Hmm.. I want to look nice, but it is more important that I be comfortabel . so I will not be the belle of the ball. but I will look good. and I am looking forward to wearing my bargain dress out for new years eve this year, too.

and btw, I don't think it is mentally ill. If everyone at the F2F suddenly fell down on the floor and worshiped me and my stunning buetay - that would really be cool.

and now I get to go to work and yell at kids. please let there be a few fun questions .

of course being worshiped for my spelling and typeing would be just down right hysterical.

I want to see you, Tep. Of course I am from the desert, so I might find manatees curious, but I don't think so. But I get it...I spent the last one feeling naked half the time cause I don't dress like I want people to look, but I got into it, you know?

Of course I am from the desert, so I might find manatees curious, but I don't think so.

heh.

Hey, Tep, I know you weren't looking for hairpats or anything, but let me just add my assurance - I totally feel ya.

I feel anxious on meeting so many for the first time, too. What if people don't reassure me of my beauty/adorableness/sexiness? Hardly anybody's seen me before. Maybe they'll find me icky or boring. I feel pretty confident that this will not happen, and yet. The Brain, she will mess with you.

Oh, and since I specifically thought of you guys while I was dressing (and don't want JohnSw to feel that he's the only one with unmentionables mentioned) - today's a blues/greens tie-dyed patterned bra and black string bikini with a blue flaming heart. They don't actually match, but I think that individually they both show a lot of 'tude.

I definitely have issues with being boring. The physical looks thing, that's not really where my insecurities lie, so much, oddly. I've always relied on my humor and wit more than looks and I am convinced that I am totally dull, dull boring and more boring.

I've always relied on my humor and wit more than looks and I am convinced that I am totally dull, dull boring and more boring.

Welcome to my corner of the dance floor, Nora. Would you like a comfy chair?

I am convinced that I am totally dull, dull boring and more boring.

Nuh-UH!!!1!

Just skipped a whole bunch of posts.

Finally decided today that my wrist has been hurting for too long, so I went to the doctor, who confirmed that it's tendonitis. Bleh. So, it's a wrist brace for awhile longer, plus advil and ice. and I'm supposed to be avoiding writing and typing. Um.

At least you got it diagnosed, Hil. A lot of people work through the pain until they've done way too much damage to themselves. If you own a PC and can afford it, I highly recommend using Dragon Naturally Speaking.

{{{{Hil's Wrist}}}}. In a totally supportive and non-wrenchy way. (wenchy still possible upon request.)

So, umm, how the hell do we go about buying a house? I mean, we know we've got to move, know we'd rather buy than keep renting, know our latest credit news (imperfect, but decent, and much improved over recent years), have a decent sense of what we can afford and what we want and what's out there and the devastatingly small overlap between those things, have some dudes to contact (mortgage dude from an online friend I don't actually know IRL, agent dude who is ex-of-a-dear-friend), but... what do we do? Contact the dudes? Which dude first? And what do I say to them? Hi, dude, I'm looking for a yadda yadda yadda and btw homeboy said I should look you up?