Oh, man. That is gorgeous. But the "sheer" would be an issue for me.

Unless you go cami. You'd be showing the cami but that's why you're wearing a cami in the first place. Cami showing is never an issue to me.

I think a cami would be okay, but I don't know your dress code and it's issues.

Ugh, msbelle. Is the coop process always this slow?

Apparently. I was told 3 months from signed offer to closing, I was just hoping for faster.

The front is totally opaque. So the back is deliberately sheer. If I can't get a cami in the next week, the blouse goes back.

Yesterday I bought a 1.75l bottle of Ketel 1 because it wasn't much more than the next smaller bottle--about $32. I checked the price in Ralphs, and it was over $50. I'm thinking it's easily BevMo for alcohol from now on, with little pause to check price.

ita, cami.

RE: CH's hair. Were it less orange it would look purple in certain lights. She looks amazing. I may be biased toward ex-blonde curvy red heads.

msbelle, I need to take my friend's fiancee garage sale shopping with hubs (he is amazing) you should come with. Big Trash pick up weekend is when you go.

Daisy, I actually don't think I need anything else for a while. Maybe in a month or two I'll be ready to think about a few more furniture pieces.

Alan Cummings looks cute

I have always thought he looked skeevy and icky, but I have to say, he's rather handsome in those pictures. Maybe aging is balancing out the skeeve for me.

ita, I bought a white cami with a shelf bra at Costco a couple of weeks ago. They probably still have them.

We began celebrating Franny's birthday early today. I baked her a chocolate cake FROM SCRATCH, which is only notable because I am not a baker (and because it was delicious). And one of her best friends is sleeping over tonight, which meant the bedtime routine was a bit more epic than usual.

Starting out the second day in Amsterdam. A cousin I haven't yet met who lives in Rotterdam is taking me out to Zaanse Schans.

The flight over the Atlantic wasn't bad, but I wasn't able to sleep for more than 15 minutes at a time. The in-flight entertainment wasn't much good, so I'm glad I had my own computer and music and reading material. Arrived at local breakfast time and managed the train and tram connections to get to the hotel okay, but they hadn't arranged for early check-in, so I napped in their lobby until lunch time. In theory I could have left my bags with them and gone touring, but I didn't feel up to it.

Once I got checked in I slept for three hours, which made a huge difference, so I strolled through the neighborhoods around the hotel. I've posted some pictures on Flickr.

amsterdam is a kick -- have fun dcp

you know, I've been craving chocolate cake today ... Burell's kitchen isn't that far away...