BATCAVE 3: THE AMAZING MAZE

The Bat Dame thinks there's a need in the community to have a place, besides SubCare, where writers can go to moan and whine in the darkness. A glum place. A place to feel subdued, humbled-by-the-process, hopeless (not that SHE feels this way).

So lower yourselves to the deepest, ugliest pits. Only then can you be uplifted to superhero status (aka published). For darkness can't exist without light, hunger without satiation, sadness without joy, despair without hope.

Here is the place for the equal and opposite reaction. 

To new bats, we understand the cave is a confuzzling place. Bats speak a
furrin language, say and do the opposite of what they mean - they
unwelcome new folk, unhug each other )))like this((( and sound as if
they are completely crazy. Witch they are.

Howsomever, it's a good kind of crazy. The kind that supports and helps
other bats through the bad times, and razzes them through the good
times. Bleeds and prays for hurting bats, cries with sad bats, and
suitably chastises happy bats. Got all that?

Posting smilies, cleaning the cave and letting in sun is against the
spirit and purpose of the cave. We need dark. We need gloom. We can't
get it anywhere else. Nor can we beech and moan anywhere else. This is
our cave-from-home.

So make yourself at cave here, beech and moan about your writing and
your life with the rest of us, and before you know it, you'll wonder how
you got along without bats. Or we got along without you.

All unclear now? Ungood. Fwap in and pull up a stalactite.

 

Visit the old batcave here.

Me?

Me?

Edited to add: Neener neener. 

~*~

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

No fair! Well, at least I

No fair!

Well, at least I had the last werd in the old cave.

Neener 

 

Achewerally

Achewerally, Spam, I DID.  Haha.  Although, technically I suppose Satire did when she posted the gnu linky.

http://www.grace-tyler.com

A breezy love story. --Scarlet at Romance Junkies
A wonderful tale of two people reconnecting. -- Maura at Coffee Time

P~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>DisGracie

Could the Aimspawn have

Could the Aimspawn have been any more annoying tonight? ARGH! It's a good thing for them that I've discontinued spankings or they'd both be limping tomorrow. Fussing, fighting, arguing, refusing to listen, picking on each other, not staying in bed, making noise, and when I finally made 'em stop getting out of bed, they started calling the dog. What's the big deal about that? Well, there's two Aimspawn. There's only one dog.

I think you can see where that's heading, and if you can't, clearly you ain't a payrent.

Now Firebug keeps hissing--not even guano guess why. I'm pretending I don't hear him. I really don't want to argue anymore tonight, because if I do, my head might explode all over my jest-Laured living room.

Aimpissed {^Yell^}

~*~

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

argh

Well, it finally happened. I signed one of my notes to my class "Guanna". The student was a wee bit confused. Sigh.

-- Guanna

"When it rains cats and dogs be careful not to step in a poodle."
"Although the young lion wanted to attend the zebras' poker night, he wasn't allowed to play with his food."
"I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious." -- The Office

no happy at all that i got

not happy at all that i got the last word in the old cave, and in the top ten !!! p~~~~~~~~~~`

Cave names

Guanna, Boredom works at the uni I worked at, and is Very Important in the IT department there. So, lots of people know him, and know I'm connected to him. And several times I have referred to him in conversation as 'Boredom' instead of his other name. And out there in the real world, referring to your partner is Boredom is, yannow, quite cavey.

Not laughing at Guanna and

Not laughing at Guanna and Bron.  I, thank dog, caught my email before sending it as Tintits one night.  Not sure who it was  two.  Jest not glad I caught it.

Anybatty else think that kissing scene shoulda been at a different angle on that thar Jodi's MySpaz?  

I guess whomevah did laundry after I did yesterday, put in a red crayon.  That was so BH wood recognize his unmentionables when they came out of the wash.  Sooo unglad I washed mine foist. Yes, he does his own laundry. That was his idea.  

C4 asked me how I gnu XOXO ment *gack* hugs and kisses.  Tole him I was smart.  He believed me!  I got him fooled.  

Tintits 

Almost fergot.  Uncongrats

Almost fergot.  Uncongrats Knell on the gnu yob!

Tinitis 

sigh

And now they've made the connection to bats. My secret identity is ruined!

So I admitted that I'm not human. I am a bat who feeds on chocolate at night. I instructed them to lock their doors, windows and belfries.

I'll never live this down. More than once I've typed the name, caught myself and changed it. This time I goofed. It's usually when I visit the cave and then visit my classroom. Stoopid Guanna. I's an idjit sometimes.

Thank goodness I teach comedy. I can purtend it was on purpose.

Meanwhile, I's exhausted from more heavy duty cleaning today. I have made real progress, however. Soon, even more portions of mess will be gone. My place will never be clean in the Lurid sense, but for me, this is spotless.

-- Guanna

"When it rains cats and dogs be careful not to step in a poodle."
"Although the young lion wanted to attend the zebras' poker night, he wasn't allowed to play with his food."
"I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious." -- The Office

secret indemnities

So the world now knows Guanna's secret indemnity, as well as
Boredom's. I only jest realized I could make a fortune blackmaling bats
about this stuff. But it won't werk if youse all go and blow your own
covers.

Why is it some days are diamonds and some days are
stone? Today was a stony one (NYS). Could hardly get my batrazz outa my
chair, far less do anything condestructive. So I didn't. 

In
udder gnus, I fwapped into the gnu cave without being steered via my
profile page. Only tooked two months. Bet youse tomorrow I'm back on
the well-fwapped path.

Valkyrie 

)))))))Valkyrie(((((((. 

)))))))Valkyrie(((((((. 

I've got the OBH.  I stink my cold has morphed into a sinus infection, plus I've got an earache.  Should be tons of fun at werk with 24 screaming kiddos. 

Gnu cave is way too shiny.  We need to dreckafy it a bit.

Chigger

Gnu Cave

Go to bed one night and wake up to find a gnu cave.

How cavey.

And I've kept my secret identity intact so far but none of my co-shirkers would get if I did let it slip.

Missmell

Chief Annoyance Ossifer of the BatCave

http://www.micheleks.blogspot.com

Put some hotel pics on

Secrud Identity...

so far, I've not had to let co-shurkers see the SheRAH, Peencess of Powah yet.  But they sense it.

Unwoo-hoo! Unwoo-hoo for Knell's gnu yob! Join me in the lesser paid, but supremely less stressed group, Knell.

And with that, I hexpect nekkid is not how the werk wants to see me today, so better go get dressed. I didn't reserve any such compunctions bout youse seeing me this way, so deal with it.

Valkyrie, my mudder used to say some days was chicken, and some days nuthing but feathers. I dunno. I suspect she hit the drinkin' sherry sometimes....

Working in my nightgown

I'm not getting paid enough to dress up.  Besides, if one has to shurk in the middle of the night, one ought to get to wear her jammies. 

So, I'm not fwapping nekkid, just in housedress/nightie.  I call it a nightgown, but my MIL wears something almost exactically like this *in old fart MIL colors* to breakfast at the old folks' home, and when I tease her about it, she claims it is a housecoat and perfectly fine to wear in "public."  "Besides, everyone else wears their pajamas to breakfast."

Good for them.

If I go to breakfart in a "hotel" where everyone wears pj's to breakfart, I hope it is a Sandals resort or somesuch, and I am not in a room full of antiquarians observing them in various states of dress/undress. 

I am keeping my secret identity seacrud so far.  Except that DH keeps looking over my shoulder when I am on the confuzer, so he knows about my eH login name (see above indication of my crush on Johnny Depp).  He says to me during an amorous embrace, "When are you going to love me enough to change your last name from Depps to _______(DH's last name)?"  Sigh. 

 

Why can't I have any fun without DH making me feel guilty?  I suppose I wouldn't like it if he nicknamed himself Darren Alba or something, but whatever. 

http://www.grace-tyler.com

A breezy love story. --Scarlet at Romance Junkies
A wonderful tale of two people reconnecting. -- Maura at Coffee Time

Sigh.

Alarm didn't go off.  Firebug woke up super-cranky.  Vampling sez he didn't sleep well and was crying and slightly feverish, so I had an out-of-character nice moment and told him he could stay home.  Now I's jest trying to get FB to get dressed and I'm >< this close to sending him in his undies cuz of his battitude.

Jest anudder moaning at the Aimcave, all right.

Aimless 

~*~

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

So if Vampling stays home

Does that mean you stay home too and miss shurk? Or does step mom watch him?

Tarred. What's gnu? I hate this cold, and I'm ready to pass it along.

Regarding HD DVD vs Bluray--Disney has been doing only Bluray, Walmart has decided not to carry HD DVDs any more, and there was an announcement on the gnus today that Toshiba is no longer developing or manufacturing the HD-DVD players.  So I guess you better go Bluray.

http://www.grace-tyler.com

A breezy love story. --Scarlet at Romance Junkies
A wonderful tale of two people reconnecting. -- Maura at Coffee Time

First day back at werk and

First day back at werk and gave my notice. I have one month of part time to do then I have two weeks hol before the gnu job.

I'm worried about how tight munney will be but I am so convinced I'm doing the right thing, it's like a huge load has gone off my shoulders.

Knell

OBQ

Let's have the One Bat Quit and all give notice. Wither that, or outlaw ninth graders.

 

Catty

Got hungup on playing

Got hungup on playing mahjong last night while a book was downloading.  For some reason played an extra 4 games until I won, of corse.  Now, I's tarred.

Realized my new new orthotics are not doing what they's supposta.  my plantar faciitis is coming back.  Oh joy.  If it's not one foot problem it's an udder.  Here comes another round of appts.

Batlings is home from skewl all week being bored.  At least the sun came out and they can complain of nothing to do outside.

}}}}}Valkyrie{{{{{ 

Tinitis 

Outlaws

Let's not just outlaw 9th graders.  Let's outlaw everyone who bugs us.  Like Tom Cruise.  "not in my reality"

http://www.grace-tyler.com

A breezy love story. --Scarlet at Romance Junkies
A wonderful tale of two people reconnecting. -- Maura at Coffee Time

Gloaty McGloat

I know it's nothing compared to y'all's page production, but I's got me 500 new words.  And I'm not pleased as punch about it, neither.

http://www.grace-tyler.com

A breezy love story. --Scarlet at Romance Junkies
A wonderful tale of two people reconnecting. -- Maura at Coffee Time

Fine Gloat.  I haven't

Fine Gloat.  I haven't written a word in days.  If you keep that up, disGracie, you may be akuzed of aimlessing.  Watch out.

Tintits 

Wednesday Morning

Want chocorat. And since I have some in the house. Snarf, gobble, munch.

No shurk today. Rioting will be mischieved.

Whinges 

 

To Love and To Cherish - Harlequin Romance March 08
The Boss's Unconventional Assistant - Harlequin Romance August 08
Promoted:Secretary to Wife! Harlequin Romance January 2009
http://www.jennieadams.net http://www.jennieadams.net/diary.htm

I'm feeling almost bat-like

I'm feeling almost bat-like again. This after a week of feeling like I should jest go crawl unner a rock and die. Mebbe tonight, after everybatty has goned to bed, I kin riot.

P~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!! to youse all.

~Lurid

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert A. Heinlein
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other
people.
Thomas Ma

ping pong

Grabs ping pong bat (NYBs) and deflects Lurid's p~~~~~~ right back
at her. I woked up at 5 am this moaning, as opposed to 5am in the pee
em, and rioted a happlication for a gnu job too. Must be the OBGJ going
around. Don't know if I really wanna do this, but I hafta get out of
the house some part of the day or risk going crazier than I already is.
Not sure about getting back to rioting yet but one fwap at a time.

Going
to the support group meeting today.But first I need coughee, read the
gnuspaper and a OBN not necessarily in that odor. Don't have a nice day
anybatsies.

Valkyrie 

Not swishing Valkyrie goof

Not swishing Valkyrie goof luck with gnu job or nuffin'.

DisGrace, tell dh that "Depps" is your secrud identity so that you won't have to worry about stalker fans and such. Hey, we already have one bat with a stalker, we don't need any more!

Did you know that the local mall closest to me does NOT sell a certain type of stuffed animal? Well, they don't. That sux. Now I will have to go to different place Thursday while grossery shopping, and I might just have to buy some chocorat to ease my depression at the thought of not finding said stuffed animule.

Obeying odors

I'm obeying odors by not having a good day. Thanks, Valkyrie. A job doesn't sound like a great idea.

It's time to pick the kids up from skool (2:30 pm), so I have to get up and wash up and get dressed. About time, I guess. Will be interesting to see how life shapes up after I gets used to this silly job schedule.

Bat Idea, Hippo. I'll tell DH such. 

http://www.grace-tyler.com

A breezy love story. --Scarlet at Romance Junkies
A wonderful tale of two people reconnecting. -- Maura at Coffee Time

Bleurgh

It's moaning. Fortunately, not 5am, witch is an hour that doesn't exist in this household.

DisGrace, I haven't rioted anywhere near that for ages. I've been trying to work on another project for uni, and telling myself I can't riot on my dreck until I finish this project, so I'm doing neither. Today I will try to achieve something. On both of them.

)))))Valkyrie((((( Bat luck with the job application.

I haven't been off the block since Saturday, so I'm going into town today. Guano enter my bliss socks and a skein of very boring (not cavespeak) yarn into the Harmidale show - they're all I have to enter, but I only enter to make sure there are some entries and support the Show. Just remembered that I could also enter one of my handwoven bookmarks as well - that being the total of my spinning and weaving for the year. 

Discovered last night that as well as her stiff back-end, and other assorted medical problems, The Princess Dog has a lump on her side. So, I get to phone the vet for another appointment, and get to take her in sometime soon.

when I last looked

Knell was maybe not going to be miserable at work any more. So? Well? Knell?

And Valkyrie don't tell us what kind of job it is, okay? We want to be frustrated and mystified.  

miskate, summer devon, whatever
http://katerothwell.blogspot.com

Yeah, git a yob, Valkyrie,

Yeah, git a yob, Valkyrie, so you can join the rest of us employed whingers (NYW).

)))Princess Lumpy Dawg(((

Am baking a roast beast for dinnah tonight. We's havin' roast beast dip sammiches for dinnah.

~Lurid

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert A. Heinlein
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other
people.
Thomas Ma

I just got official notice

this week I gots boys around the house. Lots of boys, mooching around the place just because they say they have the week off from school. Sure, sure.

The local gummit decided no, you all aren't tortured enough by a random February Vacation when the weather's too stinky to just randomly push the children out. SO they arranged more fun: just outside our house in the middle of the street are a bunch of trucks from some kind of sewage system refab place.

They's gonna give us beautiful new sewers they say but first they gotta stink up the air with steam that smells like sewage and plastic. And then they gotta scare the shirt out of us with notices that seem to be all about the new system except the notes end with:

KEEP YOUR TOILET LIDS CLOSED DURING THIS PROCESS.

Huh? What?

 

miskate, summer devon, whatever
http://katerothwell.blogspot.com

yet questions remain

spam? hotel? are you buying Lex's hotel? what are you, nutz?

Bron? does Boredom call you bronwhine just to get back at you?

Slosh? Why do you want the air force to show up for coffee?

aimless? you aimlessing anything?

guanna? what happened to your song in the UK?

and what the flip are those men doing to my toilets?

the rest of you bats: ask yourselves any questions then answer them. I'm bored. Not boredom or I'd make a better salary and see kualahs occasionally. I'd also have to be a lezbeen or something. Difficult to explain to all families involved. Best to remain bored. 

 

miskate, summer devon, whatever
http://katerothwell.blogspot.com

Staying away from MisKate's

Staying away from MisKate's toities.

In udder gnus, Hippo and Lurid are Math Ijit Twins, in addition to being Batty Twins (Hippo is the Svedish tvin)...

Hippo came up with 17+20= 29.

Lurid came up with 17+20=27.

Hippo came up with 17+20=37.

So it's clear we shouldn't be adding double digit numbers. Clearly it's beyond our ken.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert A. Heinlein
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other
people.
Thomas Ma

Miskate, not quite buying

Miskate, not quite buying the moantel. But at a $1000 a week to stay here, it sure feels like it. Bad part is, we didn't even sell $3000 worth of portraits these last 3 days, so we's not pulling our wait.

Anudder bad thing is...we don't get tomorrow off! We's beat, frustrated, discouraged, and tarred. We needed a day off after driving 1200 miles and going straight to werk. Now we don't get a day off until Sunday, and they'll probably have us packing up and moving across the state that day--or else they'll send us home cuz we suck.

I"m totally in for the OBQ! Where duz I sign up? And sTony sez he's in, too.

Valkyrie, are youse SURE youse wants a job? If'n you do, you kin have mine. Really, no problem. I'd love to give it to ya.

I's home. This would

I's home. This would normally be a happy occurance, only today it came with the realization that VL's bike has been stolen.  AGAIN! Methinks one of the nayboorhood kids has it in for my Vampling. Aimless is Not A Happy Bat and I'm not sure I've got the $$ to run out and get him anudder bike this time. DAMMIT. I hate clepto kids!!!

In udder gnus, I'm sure there wuz some but I's got no idear what it could be.

Aimpissed

~*~

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Toliet gas

MisKate, in my state it's a legal requirement to have a gap in the toilet door, or otehr similar strategy in case a burst of gas comes up from the sewerage. Apparently, in a small space, this can be dangerous without some way for the gas to hexcape. If they're doing stuff with your sewerage mains, and want you to keep the toilet lid closed, I'd also be suggesting that nobat in your household closes the door right up while they're in there for a few days. Very batty, I know.

toilets have doors?

who knew?

The guy outside our door, leaning on our porch while he watched his coworkers work, told me a heeeelarious story about a man a few towns over who was on the can when they were doing this process. Air bubbles came blurrbling up, blasting the toitysitter in a big way....oh ahahahahaha.

I'm running away tomorrow.

miskate, summer devon, whatever
http://katerothwell.blogspot.com

I've decided to run away

aimless, didn't you mark

aimless, didn't you mark vampling's bike so it would be recognizeable? That's one of the things they taught us when my kids were young. like scratching a security number in an unusual spot.  not easily seen but locatable if one is looking for it. 

dd is traveling to Israel

dd is traveling to Israel for classes for a few months. Her flight with BA was problems with baggage so they gave her a direct flight but it meant changing from JFK to Newark.  DH had to drive her from JFK to Newark.  Hope they give her additional compensation for the inconvenience and cost beside the direct flight on Continental. 

Jobs and the PITA pit

Valkryie, bat luck on the job. And also a unCongrats to Knell on her gnu job. 

I would like to kick my sister-in-law into the PITA pit and weigh her down really good. She just kicked my sister and her family out of her house and now they're with my dad but they can't stay with him for too long. My sister and her husband are trying like mad to find jobs and could use a little help but no. I've barely let my brother off the hook because he's married to this beech but still.

But my daddy-bat reminded me of one thing: what goes around comes around.  

Missmell

Chief Annoyance Ossifer of the BatCave

http://www.micheleks.blogspot.com

First you'd have to be home

Spam, first you'd have to be HOME before you could run away from same. 

 

Dizzy is the beech from hell tonight.  Poor thing doesn't feel good either.  Do I care?  I'm sick, and I'm supposed to be werking. 

http://www.grace-tyler.com

A breezy love story. --Scarlet at Romance Junkies
A wonderful tale of two people reconnecting. -- Maura at Coffee Time

Just a technicality,

yes Karma does do a number.

yes Karma does do a number.

If that's true, I must have

If that's true, I must have been a truly awful person before.

Eddification

It's all for your eddification, sPam, to make you a batter poison.

http://www.grace-tyler.com

A breezy love story. --Scarlet at Romance Junkies
A wonderful tale of two people reconnecting. -- Maura at Coffee Time

It's not making me a better

It's not making me a better person, DisGracie. I's truly closer to giving up than I ever have been before,

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