I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.

Willow ,'First Date'


Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Trudy Booth - May 18, 2009 7:08:16 am PDT #10056 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

It occurs to me that maybe part of the reason Vortex's Mom is being so difficult because she's NGA for the first time in however long.

Yeah, you're really missing out on the other person's random mood swings, bizarre demands, strange sleeping habits, strange eating habits, fights about money...and that's just in a healthy relationship.

I get a lot of that from the roommates and don't get to have sex with either one of them.


Connie Neil - May 18, 2009 7:31:23 am PDT #10057 of 30000
brillig

Hubby thanks all of you lonely Buffistas for the hugs he's been getting, and he wishes you all congenial companionship. It's not been the smoothest or most rewarding relationship, but I can't imagine my life without my Grateful Dead/Viking death metal-loving guy.


tommyrot - May 18, 2009 7:39:01 am PDT #10058 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

strange sleeping habits

My cat insists on sleeping on my arm and hand when I sleep on my side. When I sleep on my stomach she insists on sleeping on my back.

Good thing she's not a big cat.


Calli - May 18, 2009 7:43:31 am PDT #10059 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

My cat insists on sleeping on my arm and hand when I sleep on my side. When I sleep on my stomach she insists on sleeping on my back.

My cat does the former. He doesn't do the latter because I start giggling when he tries, and then he has to go off and fish the used kleenex out of the trash in revenge.


Sean K - May 18, 2009 7:58:13 am PDT #10060 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I honestly thought it was all a lie, a deception, something people are telling themselves to feel less alone in this world.

I know love exists, in the form of caring about other people.

But whether romantic love exists? Maybe. Maybe not. Whether people are lying to themselves or not, I'm not going to fault anyone for wanting to feel less alone in the world.

Which is all to say, thanks Shir.

And everybody else.


omnis_audis - May 18, 2009 8:01:23 am PDT #10061 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Good thing she's not a big cat.
Incentive to NOT feed her table scraps. I catsat for a friend who had a pair of Manx, one had to weigh 20 pounds easy, and looked like a grey barrel. He loved to wake you in the morning by jumping on the bed (which would make you think it was an earthquake) then proceed to walk up your body and sit on your stomach/chest. As if to say, feed me, or I will stop you from breathing.

I wanna COMM Raq's comment, but don't want Sean to think we are laughing at his situation.

But on Raq's note, it's true. There are times when I think, sometimes its good to be alone. Having my choice of what to watch/listen to, wear or not wear what I want, can really help diffuse the stress from work. Not to say some cuddling or a roll in the hay wouldn't help too, but alone time is a very valuable thing.


Connie Neil - May 18, 2009 8:02:42 am PDT #10062 of 30000
brillig

Romantic love=addiction, to my mind. I don't think the higher elements of the brain are involve at all. Maybe it's all just pheremones. Maybe I had a weird cold when I met Hubby and he just smelled really good so I dragged him back to my lair and I kept him.

"In love" looks a lot like madness at this end of the life experience spectrum. I haven't gotten all giddy and giggly over Hubby in decades. But he's an inextricable portion of my life. It'd be like ripping off half of the letter A and expecting it to stand upright, if I lost him.


Shir - May 18, 2009 8:07:29 am PDT #10063 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

"In love" looks a lot like madness at this end of the life experience spectrum

Exactly my point. And yet, I'm the odd one when saying this is not what I want.

Why, world?

Edit: spelling.


Jessica - May 18, 2009 8:09:22 am PDT #10064 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Romantic love exists, but it's not what keeps a marriage going. You have to want to stay together even when you're not in love. (Which comes and goes.)


Connie Neil - May 18, 2009 8:20:13 am PDT #10065 of 30000
brillig

What I would miss most with Hubby is the ongoing conversation. We can say things with partial words that it would take others 20 minutes to say. We've developed tri-lingual puns and use quotes from shows we saw 20 years ago. Our friends will say, "Ignore them, they're speaking Neilish."

Also, customers shouldn't come in and open a chat with "I have a few issues." It just makes me laugh at them.