I'm trying to decide if I should buy this jacket and hang on to it until I've shrunk into a size 14, or if I should wait and see if it's still available when I'm that size.

ooh pretty. I don't have any Anthropologie jackets but I think their buttoned tops run a little small generally.

Jilli, I believe they run small. Find a true size X in town, take her to UVillage, and check, but I think they run small.

ION, I've started a parent blog. [link]

It's mostly for my amusement/record, and is made up of all the posts I've started and deleted on account of Dude, BORING, both here and in my LJ.

Y'all are welcome to watch my pathetic navel gazing, but don't feel like it's required. I'm trying half-assedly to keep my Actual Identity off the thing.

t /awkward

Um. Your Lily posts are an utter delight. NOT BORING.

Yeah, but these are my Budget and Diaper posts.

Which kinda are.

But which I need to get out somewhere.

I can't believe the microwave broke. Why did the microwave break? More importantly, why couldn't it have waited until my food was almost hot?

Jilli, never, ever buy in anticipation of losing weight. It puts a hex on you.

I know, I know. But it's so cute!

I can't believe the microwave broke.

Want me to ask Alexia if she's getting rid of a microwave at the yard sale? She might be.

Too bad you don't live closer, Plei. You could have mine.

Whenever I've bought down, I've only done it when the article of clothing is only one size down.

Want me to ask Alexia if she's getting rid of a microwave at the yard sale? She might be.

I think we'll just replace this one with its modern twin, as we'll need one tonight.

adds ScrapePenny to Bloglines roster

This job may yet kill me. I've been on my own for less than a week, but it's been the busiest week of the year, and my energy is SPENT. I may have to overcome my loathing of training and ask that they hire me an assistant after all. (Which they'll probably do anyway, since this department's had a 2-person operations team for the past 2+ years, and we just got a new salesperson, so the workload is only going to increase. I just really hate training.)

Really?

Oh, let's see:

Dillon Dillan Dilan Dylen Dylon Dilon

For starters. Pronouncation, you get: DI-lan (di like Princess Di) DI-lun di-LAN etc.

I worked with a number of Japanese native speakers for a while, and they had the usual l/r problem. While there, I was either "Dirin" or "Darren." Kind of like Dirin. Might try to talk Susan into it for a boy.

I've never met one of you who had that problem, but it may have been a more popular name in this neck of the woods.

Growing up most of the boys were Steven, Michael, Robert, or Jeffrey. To have a name like Dylan was really, really unusual. Until I was in college I knew only one other person whose given name was Dylan.

(And now I'm totally earwormed with A Simple Desultory Philippic. The man ain't got no culture.)

Heh.

And I've always liked Pleiades. Better than some of the quasi-hippie names than some of the goths and hippies I knew had.