I'm so sorry, Drew. Thinking of you and your family.
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
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.
billytea - Feb 15, 2016 12:50:06 pm PST #15511 of 30003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
brenda m - Feb 15, 2016 1:08:53 pm PST #15512 of 30003
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
Incisions? I missed something. Heal well, and no bug-transmission!
lisah - Feb 15, 2016 1:35:14 pm PST #15513 of 30003
Punishingly Intricate
I'm so sorry for your loss, Drew.
Kate, I'm sad you guys didn't move here! Maybe another opportunity will come up someday. I'm not sure I know what your husband's field is but there are plenty o' universities here!
-t - Feb 15, 2016 1:43:13 pm PST #15514 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Meep, Sparky! Um, good dog. And health~ma a-plenty.
I seem to remember being told about the Pyrex mixing bowls before, or it coming up in conversation with my mother because she uses hers all the time and (at the time of the discussion, anyway) they had not appreciated enough to make replacing them worthwhile. Decade or two back, I'd guess.
Zenkitty - Feb 15, 2016 1:44:17 pm PST #15515 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Yeah, that's like my brother pointing out that the old Red Wing pottery crocks we use as garbage cans are actually worth like $500. Oops?
Oh, yes, I have a couple big crocks and bowls from the old farm that are worth some $, but I'm using them as garbage cans. Why not? Tossing paper into them isn't going to harm them, and someday when they're worth $$$, I may need that money!
meara - Feb 15, 2016 2:00:28 pm PST #15516 of 30003
I don't think my mom has anything that is secretly valuable. Not-so-secretly tacky, perhaps. Does 30 year old Tupperware count?
I feel like I was punched by a tiny fist, in my side. I suspect it may be my gallbladder?? It seems to be located around there. But it feels more like muscle pain or a bruise. Except it's not?
P.M. Marc - Feb 15, 2016 2:12:22 pm PST #15517 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
I am sorry, Drew.
Sparky1 - Feb 15, 2016 2:16:06 pm PST #15518 of 30003
Librarian Warlord
My sisters and I once had a long conversation about the treasures from my mother's house we could take to the Antiques Roadshow. Like the retired flavor of Ben and Jerry's we'd find in the back of the freezer, or the lead x-mas tree tinsel that she'd reuse every year.
-t - Feb 15, 2016 2:23:51 pm PST #15519 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I just (in the last few months, that is) heard something about how lead tinsel is a hot commodity because some people really really like it and it isn't produced any more. Because of the poisonousness.
That's troubling, meara. A gallstone that has already passed can leave a bruised feeling, fwtw. Maybe you should see a doctor?
meara - Feb 15, 2016 2:29:19 pm PST #15520 of 30003
I probably should. But I don't have time for a couple more weeks. Unless it gets worse to the point that I have to hit an ER or something. Fingers crossed, there.