ita-!, maybe your body's having a stress reaction? I'm sorry.
Beth, your neighborhood sounds great.
'Day' is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. I didn't get you anything.
River ,'Out Of Gas'
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.
Calli - Nov 24, 2011 2:50:37 am PST #8254 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Cashmere - Nov 24, 2011 4:15:09 am PST #8255 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Kat, that video of Grace MELTED ME! Oof.
Happy Birthday to K!
I'm going to actually try a Black Friday outing this year for the first time ever. Because a nice friend invited me and I do have a long list of stuff to get for the kids--now that they can write their own lists. Oy.
I think I'm going to surprise DH with a Soda Stream.
Sue - Nov 24, 2011 4:18:52 am PST #8256 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Happy Turkey Day, you guys.
I have a sore elbow from shovelling, and I didn't even have a lot of shovelling to do. I'm just old. Sigh.
Jesse - Nov 24, 2011 4:43:43 am PST #8257 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You're not old, Sue! By which I mean, god willing, you have many decades of shovelling ahead of you. Sorry.
ita, maybe ask someone about that the next time you're at the hospital?
One year, my parents and I took the subway to the downtown Boston Macy's early on the Friday morning -- regular people early, not 4am or whatever -- and it was practically empty! Maybe there had been people there for the doorbusters, but I feel like it's more a suburban thing. The only people outside that store in the middle of the night live there.
Sheryl - Nov 24, 2011 4:59:36 am PST #8258 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I don't do shopping on Black Friday, at least not in the big stores. There's a convention in the Baltimore area Thanksgiving weekend that we always attend. If I'm doing any shopping, it's in the dealers' room there.
Amy - Nov 24, 2011 5:11:37 am PST #8259 of 30001
Because books.
§ ita § - Nov 24, 2011 5:14:23 am PST #8260 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I give thanks for Amy sending my brain down the zoophilia place I rescued it from a couple weeks ago.
Wait--no I don't.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 24, 2011 5:18:20 am PST #8261 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Is it zooiphilia if the animal is the one with the fetish?
Amy - Nov 24, 2011 5:20:11 am PST #8262 of 30001
Because books.
That deer was in LURVE.
Kathy A - Nov 24, 2011 5:22:32 am PST #8263 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
So when a retailer says we have o open early to get that customer dollar - I think not.
I went to Michaels yesterday to drop off my brother's Christmas present for framing, although I don't think I'll go back there for the rest of my framing after Christmas--the woman there really did a hard sell on me to use glass, claiming that glass was the only thing that would keep mattes in place. I call bullshit on that, because if the mattes start to warp and/or split like she claimed, that means they're poorly made.
Anyway, I found some ribbon for my tree (both for the tree-topper bows and for garland), and while paying for it, I was chatting with the older woman who was ringing me up. Turns out that they're open from 4-10 tonight, Thanksgiving! Ugh. I used to work there back in the early '90s, and I would have hated to work Thanksgiving night (it was bad enough when I had to do that while working at Blockbuster).