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.

At least three girls got nose jobs when I was in junior high/high school. And a friend of mine got a boob job a few years back.

The only surgery I would really consider is getting rid of my gall bladder scar, which is the old-school diagonal kind, and almost twelve inches long. It also got stretched out when I pregnant the first time, so it's really sort of hideous. I don't ever wear a bikini or even a cropped shirt, but I'd still like it to go away sometimes.

Happy belated Birthday to Ouise! I hope it was a grand one. And happy birthday to Jengod.

I've had plastic surgery twice. Once to remove the gravel from a motorcycle accident that was embedded in my wrists. This was about a year after the accident. The second time was to remove a fatty tumor thing from my back. Both times the scars have bothered me more than the objects removed. Me and surgery don't get along.

I may be forced to get my eyelids done at some point like my mother. They block some vision and do more so with time. It will only happen when I have no choice.

My son Bobby had his bald spot on his head removed when he was about 10. This was done because the type of skin there has an increased chance of becoming cancerous and living in Florida it often got burned and angry looking. I waited until he was old enough to be still with just a local because I didn't feel the risk warranted a general. The surgeon was a hoot. Boca Raton surgeon with a waiting room full of tight faces and big boobs. He joked with Bobby about his blood squirting on his ceiling and let him check out the part removed. He had kids. Of course he tested the waters before going full out gore.

It is likely that I know so many people that have had work done since I live in Palm Beach county. LA likely the same. Many of my girlfriends have had tummy tucks and breast work. My deep fear of needles and pain keep me far away from that route. I'll just avoid mirrors. (kidding, kinda)