I watched some of it when it aired.

The upside of mr. pouty tonight? he actually fell asleep without me being there. I'll take the wins where I can.

now it's time for me to go to bed. Here's hoping I can actually fall asleep.

Aw, msbelle, you are a good mom. And I get that a visit here is not in the works. In my fantasy dreamworld, you buy a car in TX but have to roadtrip it up for the last of the stuf and I get 2 visits.

But you are more organized than that.

My fav hardware store/deli/grocery in Ellicott city is transforming to largely deli. They'll survive because they make their own sausage, which is in demand, but they used to do home deliveries. It's been a family business since 1885. It's next to my hairdresser's and I always have made a point of going in and buying a sandwich or some random item. It tickled me to death, it was a general store! Now it'll be something else, which is sad, but it will survive. That's good.

I've become such a goober for 'hoodism.

I didn't put my chair out today when I left. Someone else put it out for me. Cracks me up. We cleaned the fucking street, we take care of our own. I LOVE MY PEOPLES.

I hope I get half as lucky with my hood as you are with yours.

Kidnapped is streaming.

Awesome!

I added it to my queue for the Linus Roache, but the Tim Hutton and Jeremy Sisto and Delroy Lindo are really more front and centre and great reasons to show up.

Loved it. Loved it! Love Timothy Hutton. Suddenly wondering what the kid who played the son is up to. It was really packed full of great actors.

I'm assuming, due to content, it was always supposed to be a miniseries, right?

I think the theory was that...well, I can't really explain it without possibly spoiling you for the ending.

My profile address is good.

Hil! There is a serious dearth of quality commentary these Olympics, I have to say. It's kind of bizarre.

But, Msbelle, what if the color is neon pink?? And I really really want neon pink. I think the fit will be okay...it's hard to say without actually trying it on what the difference is between the two sizes. Here's what it looks like, so you may enjoy the visual: [link]

And I'm doing my best to be good about the book situation. Due to traffic ticket, registration, smog test failure, and increase in insurance, I'm about $400 over budget. But most of those things sucked, and that means that my first urge is to soothe myself with new books. What if the book is less than $5? May I buy it then?

no you may not, you may ask an LAista if they have a nice old fashioned type book for you to borrow. You will not make your over-budget situation any better by spending more.

as for the bra, honestly, I'd return what you have and see if you can get something cheaper because of the budget.

t / hardass old lady.

Wow, you are harsh. And a total buzzkill. Want to buy me an ebook to make up for being so mean? (Kidding...just to be clear.)

For what it's worth, the bra was bought with a gift card. And because it is the law with gift cards, I bought something fun, and not something responsible. (Although I did fudge the law a little because I had two Visa gift cards, and I used the other one for paying part of the AT&T bill.) But they don't have pink in my size, so they sent me green to try it for fit, but I'm thinking I might just go up a size so that I can fulfill my dream of having a cute hot pink sports bra. You'd be surprised how hard those are to find. I've been looking for years. So it makes sense that my size is sold out now that I've located one. They are really rare.

My girl-cat is complaining loudly about something? What is bothering her?

Oh, mine was bitching her head off a few hours ago. She's now developed a new vocalization that is more of a "meo-wooooh" than her standard "MRRW!" That was more of a utterance than a demand, but she just laid between the coffee table and the tv stand, making that meo-woooooh noise which I promptly made back at her. She's now sitting in the chair next to the computer desk, zoning out.

A lot of these bobsledders just started a few years ago, even a bunch of the ones from countries with pretty big teams. Are there many other sports where you could be in the Olympics just a few years after you started training?

I remember back in the '80s when a Chicago Bear (I want to say Willie Gault?) got onto the US bobsledding team--guess they needed a small guy with loads of speed for the starting push.

I am at Denny's in Oak Park.

I remember hanging out there about twenty years ago, when my sister and I had an apartment in River Forest. Hope that they cleaned it up--it was a real dive back then.

I suggest the library , Alibelle