My favorite bagel is pumpernickel. With some sort of savory cream cheese.

Also. I am going to LAX to pick up my niece from her 7:50 AM flight and then to drive her to Anaheim. It'll be nice to see her even with long drive.

It was in the mid-70s here today, so I spent a lot of ime outside. I also took he opportunity of sandal-friendly weather to get a pedicure. Now my toenails are a lovely blue-violet.

Kat! We'd love to see you!

Sparky, I'm sorry we missed you out here. I don't know what happened, except I fell off the earth.

Suzi! I was totally thinking of you. Our washer died last week. So we took it about and cleaned the clutch and put it back together but still had the same issue. A repair guy came on Thursday and said it was the upper bearings and we'd have to pay $1000 to have it fixed. So we plan on parting it out but we needed to buy a new washer.

Got a maytag with questionable reviews (it's a low water/low energy machine and has a fussy system of loading and soaping). It was originally $700 but we got it for $450 at Lowes. As we were installing it, the water cut off did NOT cut off water. So we flooded some of the garage but figured it out pretty fast.

Now I've washed all the things. Life without a laundry machine is grim.

Washing machine woes! I should probably clean our filter, huh?

Oh, right, your niece is starting her internship, huh? It's double too bad we're not doing NAMM this year!

Why does my phone think it's 2:56?

Had you gathered all the shoppers in the stores today, they would have resembled a bruise. I expect that to continue until....what, Superbowl? Is that the next game? Or is there another before it?

I can't imagine dealing with no washer and kids and, well, life. When my bro&SIL's died, my mom found out when she called and SIL just burst into tears (didn't help they all had a stomach bug and/or barfing migraines.) So mom did the research and bought one to be picked up that day at a store near them. Unsurprisingly, it is the same one I have now- mom also did all the research and told me what to get.

Also unsurprising, my SIL has stated that if she ever leaves/has to kill my brother, she's keeping us.

So, ION, I got some grain-free fatass catfood today. I am on a mission to unfat Loki.

He and Pumpkin were so excited, as always, when I went up this evening to pour out their allotment. I mixed half old/new. The Pumk was fairly game, though tenative. But the look of injury Loki gave me, OMG. He sniffed, looked confused, took a bit, dropped it on the floor. Batted it. Tried again. Looked at me so pleadingly and hurt, buffeted my ankles, crying.

DAMNIT, IT'S BLUE BUFFALO $$$ SHIT AND ALL FULL OF MEAT AND FOR FUCKING LYNXES OR SOME SHIT, YOU WILL EAT IT AND LIKE IT.

I think shit is about to get real.

I hate to say this, but neither of my cats would touch Blue Buffalo