Where is this ranch?

Well, it's not so much a "ranch" as it is a "house". Hell, I don't even think it's a ranch-style house. Did my creative license expire, or something? Sheesh.

And I hope Michigan still exists, because I'm supposed to drink beer there later.

Going back a ways:

ita, you might want to work up a scraped cheek or something, just for the effect.

I could so totally help with this, if you do not wish to actually just scrape your cheek.

Buff Diving...

vw bug: The harder you try to explain the use of the word "blinvisible" to your psychiatrist, the harder you dig yourself into a crazy hole.

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Jessica: The first time I watched Birthday, I was all "yay! demonize her! this'll be complicated and messy!"

This time I was yelling "Don't do it, Cordy! He's only there to steal your hair and personality!"

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tommyrot: Re: wide-screen DVD hatred - I've heard tell that some people see the black bars above and below the picture and think part of the picture is "missing." How these people get the DVD box open is beyond me.

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Ginger: I'm wrapping presents. This is the way it goes: Pick up present. Pull paper up around box. Look for scissors. Scissors have disappeared. Look under various piles for scissors. Go get more scissors. Pull paper around box. Cut paper. Now the tape has disappeared. It is apparently in cahoots with the scissors. Sit down. Find tape because the cutting edge is digging into my leg. Start taping package. Run out of tape. Get up to get more tape in the office. While in the office, check the internet. Forget why I'm in the office. Go back to the package. Realize I need tape. Come back to office and look for tape. Find tape and head back to package. Realize that it's time to put the clothes in the dryer. Go back to package. Go back to dryer and find tape. Finish taping package. Look for labels. Discover they've rolled under the chair. Get on hands and knees to retrieve labels. Put label on package and pick up package. Discover that the scissors were under the package.

Pick up present...

I need a sanity check from someone with more mainstream fashion sense than me.

Is wearing one of those pink & brown shrunken tweed jackets (that ties shut with a limp satin ribbon bow) with a pair of those ‘dirty wash’ jeans (dark blue denim with pale tan ‘scuff marks’ on the butt & backs of the thighs) that are rolled up to show pale tan calf-high, stiletto-heeled boots really in fashion? I cannot fathom looking at that in the mirror and thinking it was attractive, but I do understand my definition of ‘pretty clothes’ are … different from the rest of the world.

Just because it's in fashion doesn't make it forgivable.

Is wearing one of those pink & brown shrunken tweed jackets

For a brief, horrible second there, I read Is as I'm, and my world slowly started crumbling around me. Good to know I'm just a bad reader.

And Jilli, I do not comprehend the look either, but I doubt anyone is surprised by that.

Jilli, that's SO Fall 2004.

The jacket and jeans are very much in fashion. (Lots of the undergrads here are wearing them.) Not so sure about the boots, though.

really in fashion?

AFAICT, yet, but see above, re: what Betsy said.

For a brief, horrible second there, I read Is as I'm, and my world slowly started crumbling around me. Good to know I'm just a bad reader.

Gaaah! No. No, no, no. I will admit I'm tempted to add wide velvet ribbon to one of my black repro-Edwardian riding jackets, because I think a velvet bow would look cute at the waistline, but those weird multi-colored shrunken tweed things? Ew. Not For Me.