain the worst.
Beverly - Oct 15, 2019 2:30:31 pm PDT #12334 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I was just thinking today how I used to know a stevedore.
"What's a stevedore?"
JfC, msbelle. Hoping the kinks shake out of that timeline a whole lot better than at the present.
Dana - Oct 15, 2019 4:08:35 pm PDT #12335 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Survived a two hour meeting and then dinner with the people who pay me. Woot.
Jesse - Oct 15, 2019 4:09:05 pm PDT #12336 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Cool beans! Was he a visiting Honk-er?
A roustabout is a real job?! Huh.
Yes and yes!
Consuela - Oct 15, 2019 5:58:20 pm PDT #12337 of 30019
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh man, argh. My sister has started dating again (her husband of 30 years died 2 years ago) and her adult daughters aren't happy about it. Everyone is unhappy and I'm just trying to be supportive and acknowledge everyone's feelings. Bah. Do not want.
meara - Oct 16, 2019 12:58:53 am PDT #12338 of 30019
Yikes, Suela, that's tough.
Just landed back in the states! But customs doesn't open for three more minutes so they can't let us off the plane yet.
Theodosia - Oct 16, 2019 1:19:17 am PDT #12339 of 30019
'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"
Time for an auntly talk with your niece? Acknowledging her genuine feelings, but pointing out that her father would have wanted her mother to go be happy. (I'm presuming on the kind of person a sister of yours is likely to have been married to for 30 years, of course.)
Laura - Oct 16, 2019 4:49:58 am PDT #12340 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
I'm sorry, Consuela. That is hard. My mother was married to my dad for 39 years. A couple years after he died she was dating the man who became my step-dad. They married and were together for over 30 years. I have zero doubt that my mother would never have lived to 95 if it were not for the devotion and care provided by my step-dad. My siblings NEVER accepted him and all 3 of them have been horrible to him before and after they married, and since my mother passed. It has nearly cost me my relationship with my siblings. It has been very painful to try and be the person in the middle all the time.