Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

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, 2014 5:18:27 pm PST #16894 of 30000
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

You guys, I just ordered a whole second dinner from Jimmy John's because on the way home from the vet I treated myself to a large McD's diet coke and on the way in the door had a CATASTROPHE and flipped the whole thing over on the bathroom floor.

I'll eat the sandwich for lunch tomorrow.


amych - Jan 10, 2014 5:19:07 pm PST #16895 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Super yummy Indian takeout as we both work late and listen to 70s outlaw country.


-t - Jan 10, 2014 5:23:12 pm PST #16896 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Totally justified, brenda.


msbelle - Jan 10, 2014 5:24:18 pm PST #16897 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Totally justified, brenda.

I might have just ordered a cake.


-t - Jan 10, 2014 5:25:31 pm PST #16898 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Cake is always good.

I am here to validate your choices, buffistas.


Steph L. - Jan 10, 2014 5:30:14 pm PST #16899 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I might have just ordered a cake.

I don't know if you can still do this, but back in the day when I worked at McDonald's in high school, you could buy a birthday cake to take home, as long as there was one available and there were no parties scheduled. Not bad cake, either.


Consuela - Jan 10, 2014 5:46:50 pm PST #16900 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Dang, roasted fennel is hella good.

Oooh, that's an idea.

For dinner, I made a big salad (kale, chard, fennel, red cabbage, sweet red pepper, chickpeas, dried cranberries, and walnuts, with a tahini-honey-cider-vinegar dressing), and also ate a chicken sausage for protein. And now I'm finishing the last of my TJ's chocolate-covered almonds. NOM.

This almost makes up for all the potato chips I ate at book club last night. Almost.

Spending the evening reading through this awesome series of posts about Bruce Springsteen. Lots of stuff I didn't know here...


aurelia - Jan 10, 2014 8:33:06 pm PST #16901 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Wow. [link] I can't even finish replacing the sisal on the cat trees I do have.


Scrappy - Jan 10, 2014 9:04:13 pm PST #16902 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I had my yearly review today and got promoted (I'm now Director of HR) and a 10% raise! I'm really glad my last company fired me.


Consuela - Jan 10, 2014 9:09:00 pm PST #16903 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Yay, Scrappy! Congratulations, and no doubt well-deserved.