Congratulations on your worst parenting ever! It's a badge to wear with pride! And now, since it took me 20 minutes to write this, I'm giving up, as I am also the worst.
We're in love. We're ... lovers. We're lesbian, gay-type lovers.
Willow ,'Potential'
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.
JZ - Aug 17, 2023 10:32:05 am PDT #24039 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Dana - Aug 17, 2023 10:32:51 am PDT #24040 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Nope, you're the best. We all voted.
shrift - Aug 17, 2023 10:36:02 am PDT #24041 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
What Dana said. We have made our ruling and it shall not be overturned.
Steph L. - Aug 17, 2023 10:38:53 am PDT #24042 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I'm giving up, as I am also the worst.
Pretty sure you need to look at your own tagline — you fuckin' rule.
sj - Aug 17, 2023 10:48:16 am PDT #24043 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
JZ, you are absolutely the best, and I promise I will wear my badge with pride!
ltc has worked her way up from 20 minutes of clean up to 40 minutes of clean up. She’s not happy, but at least she stopped doubling down.
Laura - Aug 17, 2023 10:50:27 am PDT #24044 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Nope, you're the best. We all voted.
It was unanimous!
JenP - Aug 17, 2023 10:58:40 am PDT #24045 of 30000
Indeed!
erikaj - Aug 17, 2023 11:02:37 am PDT #24046 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
See, I would like to add to the chorus, but bringing Grandma home wasn't like that. But I guess that was what our relationship was like(Up to and including putting her cremation on my credit card...don't have a family and wait till you're eighty-five to get life insurance...it isn't nice.) I guess it was something to see her without the protective carapace of makeup and bullshit in which she lived most of her life, but Larry David would have been proud: There was no hugging, and no learning. Maybe she knew if it had been sweet, I would have written about it and she didn't want to let me have it--no, probably it just took too long for us to know it was It, even though she was over ninety.
She sent me $10 a month, for about two years, because though she talked All The Time(I come by it natural) one of the things she couldn't say was "I'm sorry"--though maybe the apology might have meant more. I took the cash cause I knew that was what I got and it was kind of a backhanded acknowledgement that she wasn't...fair with me a lot of time when I was growing up. Which did help, but is a story I don't tell, either. Because I still don't think there's a children's book called "When Grandma's Not Okay," although I needed one, and it seems to say something about me that I only have one set of cute-grandma stories, and even those, well enough honest for one day.
sometimes, the postings are hard to read(in a touching way) but it feels like the least I could do to read since I can't be there.
beekaytee - Aug 17, 2023 11:03:45 am PDT #24047 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Nope, you're the best. We all voted.FACT!! Verified and cosigned.
People always get elevated when they are in distress, but I have said, more than once, that you are the best of us, JZ.
And, considering the company, that is some damn high praise.
And, just to be clear, I also say this to my people: When I say something, it is never me being nice. To be frank, I'm just not that nice.
To quote Cordelia, "Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass."
sj - Aug 17, 2023 11:06:51 am PDT #24048 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
People always get elevated when they are in distress, but I have said, more than once, that you are the best of us, JZ.
Seconding this, and I have been discussing this with others lately. JZ, you were always the best.