Maria, I'm so terribly sorry. I hope the local community is a comfort to you.
Does anybody mind if I pass out?
Willow ,'Beneath You'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
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.
amyparker - Jun 22, 2022 11:51:24 am PDT #15811 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
amyparker - Jun 22, 2022 11:53:28 am PDT #15812 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
JZ and David, I have been watching the moving travails and cheering - did you hear me? - though I am outraged/not surprised about the detritus the detritus human left in the attic. Has it all been relocated to the dump now?
Sheryl - Jun 22, 2022 1:26:17 pm PDT #15813 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Everybody's home now. Last night was a little rough with Mr. S, but we got through it. Tomorrow's back to work...
msbelle - Jun 22, 2022 3:20:22 pm PDT #15814 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
vent warning
mac started a new job yesterday. just the training week.
he has not had a job since.....end of April.
He texts me at 5 my time "I'm sick, where can I get COVID tested." he never even went to work today (work starts at 6am), but did not text me UNTIL 5!! my text to him "did you try googling COVID tests near me? also most cvs and walgreens have self-tests" - that was almost an hour ago. no response.
I SWEAR TFG. He may actually be sick, he never got a vaccine. BUT FFS. how you go all this time and not get sick and then get sick on day 2 of new job and when I am going to be there in 3 days!?!?! HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS AND even if true I AM PISSED.
Laura - Jun 22, 2022 3:32:30 pm PDT #15815 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Oh msbelle, I'm sorry that Mac is being such an irresponsible ass.
DavidS - Jun 22, 2022 4:08:34 pm PDT #15816 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
JZ and David, I have been watching the moving travails and cheering - did you hear me? - though I am outraged/not surprised about the detritus the detritus human left in the attic. Has it all been relocated to the dump now?
It has been! Our guy, Landis, spent 2.5 hours filling up his very big pickup truck and we are unburdened by their past.
I don't know if I mentioned, but I found her clippings up there (she was a local writer, he was a photographer) and you could see them slowly coming together. His nude drawings of her, and his photographs of her when he was in love, and his portfolio when his daughter was younger. All the wedding gifts tossed into the attic (like a framed drawing of their two family crests).
Then the tidbits from the eldest daughter who was obviously pretty bitter about her dad's behavior. She's the one that showed us how to go get on the roof. And there in the corner were all the cigarettes she smoked while she brooded up there, out of sight of her mother.
Just all the details of their marriage from courting and love to bitterness and trash.
Beverly - Jun 22, 2022 5:49:06 pm PDT #15817 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Beginnings of a novel, there, David. I'm glad the detritus is gone.
Sympathies to those of you in pavement-melting climes. Our heat was running night before last. Our temps are supposed to be up to spring this weekend. I have unplugged the space heater in my icebox of a bath. I have not completely removed it from the room yet, though.
Jessica and Tom and Steph and others still dealing with long covid--pushing health vibes in your direction.
Maria, I'm so sorry to hear your sad news. Peace and comfort to you and your family.
msbelle - Jun 22, 2022 6:30:37 pm PDT #15818 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
This is the safe place to freak out right? E's last response to a test was 6:30. He is also not answering calls. I've been calling for over an hour. rings and rings and goes to voicemail. When he is annoyed he will set it to go immediately to voicemail.
I texted an adult friend not far away to go check on him. Also called his one friend (are they still friends? I have no idea) that I have a number for and he has not heard from him today and he tried calling also, no answer.
the places my brain are going are all awful.
Dana - Jun 22, 2022 6:33:15 pm PDT #15819 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
If he's not feeling well, he may be asleep.
msbelle - Jun 22, 2022 6:45:31 pm PDT #15820 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
he's not dead. he was, in fact, asleep.
my thoughts in no particular order:
overdose
stopped breathing
covid heart attack
kidnapped by an uber
tried to walk to drug store and hit by car
Now to try to go to bed. I foresee awful anxiety/guilt dreams.
I swear I cannot figure out which is worse trying to parent 1000 miles away and having no answers or having him do nothing under my roof.