LAistas - The LA Arboretum's Lucky Baldwin Queen Anne Victorian is having an open house today 'til 3pm. The vintage Santa Anita rail depot will be open as well. Victorian reenactors, etc. Lots of pretty. [link]

I just put a new furnace/central air on my Visa. Ooof.

Ooof! I have an account that I try to squirrel a little away into for house stuff. But this fall I used a good chunk of it on a new table and renting the equipemnt to do my floors, so if anything goes, it will be to the old Visa. I have to commit to a winter of frugality to pay off bills and start building the home repair fund again.

Well, at least it'll be a warm credit card....

Between my neighbor and I, we have 16 bags of leaves. Regular pickup limit is 5 per. So everyone on the block is getting their own bags of pre-packaged leaves

OK, need to run to an art mart and hopefully accomplish some gift buying.

Argh. Verizon sent a phone bill, with my name, to my old address. The post office forwarded it here. I looked at it, and it's not a phone number that I've ever had. The area code is in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I tried calling Verizon about it. The first time I called, I put in the account number from the bill. After asking me a zillion more automated questions, it transferred me to a recording telling me to call back during regular business hours. I tried again, this time putting in the phone number from the bill instead of the account number. It told me that service to that number had been transferred to another company, and gave me the number of that company. I called them, and their automated system didn't have any record of this phone number. Argh.

Good god, maple syrup. Maple syrup.

This morning, I went to Petco, Ulta, Target, Starbucks, and TJs, and spent way too much at all of them (well, except Ulta, where all I got was hair color and a brush to apply it), but now at least I am home, the cats have food until January, and I am almost done with my task list for the day.

I have walked two miles, washed, clipped, and groomed the dog, vacuumed the house, and done the dishes. That's pretty good.

Dear god people, slow down. You're wearing me out. I'm just excited that I discovered that the Ralph's a little further from me sells the good Izze flavours. But it does not sell my juice, nor all of my cereal. Why is there not One True Ralph's?

I have not only slowed down, I am completely stopped. Oddly enough though, I am drinking a clementine Izze.

Can I get opinions on earrings for my nieces (10 and 14); they have to be studs because of their school uniform rules.

Either this [link] or this [link] for one (and which one do you like better of those two), and then this [link] for the other, or one of these sets [link] for each of them.

(so maybe not completely stopped, just mostly)