Do I wear the dress I have and am uncomfortable in to my holiday party tonight or go buy a new dress that will not get worn that often and feel slightly more comfortable?

How about you buy a new dress that is comfy and can be worn often. Maybe something that works for work and with a little fuss can be made party worthy?

RE my early-morning TMI: Ok. K-Bug and C just crack me up. As does Cindy.

Cashmere, many thoughts and prayers going out to you and the little one. Little girl! You stay put a little while longer! I get that you want Christmas presents, but really, that's no excuse for you to scare your parents this way.

Sheesh:

Student gets visited by DHS gestapo after doing an Interlibrary Loan request of Mao's Little Red Book for a research paper: [link]

Jeez, Daniel. I can only hope that the backlash that is beginning towards Bush keeps picking up momentum.

{{{{{Cashmere}}}} much ~ma!

I wonder if DHS is monitoring the electronic request system. Most in libraries that I know of, especially those in university ones, would not willingly give up this kind of information. They might give the information if compelled to do so, and there might be a gag order preventing them from telling the student about it, but I wouldn't think that they would proactively tell the government. It seems like that would be necessary for them to find out in the first place, unless it were something electronic that was monitored automatically.

Food for thought.

Much ~ma for Cash and bebe. Cindy, if you talk to her again, tell her to make good and sure her doc schedules her for an ultrasound to make sure it's not placenta-related, if she didn't have one already.

Not that I'm a worry-wart or anything, except for the part where I am.

Oh, and both Mal [link] and Lily [link] have the Dingo Snack shirt.

In fact, Lily's was a gift from Mal-land. Some lucky Buffista Baby will get it when she outgrows it.

(I have a small stash of Lillian's stuff that's not going to my RL friend who just had her baby. One or two are earmarked for a Very Specific Potential Future Buffista Baby or two, and the rest are in a General Buffista Baby pile.)

What Plei said.

today was OK- finally got our names on the condo association paperwork, and I got a few little stocking stuffer things for Tom, and did some vague yet productive cleaning-type things. Tom made ginger scones and chicken with mushroom-leek stuffing.

I just realized that Tom and I are bringing our stocking gift stuff to CT to open on Xmas morning but that I need to get some stuff for my dad's stocking and I have no idea what to do. Ah, well. Gotta have a bit of a challenge in the end game!

I still have to get Greg something, Nick something, and stocking stuffers for everyone. We're going shopping on Monday. Hopefully that will finish it off, and then to the post office and whew, all done. I think.

Much bebe~ma to Cash. May all be well with you both.