With Emily you could almost remember its a sport.

What I loved about Emily was her refusing to go along with the reporter's "You must be so thrilled to have this opportunity to skate on the world stage, you must have been so nervous," and she gives them this look of "Please, I've been training and competing in world championships." She refuses to play into their script.

Dick Button on Sacha Cohen: "I found myself thinking Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it." I found myself thinking, "Dude, Depends."

Oops, Plei, you just reminded me that I have a bunch of clothes to send to you, and they are the right size for right now. It sounds like your Lily is like my wee Franny was. Franny work 12m clothes until she was 19 months, and 18 m clothes (as well as 24m and 2T, but still!) until she was close to 2 1/2. Her best friend, meanwhile, had already begun to wear 3 T. I thought my daughter was a freak, but another mom at daycare assured me that her daughter was wearing the same things.

Oh and Cashmere, I have clothes for you too, since they are too small for Plei. Plus for some reason my sister had a bunch of baby snow gear, so I can send you most of that.

But, um, I'm the queen of misplaced addresses.

Em is the same way as Franny. Some 12 month stuff swims on her, other stuff fits ok. I reorg's her dresser last weekend, and finally weeded out the rest of the 6-9 month stuff. And honestly, the pants just looked like capris.

Hey, Allyson, I know you just shelled out the big bucks for glasses, but did you consider contacts?

Here is the problem. Right up until now, I have had a wonderful blurry filter.

Now, I can see every line, acne mark, zit, the deepening marrionette lines from being too fat...I can now see that from three feet away.

And I came to the horrifying realization that everyone has been seeing me this way, too.

And so I'm going to be 33 next month and I have no boyfriend and no kids and I'll never get married and I'll be alone with my glasses avoiding mirrors and hoping the cigarettes kill me faster.

Contacts just ain't gonna help.

um... weak contacts?

I came to the horrifying realization that everyone has been seeing me this way, too.

How? I mean, did you verify this?

Hell, I just turned 37, have no boyfriend or kids, will never get married at this rate, and I only wear glasses half the time.

Zenkitty, if you didn't like X1, I can't imagine you liking X3. I think it's generally accepted that X3 will be much worse than X1. I liked X1 quite a bit and expect X3 to be a stinker.

Would love to be surprised.

Perkins--but that was the subject's favourite outfit. So the mind-losing didn't work against the purpose of the exercise.

There are two krav students who moved up to the Seattle area to open a chocolate company. One of them is back down here on vacation after their busy season, and he brought candy. Dammit. They have this one fig one that's delish. And I managed to snag two of them today. Yesterday was this Nutty Irishman one...this guy gets to design chocolates. That's a job.

I know, ita, but I think the subject was a little nutty too.

What is the name of the chocolate company? I am going to be in Seattle in a couple of weekends, so maybe I can buy you some.

I can guarantee you that no one has been seeing you the way you see yourself, Allyson. If nothing else, your reflection is all flipped around.