This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?

Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'


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.


shrift - Mar 02, 2019 6:56:44 pm PST #5538 of 30019
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Ooh, just folded and put away the towels, AND washed the pan that's been sitting in the sink most of the week.

Also: congrats, Scrappy!


Consuela - Mar 02, 2019 7:04:04 pm PST #5539 of 30019
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Gud, please please please listen to the Buffistas who care about you. We've known you for years: we are not strangers. We know you do not deserve this treatment, and you need to learn to convince your brain that you are worthy.

IT IS OKAY TO ASK FOR HELP.

Please please get help. Call the hotline, find a local therapist, anything. It will help you, it will help your children.


Katerina Bee - Mar 02, 2019 9:12:42 pm PST #5540 of 30019
Herding cats for fun

Why is that helicopter flying around and around over my house? I hope this doesn't mean a grisly Accident on the 880 that I will have to read about in the morning.


-t - Mar 03, 2019 4:55:35 am PST #5541 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Uuuuuugh. Woke up with a belly ache and had to go throw up before even feeding the cats. This was not my plan for the day.


amych - Mar 03, 2019 5:00:29 am PST #5542 of 30019
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Gud-is-good-bot isn't even gonna yell today. Just know that you ARE good, and deserving of help and support, and we're behind you in a million ways big and small.


WindSparrow - Mar 03, 2019 5:10:47 am PST #5543 of 30019
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

-t, feel better soon.


Laura - Mar 03, 2019 5:24:02 am PST #5544 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

I'm sorry, -t. Tummy~ma.

I should be productive today since I really wasn't yesterday. I stayed in bed until 8 this morning! Read a couple chapters instead of getting up early as usual. I know better than to try and actually sleep in. I did get up and feed the animals and left the back door open for them. Then back into bed with a book. Whee!

I guess I'll do dishes now.


Jesse - Mar 03, 2019 5:49:53 am PST #5545 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh no, -t! I hope that was a one-off.

Yessss, Laura. That is a good morning!

I did some more cleaning this morning, mostly dishes and vacuuming. I have some friends coming over next weekend, so it's a little more purposeful than it might be....

I also went and got some free Allbirds, thanks to a Facebook group, and I don't like them! Partly I think this pair is a little small for me, but mostly I actually do want more structure in my shoes. So that's good to know.

Gud, I really hope you call 1-800-273-8255.


Gudanov - Mar 03, 2019 5:50:45 am PST #5546 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping

Tried to say I didn't want her isolating herself this morning, but that didn't go over well. She hit me with a remember-when-you-did-x-bad-thing and I didn't really have a good answer. I'm not sure what to do, partly I'm just fundamentally not a good person and I make mistakes which I really shouldn't.

Maybe I shouldn't be talking about this at all. I don't want to bring the board down with my own problems and failings.

Speaking of the board. I haven't been getting much (i.e. anything) done with the new board lately. New job and personal stuff has been eating up my time. There's not a ton left to do at the moment though.


-t - Mar 03, 2019 5:58:11 am PST #5547 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Gud, you are trying to do good as best you can and that is all any of us can do. I wish you could let go of this idea that you shouldn't make mistakes. Letting your wife isolate herself from the rest of the family for a bit is maybe a pretty good way forward for all of you, really.

Sent an email to everyone above me at work that I will be out tomorrow and rescheduled my dentists appointment to next week. Have successfully kept down almost half a cup of water, feeling good about that!