Does anyone have a good suggestion for where to find 100% cotton sweaters? I can't seem to find anything that isn't a wool, cashmere, rabbit hair blend this year, and I am very much allergic to all of those. Cotton/silk blends are fine.

~ma for Typo Boy

It is good to read the tales of quality family time, billytea. I get along well and enjoy my immediate family in-laws, but a couple of my husband's sibs made unfortunate choices for spouses. Mostly we have a great time when we get together.

Nice floor and model there Beth.

No wishbook for my birthyear.

sj, try Lands End. I swear a saw a bunch in their latest catalog.

~ma for Typo Boy.

Billytea, I'm glad to hear you have such a good time with your in-laws. It can be very difficult when you don't.

Hullo!

Wow, the crows have crapped ALL OVER my car. I love winter!

Today is cleaning and prepping for new job to start tomorrow. My kitchen is a disaster. The hype about Virgo's is all wrong -- we can live in a messy place. It's just that there's this inner click when it gets to a certain level and then all of a sudden is all bleach and sandblasters and MAgic Erasers with HAZMAT standards. There's rarely any gray in a Virgo cleansing.

I said sure, and she said that officially they couldn't promote any form of birth control, but that if big boxes of condoms *just happened* to be placed in prominent locations in their shelters/clinics, well, the women were able to take them, weren't they.

Hee, Tep, that cracks me up. We weren't allowed to hand out condoms at my high schoo, but I kept a cigar box full from the local health center and quietly sighed about DARN! They keep DISAPPEARING and I guess I'll just have to REPLACE then whenever the box is empty. I kept an eye on it, and tried to keep it at a 2-3 per student limit per week, except for the kids I knew were actually doing the deed and not just trying to impress friends.

Hmm. I suppose I'll be making another trip to the cnter again, pick up rubbers and pregnancy and STD info in English and Spanish.

I'm so excited about starting my new job tomorrow!

BTW,does anyone have or can suggest a good version of a K-12 math book that will really carefully explain how to do all the usual stuff? I am completely certain of my competency to help with all levels of h.s. and m.s. lesson except math, complex chemistry and physics.

So I want to bone up on math, but I figure for chem and physics, there's a lot of expert Ffistas I can ask for clarification from.

sj, I believe J. Jill has some cotton sweaters this season.

I need to hold myself back from getting into arguments with strangers former friends on the internet. I have sort of known that a person who was a good friend in college was also on lj, and made a point of staying the hell out of her sandbox. But I followed a link on my friendslist that took me to one of her entries and she's wrong wrong so very wrong. And I can see all the old arguments and character traits that ended our friendship 15 years ago rearing their heads and I really really need to not get into it again.

Damn. I had no idea those buttons were still there to be pushed.

~ma for Typo Boy (and Tommyrot and Billytea and Sox because they must need it somehow!). May the thing be a not indeed.

I must have been exhausted. I just woke up for reals to find it's 1 pm.

Polo Ralph Lauren has cotton cable sweaters.

MA~~ for Typoboy. I thought we might do something fun today -- I can't think of anything fun that doesn't require some effort. Today at breakfast I mostly stared into space, when not eating all the food in the world.

Dear god, why do I have Katy PErry's latest song stuck in my head?

Make it stop.