My therapist would be SO PROUD.
Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kind of dog.
Trick ,'First Date'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
P.M. Marc - Dec 23, 2015 5:04:28 pm PST #12072 of 30003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Kat - Dec 23, 2015 5:58:49 pm PST #12073 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Plei, I'm cosigning what Jesse says.
Steph L. - Dec 23, 2015 6:02:39 pm PST #12074 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
As am I. And way to tell her not to pull that shit on you. Go therapy!
aurelia - Dec 23, 2015 6:25:38 pm PST #12075 of 30003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Gold star for Plei.
Today while my mom and I visited my grandmother, my dad channeled his inner 10 yr old and ate so many cookies that he's sick now. That's taking "young at heart" a bit far, dad.
sarameg - Dec 23, 2015 6:26:18 pm PST #12076 of 30003
I've wrapped all gifts but a book I want to finish and the gift cards I need to allot.
Bullshitting with my brother and eldest nephew and it's kinda nice. Eldest turns 13in a couple hrs and I still feel like I can engage with him. Youngest is doing a sleepover with the rents at the hotel. SIL went to bed at 8, and it was well deserved. The narrative has... changed. It's tragic. She's pretty much in warrior mode. I'm trying to step up doing Xmas food without stepping on her toes. I won't do it right, but I'll do good enough.
Typo Boy - Dec 23, 2015 6:31:52 pm PST #12077 of 30003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Posting mostly silly things today, cause I'm trying to not to focus too much on my medical stuff, minor compared to others. I'll just say that following today's doctors visit I've made good use of something I learned long ago from the Buffistas. Hydrogen Peroxide is good at getting blood out of almost anything. Hope to be able to stop using that knowledge quite so much by tomorrow.
Typo Boy - Dec 23, 2015 6:34:13 pm PST #12078 of 30003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I will also say that long ago I formed the hypothesis that when a medical person says "there will be a little pressure now" it means "you are about to feel some pain". Nothing that happened today disproved that hypothesis.
Zenkitty - Dec 23, 2015 6:37:55 pm PST #12079 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
When a medical person says "you'll feel a pinch" it means "I am about to stab you, and also no one has ever pinched me".
Steph L. - Dec 23, 2015 6:57:54 pm PST #12080 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
That's the same scale people use when they try to convince me that a given food item is not spicy. (SPOILER: they are liars. Every time.)
meara - Dec 23, 2015 7:09:06 pm PST #12081 of 30003
Poor SIL Sara. That sounds tough.
My parents have each been super sick one at a time, the past few days--I'm guessing norovirus? So ew. We told them to stay far away. But tomorrow will be presents and dinner. Tonight I went on a tinder date (meh, but worth a shot) and then went out dancing, which was good times. But now my nose is running a bit so I'm really hoping its "I forgot my Claritin yesterday" and not "I'm getting a nasty cold in time for Christmas". Ugh.
Also sad: the one foster kid my sister had who went to college this fall. She's back under a special program where they get somewhere to stay over the holidays if they're in college. And I mean, my sister and BIL like her, she was here her whole senior year. She got a scholarship to college (not sure if it was due to grades or due to the foster kid thing?) but had to keep a certain GPA. ...apparently she signed up for 18 credit hours, skipped most of her classes, and got one B and the rest Fs. So she is going to lose the scholarship and have nowhere to live and have to get a job or join the military or something. And I feel so bad for her but also like giiiiiirl. People warned you. This was your one good shot. And it's not like "oh, it was harder than I thought and I got some Cs and just missed the GPA requirement", so...