megan walker drive-by for msbelle: My blog page for navigating Paris beyond the obvious, instructions for the métro, etc. with the caveat that it has been five years since I've been there (though I updated the prices more recently than that). I need to work on that. Le sigh.
Saffron: He's my husband. Mal: Well, who in the damn galaxy ain't?
'Trash'
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.
megan walker - Dec 07, 2018 9:45:59 pm PST #2840 of 30019
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Calli - Dec 08, 2018 2:02:39 am PST #2841 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Yay new microwave!
Well, I woke up around 4:45 today for no good reason. Luckily my only to-dos are a bookmaking class (making physical books, not learning how to take bets professionally) at noon and filling up the bird feeder whenever. Pretty sure I can manage both of those before I crash.
I do like sipping coffee by the light of the Christmas tree, my cat snoring beside it. It's not a bad morning at all. It's just a super early one.
Jesse - Dec 08, 2018 4:30:37 am PST #2842 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Two trips to the hardware store later I have a new microwave! It seems to work!!
Yay!
I want to go to Trader Joe's today, but it's so cold. And it takes a lot of walking to get there. I was thinking about going to a different one where I could take a bus right there, but I remembered that bus is fucking unreliable, so I won't bother. HMMMMMMM.
In other to-do items: put up lights outside, get a bagel, go to Messiah sing this afternoon. Also clean? Shop for presents?
Tom Scola - Dec 08, 2018 7:51:52 am PST #2843 of 30019
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
This has to be the worst version of LDB I've ever heard. Losing in style, I guess.
Steph L. - Dec 08, 2018 8:06:11 am PST #2844 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
This has to be the worst version of LDB I've ever heard. Losing in style, I guess.
One year, I lost to a steel-drum version of LDB in a Spencer's Gifts store in a mall. It was simultaneously the best and worst way to lose.
Jesse - Dec 08, 2018 8:16:27 am PST #2845 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Woo! I did all of my first-part-of-the-day things! Bagel, check. TJ's, check. Lights, check. Although I need one new string of lights because one worked in the house but not outside, and one is half-dead.
Also, this may be the smallest possible victory, but I bought the perfect amount of stuff at TJ's. One bagful, easy to carry. Sometimes I get there and feel like I didn't actually get enough to make the trip worth it. I also had a moment where I was going to buy a bunch of drinks and take a Lyft home, but I resisted that as well.
Sheryl - Dec 08, 2018 9:59:54 am PST #2846 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Since the LDB that happened before Thanksgiving didn't count, I guess I got LDBed the Monday after Thanksgiving. There has been Christmas music in the lab just about every day for the last few weeks. Oh well, one more week, then I'm on vacation.
Meanwhile, we are having a party for Gary's birthday today. Let's see how many people show up...
DavidS - Dec 08, 2018 10:52:21 am PST #2847 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Well finessed TJ's run, Jesse. I go to the TJ's that's most train accessible and I know the satisfaction of two evenly packed (but not overpacked so I can't grab the handles!) bags for Muni.
We have procured the tree! Emmett is here with a full beard and JZ is at mass (it's a day of Holy Obligation I guess?). We'll be making cookies in a bit and watching some xmas specials.
He can't stay the night because he's got school work due on Monday and work-work to do tomorrow. (He's doing landscape work once a week to pick up some cash.)
I think I've mentioned that Emmett is being an au pair in exchange for free housing with cousins of his best friend Joey. The key news here for anybody who has been following Emmett's dog-wanting ways all along is that...the family got a rescue dog!
So now Emmett is now living with a dog named Murphy, who is a young beagle/mastiff mix. (Looks like a Beagle with weird coloring.)
And he's very happy about that although between the baby and the dog he's literally dealing with a lot of shit.
meara - Dec 08, 2018 11:22:52 am PST #2848 of 30019
I bought more World Cup tickets! Paris and Grenoble here I come! May also go other places but we shall see. Probably mostly just those. Going for early games, but it includes seeing the opening game, which is France v Korea, in Paris.
Microwave has now successfully microwaved food!
Also, yay successful TJ shopping? I
msbelle - Dec 08, 2018 1:25:02 pm PST #2849 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Down 1 more dress, spilled bleach on the one I am wearing while doing laundry.
and I had a wreck. brakes locked on wet road and I slid into a stopped car which pushed it into another car. my car has the worst damage, bent hood and smushed in front panel. still driveable. I have not looked under hood to see what might be broken, I really do not want to know. Already filed a claim, that will be $1000 deductible and I'm sure rates will go up.
I continue to hate everything.