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'


Goodbye and Good Riddance: Hey, at least you didn't get a Peloton. (2019)  

Take stock, reflect, butch, moan, vent. We are all here for it.


amych - Jan 19, 2020 11:16:58 am PST #128 of 140
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

(Also, I swear that one year on our way to Topsail, we'll actually stop to see the NC-istas.) (I doubt we're going to the beach this year, though, since Tim's time off is already spoken for.)

Please tell Tim to use his recovering-from-heart-surgery time off to its best benefit, because next year I will remind you again that we are -- no longer a block from the interstate, but a mile from the interstate, which oughta be close enough!


Jesse - Jan 19, 2020 3:00:01 pm PST #129 of 140
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ooh, nice house!!


Kat - Jan 19, 2020 4:00:46 pm PST #130 of 140
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Great house, Amych!


meara - Jan 19, 2020 4:48:19 pm PST #131 of 140

Ooh, I missed the house link at first--I like!! I want! ...in Seattle, it would be priced like crazy.


Beverly - Jan 19, 2020 10:54:22 pm PST #132 of 140
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Gorgeous house, amych! So much light--love that.


Calli - Jan 20, 2020 3:10:53 am PST #133 of 140
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Pretty house, amych!


EpicTangent - Jan 20, 2020 10:22:33 am PST #134 of 140
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

I literally gasped - SUCH a great house!


quester - Jan 20, 2020 3:00:59 pm PST #135 of 140
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

amyparker! so glad you finally got it, hope it wasn't too crushed!

Shiny house is truly shiny!


P.M. Marc - Jan 20, 2020 3:14:12 pm PST #136 of 140
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

So shiny! So new!


SailAweigh - Jan 31, 2020 7:50:12 am PST #137 of 140
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Very late and belated thanks to Juliana and javachick for their cards!

This month has been a little rough on me. I finally had to ask my doctor for a letter of accommodation to take to work to negotiate getting relieved of some of my duties. I started suffering severe shaking in my hands, shoulders and arms to where I couldn't even type. I stayed home from work a few days to try and deal with it on my own, but it actually got worse with the thought of going to work. After a couple weeks of on and off work, I said the hell with it and asked for the letter from my doctor. We've finally got the wording worked out the way I like, so I should have that in my hot little hand soon to take to my supervisor. And I'm going to print out all the e-mails where I asked him for help and he blew me off. Give the coffin some shape and then chuck the letter at him like it's the last nail.