Beth and Matt, peace and strength to your family.
Pix, I'm sorry. I remember thinking of how Petri had been the one constant in my life for the ten years he was with me.
And since I've been woefully behind, Sara, I was sorry to read about MK.
Yes. Lucky for you, people may be in danger.
Buffy ,'Him'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
aurelia - Dec 11, 2011 5:57:22 pm PST #11047 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
sarameg - Dec 11, 2011 5:57:46 pm PST #11048 of 30001
I got the ideal partner for Loki in Pumpkin. And all such a fluke. I now credit my mother, for naming her, which pretty much sealed our collective fate.
I've never had such a social/feline-friendly-playmate female cat before. She's not a lap cat, but definitely human-oriented. If go out a door, she cries. Her favorite retreat is upstairs on the chair in my bedroom, but if she's awake (and Devi isn't on the prowl) she's wherever I am. Preens and stretches for face-rubs all the time.
She's a very stretch-y cat. Her wake-ups involve at least 4 different looong stretches.
sarameg - Dec 11, 2011 5:59:29 pm PST #11049 of 30001
aurelia, thanks.
Ginger - Dec 11, 2011 6:02:29 pm PST #11050 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
the stereotypical farmer's name was Jonathan, to the point where some of the jokes just started with "Jonathan came to the store"
In the mid 19th century, the archetypal dumb yokel was a "Pike Countian," from Pike County, Missouri.
Amy - Dec 11, 2011 6:04:56 pm PST #11051 of 30001
Because books.
She's not a lap cat, but definitely human-oriented.
Once Switch was over six months old or so, he wasn't a lap cat anymore, either. But he does like to be in the same room as I am, and he does talk to me. If he's outside and I go out there, that's when he rubs all over my ankles -- I assume to tell any other creatures I belong to him? No clue.
Cortez isn't a lap cat, either, but he is a Velcro cat. He needs to be pressed up against you in some way, and will. not. move. once he's settled and comfortable.
sarameg - Dec 11, 2011 6:11:05 pm PST #11052 of 30001
First week she was here, Pumpkin LOVED to be carried like a baby. Now, NSM. But she still wants to be wherever I am (all three are passed out in the same room with me.)
aurelia - Dec 11, 2011 6:17:14 pm PST #11053 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I've been mostly absent around her due to spending two weeks in Victorian England with a miser and some ghosts and then two weeks with 4 guys in speedos in a swimming pool in Greece. My month of nearly non-stop tech ended last Thursday and it's taken me this long to catch up here (with only a little bit of skimming, and no skipping!).
ION, I decided not to return to the summer gig I've been doing for 17 years. That's going to be quite the adjustment. I think I've left some of my friends from there a bit shell shocked.
Today I just learned that my brother is dating a woman who was on the gold medal winning softball team in the Sydney Olympics. How wrong would it be of me to do some googling?
sarameg - Dec 11, 2011 6:21:05 pm PST #11054 of 30001
Not wrong.
Kat - Dec 11, 2011 6:24:20 pm PST #11055 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Not even a little wrong.
Oooh... that makes me want to google my SIL.
§ ita § - Dec 11, 2011 6:27:16 pm PST #11056 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am so irrationally averse to googling someone I might be seeing. I would probably google my sister's guy, though.
Cajun does refer a place name, just not the right place name anymore.
I do love the origin of the accent name Yat ("Where y'at?"). That one is totally unrelated to location. Any location.