but if you were running a nail blog and were taking a pic of them, wouldn't you get a q-tip and some polish remover to clean them up?

Yeah. The internet is the great leveler, I guess.

There were valid arguments on both sides of the marathon, but my emotional response was that it should be canceled. It is hard to buy that the city resources wouldn't have been diverted from recovery efforts. The whole thing could have been handled a lot better, whether they canceled or went ahead. Now both sides are angry.

Especially since I'm sure there are people who thought "well, it's on, so I might as well go..." when they could've otherwise canceled their plane tickets or something.

A bunch of them won't have anywhere to stay, too -- most of the hotels in Staten Island, which is where the marathoners frequently stay, are saying that they're full of locals whose homes are flooded or otherwise not liveable, and that they're not going to honor reservations from marathoners if it means kicking out locals. Which is the right decision, but still means there are a whole bunch of people who are coming into the city and have no place to stay.

I don't have a blog, but I try to clean up my polish slop over before I post a pic of my manicure to facebook. The skin on the hands makes me think the blogger is elderly. It has that paper quality that older skin gets.

Last night I was changing polish and K-Bug's new boyfriend was curious and seemed to like the design I eventually ended up with (took a few tries). I've never had a guy be that interested. I have to make a Costco run and he is giddy about going with me (the Costco part, not the with me part).

Rachel Maddow blogged that many marathoners are donating their room reservations (assuming pre-paid) to locals who lost their homes. Agreed that it should have been cancelled earlier.

Consuela, I am so glad to hear your mom finally agreed! That has to be a huge relief.

Pink is icky and girly, and they are big strong women, so anything pink (even with equal stats) seems to bother them.

Heh. I had the same attitude from 19-35 (with a dash of "I'm too cool to wear anything brighter than muted blue" @@) but them I remembered I look freaking GREAT in most pinks and I'm as badass as I wanna be no matter what color I wear. (Except orange or yellow. Those shades with my complexion make me look like I am dying. Not a Badass Look.)

I will say I am so fucking over everything for women* being breast cancer pink. Pink itself I don't have an issue with.

*hyperbole alert

ITA, Brenda.

Personally, I might be less over it if it meant any kind of significant funding going anywhere responsible. (But maybe not.)

Even I am over that specific pinkness.