i'm lucky, Dana. i can wear jeans every day if i want to. some mornings it's still a struggle to find a shirt i want to wear and i usually just end up throwing something comfortable on.

ION i have my shiny, new ipod and i have named it metallipod.

Paperdol, there's a Babies R Us in West Covina and one in Van Nuys. Like Jessica said, they should have a good stock of bases.

How do you guys get dressed for work?

Usually I check the weather that morning, which helps me decide long/short sleeves, etc. Then I just grab whatever that fits the criteria. Unless there's someone I want to impress, but that hasn't happened in a while....

Do you wait and see what you feel like when you wake up?

I mostly wait and see what I feel like when I wake up, but there are definitely nights where I know the next morning is going to be a dress day. Dress days are the easiest, because there's no matching.

Lately I've been picking clothes and getting dressed in the dark so as not to wake Boy. Generally I pick up off the floor what I was wearing the day before, and maybe a clean t-shirt, which is identified by touch and smell. This week it's been my big old baggy jeans, but that might have to change tomorrow as it's going to rain and they soak up water as I walk. In which case it'll be skirt and boots.

Matilda is even more adorable when contemplating cake and playing with her cup and spoon.

Setting your phone to play anything like the chicken dance is grounds for ... something more painful and lingering than being beaten to death with it.

Sophia, the professor's being an asshat. Can you set the ringer REALLY loud and make it impossible to turn it down? tape or something (you would, of course, turn it down yourself when the professor isn't there).

And Dana, I usually half-way plan what I'm going to wear before actually getting dressed, but it's always subject to change depending on weather, whether I've overslept (some days I just can't face putting on pantyhose ... and those are the days I can't get them on straight), and what I have planned for the day.

Can you set the ringer REALLY loud and make it impossible to turn it down?

And Dana, I usually half-way plan what I'm going to wear before actually getting dressed, but it's always subject to change depending on weather, whether I've overslept (some days I just can't face putting on pantyhose ... and those are the days I can't get them on straight), and what I have planned for the day.

Toddson is me. Last night I thought about what I would wear today, but didn't lay it out, or anything, but some days are just throw on a black skirt and a black sweater and go!

Also, since we had the no wearing black discussion here, I am not wearing black as much!

paperdol, you don't really need a carseat base and I'm not recommending that you get one (you can strap the carseat in without a base, the base just makes it easier). We got a spare on craigslist and one at the target in pasadena.

It's deliciously hot out. Good hot. Not bad, multiple days over 100 degrees hot.

It's OK to kill a coworker if they set their phone's ringtone to the Chicken Dance, right?

I would suggest stealing it and putting it into the ceiling above his desk and then calling it all the time.

I'm in a rut for clothes so my options are really not so varied. But usually I try to guess what the weather will be like and I'll construct what I'll wear in my head while in the shower. Sometimes if I want/need to wear a specific pair of shoes, that will dictate the rest of the outfit.