And Connie, too.

Packages! Whee!

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I actually often enjoy this. People enjoying their music! Which is different than mine, but might still be rockin'! Rock on!

Yeah, on nice days, I totally share my music with the rest of the world.

...Whether they like it or not.

I have not read Anne of Green Gables. I have not seen Anne of Green Gables. I have not read House of Seven Gables. I still don't really know what a gable is.

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Perhaps it's because, as a woman of color, they are expecting me to bust a cap in their ass.

And this, darling, is one of the many reasons why I adore you.

Did your mother show?

{{{Sean}}}

Hooray, askye!

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Oh, yes, Mom finally showed at 6:37. she claimed that she had left on time, that there was a reason that she was late. We got distracted and she never told me.

She also bought me a very pretty diamond cross, in the russian style. I'm not really a cross person, and I rarely remove the one necklace that I do wear. Plus, she bought be a different diamond cross a few years ago. Yes, I, the consummate heathen, own two diamond crosses.

Mom just doesn't get that I don't care about jewelry. She said that she would return it for something else. Would it be tacky to ask for a new iPhone (not the new new one, just one of the 3GS ones that will drop in price when the new one hits the stores)

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Mom just doesn't get that I don't care about jewelry.

Look, Vortex, if you wear this diamond cross, you will find a husband in no time. If you don't want to wear it, just keep it in your purse. Please? Do it for her.

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Askye! Glad things worked out as they have.

(((( Sean )))) I hope the day got better.

Something to add to the rudeness discussion: People who pull into gas stations with their music at highway volumes and don't at least turn it down.

When I was searching for a place to live from afar, one of the places I looked at has a gas station next to it. In Google street view, I saw a sign saying something to the effect of "Please turn off your music while pumping gas". Um. Yeah. Not renting that place.

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P-C, you crack me up!!

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you are not right, p-c.

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Would it be tacky to ask for a new iPhone (not the new new one, just one of the 3GS ones that will drop in price when the new one hits the stores)

Yes, but especially so because of how your mother is. We both know she SAID she'd exchange it, but then would hold it over your head for the remainder of your earthly days. The Russian crosses are more visually interesting than their Western counterparts; put it on a ribbon and wear it with the corset.

Mom just doesn't get that I don't care about jewelry.

This is something I don't get. Mayhap it's because of the Italian genes, but I had jewelry from the moment of birth. I love it--real, paste, or costume--even though I am lazy about switching things out. There's a jewelry armoire in our bedroom fer chrissakes.

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{{{{{{Sean}}}}}

{{{Askye}}}}

There's a jewelry armoire in our bedroom fer chrissakes.

I used to wear more jewelry. Then two things happened. First my cruddy old trailer got broken into and my jewelry box (not a heck of a lot of expensive stuff in there, but stuff I wore, that my dad, and grandmother, may they rest in peace, gave me) got taken. And second, shortly after that I got a job at which wearing much jewelry is highly impractical. But Daniel has been buying me some lovely pieces, enough so that I think I might need a jewelry box again.

But instead of a jewelry box, I might go with a fishing tackle box, on the grounds that it's less likely to grow legs and walk off.

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