I tell you I have this theory. It goes where, you're the one who's not my sister. Cuz mom adopted you from a shoe box full of baby howler monkeys, and never told you cuz it could hurt your delicate baby feelings.

Dawn ,'Selfless'


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.


Sophia Brooks - Nov 22, 2019 6:51:30 am PST #13871 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Also, thanks for the tip, shrift. I totally do that at work. I am really good at work, and seen as organized and diligent, even if I am a little messy. It is like I just haven't applied those things to life because I have been working a full time job plus theatre for 20 years, and used up all the energy I had for that. And then I just stopped being able to keep it a little bit together


Jesse - Nov 22, 2019 7:04:14 am PST #13872 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Unless it's for company, I don't even worry about "cleaning the bathroom." Most times, I do the sink and toilet and call it a day, because I haaaaaate cleaning the floor and the tub.

It keeps me out of the trap of not doing ANYTHING because I don't want to do EVERYTHING.


shrift - Nov 22, 2019 7:06:49 am PST #13873 of 30019
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

My lists were usually pretty long. But at the end of each day, I could tell myself that I'd accomplished something.

As a former perfectionist, it took me a while to be okay with the concept of incremental progress.

It is like I just haven't applied those things to life because I have been working a full time job plus theatre for 20 years, and used up all the energy I had for that.

Plus your commute! I had a moment when I realized that I spend 12-13 hours a day working and commuting, and if I wanted to get 8 hours of sleep, that didn't give me a lot of free time leftover to do things like make dinner, clean, read, and watch TV.


Sophia Brooks - Nov 22, 2019 7:17:28 am PST #13874 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

With commute, I often had days that were 6am-9pm, and occasionally 8 am until midnight or later. It was really becoming unsustainable and the theatre had stopped giving me even one little bit of artistic or educational satisfaction. I always knew we were giving the students not the greatest education, but recently lacked the energy to at least make sure the costume students learned something.


amyparker - Nov 22, 2019 7:26:07 am PST #13875 of 30019
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

Sophia, you should be proud of what you've accomplished!

If not for Google reminders, my place would be far messier than it is - I handle most of my daily maintenance tasks during the "Hey, get off your backside and look at something that isn't a computer screen for 10 minutes" breaks my laptop tosses up every hour.

This forking fog needs to take itself off before I head out for my haircut: bad enough it's a 20-mile drive . . . .


DavidS - Nov 22, 2019 7:42:26 am PST #13876 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I have THREE second generation iMacs, two blue and one ruby!

Those are probably valuable and collectable. Don't just toss those in the bin before checking eBay.


Katerina Bee - Nov 22, 2019 7:51:42 am PST #13877 of 30019
Herding cats for fun

Sophia-inspired: yesterday had a second bulk garbage pickup. Goodbye old encyclopedia and silverfish-infested Readers Digest books for projects I will never feel like doing ever again.

Then I went to the thrift store and donated unwanted books and DVDs and a passel of decorative outdoor flags I got tired of five years ago.

I feel like I have accomplished something!


sj - Nov 22, 2019 8:30:36 am PST #13878 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I swear time is moving backwards today.


Sophia Brooks - Nov 22, 2019 9:06:29 am PST #13879 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Honestly, I am not sure I have it in me to clean them up, see if they work, etc. it looks like they go between $60 and $299. I don't think I have the keyboards or mice (mouses?). There is actually a sort of weird independent computer store across the street, and I might just walk over there and see if he wants to get them from my attic.

I just made a little steak with blue cheese crumbles and spinach. Nom


-t - Nov 22, 2019 9:45:10 am PST #13880 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yum, steak and stuff. I tried making cooking bacon in the microwave since I am at work and do not have access to a stove or oven. Not great.

I think the old iMacs that are turned into cat beds and aquariums are so cute, but I don't know how hard that would be.