According to Emily Post: "But, there is no mention of gifts – not even “no gifts, please” – and never any mention of registry information on invitations. " I think it has to do with you are not to presuppose that people were planning on bringing gifts.

It's also really interesting how gifting is very cultural within my neighborhood. The Armenian families were all very wigged out by not bringing a gift for the kids and some did anyhow. One even gave a $20 bill to Grace! The rest of the families brought books as requested.

30 little kids is way more work than 60 teens! I'm glad a good time was had by all. Hope rest is an option now.

I have never actually used a cookie press, I did not know there was required sticking to the sheet. Sounds tricky. I bet if you stuck the whole tray in the freezer (probably not directly out of the oven) the different cooling rates of cookie and metal would make them easier to separate. Maybe also more prone to breakage. And sounds like a prohibitively slow process, really. But it's an idea.

Emily Post has a point, but for kid's birthdays, how else would you get that information out there?

I have never actually used a cookie press, I did not know there was required sticking to the sheet.

We have one, and my mom has one, and as far as I knew the dough was sticky enough to ... stick. But we always use the butter pretzel recipe, I think.

I dislike the silpat I have because the bottoms of the cookies cook wrong? But I'd try parchment paper or even aluminum foil.

On my résumé I don't put "I ran a 2500 person conference" or whatever, but just leave off the I. "Ran 2500 person conference; oversaw three staff members and budget of 700 million" or whatever (none of those are things on my résumé)

But here's a question: should a resume be written in 1st person? Like, "I did x and I did that"? Because a former coworker, a tech editor, edited my resume that way and it just looks weird to me. Is that the thing now?

In a cover letter, but on the resume I've rarely seen it that way. It would strike me as a little odd.

Resume used power verbs, no first person. Cover letter, more braggy; I oversaw; I developed.

Skills fit the position vs. I have these, choose me.

One unlocks the door; the other opens it up. You have to walk over the threshold and put the chokehold on the job.

In a cover letter, but on the resume I've rarely seen it that way. It would strike me as a little odd

Right, that's what I thought. So confused. Thing is, the guy who did the editing is an old friend & the husband of my old boss, who offered his services as a favor. Well, I just won't send that one around, I think...

I worked all day and now my brain is toast. But DH has decided to take advantage of the free HBO and gorge on GoT. I hadn't watched it before, but it goes down surprisingly easy.

Timelies all!

Groceries and basketball. That's my day.