May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Mal ,'Bushwhacked'


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.


-t - Dec 25, 2018 10:58:11 pm PST #3338 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

It was Linda in the Alley with a Full Musical Number

Imagining Bob's Burgers Clue is making me happy. Actually, I am probably more imagining the Belchers playing Clue, but surely the two are pretty similar.


Laura - Dec 26, 2018 3:32:47 am PST #3339 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

We did Christmas at my BIL's house. It was really grand. There were 5 under the under 5 category and they ran around non-stop, and tried really hard to accidentally fall in the pool, but too many adults giving them warnings so it didn't happen. SIL brought craft stuff and they made footprint penguins. And various parents brought enough diversion stuff, although chasing each other for hours seemed the main activity. There were also about 5 in the teen set who hung together. There were 25 I think and a metric ton of food. It was rather funny that they sent my son home with 2 large filled styrofoam containers of food (mac 'n cheese and baked ziti), plus a whole pie and a whole pack of rolls. He may have taken turkey too. He didn't eat hardly anything there because of his tooth, but he said he really wanted the option later.

We have a very ethnically diverse family so the food included Haitian griyo and spicy pikliz, and lots of festive rice. The Italian crew brought eggplant parm and baked ziti as well as bruschetta and stuffed mushrooms. The Bahamians and Cubans contributed a super tasty concoction that involved jalapenos, tons of sweets, and adult beverages. More than half the group is vegetarian, but there was still pork (griyo), ham, and turkey as well as the meaty lasagna I made for the carnivores.

So my off diet day no doubt wiped out a whole week of being good, but worth it. We were there about 6 hours and it was super noisy and delightfully fun the entire time. All smiles, no bad moods or unpleasantness!!


Theodosia - Dec 26, 2018 3:33:19 am PST #3340 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"

Happy birthday, Jesse!


Laura - Dec 26, 2018 3:36:47 am PST #3341 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

Happy Birthday to Theodosia and Jesse!

I also have a couple family friends born today, good people born this day for sure.


Fred Pete - Dec 26, 2018 3:55:09 am PST #3342 of 30019
Ann, that's a ferret.

My (pre-figuring things out) high school girlfriend was born on December 26. She told me that she had received Christmas presents before she was born.

And my first boyfriend was born on December 24. Hmmm -- I never realized that pattern before.

Luckily, my mother (December 15) had trained me well from a young age. Anyone with a birthday around Christmas gets both a birthday present and a Christmas present, not one big combined present.


Tom Scola - Dec 26, 2018 4:49:49 am PST #3343 of 30019
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Happy Birthday, Theodosia!

Happy Birthday, Jesse!


Jesse - Dec 26, 2018 5:00:51 am PST #3344 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

We have a very ethnically diverse family so the food included Haitian griyo and spicy pikliz, and lots of festive rice. The Italian crew brought eggplant parm and baked ziti as well as bruschetta and stuffed mushrooms. The Bahamians and Cubans contributed a super tasty concoction that involved jalapenos, tons of sweets, and adult beverages. More than half the group is vegetarian, but there was still pork (griyo), ham, and turkey as well as the meaty lasagna I made for the carnivores.

That sounds amazing.

Happy birthday to Theodosia and also Rayne!!


Laura - Dec 26, 2018 5:20:53 am PST #3345 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

So, do any of you people simultaneously mirror write? As in write normal direction with your right hand while writing backwards the same thing with your left hand at the same time. We knew my nephew was ambidextrous (he's 5), but when he was practicing his writing rather than his usual switching hands he had pencils in both hands and was writing with both of them at the same time in mirror image. This caused his mother to remember that she used to do that for fun when she was younger and found she still could. Like this video - [link]

Personally my left hand is a worthless appendage so I didn't bother to try, but it was way cool to watch. And apparently quite rare.


Jessica - Dec 26, 2018 5:43:51 am PST #3346 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

As in write normal direction with your right hand while writing backwards the same thing with your left hand at the same time.

My brother did this! It was so weird!

Happy birthdays Jesse and Theodosia!


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 26, 2018 6:00:51 am PST #3347 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

Happy Birthday Theodosia and Jesse!

Christmas Eve was a nice afternoon of pizza and visiting with the extended family on Mom's side, then hanging out just the two of us in the evening. Yesterday Mom and I went to my best friend's for lunch, and there were sitcom-esque antics with the turkey and other foods (but a delicious meal was still had by all).