Daniel, I'm so sorry for your family's loss.
Hivemind? My friend's wife is turning 50 soon, and he pretty much sucks at gifts and occasions. So he asked me to suggest some things for a 50th. He'd thought of a cruise or jewelry. I suggested a long weekend at a spa/resort type place or a new car. Any good ideas? What was a successful age 50 present for a woman you know?
Parameters: They make decent money, so that's not really a limiter, but any time she isn't working she isn't getting paid, so the cruise idea is a double whammy, financially. They have 2 kids who aren't old enough to be left on their own at all, but if it's an all-family thing, the birthday mother will not relax.
What is she passionate about?
We threw a fancy-schmancy surprise dinner party for my stepmom when she turned 50. Rounded up old friends, rounded up old pictures and did a slideshow thingie...
Girly question...
I bought new bras today and they fit but I am PMS like whoa and since that comes with swollen breasts ... is this going to affect their fit once normalcy sets back in? It's a new size bra, so I am hoping I didn't make a mistake. Also? Boobs owwwwwwwww!
get rid of that godawful cream-of-tomato-soup colored mock turtleneck that every SO you've had for the last decade (and, who knows, maybe longer) has loathed. Words cannot express how profoundly tomato soup is not your color.
Can't. Stop. Laughing. Oh dear. The combination of JZ being mistaken as a homeless person (which is ridonkulous as she always looks sassy and stylish) combined with this comeback just killed me ded.
{{{{Daniel}}}} I'm very sorry for you and your mom.
Raq, I love the weekend spa idea.
Gud, I am SO happy to hear about your marriage. Great news.
Daniel, I'm so sorry.
Glad for the Gud (good) news!
I totally heart Sofia. Small pink can, sweet ass sparkling wine - what's not to love?
Skippity skipping like mad to bring you these thoughts on viewing a stranger's summer vacation slide show:
I was flipping through the channels on tv this evening after everything quieted down at work, when I landed on a show that surprised me. It took me ten minutes of utter fascination to realize that I was watching some guy on a local access station with a slide show from his summer vacation. Mind you, it was this guy: [link] Eric Simonson, professional mountaineering guide. And the summer in question was 1999 [link] when he led an expedition up Everest. The truly intriguing bit is that Simonson's goal was not the summit, but to look for traces of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine who were last seen nearing the summit in 1924, and may have beaten Hillary to the top by 29 years.
ETA: Yay, darling Buffista toddlers. Yay, Gud's gooder-marriage news. Yay, Plei's job news. Job~ma to them that still need it.
Daniel, sorry to hear about the news. Very strange the time delay and all.
JZ, OMG! I'm sitting in an empty theater, dark at that, and I burst out laughing on the homeless guy thing. Sorry. But it was funny.
3) Apparently, the full year subscription for the regular Xbox is actually quite hard to get ahold of these days. Microsoft is making it harder to join Live with an old box because they just love annoying their current customer base who hasn't yet invested several hundred bucks in the latest hardware. They are asshats. I'd start looking around for one of the subscriptions now. No, I don't think the 360 subscriptions are useable.
Hmm, any ideas where to look? as I've never ventured this land before, suggestions would be welcome.
O ya, Pete, DIED with your taunt for MiracleMan! A double whammy! Hope we can get a nice live-fest happening. Should be fun.
Time to drive home. Hopefully tomorrow tech will be slow enough that I can catch up on all the posts. WHOLLY COW! A ton of them these past few days! (I skimmed to catch up in Bitches, my fav!)
