Double delightful Buffista birthdays to celebrate today!! Sophia Brooks & monster share this date of birth. May you both be celebrated as you so richly deserve. May the year to come bring unanticipated pleasures.
Travers: Perhaps you'll favor us with a demonstration while we're here. Buffy: You mean, like, right now? 'Cause, already had my recommended daily dose of fights tonight.
'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.
Laura - Sep 21, 2023 5:25:39 am PDT #25547 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
smonster - Sep 21, 2023 7:19:38 am PDT #25548 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Thank you!! My birthday is starting off with a number of hopefully minor annoyances, and I am trying not to focus on those things. Woke up with possible pinkeye, currently missing work while at urgent care, swallowed a pill wrong so my throat is all scraped, couldn’t find my keys when they were in my pocket (a feat generally possible only while wearing dude shorts, which I am).
That kind of crap. So, breathing through it and trying not to worry that I might have to cancel my party tomorrow. I could really use a gathering of friends right now.
Happy birthday to Sophia as well!
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 21, 2023 7:39:48 am PDT #25549 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Happy Birthday Sophia!
Happy Birthday smonster! Hopefully the day will improve considerably as it progresses.
smonster - Sep 21, 2023 7:46:38 am PDT #25550 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Thank you!
Bacterial conjunctivitis, off to get eye drops. Party is a go; I am going to give people a heads up.
askye - Sep 21, 2023 8:04:12 am PDT #25551 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
Happy Birthday smonster!!!
DavidS - Sep 21, 2023 8:36:22 am PDT #25552 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Happy birthday, smonster! And quick healing.
Happy birthday, Sophia!
smonster - Sep 21, 2023 8:49:03 am PDT #25553 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Somebody please talk me into going to work? I’m taking tomorrow off and we are behind and it will be fine once I get there, I’m just feeling tired and my body feels heavy. If I stay here I will probably alternate napping and feeling sorry for myself and beating myself up.
Ye gods, task initiation and transitions are so stupid hard for me, even though I’ve restarted Adderall.
ETA I am going to eat lunch and then go. Putting on bouncy music… now.
-t - Sep 21, 2023 8:55:14 am PDT #25554 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Birthday happies smonster and Sophia!
As you might remember (I really want to use the phrase "as all the world knows" but this is not quite right for that), my department at work has been more or less continuously re-organizing for years now. Well, I got an official "offer letter" to sign yesterday for the job I have been doing since February and the title we agreed I should have in, I think, July and that I report to the boss I've had since May, so maybe we have some stability in the offing? All the other shuffling around did not have actual paperwork, just movement on the electronic org chart (and physical desk changes). I'm still halfway expecting that in a couple of months the whole company will decide to do some kind of strategy swerve and we will be tossed once more into flux, but it seems like there's a good chance that won't happen.
Incidentally, I'm told I am the only person in the department who went from being a Senior Something to being just plain Something Else with no modifier so now I am second guessing that decision a little bit, but my salary isn't changing so on the whole I don't think it matters and I can push for a promotion faster as I settle into the new role, so I do think it probably was the right move.
-t - Sep 21, 2023 8:56:03 am PDT #25555 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Bouncy Music Go wishes for you, smonster
-t - Sep 21, 2023 11:23:11 am PDT #25556 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Another important work update: I need to get more candy to put out. If I remember right I've only had to reup maybe 4 times in the last year (buying an large assorted bag at Costco, usually, or similar amounts from a drugstore or whatever) - I know the last time was what I think of as Ordinary Time when there weren't any themed assortments going, before that was Easter, before that was Valentine's Day and I think before that was only Halloween. And now there's Halloween candy available again, so that's not bad.