Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....

Giles ,'Chosen'


Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration

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.


DavidS - Aug 12, 2024 11:16:52 am PDT #2057 of 3462
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

This weekend I took the dogs for a 3 mile walk, changed the oil in my car, recycled the oil, did three loads of laundry and put them away, vacuumed and steam cleaned the upstairs hallway, did some computer stuff for my wife, did a couple loads of laundry, did the grocery shopping for the week, went to the hardware store (using my trike and trailer) to get salt for the water softener, cooked dinners, and fixed the squeaky drawers in the upstairs bathroom. However, I didn't do the first floor vacuuming or cleaned up the basement or got rid of the pile of empty cardboard boxes in the garage. So got some stuff done, but didn't get as much as I should have.

Whoa! Let's back up there and highlight the most important detail in your weekend work report to refute your last sentence: "did three loads of laundry and put them away..."

It is known that putting the laundry away is by far the hardest hill to climb among any household chore. How many have done the wash, even done the folding and then let it sit in piles? But not you, Gud!

I need you to go get back on the podium and accept your gold medal in chore doing and Excellence In Laundry Completion.


JenP - Aug 12, 2024 11:27:45 am PDT #2058 of 3462

Seriously. My sheets remain unfolded as does a hamper full of clean clothes from before the weekend. Ahem.


erikaj - Aug 12, 2024 11:46:47 am PDT #2059 of 3462
Always Anti-fascist!

My mother always puts stuff away, but then when she dressed as Wonder Woman for Halloween when I was a kid, I wasn't totally sure it was a costume. (Sometimes I feel weird mixture about all the stuff disability...kind of gets me off the hook for. Because, when I'm missing stuff, it sure as hell isn't laundry...well, except for the one place I lived in college where it became kind of a flashpoint for the attendants and then people put underwear in my hamper with, well...never mind. But there have been times I wanted to handle it myself, I suppose.) But I can't ever even say stuff like that, or that I'm glad that I have time to write or for political activity, without seeming like I Think The World Owes Me A Living(Does it make anyone feel better that I think it owes you one, too? Sometimes.)


Steph L. - Aug 12, 2024 1:02:06 pm PDT #2060 of 3462
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

It is known that putting the laundry away is by far the hardest hill to climb among any household chore.

Putting all the clean, folded laundry away is the dream, man.


meara - Aug 12, 2024 2:18:49 pm PDT #2061 of 3462

Yeah I am v good at doing laundry and even at folding it straight out of the dryer, but putting it away?? Nahhhhh


P.M. Marc - Aug 12, 2024 2:19:30 pm PDT #2062 of 3462
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Flat is .00

Yep. THIS IS HOW I LEARNED IT IN SPORTING EVENTS, NBC. TWO MINUTES FLAT IS NOT TWO AND A QUARTER MINUTES.

I, umm, might have learned it from horse racing. Go fig.


brenda m - Aug 12, 2024 2:25:35 pm PDT #2063 of 3462
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

IT IS LITERALLY WHAT FLAT MEANS.

Ahem.

I really try to support taxis over Lyft and Uber, but damn if they don’t make it hard.


Sheryl - Aug 12, 2024 4:44:55 pm PDT #2064 of 3462
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

We had to put our cat, Luna, to sleep last night. She was 17, and had a lot of medical problems, but it’s still hard for all of us. We were all with her until the end.


JenP - Aug 12, 2024 5:09:44 pm PDT #2065 of 3462

I'm so sorry, Sheryl.


Laura - Aug 12, 2024 6:47:50 pm PDT #2066 of 3462
Our wings are not tired.

So hard, Sheryl. I am sorry.