We found a bunch of mine, mostly rattling around at the bottom of my mom's jewelry boxes. I did not have any urge to hang on to them.
Anya: Are you stupid or something? Giles: Allow me to answer that question with a firing.
'Sleeper'
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.
brenda m - Jan 10, 2012 12:55:46 pm PST #15527 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Atropa - Jan 10, 2012 12:59:08 pm PST #15528 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I should ask Dad if he's run across them. I didn't go through all the jewelry boxes. We did find my childhood immunization book, though.
Connie Neil - Jan 10, 2012 12:59:42 pm PST #15529 of 30001
brillig
I found a long braid of my hair when we went through my mother's stuff. I was kind of touched that she'd kept that for 43 years, but old, dry hair is also kind of creepy.
Jesse - Jan 10, 2012 1:02:42 pm PST #15530 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
More proof that my dentist is awesome: He just left me a comment in FB that if I need a hole drilled in the tooth that was extracted so I can turn it into a charm, he'll do that for me.
That's so sweet.
I...might have a lock (a loc, actually) of my ex's hair somewhere. I hope I threw it away at some point, but I might not have. I took it by accident, if that helps?
DavidS - Jan 10, 2012 1:03:55 pm PST #15531 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have a lock of my first girlfriend's hair, which is a memento mori now. Death is strange. Or it lends its strangeness to the world, making simple things fill up with mortality and loss.
It's a weird old world.
t /mordant reflection
Jesse - Jan 10, 2012 1:04:10 pm PST #15532 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, but also, I would like to pat myself on the back. I was thinking that I didn't have anything to eat here, and the call of Domino's was STRONG. But I got home and discovered corn chowder in the fridge, so I'm making corn muffins (it's a theme?) and bob's your uncle.
brenda m - Jan 10, 2012 1:27:27 pm PST #15533 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Death is strange. Or it lends its strangeness to the world, making simple things fill up with mortality and loss.
Truer words.
Atropa - Jan 10, 2012 1:52:36 pm PST #15534 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Pete used to have shoulder-length hair. When he decided to shave it off, I saved it.
With all of that in mind, I really shouldn't feel uncomfortable about talking to Dad about wanting some of Mom's ashes, should I? And yet, I do. I don't know how to have that conversation with him.
(When I do finally bring myself to have that conversation, I'm planning on getting this reliquary locket to keep the ashes in.)
Liese S. - Jan 10, 2012 1:57:12 pm PST #15535 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Where is that envelope from October? Who is this Cornell person? What kind of transaction number is 1076? October was not that long ago! I have all the envelopes for the surrounding transactions! Where are you, envelope? Auuugh!
§ ita § - Jan 10, 2012 2:05:45 pm PST #15536 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My mother is begging us to let her throw our teenager stuff out. So far I won't let her, but I doubt she'll pay attention to my wishes for long.