We love you, Robin!

msbelle! I missed your post yesterday, but as soon as I can put down the bebe, I'll tell you about the car sitch.

Next time some grumpy South Bayista with large cats or some pink New Yorker with wee fists starts making noise about being the nicest, just think about who here actually remembers your skeevy Gallo links and agrees with you about CB Chai, and then vote your conscience.

a) Funny how ita doesn't even make the list any more.

b) HEY! Not grumpy

(at least right now)

I just tried durian candy. It was a combination of sweet, crunchy, coconut, and heinious. Not as bad as rotted shark, though.

I'd like a formal degree in costume history. Not gonna happen.

I wonder what I should do with the rest of my day now?

I vote threesome.

t zooms back to the crazed mess of paperwork on her desk

First I watched the finale of My Fair Brady.

Oh, god, I saw about half of that, and I'm really kind of ashamed.

I vote threesome.

File's at home, alas. Tomorrow, I should prepare better, since I have no plans to get yelled at again.

I'll take the bebe for a minute. oh wait. (must plan next LA trip)

PERFECTLY NORMAL SIZED PERSON. I meant to type that yesterday.

Jesse, how does Brady end? they together?

I love you too, oh adorable Burrell!

I had dinner with ym mom's Best Friend of 40 years and her son, my BF from 6th grade, whom I haven't seen since high school. Pretty freaky, that. He has grown up to be a lovely man who has been married to his college sweetheart for 25 years.

Oh, I also brought the entire series of The Office and made my mom watch most of the episodes and the Special. She loved it, as I knew she would. Tim+Dawn 4EVAH!!!

bon, I support you in referring to yourself as Mama. FYI.

Ha! We can be disturb-o-rama 2gether.

Okay, so car:

We NEED a new one, but don't have much money, and I don't want to make monthly payments. Out of the blue, DH's Aunt and Uncle offer to sell us their Toyota Odyssey. It's a few years old, not sure how old, so we need to find that out. They seem to be offering a good deal, and since it's in the family, DH's other uncle would be willing to pitch in enough $ that we could buy it easily.

So, it's probably what will happen. But... but... I can't get myself excited about it. I know a minivan is going to be convienent, but it's also kinda drab. I fear the drabbification of my life. And I am kind tired of always taking someone else's cast offs.

I'd like to buy a new car, a car that's cute AND practical, but we don't have the money. And hey, it's my fault the money's not there. We could have chosen for our inheritance to be money, instead we chose the house, & with it a mortgage. And it seems silly to question that choice just because I'd prefer a new car. But that's where I am right now on the car.