Feel better Hec. (and don't think about my long thin tresses)

Awww, you're always hot, Laura. You just exude a sort of cheerful carnality.

And thanks for the note about not going through Boston proper, Nora, because I said something about them fighting traffic, which I'll take out.

Well, it's the part of the Pike which does get extraordinarily traffic-y (tolls, many junctions, etc.) so getting to Cambridge that way would most likely (during rush hour) have horrible traffic.

You just exude a sort of cheerful carnality.

Hec-liments always cheer me up even when they aren't for me. YAY! Love this one.

I don't know which is making me smile and chuckle more: the term "Hec-liments" or the Hec-liment itself.

Yay for Erin’s library. It is wonderful to hear so many people came through for you. I didn’t contribute only because we have really needy schools close to home. My boys’ beloved books went to them. Right in Palm Beach County we have schools out west in everglades type areas that have migrant children. Their schools are horrible when compared to my area. Stunning how the Boca Raton schools gets so much money and in the same county other schools are totally neglected. You don’t want to get me started on the financial incentives for schools that do well on the FCAT scores. Heaven forbid we send money to schools where the kids can’t read the tests

Oh, hell, yeah.

Um, lost my train of thought. Students conference. All I can think now, is even though my Spanish really sucks, I could be dropped in Mexico and make my way around and be understood.

Hec-liments always cheer me up even when they aren't for me.

So true. It really is a special talent.

Hec-liments always cheer me up even when they aren't for me. YAY! Love this one.

I was just thinking that! He's got a talent.

There's actually another box of books going to Erin's library, if someone ever gets around to sealing it up and putting it in the mail. Right now, it's a decorative accessory on the dining room table.

Hubby thinks short hair on a woman makes her look older. I keep pointing out cute girls on TV with short hair and asking if they look old. He doesn't appreciate it.

I think the looking older thing is only true up to a certain point. It depends on the woman, but after a certain age, *some* women with really long hair would actually look younger with shorter hair. I've seen it a thousand times on make-overs on tv. They usually ALWAYS shorten an older woman's hair and the result is that she looks younger somehow.

Oddly though, my eldest sister has very long hair but with her texture, if she cuts it short, she looks older. But my second eldest sister, who also has extremely long, straight hair, has a finer texture and I think she'd look younger if she would ever cut it. Not that she ever will because her husband is of the "women should always have long hair" type.

I look better with short hair. Period. DH says this last cut I got is the best one I've had in five years (since we went to Europe and I got the extra-sassy cut). My poor twin sister has the misfortune of looking just AWFUL with short hair. I don't know what it is about her but she's tried every short cut possible with sincere effort because she would like less daily maintenance. But the results have always been disasterous.

There's actually another box of books going to Erin's library, if someone ever gets around to sealing it up and putting it in the mail. Right now, it's a decorative accessory on the dining room table.

Ginger is so me.