Sadly, the kinging scene in Seattle seems to be pretty nil. I know there are a few ex-DC kings there, now, though I wasn't ever really friends with them per se (just friendly acquaintances). Apparently the burlesque scene is more the thing there.

DC is something of an anomaly for having quite such the king scene it does. Most places have a much much smaller one, or a more scattered/fractious one (though DC's is falling apart into that, now...)

She's a walking Hanna Andersson ad.

I love her polka-dot playdress so much. I have really wanted it for Ellie, but Ellie already has three in other colors and I just couldn't justify buying a full-priced new one. It makes me happy, though, to see it on Lillian.

Thanks to the outlet, Lillian's wasn't full price.

I almost got her a second, but I don't know how long she'll be in 80s, and they didn't have a lot of 90s around last time I was there.

I only buy clothes for Em in outfits. Sometimes mix and match-able, but generally this shirt goes with these bottoms or HELLFIRE AND BAD ACCESSORIES WILL RAIN DOWN UPON THE EARTH.

These outfits are out away together, in stacks of "types" of bottoms. ie, shorts outfits, pants outfits, skirts outfits, and yes - gauchos outfits.

She has very few "seprates" and what she does have are mostly jeans and t-shirts.

Thanks to the outlet, Lillian's wasn't full price.

I must move to the PNW before Ellie gets too big! (Actually this is the plan.)

Sometimes mix and match-able, but generally this shirt goes with these bottoms

I can get so neurotic about Ellie's clothes from Gymboree for this exact reason. Yes, the shirt with the seahorse might look just fine with tan shorts, but WHAT ABOUT THE SEAHORSE SHORTS???

(Can you tell that I care about 1000 times more what Ellie wears than what I wear?)

My knit gauchos were my painting pants all weekend. They are hereby ruined and will never be seen by the general public again.

One down, two to go.

I love mix-matchy clothes on little kids. Especially little girls. Where it looks like they put on their Very Favorite pieces of clothing darn the consequences. It is super sugar.

Aimee, I will stand beside you in the fight for the fashionableness of gauchos! Today we will ride together in flowy comfort!

Some of Annabel's clothes started out as outfits, but she doesn't like to wear them that way. Mostly, she has separates, and her shirts include a good assortment of Mariners tees and several from Threadless (Godzilla hitching a ride to Tokyo, a cookie holding hands with a carton of milk and saying, "I love you!" etc.).

Oh well Cambridge can still be pretty snooty. My old flatmate was from Leeds, and she got quite a few comments during her time at Cambridge about Northerners.

Wrod! My friend from Manchester got some serious grief at Oxford for not being from The Right Kind Of School.

...meanwhile, I am somewhat pissed, and it's a school night, and it's half past midnight. But rather than go straight to bed, I made myself a bac on / creamcheese/ mancogochutney sandwich, on the rpin iciple that food fights alcoohl.

Oh fuck .. Bad typing fairies ahve stolen my ability to type.l

All is badness.

Please let there not be a hangover itn the morning. Pleasepleaseplease.

(spent the evening on the Kao San road, having yummy Italian food in a fabulous [l;ace called "it's happened to be a closet" (including the apostrophe), which is basically a lovely lovely lvoely Thai house, all gorgeous and like a quirky boutique - except it's also a restaurant. There's atble in the kitchen bit and a table in the downstairs bit and a couple of wee tables where you go in, but you can also just sit down and have a foot rub and drikn tea and eat yummy pastries from the planet decadence. Yum. So that was nice

. But then we went to the bar, and there was vodka. And now my head goes boom.

...

...

is sad

And in the morning, do I have PEor Thai or other opportunity to be hungover? No. No, I have numeracy followed by Literacy, then phonics then something else. spelling test, maybe. Anyway - not things one can dial in. Grr. At least there's swimming all afternoon,

And so to bed.