Also, if anyone else says something like, "You know you need to take care of _________ within the next seven days," in relation to the car, that poor person may get strangled. Actually, they may just melt from the face I give them (according to the insurance lady, I give *quite* "the look"). I swear to GOD. It should not be this freaking difficult to buy a car!

a bunch of people here [link] favor Brenda's 1st suggestion.

Oh, flea! I hadn't thought of that! I like that plan. I was gonna make the guys downstairs help, but they seem to not be home. Lucky for them!

9MM?

This reminds me of what not to do to get lug nuts off a wheel: [link]

vw, check with your local hardware store. If WD-40 doesn't work, they may have another brand of penetrating oil that will.

Aimee, stupid tenents suck.

Liv just broke the teapot to her teaset. I need to find a non-ceramic child's tea set for her for Christmas.

My new cell phone only has marginally better reception in the house. *sigh* I may have to settle for no reception at home until they get some more towers out here. Grrrrr.

Plei, I'm sorry about your aunt.

Owen's watching Kim Possible and cluctching his plush naked mole rat. That boy just kills me sometimes.

Sorry about your Aunt Margaret, Plei.

Sox, lots of peaceful passing ~ma to T's Aunt and peace ~ma to her husband.

The new house now has two bedrooms painted. One is lavender and the other green, both very pretty even if I intended the lavender one to look more blue than it does. My DH says, "Iris will like it," so we'll have to get you guys down here, Sox.

Cash!! Look! [link]

I might get one for Em, too!!

Oooh! This one has lots of stuff: [link]

Interesting dream, Emily! Clearly you and the Empress are bogarting all the good dreams.

Although, on the subject of curtains, I'm trying to decide whether the dress I had made the other week is too Maria Von Trap to wear out of the house.

I was thinking it would be a nice sensible handy dress for teaching - lovely big pockets. It's based on this design, but as I don't do sleeveless, it's got long sleeves. Swoopy sleeves. And it's (uniquely in my wardrobe - I'm not quite sure what possessed me) in white with a pattern of roses on it. And it's floor length, because...er, because I never quite made it past liking swoopy floor length skirts that you have to grab hold of and hitch up when going up stairs?

The effect, to my surprise, is decidedly medieval Maria Von Trapp. Or rather, SCA on crack and covered in roses.

Had I opted for short sleeves, it would be much less so. But...yeah. SCA on crack.

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...but I do sort of like it. Even though it's probably a leetle sillier than my norm (and my norm, of course, isn't precisely understated). And I'm pretty sure my little girls will love it. And with a long plain-coloured scarf to accessorize and break up the line, it isn't TOO too much. Maybe. Er.

(I know that at some point I need to realise that dressing to entertain six year olds is NOT the way to go; that one can, indeed, have too many sequins, that ruby slippers are not the norm, and that using chocolate perfume is not neccesarily the most grown up of choices. But...hey, I spend most of my day with the little buggers, you know?)

too Maria Von Trap to wear out of the house.

That's the wrong R&H musical, Fay.

d - I want to pass my highschool pal on to you. Checking first - she's @ 7 months pregnant.