OMG ded of cute: lesbian gamer wedding
Also, Jilli, there is a stripey Victorian goth bride on there! And absinthe-themed wedding!
90K is 30K more than my parents house cost. Wow.
Does anybody else miss the Mayor? 'I just want to be a big snake.'
Xander ,'End of Days'
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.
Strix - Dec 08, 2009 10:51:43 am PST #23708 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Zenkitty - Dec 08, 2009 10:57:08 am PST #23709 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
When I first read that, I thought it was $60-$90 (I missed the k!) and I still thought it was ridiculous.
Funny, I was writing up a little rant about engagement rings for LJ yesterday, but I didn't post it. I'd rather have a fake diamond than spend enough money to buy a house on a shiny rock.
Atropa - Dec 08, 2009 11:00:10 am PST #23710 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Also, Jilli, there is a stripey Victorian goth bride on there! And absinthe-themed wedding!
I know the woman who runs Offbeat Bride, and she is awesome.
§ ita § - Dec 08, 2009 11:00:27 am PST #23711 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In their world $60k didn't buy a car, much less a house. They imported the wood for the ground floor of their house from the South. It was so smooth I slept on it bare.
They lived a different life. Not sure what the economy crash and a divorce have done to them. Haven't kept up with them or the goss.
Jesse - Dec 08, 2009 11:02:50 am PST #23712 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In their world $60k didn't buy a car, much less a house.
That is the one semi-reasonable thing about pegging the cost of a ring to your salary, at least. Although I'd still say less than one month is plenty.
-t - Dec 08, 2009 11:05:01 am PST #23713 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have a diamond engagement ring. It's the one we both thought was pretty when we went to look at rings, certified conflict-free, did not cost a whole paycheck much less three months. I enjoy thinking that maybe I could use it to cut glass if I needed to. It does not come off my finger hardly at all - not for washing dishes or kneading bread or lotioning up my hands. Kinda hard to get on and off, truth be told. Engagement ring, wedding band and an amethyst ring DH gave me wen we'd known each other about two months I wear constantly, and I rarely think to put any other jewelry on.
Zenkitty - Dec 08, 2009 11:05:13 am PST #23714 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Research suggests that 45 per cent of European people have straight hair, 40 per cent have wavy hair and 15 per cent have curly hair. Studies also show that the chances of inheriting curly hair is around 90 per cent.
I have curly hair. No one else in my family does, on either side as far as I know. Evidence mounts. Come, Watson, to the family scrapbooks!
Also, I own no clothing with holiday themes of any kind, though I do have my eye on a hoodie sweatshirt with snowflakes on it.
Connie Neil - Dec 08, 2009 11:09:03 am PST #23715 of 30001
brillig
I'm the only one with curly hair, and the only one with red hair. My mother would have gotten a lot of funny looks except that I'm also the only one to have blue eyes like my father.
Strix - Dec 08, 2009 11:10:49 am PST #23716 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Damn, the internet is a small world.
It's supercute; I'm totally geeking out on that site.
Rich people live in the imaginary box in my living room. I think someone who buys a $90 bottle of wine IRL is fabulously wealthy. I just can't translate wealth into actuality. It's...the stuff of fiction to me.
My bf's ex was from a comfortable family, and she ran him into the ground with Coach bags, $500 shoes, etc. on a not-comfortable salary. I didn't really get it until a months or so ago. And he keeps just being...stunned by my low-maintenence expectations. He asked me what I wanted for Xmas, and about cried when I said an iTouch case.
Granted, would I love to go crazy with money?! HELL, YEAH! But it's stupid.
-t - Dec 08, 2009 11:12:23 am PST #23717 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have a bright purple sweatshirt with a snowman on it that I wear as if it was holiday-themed clothing. It's garish and festive, but celebrating...the holiday of Wintertime? I don't know. I also have Christmas socks (mostly because they have penguins) and Halloween socks. Probably Christmas pins and earrings, but I would have to go look to be sure, I don't make a point of wearing them. A blue snowflake necklace that DH got me because it looked vaguely Hannukah-appropriate.