ita, is there a regal cleaners in your neighborhood? they are sort of moderately priced and do a good job. Also, yelp says Westland on Westwood is okay. also moderately priced.

Still tired. Waffley about going to Las Vegas. I'm looking forward to something in my life not being hospital focused. But DAMN. Also am scared to go.

I bet sarameg will too:

Hah! I think every NMican needs to be given copies of One of Our Fifty is Missing from New Mexico magazine at birth. Just to prepare them for the long road ahead.

There isn't a Regal on Westwood, which is pretty much where I'm limiting my search to. If I stray from here, it's back to the one on Barrington and Olympic. I'll try Westland, though.

I just can't believe it--$19 to dry clean a dress! A normal dress! I was going to ask for the itemised bill anyway, but that left me agog. This is where I went. Wish I'd know about the 20% off beforehand. And even then...

I can't believe they have a miles program for a dry cleaner. CRAZY.

Lots of stuff that says dry clean only is a lie and can be washed in cold water and line-dryed. But that does not help with the wrinkle issue.

I have given up on dry cleaning stuff. I just refuse to buy it if it's dry clean only. Which means that if someone gives me dry clean clothes, I always forget and wash them anyway. (I always use cold water normally, unless there's a good reason not to.) Sometimes I ruin them, but you'd be surprised at how often I don't.

The last good dry cleaner I had was in Indianapolis. I still have some hangers from them, though. They gave good hangers.

Of course, I can do this, because my job requires me to hang out with teenagers, which can best be done in black t-shirts and black cargo pants.

Even if we did used to call them "ratburgers." There's no better drunk food in the world, at least if you grew up in Jersey.

Huh. I grew up in Jersey, and our usual late-night food was diner stuff. My usual choice was pancakes, but other people got burgers. I think the closest White Castle was in Paterson, though, and we wouldn't have even considered going there at night.

Well, at the rate I'm getting bigger, I'll need a whole new wardrobe, and I guess I could start from scratch.

Except, that's even more expensive than dry cleaning what I have, so I should look into not getting much bigger.

Even if we did used to call them "ratburgers."

One night after rehearsal we hit the Jack-in-the-Box drive-thru, sometime around 1:00 am. We ordered "rat strips" and the drive-thru employee didn't even react, just asked what kind of sauce.

I wash all my dry-clean pants. Stuff more structured, like a suitcoat, I'll break and take it to the dry-cleaners. Or just not wear it much at all.

Does anyone remember a video on MTV back around '84 or so, for a song called "Rats on a Budget" or somesuch? The video featured a burger place that sold "rat burgers," which appeared to be actual rats. IIRC they were flat, like roadkill.