Yeah, the slippery shell is missing something. Or it's the plutonium!
It's all about choices, Faith. The ones we make, and the ones we don't. Oh, and the consequences. Those are always fun.
Angelus ,'Smile Time'
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.
Jesse - Apr 17, 2021 5:54:54 pm PDT #5672 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Steph L. - Apr 17, 2021 6:06:59 pm PDT #5673 of 30000
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.
I feel like the plutonium is leaving a little bit of a funky aftertaste.
aurelia - Apr 17, 2021 7:01:35 pm PDT #5674 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
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-t - Apr 17, 2021 7:28:18 pm PDT #5675 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Aw, flea, that makes me happy!
DavidS - Apr 17, 2021 7:36:45 pm PDT #5676 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I finally did my stupid taxes and it took me as long to find the one typo that was keeping my forms from being accepted as the whole rest of the process. No, that's not fair. It took longer to find the forms in my mail pile.
Onerous task: Done and dusted!
We have sent Casper off to prom. I told her best friend that she was rocking a Buffy the Vampire Slayer style leather jacket and she said “that’s the best thing anyone has ever said to me.” Also we realized I went to high school with her aunt. I’m so glad Casper has such a good friend.
This makes me happy on multiple fronts. Yay!
Shir - Apr 17, 2021 10:58:42 pm PDT #5677 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Happy belated, ND! And health~ma to Nova, Sheryl. And general ~ma for better days for both of you.
It's the first day in Israel where the outdoors mask mandate is off (still required for indoors, even though people started to ignore this a while ago). Schools are re-opening in full capacity too. May the epidemiology and virology sciences and enforcement of masks indoors be in our favor, because common sense is not.
Laura - Apr 18, 2021 5:21:04 am PDT #5678 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
It's a double Buffista birthday celebration today. Both beth b and beekaytee were brought into this world on this day. May the day be filled with delight.
Consuela - Apr 18, 2021 8:23:51 am PDT #5679 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm incapable of meara-ing, so I'ma just say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all to whom this would apply.
Spent all day yesterday out in the central Valley with other white middle-aged ladies and lots and lots of dogs (dog agility event), came home exhausted but in possession of two qualifying scores for the dog, so that was nice. But it was 89 by 4 pm out there, and I think I'll have to find somewhere else to compete between now and October...
ION my niece R is getting married next weekend, in a tiny beach ceremony with only 9 immediate family (parents, siblings) in attendance. Except my sister M was upset that her BF was not allowed to come, and felt outnumbered by all the folks on the groom's side of the family, and therefore at the last minute I have been invited as my sister's emotional support person.
While I am happy I get to witness R's wedding to a lovely young man, the whole thing makes me uncomfortable. R is being as nice as possible but I sort of feel like my sister is strong-arming her about it all. M should have made her request sooner, and I'm quite sure that the local aunt on the other side of my family is going to be really upset that I get to attend and she doesn't.
Plus I don't have time to get a dress and will be borrowing one from M.
Bah. Must take dog for a run and then go to the office and clear out files.
Laura - Apr 18, 2021 9:38:41 am PDT #5680 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I thought it was nice and appropriate that the funeral for Prince Philip included appropriate covid protocols for distance and numbers and masking. I would not be surprised if things loosened up behind closed doors, but setting an example does matter. It varies widely from one community to another here.
Sorry for the family drama, Consuela.
amyparker - Apr 18, 2021 10:04:25 am PDT #5681 of 30000
In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next.
Consuela, I'm sorry to hear that even now, weddings are a primary source for family tsuris.
Laura, I have wondered if the Queen thought back to her mother's response to the bombing of Buckingham Palace during the Second World War and, as the political-minded person she is, chose on some level to use the funeral to reinforce the concept of the nation being undifferentiated in grief during the pandemic. She's 95 next week, and Prince Charles does not inspire affection.
It's still a hell of a lot more ceremony than my friend Maureen's mother received - she died of COVID last year and the local council was only allowing "no-contact" cremations, straight from the hospital to the crematorium, and no opportunity for a memorial service - but 30 mourners in day dress is just about as low-key as the British Royals get.