On behalf of the nation of Australia, let me say: you taunty bastard.
If you can't taunt Australia what's the point of being American? And eating bananas?
Maria, that's great news, and one of the truest compliments you'll receive in this life, I think.
Congestive Heart Failure is what finally got my dad, after his whole body seemed to be headed downhill for a couple years.
My all-time favorite band, the New York Dolls, was named after the once famous New York Doll Hospital.
Team Zmayhem is in bed early, but I did all the dishes and loaded the coffee so I could get Emmett out the door by 7am. He's coming home via BART now, though, so that's a huge change. I'm trying to get used to it.
Wait, I"m confused--are there no bananas in Australia, or something??
She lives in a rom com, PC. There's nothing we can do to compare.
Hah! Well, if it consoles you any, I am currently in quite the dry spell. And apparently in the part of the rom com which ends up a menage of bad dates and ridiculous embarrassments, etc etc.
But Decadence and New Orleans are next week! I have my fingers crossed, though high expectations are hard to fulfill.
I am beginning to get worried about my family and friends who live on the CT coast. (Also friends along the East Coast in general, of course.)
Wait, I"m confused--are there no bananas in Australia, or something??
At the moment, more or less. The Queensland floods earlier this year took out the banana crop, and the farmers' lobby group is preventing imports so they won't have the competition next year.
Michael's Crafts has surprisingly sturdy unfinished wooden coffin boxes for $2 in the Halloween stuff, with decent hinges and latches.
I totally thought you were suggesting an alternative to the doll hospital.
sarameg: that video is !!!! omGWTF black bear!!
I kept watching and saying (in my head) to the person with the camera "get in the house!"
Maria - that rocks. Keeping my fingers crossed for you.
Lola got a hold of Liv's doll and she has some abdominal injuries--she's spilling some of her fluffy guts. The AG Doll Hospital has an admittance form that I include with the doll when I ship it. She'll have her torso replaced and be shipped back to us, cleaned, hair brushed and wearing a hospital gown and an id bracelet.
They can pretty much fix anything--replace heads, limbs, bodies, eyes, etc.
If you take the doll in yourself, they will bring her out in a wheelchair. It's in Madison and I don't feel like driving down there so I will ship her.
Now I want a broken doll just so I can ship her to the doll hospital. Which sounds all kinds of creepy. I take it back. Still, as kid, I would have LOVED getting a repair done like that. So cool.
I just bought a battery-powered lantern. I'm not even in the danger zone; why am I getting prepared?
Maybe not this time, but now you're prepared for anything!
I have to pack and roll on up the pike. Blergh.
