Debit card compromised, blast and damn. Credit union notified me on a Sunday morning, so props to them for that, but damn it, now I'm without a debit card for however long it takes to get a new one. I hate carrying cash around.

Tommyrot, my best to you and Anna’s friend. I hope it turns out to be nothing serious.

What winery, btw? I am thinking of signing up for a Diva race at a Temecula winery...

Temecula has tons of great wineries, and we’ve done tastings at many of them. This time we were staying at Ponte, which is my favorite inn so far despite the obnoxious wedding party this morning at breakfast.

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Calling a suicide hotline is definitely the right call. Any update?

Just so you know, shrift, you and Consuela have me on a cleaning/sorting/purging/want real furniture kick.

I admire the work you put into your home, sarameg. I clearly have been letting stuff accumulate and not dealing with things for years. Necessity is a good motivator.

I made another donation run today, so I think just about everything is out that's going out except for stuff that I'm still using, like the shower curtain. I say that, and yet I'm confident that I can fill another garbage bag or two before everything's done.

I need to start separating kitchen items and figuring out what's going with me on the plane.

I'm still waffling on a kitchen table and chairs:

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I love that table.

Any update?

I think Anna's with her now, so we're ok for the moment. Hopefully Anna can persuade her to get treatment.

I think I need to go back to Room and Board tomorrow and sit on all their dining room chairs. Kinda like Goldilocks.

Best of luck to Anna. Rough times.

I got to hold a week-old baby for a couple hours (and conveniently handed her back to her mom juuuust before she had a blowout on both ends! Timing!). And then lunch with my friend's husband, but drama with some work stuff he's here for meant I dropped him off right after.

My lats/shoulders are killing me, between the pole class and the baby-holding! You would not think those two things have much in common.

OK, I am just stuck. Really being indecisive about colors.

My old kitchen had white cabinets and floor, hideous brown counters, and paneling that I had painted a nice soft yellow, very cheerful but not too bright. The long wall of the kitchen is southwest-facing, and there are two windows, so it gets a lot of light.

The new kitchen will have a stained fir floor, probably medium-dark, blue lower cabinets, and probably white upper cabinets, with white/gray/beige quartz counters. But I cannot figure out what to do about the walls.

Do I go straight blue and white? Can I do yellow walls? Will the blue be too cold with just white, or would it be too busy with blue, white, and yellow all together? Should I go for cream instead?

Argh! This is SO HARD.

Was Temecula unbearably hot, Pix?

K left for Chicago this morning and I have spent the rest of my day doing things both ridiculous and productive. In the ridiculous column, I have put chair socks on our new table and chairs (well, technically just the chairs) because I'm tired of scratching the hell out of the floor. Productive? I have made the dough for the fig newton cookies as well as a lunch of cucumber salad, sticky rice and hoisin chicken. Nom.