Skipping lots and being late and not even skimming back to check if it has been mentioned, but I didn't have any computer access at all in the last three days, and according to the Buffista Calendar, the day that is still today according to the board's time was a double Buffista birthday, both for Ouise as well as for Zenkitty.

So, belated-for-me but on-time-for-the-board birthday wishes for the both of them! With lots of hope for a wonderful year ahead.

Also, today-for-me and tomorrow-for-the-board is jengod's birthday, and I hope the well-wishes find her, somehow.

Hi Nilly!

Huh - it seems I read something about you in a book somewhere....

Happy Birthday (still) Ouise and Zenkitty!

Hi Nilly!

Oh, sorry, tommy and Lee - I had to run from the computer, and only saw your posts now, and I hope you're sleeping deeply and having many pleasant dreams as I type this.

Anyway, if you mention a book, I was at my parents over the weekend, and made my brother take my picture with some book, for some reason.

Any ideas for the best way to pit cherries without a cherry pitter?

I use the tip of a potato peeler. It's not very tidy but works in a pinch, regardless of apostasy.

LOLScience

I am in love with this one.

In my enthusiasm yesterday, I signed up for a nature hike. Today, the temp is supposed to hit 90. I fear actually MELTING into a puddle. Pray for me....

Here's a Saturday question: has anyone here had plastic surgery (i.e. for cosmetic reasons, not for reconstruction after a car accident or something)? I was looking at US magazine at the supermarket yesterday and it seems so ubiquitous in Hollywood, and they say in the culture at large, but I realized I don't know anyone (that I know of) who has had a nose job or a breast augmentation or anything.

If you have had plastic surgery, why and are you happy with it? If you haven't, would you consider it?

I wouldn't. I am pretty crunchy-granola, and also not into medical things unless they are needed.

I'm counting on a breast lift at some point. It is primarily medical since I have a messed up shoulder but the cosmetic aspects are appealing too.

I doubt I would do anything to my face... but a lot of that is genetic luck -- my family ages gently, my nose is proportional, etc. If my jaw line disappeard completely or I got jowls (both seem unlikely) I'd consider it as I understand they are among the less-invasive procedures.

I haven't, but my mother had a nose job (which I maintain was evil, even though she got it a decade before I was born) and an eyelift (which looked ok). She's generally pretty granola, and the little vanities there amuse me.