I did our taxes last week, I think. And it was a bummer due to the marriage penalty. I love K enough that I lost $5000 of my return this year.
If you want me to leave, you can put your hands on my hot, tight little body and make me.
Spike ,'Get It Done'
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.
Kat - Feb 28, 2016 1:08:28 pm PST #16408 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Kat - Feb 28, 2016 1:09:23 pm PST #16409 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
'suela, that cake looks great. I've been baking bread all weekend. I'm blaming GBBO.
aurelia - Feb 28, 2016 1:47:57 pm PST #16410 of 30003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
That doesn't sound like enough days off a month, aurelia...
I don't disagree. I might get a break mid-April, but then I'll be slammed until War Paint opens in mid-July. And I'm going to have to handle some touchy personnel issues during that time.
I might make the dark-chocolate Guinness cake with Bailey's cream-cheese icing again this year.
Consuela - Feb 28, 2016 1:58:54 pm PST #16411 of 30003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I've been baking bread all weekend. I'm blaming GBBO.
Oh, totally.
The cake is done and frosted, complete with itty little cupcakes made with the excess batter. But I think I screwed it up a little bit: it said to put the cake into the fridge to chill before frosting, and I think I should have put plastic wrap on it, because when I took it out to frost, the edges were hard and dry. Ah, well, it's just for the family.
So where can I see the red carpet, if I don't have a television? Any ideas?
Dana - Feb 28, 2016 2:09:37 pm PST #16412 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Wow, Saoirse Ronan looks amazing.
Dana - Feb 28, 2016 2:32:18 pm PST #16413 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I just saw a fake ad for Turkish Airlines announcing new flights to Gotham City. Obviously, this is a tie-in for the movie, but I love that they had to put a disclaimer on it saying "This is not an actual destination that Turkish Airlines flies to."
Jesse - Feb 28, 2016 2:42:11 pm PST #16414 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I can't find any seats available to Gotham! WTF, Turkish Airlines?!?!
Thing I learned on the news: the Oscar statue is more muscular this year.
shrift - Feb 28, 2016 2:55:31 pm PST #16415 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I am at the airport, so I will be enjoying the Oscars vicariously through you guys.
-t - Feb 28, 2016 2:58:52 pm PST #16416 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That sucks, meara. I'm sorry.
The marriage penalty also sucks. Grr.
I saw that Gotham ad a while back, it's kind of great in its deadpan-ness. But I don't think I want to go to Gotham, seems dangerous.
Well, lawn is mowed and edged. It still looks pretty terrible, but I am pretty much out of juice. I should at least sweep up the cuttings, but I meet be too out of juice for that. We'll see after I finish typing this post.
It's been a frustrating day. There was the coffee spillage, then my lunch failed to include the guacamole that I added on after the fact, so that's understandable but still disappointing, at least one of the little windows in my garage door broke, and the lid on my weed eater flew off and disappeared. It's bright orange, I don't know why I can't find it. Anyway, I think all that is adding to my tiredness. On the bright side, I accidentally pulled out the electric lawn mower I thought was busted and it actually worked so, yay for that. I thought the motor was burnt out but I guess it just needed a rest.
Steph L. - Feb 28, 2016 3:45:25 pm PST #16417 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm at the airport ready to board and go home. The teenage guys sitting behind me need to be smacked for how they talked about a girl who texted one of them and had the temerity to use the word "like" in the colloquial sense. (Guy 1: "She texted 'It took us like 2 hours to get home.'" Guy 2: "She's in danger of becoming a basic dumb girl." Asses.)