mac and cheese bites,

I feel like my work here is done. (though I still need to get some for myself)

but if I were 10-14, I'd totally want the whole set even more!

It's okay to get them the same thing, right, as long as I've gotten them another different present as well?

I like the set, Perkins. And there is enough variety that even though you got them the same, they will likely not wear the same at the same time.

I also like the sterling silver for those ages over the 14k gold.

Okay, is there some kind of nation-wide shortage of o.b. super tampons? Kroger has apparently stopped carrying o.b., so I stopped in Target and they only had the regular, and drugstore.com and amazon don't have them, and the k-y online store (which amazon recommended me to) is backordered on them. Backordered on tampons? WTF?

What Suzi said, Perkins.

I thought I read somewhere ob had stopped making one type of tampon, flea. I think I read it on Jezebel actually, in a piece someone wrote about trying the Diva Cup because her usual obs weren't available.

Heh, I just found that Jezebel article, but it says they only discontinued the Ultra. Thank the lord, I do not need Ultra tampons. But it makes me worry for the future of my o.b. I am not switching brands, damn it.

I screwed up. The Victorian event is TOMORROW. I went all the way to the Arboretum to find that out. Will try hard to get out there tomorrow.

On another subject, I'm unhappy that so many museums, etc. offer discounts for students and seniors but not for disabled people. Most disabled people have higher expenses and lower incomes than students.

I would also be in trouble if OBs disappeared. I have a Moon Cup and I guess I'd try that out again.

I hadn't been able to find Ultra for a long time. I don't think it had been in the SoCal market, and I seem to recall having had problems finding it in Michigan too.

I don't know what's up with your lack of Super, though. I refuse to panic about lack of my favourite tampon. I've been using them since I moved to the US (closest thing to Lillets), and I don't want to switch either.

I vote sets too, Perkins.

I had originally tried to find my sister wooden earrings on etsy, but without a more specific idea than wood, it was just too imposing to navigate.

We get each other jewellery most years (when it's not goats). She gets me earrings, and I get her a necklace. Except she's an earring fiend, and I'm compulsive about necklaces. Oops. But this year I remembered.

I wonder if she's getting me anything this year. She found me an antique sword in Thailand, which I'm covering part of the cost for. I'm so excited about that, I don't need anything else. Travel gifts are good enough for Christmas.

Which reminds me, I should ask her what "we" got our parents for Christmas.

Oddly enough though, I am drinking a clementine Izze.

Ain't nothing odd about it. It's the one true non-Ting carbonated beverage. I'd be drinking one now if they were already cold. Instead, it's San Pellegrino.

flea, I was wondering the same, as Target had NONE. Not even a space for them.

Today has been long: market, Target, TJs, leaves, holiday market ( [link] ) where I got tshirts and spoons and dish towels with interesting things on them. People don't tell me what they want, this is what they get.

Now I need to walk to the pool, then hit Giant and bake some cookies.

Well, I have been reading this [link] and there is a lot of concern that o.b. is being discontinued overall. Scroll all the way down. Apparently they were bought by Johnson & Johnson.

FUCK. I cannot use playtex or tampax or the moon cup, due to issues resulting from Casper's birth. And I do NOT want to go to pads. Apparently there is a web site that will ship you Lillets from the UK, but I've never used them and am not sure if they would work for me.

Fuckin' A you do not mess with a woman's menstrual products.

Seriously, I'm alternating between rage and near-tears. What the fucking fuck?