I just gave up, and called--I've got plenty of minutes.

Wait till you find out she was calling Timbuktu during peak hours.

Hah! No, it was an address and phone number for someone in Arizona.

You did a good thing, meara. She'll remember you kindly.

So it is pouring rain and all my drainspouts are draining.

I find that Love Actually loses quite a bit of its obscene charm when edited for basic cable.

ETA: Of course, the scenes with Liam Neeson are even more heartbreaking now.

OK, cannot get miniblinds for the french doors.* Loki just pulled down the broken one on himself trying to get out. I had gone out front to make sure that the drain extender was working and so he had a session with the screen door which =LOKI WANT OUTSIDE CRAZY.

He's even trying the basement door now.

* Not that I was gonna.

...and now on FB my aunt is bemoaning that I don't live near her because she'd love to hook me up with some guy.

I'm tempted to write a book titled Overweight and Unmarried: One Woman's Story of How Her Family Drove Her Off the Internets.

In less whiny news, I managed to score a pair of earrings because Steph mentioned that she'd managed to score a pendant from the seller: [link]

Oooh, pretty!

I've rarely bought my own jewelry. Mom and dad have me figured out and pretty much everything is from them and I love it. I've got a coworker who has similar taste and loves my earrings. I've promised to bring something for her from Nepal and Bhutan. Which means I need to convince my parents to pick stuff out for me that isn't for me.

In terms of sunburn. First Ozone damage does make a difference. Secondly I think most of the damage is done when you first burn. So if you stay outside all the time and develop a tan and never lose it - you get a lot less damage than someone who tans or burns, gets pale again, tans or burns again. If you get dark and stay dark that minimizes the dammage. Not eliminates it cause a white persons tan is not ultra high SPF but minimizes it.

That makes a lot of sense Typo Boy. I burn now, but didn't as a kid. And as I kid I rarely lost my tan completely over the winter. And now, My feet don't burn -- but that is because I wear sandals most of the time.