BM#1 hung his Penn diploma in the bathroom much to his parents horror.

ha! yes. that. I'd do that with my highschool diploma (if I could find it. there's a pile of those things somewhere), and my mother would get dead. So I won't.

it looks like any way you go we could definitely consider ourselves "neighbors" in the Buffista sense of the word.

thank you for that! I will really, really need good neighbors in every sense (as a wise Sparky recently pointed out). I know that the job is important - and that DH is lucky to find one that he's so excited about. But the idea of moving away from everything here is not sitting well with me. And now with Sparky so close, I am extra flattened.

DH could commute - work for the week in PA, come down for the weekends - it's 1 hour by train. Neighbors and friends have asked why not? But we likes to see each other. And to cook dinner together. And Iris thinks he's a pretty fun guy to be around. I'm just not liking the idea that six months from now, we realize we've made a mistake. Or finding myself making wet blanket phone calls to my friends here. Or posting huge whines to the board because I can't deal.

And tell me more about the Arts and Crafts colony after you check it out -- that sounds really interesting.

absolutely - we're driving there today. up through Brandywine - one of my favorite non-waterfront places in the US.

just found out that my mom has put me on the mailing list for her church. It is hard that she's so over the top excited about this, and I am so not.

lisah - are you honfesting this weekend?

eta: this is hard to explain outside of baltimore city limits. Sparky, you should come up. we can't go, but someone should. [link]

Can I have some electricity~ma for today. This will be the second attempt for the electric company to turn on my electricity in the new place. In order for that to happen, someone has to read the work order, find the key to the fence that surrounds the electric meters and remember to take that key with them. I have very little faith in all of this happening, but it would be very nice to have electricity and hot water tomorrow when we move some of the preliminary stuff in and to clean the bathroom and kitchen.

Happy Birthday, Cass!!!

Happiest of birthday happies to Cass!

All kinds of electricity~ma, sj. Moving is so hard.

Looking forward to updates, Sox. Also, see above comment to sj -- it's especially hard when you're not sure you want to.

Ron Darling was a hapa Hawaiian pretty boy

He still looks damn good. I love watching the games when he and Hernandez are announcing.

Bless you, Amyliz. SOMEONE here knows how to talk about athletes in Bitches.

I am all about lovely men in form-fitting uniforms. Football players may be in great shape (some of them, anyway) but you can't see it. Too much padding. Baseball gives you a perfect view of a nice ass.

Electricity~ma to you and TCG, sj.

The Yankees are my home team. I root for them.

And no, it's not a question of picking either the Yankees or the Mets as the home team. I'm from the Bronx. It's the Yankees. They've got the history, they've got the myths, they've got the pinstripes. They're Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, and they're "Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning" and the Bronx Zoo, too. They're my team.

We still love you Hil, even though you prostrate yourself before the dark lords of baseball.

A family died in a terrible motel fire here today, and, when being interviewed on television, the suburban city's fire chief just said, "It's the kind of thing that makes you want to go home and drink hard liquor to forget."

Oh, Ginger. Oh my word. That kind of tragedy really eats at fire fighters. Oof. That poor family. Poor everyone.

A local family from our church just lost their home and everything in it, in a fire, but they weren't home and really, that's what matters in the end.

Cindy, I'm having a hard time choosing a favorite from that second batch.

I have even less of an opinion today, than I did yesterday. I think these are the pictures I'm taking to the salon (but now they're in no particular order, because I keep dithering):

1. the first one everyone liked (Scott, too): [link] same cut, side view: [link]

2. short layered gelled up Pixie: [link]

3. messy pixie: [link]

4. almost a pixie shag (although I think I'd get it without the long back): [link]

5. Hec's sort-of Cashmere: [link]

6. very posh: [link]

I really love the last one, but I'm afraid my face is too full for it. I do have an oval face, but I'm chubby-for-me right now, and I always tend toward apple cheeks, anyhow.

The new salon is my cousin's daughter's salon. I haven't seen much of J in years, but when she was tiny we were very close. My cousin adopted her as a newborn and she looked just like me. I went on vacation with them one summer as a babysitter, and everywhere we went, people thought I was the teen mother of this baby (which sort of thrilled me, because I was such a goody goody). She continued to look just like me through her toddler/little girl years. Years later, when Scott saw her at our wedding shower, he said to my mother, "Um...does Cindy have a little sister?"

So, I'm basically going to trust this kid to help me figure out which cut would work best on me. She knows the face, and it's only hair. It will grow back.

(Right?)

Happy Birthday, Cass!

Right.

Happy Birthday Cass!!!

The pixie shag one, with the long back, would grow out into a mullet in about four days. Good instincts, Cindy.

I need new hair in the worst way. I'm still angsting about breaking up with my hair guy - my friend had hers done the other day and he asked about me. I may have to give him one more shot. But I need a picture to take with - I think we're not communicating all that well, and I know he shies away from doing things short unless you really push.

Absolutely right, Cindy.

It's Cass's birthday? HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GIRL!