Thanks for the book titles. Now I know who barb is . D?H knows her from LJ and has been talking about her books. We don't have them ... yet.

Fashion question -- want to wear a little strappy top. Is it better to wear a bra with similar weight straps that does not have as much support and the cup line shows under the top or a skin toned bra with wider straps that will show under the strappy top? I've watched too much Sex and the City, I don't know what the deal is with bra straps any more.

I've never seen SatC, but straps don't offend me. Guess it depends on where you are wearing the top. I tend to go for comfort.

eta: while I watched the hourglass waiting to post I noticed the shiny number!

Vortex, which bra makes the girls look better? If not, I'd probably lean toward the skin-toned bra, on the grounds that the most popular choice nowadays seems to be replacing regular straps with clear plastic ones, and the skin-toned is closer in spirit

What do people usually do? Totally casual or nicer?

As a court clerk, I saw everything from a somewhat cheap-looking white wedding dress, to leather miniskirts with t-shirts.

My sister bought a nice dress of the sort that could be Sunday-go-to-meetin' or perhaps not too starchy office wear, and her hubby wore a dress shirt and tie, IIRC.

It is my earnest belief that one's wedding clothes, like one's F2F Prom clothes, should make one feel happy, confident, and foamy.

Ugh. I am deep in the zone of I suck.

I'm looking at kids toy catalogs, trying to find a present for a friend having a baby. I'm noticing that a lot of the dolls come in a few different races -- basically the same doll, but there's a white version and a black version, and sometimes an Asian or a Hispanic version. However, with just about all of these, the white version has blond hair, and pretty much always has blue eyes. And thinking about the dolls I had as a kid, it's pretty much the same -- there were a few exceptions, but for the most part, white dolls had light hair and blue (or sometimes green or purple) eyes. Why is that? (Among the white Cabbage Patch Kids I had, there were a few with brown eyes, and one with light brown hair, but none with dark brown hair.)

I know - it's very odd.

I am so gronkified. I went to bed at about 6 am, woke up at ? from a dream that involved a Viggo Mortensen/Nathan Fillion hyrbid guy helping me clean up snow while I flew (don't ask me, I dunno either), fell beck into sleep with an EXTREMEL disturbing dream involving Lady Heather of CSI, a weird voodoo ritual that involved someone masturbating on my head and ME growing a penis, and then walking into a steel mill to find they had a secret MAC storage facility underneath it, with a vault of albums from the 80's.

Get out of my head!

Oh wait, um, ...never mind.

Nothing to see.

Move along.

You don't suck, Burrell. What's got you thinking that?