Where's the praising and extolling of my virtues? Where's the love?

Host ,'Not Fade Away'


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.


amyparker - Mar 21, 2021 11:36:26 am PDT #4738 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

All of the packing material is broken down; most of it can be recycled, though I'm hoping someone will take the cardboard for their garden and the other stuff for moving so I don't have to haul it down two flights.


-t - Mar 21, 2021 11:38:53 am PDT #4739 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Zombies is taking keeping-stuff-you-don't-need too far

dcp, my mother's Christmas cactus bloomed for Mother's Day for several years, IIRC we put it down to moving it across the country and confusing it. When it actually did bloom in December it was quite a treat!


Steph L. - Mar 21, 2021 12:09:24 pm PDT #4740 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I just wanted to take the weedeater out to get some of the weird stuff that grew too tall, and it's turned into a 2-hour saga of "I don't know if there's anything special we need to do with the batteries when you use the weedeater for the first time after the winter; let me spend 40 minutes googling to find out" and "I don't actually know if we need more weedeater string, but let me spend half an hour looking to see if I bought any last year" and "Well, that's stuff you really should mow rather than use the weedeater for."

Yeah, no. *I* am the one who does the yard work, so if I want to use the goddamn weedeater instead of the mower, I will. If you think the mower should be used, then YOU FUCKING DO IT OH WAIT YOU CAN'T. Also, I don't care about the batteries; this is fucking ridiculous. It's going to take me 10 minutes to do the actual weedeating, and the run-up has been TWO FUCKING HOURS.

Oh, wait, he just said "We could take a walk." NO TIM WE CAN'T I HAVE YARD WORK TO DO WHAT IS WRONG IN YOUR HEAD???


amyparker - Mar 21, 2021 12:23:07 pm PDT #4741 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

{offers Teppy a fistbump of "It needs to be elsewhere for two days, the living room is fine, we do not need to find 'the right spot' for your blood pressure cuff or that box of business cards you've been saying you were going to scan for two years" solidarity}


Dana - Mar 21, 2021 12:34:58 pm PDT #4742 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I salute you from "Can we just spend ten minutes tidying something rather than spending four hours tackling the entire task, which of course requires cleaning the dust mop so we can use it, because ten minutes from now I'm going to regret bringing it up?"


Atropa - Mar 21, 2021 12:41:12 pm PDT #4743 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

And it ends up in a pile, sitting there, not being purged at all.

Oh look, it's our house.


Steph L. - Mar 21, 2021 12:44:59 pm PDT #4744 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I have weed-eaten. It took 10 minutes. The battery was fine. My husband lives.


Steph L. - Mar 21, 2021 12:46:46 pm PDT #4745 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

God, I really *am* weak and tired after Covid. The weed eater is light, but my arms are shaking so hard right now. This post-Covid bullshit is indeed the bullshittiest.


Sheryl - Mar 21, 2021 1:43:35 pm PDT #4746 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Tired and cranky this morning.(It doesn't help that Mr. S has been annoying for most of the day.) Went to the local kosher supermarket for Passover stuff for us and for my MIL. Tomorrow is my telework day, and I will be running my MIL's stuff to her house at some point. Whee.


Cass - Mar 21, 2021 2:13:46 pm PDT #4747 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

In my experience, the post-Covid is the bullshitiest. Just in the weak, tired and brain fog symptoms, not even taking into consideration the hyponatremia and seizures. Maybe the brain fog is hyponatremia, I am not sure. But it sucks.

And it ends up in a pile, sitting there, not being purged at all.
Oh look, it's our house.
And mine. Ugh.

I have a "Bag for Seattle" but I don't think it's ever making it to Seattle. I'm hoping it makes it to the good resaler / womens' shelter which is the pile it currently lives in.