We’re home!
Excellent!
My plan is to have clothing north and south and only travel with pet stuff and a small travel bag.
That is such a smart idea!
Travers: Perhaps you'll favor us with a demonstration while we're here. Buffy: You mean, like, right now? 'Cause, already had my recommended daily dose of fights tonight.
'Potential'
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.
Steph L. - May 21, 2024 7:53:56 am PDT #616 of 3469
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Dana - May 21, 2024 8:04:53 am PDT #617 of 3469
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I get on a plane tomorrow, but I'm hoping I got all of my transportation woes out of the way yesterday, when an 18-year-old ran a red light and hit me as I was pulling out of the parking lot of my office. We all got lucky. No airbags deployed, no injuries except for a bit of soreness today. If I hadn't seen her coming and braked, she might have t-boned me.
Jessica - May 21, 2024 8:10:42 am PDT #618 of 3469
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I have never been especially good at finding people to hang out with on a one-on-one basis, as I find socializing in groups less awkward than socializing one-on-one, but trying it at almost fifty is even more difficult than it was when I was younger, and people just don't throw parties the way they used to before the pandemic.
I feel this so much. I never managed to build a local friend network up here after we moved out of Brooklyn, and then the pandemic hit, and now I've lived in Ossining for 9 years and the best I can do is "people I like whose kids are the same age as my kids and can chat with if we happen to run into each other." Some of whom would probably make excellent Actual Friends if I weren't so utterly shit at reaching out to people and making that happen! What I need is someone with social skills who can invite me to things (I had one, but she moved to a different state! Rude!)
Lisah, I'm glad you finally made it home!
JenP - May 21, 2024 9:11:26 am PDT #619 of 3469
My local network of friends (we all went to school here, and they're still most of my closest friends) is the reason I was so anxious to move back to the DC area. Honestly, if I hadn't had to, I never would have left in the first place. Cost of living sucks, but the proximity of the majority of my close friends is more than worth it... it makes my life. I just wish so many DC-istas hadn't moved away!
Lisah, that was a lot for one weekend. Glad you're home!
What I need is someone with social skills who can invite me to things (I had one, but she moved to a different state! Rude!)
Seriously. Who approved that?
David, a day steeped in memories the day after Jacqueline's memorial makes perfect sense.
We have a beautiful day here - warm and sunny after a few gloomy days, so that's nice. Even doggo doesn't begrudge the walking (only dog I've ever met who's "meh" on walking. The outdoors is for doing her business (er, most of the time?), adventure, schmadventure, says she.)
-t - May 21, 2024 9:20:58 am PDT #620 of 3469
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yikes, Dana! Glad you are okay and I certainly hope that is it for transportation related mishaps for you for quite a while!
Steph L. - May 21, 2024 9:43:34 am PDT #621 of 3469
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Dana, ugh. Glad it wasn't worse, but that still sucks.
JenP - May 21, 2024 9:54:32 am PDT #622 of 3469
Ack, Dana! So glad it was not worse.
erikaj - May 21, 2024 10:45:54 am PDT #623 of 3469
Always Anti-fascist!
Local network? What's that?(Gee, turns out hanging out because you're physically broken in some of the same ways is meh for relationship longevity.)
Karl - May 21, 2024 10:50:51 am PDT #624 of 3469
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
One package of bubble wrap for Dana, coming up.
I am also still vibrating from Saturday, more in a good way than bad. But I do want to put one thing out there to everyone who hugged me on Saturday, whether it was the first time or after long years apart: Thank you, more than I'll ever be able to express. Yes, it was a lot to take in. But it felt so *safe.* What the Empress said upthread about every hug letting her relax and unclench just a little bit more -- yeah, that was so true for me. (Aims, you're incredible and I love you so much.)
Which meant that I got home and bawled my eyes out for a couple of hours, of course. But that catharsis had been stuck in my chest for months. The 2020s have been a lot for me, y'all. But at least I still have my fierce, sweet Buffistas.
meara - May 21, 2024 11:04:58 am PDT #625 of 3469
Plei getting me to Ballard might be difficult, but I am willing to do it on occasion! Especially if you manage to pirate that show I was telling you about....
Glad everyone is managing to eventually get home!
Gotta go look up Nilly's link to add more photos. Hoping someone has more full-length photos, I mostly have selfies! (LOL looks like I duplicated--someone had already uploaded the photos I posted to Facebook)