I know that utility companies have us by the shorthairs. But I don't like it and I don't like SoCal Gas. They suck alot with their suckiness and suckful selves that suck a whole sucky lot.

Suckycakes.

no bridal murdering until you are paid.

I just watched the prom for the gazilionth time. tears running down my face. again.

Alibris is offering a "new softcover" of The Counterpane Fairy for $21.54. It doesn't mention illos, though.

Much comfort wished for Cashmere and Christopher, and Mike's family and other friends.

Ease-ma to Brendon.

Yay to connie on new glasses--isn't it wonderful when your vision is so sharp and clear? Of course my eyes begin to adjust almost immediately, so within a day or two they've begun to refocus...stupid eyes. And I had prescription sunglasses forever*, until this last pair of bifocals, which I got in indestructo titanium frames, with the magnet-on made-to-match shades. Of course I lost the first pair, and it was $75 to replace them. Boo.

Nora, I hope you're feeling better after your minimeltdown. Sometimes that's just what it takes, and it's better to go ahead and blubber and get over and past it. It's nice that you could do it at home, though. And your turkey and black bean chili sounds fab.

We (DH) made lentils last night, with tiny bits of onion, carrot, spinach and kielbasa. Yum.

No-stress-ma to Ben on the testing.

And lots of calm and strength wished to Emmett's grownups, as well as an easy procedure and a quick recovery.

*by the cheap and simple expedient of having the lenses of the previous pair dyed as dark as possible whenever I got new glasses.

I know that utility companies have us by the shorthairs. But I don't like it and I don't like SoCal Gas. They suck alot with their suckiness and suckful selves that suck a whole sucky lot.

Suckycakes.

Shut up and pay us to give you gas.

Ooops -- I didn't mean to -- I meant to be snarky back. Dang!

Yeah, yeah, sure. That's what they all say. I still will say "cute cute cute" and will know full well what I'm saying. So there.

Ok...I just had to share this with all of the Bitches. It's too priceless for words: [link]

no bridal murdering until you are paid.

But once the check clears I can go ahead? Pretty please?

She's actually questioning my fee because they have a relative who's a wedding coordinator who's going to take care of telling people when to go down the aisle and stuff. Grr. Bridezilla darling, that's the easy part. I get paid for answering your multitudinous questions leading up to the wedding and for giving up in this case an entire day (since they're having the reception at the church and getting there super-early for pictures, I fully expect to be there from 8:45 a.m. till around 8:00 p.m.) to basically be in charge of the building. I get paid to be go-between to everyone from the custodian to the sound equipment specialist to make sure you get what you need for a set-up. I get paid for setting up the church with pretty white hangings and an aisle runner and clearing all the extraneous stuff from the chancel so your pictures won't be cluttered by choir chairs, sound equipment, and the like, and then for putting everything back in its normal state for church the next day. I get paid to vacuum, clean bathrooms, and take out trash. Given that you're having a big wedding plus reception and the church's plumbing is delicate, I may well be paid to unclog a toilet and mop up any mess.

I don't even want to think how low my hourly rate for all this would be. And I'm appalled that she wants a discount just because she's found someone else to signal each bridesmaid when to start walking.

Bridezillacide = bad

Understandable, but bad.

Now that I've killed the thread, I'll bore any hangers on to death. Didja ever look at your favorites list/bookmarks and wonder "What was I thinking?"

I'm going through mine now, and I can't imagine why I bookmarked these sites. It's not even that I don't remember doing it. I have a faint enough memory of seeing the sites at one time or another, but have no frigging clue why I would ever want to see them again.

Oh, I hadn't killed the thread at all.

Susan, you should find a nice way to explain your services to Bridezilla.

vw, Toto is too too cute.