I love when stuff like that happens, Stephanie! (Also, I just saw your photos of picking coffee - how fun is that?)

Suzi, sorry you got my party karma. We laid in 4 cases of beer and now I have 3.5 cases of beer to give away (and we'd chilled a lot of it, so I can't just put it in the storeroom).

Tonight, I get to see Joan Jett AND Juliana. It's going to be J'TASTIC and made of awesome!

Le WOOT!

Stephanie, that is awesome!!

Ok. Gardetto's people are SOOO smart. They FINALLY started making bags of just rye chips. I love them.

Rye chips for President!

Yay Stephanie!

Also, is LJ broken for anyone else?

What do I want to eat? (Should that go in Natter?)

Ok. Gardetto's people are SOOO smart. They FINALLY started making bags of just rye chips. I love them.

YES! I love those things! I will need to seek these out. In a couple of weeks. I'm having a body scan in a couple of weeks and have to be on a low-iodine diet until then. It's not horrible, but I can't eat any packaged foods, so it takes a lot of planning.

(Side note to Sean: if your mom ends up having a radiation treatment and/or body scan, she'll need to do this diet too. thyca.org has guidelines and a low iodine cookbook that's pretty helpful. I'm making the chili from it right now!)

What do I want to eat? (Should that go in Natter?)

Potato soup.

T-1 hour to the party. Mom's best friend called and she IS coming, so thank heaven for small favors. I'm hinding in my room trying to find a calm space. Everything is in place and now it is just waiting. But I told her that my friends weren't coming until later - so I can appear to be absolutely done - ya know?

Gardettos rock! LJ being down doesn't help me with finding distractions.

I realized last night as I was going to bed that I had lost an earring. Tragedy as they were made by an artist friend of mine and I wear them all of the time. Today I realized that it might have come off when I took off a nubly turtleneck sweater so I checked and found my earring! So happy. I had already plotted out my email to Mike asking him for another pair of moonstones but now? I have my pretty, pretty earrings back.

Suzi, have a lovely time at the party. I am sure it will be wonderful.

Potato soup.

How do I already want a nap?

because naps are made. of. awesome.?

how come I'll cheerfully watch tv all day on a saturday until I'm sick and now that I shouldn't go out its all I want to do?

Huh.

My brother just called me. The one who, last we spoke the day after Easter, screamed many nasty things and then hung up on me? Wants to know what I want for Christmas... How to phrase, "Not have to deal with you." in a nice way. Or a passive aggressive way, I'm flexible.

Ironically, I have some other tabs open looking for flights back to San Diego for both my parent's Christmas party and then for Christmas itself.

Denial and repression, it's what's for Christmas.