According to this week's Economist, people are, on average, least happy at 46, and then they get happier over time.
I was looking forward to 45 a lot, but now I'm pretty sure 46 is going to be a hell of a lot happier.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Dec 18, 2010 1:04:10 pm PST #12011 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Sue - Dec 18, 2010 1:13:27 pm PST #12012 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I am so pooped from my productive day that I don't really feel like going to the two parties I have to go to. But running around today was to free up my evening...
meara - Dec 18, 2010 1:20:03 pm PST #12013 of 30001
I went to the post office and mailed shit! Yay! (...of course, it was a madhouse, and I didn't realize until I hit the front of the line that I'd grabbed the wrong box, and it wasn't flat rate, but that only cost me about $5 extra).
I also today have: gotten waxed, gotten a pedicure, bought my dad's present, burned CDs for my BIL to go with his iTunes gift card, and gone to the library.
...now I kinda want to just sit around.
sumi - Dec 18, 2010 1:22:27 pm PST #12014 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
I have had a very lazy day. The only slightly productive thing I've done (and am still doing) is working on untangling the skein of sock yarn that I've been untangling since sometime Thursday night. I'm not sure that it's getting better.. . it may actually be worse.
Liese S. - Dec 18, 2010 1:29:19 pm PST #12015 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, yeah, I totally get mistaken for lesbian all the time, but that's not a particular surprise since I am pretty comfortable going for androgyny in my look. The best bit was at an Indigo Girls concert where not only did I look like half of a lesbian couple, but I looked like half of a lesbian couple where the other girl was the hottest girl in the place. That was an interesting friendship, I tell you what, and despite the fact that she really did fill the cliche of the blonde girl sleeping her way to the top of the company, she was a really intelligent, interesting person. But not gay, as she asserted at the concert. Hee.
I get mistaken for part of a couple at a lot of shows with a lot of different people over the years, because the SO doesn't really love concert-going and I do, so I go with all sorts of different people.
Anyway. What I came to post was: First attempt at wreath on flickr. It's kinda wonky, but looks reasonable from a distance. And laundry in and dishes in, so I'm doing pretty good. The Biscuit is here to inform me that the next task on my list is feeding him.
Lee - Dec 18, 2010 1:31:50 pm PST #12016 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I stopped being productive, in favor of a nap, but now hair dye has been applied, though I still need to wash it out.
Strix - Dec 18, 2010 1:47:02 pm PST #12017 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I took the first nap I've taken in a LOOONG time. I think I might feel a bit under the weather,
Liese S. - Dec 18, 2010 2:03:32 pm PST #12018 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I dunno. The swag didn't come out that great. It looks kinda ridiculous. And I cut my finger with the kitchen scissors. Yeah, Martha doesn't have to worry about me.
Scrappy - Dec 18, 2010 2:17:58 pm PST #12019 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
IMO, Swags are hard to do well.
Consuela - Dec 18, 2010 2:23:17 pm PST #12020 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I went to the museum, and the Pixar exhibit is very cool. Bumped into one of my old bosses and bored him to death by complaining at length about the hiring process and reorganization we are suffering through since he left.
And now home again, crashed on futon. Nobody better make me move or anything for the next 30 hours.