Unseasoned baked chicken with skin removed, baked potato, and applesauce for dinner. Feels good to get some calories in me. Now bed, work tomorrow. Bleargh.
Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.
Host ,'Why We Fight'
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.
msbelle - Oct 26, 2020 4:22:04 pm PDT #28154 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 26, 2020 4:23:37 pm PDT #28155 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
Laura, my condolences on your younger son and his wife being so physically disabled that they're unable to wash a damn dish themselves and have to sit around helplessly letting it make them feel uncomfortable instead.
Diapers are not going to be kind to them.
Beverly - Oct 26, 2020 4:57:49 pm PDT #28156 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I get the feeling this is a reaction to overwhelm, with an impending increase in overwhelm. Self-coping questionable, quick, let's throw aspersions on a near target kind of thing. I'm likely wrong, but that's where I've been.
I like your Mike Wazowski o'lantern, Matt.
amyparker - Oct 26, 2020 5:09:49 pm PDT #28157 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.
Have to stop and do a bit of math - my parents were 42 and 41 when Ken was born. (I was 22. Contraceptive failure is a Thing.) Even if we'd been on the same side of the continent, nobody was in a position to stop working and look after him - hell, my grandparents were in their early 60s and hadn't retired yet. This attitude, it is not a good look.
Cashmere - Oct 26, 2020 5:22:12 pm PDT #28158 of 30019
Now tagless for your comfort.
sj, I think Owen was 5 and in kindergarten when another kid called him an idiot. Still makes me made.
Laura, I am hoping you son changes his tune when he becomes a parent himself. It's easy to criticize parenting. After all, we are perfect parents before we have kids.
My boss just started watching Buffy. Do I still get a toaster?
Hil R. - Oct 26, 2020 6:08:58 pm PDT #28159 of 30019
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm going to be going to NJ in a few weeks, and my house is a mess, and I'm getting anxiety attacks about, well, everything. Can't leave and leave the house looking like this, and I keep trying to clean, but even when I feel like I've done a ton of work, nothing looks any better.
Also getting worried about how I'm going to be able to get my work done while I'm there. My mother and I have very different ideas of what "Please don't distract me if I go into my room and close the door so that I can get work done" looks like.
Katerina Bee - Oct 26, 2020 7:12:09 pm PDT #28160 of 30019
Herding cats for fun
I'm sorry to hear about so many entitled adult kids living rent free being so persnickety about having to do some dishes. I'm sure I myself would take on that chore to demonstrate my fervent gratitude about having a roof over my head when times are hard. That GF sounds like a terrible person. Not including your host in your dinner plans? Cray cray.
I am going to get $100 for something I've wanted to get rid of for years! My parents bought us an antique merry go round horse, which was valued at not much since it's been cobbled together from non matching parts and is only a back row kind of horse. Still it was super cool to play with, but we got tired having it take up so much space. It's been in storage in Dad's garage for umpteen years. The guy is handy and wants to build a sturdy stand so grandkids can play. I'm very glad my circus horse will get the chance to make someone happy again.
Plus, a hundred bucks apiece! Wooot!
aurelia - Oct 26, 2020 8:43:14 pm PDT #28161 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I get a daily newsletter from WBEZ and it often includes some lighter fare. Friday's had a question about Halloween costumes and one response was, "Our 3-year-old announced he wanted to be tomato paste for Halloween."
Shir - Oct 26, 2020 9:09:29 pm PDT #28162 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I am sorry for all of the bullshit, Buffistas, for it seems there's plenty. Also, stares at Laura's son and at kids who are mean to ltc.
Hil, best of luck with negotiating reasonable WFH conditions. It is difficult.
Laura - Oct 27, 2020 3:06:53 am PDT #28163 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
One more week until election day. Oh how I wish hiding under the bed was an option.
I'm sorry everything is so overwhelming, Hil. Is there a possible young neighbor/relative/friend who might be able to help you with the house? I know Zenkitty and Sophia found help that way. Yeah, another discussion with your mother about having to work may at least help in the short run.
Yep, you get a toaster Cash!
Katerina, nice both to get the $ and to think of a new generation of kiddos enjoying the horse.