House - I *loved* House assigning passengers to be his kids! That was awesome. I was less enthused by Cuddy's conversion disorder - that seemed kind of lame and cheap.

House: Cuddy's conversion disorder really irked me. It comes off as planned simply so the promos could include near!death!Cuddy and create suspense. Blech.

Also, how/why did the bends create the rash? Was that explained?

House I love the faux-Chase kid

Daisy, the reverse is often part of the stitch length setting thing - if you push it all the way up it's reverse. I don't know if that applies to your machine. Sometimes it's like a button in the tensioner.

Sorry about the ex situation.

House: Cameron, you bitch! Wilson, you horndog! Kitty!

Get to watch House if I can stay up late enough to watch it. I'm a sleepy girl

I hope my new neighbors (who I still haven't met) didn't think anyhting horrible was happening was I was in my kitchen yelling, "Don't even think about it! No! NO! NOOO!" It was just Clio, jumping onto my freshly varathaned kitchen island. I decided if she ingests the varathane and dies, it's all her own fault.

I'm actually home before ten. It's so exciting. First I think I must watch 24. Or The Dresden Files.

Sara--I haven't watched this week's Unit yet (what with living in LA), but I have to say that last week's was mega irritating. The 'mission' plotline? The fuck?

Was that the israeli thingie? Hi. I don't have long term memory for tv.

Weird. The secondary plots irk me most, but that one was...odd. This week's I can deal with.

Kat, I vote sleep. That's what summer reruns are for. Course I say that cause I'm skipping House these days.

Sometimes it's like a button in the tensioner.

That's where I want to think it is. Thanks. I love this machine. It's substantial and can do just about anything. Plus it's all vintagey and reminds me of Mimi's. And thanks for the other thing too.

In kinda nice news. My mom's mom, my other grandmother sent me a card today. I got kinda down Sunday, when I realized I wouldn't be getting an Easter card (and of course, Christmas or Birthday) from Mimi and Wayne. They're about the only people who ever did send me Easter cards. So today, right after telling mom on the phone how sad I was, I get to the mail box and there's a sympathy card from my grandmother. It had a really nice message saying that she's sorry Mimi and grandaddy are gone, that she knew I loved them very much, but that she would always be there for me. Now, she and I never really got along. She's kinda the polar opposite of my other grandparents. Prim and proper, old Birmingham money, married a doctor. Her house is like a museum showroom. She was sending me to charm school while Grandaddy was teaching me to gut fish. Once when I was little, I was playing with a (what was admittedly probably pretty expensive) decorative something or other on the coffee table. She told me to stop "piddling" that I was always messing with things. Another time, my first day of Brownies, I was so excited and nervous, I made myself physically sick. She had to come get me because mom was a single working parent. She told me I shouldn't do that to my mother, that I was being selfish. Point is, me and her, not the greatest of relationships.

Which is kinda why that card meant a whole lot. She didn't send it right after they died, which she might have done out of obligation. She was thinking about me and wanted to connect. She did it because she knew they were the grandparents I needed and loved more than anything, and she was saying that even if she's not them, she still loves me. Almost a month ago, I felt like I was without grandparents. Now, I feel like I got a bonus one.