Announcement: photos of eyeballs blown up to poster sizes resemble oranges.

Analysis: computers add points of interest to everyday chores such as visits to the optometrist.

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but I fall down a lot

I am in such good company... Battered, but pretty.

An ex-BF and I had a "one injury at a time" rule.

There's a relationship doomed to failure.

I couldn't find necklace displays that I liked, so I bought a couple ornamental plant hangers and put those in.

I use picture hooks. I should consider the plant hooks because right now a lot of necklaces are living in a drawer. Not enough picture hooks...

Matilda got intently interested in Other Baby and they both seemed very excited at the prospect of future socializing and cocktails and whatnot.

Aw, baby boos!

I dropped by (called first) P's to drop some mail of hers that was mailed in care of me but I - shut up! - couldn't find her mail box. So I rang the bell. And Julia has her first tummy flu. So I chucked the envelope through the door with a "Call me, when she's not projectile anythinging!" and ran. Turns out her mailbox is across the street.

To sum up, babies cute! And I am glad Matilda gets to have some girlie bonding time.

Did I mention my burrito was carnitas? Ohhhhhhhhh. It is the most genius meat food ever.

Seriously. Whoever decided to do that to pigs? Second only to the bacon guy in sheer genius. TJ's occasionally have carnitas, btw, and it is brilliant. They always have bacon, theirs and Niman Ranch, which are also brilliant but not already cooked for you.

I was going to tromp down the street for a piggy burrito but my boots apparently didn't play well with my body when I was out running errands most of the day. With many stairs and the hauling of various shit around. Now I have a hot pack on my back and am wondering what nummy foods I can eat here instead.

And who talked of Three Olives vodka (might have been Natter, I am not sure)? I bought some of their pom today. Because I trekked also to the store what gives me vodka. So I got a thing of that.

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What Shamu Taught Me About A Happy Marriage

I hate that kind of relationship reporting. I sometimes wonder if that's because I don't have enough relationship perspective, but not for long. Then I go back to hating.

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I did! Juliana turned me on to Three Olives Cherry Vodka. Le yum.

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if you're in the market for a laptop, Office Depot is having a sale to get rid of their XP machines so they can make room for their Vista ones that are coming in. i think it lasts until the 20th.

the one i wanted was sadly out of stock, but they said they'll be getting more in. so i may have a laptop by the end of the week. wheeeee!!

oh and my tire only cost $10.93 to fix. yay!!

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oh and my tire only cost $10.93 to fix. yay!

Yay! Unless it's a repeat business discount.

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Yay, tiggy. It's nice when unexpected expenses don't end up being that bad.

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Ah, I shall thank or curse you once I try it, Kristin. Though I bought pom cause I like it more than cherry. I think. Maybe I should try both.

But only after I renukify the hot pack and melt into the couch a bit more.

We are having the prettiest sunset right now. All shot through with pink. And many, many mountains were out today. I saw Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens. Never got to a place where I could try to see Rainier so I can't report if it was visible as well but there was a whole lot of mountain out today.

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Speaking of happy surprises with car repairs, the neighborhood garage replaced our battery as well as did a couple incredibly necessary fixes that saved our car from basically coming apart at the seams (we had a rotted transmission line as well as an about-to-snap tie rod) if we'd done any hghway speed driving, and it only cost $600. Which I know sounds like a LOT, but the preemptive repairs saved us probably 10 times that, and more, 'cause we'd need to get a new car, because this car ain't worth more than $1-2K in repairs a year. (which we try to budget for.)

In conclusion, I'm *incredibly* thankful we called the garage as soon as we figured out there was a problem, and that we don't commute any significant distance, and that we did not drive to CT this weekend. But I'm also a little wigged about how close we came to disaster. Not a lot, but a little.

I think we'll need to get the mechanic to do a look-see more frequently now that things are starting to need replacing on this 8 year old, 110K+ mile car...

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Yikes, Nora! I am glad you stayed home this weekend.

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