The New York Times today has an article about liposuction of the "back fat" that hangs over your low-rider jeans;

I thought they called that Muffin-top...

OUISE! How you doin'? Miss you!

I thought they called that Muffin-top...

ouch! that's just rude

OUISE! How you doin'? Miss you!

HELLO! t waving arms in the air like Kermit

I'm good, generally, although I'm studying boring stuff right now. Blech. It's been a very long time since the last Martini Monday. We should have one soon!

ouch! that's just rude

It is kinda, isn't it. *squeezes sides*

Ouise, we totally should make plans.

Ouise, we totally should make plans.

I'm up for it when you are.

I hope you had a good anniversary!

I got my hair cut this morning! Considering it's been growing out since before Christmas, this is A Big Thing. I now have bangs just below eyebrow length, and my sides can just go behind my ears, and my back is in long layers, with the longest hitting where my neck meets my shoulders, and the bottom is flipping out a bit on its own. The stylist didn't put any product in--yay, because I hate product (it makes my hair all sticky and I can't brush it out since that takes out all the style the product puts in). Excellent job for a $13 cut!

Now to debate if I should color, and if I do, what...

I just get annoyed that I have to see so many muffin tops a day, and get particularly annoyed when the low-rider wearer in question is something like a size 6, and wouldn't have a muffin top at all, if she wouldn't insist upon squeezing herself into size 4 low riders. I'd certainly never tell anyone, "Your muffin top is grossing me out," but since I learned the term, I can't not think it when I see it.

I'm not interested in lipo myself (because I'm pretty wary of unnecessary surgery, even minor surgery), but I can see the appeal.

Yeah. If it were possible for it to be risk free, pain free, and there was a guarantee of insta-healing, and money were no object, I'd do it, but I'm too much of a wimp to consider the reality of it.

Yeah. Maybe I need to go back to school or find something else I'm good at and change careers. Oy.

Do you have a degree at all? That's one of my problems with moving elsewhere. People are always asking where I went to school for this and are amazed when I tell them I didn't, that I've learned pretty much everything on the job. Unfortunately a lot of places care more about a piece of paper than actual experience.

And I can't be the only one who'd love to see Nilly's inner Jewish mommy.

Oh, yeah? Well, you'll have to make sure that you drink enough fluids before you do (and do you want some soup? Or some other hot drink? Or maybe lunch?), and wear a sweater (what, not the one that I made for you? Don't you like the one I knitted for you? I stayed up so late in order to finish that!), and not when it's raining (and always keep an extra pair of socks in your bag, just in case, and do you want an extra blanket? Or a blanket at all?). Wait, was that a cough? Then you'll have to see a doctor, first, too (oh, and while you're at it, let them have some blood tests, just to make sure you're OK. You're really not eating enough. Are you sure about that soup?).

Um, what was I saying?

Nilly, you forgot to ask why we're not married yet, and if we are, why we haven't given you any grandchildren (after all, you're not getting any younger).