ION, twice today someone has told me I look "dowdy" and pale.

Or, alternatively, you could say: "'Dowdy' is a term of great sensuality and lubriciousness among my people. Are you coming on to me?"

I do all our laundry - I wouldn't trust joe to do mine. I also don't use dryer sheets on the baby laundry. I'm glad to hear that is, apparently, the right thing to do.

Huh. Well, I just stuck Emily and my laundry in the washer. Let's just hope I have enough energy to *finish* it.

Isn't she banging to get out?

This tall, nearly bony girl in my team meeting today said the only Halloween costumes she could find were plus size ones (I can only think she's defining plus size as "not meant for children"), and everyone knows the plus sizes are all dowdy and ugly. I sneered at the back of her head. She likes to shop at Hot Topic and thinks that makes her cool, except for the fact that I shop at Hot Topic occasionally too and her definition of cool can't stretch to include 44-year-old women who wear plus sizes.

Eeeek, I hope you didn't wash Emily in hot water.

Isn't she banging to get out?

I don't know. I left her at the place and came back home. I'll see her again after the spinning is done.

Oh, do not think for one second that I slight the Funk, most gallant Hecubus. Although I was not aware that you had not made another one, ever. I use it all the time and it had to be a true labor of love and stuff. Mad props to infinity, dawg, wrod. I owe you...stuff, still, don't I? (I just thought that was implied. My bad. Mostly, though, I don't upgrade from aquaintance till we've Had Words, was my sad point. Is that perverse? Disability oppression rearing its ugly head?)

I'll see her again after the spinning is done.

Make sure she doesn't go in with dryer sheets -- the fibreglass will injure her.

Also she won't be flame-retardant.