i couldn't think why i had a song stuck in my head from Gentleman Prefer Blondes (my favourite Marilyn Monroe movie) until i re-read the blurb at the top of this page and realized that the song is Bye Bye Baby. apparently, my brain misinterpreted "Bye Bye Birdie" the first time.

aha! that's how it works. thank you!

a plain headband that matches or nearly matches your hair?

that sounds amazing. i love to cook, and there are only 3 or 4 people i work smoothly with. they're all good home cooks, too. it's a gift when you find them!

yeah, you appear to be un-grey now, too.

oooh, that sounds good! i just used beans, tomatoes, peppers, onion, and spices. i'm not even sure what all went in there by the end! i got asked for the recipe and i was stumped... i have no idea how much cumin went in there, etc!

yes, you're grey. am i still grey? i don't get it either. i go offline for a couple months, and i come back, and... this!

i can't speak from experience, but my mother just had one done last week. she said that, physically, it's uncomfortable but not terribly painful. however, the bruising will be spectacular. it's the mental aspect that's tough. she said it's hard to stay calm and not worry yourself sick, but you have to in order to get…

YOU GUYS. i won a chili cookoff yesterday! ok, it was a small one, only 5 contestants, but still... i won! i haven't won a trophy since the third grade. i'm digging it :)

tonight, i made gyros, with my homemade tzatziki. SO. GOOD.

i'm a natural redhead (i am seriously vain about my hair, i admit it).

i love Sabrina. my kids love Sabrina, but they don't understand why her jeans have such a high waist... it cracks me up to hear them.

oh, man, so did i. so many scratchy, tacky sweaters...

the kids and i went to my bestie's house today, and we grilled whole rainbow trout (that she and her daughter caught themselves). we did some with lemon pepper and garlic, and some with a cajun spice blend. we also made a big pan of roasted veggies .

i don't have any real advice for you, but as a mom of several special needs kids, i just want to thank you for doing what you do. i know how hard it can be to work with the system, and it's got to be even harder to work within it. so, thank you, and keep your chin up, you're doing good work! (and, oh yeah, if your…

is that a Secret Garden reference? because, damn, i love that book.

no joke, that synthetic shit can get you hooked. my boyfriend used to smoke K2 and he was suddenly all weird and paranoid and i BEGGED him to stop smoking it. we very nearly broke up because of that crap. he had a really hard time stopping. i tried it a few times, and, while it gets you high, it's not a mellow high…

and Bieber, in turn, appears to have borrowed Vanilla Ice's hair.

i may get in trouble with the librarian because of drool spots on the page... lol. it's amazing.

so. we've moved. it was a bloody awful circus for a week and a half, and i still have piles up to my eyeballs in several places. i have NO idea how we crammed all this stuff into our old apartment, and i have no idea how to fit it all into the new one!