Damn. Something flew up under my car apparently and punctured the very expensive Volt radiator. I won't know how much this is going to cost until Tuesday at the earliest, but I have a feeling it's going to hurt. Why do cars wait to break down until you have the least amount of money to pay for them?!?

They are tricksy like that. Mine did the a month or so ago. I hope it"s not too bad.

My first one did the opposite; it used to wait til I had money and then break down, forcing me to cancel whatever plans I'd made with it. The steering column snapped once while I was going inside the bank to deposit my paycheck.

I'm sorry about your car, Pix.

I think I need to start looking for another new hairdresser.

Yes. I'll give someone a second chance. Okay, I won't, but I can see where it's the more mature and realistic thing to do. But after even two visits where you can't walk out with what you want, look elsewhere.

I hate when the grocery bill gets out of control, and it's pretty much because of the meat you had them cut for you, so handing half back is just bratty, and I have a freezer, I can eat it later. Just..wow, I did not think it weighed that much.

A guy stopped me in the dairy section and asked me if I knew about buttermilk. Sure! Why not? He wanted to know if the kind they had was okay for baking, because the person who'd sent him hadn't said anything about reduced fat or cultured. Don't they make cellphones for that nowadays? I told him he was fine--they probably only needed it to be acidic, and that one was plenty acidic. He said he was going to go back and chasten them for not telling him about the acid thing.

It's not like the carton of buttermilk says acid, but even though I told him to wait and see how tasty the baking was first, he seemed intent.

I know you are right, Cass and -t; I just wish there were more options down here. Why do I have to go to SF to get a decent cut ? People here have hair!

That's surprising to me, just because there are so many salons here (I pass at least 4 while walking the dog, and we don't go far) that one of them is bound to be pretty good. I can't imagine what's different by you.

well this party has shown me that 1) I was wrong, it was too long and 2) mac cannot have more than 1 friend over at a time for a while.

He is not following house rules at all. He has completely forgotten acting responsible with 5 friends here.

I put food in the oven for them , set the timer and told him to get it like he always does. Well he let someone else get it and they did not turn off the oven and they turned the temp all the way up so the house smells like burned yuck now. then half the friends went outside while he stayed inside with 1 playing a video game. They left doors open to the outside. Our cats are not outdoor cats and the dog, if she had followed them out - would then have had an open gate to the un-fenced front yard. THEN he and the last friend went outside also and left the door in the back room alone shut off from the rest of the house and me. She was freaking out and whining.

Kids, man.

I went to the supermarket and forgot to get milk! WTF. This is what I get for having two cocktails first.

If you'd been drinking White Russians, you'd have remembered the milk.