Dear people at the airport: please stop hovering by me. Hover somewhere else.
This money, it is too much. You should have some small refund.
Niska ,'War Stories'
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.
Dana - Jan 29, 2012 5:16:39 pm PST #19034 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
sarameg - Jan 29, 2012 5:20:50 pm PST #19035 of 30001
My nephew and brother spent saturday helping clean up tornado debris. (As part of a cub scout initiative.) After which, he wanted to buy a game that was available via amazon, but not in stores. After my brother heavy-footedly explained shipping costs, nephew decided he'd wait, but wanted to spend what would be the shipping cost on teaching a kid, after what he'd been doing (? I'm not sure how he got there, but there was an earnest convo with grandma in there.) I'm sure it was a coached conversation, but still. After quizzing grandma a second time, he'd upped it to $20. I just sent my brother to donorschoose.
I'll be tickled if he goes that route.
Amy - Jan 29, 2012 5:21:34 pm PST #19036 of 30001
Because books.
I like that table a lot, Jesse. I want a new coffee table, too -- I wanted a big one for when we play games, but the one we got is actually too big. And it's IKEA, and already showing way more wear than I wanted.
Jesse - Jan 29, 2012 5:24:41 pm PST #19037 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's sweet, Sara.
Of course, I'm now totally reconsidering the notion of a black coffee table, as I sit here looking around. Or maybe I'll replace the random end table I got from some dead relative. I want all new everything! Crap.
Dana - Jan 29, 2012 5:26:33 pm PST #19038 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
AUGH mechanical delay.
SuziQ - Jan 29, 2012 5:33:50 pm PST #19039 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Most of my furniture is hand me down stuff. My couch is the newest thing I've purchased and I wish I had bought a different one. I can't justify replacing it yet.
Today is day two of the ick. I have gotten 2 load of laundry done and talked CJ through making some chicken tortilla soup (NOM). It is only 8:30 and if I could get the energy to go to my room, I'd be going to bed.
Ginger - Jan 29, 2012 5:36:56 pm PST #19040 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Poor Dana. I hope you're reprieved soon.
The only new furniture I've ever bought is bookcases and office furniture. As far as I know, the only new furniture my mother ever bought was couches. (Antique couches do not meet modern standards of comfort.) I can't pretend to be normal on the subject; as a teenager, I spent my allowance on buying antique furniture and refinishing it.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 29, 2012 5:41:09 pm PST #19041 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I am waiting on a crapload of my grandmother's furniture to be delivered to us. I am not permitted to even think about furniture until we've got that in the house. Or should I say, small apartment.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 29, 2012 5:44:53 pm PST #19042 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
§ ita § - Jan 29, 2012 5:47:30 pm PST #19043 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, I know I don't have anyone to blame but myself, but I thought I'd find out. So I changed the channel to Why Did I Get Married? and although there's no Madea it's intensely irritating, and it endorses some relationship attitudes that drive me up the wall. Batshit.
I know, but I had to know.