I use a lavender daily moisturizer from Avalon Organics in a cylindrical jar that soothes my rosacea, is cooling and smells nice! :)

Also, geeky-excited about a new screen-name I came up with at another site. Hey Arnold references ftw.

I think this belongs on the other thread. But good luck with that!

That's really neat! I admire her early works a lot. What a great way for your BIL to be memorialized.

Ache-y, blah, unmotivated Saturday for me. I finished the rough draft (or as we writers like to say, "shitty first draft", thank you Anne Lamott!) of one of the chapters for my thesis a few days ago. Usually, I love editing. Right now, I am unmotivated.
And also crampy. Ugh. TMI time: Being mildly anemic, I've been…

My body is really weird in lots of ways. One of them is that I have an extra rib, called a cervical rib, on one side. It's something that I didn't remember about myself, so I looked idiotic in front of my current nurse practitioner when she confirmed it with me... oops. It also means that my shoulders are always tight…

Preach!

I'm Californian, too. Thus the unabashed love !?! Maybe it's regional/artisanal?

It's freaking amazing. Enjoy.

Mmm. Sourdough toast. Cheezy sourdough, wheat, rye. Whatever. The sour, lightly toasted, and buttery are what matter.

This made me laugh.
I think I was slightly too old for TR. The animatronic thing just unsettled me.

Ah! You said it better than I could.

Neko Case has impeccable taste that I envy,

Absolutely - that's why they're so horrible. Thank g-d for the internet, because my mom and I used to be the only people I know who even had that weird inner ear symptom - people looked at me freaky when I'd be in agony trying to claw my ears off my head.

Yes! For me, it's the itchy palate paired with the inner ear itches. I look ridiculous trying to satisfy those itches, I know it. The pills and sinus rinse address it, but not all the way.

Dating myself, but that's one of the reasons I liked 'Life Goes On' when it was on - I was a year younger than Kellie Martin, and we wore the same humongous style of glasses, and she was just a kid. There are a few other examples, but not many.

I was watching Modern Family's Paleyfest interview from a few years ago -…

OMG, I love George & Martha!
I call my parents twice a week. They live together, but I mostly talk to mom. In fact, because their landline doesn't like my phone, I call her cell phone. I talk to Dad maybe 1/3 of the time...
I have a wonderful time talking with my mom. We can be funny and good-weird with each other, I…

I'd marry Morello, date Sophia, incarcerate Piper.

I've had mostly positive interactions, too. I especially appreciate this when I'm traveling alone with my dad, who is getting up there in years... he travels with a cpap machine, and always gets pulled aside for it.
... and there was the guy who had to stop me because I had what amounted to a big metal plate once. He…

The Sound of Language, Amulya Malladi