Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I cannot get past her hair. It always looks so awful. Why? What is she doing wrong? I want to brush it. Or, to be precise, I want her to brush it.

She used to be so gorgeous and so fresh faced. Now she looks like someone who has been quite literally ridden hard and put away wet. Luckily for most of us, when we went through that stage in life, no one was photographing us.

In unrelated news, I am totally annoyed.

My ex requested a while ago that my boyfriend not sleep in my house when the Braznette is there. Because I like him and I want us all to have a harmonious relationship, I've respected his wishes.

I am taking a family vacation and have asked the boyfriend to come along. He repsonded that he wouldn't come unless the ex was okay with it. I've asked the ex and he's basically ignoring the question.

Meanwhile, tickets get scarcer and more expensive.

(grumble)

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I used to feel sorry for her and think she got a bit too much flak for her (lack of) mothering skills, because she always seemed very devoted to Sean, and her utter cluelessness seemed inevitable given the poor parenting she has obviously received.

But if she is pregnant again, ew. I mean, her womb wasn't even cold before she got knocked up by some new guy. You would think that it should be a rocky place to a stranger's sacred sperm for at least a few months postpartum.

She's the Carla Tortelli of pop music.

FWIW, my mom had four kids in five years and three months, no multiples.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Meanwhile, tickets get scarcer and more expensive.

(grumble)

Can you get separate (maybe adjoining) rooms?

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Can you get separate (maybe adjoining) rooms?

We're going to the family mountain home. And all the bedrooms are spoken for. Do not suggest he sleep on the couch.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I need to get a dish drying rack for an area next to my sink that is about 2 feet by 3 feet, although the rack does not need to fill the whole space. I want it to have a place for drying silverware, too. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

I am told that if you go to the Museum of Television and Broadcasting in Chicago, you can view tapes of every episode of The Woodwright's Cabin, a series that ran on Public Televisin in the 1980's for approximately 4 episodes. If I remember correctly, in one of the episodes, the Woodwright makes a drying rack by planing and pegging splinters of seasoned pine.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I don't watch Larry King because he reminds me of my mortality, in uncomfortably vidid detail.

That and the praying mantis who was Spaceghost's sidekick in Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

He's also reminiscent of Mr. Burns wearing Jackie O shades.

Larry King is the death head. About 15 years ago I was on the 6:30 AM DTW to DCA flight, in 1st Class of course. Something had happened here to cause King to do his show remote from Detroit the night before.

Sitting in my seat I felt the chill of a bony hand clutch at my shoulder. King was steadying himself as he lurched up the aisle to the bathroom. His head looked like a skull mask.

1- I was certain not to enter the bathroom after he left.

2- 15 years ago he looked dead already.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I am taking a family vacation and have asked the boyfriend to come along. He repsonded that he wouldn't come unless the ex was okay with it. I've asked the ex and he's basically ignoring the question.

Meanwhile, tickets get scarcer and more expensive.

(grumble)

A clear case of ratification. His failure to object in a reasonable time means that he's ok (or at least Not Not OK) with it.

Slight kidding aside, I'd book the trip. He'll be fine, especially if you tell him that you've booked seperate rooms/adjoining rooms/2 bedroom suites/etc.

eta: Aha. Well, that complicates things a bit, but I still think that if he really had a problem with it, he should have said so when you initially asked. I'd say go, and just don't make a big deal over the fact that y'all are sharing a room.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I cannot get past her hair. It always looks so awful. Why? What is she doing wrong? I want to brush it. Or, to be precise, I want her to brush it.

depending on what all infests her hair she may be waiting for all the eggs to hatch. like a PETA thing. maybe we'll she her on posters soon?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Larry King is the death head. About 15 years ago I was on the 6:30 AM DTW to DCA flight, in 1st Class of course. Something had happened here to cause King to do his show remote from Detroit the night before.

Sitting in my seat I felt the chill of a bony hand clutch at my shoulder. King was steadying himself as he lurched up the aisle to the bathroom. His head looked like a skull mask.

1- I was certain not to enter the bathroom after he left.

2- 15 years ago he looked dead already.

And yet you don't put him on your death list?

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Not Bob
A clear case of ratification. His failure to object in a reasonable time means that he's ok (or at least Not Not OK) with it.

Slight kidding aside, I'd book the trip. He'll be fine, especially if you tell him that you've booked seperate rooms/adjoining rooms/2 bedroom suites/etc.

eta: Aha. Well, that complicates things a bit, but I still think that if he really had a problem with it, he should have said so when you initially asked. I'd say go, and just don't make a big deal over the fact that y'all are sharing a room.

Yeah, I wish. Sadly, current boyfriend will not go unless ex signs off on it.

This is very fucked up.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
FWIW, my mom had four kids in five years and three months, no multiples.

My grandmother had five pregnancies (six kids) over six and a half years. It makes me tired just to think about it. She lived to 93.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
We're going to the family mountain home. And all the bedrooms are spoken for. Do not suggest he sleep on the couch.

can you purchase the place next door?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
She used to be so gorgeous and so fresh faced. Now she looks like someone who has been quite literally ridden hard and put away wet. Luckily for most of us, when we went through that stage in life, no one was photographing us.

In unrelated news, I am totally annoyed.

My ex requested a while ago that my boyfriend not sleep in my house when the Braznette is there. Because I like him and I want us all to have a harmonious relationship, I've respected his wishes.

I am taking a family vacation and have asked the boyfriend to come along. He repsonded that he wouldn't come unless the ex was okay with it. I've asked the ex and he's basically ignoring the question.

Silence = acceptance, no? Next email should say, "Since you haven't responded to me taking Thurgreed with me on the family vacation to Hawaii, Fiji, The Maldives and anywhere else he wants to go, I will assume you are okay with it if I don't hear back from you this time either."

TM

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
And yet you don't put him on your death list?

why make waves? he won't die- not this year, not next. let's just be thankful we're not on his.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Yeah, I wish. Sadly, current boyfriend will not go unless ex signs off on it.

This is very fucked up.

Well, that does suck. Call him again -- he's not that big of a dick, is he?

As an aside, the boyfriend sounds like a good guy -- he knows that you and the ex have to get along reasonably well at least until the Brazenette is off working on her PhD, and so he doesn't want to be the cause of a problem.