Victoria's Secret has quit making the bras I like. I now have to find a new brand of bras that meet my fairly exacting criteria.

Yes, I know, cry everyone (including me) a river. But this is still a pain because I. Hate. To. Shop. especially for stuff like this.

I need a plain cotton (unlined) underwire bra in a 36 D.

There's nothing like perspective. This week was Get Out The Release week, which, as always, led to wailing and gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair. Except from me. I got annoyed and ended up working some OT to help someone who was cleaning up someone ELSE's mess, but upset? Nope. Work cannot upset me anymore ( Read more... )

Anthony got a makeover! That's so sweet in a completely nauseating kind of way.

I have a lot of beads. Friends (not to mention husband) can attest. I carted Mom's bead stash home today. I new there was a stack of it, but the size didn't quite sink in until I started sorting everything. My bead stash has now more than DOUBLED in size.

I started back to work this week and pulled a full 40. I don't know when I've worked a 40 hours before this week - maybe before Christmas because even if Mom was feeling ok, there was still usually a doctor to visit somewhere at least weekly. They were very nice and gave me a pretty planted flower basket. Their support kind of makes up for their ( Read more... )

FBOFW: Grandpa Jim is really, really creepy. Iris should divorce him and live out her life in peace.

Knocked Up: The more I hear about this movie, the more I wonder about consent issues.

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The yarn is lovely, the cookies are great, and the note from Joss is so, so sweet and touching. That you thought of me at a time like that means more than I can say. If I get up to NY again, we're definitely getting together.

Started sorting Mom's stuff. 10 smallish boxes later, her bookshelf only has 2 full shelves remaining. The two STACKED HIGH CRATES are empty ( Read more... )

This is apparently the mindset behind Andrew Speaker's determination to travel despite knowing that he had contagious and drug-resistant TB and that he was on a no-fly list.

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It's a mindset shared by his father, who works for the CDC, studying TB and who advised Andrew to not travel "but did not advise him in any official capacity", by border ( Read more... )