Green Lantern has been called away on an urgent mission, so it falls to somebody else to save Ferris Aircraft. Enter: The Predator. The Destruction Team won’t have time to bleed!
I had a really good time kind of finding my level with Batman. I think the notes I got back for the first draft was that my Batman was a little too chummy and a little too quirky and a little too friendly. He needs to be a little bit spikier. And I was like, "Yeah, I get that." -- Al Ewing
oh my flist it is COLD and i am ANNOYED because it is MAY. i wore a sweater and a winter coat to work. i mean. wtf. seriously. monday is memorial day! what is this bullshit!
in other less annoying news i am one signed lease away from having an apartment. \o/ \o/ \o/ it has off-street parking and a little storage space in the basement and laundry in the building and there's a hood over the stove (omg) and there might not be enough window for my plants but we'll see. i'll be at the mercy of the bus because i won't be walking distance to the t any more but i won't be massively farther away from everyone either. i was starting to despair and now i'm not altho i have to sort shit and pack and change my address in a million places and i am not looking forward to any of those things. i mean, moving is a pain in the ass.
this past weekend was all family, all the time - cousin j of j&m turned fifty and his lovely wife threw him a surprise party and he was SUR. PRISED. (even tho my sister showed up at the restaurant where his mom and brother took him to to get him out of the house while the party guests showed up. she covered for herself but still, oy.) my contribution was a raisin pie which went over really well even tho i had some issues with the top crust and it was thus not an attractive pie. the party was in the afternoon so afterwards i went over to my sister's and we ordered chinese food (not bad but could've been better - the wonton soup was undrinkably salty altho the wontons themselves were good and the moo shi was about 98% cabbage) and watched drop which was tense and i enjoyed it. (it has some actor from yellowstone 1923 who my sister likes which is why she wanted to see it.) and then sunday was j&m's girltwin's final dance recital, as she is graduating from high school in like three weeks. there were dances in a mix of styles from all the classes at the dance school where she goes and let me just tell you that the tiny girls in the tiny ballet tutus are FUCKING ADORABLE. so, so cute. the girltwin looked very confident on stage and did a really good job and it was overall a thoroughly enjoyable recital.
and last sunday i went to ikea with tamalinn which is always fun. we had meatballs. :D
and today was the monthly admin lunch and we had italian food which means... meatballs. :D also chicken parm and chicken alfredo with broccoli and bread and salad but, you know, meatballs. i love a good meatball.
otherwise the less said about work the better, mostly because i am MADE OF SLACK and i really do have shit to do. most of it is emails and some of it is expenses and a lot of it is about to be travel and i don't want to do any of it. >.<
...my laptop is really dirty. i need to clean it. not right now but soon.
grosse pointe garden society is done for the season and now i know who the dead body is and i don't know how i feel about it. and i can't get over how dumb most of the characters are about their relationships. seriously, so stupid. but it ends on a "what next??" note so i'll probably watch the second season too.
enjoying poker face tho. it's kind of a weird show but the guest stars are fun and i really like natasha lyonne's character.
lego hq is coming to boston. american hq, anyway. they're moving from connecticut and personally i find this really cool.
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Survival horror game with a “no jumpscares” accessibility feature whereby every time there’s a cutscene that involves a monster jumping out, you get an alternative cutscene where the monster just casually slides into view somewhere the player character can’t see it but the player can before going “BLARGH”.
[ID: a tiktok by ahmad_ma12 shows four guys standing in a line. In each of their mouths is the head of a rubber chicken. Each person has a rubber band around their calf. The second person in line snaps the rubber band and if the first person doesn’t set off their rubber chicken they move to the back of the line. If they groan and the chicken goes off then they laugh and the person behind them snaps them again until they’re able to take it quietly and the next person moves up. /end]
Kayla will have a lot more to say about it, but she short version of our trip to my PCP today is that may A1c level is down to 7.5, which is excellent, and things are moving in the right direction.
So since I don't have much else to say, have a picture of the rabbit that was sitting near the minvan this morning when we went out to go to breakfast.
1. Dear Carolyn: My mom basically despises my boyfriend, “Tom,” because he didn’t graduate from college and works a blue-collar job. She is so rude to him, we can’t even be around her. She defends this by saying that looking at us together makes her feel disgusted, she can’t help how she feels, and she’s being as nice as she can given the intensity of her feelings. Tom actually cried after our last dinner with my parents.
Tom and I are 24, are independently financially stable and have lived together for six months — another source of my mother’s angst, but I suspect if I were “shacking up” with a more “eligible” bachelor, she would deal just fine. Although I am beyond furious at her treatment of Tom, I don’t want to lose her. Our relationship no longer resembles the mother-daughter bond we used to have. I’m also scared about what this is doing to my parents’ marriage. My dad is saying things to her in a tone I’ve never heard before — telling her that her behavior is unacceptable, that she needs to stop. She just gets defensive and yells at him. I don’t want my relationship to be their undoing.
I love Tom and could see us getting engaged in a year or two. However, I’m actually thinking about breaking up with him over this, although I know evil shouldn’t triumph. But I feel like he’s on one side, and on the other side is my relationship with my mom AND my parents’ relationship AND the potential to have it all if I meet a college-educated suitor. (I feel like a horrible person saying this.)
2. Dear Annie: I am a 26-year-old woman deeply in love with someone my parents can't stand. He's not what they envisioned for me; he's rough around the edges, has tattoos, rides a motorcycle and works with his hands for a living. My parents like clean-cut, college-educated types in suits, and he's the complete opposite.
Yes, he has a bit of a "bad boy" past. He's made some mistakes in his younger years -- got into trouble, partied too hard, even had a brush with the law. But that was years ago. Since then, he's turned his life around. He's steady, loyal, hardworking, and treats me with more respect and care than anyone I've ever dated.
Despite all that, my parents won't give him a chance. They're polite when he's around, but I can tell they're just waiting for me to wake up and realize he's "not good enough." They constantly drop hints about finding someone "more suitable" or "more stable," and it's starting to wear me down. I feel caught in the middle -- between a man I love and parents I don't want to disappoint.
I'm not blind to his flaws, but I believe in the man he is now. How do I move forward when the people I've always looked to for support can't accept the person I've chosen? Am I being naive for thinking love is enough, or are my parents judging him unfairly? -- Torn Between Love and Loyalty
Something something shinigami/arrancar/Quincy/whatever reiatsu not only has colors but textures, opacity, motion etc. Like colors and flavors, everyone *broadly* agrees on what an individual’s aura is like, but also everyone is sensing that aura directly with their brain, not with a sensory organ, and so the vocabulary to describe the sensory impression of aura is non-existent and people make do with the sensory and figurative vocabulary they have. It also means that the same aura can have WILDLY different notes and connotations from one perceiving individual to the next
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