PC, keep your mother away from the Washington Post. She might get ideas ... erm, more ideas.

Dude, I was just talking with a friend about an Indian wedding she had gone to and asked if they'd had an elephant! I totally want an elephant!

I think you should take a stand, P-C. Tell your mother the only way you'll do an arranged marriage is if you get to have an elephant.

Her response to that will be to have my wedding in India. Which I don't want to do because then none of my friends could come.

F2F Mumbai!

In non-sequitur news, someone in the meeting I'm phoned into just suggested candy necklaces* for a group activity. I frikkin hate phone meetings, but there are times when not having to compose my face comes in handy.

* joking, yes. But still.

Thanks for the birthday wishes.

I'm sneaking on at work.

today has been mostly good, although I stubbed my toe getting up to answer the phone and the cat hairballed all over the bed. But I got good morning birthday calls from Mom and also a, um, very specail friend (I've mentioned in livejournal), so that was good.

And my bro and sis in law are in town (to see my aunt and my cousin's grave)but the baby is relaly kicking! I was able to feel him move around and kick and it's so awesome. Yesterday my brother says he reads sometimes to the baby so I read Good Night Moon and felt slightly goofy reading to my not yet born nephew, but he moved around at the sound of my voice!

Tonight there will be cake! whoo!

Whoa! The heavens just opened up on DC. It looks like it's 8:30PM out there.

very interesting article, Toddson. I wondered if requiring women to align to a different set of uniform guidelines than men might be considered gender discrimination. It's why women can go topless in NY.

When I drove carriages in Chicago we did a few Indian weddings. They'd request a white horse (usually it was America, our big old white mare) and an open carriage. The groom would deck out the horse and carriage (and sometimes the driver) in garlands of (I think) marigolds (usually red and gold ones) and then stand up on the front seat to travel a block or so to the wedding site.

Remember my lipstick questions of last week (or perhaps the week before)?

I went across the street to the mall (ye gods, every time I go, I hate it more, I don't care that there's an Apple store and a Sephora and a Lush) and bought lipstick to make me feel better about today, because there's just so much to hate about today -- the health insurance thing is just the start of it.

Oddly, I'm not looking for a blue-red; I'm looking for a brownish/bronzey red. I got Laura Geller Lip Stay in Pout (I wanted something that doesn't budge, and this shit seems to stay put until it's sandblasted off) and Make Up For Ever lipstick in (scroll way down) #421, described as Pearly Brownish Pink (transparent burgundy).

I'm not convinced I like the MUFE lipstick on me -- somehow it looks a little too raspberry, oddly, but the Laura Geller is pleasing the hell out of me.

So today has some good. ON MY LIPS.

So today has some good. ON MY LIPS.

I would like to submit that Teppy's lips are always good.