Allyson, I'd call your SiL and tell her what you were thinking. Said toy won't be adding to toy clutter (and believe me, I understand the urge to try to limit that). FWIW, it's a fantastic gift--we have a sand table in our backyard that gets LOADS of use. I've also been eyeballing that same table for this summer.

you should hire me as wardrobe consultant and fly me out quarterly for closet overhaul

I don't need a wardrobe consultant so much as need someone to do the shopping for me. I know just what I want. I have no idea how to work within my constraints of shopping-aversion.

I may haul out one of the faux-wrap dresses Kat lent me, if I can work my way around my cleavage issues.

I just got off the phone with my mom, who's in Dallas visiting her best friend and her husband, who is my godfather. Apparently, Vern (godfather) had had an emergency quadruple bypass last month, and Mom told everyone but forgot to tell me, and now he's just out of his second trip to the hospital, this time for infection of the intestine that he most likely got from the stress and everything from the bypass.

So, please send some of that patented Buffista health~ma to Vern? He can really use it, and he's a fellow genre geek (he's the one with the collection of first edition Tolkien books in both British and American editions).

Birth announcement. For a baby named Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K

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ita, I wear a t-shirt under my wrap dresses ala the busty lady on England's What Not To Wear.

I'd also do shopping, I'm just saying.

I worked HARD from home yesterday and I started off today busting out orders, but I cannot muster it any more. I want a cab ride home and a pedicure and a beer.

I may haul out one of the faux-wrap dresses Kat lent me, if I can work my way around my cleavage issues.

You don't have a camisole/tank top that would help with that?

OMG retirement stuff uses a lot of paperwork.

I have this delusion that if I tape or pin the dress just so, it'll be fine. Bustier women than I manage it all the time. I don't know what the problem is.

I was gonna do stuff. Well, I was probably gonna sleep, but then I was gonna maybe do some laundry and just possibly go to the bank and the store.

But instead I started playing this game and, well, I had to kill some monsters and deal with political intrigue among dragons, and you know how they get, and how'd it get to be past 3?

Oops. I guess I can still go to the bank and the store now. If I hurry.

Buffista moms/dads? Thoughts?

What Cash said. And I just put that on Em's wish list.

Shrift, you have the cool. You infuse with the cool.

I aspire to infuse!

I guess this means I have to go shopping, since cool clothes aren't magically appearing in my closet. Damn.