that is SO freaking true. I also love Such Flare! from the holiday collection. Again: it's limited, therefore I adore it. Stupid marketers. Oh wait, I am one.

it's becoming fairly en vogue culinarily Stateside, too. You can find it made with short ribs, filet mignon, you name it.

I was just about to post something about MAC having done this already— beat me to it. I do love my Cruella de Vil red lipstick, though.

If I paid that much money for a cruise, you bet your bippy I'd finish it. And my mother would want it that way.

No one ever does, except now I've heard it twice in one day! Seriously. I had never heard that before tonight when a friend who was in the hospital for breast cancer said her hospital roommate had had a heart attack while doing a stress test. She also said she was vomiting bile all. night. long. Poor thing. I had…

yep. it does happen. it really, really stinks to have it happen, but hey! My emotions leak out of my eyeballs. I can't help it.

I remember visiting a friend as she was working at a mausoleum (she, too was a mortician, but the mortuary field isn't exactly female friendly, and she worked what she called "geisha duties" instead of actually embalming, which is what she liked to do. Apparently there's a lot of discrimination. Anyway.). The place…

Veronica, reporting for duty. And pie. Mmm, pie. As long as the crust isn't made out of communion wafers. That would be wrong.

When I worked for various makeup counters, my favorite thing to do during downtime was to clean everything with alcohol. We used sterile (ish.. I mean, as sterile as you can get at a makeup counter) techniques but customers? EW EW EW. If I'm at a counter or store that has alcohol handy (like MAC or sephora) I'll be…

what size are you? Hell, I'll buy them.

I adore Russian Red. I pretty much live in MAC, Dior and Chanel red lipsticks.

I just googled which lipsticks she wears, because they are awesome: Guerlain Kiss Kiss, MAC Russian Red and Dior Dolce Vita. Good thing sephora is open 24/7 online. I NEED that lipstick.

(Oh, and just ask them to remove the milgrain to have it be exact. Easy peasy.)

If you want it, you can get it for about 1/4 the price from Brilliant Earth. [www.brilliantearth.com] (and the diamonds are conflict free!). I like it so much I wear it with my new band and engagement ring— I figure that since it contains my grandma's diamonds, and my husband doesn't mind a bit, why not?

My old wedding band (first marriage) was puchased in 2004. It was picked out of a gigantic jeweler's catalog. It is, precisely, the Tiffany Jazz. Except I think it maybe cost $500, since we used diamonds from my grandmother's jewelry. Tiffany's has amazing marketing, but apparently buys the same catalogs your…

It may appraise for $4k. You may get $400. Not even joking. Probably more if you just have them melt the gold. And it needs to be yellow gold, white can't be recast.

I just tried it— there are definitely turn by turn directions.

Oh, my good lord. Jim Parsons would be amazing.

Actual conversation between Mr. WMDM and me:

I don't think it helps that the Olsen twins look so.freaking.young. I know they're not, but in that pic she looks about twelve. I have no issue with age differences (Mr. WMDM is significantly older than I) but visually... I hope they're happy.