Nilly lost 17? I can't decide if it is more or less tragic than losing your best fishnets.

That sounds dodgy, whose grandma and why was she freezing turkeys?

It'd be even worse if their goal was to make it taste like grandma.

Now that Nilly has lost 17, she can discover 28, the most perfect number ever.

beth! Happy birthday!

Now that Nilly has lost 17

But I've found it again! Maybe yesterday I saw the perfection of 28. I don't know. Clearly I was a bit confused by then.

And now, I'm off home. For a - well, not a nap, one of my roommates has an exam with numbers in it at the end of the week (even though she studies one of these subjects with lots of long words in them), and I promised I'd help out a bit translate them into a language she understands. But the weekend is soon, and next week is our Independence day, so a day off, and I'll be able to sit and tell about "how I lost my beloved 17 (and all of Tuesday) and found it again (on Wednesday)".

[Edit: hmm, does that mean I'm a day older? Or a day younger? Should my own birthday change now, on account of that? Or can we have a month with an extra (or minues one) day in it? Or will I? And then I will never be in the same date as everybody? Sort of like in another dimension, or even a time travel, only just for a day each time? Or like when you move the clock one hour ahead or forwards, only with a day instead? Month-light saving time?]

Heartbreaking story that gives some perspective to what the Supreme Court has done to us today: [link]

It is "Inspired by Grandma."

Depends on whose Grandma. I'm just saying, I had a Grandma who could burn water.

I'm really upset about the upholding of the abortion law, and truly loathe the term "partial birth," as it is a bullshit made-up wedge phrase that is so utterly non-descriptive it can actually be applied to all abortions if you try.

it can actually be applied to all abortions if you try.

I'm sure that's part of the plan.

and truly loathe the term "partial birth," as it is a bullshit made-up wedge phrase that is so utterly non-descriptive it can actually be applied to all abortions if you try.

Yeah. It's not a medical term, but a political sound-bite. Sucks that the religious right has succeeded in getting most media people to use it.

There's got to be a story there, what with the "losing" stockings.

hahaha yeah...too sordid and not really worth losing those stockings (Spanx, so not cheap!) for. But it did help strengthen my resolve not to drink for the first three months of the year!

Nordstroms has failed me. The only spanx they have are maternity and wtf? footless. What's the point of footless tights?!

My gelato place did not fail me, though. And neither did the H & M where I got two very cute skirts--one black & white gingham and one white lined eyelet (but, I think, sophisticated-ish not cutesy).