Excellent! Thanks for the confirmation about the mani price. I will go forth with confidence.

an 'it's racist, but hey, it's about a sporting event, so I get a pass'

I'm confused. What's racist? What sporting event? And why the pass?

This particular friend is a fan of the local, professional football team, unfortunately named after native Americans. They played a team from, I think, Texas yesterday. There were repeated (printed) shrieks of "Scalp them! Scalp them!"

It's the sort of thing I could never imagine this person saying in front of an actual human being, but because it's just a game...or whatever...it's okay.

I'll spare you my rant about how people seem to be blind and deaf to their impact on their personal environments. (cellphones while walking the dog/baby are at the top of my 'list.')

But this, otherwise, thoughtful person's outbursts really set me back on my heels.

While you're getting your nails did, bonny, you might request Orly's Flagstone Rush if they have it. It's one of my top three favorites of all time.

Not shopping. We are low on coffee, but I think there's enough for tomorrow, and H can shop early Sunday morning. And there's an OTC thing I really could use, but will manage without for at least a day or two. Family Christmas is all mailorder anyway, so it's not a hardship for us.

In fact, we were hoping for a break in the weather so we could head up into the mountains and away from civilization today. But the grey and rainy remains unbroken.

Orly's Flagstone Rush

Beverly! We really are sisters from another...

Anyway. You must be psychic because this is exactly the color I am looking for. Gor-gee-ous.

I tried to do a good deed just now and got caught up in nefarious doings. Feh.

I stopped into the local (single owner-one location) upscale deli and saw a seemingly homeless man loitering inside...which is unusual.

While I was buying my chips, I saw him kind of harassing the owner for a doughnut. I bought the one he wanted and handed it off to him. I caught a really unhappy look from the owner, who is generally a lovely fellow.

Feeling all good about myself, I went outside to discover a dog who had clearly been tied up for a long time. I asked outside diners about him and was given a 'we-don't-want-to-say-he's-homeless' description.

I went back inside and, rather than toddling off with the doughnut, the fellow was lurking in the same place he'd been before.

Turns out, he and an accomplice have been inside the store for more than an hour, virtually holding the owner hostage. "If I move", he said,"they are going to steal something much bigger."

They were SO brassy. The building owner had called the cops and was having a chat with an officer in right front of them and they still refused to move. Apparently, their options were limited.

Sigh.

I went shopping with amyth today; we hit some local craft stores (NC pottery FTW!), a comic book shop, a local source of holiday cards and tchotchkes, and a local kitchen supply store. I want to buy this stuff, and I'm lucky enough to be able to afford to pay a local potter a decent price for their wares. But I get the tension between "I want to buy my sister something for Christmas, and I have $8 after the month's living expenses, so Walmart" vs. the salaries Walmat pays that aren't a living wage for their employees. Which leads to the aforementioned $8 left at the end of the month, at best.

Last night, after the guests left, I turned on the tele, and caught a bit of a Charlie Rose interview with JK Rawling. So that prompted me to watch a Harry Potter flick. I didn't realize David Tennant was in Goblet of Fire! Dang that boy would make my ovaries ache if I had any. Whats more. In the beginning of Order of Phoenix, I thought Harry had a small resemblence to DT's good Doctor character, as Harry was going to the Ministry in the beginning of the movie.

Oh man, Calli, I miss Seagrove so much! Have you been to any of the potteries, or the Ben Owen museum and family gallery? Between Seagrove and Eclectic by Nature in GSO, I'm having an acute case of homesick for NC!

Wow. In the realm of misuse of 911, I just talked to a (very confused) older lady who wanted police to go to her sister's house to tell the sister that she wasn't invited to Thanksgiving dinner. Today. I sent police to do a welfare check on the caller instead.

There's a Seagrove Pottery store in Carrboro now, so we went there. I took Mom on a Chatham county pottery tour back in 2003 or 2004, and that was fun. We didn't make it to see Owen's work, as Mom tired easily.

Will and had a nice Friday but calling it Thanksgiving. We bought the card game Flux and have been playing it. I ordered the Dr Who Monopoly and was anxiously awaiting its arrival today.

UPS claims that they tried to deliver less than an hour ago but no one was home and they didn't leave a note or the package. i called UPS and they basically said that even though there's no signature required the driver may have thought it was unsafe to leave the package. But they didn't leave the sticky note so I'm pretty sure there was no attempt.

I'm supposed to get a call back on Monday at 10 am.

Ryan is at his Chinese lesson. A three-hour lesson feels a bit excessive to me, but I don't really care, because a classroom of extremely cute three year olds is adorably hilarious.