Barb, ouch!
Juliana, it's on The List. And the thank-you note she sent me in February makes me smile every time I read it.
Amy, awwwwww.
My bio-mom might've been untenable, but I've had superlative surrogates throughout my life.
Kaylee: Can I? Zoe: Sure. He's out, though. Kaylee: He did this for me, once.
'Safe'
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.
javachik - Apr 14, 2009 3:52:49 pm PDT #6722 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Barb - Apr 14, 2009 3:53:03 pm PDT #6723 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
I had internal dissolving stitches with the external incision being held closed with Steri-Strips. The last of those came off over the weekend and everything looked so good, dammit-- and I SAW the freakin' doctor for my post-op checkup on MONDAY.
ARGH.
brenda m - Apr 14, 2009 5:35:37 pm PDT #6724 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Eep, Barb. I hope by morning things have resettled.
DCJensen - Apr 14, 2009 5:43:31 pm PDT #6725 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Jumping ahead to post this [link] to a picture they were talking about on NPR on my way home.
There is an abandoned schoolbook repository in Detroit where thousands, perhaps millions of books are sitting, rotting in the wind and rain and snow coming in through the broken windows.
In the top picture, if you look closely, there is a tree growing from out of a pile of books.
Poetic, yet sad.
Jessica - Apr 14, 2009 5:57:38 pm PDT #6726 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Lillian's fonder of Paul. He's more fun than I am, and less prone to retreating into his own head. But I'm the fixer of sorrow and needs, or something.
Oh yes, I resemble this remark. Dylan loves both of us, but he'll start asking for Daddy when he plays with me long before he'll do the reverse.
I was out for drinks with co-workers tonight (one is getting married this Sunday) and apparently missed Dylan giving my Baby Death doll kisses on the lips.
amych - Apr 14, 2009 6:00:22 pm PDT #6727 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
missed Dylan giving my Baby Death doll kisses on the lips.
Awww! As long as it doesn't continue for another 10-12 years or with, you know, actual Death.
DavidS - Apr 14, 2009 6:52:22 pm PDT #6728 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'll post this here rather than Movies since Aimee and Fay should see it.
I got bored watching Matilda's regular rotation of movies so I popped in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. We got to the scene where they first fly, and Draco steals Neville's remembral (glass ball thingie) and McGonigal discovers that Harry can be a seeker.
So Matilda wanted to see the flying scenes several times over while referencing Kiki's broom flying.
Matilda: Wanna see the boy with glasses.
Me: Here he is. The mean boy is taking the glass ball.
Matilda: It's a girl.
Me: No, it's Draco. He's a boy.
Matilda (confidently): It's a girl.
WindSparrow - Apr 14, 2009 7:02:42 pm PDT #6729 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.
With my mother, I felt like I had a teenaged daughter to deal with when I was 15, and in oh, so many ways, it still feels that way. I like my dad better. Of course, now it's at least partly because he can't give me any lip. But before he passed, we had a very comfortable relationship. While I was a teenager, he had started to pretty much treat me as an adult.
Fay - Apr 14, 2009 7:19:34 pm PDT #6730 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Ah, Matilda is a smart, smart kid. Bless!
beth b - Apr 14, 2009 8:02:34 pm PDT #6731 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I've been closer with my mom most of my life , but it is obvious from pictures of me as a little girl that I worshiped my dad. Interestingly , he has changed since he retired. He asks questions now. It is amazing how having him ask me questions about my diseases or the house projects - or knowing he reads my blog ( it is family friendly) has made me understand that he and I are much more alike than I ever knew. We both sit in our own heads a lot.
JZ, this is what I tell my DH -- Your dad may not have taught you how to be, but he has certainly shown you what you shouldn't be.