I am going to the game! I'm excited too. Since it's a night game (which all football games should be) and a team that will actually test us.

WOOOOOOOT. (Think you could nick the flaming spear so's we could beat Shrubwit with it?) And yes, football games, especially in September and October should be at night. I will confess, however, to a weakness for perfect football weather in the form of sunny blue skies and temps in the sixties. Ah... bliss.

anyway he's coming down so we can meet in person.

Oooooh, I hope he's wonderfulness personified.

It turns out that there's a lot of interlinks through the financial system.

It...TURNS OUT?? IT TURNS OUT???

t head explodes

the cutest ever picture of Matilda.

t head explodes again, from cuteness!!

I went to Target today and only spent $30. I feel this must be some kind of record.

Matilda cuuuuuute!

I went to Target today and only spent $30. I feel this must be some kind of record.

I went to Target yesterday and escaped for under $30! Considering all the Halloween merch was out, that's some sort of miracle. (And when I finally went to our new local H+M, I only purchased a waistcoat and some knickers, which is another sort of miracle.)

I went to Target today and only spent $30. I feel this must be some kind of record.

I went to Target yesterday and escaped for under $30!

Clearly, there is something wrong with both of you. I can't remember the last time I escaped out of Target for under $100 Clearly, that place is some sort of vortex of spendiness.

Yeah, Target and CostCo both. It's a wonder and a miracle if I leave either with less than $100 in spending.

Happy Birthday, Sue!

We seem to get along well, we talk all the time either on voice chat via SL or Yahoo or Skype (depending) and introduced him to Firefly via tv.com, so we've had Firefly watching dates (so far just the first two). If things go well it will be long distance for a variety of reasons, there's a big difference between us mileage wise (he's in Vermont) and, well,anyway we're going to probably go at a snails pace but that's fine.

If someone had described him to me and said "this is the guy you'd be crazy about" I think I would have laughed. There are some differences -- some are not important (he's 9 years older than me and 4 inches shorter) and some might be (he's an Indpenedent leaning Republican) but he treats me with respect and love and I really like him and we can be really silly together.

Costco, to me, is exactly the place you should be spending $100+ per trip, because you're buying things in bulk. (When I was a kid, shopping with my mom at Costco for our family of 6, getting out the door for under $300 would have been a miracle.)

Target has no such excuse. You go in there for a pair of socks and come out with a 24-piece kitchenware set, a new purse, and 45 minutes of lost time.

I managed to leave Target after only spending $5 the other day, but it wasn't easy.

The store that really gets me, though, is Lowes hardware. I went in for a $8 brush once, and ended up spending well over $100. God help me if I ever have a house of my own to work on. (On the upside, they'll already know me at the local store.)

We went into Target last night looking for a toilet brush and a mixing bowl. It cost us $130 and over an hour. (Stepstool, pillow, bathroom accessories, two bath rugs...)

Hey, new thread-I-tried-to-read-before-but-you're-posting-too-fast-for-me,-dammit. I'd post it in Natter, but it seems like it belongs here, if I got the idea of this thread right. I apologize for grammar/English in advance, it's kindda late here and I'm going to bed soon.

I have this new problem. New problem I don't want, and never had had before.

It has been noted by friends and family that lately, I've been losing weight. And now it seems like I maybe lost too much weight.

The past week I noticed it's colder than usual: I thought it's because the fall's starting, but then, when I was with friends in the bachelorette party, I was the only one who needed to wear a jacket on top of the shirt. But the real big ringing alarm came when I washed my face, and saw that I've lost weight from there as well: though I still have little bit of cheeks to pinch, more parts of my skull are now visible: I am slimmer than ever.

And I'm not doing anything to cause this. And it scares me.

When it comes to weight and appearance, I'm considered very lucky: I almost always could eat whatever I wanted to without gaining or losing weight. I also don't have a problem with how much I weight (I was never skinny, and few rare times slightly overweight, but always in the healthy part of the scale: about 10-15lb more than the "ideal" commercial twisted idea of weight). And now, I'm getting there.

I think it's mostly because of the new braces I got two weeks ago. The week before I got them was one of the weeks I didn't eat a lot (it happens. Not in a non-healthy way, but in a "not having a snack every other hour", and there was a day I only had 2 meals - and I almost always eat when I'm hungry, unless I'm too tired). And then came braces, and I'm putting more energy than ever in chewing when not all of the food actually reaches my stomach, but stays between braces and the teeth. However, I'm eating healthy and even more than usual, only in a different way with a lot less snacks due to the braces now.

Mom insists I'll go and find out what's my weight now. I think I was always around the 120lb, so if I'll see I'm under 100lb that will be serious bad sign of entering underweight weight for me, and that really, really scares me. I had a roommate in boarding school with eating disorder, and I don't wanna go there.

I don't really feel like I control this, and I think I might be only 10lb from being underweight.
I don't want this.