I turned thirty last Thursday. I friggin' love being thirty. The pressure is totally off.

Sometimes, I think to myself "What Would Bai Ling do?"

I'm trying to keep the world in perspective, following yoga with bacon. I didn't choose to be heavyset, I didn't choose to be clinically depressed and I didn't choose to have the "I must lose weight to be good" commentary running in my head at all times.

@southernbitch: My dad and I have a plan for any Asteroid of Justice/Giant Foot, which involves going to the presumed impact site with an umbrella, a couple of lawn chairs and some beer.

I might be a bit gloomy, but whenever I try to see beyond the fuckedupness of the current state of things, I just see the Asteroid of Justice fall out of the sky and level the playing field. Call me an optimist.

@Lady Skittlehattington's evil twin, Whorey Licoricetits: Cool, because I am in need of some new jeans and tops for work. And I've bulked up again, because I am made of fail.

@Lady Skittlehattington's evil twin, Whorey Licoricetits: I cry every time I have to go shopping. Even at my absolutely lightest — and the closest I'll ever come to being "ideal" — I was still sobbing quietly in the changing room because nothing looked decent on me.

@gluecake: There's a billboard on my way to work which has a model's face (and sex-ready expression in black and white) with her lips spot colored in red with the slogan: "Men Prefer Aveda Lips."

Han and Leia got it on?

The Dude has no time for GTA IV. It would take away from racing Baby Peach in Mario Kart.

@Al Navarro:

@Al Navarro: Webber. Hands down.

The NYTimes "Recession Diet" article kind of put a damper on our weekend.

Gregg's still sad about not earning his own JV patch, eh?

@formergr: It's not just the red tape, it's the MSWs who run the system who make these arbitrary judgement calls on who gets to be parents of the much-coveted infants. The Dude and I would not be awarded a baby because, as the MSW we worked with informed us:

And at the end of the book, Lois writes herself in!

@LaComtesse: That's awesome and touching.

@howdybeep (rear wheel drive): And I think that's about all for me hijacking this topic. Thank you for listening. Please return to your regularly scheduled snarking.

@J.D.Regent: Believe me, when we were going through the paperwork for Guatemala, we were joking about how this would be our little black market baby — which would usually end up with me crying out of extreme guilt that I might be raising the daughter of a mother who gave her up unwillingly or for cash.

@katieb has landed: Now it's in the neighborhood of $35,000. Korea was $45k - $50k.