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Re: Question of the Day

DW — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:45:33 -0000

Cheese, Grommit.

Re: My Father, My Brother, My Husband, My Son

DW — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:44:52 -0000

This made me weep. Thank you, Ana.

Re: Discussion Thread: Elementary School Gym Games

DW — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:53:45 -0000

Bronx, mid 1970's, we danced around the May pole in first and second grades. I'm pretty sure no school is doing that anymore. As a kid I loved it!

Re: Question of the Day

DW — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:02:43 -0000

I updated my resume, went for an interview, told committee I was perfect for this job, got offered the job, negotiated the salary upwards, and took said job. And I like it so far!

Re: Film Corner

DW — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:46:18 -0000

I have no doubt that I have some "friends" who will think this is "hysterical."

Re: Question of the Day

DW — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:50:14 -0000

Poodles. And Fiesta Ware.

Re: Open Thread

DW — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 09:23:23 -0000

I don't give a shit what Ben Stein says on FB. Tool.

Re: Question of the Day

DW — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:44:24 -0000

Creepy, deadpanned, unsmiling clown dressed in garish colors. It was glorious.

Re: Question of the Day

DW — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:37:55 -0000

Super Troopers. Anchorman. Not highbrow, I admit.

Re: Storm Sandy Open Thread

DW — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:02:11 -0000

Our village is a disaster, literally. Our Hudson River waterfront is just destroyed. A house boat washed away, boats are up in the parking lots just crushed, homes are flooded, whole streets are just under water. The sky was awash in light as transformers blew up. Trees are down every where. And we aren't anywhere close to having the widespread losses and destruction as other places and other family members on Long Island who lost everything they owned. Good grief! I am grateful that my family and friends are OK, that the volunteers in our village are OK, and that my brother in law generously loaned us a generator so we could have limited power, charge our devices, and make fresh food for our child. I am sick to my stomach looking at the photos on line. I send good thoughts into the universe for peace and healing and comfort today.

Re: Happy Shark Time!

DW — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:00:18 -0000

Several years ago, my mom was enjoying a quiet cup of coffee in her back yard when out of the sky came a large, dead fish. It landed a few feet away from her on the brick paved patio. Freaked her out. We concluded that a big bird of prey was unable to keep hold of this fish that it had just pulled from the river. It was surreal and weird then but kinda funny now. I always felt bad for the fish in this story but I laugh because it reminds me so much of Douglas Adams.

Re: Question of the Day

DW — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:57:08 -0000

How to choose from such garbage as Toddlers and Tiaras? The Apprentice? The Biggest Loser? The Simple Life? The Bachelor? The Real World? Jersey Shore? The Real Housewives of Who Gives a Fuck? Levels of shitastickness, all of them.

Re: Open Thread

DW — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:09:24 -0000

I have zero motivation to get in the shower and do the things I'm supposed to do today. I'm actually forcing myself up and at 'em. I have work and errands and meetings and emails and blah, blah, blah. Blargh.

Re: Top Five

DW — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:44:31 -0000

Hillary Clinton
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Barack Obama
Michelle Obama
My Bestie Abigail (Because, really, I'd need someone to OMG! to about this later)

Re: Discussion Thread: Pet Questions

DW — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:39:36 -0000

I, too, have a 14 year old poodle and he pees on things when I don't get home timely enough. I think he's just old and can't hold his bladder the way he used to. I hate cleaning up after him but I try not to complain about it because I know he'd much prefer to go outside, he just can't help himself at his age. Good luck.

Re: Question of the Day

DW — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:27:56 -0000

I have a wee one. What's a movie?

Re: Question of the Day

DW — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:22:19 -0000

I don't know a single thing associated with my name. Sad trombone...

Re: Discussion Thread: How is your life not perfect?

DW — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:45:56 -0000

Paper and laundry will do me in. I cannot manage either, let alone both.

Re: Do You Need a Nice Story?

DW — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:41:58 -0000

Oh goodness, ALL THE CRYING.

Re: Quote of the Day

DW — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:02:20 -0000

Hey - we're all liars! Nice parenting, Mitt.

Re: Open Thread

DW — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:04:30 -0000

My get up and go got up and went. Motivation: I haz none.

Re: Great Campaign Ad, or Greatest Campaign Ad?

DW — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:02:14 -0000

Is this a real ad? Or a parody? I don't have TV so I don't know. I saw it on FB and laughed my fool head off.

Re: Top Five

DW — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:37:29 -0000

Dogs,
birds,
horses,
cats,
squirrels.

Perhaps not entirely in that order, but dogs still first.

Re: Open Thread

DW — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:31:46 -0000

I think inviting someone to lunch with three other friends and having that person leave the conversation first with no other reply is a very clear indication that I'm not being talked to. Had she said no and then left I could understand that. But just leaving with no reply is more of a message than actually leaving a message. It sounds like your situations on FB were different, I opt out as to not get so many notifications, too. I usually respond first, though. Oh well. I'm not missing out on any great friendship with this person and this gives me permission to stop trying altogether.

Re: Open Thread

DW — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:53:00 -0000

So, twice in the last month I have been on the receiving end of friendship ending stuff. One person sent me a save the date for their wedding this month yet no invite materialized. Another person is angry and/ or hates me because of...something? I invited via FB her to a luncheon/ play date with some other women and instead of replying she just left the conversation. This was my olive branch moment - not because I had done anything wrong (that I know of) but because I wanted to reach out to someone I thought was a friend and make an awkward situation less so. So saying, "No, thanks" didn't convey fuck off enough so instead she just...left the conversation. The thing they have in common is that I stopped being the brunt of their shit spews and negative dialogue.

This says one of two things to me: I have, by word or deed, made enough boundaries around me that my intolerance of bad behavior is weeding out so called "friends" OR I'm an asshole.