What do you feel like saying, right now?

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by IrishLake

Vito, wtf kind of person did you have to buy for? What a dick.

Believe it or not, my mother. I sometimes wonder how we have such different attitudes involving material possessions.

[amIblue?]

Communion by intinction gives me the icks. Especially in cold and flu season.

[GeorgiaGreek]

Originally Posted by lovespink88

Question for cat owners from a new cat owner:

How can I get my kitty to stop treating me like a fellow cat/large play thing?

When they were acting up, we would pick our kitties up (well not really lift them but kind of hold them) by the scruffs of their necks. Not enough to hurt them, but just in the way mother cats do to their kittens to assert authority. Sometimes doing this and saying "No!" in a forceful tone got them to calm down.

Spray bottles of water are also good tools for making kittens know that they can't claw up the carpet/walk around on the kitchen table/etc.

Cats are pretty hard to train with verbal commands; You either have to physically assert dominance (not violently of course), squirt them, or wait until they get older and sit around in the same chair 20/24 hours like my 8 year old black cat does. Then again our 2 are outdoor cats except when it's cold and they sucker my parents into letting them be indoor cats between bathroom breaks, so they might be a little more difficult to control.

[WCsweet<3]

Having Christmas Eve dinner at my house in about two hours. Normally I'm panicking at this point and scrubbing every surface reachable. This year the cleaning is finished and I've done all the cooking that can happen ahead of time. All that is left is to wrap presents, but those don't have to be done until tomorrow... It makes me nervous almost as if I'm forgetting something.

[AGDee]

I'm having company staying with me the next two nights and I have everything done except the cleaning. I need to get started on that now.

Christmas with my family is done. Kids opened gifts this morning and gave me a gift certificate for a deep tissue massage Hypo's idea, of course!


I got the whole house clean except for vacuuming/sweeping/mopping floors. OMG I'm tired, but wired at the same time. I've never been able to go from rushing around to do things straight to bed. Time to wind down with A Christmas Story

Merry Christmas!

[BAckbOwlsgIrl]

Last year, my SIL yelled at me for telling my nephew to be quiet.

This year, despite that, I sent gift cards to the nephews. I didn't even get a measly Christmas card.

Merry Fing Christmas.

And now she decides that she wants to speak to me on the phone at my parent's house. Yah, feel guilty and try to keep your kid's part of the inheritance. After it all, I still have no desire to talk to her. Forget taking the high road, I am breaking trail and making my own road.

Merry Fing Christmas.

[tinydancer]

Mexican food and snow for Christmas - excellent!

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by BAckbOwlsgIrl

Last year, my SIL yelled at me for telling my nephew to be quiet.

This year, despite that, I sent gift cards to the nephews. I didn't even get a measly Christmas card.

Merry Fing Christmas.

And now she decides that she wants to speak to me on the phone at my parent's house. Yah, feel guilty and try to keep your kid's part of the inheritance. After it all, I still have no desire to talk to her. Forget taking the high road, I am breaking trail and making my own road.

Merry Fing Christmas.

Your SIL and mine sound like they're two peas in a pod.

[IUHoosiergirl88]

Found out BF's mom is still weird about us moving in together once he graduates in May and moves to DC for law school. Really woman? We've been dating for 4 years in January and have discussed getting engaged after 2L. That and do you really want to pay $1000+ for a place when he and I could be splitting a 2BR for $750-800 each?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

Communion by intinction gives me the icks. Especially in cold and flu season.

We must have different definitions of intinction, then. Our church gives you a piece of bread and you dip it in the cup. Much less germiness than a standard common cup.

[WCsweet<3]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

We must have different definitions of intinction, then. Our church gives you a piece of bread and you dip it in the cup. Much less germiness than a standard common cup.

I think she means when the host is put in the persons mouth. After being a eucharistic minister, I much prefer intinction even when I am not sick. They need to give the ministers a disinfecting cloth instead of just a piece of fabric.

[StealthMode]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

We must have different definitions of intinction, then. Our church gives you a piece of bread and you dip it in the cup. Much less germiness than a standard common cup.

GC taught me what that was called because I was calling it "the fondue communion."

Merry Christmas! Happy Kwanzaa and Hanukkah and all those, too! Hope everyone is having a great holiday and that the weather isn't too bad where you are!

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

We must have different definitions of intinction, then. Our church gives you a piece of bread and you dip it in the cup. Much less germiness than a standard common cup.

Nope, same definition. The common cup is not standard for us. Individual "shot glass" type glasses are. When I think about hands being used to cover coughs and sneezes and rub eyes, noses and mouths and even pick their noses then using same hands to dip a piece of bread into grape juice (no wine in our current church), I get the icks.

I've seen how unsteady some of these people are. Fingers hit the juice over and over again. Our church membership is just under five thousand people. There are at least several hundred people in each service. Honestly, I would prefer for the body and the blood of Christ to apparate to me in individually wrapped and sanitized containers so that I could not be distracted by germs. (I get frequent upper respiratory infections, so I'm a little paranoid.)

Originally Posted by WCsweet<3

I think she means when the host is put in the persons mouth. After being a eucharistic minister, I much prefer intinction even when I am not sick. They need to give the ministers a disinfecting cloth instead of just a piece of fabric.

Nope. We're not that fancy.

Originally Posted by StealthMode

GC taught me what that was called because I was calling it "the fondue communion."

I love it! Fondue without the forks!

ETA: FWIW, I also avoid any kind of dip/salsa/etc. at parties for the same reason. At least at communion there's no double dipping danger.

[txAOII_15]

I feel like I never quite went to sleep, and I never quite woke up. Been feeling muted all day.

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by StealthMode

GC taught me what that was called because I was calling it "the fondue communion."

The cheese of life, melted for you?