All kinds of -ma, Anne. On a rather more shallow note, has anyone here ever bought perfume on the internets?(Although it's not really for a shallow reason that I ask, because my mother has been missing some of her favorites and we're all doing the "reduced circumstances" thing here so I'm trying to get her a good price)but one site looks kind of like another to me, so I thought "Cool. The Bitches will know!" so I hope you do.

Oddly enough, I have. My grandmother really loved "Evening in Paris" perfume, which they'd stopped making, so I did a somewhat extensive search (and learned much more about the perfume than I really wanted to) so I could give it to her for Christmas. I eventually ended up ordering through Sephora. And then she died that same year, so I got most of the perfume back. Not that you should take that as an omen or anything.

Also, I have an apartment! Yaaay! Now I just have to figure out how to get all my things from their current locations scattered across the Bay Area.

ETA: And I pretty much found that all sites were essentially the same too. There was a difference of maybe five dollars among them -- eventually I went with Sephora because I knew them. Think I might actually have used froogle for the price comparing.

{{{Anne}}} Hope you're sleeping soundly. Keep track of this stuff. I'm sure it'll all get worked out.

EMILY!

I'm up! I'm up! Have much to do today, starting with a trip to the grocery store. Thankfully, I have mom's car for the weekend, so it'll be nice and easy. I'm gonna go to the fancy grocery store that I found in the next neighborhood over. Wheeee! (The things I find exciting!)

Gronk. Am awake. Did not sleep well. Or very much.

Awwww...{{{Anne}}} I'm so sorry.

{{{Anne}}}

Thanks. I'm in a better head-space now. When I'm conscious, it's easier to turn off the worry. I'll get through this, although I'll probably have a few more mini-meltdowns before it's all over.

The good news in all of this is, I haven't resorted to stress eating the way I have in the past. Big victory, that.

Sorry for the sleeplessness, Anne. But a big yay on not stress eating!

That is truly a big victory, in my mind. I think in my last job, I put on about 20 pounds over the last six months I was there, thanks to stress.

I've also started yoga classes, which I'm hoping will be a help when it comes to learning how to quiet my mind.

Oooo! Yoga! Fabulous! I think there's a new yoga studio opening up a few blocks from my new place. I'll have to check it out once it opens.