I always fuck them up within minutes of leaving the salon, which is why I almost never bother getting one.

Hence the superiority of pedicures.

also, GC, there is also Mani-Kir Royale which is in walking distance of my house and has some sort of drink pass thing. $40 for unlimited cocktails/wine for the whole year and $15 for one day

What? Yankees don't really sound like that?

Oh, yeah, that's right, Matt. It was just... bad. For him, for us. All around bad.

Love the show, though!

Had the most surreal experience at Costco because of an encounter with the world's rudest woman. When I walked in to get new tires, this woman was there with her elderly parents. She was saying how the nail or bolt or whatever that was in her tire must have been put there by the Costco people because "no one at my apartment complex would ever do that."

um lady, it's not uncommon for there to be hardware on the road or freeway.

Then, because I went searching for a worker, I was served first. As I was paying, she made a snide comment about my credit card (problem with it swiping). She actually said to me, "When you have a problem with the card, you are supposed to cut them up."

Later when I came back, she and her parents sat on the bench and there was a woman, I presume, who had been there first and was between them. She started talking about how discourteous the woman was for not moving and then said, "She doesn't speak English anyway.

To which the woman replied, "actually yes I do." then they had this huge thing about being how no one was courteous anymore.

What a TOAD this woman was. The upside was that it made me want to be super nice to the tire workers.

ita, I hope you manage to eat something before midnight and avoid turning into a Gremlin. And I really, really hope things tomorrow go awesomely. Will someone out there be able to give a status report? Just so I know when to uncross all my fingers and toes.

Procedure~ma, ita. Long time coming and I sure hope it works.

All the ~ma in the place heading your way, ita.

~ma for you, ita. I'd love to see you make some forward progress on your battle with this pain.

What is it with rude people? How hard is it to just be nice?

I took the kids through the drive through at McD's tonight and the poor, harried worker dropped our sack and then had to run and replace some items. She handed me the bag and wished me a good-night. I smiled at her and said, "You're really doing a good job." Her smile went wider and she said thanks.

Oh, and DH is HOME! YAY!

Much, much ~ma for you ita. I hope this is the start of things getting better for you.

ita, I hope this works well and alleviates some of your pain.

Gourmet mag ran the fave cookies of each decade from 1940-2000. My favorite looks like it might be the Irish Coffee Crunches.