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Post by Onjel on Feb 10, 2010 9:39:42 GMT -5
Thanks for the shiny new part, Karen! Tired kitteh is sooooooooo cute! And, cuddly! ;D
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Post by Onjel on Feb 10, 2010 9:41:01 GMT -5
We got what looks to be a foot of snow. Waiting for the roads to clear before Zak and I get headed down to work.
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Feb 10, 2010 10:08:51 GMT -5
Stupid Anne is Stupid. I still haven't been able to let go and cry over my dad, but this morning's "9 Chickweed Lane" made me weepy. It wasn't even sad, dammit (If you follow the strip, you'll understand). Of course, there's no way I could fit in a good cry this morning anyway, it'd be too damn distressing to the rest of the family. Seriously, I really don't want to deal with the resultant stress, what with the hard work of reassuring the Husband, the cats, and/or the Elder Daughter, if she catches me crying (Younger Daughter is more easy-going, and will just shrug). Maybe after the Elder Daughter leaves for school, I can relax. Or not. So I have a headache and achy eyes to add to my allergy-stuffy-head-aches. Seriously. A comic strip. Stupid Anne is Stoopid.
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Post by Karen on Feb 10, 2010 10:15:54 GMT -5
Thanks for the shiny new part, Karen! Tired kitteh is sooooooooo cute! And, cuddly! ;D Hee! He doesn't look too comfortable! Thanks, sweetie -and Spring, too. Glad I could bring some smiles. It's blindingly shiny outside. Good to see the sun and the snow is so pretty. (Trying HARD to see the bright side. ) Our big news is that there was a 3.8 magnitude earthquake at 4 a.m. about 50 miles north of here. I didn't feel it, but my co-worker's wife did.
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Post by Karen on Feb 10, 2010 10:18:07 GMT -5
Stupid Anne is Stupid. I still haven't been able to let go and cry over my dad, but this morning's "9 Chickweed Lane" made me weepy. It wasn't even sad, dammit (If you follow the strip, you'll understand). Of course, there's no way I could fit in a good cry this morning anyway, it'd be too damn distressing to the rest of the family. Seriously, I really don't want to deal with the resultant stress, what with the hard work of reassuring the Husband, the cats, and/or the Elder Daughter, if she catches me crying (Younger Daughter is more easy-going, and will just shrug). Maybe after the Elder Daughter leaves for school, I can relax. Or not. So I have a headache and achy eyes to add to my allergy-stuffy-head-aches. Seriously. A comic strip. Stupid Anne is Stoopid. I felt that way when my dad died. It was a month or two later - close to Halloween - when I thought about how dad was going to miss the holidays that year that I really broke down. He was so into them, and they just haven't been the same since.
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Post by Karen on Feb 10, 2010 10:21:03 GMT -5
Ha! And I thought *I* identified with Buffy . . .
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Post by Karen on Feb 10, 2010 10:22:09 GMT -5
Oh, nice. My sister just found my dad's stash and I can't have any because I get random piss quizzes at work. The first and last of which was right after I started there 6 years ago. *headdesk* Hmmmm...maybe a little, then a nice juice flush?
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Post by Queen E on Feb 10, 2010 10:34:44 GMT -5
Stupid Anne is Stupid. I still haven't been able to let go and cry over my dad, but this morning's "9 Chickweed Lane" made me weepy. It wasn't even sad, dammit (If you follow the strip, you'll understand). Of course, there's no way I could fit in a good cry this morning anyway, it'd be too damn distressing to the rest of the family. Seriously, I really don't want to deal with the resultant stress, what with the hard work of reassuring the Husband, the cats, and/or the Elder Daughter, if she catches me crying (Younger Daughter is more easy-going, and will just shrug). Maybe after the Elder Daughter leaves for school, I can relax. Or not. So I have a headache and achy eyes to add to my allergy-stuffy-head-aches. Seriously. A comic strip. Stupid Anne is Stoopid. Well, think what you like, but nothing you've said here strikes me as stupid at all. No one ever knows what will set them off, and everyone needs a good cleansing cry when the big things occur. (Hell, I got set off, the last time I cried, by the opening teaser an Angel episode, and TV and movies NEVER make me cry.) And honestly, if Elder Daughter, at 20(?) is freaked out by her mother crying after her grandfather has died? Well, then she needs to sack up and be the one needed, rather than the needy one. This could be a good opportunity to let her help you, rather than the other way around. Didn't you say how impressed you were at how she handled herself after your dad died?
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 10, 2010 10:46:36 GMT -5
Stupid Anne is Stupid. I still haven't been able to let go and cry over my dad, but this morning's "9 Chickweed Lane" made me weepy. It wasn't even sad, dammit (If you follow the strip, you'll understand). Of course, there's no way I could fit in a good cry this morning anyway, it'd be too damn distressing to the rest of the family. Seriously, I really don't want to deal with the resultant stress, what with the hard work of reassuring the Husband, the cats, and/or the Elder Daughter, if she catches me crying (Younger Daughter is more easy-going, and will just shrug). Maybe after the Elder Daughter leaves for school, I can relax. Or not. So I have a headache and achy eyes to add to my allergy-stuffy-head-aches. Seriously. A comic strip. Stupid Anne is Stoopid. Jeez, Anne, cut yourself some slack. Grief is weird. It doesn't obey any rules and you just have to live with withever it's going to do. If that's what's going to bring it on, then that's what's going to bring it on. Do you suppose I like bursting into tears because some strange man by the side of the road is doing something that reminds me of something Ian did? It is what it is. Now lighten up on yourself. If your husband or kids see you cry they'll deal with it. You may even get a hug out of it. See?
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 10, 2010 10:47:59 GMT -5
Stupid Anne is Stupid. I still haven't been able to let go and cry over my dad, but this morning's "9 Chickweed Lane" made me weepy. It wasn't even sad, dammit (If you follow the strip, you'll understand). Of course, there's no way I could fit in a good cry this morning anyway, it'd be too damn distressing to the rest of the family. Seriously, I really don't want to deal with the resultant stress, what with the hard work of reassuring the Husband, the cats, and/or the Elder Daughter, if she catches me crying (Younger Daughter is more easy-going, and will just shrug). Maybe after the Elder Daughter leaves for school, I can relax. Or not. So I have a headache and achy eyes to add to my allergy-stuffy-head-aches. Seriously. A comic strip. Stupid Anne is Stoopid. Well, think what you like, but nothing you've said here strikes me as stupid at all. No one ever knows what will set them off, and everyone needs a good cleansing cry when the big things occur. (Hell, I got set off, the last time I cried, by the opening teaser an Angel episode, and TV and movies NEVER make me cry.) And honestly, if Elder Daughter, at 20(?) is freaked out by her mother crying after her grandfather has died? Well, then she needs to sack up and be the one needed, rather than the needy one. This could be a good opportunity to let her help you, rather than the other way around. Didn't you say how impressed you were at how she handled herself after your dad died? What she said.
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Post by Sara on Feb 10, 2010 11:09:49 GMT -5
Stupid Anne is Stupid. I still haven't been able to let go and cry over my dad, but this morning's "9 Chickweed Lane" made me weepy. It wasn't even sad, dammit (If you follow the strip, you'll understand). Of course, there's no way I could fit in a good cry this morning anyway, it'd be too damn distressing to the rest of the family. Seriously, I really don't want to deal with the resultant stress, what with the hard work of reassuring the Husband, the cats, and/or the Elder Daughter, if she catches me crying (Younger Daughter is more easy-going, and will just shrug). Maybe after the Elder Daughter leaves for school, I can relax. Or not. So I have a headache and achy eyes to add to my allergy-stuffy-head-aches. Seriously. A comic strip. Stupid Anne is Stoopid. Not stupid at all. I tend to do the same thing: not cry over the things that "should" make me weep, and then lose it over something else entirely.
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Post by SpringSummers on Feb 10, 2010 11:28:58 GMT -5
Stupid Anne is Stupid. I still haven't been able to let go and cry over my dad, but this morning's "9 Chickweed Lane" made me weepy. It wasn't even sad, dammit (If you follow the strip, you'll understand). Of course, there's no way I could fit in a good cry this morning anyway, it'd be too damn distressing to the rest of the family. Seriously, I really don't want to deal with the resultant stress, what with the hard work of reassuring the Husband, the cats, and/or the Elder Daughter, if she catches me crying (Younger Daughter is more easy-going, and will just shrug). Maybe after the Elder Daughter leaves for school, I can relax. Or not. So I have a headache and achy eyes to add to my allergy-stuffy-head-aches. Seriously. A comic strip. Stupid Anne is Stoopid. Not stupid at all. I tend to do the same thing: not cry over the things that "should" make me weep, and then lose it over something else entirely. Not grieving isn't an option anyhow - you're gonna grieve, one way or another. Tears are the best way, because you are going to grieve, one way or another, eventually. You can't actually stop it. You can only redirect it. And the other directions are not so good - anger and resentment at others, deep depression, wild sex with blonde vamps in leather coats, acting out in one way or another that can be harm to self and/or others . . . etc.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 10, 2010 11:31:23 GMT -5
Not stupid at all. I tend to do the same thing: not cry over the things that "should" make me weep, and then lose it over something else entirely. Not grieving isn't an option anyhow - you're gonna grieve, one way or another. Tears are the best way, because you are going to grieve, one way or another, eventually. You can't actually stop it. You can only redirect it. And the other directions are not so good - anger and resentment at others, deep depression, wild sex with blonde vamps in leather coats, acting out in one way or another that can be harmself to self and/or others . . . etc. Actually, I kinda like the struckthrough one...especially when the house comes down.
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Post by Karen on Feb 10, 2010 11:35:58 GMT -5
Not grieving isn't an option anyhow - you're gonna grieve, one way or another. Tears are the best way, because you are going to grieve, one way or another, eventually. You can't actually stop it. You can only redirect it. And the other directions are not so good - anger and resentment at others, deep depression, wild sex with blonde vamps in leather coats, acting out in one way or another that can be harmself to self and/or others . . . etc. Actually, I kinda like the struckthrough one...especially when the house comes down. Guess you couldn't keep that up for long, tho.
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Post by Sara on Feb 10, 2010 11:47:58 GMT -5
Sakurajima Volcano with Lightning Credit & Copyright: Martin Rietze (Alien Landscapes on Planet Earth) Explanation:[/b] Why does a volcanic eruption sometimes create lightning? Pictured above, the Sakurajima volcano in southern Japan was caught erupting early last month. Magma bubbles so hot they glow shoot away as liquid rock bursts through the Earth's surface from below. The above image is particularly notable, however, for the lightning bolts caught near the volcano's summit. Why lightning occurs even in common thunderstorms remains a topic of research, and the cause of volcanic lightning is even less clear. Surely, lightning bolts help quench areas of opposite but separated electric charges. One hypothesis holds that catapulting magma bubbles or volcanic ash are themselves electrically charged, and by their motion create these separated areas. Other volcanic lightning episodes may be facilitated by charge-inducing collisions in volcanic dust. Lightning is usually occurring somewhere on Earth, typically over 40 times each second.
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