ita - these headbands are pretty [link]

as are these [link]

and these barrettes [link]

Everyone else - all three of those sights are awesome sites for gifts that do good with each purchase.

Etsy also has beautiful combs and hair clips.

My family has a Thanksgiving spreadsheet on Google Drive, where we're planning who's cooking what, and when, and which utensils will be used, and so on. I think my favorite entry is "Water. Recipe/Source: Tap. Serving Platter: Pitcher." Or possibly, "Non-vegan stuffing. Recipe/Source: Mom's brain."

Thanks, msbelle--I've forwarded those to my sister for consideration.

Etsy is officially too overwhelming for me these days unless I know both an adjective and a noun. Great stuff, but there exists regretsy for a reason.

I know there's a Mothman statue there, but I've never tried to find it. If you see it, take a picture!

I got a picture! Not a close-up picture, though, because I didn't get out of the car.

I remember having found, I think, a Scandal and a Revenge shopping blog--anyone know if Elementary has one?

Somewhere, I read that they wanted Joan to be "accessible" so all her outfits come from Target. Apparently, that isn't true.

Re: tipping the cleaning service, frankly, they are at the top of my budget now. If I tip 20%, it puts the cost above what I'm comfortable paying. Tipping less feels cheap. My previous cleaning service, I tipped about 27%, and they ruined a rug and a shower curtain with bleach water and broke a plate. The current folks are more expensive, which make me feel like they're paid better, and I'm reluctant to tip beyond the expected holiday bonus. And I'm not even sure what that ought to be! Also, if I tip at every visit, am I still expected to do the holiday tip? Would it be less, then, than if I didn't tip every visit? I don't know what to do.

Also, during my interview with the service owner, where she wrote down my instructions (that have been largely ignored), she strongly hinted that tipping is encouraged. I wanted to ask why she didn't just charge more and pay her people more. If I were employing a cleaner directly, I'd tip, but a service? I don't know. Once upon a time, I would never have even thought of tipping a cleaning service, any more than I'd tip a mechanic.

ION, I'm tired of all my pants being too short. I don't like my ankles hanging out. I don't want to become the fuzzy-haired crazy cat lady with the too-short pants and the "comfortable" shoes and the ill-fitting clothes covered in cat hair and the headwrap to cover the crazy hair. And yet I think I have. I caught a glimpse of myself in a plate-glass window, and ugh. How is this messy frump ME?

Scrappy, I'm very glad your DH is okay.

I would have cleaners in a lot more if I had a good sense of what/if to tip.

Bust on bookshelves. Had a near-miss at Pier 1, but inattentive sales people tipped my ambivalence to the negative. I might try the other one tomorrow. Problem is I want more of what I already have, and those are at least a decade old and not found anymore. Frustrating.

I got a new chair cover at IKEA, but it occurs to me I can't put it on without being home to police Loki, and since I'll be gone a week soon.... It did make me want to get another of these chairs for the bedroom, so maybe I'll do that after the holidays...after I check to see if they'll fit in my new car!

And, the Google seems to suggest no on tipping, maybe a fiver here and there and something at Xmas.

Here's what I meant by yoga hair band: link

I don't know if scrunchies will hold my mother's hair. They wouldn't have held mine. My sister will have to adjudicate.

I had a need for a shoe that I didn't know how to satisfy. I don't like wearing shoes with no socks or hose, only sandals. But sometimes, shoes, you know? You're wearing a dress and you want to be a little less casual than sandals and the tights free ballet flats have just not been...nope, not comfortable. Found these on sale, and that's great! Not something I need to wear to work (always socks or hose there), and it's like bonus Mary Janes.

I love me some Mary Janes.