No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?

Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


Jesse - Dec 30, 2015 6:20:51 pm PST #12421 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

FSA is different depending on your employer. Ours rolls over to March 1.

Good one, thank you for confirming.


Steph L. - Dec 30, 2015 6:26:15 pm PST #12422 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I love that when we hear something that could be fireworks or gunshots (my least-favorite guessing game) several people in my neighborhood will reliably post on Nextdoor. com about it. Everyone checks in with their street and we triangulate and one dude always asks, "But did you CALL THE POLICE???"

(The conclusion tonight was early NYE fireworks.)


msbelle - Dec 30, 2015 6:43:28 pm PST #12423 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

a friend just posted on fb about his daughter asking about New Year's Steve....and my brain went so quickly to OMG I WANT A NEW YEAR'S STEVE (because clearly that is Rogers).

My love of fictional people continues to be worrisome.


aurelia - Dec 30, 2015 7:15:06 pm PST #12424 of 30003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

OMG I WANT A NEW YEAR'S STEVE (because clearly that is Rogers).

Clearly! And now I want one too!

Why do I have to work tomorrow?


Burrell - Dec 30, 2015 7:17:13 pm PST #12425 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Unless it's near the 4th of July I always assume the things that sound like gunshots are gunshots, my DH always assumes its either a car backfiring or fireworks.

New Year's Steve is a great idea. He'd just go around on NYE dropping in on people to wish them a very happy new year. It'd be like Santa for grown ups.


P.M. Marc - Dec 30, 2015 7:17:50 pm PST #12426 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

Could also go with a New Year's Steve.


Calli - Dec 31, 2015 2:36:18 am PST #12427 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I would like a New Year's Steve. I'd feed him cookies and pie. I think we'd both find it soothing.


Steph L. - Dec 31, 2015 3:16:48 am PST #12428 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I would accept Steve Rogers, Stone Cold Steve Austin, or my Awesome Doctor(TM). Who is named Steve and seems like he would be fun to party with.


Jesse - Dec 31, 2015 4:10:39 am PST #12429 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

New Year's Steve sounds just right.


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 31, 2015 4:13:56 am PST #12430 of 30003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Where I lived post-college New Year's Eve fireworks WERE gunshots—idiots in Apartment City would fire their guns up at the sky! If you had to venture out at night, you carried something solid over your head as a shield.