Hiya, ya'll!

beekaytee, I am so sorry about your losses. And, umm, I may be not seeing it right now because I'm still partly asleep even though it's almost noon, but at what time on Saturday are you planning to start the virtual birthday party?

I need to do the financial paperwork for help with my business but I've been paralyzed. Which means that there is unlikely to be any help left by the time I get there.

Still, get into the system. It takes some tenacity to get through all the hoops and for parts of it you have to work through your bank, but it is worth it. I was able to secure money through the PPP for my company.

According to the IRS they don't have my banking information even though they have been automatic withdrawing my installment payments for what I owed last year every month like clockwork. Whatever, I entered it on the site that I very much hope is not an elaborate phishing scam and should get that sweet sweet stimulus money before too long. Gonna blow it all on paying my mortgage, whee!

-t, another friend mentioned this, and it looks like there are separate departments/profiles for payments vs. refunds/stimulus. You do actually have to enter the information specifically for the stimulus $$, otherwise I believe a check will be issued to your address.

BKT, so sorry about Cagney. I've been there before. I'm glad your pup will recover.

In other news, it is SEVENTY-SEVEN degrees (f) outside. (25C). Entirely too warm for April in the Pacific Northwest. I wore sandals and no sweater on the dog walk! It's absolutely bizarre that the other side of the country is snowed upon.

Hello again!!

Not sure if this is helpful but my PPP money was deposited today. I think I filed April 6. I'm in a better position than ND (people always have legal problems) but it has been a very stressful time to run a business.

But in other news, it's so fun to see so many old friends

I got my PPP money at the beginning of the week, and my employees come back from furlough on Monday. It is good news, but it is also very tempered. It gives us two months of payroll, but there are still a lot of other expenses out there, and I somehow don't think our work Is magically going to come back in 8 weeks.

Bonny, I've been trying to join the shindig, but with no start time in the post (plus my absolute constant lateness), I fear I waited until too late to try. It just keeps telling me to wait for the host to join. I'm very sorry I missed it - chronic tardiness plus timezones not a winning combo, I fear. I hope you had a lovely time, and the next year is an awesome one! Happy Birthday!

I have an IMPORTANT QUESTION for my bitches. I am thinking now would be a good time to stop dying my hair. It's now red, but I'd like to grow out my mix of (I think, it's been red since college) gray and dark blonde. Is it possible to get the color taken off my hair? I'm thinking I have to get it dyed as close as possible to it's actual color and then let it grow out. Or is there some other way?

There is another way! [link]

(You'll probably still need to tone it close to what your natural color is, though.)