I can't do the sprinkler because I don't have an outside water source. Lately the cats haven't been an issue because it's too damn cold. The lease states no outdoor pets but I know one of the cats belongs to someone who has lived here nearly a decade so I'm nit going to make a fuss.

I'll look into the sound thing. As long as it doesn't bother Penny. The outside cats don't really do anything but sit there and look like smug assholes.

I assume all cats look like smug assholes. Because mine always have. Dim, half-deaf and thinks she can defeat a Shepherd in straight battle but Puppycat is still a smug asshole. And despite her name, loathes the puppy.

I actually found some good bras at Lane Bryant. I bought them because they matched my skin tone, but they have proved to be quite flattering. More than my $60 Walcoals.

I found a slightly minimizing bra at Target. Right now for my lifestyle, body and boob needs, they are perfect. I bought a couple in every useful color.

(Because of my shoulder problems, I need the straps to be set pretty close in to my neck, and most bras that come in my cup size have straps set further out, which puts pressure on some already-painful parts of my shoulder joint.)

Have you taken a crack at racer back bras or the clips that can make a regular bra more racer-shaped?

Have you taken a crack at racer back bras or the clips that can make a regular bra more racer-shaped?

I've tried on a few, but none of them really fit right.

OK, so a job opening I've been sort of waiting on (a friend in the department gave me a heads up at New Years) has finally posted. I applied within an hour of it hitting the jobs site. Here's hoping something comes of it. It's at a local university, so close that I could walk to it. It looks interesting, it pays reasonably well, and I'd know (and like) at least one person in the department. Any available job~ma would be appreciated, please.

Unfortunately, True & Co. doesn't go much above a DD, apparently.

My quiz results there were

The size you entered is out of our current size range.

So, alas.

I had a revelation yesterday. I realized that the way I feel about dieting/food/calories is the way other people feel about money. And vice versa. For me, even when I was making a LOT less than I was now, there was never a time when I strictly budgeted. Yeah, I had an idea of what I could afford, but generally I managed to set my life up so that what I wanted to spend (and my natural fairly frugal self) meant that even if one month I spent a bit more than I should've, I had savings to cover it and maybe seeing a big bill made me go "ooh" and not spend quite so much for a few weeks. That's still how I am today--yeah, I have things synched up in Mint so I can occasionally make sure I'm not going over budget month after month, but I pretty much never am. And partly yes, that's because I make a decent salary, but like I said, even when I made a lot less (or was in college) that was never an issue--I had almost no money but I was also never one of the kids going "crap, my check is going to bounce and I have five dollars to last me until my parents send more!"

But I know that's not how most people are, and a lot of people budget down to the penny. And it's hard, and tiring, and they want to splurge, and they still HAVE to spend money and can't go cold turkey. And that's how I feel about dieting--I WANT it to be like how I spend money, where I can just eat what I want within reason, have occasional splurges, have occasional times when I think "I should cut back and eat healthy for a bit" and generally go on my merry way. But mostly I can't...that line of reasoning adds debt for some people and pounds for me.

...I haven't figured out what to DO about this, but it makes a lot of sense in my head.

Unfortunately, True & Co. doesn't go much above a DD, apparently.

I had the same problem with them. I've had much better luck with Freshpair.

Job ~ma, Calli!

I haven't figured out what to DO about this, but it makes a lot of sense in my head.

It does, and yet I don't know what to do about it either!

Job~ma Calli!

In an emotional funk again. My friend and co-worker, girlfriend of the best man at my wedding lost her brother today. She has rushed off to fly home (Bahamas) and deal with stuff. This would be devastating enough, but she lost her other brother 3 MONTHS ago. She is still so wounded from that loss. It is just too much. 1st brother was 54. Don't know about this one. She was too incoherent to talk about it.