I echo all who say it is quite an adult problem.

Adding to the chor.us. Very much an adult problem.

I, on the other hand, have a different problem. My voice is gone. Been sick all week and have coughed so much, my voice decided to take its leave. At least I don't have to be back to work until Wednesday. Hope my voice is back by then.

Erin, good luck with the sleep study. I did one and it's a horrible way to sleep. But, if they can help you out, it's worth the ickiness.

Yeast infections, however, are never worth the ickiness.

Good sleep to you, Erin, and I hope they learn useful things.

Totally adult problem and also stressy, vw, so I'd say you're right on track with feeling bleh about it. I bet CBD is thrilled than he can assist.

GC, glad you're both safe and sound.

Ginger, my sister in twitchy re: finances. Effin' sucks.

Voice~ma, ChiKat. I hate it when that happens.

And hello to everyone else.

Back from work and looking forward to a long, relaxing evening. With maybe some laundry.

omnis and Barb and vw are making me want to move in. Or, short of that, go buy cookie fixins. But, no. I will be a responsible... and simply forage in my kitchen.

Work was actual work, in a fun sort of way: there was a Fall Dance for developmentally disabled adults today. Not only did I get all of my clients up on the dance floor, but also dragged some other folks along, whose staff were not so eager or willing to make fools of themselves. But the feet are less happy with me than they were at the start of the day, there is a headache, and there is a lot of sensory overload.

So, forgive me for being brief: punctuation of all kinds for all the Bitches. I don't have it to elaborate, but I'm thinking encouraging things at you all.

Good luck with the sleep study, Erin. I had one a few weeks ago, and it was extremely helpful for my doctors. I hope so for you as well.

CBD and I just had a good talk. Thank goodness for that. Now we're watching B5. I'd rather be watching 27 Dresses, but, well, a girl can't have everything.

{{{vw}}}

All the food talk has made me hungry and wanting to bake!

I'm a bit pouty right now. I found a jacket for a character for the show I'm directing. It was perfect but the wrong color. No problem! I figured I could just dye it red from "natural". I've dyed plenty of things without ever having a problem. The jacket looked to be in great shape, too.

I mixed up a beautiful shade of red, put the jacket in and waited and stirred. When I took it out to rinse, the stupid thing fell apart at the seams. No reason why it should have acted this way. No way to save it. Of course the color turned out perfect, though.

It took 4 second hand/thrift/rummage shops to find the dumb thing. (The offerings in this area aren't that great) Now I have to start looking for something, again. I tried 2 places today without any luck.

I hate this place.

I finally got my new DVD player. I can watch movies without having to pause and rewind to control skipping every five minutes! Setting it up dislodged my cable organization, though, so now I've got a tangle of cables showing. I need to go buy some more of those sticky foam squares to reattach things where they should be. (I get a bit obsessive about having my electronic stuff set up so that as few cables as possible are showing.)

When I was on vacation in Maine with my family last summer, the toaster in the condo where we stayed had a "Pop Tarts" setting. Like, on the knob for adjusting the time and temperature, there was a little Pop Tarts logo.

I'm watching "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." I am a total sap for this show. I can easily step back and critique it, but still, total sap. (Big critique being: it's great that they can build accessible houses, but it's also kind of ridiculous that people need to get on a TV show, which picks only about 20 families a year, just to get a house where they can go to more than one or two rooms.)

Hil R, my new-to-me toaster has that "feature" too. I haven't used it yet. I usually eat my Pop Tarts as a snack in the car or at work. Speaking of, if you leave a packet of Pop Tarts in your car in the summer in TX, you could find them perfectly warmed for your ride home. Gotta love solar cooking.

Thou the cookies were thin, they were very well received. Folks digging in the bag for a second helping. I think tomorrow I'll make brownies. Oh ya, I came home to a yummy smelling apartment. Finally a time where you don't have to play "hunt down that smell".

I haven't had Pop Tarts in forever. Just got tired of having to read the ingredients to figure out which flavors are vegetarian and which aren't. (I think that, last time I checked, most of the ones with frosting are not vegetarian, and most of the ones without frosting are vegetarian, but that wasn't always the case.) Also a bit annoyed that I didn't try Twinkies during the few months that they were vegetarian, just because I'm curious what they taste like. (They switched from lard to vegetable shortening for a little while so that they could advertise no saturated fat, but then they switched back so that they could advertise no trans fat.)

These Extreme Makeover designers don't seem to really get kids. While the new house does have a gorgeous open plan so that everything's right there without having to navigate narrow hallways, there are way too many pointy things right around face level of a three-year-old who doesn't look always totally steady with his walker. Would a coffee table with rounded corners have been that difficult? Also, the kids have dollhouse- and animal-themed rooms that they love when they're seven and three, but will probably be sick of in a few years.