ca-lie-a-pea
This one. She's one of the muses.
No, no, no, sir. No more chick pit for you. Come on.
Riley ,'Lessons'
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.
Sean K - May 21, 2009 9:18:49 pm PDT #10550 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
WindSparrow - May 21, 2009 9:19:00 pm PDT #10551 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
ca-lie-a-pea
This is how it sounds in my head.
Waves hello at Kalliope, no matter how her family says it.
Beverly - May 21, 2009 9:42:42 pm PDT #10552 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Ginger, clean five year mark is a fantastic thing.
Continued pain with no diagnosis is a gigantic PITA, and I wish you resolution and alleviation. SOMEbody has to have an answer. Somebody you don't have to pay buckets of insurance money you don't have.
Kalliope is a gorgeous name, for an inevitably gorgeous girl.
erin_obscure - May 22, 2009 3:23:32 am PDT #10553 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
I just discovered "group accupuncture" which isn't nearly as creepy as it sounds and allows me to get regular needling, which helps lots with the chronic pain, without having to deal with insurance or high fees. I am loving it. All the acupuncturists are fully trained and liscensed, but the treatment (fully clothed) happens in a large room with lots of recliners.
Since with acupuncture you are paying as much for the time spent lying on a table full of pins as you are for the actual time spent putting them in and taking them out...it makes the process WAAAAAY cheaper. Like $10 to $30 per visit instead of $80 to $150. Dunno how common this is in other parts of the globe, but it's catching on quite nicely in Portland.
eta: one major con is sometimes other patients in the room fall asleep and snore, which is super annoying. Some ppl bring earplugs, allegedly.
Anne W. - May 22, 2009 3:32:15 am PDT #10554 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Gronk. Second night in a row with 3 hours sleep.
Work today is going to be fun
d - May 22, 2009 3:49:41 am PDT #10555 of 30000
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
erin_o what I wouldn't give for fees like that! Mine is $110/visit. At least I get to lie there for about an hour, but still.
Welcome to the world, Kalliope.
Gris - May 22, 2009 3:51:13 am PDT #10556 of 30000
Hey. New board.
Can you not get the salad at Olive Garden sans parmesan? I mean, it's the world's most boring house salad (at least if you take off the big black olives) and it's usually way over-dressed, but I mean... it's salad.
And I'm surprised that all of their pasta has eggs. Or is it the sauces that are all unvegan?
smonster - May 22, 2009 4:22:00 am PDT #10557 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Probable post n run:
Hiya, Kalliope! May you truly be an inspiration.
Hil, not that I'm vegan, but that's one more reason for me to loathe Olive Garden. The other reason being that I've eaten their food twice and gotten sick both times.
Ginger, I wish I had a magic cure to suggest.
La la la, it's Friday.
Tom Scola - May 22, 2009 4:30:28 am PDT #10558 of 30000
hwæt
Olive Garden isn't an Italian restaurant, it's a parody of an Italian restaurant. The only thing missing was the organ grinder and monkey.
Trudy Booth - May 22, 2009 4:42:20 am PDT #10559 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
ca-lie-a-pea
This one. She's one of the muses.
This was my belief as well! However, over in Natter Flea just said:
Yay Kalliope! I know a 6 month old Kalliope whose father is Greek and it's pronounced the Greek way, Kall-ee-OH-pee, and she's called Popi (POPE-ee). But I think Kall-EYE-oh-pee is beautiful too.
And I'm all WHAT?!?!?!?
Olive Garden. Feh. I belonged to an improv group that liked having their meetings there. And it was conveniently located and had a nice big table in a quiet room that we could get which is no easy trick in this city without spending a mint. It had its merits. I also thought it was kitchy fun...
It turned out that half of us thought it was kitchy fun but half of us ACTUALLY LOVED THE FOOD. It was one of the primary snob moments of my life.