I got some free peaches from the HR department, and I spoke with my mom about when she'll be coming out to visit (sometime in October, before she heads out to Vegas to be with my sister when she has surgery). Oh, and I also sent her a story about a study that states that redheaded women get more action than those with any other hair color.
Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.
Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Aug 15, 2006 2:08:31 pm PDT #2800 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
sarameg - Aug 15, 2006 2:10:05 pm PDT #2801 of 10001
I had a nice lunch with a friend I hadn't lunched with since this spring.
msbelle - Aug 15, 2006 2:11:57 pm PDT #2802 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
um seriously? that I got to share my joyous news about mac.
Aims - Aug 15, 2006 2:13:55 pm PDT #2803 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
A fire hydrant on our our corner was hit by a car and is now errupting a 60 foot geyser and flooding our entire street and it gave me a chance to say to E, who is worried about the newly laid lawn, "Ha ha. Your sod's off."
juliana - Aug 15, 2006 2:14:56 pm PDT #2804 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
EAT.IT.
Heh.
In ACTUAL happy-making stuff news-type thingy, I get my hair cut tonight, and will probably wander the Lower Haight with Martin for a while after.
sarameg - Aug 15, 2006 2:16:11 pm PDT #2805 of 10001
I think msbelle's going to have the best news of the day for, oh, quite a while. ADORABLE.
I now understand why she pinches cheeks. Won't do it, but I get it. This scenario only.
Cashmere - Aug 15, 2006 2:26:50 pm PDT #2806 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
The weather was lovely today. Everything else, not so much.
DH has a "burn to bronze" theory--even though he knows, rationally, that keeping out of the sun is the best course of action. Even though I would intentionally get a burn out of the way early when I was young and then tan, now I'm a strictly no sun person if I can help it. I re-apply sunscreen about every 20 minutes (and keep the kids in the house from 12-2 (or when the sun is strongest) because I don't fancy chasing Owen down with a spritz bottle of sunscreen.
We're from pale, pale UK stock, so it's best if we just avoid the rays altogether if we can. We really should be vampires.
amych - Aug 15, 2006 2:30:14 pm PDT #2807 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
that I got to share my joyous news about mac.
Your news was one of my best things about today too.
Also best: My new walk home, which is exactly the same length as my old walk home, but through an infinitely cooler (lit. & fig.) neighborhood (and one that I can pick a different route through each day).
Unexpected sanity on the part of the most difficult publisher in the world, with whom we fought for years for the right to pay insanely out-of-proportion site licensing fees just a couple of years ago, but whose new policy is "You already bought a license. Upgrades are free. Where can I send the CD's?"
My rice cooker.
Ailleann - Aug 15, 2006 2:41:31 pm PDT #2808 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Good thing about today: I didn't overcook my steak. Woo!
I don't intentionally try to tan, but I hatehatehate that any tan I get is weird.... driving tan, no tan on my legs, farmer's tan, etc. Never ever seems to be even, and then I feel like I look funny in summer clothes.
Zenkitty - Aug 15, 2006 2:53:38 pm PDT #2809 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
meara:
Congrats, msbelle! You will be a super mom.
My favorite thing about today was the scale this morning telling me I've lost two pounds since last Thursday.
Heh. Track Changes. Here's how Luddite my company is: they're only now considering switching to software that will let us editors Track Changes. Just two years ago we got the ability to read documents that authors send in with the Track Changes thing going on, and we have to go to a special workstation to access the software. Ask me what we're working in. It ain't Adobe. It ain't Quark. It ain't even Word. Despite all the years of experience I have at this place, I fear no other publishing company would hire me, because I don't know any of that software.
Sunscreen: Mexoryl. Blocks UVB and UVA. Now available in the US, so I don't have to illegally import it from Canada anymore. Very pale, me. Plan to stay that way. I don't know how I look with a tan; I've never had one. When I'm in the sun without sunscreen (rarely) I burn and then it goes away, leaving only the lightest hint of color and a few freckles. It isn't worth it even if I wanted a tan.
Though the combination of birth control pills with the inevitable sun exposure of 43 years on the planet has left me with weird brown freckly pigmentation around my eyes. I can't leave the house without concealer. My dermatologist oddly doesn't seem to consider this an emergency. If I'd known the birth control pills were gonna do that to me, I wouldn't have taken the damn things.
Hey, if redheaded women get more action, maybe I'll keep my hair this color after all. Although so far you wouldn't be able to prove it by me.