I'm going to try and be frugal while shopping at the bookstore tomorrow, but I've had my eye on this collection of an old magazine called The Chicagoan that just screams Art Deco goodness.

I was just looking at that tonight, Kathy. It really was very closely modeled on The New Yorker in the 20s.

I have been reading the same book since spring. ugh

I am msbelle. Feeling very illiterate.

Ugh. I just spent an hour trying to figure out my Costco bill. I took a friend and she bought a whack of crap. Then had buyers remorse about all the crap and returned some of it, only to buy something else. She gave me some money the first time, and left me to settle the bill. Oh boy, Math is hard!

Loki is such a squeaky cat.

podcasts, music, and knitting just keep winning out over books. I only watch like 3 tv shows.

What's our Amazon thingy and how does it work? I'm about to do some Christmas Shopping.

I decided I was too warm and cozy to face the icky weather and go out dancing (even though I much wanted to be social and dancing). But I did finally get productive and order several Christmas presents that had been in my shopping cart, and, better yet, FIND several other Christmas presents that'll be PERFECT on Etsy and order those! One I'm not sure if it'll be perfect, sadly (I found something that'll be GREAT for two people, and the third person, the concept is great, but I couldn't find a specific piece that made me go "Oh, it's SO HER!" like I did for the other two people, sigh)

edit: Heh. Good plan, Trudy! I've still got more to go, though...no idea what to get my mom or sister. Or Seekrit Santa person. Must continue to think.

Trudy, use this [link] to enter Amazon, and we get a cut.

I need baking supplies. I need new cookie sheets and cake pans and a sifter and a rolling pin and mixing bowls and a mixer.

Someone send my list to Santa Tim?

I just brought home a ton of flour and butter, and fresh raspberries to make raspberry sauce. I'm up to my eyebrows in baking chocolate and chocolate chips. I forgot to get bananas to make a banana/butterscotch cake thingy. Is there anyway to make bananas turn mushy faster?

Freezer will brown them and mushy them.

Do I love this dress enough. Nah. Prolly not. But I love everything about it down to the color (though I'd prefer red). I just don't need a fancy dress in the same way.

Thanks for the ~ma, everyone. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that something's going to get done.

I need new cookie sheets and cake pans and a sifter and a rolling pin and mixing bowls and a mixer.

Target's having a crazy sale on that stuff until tomorrow. I picked up two large Wilton professional weight cookie sheets for $10. It's normally $9.99 for one. I also saw a bundt cake pan (Wilton professional weight) for $5.

A brown paper bag will also turn banans brown faster.

ita, I'm sorry about the asshat doc at the ER. Does he expect you to live with the pain? Or does he just want someone else to deal with it?