Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.

Buffy ,'Showtime'


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.


JenP - Dec 13, 2024 2:24:13 pm PST #4018 of 4180

Love Brenda's doormat and, thanks to flea, have been looking at Water Hog doormats. Our doormat was, I dunno, probably $20? And it's all faded and stained now after less than a year. Which, I didn't super care until flea came in with the Water Hog...

I'm every advertiser's dream. Except, I don't always but, so maybe not.

Dinner with a friend tonight, and I can't wait. You, know, the friend you get to mutually share all the good, bad, and ugly from the last month since your last dinner? Yeah, that one. And it has been A WEEK chez Jen.

You all, how can it be not even two weeks until Christmas? One of you fell down on the job, is all I'm saying.


DavidS - Dec 13, 2024 2:30:46 pm PST #4019 of 4180
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Just got a call from our insurance broker. State Farm is no longer going to insure our house, so...I have to get a new insurer by March. Fun.


megan walker - Dec 13, 2024 3:01:19 pm PST #4020 of 4180
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Just got a call from our insurance broker. State Farm is no longer going to insure our house, so...I have to get a new insurer by March. Fun.

WTF? I knew they weren't issuing new policies but I didn't realize they were dropping people.

Oddly enough, I was just on the phone with my credit union this morning since my Travelers non-owner auto insurance is going up from ~$190 for six months to $225. I mean, $30/month was already ridiculous for basic liability insurance. If my credit card doesn't come up with a decent rate, I think I'm much better off paying the daily rate to the car rental place.


erikaj - Dec 13, 2024 3:30:51 pm PST #4021 of 4180
Always Anti-fascist!

insurance is such a racket. bro hates when I say that(He's done it) but--


DavidS - Dec 13, 2024 5:11:52 pm PST #4022 of 4180
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

WTF? I knew they weren't issuing new policies but I didn't realize they were dropping people.

Technically since my building has three units it counts as an apartment complex (as far as they are concerned). And they are dropping all of those.

The Garden Apartment having its own address is nothing but a hassle! I wonder if I can get it...decomissioned or something.


JenP - Dec 14, 2024 8:23:55 am PST #4023 of 4180

I'm not decorating my house this year, so I'm decorating myself. Today I am wearing "velvet" green leggings with gold and green snowflakes with a green tunic sweater and a cheap but fun necklace of baby Christmas lights that I can switch on. No one but DH will see. But that's OK!

What's happening with everyone this weekend?


Steph L. - Dec 14, 2024 8:26:41 am PST #4024 of 4180
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

What's happening with everyone this weekend?

Today: various errands, along with finishing decorating the tree and hanging the giant wreath on the porch.

Tomorrow: finishing whatever errands didn't get done today, plus my neighborhood's Krampus walk!


JenP - Dec 14, 2024 8:38:57 am PST #4025 of 4180

Krampus walk! That sounds fantastically fun.


Steph L. - Dec 14, 2024 8:44:42 am PST #4026 of 4180
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Krampus walk! That sounds fantastically fun.

My neighborhood goes hard, and a Krampus walk is 100% on brand for us. (Tim and I are not participating as Krampuses [Krampi?]; we're just going to be spectators/cheerleaders and then join the Krampus party after the walk [the Krampus party is being held, hilariously, at a church].)


Steph L. - Dec 14, 2024 8:50:03 am PST #4027 of 4180
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I was just looking at the Facebook page for the Krampus walk, and we apparently have a guy who moved here from NOLA and is all in on the event; here's what he posted: "Sounds like great fun! Are drums welcome? I'm thinking about organizing The Mystical Krewe of Krampie. Drummers and marchers in full rigs handing out Moon Pies. I was one of two principal drummers in the Krewe of Nutria in New Orleans." AWESOME.