Stepping into tommyrot's traditional morning role for a moment:
Ridiculously cool: Hidden Van Gogh painting revealed--very likely, more on the way!
Oh Trudy, he's a total conservative wingnut.
And yet the total conservative wingnuts here in the US would cheerfully use Trudy's quote to paint him as the moonbattiest raving lefty who ever raved. It's enough to make you cry.
Thinking good thoughts for your brother, Allyson. Also mentally kicking your dad in the ass to run for a phone.
I have four or five purses that I hardly every use, and one that goes with me almost everywhere. It's black, and while it looks relatively small it holds as much as the ginormous purses I used to buy. I love it, and I'm sad that it was a $15 Kohl's purchase that will probably self-destruct before 2009.
In rather me-me-me news, I'm slightly bummed because the dealer up the road sold the last Honda Fit today, and as I wasn't planning to buy until tomorrow, I'm outta luck. He'll have the '09s in around the end of August, but I don't want to wait. So I'll be schlepping off to Burlington tonight (about 40 minutes away from me). I bitched about this to one of the IT guys, adding that it was very much a diamond-shoes-too-tight problem on a world scale, and I thought he'd bust a guy laughing at the phrasing. So that makes up for a little bit.
Thank GOD, Allyson. I'm sorry you and your family had to go through all this bullshit, but at least it ends here.
I really should get more purses. I have bigger bags that I don't really need anymore now that I'm not teaching. I really just need something big enough for wallet, keys, iPod, sunglasses, and work badge. Sometimes my heels. My lunch I usually carry separately.
I can't believe all the stuff that some of you carry around. I change bags every day so that would drive me crazy. Mostly, I keep a stock of stuff (umbrella, makeup, etc.) in my desk drawer at work. I would love to get to the point where I keep a few pairs of heels at work, so I don't have to bring those everyday either.
ETA: Yay Allyson!!!
YAY ALLYSON! Such a relief.
Excellent news, Allyson! YAY!