Speaking of shopping, this skirt comes highly recommended from a friend, and would be good for meara or other travelers. [link]
We'd be dead. Can't get paid if you're dead.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Daisy Jane - Apr 13, 2011 9:39:58 am PDT #19687 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Shir - Apr 13, 2011 9:42:45 am PDT #19688 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Diamond shoes problems:
The awesome dress I was about to buy? Yeah, it won't happen.
The dress costs 27$. Shipping, 29$. No, not with shipping. Just the shipping. Regular shipping.
Curses.
brenda m - Apr 13, 2011 9:46:46 am PDT #19689 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Ooh, I like that skirt.
Other shopping: Cook's Illustrated was raving about this alternative to the Penguin seltzer thingy for those of us without the counter space to spare.
Barb - Apr 13, 2011 9:52:19 am PDT #19690 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
I've been looking for athletic/dance skirts on the cheap for practice. I like being able to see what my feet/legs are doing, but need to be able to move. However, true dance skirts can cost the freakin' earth, y'all.
I did just buy this one, for a reasonable price:
§ ita § - Apr 13, 2011 9:53:20 am PDT #19691 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That lets you fizz things that aren't water! Jealous now!
P.M. Marc - Apr 13, 2011 9:54:50 am PDT #19692 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I wear foundation so rarely that my jar of 1WL should last forever.
Being a Peach Person is HARD. Although I make do with the Iredele pressed mineral foundation in Ivory. It's sheer enough to not matter if the tone's a little less perfectly matched.
Any recommendations for a replacement? Lighter coverage is better (in terms of texture, though, obvs. also in skin tone, since I am pale but very pink [in fact, I think that's why I liked the 1N -- it dialed down the pink just enough to keep me from looking like WC Fields, but not so much that I looked like I had the wrong shade of foundation on]).
[link] Alima's stuff is very nicely milled. It looks like they've expanded their color range, so I may even be able to find a match for my peachness.
Barb - Apr 13, 2011 10:04:56 am PDT #19693 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
I have also been anointed the Best Mom Ever.
Nate likes a girl. A lot. She's a cute geek, who games, and likes zombies and they're friends. He's been trying to think of ways to let her know he reallllly likes her.
I found him this to give her as an Easter gift:
sj - Apr 13, 2011 10:08:02 am PDT #19694 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Barb, you have definitely earned the best mom ever award.
DawnK - Apr 13, 2011 10:20:33 am PDT #19695 of 30000
giraffe mode
Barb that is awesome and thank you!!! I saw the zombie bunnies on April Fools Day and I made a mental note to go back and look to see if they were in stock, but totally forgot to. I just ordered 4 (kids, hubby, brother).
Ginger - Apr 13, 2011 10:47:08 am PDT #19696 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My mother was given information about a fundraiser to raise money to send the great-grandson of one of her high school friends to China for stem cell treatments for optic nerve hypoplasia. She called to ask me if this was a legitimate treatment, because if it is, she'd like to help out.
I went googling, and this article [link] sums up the legitimate scientific thought. However, there are pages and pages of people who have paid upwards of $50,000 for this therapy and claimed that it worked. Doctors who have tested children before and after don't see any difference, but the internet is full of testimonials, once again illustrating that the plural of anecdote is not data.
This condition is tailor-made for this kind of sleaziness, because people are desperate to save their child from a life of blindness and because children with this condition fairly often acquire at least light and dark vision as they get older, without any treatment. It's just so sad.
I'm going to tell Mom this, but I doubt if she can talk them out of it.