I brought a TJ chicken salad for lunch today!
I want to go back to bed.
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Feb 09, 2009 8:01:36 am PST #5743 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Tom Scola - Feb 09, 2009 8:02:32 am PST #5744 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Pictures of the fires in Australia, from the usual place I link to. Includes a picture of a dead horse which I found quite disturbing.
msbelle - Feb 09, 2009 8:04:01 am PST #5745 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Good laundry doing Sue. I managed 3 loads last night.
Matt - mark it wrong, so wrong.
Dana, me too. Those last $$ having to go to the ceramic dog - good times.
Interesting Education piece in the NYT: [link]
Salad was good, but I still feel hungry. grr. I'm sure it is a craving, not real hunger. stoopid carbs.
megan walker - Feb 09, 2009 8:17:00 am PST #5746 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I made two recipes from my Cooking with Trader Joe's cookbook this weekend.
The black bean soup was not anything to write home about but the sesame noodles, which I brought for lunch, are pretty darn good.
Dana - Feb 09, 2009 8:28:38 am PST #5747 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I need to find someone to alter a dress for me. Looking in the phone book under "alterations" and "tailors" mainly gets me men's tailors. Any suggestions?
Do dry cleaning places usually do decent alterations? It shouldn't be anything complicated -- some hemming and maybe some darts in the back.
lisah - Feb 09, 2009 8:31:53 am PST #5748 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Do dry cleaning places usually do decent alterations? It shouldn't be anything complicated -- some hemming and maybe some darts in the back.
I think so. My place does anyway. If there is a dress boutique near you (that doesn't do its own alterations) you might ask them where they send people. That's how I got the recommendation for where I take my stuff.
Kathy A - Feb 09, 2009 8:32:41 am PST #5749 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I know that dry cleaners are where Clinton and Stacy from What Not to Wear usually recommend.
ION (literally), what news anchors do when they're not on the air. These two are my go-to local news show (9:00 WGN) when I do watch it, and they're hilarious here!
Jessica - Feb 09, 2009 8:36:49 am PST #5750 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I need to find someone to alter a dress for me. Looking in the phone book under "alterations" and "tailors" mainly gets me men's tailors. Any suggestions?
Yelp can be surprisingly helpful for this sort of thing.
Dana - Feb 09, 2009 8:40:24 am PST #5751 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, I'm looking on yelp right now. There's one or two places that are listed with one or two reviews.
Stupid non-big towns. I think I've got a couple possiblities, though.
Steph L. - Feb 09, 2009 8:45:44 am PST #5752 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Speaking of dry cleaners, what's an average turnaround time people encounter? We have an insano cleaner who turns it around in 24-ish hours, but the quality is hit or miss. I generally get 2 days (or 3 if I take my stuff in at the very end of the work day, which is fair).
So today (Monday, right?) I take one skirt to a cleaner I'd never gone to before, and the cleaner person asks me when I want it back. So, since it's Monday and I figured Wednesday, maybe Thursday at the latest, I just said, "Whenever."
She says, "Oh thank god. Is Monday okay?"
I was so taken aback that I actually replied, "You mean NEXT Monday?"
She sighed, and said, "Well, WHEN, then?"
V. tempted to take my skirt back and leave, but I said Thursday.
Is 3 days an unreasonable amount of time for me to expect one skirt to be cleaned? Was 7 days reasonable for the cleaner to suggest?
signed,
damn I need to get some Dryel