ION, Toto is all curled up on my Bitch blanket, fast asleep, and snoring. He is so adorable. Poor guy, though, has a big ugly scab on his side from the tick I removed this morning.

Must decide if I'm going to order him a Halloween costume. He'll hate it, but it would be SO cute. Not sure if it's worth the money, though, considering he'll probably wear it for two seconds.

ChiKat's pretty dress is sold out in my size! However, I may need to 'splore the rest of the site...

I have wrap trauma. I finally found one that didn't look obscene (although a wee bit tight on the arms). Went back into the changing room and COULD NOT GET IT OFF. Wouldn't come past my shoulders (faux wrap that it was). I had to call my friend in to pull it off.

I moved up a size and bought the large. Tried it on again the other day, and it's a bit tight coming off past my shoulders.

Sensibly I'd have Zara trauma. But what's sensible about trauma?

Must decide if I'm going to order him a Halloween costume. He'll hate it, but it would be SO cute. Not sure if it's worth the money, though, considering he'll probably wear it for two seconds.

I'm not that good with my own money, so caveat lector. That said, if/since you're on a budget, buying a pet a costume doesn't strike as a wise decision, even if he would love it, and he probably won't, since you know him better than anyone, and think he'll hate it. Money is a tool, and should be used for fun things, but the two-moments-of-cute-dog doesn't seem worth it, particularly since Toto is cute naked.

Aside: I can't read/use the word camisole without thinking of the old Sylvia cartoon that was one of the "School of Writing" episodes that asked the word to be used in a sentence and the punchline is "I camisole I went."

I can't read/use the word camisole without thinking of the Decemberists song "July, July!" which contains the line, "And I'll say your camisole was a sprightly light magenta when in fact it was a nappy bluish grey."

Zara trauma.

Is Zara a store? Because my mind went to (first) Zora Neale Hurston and then to a smoosh of "Kara" and "Zor-El."

And I'm figuring you don't mean trauma induced by a deceased author and/or a fictional superhero.

and should be used for fun things, but the two-moments-of-cute-dog doesn't seem worth it, particularly since Toto is cute naked.

So very true. I bet I could get him a little halloween scarf at Target (where I have a gift certificate), and he doesn't mind those. The more I was thinking about it, the more I was thinking it was just not a very sound decision.

and think he'll hate it.

Remember the whole poncho incident? [link] He was all, "Mom?! Do I have to go out in this? Now, imagine this: [link]

Hee. I feel evil even considering it.

Ha! I could have trauma induced by either, because I'm soft that way. But I mean the store, which is the addictive sort of store that seems to have something for me every time I go in, which means I go in more often that vaguely necessary.

I have a skirt from there I've still never worn--it's really nice, but I can't work out what sort of top to wear with it. It has a high wide waistband of smocking, which'd be easily workable, but then it foofs out a bit at the top of that, and has a cord inside that to tie. Hits slightly above my natural waist.

And, wow, that made no sense.

Is Zara a store? Because my mind went to (first) Zora Neale Hurston and then to a smoosh of "Kara" and "Zor-El."

Whereas I came this close to posting "Thus Spoke Zara trauma".

Oh, wait...