Today we celebrate the birthday of DebetEsse! I hope you have a day filled with love and joy. May this year bring all the things you love in life.
Zoe: So you two were kissin'? Book: Well. Isn't that... special?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
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.
Laura - Aug 16, 2025 3:50:02 am PDT #8822 of 8832
Our wings are not tired.
JenP - Aug 16, 2025 4:33:40 am PDT #8823 of 8832
Happy, Happy Birthday, Debt! Hope today is lovely and the rest of the year brings much joy.
Man, I wish they'd offered some practical classes like Personal Finance back in my day. Would have been SO useful. Can't believe your nephew is already 16, askye. Wow.
Calli - Aug 16, 2025 7:34:23 am PDT #8824 of 8832
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Happy birthday, Debet!
I agree that personal finance classes would be a great addition to the high school curriculum.
Pix - Aug 16, 2025 8:27:50 am PDT #8825 of 8832
The status is NOT quo.
I don't think it's very Diamond Shoes to be like "I looked forward to family vacation in a really lovely place, and then stressful shit kept happening and vacation was not as restful and restorative as I hoped it would be." That sucks to have a trip you were looking forward to go all pear-shaped.Hard agree!
I agree that personal finance classes would be a great addition to the high school curriculum.California is on it.
Happy Birthday, Debet!
I'm headed to a family wedding today which involves a full Catholic mass, and even my very Catholic aunt and uncle (who are staying at Mom's with me) are joking about ways we could skip the ceremony and just go to the reception. I will not burst into flames. I will not burst into flames. I will not burst into flames.
JenP - Aug 16, 2025 9:12:12 am PDT #8826 of 8832
Ha, Kristin. Just, you know, bring some bottled water, and if you see smoke...
That sucks to have a trip you were looking forward to go all pear-shaped.
Meant to fourth or fifth or whatever this, Jess.
erikaj - Aug 16, 2025 10:38:33 am PDT #8827 of 8832
Always Anti-fascist!
Definite drag, Jess.
Jessica - Aug 16, 2025 10:56:36 am PDT #8828 of 8832
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Dylan took Personal Finance his senior year but unfortunately the teacher was completely checked out and so he didn't get much out of it. (He basically told them to pretend to invest an imaginary $1000 in the first week and track how their choices performed, and then didn't do anything else the entire semester.)
-t - Aug 16, 2025 11:16:34 am PDT #8829 of 8832
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Happy day to DebetEsse!
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 16, 2025 11:22:35 am PDT #8830 of 8832
"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
Happy Birthday, Debet!
erikaj - Aug 16, 2025 12:46:44 pm PDT #8831 of 8832
Always Anti-fascist!
I sort of did take a class like that, but I took it because I was hopeless at math. So, it was, like, me and the pregnant girls and people that came back after juvie and that kind of stuff. as suburban as I grew up, I expected that they'd be a lot different than me, but maybe just their plans were not as big--well, we see how that worked out on my end, huh? Since I was, you know, practically starting from zero, or maybe minus 2, I learned a fair bit about finances there, whether it was objectively a good class or not, but I don't think that was the most important thing I got from being there.