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I hope he got a good severance package.

que es larb?

Larb Gai - Spicy Thai Chicken Salad [link]

It's only funny because it used to be on the menu, and then they removed it. So we'd talk incessantly about larb every time we went to the Thai restaurant, including last night. And they've redone their menus, and B. noticed a new item "Laab Gai", so we decided to try it. It turns out that laab was a typo for larb.

The replacement (mostly tops for now) hinges on color and style variance.

I went through this. Or really, it was two stages: color, after college, when I realized gray and black weren't the be-all, and then I went bananas several winters in a row over wearing the same style outfit day in and day out. When you have to wear a sweater every day (because you're as cold as I am), you start to get bored with your standard crewneck sweater really quickly.

My wardrobe travails are the slow realization that having changed pants size in my winter clothes means I did the same thing in all my other clothes, and will have to start replacing them too. WTF! (N.b. I never dieted or changed weight much before, so this is a disconcerting and new situation for me.)

They're perfectly good clothes! That fit me last year! The clothes changed, I didn't!

The clothes changed, I didn't!

Heh. The reason my replacement is restricted to tops so far is because I have five pounds left to go to reach my previous stable weight (and ten to reach my target) and I'm interested in clothes that fit. My upper body won't change much (I hope), but who knows what my ass will be like when I'm done.

OMG, so cute!

Panda Kindergarten (video).

So many pandas! And they wriggle! And hug!

Damn, that's too cute. I'm tempted to spam people with that video, but they'd think I'd snapped.

Dear Nutty, please think of your non-shrinking sister when you revamp your clothes wardrobe. I.e. save the good stuff for me. Also, I may have an agnes b. size 38 skirt to send you.

One of the negatives of being pregnant is you know none of your favorite clothes will fit you well (or in some cases at all) for ages. And you can't buy new favorite things because they will only fit you for 5-6 months. (Yes, 5-6 months feels like ages). One understands how people develop shoe purchasing fetishes.

Dear flea, I have an emotional attachment to all my size 8s. Also, if I got rid of them all at once, I would have nothing to wear. The "replacement" stage of my wardrobe goes slowly. I will send you the ugly stuff.

It was just so disheartening, on a warm day, to be going through my skirts for the first time in ages and be like, "Wait, what happened to my clothes? Oh, you mean I have to think about this issue again??"

I love the pile of de-slided pandas. heee.