( continues...) marigold and other florals. It's more like the Vie En Rose I also got from Lupicia, it seems. Upton's selling it for $5.28/100g ($6.60/125g), and Lupicia is $14 for the same amount. Good lord.

And Adagio is about half Lupicia's prices for similar looking blends.

I can't believe I walked right into that.

On the other hand...this rooibos jardin sauvage is fucking delicious.

ita, I understand that Twitter is a good place to go for customer service problems. If you can call out the cab company in public, you might get a better response from them.

Connie,

there has to be a revenue for the states. getting my birth certificate was so expensive (and a passport to boot). these fees are going somewhere.

Oh lord that's pricey tea, yet still cheaper than my visits to Coffee Bean.

OHMYGOD! Yesterday, I walked to the CB on Wilshire and 8th, so it's close-ish to the beach. There were two couples there together, with an adorable kid in a stroller. ALL of them were inside in line, with their beach chairs, one of which was the kind that you can wear as a backpack.

And yet, only one person ordered (incorrectly fwiw). WTF? It's beautiful. Go wait outside on the patio because they are taking all the space.

Also, that CB has a frozen yogurt bar? What?

I will just say we have the feliway diffuser and Oz still pees. But it does seem to calm him otherwise.

Yeah, it's not effective for all cats. I wonder if using the spray for spot-shotting an area has a different effect than a diffuse application?

They want to avoid the cost of traveller's cheques, and getting a Jamaican bank to cash a Swiss cheques...just, irritating. No one has paypal, for aforementioned irritating.

This sounds like a hell no situation. Alo, who even uses travelers checks anymore? If she doesn't have a debit or credit card, you can get those prepay ones all over the place

You might be able to get a Visa gift card that works like a credit card. That is what we do for designers at the theatre instead of petty cash.

I am trying to decide if I grew up in some sort of lower class liberal bubble or if things have really changed so much. It seems to me, as a child of the70's, that it was clear that"the man" was to be fought, that unions were good, that Archie Bunker was to be pitied, that wars were bad (mash), that equality was good. I know I was raised in that weird place where libertarianism met socialism, but I even feel that the pop culture shows espoused this idea, and even my social studies classes posited reform as good, from the Protestant reformation to the Ladies Garment Workers Union.

I also used to have Santa Claus Dad. Now, he is more like the Grinch.

I am well and truly pissed off at people on twitter who, on fucking LABOR DAY, are celebrating entrepreneurs.

Who the fuck works for entrepreneurs? Isn't it labor? Or are entrepreneurs making all this $$ by themselves. When did it become dishonorable to go to work and be employed by someone every day? I don't dislike entrepreneurs, but I do dislike attacking people who work.

They are doing this shit to piss me off specifically, right? Because this feels personal.