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Post by Patti - S'cubie Cutie on Nov 8, 2003 15:23:55 GMT -5
OK - I give up. I can't log in no matter what I try. I can log in to my email accounts (yahoo, work), and I can log in at other websites (e.g. amazon), no problem. The problem seems very specific to this site. I've check my security and privacy settings. Nothing looks amiss. I lowered them anyhow . . . no help. I am using the right id and password, because it DOES recognize me - says "hi Spring" but then won't let me do anything and takes me back to "you need to log in." I am at a loss. Did I finally cross the line in somehow, in absentia, with my posts about Spike's assets? Is Mr Bloody angry with me for my ebulgent studies? Or something else? Yikes, that would be bad, he can be kinda nasty, according to Dalton. Mr Bloody, can you . . . uhm . . . help? In a merciful way I mean, that does not involved any punching or slapping or biting or me going up in flames. Your humble servant, Spring Spring, WtB is out of touch today, thanks to that spiffy new glass and a few blankets, so he can't help you... which browser are you using? If you have both IE and Netscape available, try the one you haven't...and - you probably have done this, but often I have to enter my name and password twice - that is, it takes me back to the login please message, but then on the second try, allows me in. I wish I had more suggestions for you.
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Post by Patti - S'cubie Cutie on Nov 8, 2003 15:25:31 GMT -5
and here from a girl who has spend the last 90 minutes with a picture of JM/Spike, removing the background (pixel by pixel) to make a new Spikeism for the picture thread. LOL! But...isn't our madness fun!
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Post by Rachael on Nov 8, 2003 15:33:07 GMT -5
Are you vegan, then? Excellent point, and nope - it's my PERSONALLY killing things that bugs me. But I'm willing to indulge in the moral hypocrisy that allows others to kill them for me. I don't actually eat much meat - maybe once a week at most. But I never feel guilty about it. Although. . . .I did visit a slaughterhouse once, and was off meat for five years after that. It's harder to ignore when you've just seen it.
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Post by Rachael on Nov 8, 2003 15:43:50 GMT -5
Just got back from the grocery store to find that Spike knocked a glass onto the floor, broke it, and then apparently played with the fragments, knocking them all over the house. Okay, yeah, so he's a cat, and a young one at that, and I shouldn't leave glasses with milk residue out where he can find them - but still! Grr. And no one cares about this at all, but living alone the way I do - no one to complain to!
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Post by Betsy on Nov 8, 2003 15:44:33 GMT -5
LOL! But...isn't our madness fun! Most definitely . . . I'm just cracking up at what I'm making. Took a Spike quote, and added some of my own creative license to it ;D
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Post by Karen on Nov 8, 2003 16:04:29 GMT -5
<snip> By the way, when I saw him in School Hard, I thought he was about 30, but, having already seen him in Smashed and Wrecked (back-assward viewing, I know), I figured he has great skin, great genes, and takes real good care of himself. Also - doesn't drink. Alcohol ruins the body and makes the skin look like 50 miles of bad road. *spew*!!! your warning did not help me, makd! 'back-assward' - hee, hee! Also, I agree about the alcohol -- and cigarettes. It does such awful damage, but the alcohol can be fun at times. I'm glad I wasn't a drinker in my younger years, and I figure now at 50 - well, who cares if I look like 40 in another 10 years? ;D oooh, i'm a bitca I do have wrinkly elbows, tho. I've had them since I was 20.
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Post by Shan on Nov 8, 2003 16:12:16 GMT -5
Just got back from the grocery store to find that Spike knocked a glass onto the floor, broke it, and then apparently played with the fragments, knocking them all over the house. Okay, yeah, so he's a cat, and a young one at that, and I shouldn't leave glasses with milk residue out where he can find them - but still! Grr. And no one cares about this at all, but living alone the way I do - no one to complain to! Cats sometimes get b*tchy when they're left alone. If it hadn't been the glass with the milk residue, it would have been an upturned plant pot or something. One of the cats I used to have thought of me and my bedroom as his personal territory. If I ever left my bedroom door open, he would sneak in and mark my bed or get into my closet and pee all over my shoes. Nasty creature. Dumb as mud, too. Too stupid to even play with string or anything. All he ever wanted was to be picked up and held like a baby while you stroked his stomach. Odd thing, he was. Another cat of mine with a much less unappealing habit used to like to sit on the side of the bathtub while I was bathing. When I was done, and the water almost gone, he would jump in and start drinking it. At toothbrushing time, he liked to stand on the edge of the sink and drink the fresh running water from the tap. That, and he loved the mint toothpaste. He had a total thing for mint. If I left a used peppermint teabag or even the wrapper it came in on the kitchen counter, he would jump up and start chewing on it. He had quite the personality, old Boris (I called him Boris because he used to go out and get his a$$ kicked by the other neighborhood cats and I thought I should give him a tough name; turns out, all it took to stop his getting beat up was to get him neutered). He had a favorite little kitty-sized blankie he used to drag around the house. Whenever he was upset, he used to do the kitty trance-dance on it - you know how they do, kneading with their claws and pulling on the material with their teeth. If he was *really* upset, he'd hump it. We called the blanke "Boris' Girlfriend" and didn't often touch it. On one of our international moves, rather than put him through the ordeal, I gave Boris away to a friend who lived in the country. I hope he's happy chasing field mice and rolling in wild patches of mint. But I'm not getting another cat until my 6yo son stops chasing my dad's cats with a stick. Shanno
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Post by Karen on Nov 8, 2003 16:14:07 GMT -5
I think we feel pretty much the same, we're just coming at it from different directions.I do agree that we can't burden ourselves with guilt and stop even trying to do what's right, that would lead to hopelessness and despair. I guess the main difference is that I don't feel forgiving ourselves is the important thing. I feel, probably because of my religious background, that the forgiveness of those we've wronged and the forgiveness of God is the important thing. Fortunately, the Bible says of God that "He forgives in a large way." After all, the parable of the Prodigal Son shows how willing He is to forgive. All the son had to do was show a willingness to stop his bad acts. The father didn't require a certain amount of good acts before showing his how happy he was to have him back. Yep, I think we can agree that we agree on the basics. (I have a Catholic background btw.) I agree it is important to have the forgiveness from the ones we wrong, too. And making amends is probably more important than forgiving ourselves. I think, tho, that you probably have to forgive yourself first to truly make amends. Maybe not. Isn't that something they teach in the 12 steps of AA? I know my dad had to ask forgiveness when he went through it; write letters and talk to us. I think he had to forgive himself first or he wouldn't be able to heal. If the one we wronged can't bring themselves to forgive us after we've tried our best to make amends, then forgiving ourselves is a good step to salvaging a life that may have started on the wrong path. Then doing good for others can help reset the balance in the universe. Maybe.
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Post by Shan on Nov 8, 2003 16:14:14 GMT -5
I do have wrinkly elbows, tho. I've had them since I was 20. Elbows are supposed to be wrinkly. Otherwise, we'd have permanently straight arms, wouldn't we?
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Post by Karen on Nov 8, 2003 16:17:18 GMT -5
Elbows are supposed to be wrinkly. Otherwise, we'd have permanently straight arms, wouldn't we? LOL! Mine are really gross, tho. Big wrinkles. I need more fat there. I'd like to get lipo from one area and put the fat in my elbows to plump up the wrinkles. ;D I hate my elbows.
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Post by Shan on Nov 8, 2003 16:20:33 GMT -5
LOL! Mine are really gross, tho. Big wrinkles. I need more fat there. I'd like to get lipo from one area and put the fat in my elbows to plump up the wrinkles. ;D I hate my elbows. God, they're just elbows! How can you hate them? They're there, they do a job, and you hardly ever see them. Neither does anybody else! I really doubt that anybody on the PLANET has ever or will ever look at your elbows and say, "Ewww! Gross!" Shanno (blaffergasted)
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Post by Karen on Nov 8, 2003 16:27:52 GMT -5
God, they're just elbows! How can you hate them? They're there, they do a job, and you hardly ever see them. Neither does anybody else! I really doubt that anybody on the PLANET has ever or will ever look at your elbows and say, "Ewww! Gross!" Shanno (blaffergasted) LOL! They really are ugly. But I don't have to look at them, so I deal with it. <sigh> ;D
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Post by makd on Nov 8, 2003 16:28:10 GMT -5
I'd always been a big fan of Darla. Following the sequence where Angel went through the trials because she was human and dying of syphallis, and then when she staked herself to save Connor, plus the whole undead Thelma and Louise routine she did with Drusilla. Darla's just been a fun character. But Julie really impressed me when I met her face-to-face; she's got a very, very sweet personality that doesn't come through very much in Darla, and it impressed me how different the two are. It shows the depth of her acting ability. The woman is a pure talent. Robia, on the other hand, I always wanted to meet. Jenny Calendar is such a spitfire, the way she can get Giles' goat time and again, she comes across as very much fun. And for all her protesting that she and Jenny are nothing alike (Robia says she's very conservative, not the spitfire that Jenny is), she still has every manerism in real life. She is Jenny on so many levels in real life. Thanks, Dave.
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Post by makd on Nov 8, 2003 16:31:09 GMT -5
*spew*!!! your warning did not help me, makd! 'back-assward' - hee, hee! Also, I agree about the alcohol -- and cigarettes. It does such awful damage, but the alcohol can be fun at times. I'm glad I wasn't a drinker in my younger years, and I figure now at 50 - well, who cares if I look like 40 in another 10 years? ;D oooh, i'm a bitca I do have wrinkly elbows, tho. I've had them since I was 20. Sandy See - Gran was right! elbows and panzas! that's all it is!! and, so far, you're the only one to notice the pun, so: feel the pride! oh, and in general, will be sharing a tidbit on luchadores on the review thread in 10.
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Post by makd on Nov 8, 2003 16:32:23 GMT -5
Elbows are supposed to be wrinkly. Otherwise, we'd have permanently straight arms, wouldn't we? Shanno we're talking serious wrinklies here. Starts to happen to women after 30-35. The belly thing happens to guys about 35. Many guys? as early as 30.
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