Would you pull that crap with Annette?

She might have felt something when Troy Donahue died.

Hey, fongoul!

I would say that microwaves are probably so cheap now that it's not worth trying to fix it. But someone with actual microwave repair experience might speak up.

That's what we're going to do. We figured replacing and fixing would cost about the same, except that fixing would take at least several days, while replacing means half an hour at Target, taking it out of the box, and plugging it in.

Why is it that something always comes up that you have to spend money on the very day you've taken a solemn look at your debts and taken a vow of frugality?

I hope Stockard Channing feels bad now.

Great. I just snorfled my pizza. Thanks a lot, Hec.

All of that mess for incremental improvement.

This is why I have given up dying my hair by myself. Try as I might, I never manage to grow the extra pair of arms needed to properly saturate the back of my head with color.

If someone had first told you that something would happen on a particular Thursday, but then emailed you on Wednesday (the day before the first deadline) and said "just give me this week", what would you think they meant, that they were asking for an extra day, so that the new deadline was Friday or maybe the weekend, or for a whole extra week?

Hec is too funny.

The less hair you have, the easier the back of the head thing is. I highly recommend it.

Lee, I'd guess they meant give them until end of business of that current week.

Lemon question -- what's the difference between Meyer lemons and normal? I bought a bunch of Meyers on an impulse, and am now wondering -- do I just use them in normal lemon stuff recipes for added loveliness, or are they just different and are best used in Meyer-specific recipes?

I have perfected my hair dye system to maximize saturation and minimize purple neck.

Firstly, I wash my hair in clarifying shampoo and towel dry. Then, I pull my hair back into two pony tails, one with the top half of my hair, the other the bottom half, clipped up in a bun.

THEN! Slath Vaseline all over my ears, neck, forehead, edges of my face around the hairline, arms and hands.

Put on my gloves, remove top pony tail, use a brush to dye around the hairline, glop tons more on the rest of the top, comb through, clip up in loose bun.

Then I do the bottom half, same way, clip up. Then I put a cap on, run the blowdryer over it.

Put on fresh gloves, rinse until water runs clear, comb conditioner through. Put hot towel on hair, use baby wipes to clean off all Vaseline. (Jilli taught me about the baby wipes getting hair dye off skin, but I found shaving cream also works surprisingly well).

Rinse conditioner out, blow dry, shiny shiny hair!

I still get purple neck the next time I shower, though. I havent been able to plan that better.