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I'm back from Atlanta. That was a long trip, and we were only gone for a week. One thing I will never understand is people who like to take long drives. You want to drive, go ahead and drive. I'll meet you at the airport.

The highlight of the trip was lunch with Gail O'Neill from Mission: Organization. Wonderful woman, as nice as can be, and the absolute perfect person to host the show. Her house is spotless.

The lowpoint of the trip was the constant, completely unsubtle suggestions that it's long past time for me to produce a child. And they call me selfish.

On the drive down, DH and I stopped and had dinner with Brian and his wife Amy, originally mentioned in this entry. That went very, very well. Perhaps we've made a new couple-friend. Too bad they live three hours away. I'd like to be friends with someone whom I can see without one or more of us having to take vacation time.

Got the gas line installed today. Possibly we'll have heat this winter. Made a dentist appoinment. Got my copy of Sliders seasons 1 & 2. The pilot is so good. Then it's like they went off and made some other show that had vaguely heard of the pilot.

Happy belated birthday to

thedrkraven. You're 30, you old man. :-pppppp

I would have posted on your birthday, but I was stuck in a black car with no air conditioning for 14 hours with my mother and husband. If that won't exonerate me, I don't know what will. :)

Now to post a drabble that happened . . . possibly in Tennessee.

Title: On Time
Fandom: NSTP
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: Not mine. Freemantle's, I think.
Words: 100 + 2 (title)

Sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour. After that it doesn't matter. The last nineteen minutes were 4:27. No reason except I could. Ate my meals in Moscow, Paris, Chicago. All were breakfast. I stood on an ocean beach, a river bluff, a mountain, a window ledge on a skyscraper. I looked over the tops of corn stalks, pussy willows, and sand dunes. Watched the sun set seven times today, but haven't seen night in recent memory. I can go anywhere, stay as long as I like.

Just don't ask me what time it is at home.

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Hey, tell them when they are willing to pay for the loss of income and the increase in expenses that children bring, you'll be ready to have children on their schedule. Until then....

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The scary thing is, my mom just might take me up on the offer.

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That takes the fun right out of that strategy.

BTW, tonight I saw one of the best Smallville eps of the season. I say this because I have great luck with Smallville. There might be a handful of episodes, if that, that are watchable each season and if I haven't seen any SV in awhile I catch one. Though, of course, my mileage may very greatly from the fans perspective.

Though, I had an epiphany. Smallville is a sci-fi soap opera with better cinematography.

Which episode?

I've noticed that are about two or three really good episodes per season. The rest are a waste of time.

*guh*

Just *guh*.

100 words and you own me, woman. I hate you for being this brilliant and thinking of things I don't think of.

Okay?

And more *guh*

Also, feel free to remind them that the planet is over populated and go on a rant about how ecologically unsound having children is at this point in history and mention oozing eyeballs and cancerous leisons just to make it all complete. And how subjecting children to such an unstable environment is selfish. Feel free to reflect their own self-absorbed need to use children as a psychological pacifier back to them and point out that they're the selfish ones, having children just because *they* want to. Never asking if the child wants to be had.

I'd also suggest saying that you're just having such a hard time getting Rob pregnant. See if they give you funny looks.

And, if that fails, tell them to go make children if they want them. Since when was your job to be the designated babymaker?

*hugs* Man, I dread when that point in my life comes.

And you know what, you're right about the Sliders pilot. It's like they're siblings that look alike but not enough to be twins. And one is much cuter than the other. See also - the O'Connell brothers.

- Meg

>I hate you for being this brilliant and thinking of things I don't think of.

Only if I get to hate you back.

Thanks for the feedback.

>I'd also suggest saying that you're just having such a hard time getting Rob pregnant.

*chindesk*

ROFLMAO!

Now I love you.

Funny how love and hate are so closely related.

I'd also suggest saying that you're just having such a hard time getting Rob pregnant.

Gah! *snort* I wish I had thought of that one.

Cool drabble -- this a TP one, yes? Wasn't entirely sure. Last line's a kicker.

As for the baby thing... (sigh) Not a pressure that I've been under, but my brother was, not from our lovely parents, but from his church (sigh).
Do you you have any siblings that can take the pressure off for you?

Personally I've got mixed feelings about kids. On the one hand, I figure having kids is kind of one of the things that marriage is for, cuz if you have a good marriage then it behooves you to sort of use that for the benefit of mankind by having kids, because it's better for someone to be born into a happy home. On the other hand, I can understand why one wouldn't want to have kids, because they are so much work. Though for me the question has turned into a moot one, since I'm basically too old, and single; the old spinster Aunt, that's me.

this is a TP one, yes?

Yes. It's not obvious from within the drabble, which is why it's listed in the Fandom: line before the drabble :)

Thanks for the feedback. The last line was one of those happy accidents. I'm pretty sure this is Adam talking.

Do you you have any siblings that can take the pressure off for you?

Yes to the first part, no the second. I have a sister. Ever since she had her daughter, she's been on me to produce a cousin.

I envy you getting to be just the Aunt. You get all the benefits, then you get to return the child when you don't want it anymore.

I suppose you got the "why aren't you married yet?" pressure, which is just as obnoxious.

Thing is, I'm not sure I don't want children. I'm just not in any hurry to make any. Getting all the pressure to produce, however, is making me dig in my heels.

I envy you getting to be just the Aunt. You get all the benefits, then you get to return the child when you don't want it anymore.

(grin) Well it tends to be me visiting them more than them visiting me, but it is pretty cool. I have some great nieces and nephews (three nieces and four nephews, from three siblings). Well, I'm more partial to the nieces, I must admit. And it's revived all the fun of playing board games! On the other hand, I still don't want to hold the baby.

I suppose you got the "why aren't you married yet?" pressure, which is just as obnoxious.

Strangely enough, no. (I said I had lovely parents, didn't I?). Almost the opposite -- Mum actually said she was glad that I wasn't upset because of my lack of hubby. I think she was more concerned with the possibility of my ruining my life by marrying the wrong guy out of desperation, then the possibility of not being married at all. Me, I was never interested in dating and that stuff. Now... I'm not so sure that I wouldn't want to be married, but the possibility seems slim.

Hey no worries on the belated birthday. I am pretending it never happened and I’m still in my 20s. :) I will never grow up! NEVER! (Evil Laugh)

By the way, I haven’t quite gotten into the grove of posting comments on other people’s logs quite yet, so forgive me if this is done incorrectly.

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