Cute, Amy. The drop waist would look like crap on me.

Things I'm not participating in this year? Prom. Maybe not graduation either as we are now furloughed on the last week of school so perhaps I won't go to graduation depending on the day. Which is kinda pooh-y of me given that I've been the English teacher for over 3/4ths of the seniors.

SO MANY DRESSES. Want.

HA! I took the LE dress out of the shopping bag. The more I think about it, the less likely I am to get the bathing suit after all. The straps in the back = weird lines.

Proof that the Cheese Board Collective pizza non-sourdough pizza dough can be frozen successfully.

::notes down for future reference::

Look at those pictures of wee small Matilda! I can't believe that when she came home from the hospital she was under 6 lbs. Hec sometimes accuses me of unseemly nostalgia for her past and wanting her baby self back too much, but really I love all her stages. I just greedily want them all, at once; I simultaneously adore the current one (could really do without the whining and dawdling, though; there's really not enough advance warning of just how skin-crawlingly awful it is), can't wait for the next one, and want to revel in every particular moment of all the past ones.

And it kind of makes me feel even more love for and amazement at my mother, who has known me through all of these and is now a friend. For all the material bad luck of the last few months, I am in so many more ways so incredibly lucky.

Speaking of which...well, Hec spoke of it in Apocalypse, so eloquently. That morning so long ago when I nerved myself up and delurked on an early Buffy thread in Table Talk changed my life; I'm so infinitely better for it, for all of you.

We're going to frame the card, with all the names, and hang it in our bedroom. Or maybe in the nerd hole, next to the computer.

I think this is my dream suit, actually: [link]

Hard to think of bathing suits in this weather. The one I got last year is just fine, if it still fits.

I think my dream suit has a skirt and a low back. Does that exist?

Jesse, I haven't seen it yet. If you find one let me know, cause I'd like to take a look....I like the cups on the vampy one. And the rucheing. I just don't like the band in the back, but I bet it's structurally necessary for the cups.

HUH! Zappos does swimsuits.

The world's saddest cookbook. [link] Including an incredibly awkward TV cooking segment.

I'd totally love a sweetheart neckline for a suit for lounging around in. My swimsuits are all racers that smush and contain and last 6 months rather than the one standards do. Speedo is my buddy: [link]