Comments | phoebesmum: In my case, the road to hell is paved with evil thorts

phoebesmum

In my case, the road to hell is paved with evil thorts

May 24, 2009 23:50

Is it wrong to be a bit - just a little bit - pleased that my sister ("The pretty one" as some of you may recall) has put on some weight since she reached middle age ( Read more... )

tellystuff, mad family, who writes this stuff, writer's block

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hyperfocused May 24 2009, 23:29:11 UTC

I don't know about you, but any heaven I want to go to will always have brownies over cleaning.

phoebesmum May 25 2009, 21:05:34 UTC

In heaven there will be no dust. There will be cat hair, but it will stay on the cats and thus not need vacuuming. And brownies will be non-fattening, as will ice-cream. And there will be hot and cold running Dan Rydells on tap.

*sigh*

itzcoatl May 25 2009, 08:42:22 UTC

I don't think you would be human if you didn't rejoice a tiny bit in her weight gain.

You sound like you had a very busy/worthy Sunday. I spent all of Sunday lying wrapped up in a huge jumper shivering and thinking I just might be about to die. Well, except for the thirty or more times I was racing to the bathroom to vomit up litres of yellow liquid. (Though where the liquid was coming from I don't know, since I was just sipping water.) (I couldn't even drink TEA, that's how bad it was.)

Feel a bit better today although my throat is still incredibly sore. This bug I caught is very nasty indeed.

If you find yourself at a loose end lying awake, you could always come up with an idea for this kiddie's book suitable for ages 5 to 8 that I want to do. I've decided the chameleon just won't cut it, so I've abandoned him.

I've got a week off coming up at the beginning of June where I'd like to get stuck into doing illos, but I just can't come up with a SINGLE idea. It's ridiculous.

phoebesmum May 25 2009, 21:12:58 UTC

I'm very fond of my sister, but there's no doubt she's a lot more perfecter than what I am. She got married (even if she did wait till she was 30, and even if her husband is - gasp! - half-Indian)! She had two adorable little boys (even if she did bring them up according to all sorts of half-baked modern ideas)! And, of course, she never did anything embarrassing like end up in hospital with a stomach full of sleeping pills. And she comes all the way up from Penzance, which there's no way she can afford, to spend what must be perfectly ghastly weekends with my mother, in the course of which she attempts to do some cleaning and tidying ( ... )

itzcoatl May 25 2009, 22:27:08 UTC

My brother has been similarly succesful in all sorts of ways in which I have not. While you do not begrudge them their happiness in the least, it's still mildly disgruntling. *G ( ... )

phoebesmum May 28 2009, 20:49:59 UTC

I've taken one iron pill a day for three days and so far all I have to show for it is an upset stomach. *sigh*

I'll send you the file with the Kew Gardens story again, but I don't think I'm likely to get any further with it. It needs too much research ...

Thread 5

lucky_jack May 25 2009, 09:32:31 UTC

It is never never wrong to be pleased when pretty people put on weight. Fact.

phoebesmum May 25 2009, 21:02:33 UTC

She still looks better than I do, but it's a step in the right direction.