ita,

try this:

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I've been coloring my hair and browsing women's oxfords online to distract myself, and it's working. Plus Sara's got two of the neighbor kids over, and Ben's been in and out, sharing YouTube videos, so I'm good. Thanks, everyone!

Pricegrabber gets worse prices than Froogle. I tried Google Shopper on my tablet, but it's searching UK stores and then telling me there's nothing local. I have no idea if would send me alerts anyway. I can't work out why my tablet intermittently thinks I'm in the UK, other than the fact I have the dictionary set to UK English. The Shopper app itself says LA *right* *there*.

Four bags of leaves. Plus the one my neighbor did yesterday before she left. I could do more, except cars are parked there.

Came in to find blood on the kitchen floor and a bunch of stuff knocked off the counter. Pretty sure it was a Devi/Pumpkin interaction. Devi just ripped a claw open. Swear to god, don't know how she does that, but she manages. Pumpkin is unfazed.

Need to eat something and then swim.

OK, Loki and Pumpkin are writhing around on their backs, head to head, lazily pawing at each other. Contact made, they both flip upright, stare, and then start rolling again. It's an odd courting dance of somesuch.

ita, I imagine you are not looking for Amazon prices? If you were, I would try camelcamelcamel.com. At least you can see price history.

After Typographer Ryan Gosling, we have Poli Wonk Ryan Gosling.

I just think that there can't be too much Ryan Gosling on Tumblr.

I imagine you are not looking for Amazon prices?

No, indeed. I'm looking for all the other prices. I think the Google Shopper app might be able to help, so I've sent a bug report off to the developer complaining about its Britishness in hopes I can work out what to tweak.

I am making a bison pot roast in the slow cooker and trying not to nap. Am thinking about maybe making cookies. I need to start practicing for next month's cookie swap! I am not going to go to the store though so it's got to be a recipe I can make with ingredients already in the house.

Mmm, bison pot roast! What all did you put in it?

I have come back from the epic Car Getting Trip to Amarillo and am zonkered, but have a bunch of corporate work to get done. However, it is rainy and cold and I have given myself permission to sleep however much my body wants to, just for today. These may be contradictory goals.

Possibly I should brunch now. Food might help.

It seems that everybody who has a Mexican grandmother knows that their grandmother's way of doing it is the one right way, and every grandmother's way is different.

This is so true. My friend's way is to tie them which I've never seen any one else do.