Thanks for the birthday wishes!
Actually, I was thinking it would be sort of like a pet. You know, we could...we could name her Trixie, or Miss Kitty Fantastico, or something.
Tara ,'Empty Places'
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.
Susan W. - Jan 01, 2023 9:01:36 pm PST #19729 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Consuela - Jan 01, 2023 11:15:08 pm PST #19730 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Happy New Year everyone and happy birthday Susan W!
Seconding the wishes for health and peace for all here: it's hard to believe how long we've all been trucking along together. May 2023 be better than the last, as the song says.
I'm back home after 4 nice but crowded days in the mountains, where it rained and we had 7 people and 5 dogs (well, 4 good dogs and one friendly tornado). Thank god it was nice today and we got out to do some snowshoeing, and I learned how to put the chains on my car.
The rain has been pretty epic and it's coming back later in the week. There have been evacuations in the Central Valley because of levee failures. It's a lot.
JenP - Jan 02, 2023 6:12:04 am PST #19731 of 30000
Oof, that is a lot of rain, Consuela. Glad you had a fun visit, though.
Today feels like a free day. I like it.
Laura - Jan 02, 2023 7:05:23 am PST #19732 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Ick on the too much rain. Stay high and dry!
How did the new year's sermon go, Susan?
JenP - Jan 02, 2023 9:37:50 am PST #19733 of 30000
Cleaned out the downstairs closet, under the kitchen sink, and gathered all the paper shopping bags to donate somewhere. Productive morning!
Now, I have lunch, and read. I'm really enjoying reading again!
My do fun things mantra for the year is, "Read, build, paint."
Build=small things, not, like furniture. Paint so far is acrylics with an online patterns course.
Susan W. - Jan 02, 2023 10:42:43 am PST #19734 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
How did the new year's sermon go, Susan?
It went well, I think--I even had one of my fellow vestry members ask me if I was discerning a call to the priesthood! (I'm definitely not. I think I enjoy preaching because it's a form of writing and storytelling, but one year into my three-year term on vestry I'm already counting down to when I'll be free of all the meetings and arguments and budget-fretting. If you're a priest that's just part of the job, and in general I think I'm too much of an introverted lone wolf type to do well in the role.)
sj - Jan 02, 2023 12:40:20 pm PST #19735 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
There’s probably no nice way of saying, I find it too icky to read a trashy romance novel written by a former teacher, but I do wish you luck in your future endeavors, is there?
Dana - Jan 02, 2023 12:53:54 pm PST #19736 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
"It's not for me, but good luck with your writing."
Or maybe, "That's not a genre I read in."
Or "I already have so many books on my TBR list that I'll never get to all of them."
Sheryl - Jan 02, 2023 2:22:57 pm PST #19737 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Back to work and school tomorrow. I need a rest from my time off.
SuziQ - Jan 02, 2023 4:43:00 pm PST #19738 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I'm heading home from the airport after picking Miss Haley up. She is visiting here for a week or so, including her EIGHTEENTH birthday.
I have missed being a part of this community and am glad to have found my way back.