Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this. You'll use up all the air!

Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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.


Kat - Dec 27, 2012 2:18:53 pm PST #5746 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Yellow is cheery! I say maybe!

I have an astronomically bad headache but not a migraine. Just a tired of everything headache.


Jesse - Dec 27, 2012 2:20:49 pm PST #5747 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I say maybe!

Me too! It's this: [link] Mostly it seems weird because I spent $200 on the sofa in the first place. And what if I get a new cat who is also scratchy! It's not like that's a rare trait.


Kat - Dec 27, 2012 2:24:06 pm PST #5748 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Hmmm... It does seem pricey for a couch that began cheap. I'd happily send you our cat (no really) but he's an outdoor one and long haired to boot. There is nothing that recommends him, frankly.


Jesse - Dec 27, 2012 2:28:15 pm PST #5749 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm just going to wait. There seems to be a decent supply on eBay, and custom ones aren't that much more expensive, so it's not an emergency, even though the sofa has been discontinued for a couple of years.


Steph L. - Dec 27, 2012 2:48:28 pm PST #5750 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Shrieking things inside your head should be sufficient, but actually saying the words into the air and the ear of another person is so much different. And harder.

Is this where I admit -- quite shamefully -- that, because of *his side only* of a phone conversation with his dad,* that I thought Tim might propose on or around Christmas, but he didn't, and so I was ridiculously crushed yesterday? Because I was. A lot.

*(The key part of Tim's side of the conversation was "No, I really want Steph to have it." And I assumed he was talking about his mom's wedding ring, because I am self-centered. But what else could it have been? The Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy DVD that he gave me for Christmas? [Which I was thrilled to get, actually.] Because that would just be a weird conversation for him to have with his dad.

But what it comes down to is that I don't want to admit I overheard his conversation and then made assumptions based on that and am now crushed because my assumptions were erroneous. Because I feel silly.)

t edit I'm pretty sure I'm one Kate Hudson away from the plot of a bad movie.

t edit again Saying that here doesn't actually make me feel better, but at least it's not confined just to the inside of my head.


Juliebird - Dec 27, 2012 2:50:46 pm PST #5751 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

So mum wanted a rasta hat for Christmas, but I didn't find that out until too late (and wasted too much time in every department store and the two Gondwana's near their house searching for something remotely similar. Earflap hunters caps are the new thing now, it seems).

So I found this

[link]

But it seems to be all in charcoal grey, and I want variety (or at least burgundy), and a certainty that the hat has volume when not stuffed full of dreds.


Scrappy - Dec 27, 2012 2:52:56 pm PST #5752 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

That's disappointing, Tep! I mean, we all know the guy is going to propose, but the waiting around can get tedious.


shrift - Dec 27, 2012 2:59:19 pm PST #5753 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I got home and my husband had gotten a buzzcut

At least he waited until after the interviews? Yeah, I got nothing.

I was mildly grumpy today, but mostly industrious. The only other person on my team at work today told me that I was the last person left in the office on his way out the door at 5. So I went home.

I had to order a new monitor because mine was dying, and now that I've set it all up? Jesus, suddenly everything's bright and I can SEE.


Jesse - Dec 27, 2012 2:59:36 pm PST #5754 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm pretty sure I'm one Kate Hudson away from the plot of a bad movie.

There needs to be way more madcap shenanigans -- in addition to the Kate Hudson. Did you by chance cut one finger off your glove in case he did it outside? If not, I think you're good.


bon bon - Dec 27, 2012 3:00:23 pm PST #5755 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

There's at least a couple more good holidays before the " hey, so are we gonna get married or what?!" convo seems necessary. Worked for me!