Trick ,'First Date'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The 4 Stages of Fear, Attacked-by-a-Mountain-Lion Edition
The mountain lion incident was one of the hardest things to read about in The Survivors Club. Well, that and the woman who tripped while carrying her knitting needles. The main lesson of that book for me was that, if you get caught in any sort of bizarre accident/survival situation, you want to be taken to the Stanford Medical Center's trauma unit.
Okay, I'm going to opine that Ice T's wife is totally NSFW. Just on principle. When you call someone over to your desk to look at a picture of her, ain't nothing polite going on there.
Ugh. A guy came in to change out the trash in my office. He was here for maybe two minutes, and now everything in the room smells like smoke.
I just got hit with a huge case of Doanwanna. I need to get dressed and meet people this afternoon. One is a friend who has been out of town and we haven't gotten to catch up, and the other is my friend and his fiancee who I promised a champagne toast when she moved here for good. Tomorrow Jon wants to paint the front room because he's been trying to be a total adult aparment having person with nice looking stuff. Sunday I have 2 barbeques; one is at a friends house who I haven't seen in a long time, and he always comes down to my neck of the woods to hang out. The other Jon is working. I have housework as well.
But, it's warm and rainy and my puppy is snuggled with me, and I'm felling...not pretty. So, I just doanwanna. Any of it.
I have to be at my parents' at 10 tomorrow morning, which time I am somewhat @@ about, but I'm not doing anything else this afternoon or tonight, so I should be ready by then....
For those who want distraction, help me decide about jewelry!
I really like this necklace. But I have cleverly figured out that there are places I can buy blank silver decanter labels and have them engraved! So should I have one engraved with "absinthe", "whimsy", or "vampire"? (I have a vague plan to eventually get multiple silver decanter labels so I can have all of those words, but am being good about my budget right now. Therefore, I have to pick only one.)
And The Hobbit. The illustrations are... "amazing" isn't quite right....
eta:
Those are the Lord of the Rings heroes we all know but probably never had seen them like this before. In Soviet Russia they had that book too, it was not a full trilogy but illustrations were made by a local artist and look very different from the ones there were in the Western World. Can you guess all of the characters depicted here? The hint, the one on the cover is Bilbo.
I would pick "whimsy," but maybe "vampire" for you.
Can I go home yet?