Grief is unpredictable and DUMB, y'all. Do not recommend.
AGREED.
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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 - Dec 11, 2020 12:40:27 pm PST #947 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sheryl - Dec 11, 2020 1:19:31 pm PST #948 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
{{{JZ}}}
sj - Dec 11, 2020 1:54:25 pm PST #949 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
My honorary aunt and uncle both have Covid. My Aunt J is my mother’s oldest friend in the world who she has known since kindergarten. She’s known my Uncle P since high school. Aunt J seems to be doing okay, but Uncle P was already in the hospital about a month ago with heart problems and he is back in the hospital now because his oxygen got so low that he had a heart attack. They are truly two of the kindest people I know. Any ~ma you can spare.
Jesse - Dec 11, 2020 2:01:12 pm PST #950 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh no -- best wishes to them.
amych - Dec 11, 2020 2:20:47 pm PST #951 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
{{JZ}} {{sj}} {{Buffistas in general because fuck it everyone gets safe hugs right now}}
Nora Deirdre - Dec 11, 2020 2:33:16 pm PST #952 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Which gives me the opportunity, after a five minute introduction to suss the direction of my initial visit, to fix the doctor with a pleasant but firm and direct gaze, and intone, "Let's pretend for the moment that I am a woman of this specific age, with these accrued conditions, and that I AM NOT FAT. Now, how would you advise me?" Hopefully if they are impelled by patient minute limits to adhere to 'arm fell off because FAT' diagnoses, a frank moment of arrest might buy me more realistic assessment.
I just went to a new doctor - the first time since moving to Austin - and we were chatting generally about my health background and at one point she started mentioning that it would probably be good if I could get my BMI to under 30 and I literally started laughing, and was like, yeah, no. That's absolutely not happening. She looked a little confused for a minute but then just went with it.
Hugs to JZ, sj, and Shir.
Christmas stuff- we have a tree, which is nice. I think I'll be cooking Beef Wellington for Tom and me, should be a fun 3-day project (according the the Cooks Illustrated recipe I'll be using.)
I'm always down around the holidays, but this year it's weird/sucky to see, like, everyone down here with me. It almost makes me feel less sad by comparison.
JenP - Dec 11, 2020 2:48:26 pm PST #953 of 30000
Hugs to you, JZ. I totally get it, and grief is such a sucker puncher.
sj, so much health ~ma your aunt and uncle's way.
hippocampus - Dec 11, 2020 2:52:05 pm PST #954 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
blargh I have a callback on Monday for more tests. ~ma would be welcome. I hate this.
Calli - Dec 11, 2020 3:43:27 pm PST #955 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Health~ma, hippocampus.
{{JZ}}
SJ, I hope your uncle pulls through.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 11, 2020 3:50:16 pm PST #956 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
Fingers crossed for your uncle and aunt, sj.
{{{JZ}}} It's completely unpredictable. Last week I got misty-eyed over the memory of sitting in the vestibule of an Olive Garden with my dad while waiting for a relative to bring the spare key. Nevermind that I've probably eaten in that Olive Garden a dozen times since his funeral and not had that reaction.
We haven't made Christmas Eve or Christmas dinner plans yet, but I think I'm going to suggest having Mom come over to my place for the former so I can take care of all the meal details and she won't have to worry.