Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!

River ,'War Stories'


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.


Cashmere - Jul 30, 2020 7:32:40 pm PDT #24299 of 30019
Now tagless for your comfort.

Doesn't the smell make you constantly want a boozy frozen tropical drink?

Considering my summer drink of choice has been Malibu Rum and pineapple juice? YES.


Laura - Jul 31, 2020 2:19:28 am PDT #24300 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

My hand sanitizer smells like, um, rubbing alcohol. I'm thinking I need to upgrade.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 31, 2020 3:42:32 am PDT #24301 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

I don't want hand sanitizer to make me thirsty, I want to feel clean and GERM FREE! If they made one in sterilizing gamma rays scent, I'd buy it.


Jesse - Jul 31, 2020 4:43:22 am PDT #24302 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Considering my summer drink of choice has been Malibu Rum and pineapple juice? YES.

That's typically my vacation drink, but I really should start drinking it at home this year.


Jesse - Jul 31, 2020 4:46:15 am PDT #24303 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I haven't been buying much, but I did recently order 1000 new bathing suits to try on, so we'll see.


Jessica - Jul 31, 2020 4:54:24 am PDT #24304 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I've been buying a RIDIC number of eBooks this summer.


Jesse - Jul 31, 2020 4:58:02 am PDT #24305 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I've been getting most of my new books from little free libraries although I did just put one back after reading like a quarter because it was so bad. Like, I wondered if it was too racist to put back out into the world and maybe I should just throw it away.


msbelle - Jul 31, 2020 5:09:47 am PDT #24306 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I have been spending like crazy but without going into debt.

Garage door and gate project, t-shirts, a few books and audiobooks, plants, planters, birdseed/feeders, bras, work clothes, so many fake nail sets, lots of take-out food.


Steph L. - Jul 31, 2020 5:21:28 am PDT #24307 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Our biggest financial thing is making sure we have the right amount of life insurance, and also disability insurance, and then shoring up our emergency fund/retirement accounts (such as they are). Financial planning gives me the cold sweats, because my parents were lousy at it and I didn't have any good model of how an adult responsibly manages money. But Tim and I survived our money discussions without actually fighting, so that was heartening.

His heart surgery was in January, and at the hospital that morning he paid a $400 copay. So far he's gotten one bill, for $150, from the home healthcare service that sent a nurse to our house 3 times while he was recovering. Literally no other bills have come yet. And tomorrow is August, which is 7 (seven!) months after his surgery, and I'm really just waiting to get the bill for the balance of his surgery, after his insurance's portion is paid. Because no one has heart surgery for $400. (Or else Tim's employer provides fucking platinum-plated Cadillac insurance. And while the insurance seems pretty good, it cannot possibly be heart-surgery-for-$400 good.) But the bills sure are taking their sweet time getting here, which is driving me nuts. We can't plan shit financially if we don't know what we owe on his surgery.


Toddson - Jul 31, 2020 5:33:56 am PDT #24308 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

When I cleaned out the refrigerator at my old apartment, I found five (!) bottles of wine I'd forgotten about. Now if I could only find my corkscrew ....