Throw out some damn lights, Tim!
If that ever happened, it would signal the End of Days.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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. - Dec 16, 2018 12:50:46 pm PST #3073 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
msbelle - Dec 16, 2018 2:20:46 pm PST #3074 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
got two temp fosters today. one has bitten me twice and snapped twice more. They both want to charge at Bailey, but seem ok if you just leave them alone, so I am closing them up in a room and decorating the tree pretty soon.
DavidS - Dec 16, 2018 2:29:04 pm PST #3075 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
If that ever happened, it would signal the End of Days.
Would he flip out if you said, "Hey Honey, I'm going to throw out all the lights that aren't currently up. Is that okay?"
Steph L. - Dec 16, 2018 3:40:58 pm PST #3076 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
If that ever happened, it would signal the End of Days.
Would he flip out if you said, "Hey Honey, I'm going to throw out all the lights that aren't currently up. Is that okay?"
He wouldn't flip out (it takes a LOT to make him flip out), but he would have Many Reasons he needs them all.
meara - Dec 16, 2018 3:53:08 pm PST #3077 of 30019
Lol, with my parents I always had the "but will you even notice it's gone?" thought, when wanting to get rid of stuff.
-t - Dec 16, 2018 4:11:08 pm PST #3078 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Maybe you have friends and neighbors who need to borrow lights?
I'm offering this as a way to get rid of them, not a reason to keep them.
Connie Neil - Dec 16, 2018 4:15:24 pm PST #3079 of 30019
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But if you get rid of some, how will he create next year's masterpiece, which will be even better than this year's? He'll have to buy more lights!
Calli - Dec 17, 2018 2:02:25 am PST #3080 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Part of my thinking is that I need to organize it all when I repack it
So do I. I have my great-grandmother's ornament and about 10 ornaments from my parents' first Christmas together that I definitely want to keep. Otherwise, I've been moving into sort of a bird-themed decoration scheme (hokey, but I love it) and the avian acquisitions have crowded out a bunch of older stuff. I have a couple of boxes of unused ornaments that I should just donate to the PTA thrift store so someone else has the option of using them.
David, I'm so glad Matilda's winter trip is working out.
Darn it, Mac!
I have a few sets of lights, but for one reason or another, I didn't put the ones that often go in the window or along the porch roof up this year. I was talking to one of the newer neighbors and complimented him on the lovely lights he has up at his place. His response (clueless, I think, not malicious) was that he loved Christmas lights and wanted to have them before he was too old and unsteady to put them up. That was the night before my dentist appointment where I was told that a bit of gum recession was perfectly normal at my age. I really need to invest in a cane so I can shake it at all these young whippersnappers. Or maybe put up some lights.
Laura - Dec 17, 2018 3:48:36 am PST #3081 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
FTR, laryngitis is ouchy and inconvenient. I have an 11AM appt with nutritionist and they said to go ahead and come in after discussing symptoms. I do appreciate medical offices that will text with you. I am supposed to take DIL to get her cast put on her fractured heel this afternoon but I'll give her the option of DH taking her instead just in case I am contagious. Blah. eta: DH said he rather I stayed home and was a bum and he would happily take her.
Jesse - Dec 17, 2018 4:07:44 am PST #3082 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh no, Laura! I am crossing my fingers I don't get any of the many things that seem to be going around...
My deviled eggs made it to the office, only a little bunged up. I have in the past not filled them until I got where they were going, but I'm already going to be late to our lunch due to a late-breaking meeting, and didn't want to take the extra time. Oh well! They still taste good, I'm sure.