I am so sorry, amyparker and family. My condolences.
A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. Things used to be so much simpler.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
Shir - Sep 26, 2020 9:31:41 pm PDT #26757 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Sophia Brooks - Sep 27, 2020 3:52:12 am PDT #26758 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My condolences to you, Jim and the rest of the family.
Calli - Sep 27, 2020 4:16:03 am PDT #26759 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm sorry for your family's loss, Amy Parker.
Theodosia - Sep 27, 2020 5:05:23 am PDT #26760 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"
I'm so sorry for you and all your family, amyparker.
May I endorse reading The Seventh Bride by Ursula Vernon (under the name T. Kingfisher) which is so very clever and worth your time.
-t - Sep 27, 2020 5:20:58 am PDT #26761 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Love that book
Trudy Booth - Sep 27, 2020 5:25:07 am PDT #26762 of 30019
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
So sorry to hear it Parker, please give Jim my condolences.
amyparker - Sep 27, 2020 7:32:51 am PDT #26763 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.
Thank you again, everyone. Jim's actually slept; Ken is coming over later today.
Steph L. - Sep 27, 2020 7:44:20 am PDT #26764 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Parker, so much love to you and Jim.
Y'all explain this to me: my 72-year-old aunt who has asthma went to the ER yesterday because she was having trouble breathing. After the breathing treatment in the ER didn't help, my aunt got an EKG, a chest x-ray, and blood tests (for cardiac enzymes, I assume), and then they gave her nitroglycerin (for angina, I guess) and admitted her for observation. According to her, even though she showed up to the ER with trouble breathing, she DIDN'T receive a Covid-19 test. What the fuck kind of shoddy-ass hospital doesn't test a patient for Covid-19, especially before admitting her??? (And this hospital does have a history of being shitty, so it doesn't surprise me that they wouldn't administer a Covid-19 test before admitting a patient.)
Of course, the issue with this aunt is that she has a lifelong history of being...creative and flexible when it comes to the truth. My mom thinks it's 50-50 odds between Shitty Country Bumpkin Hospital really didn't test her for Covid-19 *or* they did test her, it came back positive, and she won't tell anyone. (That's a whole complicated relationship between my mom and my aunt that I won't touch with a 10-foot pole, except to say that, yeah, my aunt has been known to embellish the truth, but I feel like this is something she's smart enough not to lie about.)
Sheryl - Sep 27, 2020 7:48:42 am PDT #26765 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Gary has taken Mr. S to get new shoes. He's needed new sneakers for a while, we just hadn't gotten around to making an appointment until now.(Besides, Mr, S's school is going to a hybrid model on October 5, and he will need shoes for in person classes.)
sj - Sep 27, 2020 8:00:11 am PDT #26766 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Teppy, that is crazypants.
We had a few relatives over outdoors yesterday for a belated birthday party for TCG. I baked a baked ziti (my best one yet) Mom brought pizza and calzones, and TCG's stepmom brought a salad. And we had carrot cake from the bakery. Everything was delicious, and now we're all exhausted. ltc doesn't have school on Monday, and TCG is taking the day off. So, we have a long weekend.