(tackles Nicole and messes up her hair just a little)

I'm looking at Summer Vacation pix right how and remembering my trip to see you! Alas for the bathing suit at the river photos, for they contain, perhaps, a little more thigh exposure than is right and proper. Oh well. Big smile though.

I'm going to bed before the rest of you make me any hungrier than you already have. Night!

Me too. Morning comes awfully early when I have to go tearing out of the house at 7:30 am to sit on the freeway for an hour or so. Blech feh!!

Are you thinking of buying anytime in the next five years? It might be worth running the numbers to see whether paying off your SLs or having bigger down payment money will work better for you. I haven't looked at it that closely, so I have no idea which way it would come out. But I think I would check.

Hm. I...wouldn't know what to look at.

Aside from that - well, less debt is better than more. Just don't put too big a hit in your savings to pay them off if there's something down the road you can better put the money to [caveat: does not include gold jewlery for people who are not you.]

Yeah, I was also thinking of just throwing a thousand dollars at it occasionally to bring it down faster, although, really, I would still pay it all off in about six or seven months like that and continue accruing interest, and I have no plans to need a huge chunk of money in six months. I don't like having debt.

Also, um, my mom's found a potential girl for me already. All she knows about her is that she's 5'7", named Manisha, and works as a CPA in Washington. And she wants me to e-mail her.

"What do you think?"
"I...have no interest in this right now."
"Why not?"
"I just got a job."
"That's right, you just got a job, so now it's time. Well, we'll see. You said you didn't mind if I looked, so that's why I looked. Your dad is saying it's not time yet either, so we'll see."

Oh, and yeah, I blah-di-blahed about work and stuff, so I don't have to stay the five extra days. Whew.

Damn, that was a nail-biter of a game at the end.

Damn, that was a nail-biter of a game at the end.

Congratulations Anne! Condolences to Tom and Amyliz. That was a serious high pressure game all the way through.

I thought the Mets were gonna win for sure.

Wow....what a game.

So, we have an ex-A's manager in the World Series? Yeah, grasping at straws.

Giving up on the math for the evening. Gonna watch Grey's Anatomy and then try to sleep (again).

I thought the Mets were gonna win for sure.

So did I, actually. Beltran at bat, bases loaded? Yikes.

Damn. Now I want fudge. And god knows I ate more than enough of it in Portland. Thanks to Cassie's gothy Harry Potter boy.

Hmmm, I think I need more chocolate...

Oh, who am I kidding, I want the pretties. But chocolate is good too.

...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.

My Official Makeover Theory is that dramatic change is what is attractive. If you could give a short-haired woman long wavy flowing locks everyone would love that too.