Wait, no. Outfit change. Same long black skirt, but now topped w/ a ruffled short pink & black striped skirt, black overbust corset, pink & black "corset" (a glorified wide belt w/ snaps, really) over that, and the same jacket and hat. Pink lace cravat.

So I think I need black lipstick with it.

Yay Gracie! mmm, iced tea.

I'm a hot tea drinker only when I'm sick, pretty much. Or sometimes in the winter. I need coffee in the morning. But I drink tons of decaf, plenty of ice, plenty of lemon, all year long. Grew up on it.

No sugar, though. Sweet tea is the nast. But when I'm sick, I like orange and spice tea with a little milk, or English breakfast, strong, with a scant spoon of sugar and a little whole milk.

Yes, black lippie with all the pink, by all means.

Can't wear it myself, or the matte burgundy, but I dearly love a sheer burgundy stain with a little gloss in the fall.

Zenkitty, long have I fantasized about such a defensive weapon. Unfortunately, I have no skeelz.

Yay on Gracie iced tea! Along with chuckle this is very good news.

Billytea

For the first time ever, I regard neither party as deserving to win. Australia's political leadership right now, at both state and federal level, is IMO the worst in living memory.

Are the Greens as bad?

This tiny crumb of abashment? Probably the most anyone's choked out of him since Chelsea Clinton graduated from middle school.

go you !

and go gracie, and good boy Noah

Oh Matt. Caltrops?

Sadly, would not affect the worst offenders as they're parked motionless on the street running their engines at high throttle for minutes at a time. I'm fantasizing about bazookas.

Does anyone have a focused-beam EMP gun I can borrow? I'm losing my mind with these ghetto-wanna-be's driving by my house with their car stereos turned up to 12 and rattling my goddam windows.

If only we could get our high decibel annoyances to meet and give each other something more pressing to deal with than how high they can crank the noise up, Zenkitty...

Stripper applied. I've now gone through a gallon and a quart of stripper. And 60 pairs of latex gloves. And 4 pair of household ones. I don't know how much sheeting and tape. Lotta trash, but no way around it really.

If only we could get our high decibel annoyances to meet and give each other something more pressing to deal with than how high they can crank the noise up, Zenkitty...

If I come up with a plan, I'll let you know. Bazookas sound good.