Thanks, Perkins! She is gorgeous. I'm not loving the dress in the picture.

Anyhow, I think it's past my bedtime. I know who wins so I can safely go to sleep now.

How cute! (spoiler for best supporting actress in a series, mini-series or television movie). Debra Messing in a print. I don't like that dress much, but I think the print thing is working better.

I realise now that 24 is a show that manages to pull off "But you can't discipline me--you need me" without raising my hackles. Perhaps because Jack always seems to pay a bigger price in the end, and doesn't enjoy getting away with it. It's his schtick, and his burden.

Did you have a bad experience?

Nope. Just found a bag that I've had since before Thanksgiving, and wanted to eat them.

Here's an interesting documentary: Disney's "Story of Menstruation" No, really:

Walt Disney's The Story Of Menstruation -- Presenting the Story of Menstruation. A Walt Disney Production Through the Courtesy of Kotex Products -- was originally delivered to the International Cellu-Cotton Company on October 18, 1946. It runs approximately ten minutes. It has been estimated that the film has been seen by approximately ninety-three million American women. Neither sexuality nor reproduction is mentioned in this influential film, and an emphasis on sanitation makes it, as Disney historian Jim Korkis has suggested: 'a hygienic crisis rather than a maturational event.'

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Speaking of Disney, there's a Bambi 2 going straight to DVD. Something about a son's courage and a father's love.

Quease.

I think it was somewhere way way upthread that someone was wondering why a co-worker wore the same dress over and over. I don't know what that person's reason was but I have unfortunately been wearing the same pants very often this season. I gained 30 lbs. in a year and a half and nothing I had fits me well anymore. I don't have money to shop for a bunch of new clothes. I barely make enough to get by. So I have this one pair of lined jeans that fits and keeps me warm in winter and I wear them often. I don't wash them every single night, but I wash them often. There was another period in my life where I just had 3 or 4 pair of the exact same pants in the exact same color so it would probably look to people like I was wearing the same thing every day. I'm 6 feet tall, not skinny (not since my late 20s anyway) and it's hard to find stuff that fits right. When I find it, if I can afford it, I'll probably buy several. As things are right now, rent and healthcare eat up most of my paycheck so I can't go clothes shopping.

From way back:

Does Sir Anthony (or British people in general) not pronounce the H in is first name or is Gwynneth just being weird?

Brits in general don't pronounce the H, which is why my dad is very glad his name is spelled Antony - though even then lots of Americans still get it wrong.

Gwynneth might still be weird in other ways, though.

Fiona!

Nilly!!

Fiona-with-one-more-exclamation-point!!!

How are things with you, all of you? How are things with Clara? And with her big brother? And with their mom?