What Steph said.
Dana, me too and also last night. ltc and I had a huge fight about stupid stuff. She was still mad this morning, and I didn't sleep at all.
Mal: Inara, think you could stoop to being on my arm? Inara: Will you wash it first?
'Heart Of Gold'
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.
sj - Oct 16, 2023 8:00:40 am PDT #26186 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
DebetEsse - Oct 16, 2023 8:39:31 am PDT #26187 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Was up at 330 to get to the airport for what will, I hope and expect, be our last trip to the children's hospital. Fortunately, I got boarding passes for the return flight this afternoon, as well. Lap infant means you have to get them from an agent, and Honolulu is a zoo.
Much -ma to Hec, Matilda, and everyone at the funeral today, as well as Shir, Nilly, and everyone in that part of the world.
And to Atropa and everyone dealing with medical shit.
DavidS - Oct 16, 2023 8:46:13 am PDT #26188 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
If I think of it as a memorial colonoscopy, it makes it a wee bit easier. If anyone could spare some medical-procedure-ma, I'd be vey grateful.
All the medical procedure -ma, Fiona. A fine memorial.
Thank you for all the kind thoughts and love. I'm going to try to get through this without openly sobbing. Nothing wrong with sobbing, of course, but I won't have access to my box of tissues at the church.
Amy - Oct 16, 2023 9:02:35 am PDT #26189 of 30000
Because books.
Bring the box of tissues! For real.
::hugs David::
Steph L. - Oct 16, 2023 9:16:12 am PDT #26190 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Bring the box of tissues! For real.
Definitely. (For many church funerals I've attended, they also put boxes of kleenex in the pews. But just in case, bring them!)
dcp - Oct 16, 2023 9:25:44 am PDT #26191 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Box of tissues
Cotton bandana? Absorbent yet durable.
-t - Oct 16, 2023 9:43:54 am PDT #26192 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
~ma Fiona!
Echoing everyone saying bring tissues (or whatever) and don’t avoid sobbing!
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 16, 2023 9:51:55 am PDT #26193 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
David, love and support to you, Emmett, Matilda, and all who gather to mourn Jacqueline.
JenP - Oct 16, 2023 9:52:58 am PDT #26194 of 30000
David, I'm holding you and Matilda and Emmett in my heart today. I love you.
Shir and Nilly, you are still — always — in my thoughts.
Thanks for saying that perfectly, Steph.
David, may you do, be, and get exactly what you need to get through this today. We're surrounding all of you in love and support... blinvisibly and otherwise.
Laura - Oct 16, 2023 10:28:42 am PDT #26195 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I go for the cloth hankies myself. Both my parents always carried handkerchiefs so I apparently inherited the habit.
Thank you for the link so that we can be with you virtually.