Just as a thought, from someone who likes dim and music:
Dim = just kind of romantic, plus I personally think people look nicer in soft lighting
Music = nice background noise so I don’t get in my head too much about slurpy/weird noises
So it’s not so much that we can’t see, or need a rhythm, but more about setting a mood…

I do, not all the time, but he seems to really like it. I think it’s fun to shop for and enjoy the surprise aspect (I’m otherwise bad at keeping surprises secret).

Ah! I got that too! And I completely agree, it looks really natural and is easy to blend in.

I ordered a new lipstain in my favorite color, not too expensive, like $9, and then it came in the mail and I got TWO for that price!! Super stoked. CoverGirl Lipstain in 435. :-)

SNL’s sound mix is so consistently bad. I don’t get it. Major artists on that show, come on, and you can’t hear them sing over their own music? Sometimes it’s even someone I really like and I’m listening saying “Who is this?” because I can’t hear them.

Actually, yes. In the transfers made between banks and then short-sellers, some loans (the paperwork, specifically) were “lost.” For a while many people were encouraged to ask their banks who were collecting or foreclosing on them to prove that the bank held the loan - some of the banks couldn’t do so and therefore…

you’re funny :-) many a time I have been lured to Krispy Kreme...

The man in this story actually hadn’t eaten any doughnuts yet - you don’t get to the doughnuts until you’ve ran 2.5 miles already. So he just straight up had a heart attack, not doughnut related.

You only have to eat the doughnuts if you are doing the competitive version of the race, which I would say from having been at this race several times over the years, only 1/2 of the people do. Maybe less. Otherwise you don’t have to eat them or sometimes bystanders will help you eat them!

Mutiny Used Books in Denver. It’s great, usually has a treasure hidden somewhere, they have coffee and allow dogs!

Right - that’s also what I was thinking, I just don’t understand the connection to the specific number 44, so I was looking for a more direct link there.

Thanks for your explanation - I get the concept, I just don’t get the connection to the number 44 in particular. For example if it’s between three bad options why not choose “33”? In my opinion if it was meant as a play on words it wasn’t a good one :-(

Sarah, apologies if I am being pedantic here, but is “Catch-44" actually “Catch-22"? I’ve never heard of Catch-44 before and I even tried to Google it to figure out what it might mean as a play on Catch-22. You can delete this comment if you want.

Hey, looks like there might have been a typo in this sentence:

There is, it’s for huge nerds I guess (me), it’s offered by the National NeedleArts Association, there’s levels, etc. Anyway, very cool that you knit and that your great-grandma taught you! And I don’t sell socks, ever. Other things, sometimes, but never socks. You just can’t get the ROI necessary to make a profit.

Hi Mindymoo, this is totally off topic, but you are a master knitter? As in, did you get the certification? I would love to hear about your experience as I am hoping to start Level 1 soon. Are you on Ravelry?

I would say that instead of “they WILL come back to you” it’s more of a “they MIGHT come back to you” especially if the more permissive parent is granted custody. My brother is only now, 10 years after the divorce, acting like a normal person and not an incredibly entitled and spoiled brat. Most of the entitlement and…

Right? I found out I was allergic to something in Cherry-flavor Chapstick when I woke up (had applied the night before) with big puffy lips. I just threw it out. Didn’t blame Chapstick for my allergy, in fact I still use the other flavors.

Now I’m going through all the options of what the name could be. Ampersand? Tilde? Carat? Asterisk! No, Parenthesis!

As a Coloradan, you can have ours. Except for the slopes where people want it, I guess. We had a white Thanksgiving this year where the gods dropped around 6-7” and that wasn’t even the first snow of the season. It snowed on Mother’s Day this year. I was procrastinating on getting my winter clothes out of storage but…