I think we’re a bit overdue for another open thread for personal stuff. As per usual, no trolls, no flames, no being a butthead.
I’ll paste in some recent personal comments from other threads.
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Open Thread for Personal Stuff: November Rain Edition
Ally, if you can get your hands on some Kava Kava, I’ve used it to stop anxiety attacks, and it has the added bonus of not making you vulnerable to drug charges.
katz, if you don’t mind, can you please share your email address with me? (If you don’t want to post it here in the comments, you can just email me at aaliyahsyed94[at]gmail[dot]com and confirm that it’s you.)
I have great confidence that you will be fine on your own, Ally.
Ally, I wish you good luck with everything.
All the luck, Ally.
Amtrak is an awesome way to travel. When I moved from Syracuse to Seattle I took the train, and it was a pretty neat three days. Lots of beautiful scenery.
I’m really looking forward to the train trip from LA to Chicago. Up through the mountains, whoot!
You should get one of my cats 🙂
katz has the best cats! (I’ve met one of them.) But seriously, shelter cats are the best. If you’re willing to adopt an older one, that’s even better. It’s not as hard to find homes for kittens. If you get a rescue cat that’s been fostered, you’ll have a really good idea of their temperament, which can be really hard to determine when they’re still in shelters.
I wish I could smuggle a Katz Cat home with me …
“It’s a fur collar, officer. Of course it didn’t move. Could someone get the sniffer dog over here, please? I think this TSA officer has been tripping acid. He’s seeing imaginary cats.”
Ruminating …
I was reading a Captain Awkward post about a creepy NiceGuy(TM). One of the commenters mentioned a persistent “What’s he got that I haven’t got?” idiot, to whom she eventually answered “Me.”
What gets me is that these guys don’t seem to grasp that anyone is a unique person. It’s like they think we’re interchangeable, or that all that matters (to women, maybe?) is that some mysterious checklist gets ticked. It never seems to occur to them that, yes, dude, you might be kind, funny, generous, employed, good looking, whatever – but you aren’t him. You are not that person, that specific combination of the physical and emotional, the thoughts and history and everything else that goes to make someone who they are.
Why is this so hard to understand?
(These thoughts brought to you by a Very Good Day At Home.)
Also black kitties need homes the most. If you like, auggz, I can ask about good rescues in your area.
::extra sigh::
I would love to have a black kitty. 🙁
Poor black kitties, wonder if my ex-FWBs wants another, he’s already got two (one of which may well be evil considering its ability to get into the bedroom and timing!)
Kitteh — “dropping acid” and afaik dogs can’t smell it — certainly not once ingested (and it metabolizes fast, you’ll test clean soon enough my standard has been “don’t piss in a cup while tripping and you should be fine”)
It’s very bad for cats. Worst for solid black, but bad for all “plain” colors: B/W, gray, brown tabby, especially shorthairs. White/pointed cats go the fastest, followed by orange.
People don’t like shorthairs? Shorthairs are my favorites. 🙁
katz, I really wish I could keep one of your cats – I’ve always wanted to have a black cat. For obvious reasons, though, I can’t keep one of them in this house. Hopefully your cats will go to good owners very soon, but if you’re ever still looking for owners later on, I might be able to take one once I’m living on my own. Just letting you know.
But shorthairs are less mess and less fuss!
You know, the only decent reasons I can think of to get a non-shelter cat: someone you know needs a new home or kitty goes to shelter, taking in a stray/barn cat (my aunt has at least 4 of those), another sort of rescue kitty.
I don’t think any of my relatives have ever bought a cat and fuck, all total we’ve probably had 100+ (my aunt had 50~ at one point, mostly barn cats she was feeding) — we had over a dozen when both cats had litters at once (and promptly got sprayed once the kittens stopped nursing [we’re near a few colleges, gave the little ones away])
You know…the two from those litters that we kept where a pair of black males no one wanted (who both ended up vanishing 🙁 ) — the 10+ tabbies got squeed over.
(FTR, this was the 80s, cats staying indoors wasn’t really a thing around here yet, the current kitty has been out three times — lost and confused just past the steps twice, carried by my brother on Halloween)
I knew that joke would misfire! 😛
The only cat we’ve had who was bought was the first, before my time. All the others were dumped in our yard (three), one abandoned by the scumbags across the street, and the others all from shelters.
So my little sisters are sending me some rather strange emails. Here’s a recent one from the youngest sister (8-years-old):
That roughly translates to:
aghaaaaaghagha’a’aagh’aghbabafafaghaaghafabalafaaghabafalafabaghama zamzam. mamamamamamamananatatahaaaat. aghaghaaaaghaghaghagh
And here’s an email from the older one (9-years-old):
They’re just adorable.
Strange is an understatement! 😛
I think Louis’s got it worked out about kitties. We went to a market yesternight,and took Katie along (we rode our bikes, she likes sitting in the basket). So we’re standing at a stall with all wood carvings and wood toys and stuff, and Louis being into carpentery for the last four centuries-odd is talking to the stallholder/carver about techniques. Katie was riding on my shoulder and leapt down, CRASH into the display, then marched up to sniff the stallholder. Thank goodness they were amused (she wouldn’t have done any damage, but still).
I told Miss she has no manners at all, and Louis commented later that cat manners are the opposite of human manners.
I think he’s right.
Totally dumb question, but how do you quickly defrost frozen chicken?
… I’m currently microwaving a bowl of water with the frozen as hell chicken inside of it. >_>
Alice — carefully. Be prepared to sacrifice the shrivelled edges. If you can throw it into a pot of boiling water instead of the microwave, it will at least not turn into an alien life form when it overcooks.
I don’t own a kettle, that’s why it was in a bowl of water in the microwave.
Tonight’s dinner: something that will be overcooked and gross.