Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.

Mal ,'The Message'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Liese S. - Feb 17, 2010 7:13:54 pm PST #9067 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Maybe it's LA?

It must be West Coast, because I have the cranky too. He's sick, and I would be admitting I was too if he weren't. But he is, so I'm up late working and feeling sinusy and headachey and cranky. I woke up with a headache, which I hate. And it hasn't really gone away all day. I thought it was menstrual related, but I think no now.


megan walker - Feb 17, 2010 7:14:32 pm PST #9068 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

FYI for everyone I've sent recipes to: I have a 6-qt slow cooker so you may have to downscale some recipes. I know for the corned beef everything only just fits in mine.


megan walker - Feb 17, 2010 7:15:36 pm PST #9069 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

It must be West Coast, because I have the cranky too.

Did I mention I had ricotta on bread for dinner? Something's clearly wrong.

Maybe it's Olympic fever.


Kat - Feb 17, 2010 7:16:15 pm PST #9070 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I have a headache that has LA written all over it. Well, LA and crappy poorly planned lessons that I'm pulling out of my butt.


Burrell - Feb 17, 2010 7:17:09 pm PST #9071 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

thank you, megan. I shall have to try out some new recipes.

As for a social life, I'd like it if more of mine was less focused on my kids.


Liese S. - Feb 17, 2010 7:21:31 pm PST #9072 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, I think we have the opposite problem, Burrell. We don't have kids and pretty much everyone in our demographic does, so we just don't have people to hang with because their social lives do revolve around their kids.

In fact, we kinda went from hanging out with singles (we were more or less the first married out of our group) to couples before they had kids to now empty nesters. Which, okay, he's 40 and I'm 34, but we're not empty nesters. So, it's weird. It means we mostly hang with people who are not our demographic. Like his two buddies, who are early twenties, just out of school, single, trying to figure out their future. We're good mentors for people like that, but it's a different social dynamic.

I kinda relate to the whole Marshall/Lily couples dating thing. Sadly. Although now that I think about it, I probably relate to Lily way more than is good.

(eta: Anyway. I'm going to check on the SO and take a Midol and stoke the fire and watch Leverage. So I should be feeling marginally better shortly.)


§ ita § - Feb 17, 2010 7:25:40 pm PST #9073 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Leverage is ♥ tonight. Great way to wrap up a season and leave you hungry for more.

I hope you feel better.


Amy - Feb 17, 2010 7:25:43 pm PST #9074 of 30001
Because books.

Liese, I totally miss that "just drop in and hang out" thing.

We stayed in the town we went to high school in after we got married, and a lot of friends did, too. Even after we had Jake, friends would show up on a Saturday afternoon, or we could decide last minute to go to the mall, and just hang around on a Friday night watching X-Files and having a beer.

I miss that desperately, I really do.


-t - Feb 17, 2010 7:26:41 pm PST #9075 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Thanks, megan!

My crankiness is low-level, but my introversion is high.

Oh, man, Olympics. Ouch.


megan walker - Feb 17, 2010 7:28:23 pm PST #9076 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Your crockpot (slowly) brings all the lurkers to the board?

I think I may have to tag this, despite the earworm.