Hah. So many of the dudes I went to college with are no longer hot. They got old, fast. Somehow the ladies didn't.

I just turned down the warm doubletree cooking when I checked in, because I've been trying to avoid sweets a tiny bit (...ok and I had a peanut butter Rice Krispie treat in the airport). And then I get to my room and there's a plate with some other sort of cookie bar thing and the bottles of water I'm supposed to get as a diamond member. Agh! I have so little willpower. And yet had this fantasy to buying new jeans before the yearly dance convention in a few weeks and looking super hot.

IF I'M NOT DROWNING, JOAQUIN.

I'm hearing everything from, "Eh, it will probably be a little windy with some heavy rain," to "Batten down the hatches, have an evacuation plan ready, and be prepared for multiple days without power." I don't know what to believe, but ain't nobody got time for a hurricane. I have bids due on Monday and Friday, and it looks like I'm going to Columbus Tuesday and Wednesday.

meara, shush. You always look super hot. I'm in awe of your amazing jawline and cheekbones.

If you're feeling really determined, go knock on a nearby door and give it to them. Or leave it with the housekeeping with tip. So you might feel guilty for eating it....

Burrell, he was really pretty. So pretty it didn't matter he was not my typical attractor type. Used to stare at him to stay awake (um, and he knew it. It was a joke between us. He got sleepy in class, he'd braid my hair until it made me sleepy and I'd throw something over my shoulder at him. Yes, platonic. Looking back, huh.) And now..banker hair. Suit. something. No longer Puck-ish. Zippo, nada. Odd.

It rained today! I actually needed an umbrella!

Got a little bit done on my home unpacking today, but there are still multiple boxes in the front room.

And I've lost my Tivo remote. Happily, I found the Roku remote, so I was able to watch the Brooklyn 9-9 premiere.

And now to make cookies in my NEW KITCHEN.

sarameg, not even a glimmer of the before underneath it all?

Woo hoo, 'suela! If you're inclined to share pictures of the new kitchen, I'm inclined to ooh and ahh and validate your choices.

Ooh, yes, new kitchen pics!!

Thanks Maria! I lost a few pounds this past winter, and have really been enjoying that (I run better! Clothes fit me better, and when they don't I blame the clothes!), but a few crept back on. And hey, I wanna look nice for all the folks I only see once a year! ...the gay men. Because its key for the lesbian to look hot for them. Um.

a few crept back on

Oh, I get that. I keep beating myself up for allowing it to happen, and I refuse to buy new clothes so I keep wearing the same 5 or 6 things. I've got a closet full of beautiful things that I can wear once the weight comes off again. Brings me to tears sometimes.

Well, I recognized him by his eyes and ears. (That's weird, right? I don't notice ears usually.) But his current pic does nothing for me now, even with the same grin. Maybe if he talked it'd get better, but he's just not pure eye candy anymore. I could still seriously stare at his 20 self for hrs. Really nice guy in the day, though. Got me through thermo and showed for my thesis defense even though he'd graduated a year before.

I married my eye candy. Sometimes that seems kind of embarrassing to admit, like I'm superficial or something.

Almost all the guys from my class have gotten fat and gray (hey, at least I bucked the trend by still having as much hair as in high school!), but one friend looks eerily the same as he did in the late 1980s. And another who was kind of a pint-sized Ilan Mitchell-Smith lookalike joined the military and grew up HOT.