Gracie was just happy girl today. Lots of smiles and laughing and dancing and playing. She refuses to stay still. Visiting her was the high point of my day.
Willow: Were there dolphins? Tara: Yes. Many dolphins at the pound. Willow: Was there a camel? Tara: There was the front of a camel. A half-camel.
'Selfless'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Aug 20, 2008 5:11:36 pm PDT #4541 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Kat - Aug 20, 2008 5:12:12 pm PDT #4542 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sara, the desert freaks me out. It's like, "This should all be underwater! It'd be so much prettier!"
Jesse - Aug 20, 2008 5:12:46 pm PDT #4543 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I grew up in Ohio and I LOVE the ocean.
I stand corrected!
Not an incapacitating freakout. Just a "NOT RIGHT! WRONG! TOO HIGH! BIZARRO!" mental commentary.
I had a similar reaction on a mesa in Arizona -- I could see too far, it was too flat, too brown, just Not Right.
Jesse - Aug 20, 2008 5:13:10 pm PDT #4544 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Heh, Kat.
Kat - Aug 20, 2008 5:13:41 pm PDT #4545 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Maybe there are three types of people....desert people and ocean people and a bizarro hybrid of the two?
Connie Neil - Aug 20, 2008 5:14:15 pm PDT #4546 of 10003
brillig
I didn't grow up near the ocean (Western Pennsylvania) and I adore the ocean. I haven't seen it this century.
I wonder if people in the 1900s made remarks like "Well, I haven't seen anything like that this century."
Connie Neil - Aug 20, 2008 5:15:07 pm PDT #4547 of 10003
brillig
a bizarro hybrid of the two?
I"ll take bizarro hybrid for a hundred, Alex.
Kat - Aug 20, 2008 5:15:09 pm PDT #4548 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
When it comes to the ocean, Jesse and I are one.
Jesse, did you see my fluevog black/brownish spectator pumps link?
Kat - Aug 20, 2008 5:16:22 pm PDT #4549 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
brenda, I agree that all first meals should be strawberry ice cream!
sarameg - Aug 20, 2008 5:17:36 pm PDT #4550 of 10003
Heh. I remember a college peer who grew up in NC and did a semester out west. She was all "exposed all the time" whereas I felt claustrophobic in NC unless I drove out to a treeless hilltop (and even that wasn't enough.) Desert=norm for me. Blue mountains, beige earth dotted with dusty green, sun bleached oranges and reds, that's earth to me.
The ocean thing still is weird to me. I like it. I like the sounds (and as long as it isn't fishy) the smell and rhythm. But The Horizon Is Too Tall. Will Crush Me.