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@The Everpresent Wordsnatcher Yep, "doesn't like how hyphens look." But she does like exclamation points used in the middle of a sentence to emphasize a word (a word which may or may not also be bold, all caps, italics, and/or underlined -- oh, and in quotation marks too, so that you know it is an "IMPORTANT!!!!" word.
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@@serenityfound UGH, ROOMMATES! Never again!
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Apropos of nothing, but because so many of us in here (I think) seem to like the idea of red jeans, I figured I'd share: I just got a cute (and cheap!) pair today at Target. I went in to check out their "Shops" because the line of clothes called The Webster looked cute on the site.
I can't find them on the site now, but my search just led me to these shoes, neither pair of which I saw when I was there in person:
http://tinyurl.com/cksre6b
http://tinyurl.com/8837ryw
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@Fodforever and everyone: Thank you, thank you, thank you for patiently listening and replying to what really amounts to First-World Problems in the grand scheme of things. I appreciate it very much. I now have a cup of non-office-(full of dummies!) coffee and a cigarette after taking a shower with my coconut-scented body wash, and the BF (on whom I will consciously not take take out this crap--and who just called to see if I need anything) is on the way here to watch movies and drink beer with me.
So, I'd love to find a new job but... I'm kinda scared to try that right now. Editorial work seems scarce (along with a lot of other types of work) and, because I get paid somewhat well, I've recently decided to start looking to buy a townhouse (and that point was just now punctuated by the approximately 250 crying babies surrounding me on all sides. Oh, timing, you really are everything). I need to figure out how not to be so bothered by this work stuff; I mean, "they" want it that way, it's their catalog, and they pay me, so I should... go with the flow, I guess? But it's hard for some people (and I have a vague feeling that copy editor types probably make up a big percentage of "some people").
Anyway... thanks for indulging my freakout, and I am so sorry if I gave you fellow editors terrible flashbacks and sympathy rage!
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@@serenityfound But why didn't they just put the big one in the living room? That is where big TVs go!
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@likethestore Recently 41, you young people, and I assure you, it's all good (mostly) on this side of the... line? Fence? Grave?
@leon.saintjean I really love that you frequently work cheese into your posts! And thank you for reminding me that I have a wedge of brie in the refrigerator.
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@Mingus_Thurber I'm sorry; that's terrible. Pets, man...
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@The Everpresent Wordsnatcher Someone needs to invent packing supplies for this exact chore... like lightweight styrofoam/cardboard boxes in the shapes of portable cabinets and drawers. Same for bathrooms. In fact, same for all of the rooms!
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@Two-Headed Girl Well, congratulations! Oh, it's fun! And if it pleases you to know this, I have had my Ikea coffee table for 10 years now and, other than a few errant nail polish splashes, it's fine! I cannot say the same for the end table though; it's from the same "family" at Ikea ("Lack") but, instead of a wood(like?) finish, it's dark blue something-or-other, and it's nick-and-chip city on that bitch.
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@Mingus_Thurber Oh, man--I am tearing up over here, but what you've said is pretty much right on, and I remember feeling that exact way when I lost my 17-year-old cat a few years ago; every time I saw a certain pair of black DM boots on the floor out of the corner of my eye, they looked like teh shape of Tim sitting and I'd kind of be like, "Oh, hey you... oops, nope." And I'm glad that you at least know that it was an easy kind of passing for Max, and the kind that we all hope for for our pets.
Obviously, it will get easier and you'll get used to it. I'm afraid, though (in my case, at least), that it's never not sad, and never something I want to think too much about; it still feels bad--which, I guess, is just an indication of how much someone loved a pet. But it does feel "normal," eventually, if that makes sense. Just take care of yourself and, you know, have your freakouts and tears when you need to.