smonster, may you get a day that serves you well, whatever that may be today.
Laura, that's a relief. Continued good luck to B for staying clear.
Jesse! Happy, Happy Birthday to you!! And a fabulous year ahead.
Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.
Riley ,'Help'
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.
JenP - Dec 26, 2023 7:09:35 am PST #27647 of 30000
Consuela - Dec 26, 2023 8:22:08 am PST #27648 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Happy birthday, Jesse!
-t - Dec 26, 2023 9:11:28 am PST #27649 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 Jesse, Theo and Rayne!
I am one of 5 people in the office today. Eerily quiet. I probably wouldn't have come in myself except I left my laptop here over the weekend.
msbelle - Dec 26, 2023 11:35:06 am PST #27650 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Not many people in our whole office today, but all of my division is in, so I’m getting some work done.
What I really want to be doing is planning out my 2024 vacation days. Thus far I’ve got in one google flight alert set and moved prospective big vacation dates from Sept to Oct due to Olympics and paraolympics.
DavidS - Dec 26, 2023 12:02:04 pm PST #27651 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
This morning brought the procurement of a new box of dishwasher pods, so I'm slowly beginning to clean up the kitchen, with a slight detour to feed Matilda and me the world's most posh breakfast sandwich (filet mignon and egg on English Muffin).
Matilda and I went out for ramen in Japantown last night, and then saw The Boy and the Heron. It was a good Xmas left turn from past traditions, leaning into our mutual love of Japantown and Miyazaki, after we were left alone and feeling JZ's absence in the house and the holiday.
(Though Matilda's first comment after the movie was, "Dammit! Why is every story a dead mom story!")
Wishing good health for all in The Lost Week (between Xmas and NYE).
-t - Dec 26, 2023 12:22:02 pm PST #27652 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
A few more people have come in since, but it is still very quiet.
Ooh, vacations! I have a vacation planned for Feb (time off on the official calendar, flights booked, place to stay, the whole nine yards), still considering taking some vacation time to see the eclipse in April, and also mulling over when to do my month of train travel.
erikaj - Dec 26, 2023 12:25:47 pm PST #27653 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
It's a whole symbolic thing, based on, well, the breakdown of old patterns, like you are talking about.(Although I can appreciate Matilda not wanting to take on those resonances right at this particular instant, though. Don't get me wrong.) as a crime-fiction buff, though, I know more about Tragic Man-pain, though not from direct experience.
-t - Dec 26, 2023 12:51:45 pm PST #27654 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I should go see The Boy and the Heron. I don't know that I've ever seen Miyazaki on the big screen
Jesse - Dec 26, 2023 2:13:01 pm PST #27655 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Thanks for the birthday happies! And HBD to Theo and Rayne, too!
(Though Matilda's first comment after the movie was, "Dammit! Why is every story a dead mom story!")
I saw Fun Home (a dead dad story) literally three days after my father died, and was I ever relieved that the point of that show was that the dad sucked.
erikaj - Dec 26, 2023 3:37:58 pm PST #27656 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, I could see that.