So there's hope for your friend! What a thing, though -- emergency brain surgery must be terrifying. I hope he's healing well.
Last time I checked with his wife, she said he was doing pretty well. He just has a lot of recovery in front of him.
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
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.
Steph L. - Mar 16, 2020 7:11:47 am PDT #17868 of 30019
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Laura - Mar 16, 2020 7:18:36 am PDT #17869 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
A friend on Facebook just posted a picture of his 94-year-old mother pushing a cart in a grocery store
Good grief! Just stay home people! Yes, I get some people can't, but the rest of them need to stop. The only time I left the house so far was to drive my son to work and I didn't get out of the car. I'll happily go for walks or to the beach if I get restless, or even to pick up take out, but otherwise the world will only see my virtual presence.
Strix - Mar 16, 2020 7:44:59 am PDT #17870 of 30019
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Mom is back, with polyps snipped and sent off for biopsy. All good. So, so tired...
Note: my precautions (mask for mom, disposable latex gloves from home for all of us, Clorox wiping wheelchair with my own supply) in a small MO hospital got us weird looks from other patients, but the staff about cried with gratitude. The gurneys were coming back WET with disinfectant...medical staff is NOT fucking around RN, even in small town Bible belt.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 16, 2020 7:50:41 am PDT #17871 of 30019
"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
May everything go smoothly for your mom from this point forward, Strix!
Congratulations Maria! (and Maria's fiancé—you won the engagement lottery, dude!)
I just pulled the trigger on touring a condo for possible home purchase this week, about 5 years ahead of schedule. Here's the place I'm looking at: [link]
-t - Mar 16, 2020 7:52:25 am PDT #17872 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, wow, Matt! That place looks pretty great.
Glad y'all got through that, Strix
Topic!Cindy - Mar 16, 2020 7:59:50 am PDT #17873 of 30019
What is even happening?
Scrappy, I'm so sorry to hear about your aunts. Love to you and yours.
Teppy, I'm glad the news on your friend has been good.
For a piece of good news in all of the horribleness... MedicGuy proposed last night, and I said yes! A picture of the ring is on FB and Instagram.
Maria! Best wishes to you and your MedicGuy. ♥
The toilet paper aisle at Meijer was so empty that cereal was stocked on those shelves.
Look I'm not judging but this seems really counterproductive.
Go rice. Choose rice.
And the bakery owner just texted to say we'll stay open for takeout, but we're only going to need one retail person at a time, so all of our hours just got cut by two-thirds, more or less.
That's so hard Amy. I'm sorry.
Nilly, I hope the rest of your quarantine passes quickly.
Strix, I hope your mom's colonoscopy goes well. [edit: well, that wish came true while I composed. I'm gonna start hoping for a whole buncha good things for everyone.]
Everyone else, I'm reading, hoping for the best, and deeply regretting that we never actually bought Buffista island.
Laura - Mar 16, 2020 8:02:10 am PDT #17874 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
That looks awesome, Matt!
Strix, I hope you and your mom can get some rest now.
Amy - Mar 16, 2020 8:04:06 am PDT #17875 of 30019
Because books.
deeply regretting that we never actually bought Buffista island
Right?
Nilly - Mar 16, 2020 8:08:26 am PDT #17876 of 30019
Swouncing
Cindy, I must've skipped over any updates you gave regarding your son - how is he doing? In general, not just a Covid19 update.
Strix, I hope all will improve from now on, for you and your mother and your sister.
Steph, lots of health and quick-recovery~ma to your friend.
Maria - Mar 16, 2020 8:12:34 am PDT #17877 of 30019
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Strix, so glad it went well.
NILLY! Thank you so much for the well-wishes. It is so good to see your font around here. You have been missed.
Despite all of the changes online and in our personal lives, this place feels like home. It's the first place I check when the shit hits the fan. I'm glad we still have this.