Oh, I read everything my mother did, and everything she bought, and she didn't seem to care, although she feels now that Clan of the Cave Bear and Erica Jong were perhaps not age appropriate...
And I myself will be wearing pink taffeta as chenille would not go with my complexion.
Giles ,'Touched'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 04, 2009 3:31:29 pm PST #23116 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
§ ita § - Dec 04, 2009 3:34:04 pm PST #23117 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There are so many battles at a wedding, I'm not surprised that people follow as much tradition as they do
I can't believe that other people make it so. When my best friend was picking music for her reception she was looking for Sinatra and his contemporaries. I reminded her that she went to high school in her eighties and didn't really like that stuff. The reception wasn't for her, she said. She had to make it for the handful of older relatives.
We totally ended up grooving to eighties music anyway, including stuff I'd just bought earlier that week. This is a woman who had a purple Dr. Seuss style cake. I think her inlaws got the message--unconvention was coming, if they hadn't picked up on her before the party. But there was just stuff she had to do their way--traditionally Italian, Jewish as she was.
Lego guns. Kinda scary. And I like guns.
-t - Dec 04, 2009 3:36:30 pm PST #23118 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm sorry about the work difficulties, Sophia. I hate that feeling, when someone else thinks you should have known that something you thought was fine was a problem. Especially at work.
Trudy Booth - Dec 04, 2009 3:40:25 pm PST #23119 of 30001
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
Sophia, that SUCKS.
Jesse - Dec 04, 2009 3:54:21 pm PST #23120 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ugh, Sophia. I'm sure you can get things worked out -- good luck.
I did tech support for my parents this afternoon, in addition to helping my father put up the lights outside. I magically found the manual for their answering machine on line, so I think it now works for the first time in like 6 months, and I took approximately a zillion scanner programs off their computer, which should help it not to suck so bad. I could still go back and do more, though. Oy.
ChiKat - Dec 04, 2009 4:12:16 pm PST #23121 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Sophia, that's horrible. I'm so sorry. And, IMO, it sounds like she's feeling insecure and taking it out on you.
Jesse - Dec 04, 2009 4:14:25 pm PST #23122 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I had to tell my parents they have old people's computer problems -- they click on every damn thing that pops up saying it will fix things.
ChiKat - Dec 04, 2009 4:16:11 pm PST #23123 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
old people's computer problems
Ha!
I just finished watching the most recent Criminal Minds. Tore me up.
Jesse - Dec 04, 2009 4:19:47 pm PST #23124 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's true, though! My mother pointed out she doesn't have room to learn all this new stuff, which is fair. (And frankly, if my mother's going to take senior discounts, I figure I can call her old...)
beth b - Dec 04, 2009 4:21:42 pm PST #23125 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Do libraries just let kids borrow anything?
yup.
and there was a very long post her, but the jist. Libraries are not trying to hide what your children are reading from you. But I won't tell you much over the phone.
Do you know how many kids aren't allowed to read non-school books durrng the school year?