Or possibly find a very calm horse.
Please...Wesley...why can't I stay?
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
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.
Toddson - Feb 15, 2012 5:12:39 am PST #22049 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Jessica - Feb 15, 2012 5:12:52 am PST #22050 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
overnights with her 2 kids three nights a week (she's a nurse) for $5/hour
Jesus. That would be criminal even if it weren't, you know, actually criminal.
(Granted, most of the nannies I know are paid under the table, but at legal-except-for-the-tax-dodge-thing wages. And with contracts.)
§ ita § - Feb 15, 2012 5:18:18 am PST #22051 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't believe in a calm enough horse that will trump you evidently not knowing how to ride in any useful manner. Not one that will actually go anywhere.
Where was her groom in that scenario? Standing behind the beast? Nice.
Wait--was she marrying a human?
brenda m - Feb 15, 2012 5:21:37 am PST #22052 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
I guess I don't get the big deal. She stayed on it.
Sparky1 - Feb 15, 2012 5:30:00 am PST #22053 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Hell, you were being nice doing it off list. I might not have.
I looked up her other posts and she generally participates reasonably in the give/take of the list. So I decided to be kind.
Jesus. That would be criminal even if it weren't, you know, actually criminal.
The argument seems to be that since s/he'd be sleeping for a number of those hours, they shouldn't count. Also, she's a single mother and this is all she can afford. There are so many issues here, and I honestly sympathize, but none of it adds up to $5/hour being okay.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 15, 2012 5:33:38 am PST #22054 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think I am stuck in a minimum wage mindset where it is $3.35 an hour, and I used to get paid $2 an hour to babysit! Of course, that was in 1988.
le nubian - Feb 15, 2012 5:34:59 am PST #22055 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
understood that is all she can afford cash wise, but then why not think of a barter arrangement?
or a babysitting co-op?
§ ita § - Feb 15, 2012 5:39:09 am PST #22056 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
She stayed on it.
Isn't the priority to stay in your ceremony? Hell, if she'd tumbled off the horse and limped right back over to the officiants, that would be been on mission.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 15, 2012 5:41:08 am PST #22057 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
understood that is all she can afford cash wise, but then why not think of a barter arrangement?
I was thinking that maybe there is a nice person who wants to share her house and watch the kids. Of course, maybe finding that person on Craiglist would not be ideal
I think the sudafed might be kicking in. Somehow, now that I can breathe I am really hungry.
Topic!Cindy - Feb 15, 2012 5:55:21 am PST #22058 of 30001
What is even happening?
He looks like no other kid out there though. They run, he gallops. They shuffle, he jumps and flails his arms. They run toward the ball, he sticks out a leg at it and falls. It is painful.
msbelle, I will neither confirm nor deny that I know of a boy with similar athletic prowess, but if I did, he would, I believe, be older than Mac.
eta...
I was not, aromantic bitter single that I am...
Aromantic. Okay. I parsed that as aromatic bitter and was coming up all ita = Angostura?