How do I buy a corset?

Not Plei, but I imagine that, once you've found the appropriate corset (according to looks, taste, style, fit, and price), you give the propriator of the establishment the agreed upon sum, and the propriator hands you a corset.

Seems simple enough to me.

t slaps Seanie upside the head

Not Plei, but Aimée, if you want to try some on and see how different styles actually look and sit and feel on your body before going tp Meschantes or whichever online genius Plei recommends, I could ping my corset-owning Snarkygoth friend in Long Beach for local places.

Abby and JSw are making me feel all stammery and warm-faced. I have to go hide now.

Aimee, if you're still on, I haven't seen pix of Le Bebe, if you have one available...

I have to go hide now.

My work here is done.

I kid! Actually, my work at work is done, and now I have to go home. So, once again I depart, and resolve to try and transmit my words from my brain to the actual posting box type place more often in the future.

Ciao!

Ugh. I'm feeling crappier as the night goes on. I'm drinking tea. I've been sucking on vitamin C's all day. I've taken Tylenol Cold. This is gonna be quick and easy, right? I've been planning this party for months. I don't wanna be sick!

Also, remind me that Emily will open her present in just two days. I can wait that long. I must not give it to her now.

You make whipped cream? You mean it doesn't come in a can?

I make whipped cream too. It tastes (to me) much better, and it's not that much work. Well, it was work when I did it with a whisk. Still worth it.

Crawl into a hot shower, VW, and get some hot and sour soup.

I swear by it for a cold.

Crap. I need the corset by next weekend.

So, in what ways is 2005 being good for you so far?

Well, a number of things that I thought were going to go very badly -- possibly becoming homeless, and serious problems with my car -- all turned out to be bugaboos that vanished with the light of day, or at least the new year. I have a new roommate that I am getting along with swimmingly, and that clicking noise from my car that I was so concerned about turned out to be several nails stuck in my tire.

The downside is that the replacement tire was pretty expensive, and then I got a second blow out and had to pay for a tow from far away in order to make a call time, and had to spend $100 on it. I haven't been able to replace that tire, as my financial cushion from the end of the year is now gone (it barely lasted a week, dammit!).

So, 2005 is being good to me, but it is sorely testing my patience and my temper by going after my wallet, where I'm already pretty damned tender.