Yay new house. Be gone Radon!
Please...Wesley...why can't I stay?
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
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 - Aug 23, 2021 12:37:49 pm PDT #8674 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
-t - Aug 23, 2021 12:39:54 pm PDT #8675 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
A burrito followed by an ice cream sandwich does sound like a an excellent lunch plan for many occasions
Woohoo radon mitigation, defeat the poison gas!
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 23, 2021 12:50:56 pm PDT #8676 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
Yes, as gifts with purchase of a new house go, bonus lung cancer is one of the suckier ones. Go mitigation!
Scrappy - Aug 23, 2021 1:05:34 pm PDT #8677 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Ice cream is an excellent lunch, although to have the full amount of nutrition it should have hot fudge on top.
Toddson - Aug 23, 2021 2:17:31 pm PDT #8678 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Hot fudge isn't one of my favorites, although I do appreciate chocolate chips (in coffee or mint ice cream).
Last night I tried making a kind-of DIY pizza - a flatbread, olive oil, chopped roma tomatoes, chunks of kalamata olives, shreds of fresh basil and grated mozzarella. Not bad ... and the flatbread was surprisingly good when heated in the oven.
Jessica - Aug 23, 2021 2:38:35 pm PDT #8679 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
FWUMP
Back at work after 2 weeks of vacation that was actually only about 5 days of vacation due to (in chronological order): dead hot water heater (replaced after 1 week), dead stove (replaced same day as the water heater), massive storm that knocked down all the trees/power lines (restored after 3.5 days), and BEES (still living in the wall of the house when I left).
It turns out that being the adult in charge of the 120 year-old cabin isn't nearly as relaxing as being one of the kids.
I skipped to the end but would like to add my support to those in favor of burritos and ice cream.
Laura - Aug 23, 2021 3:46:12 pm PDT #8680 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I'm sorry vacation was less than relaxing, but it sure looked pretty! I hope work is not too annoying so that you can recover from the vaca.
msbelle - Aug 23, 2021 4:12:31 pm PDT #8681 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I just helped neighbor get 2 yard waste bags full of dead tree limbs and sticks, and 3 bags of magnolia leaves picked up in prep for trash pick up Wednesday morning. Now showered and my plan is to be in bed by 9. I need to get my head in a better place.
meara - Aug 23, 2021 5:10:19 pm PDT #8682 of 30000
Geez that does not sound relaxing Jess!! Yikes.
I got no emails from my client today and I can’t figure out if the silence is good or scary. I’m leaning toward scary and possible IT issue that they would probably blame me for. Sigh.
JZ - Aug 23, 2021 7:41:56 pm PDT #8683 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
rapid meara:
Oh, Tep, I am so relieved that your dad turned out, improbably, to be a REASONABLE hallucinating gun-owner, and so sorry for all the monumental stress that preceded that resolution. Also, I fully endorse every single food item you described as a possible self-soothing/feelings-eating/culinary therapy option, and I hope you took advantage of all of them and they helped. And YAYAYAY for Tim being back on the day shift!
Ugh, Jess, you need a post-vacation vacation. Bees in the wall sounds alarming, much less bees STILL in the wall after all that.
Hooray noncarcinogenic House of Scrappy!
Gud, ITA with everyone noting that TCBITW has grown into a beautiful bride and a glowing, lovely young woman. I also TA with my husband's recommendation. You are better than this and you deserve better, and nobody should feel like admitting a fact about their emotional state to their spouse is a fatal misstep. This is 10000% on your wife, none at all on you. You've been an extraordinarily generous, devoted, giving, creative, hard-working husband and father all your adult life. You are worthy of boundless, unconditional love, not whatever this is.
Toddson, your DIY flatbread pizza sounds amazeballs.
Personal update: Working on my dad's memorial, stressing over meeting deadlines thereof and making sure that it stays small and manageable so it can actually *happen*, because if Delta causes a cancellation I don't think we'll ever be able to make a go of it. The only good thing to come out of the stress is that I'm fully back in the groove of an old coping mechanism, burying myself in gigantic-ass books. Reading intently and voraciously feels like a piece of me that went into hibernation, and I missed her. (Currently, diving into Helen Oyeyemi, Kate Atkinson and Octavia Butler and loving them all.)
Also, that personality quiz informs me I am 84% Willow Rosenberg, Tina Belcher and Will Byers and 83% Charlie from Perks, which is all quite nice, but also 81% Bran from GoT and 76% Georgiana Fucking Darcy and Buster Bluth, which HOW DARE. Also only 71% Radar O'Reilly or Chidi Anagonye, which I question. But at least only 24% Mister Wickham and 19% Gaston, so that's a relief.
eta: Also, Tom, take the class! Any photography teacher on earth would feel lucky to have you as a student.