Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

'Serenity'


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.


Hil R. - Jul 05, 2009 2:44:39 pm PDT #15295 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I just tried out my Wii Fit. I'm not sure I like getting that sort of judgment from a video game.

Also, it has informed me that I cannot stand still. In all those games where you're supposed to keep your center of balance within a circle, I can keep it within the circle, but it's moving all over the place within it. I have no idea how to keep it still without just tensing all my muscles, and the game keeps telling me to relax.


Laga - Jul 05, 2009 2:48:10 pm PDT #15296 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

The wii fit is kind of picky, Hil. I ignore it most of the time although sometimes I will snipe back.


Barb - Jul 05, 2009 2:54:12 pm PDT #15297 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”

The wii fit is kind of picky, Hil. I ignore it most of the time although sometimes I will snipe back.

I cuss the little bastard out. Regularly.


Laga - Jul 05, 2009 3:07:14 pm PDT #15298 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

If you exercise every day it says, "That takes real dedication, I"m impressed!" But if you miss one day it says, "Too busy to work out yesterday, eh?" It doesn't seem to have any neutral statements.


Hil R. - Jul 05, 2009 3:12:15 pm PDT #15299 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I wonder if wearing an ankle brace on one ankle will mess up the signals too much. I tried it with just bare feet this time, but my ankle started hurting a bit.

I really ought to get a battery recharger. The Wii stuff seems to just eat through them.


DavidS - Jul 05, 2009 3:16:12 pm PDT #15300 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I just spent all afternoon holding the calmest newborn I have ever met.

Newborn's are usually pretty calm. They mostly sleep. It's after all the friendly family help goes away that they start to run you ragged.


juliana - Jul 05, 2009 3:33:54 pm PDT #15301 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Aw, Kristin. I'm sorry. I'd totally hit the stores with you. Can you put off shopping until September?


sj - Jul 05, 2009 3:44:46 pm PDT #15302 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Hec, he was awake and just sitting with me peacefully. He's the opposite of his sister who cried like crazy if you were not mommy.


Hil R. - Jul 05, 2009 4:14:48 pm PDT #15303 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I need to expand my fruit palate. The past few weeks, I'm pretty much just been having blackberries, cherries, and citrus. I've bought a few peaches at the farmers market, but it annoys me that they're too hard for a long time, then ripe for about an hour, and then just mush. I need something with a better shelf life. I don't think I like raspberries. Blueberries and strawberries are OK. I know I don't like plums. I like dried apricots, but I've never tried fresh. I'm sick of apples. I like mangos, but they're expensive. What else should I try?


sarameg - Jul 05, 2009 4:21:49 pm PDT #15304 of 30000

I think the trick to peaches is to make sure you are getting local picked the day before by people who know what they are doing. Which I don't know. But I got lucky following the swarm Saturday to the vendor adverting "picked yesterday" who was giving out advice and telling people to only buy as much as they could eat in 4 days, rather that until the next FM. I've eaten 3 of the 6 peaches and each one has only gotten better.

As for other fruit, I have no clue. Except I got white apricots from TJs and I love. But I love apricots in all forms. They were big at the FM, but I already had enough.