Yeah, we need to get into better financial shape too, for sure. This summer should be a red flag for us. We gotta get back on the Dave Ramsey train. We lack gazelle-like focus.

After stating that I need to start paying off my Mastercard, I just placed an Amazon order for my fall jacket ($15 cheaper than buying it from the vendor's website), a travel-size bottle of my perfume for my August trip to FL, and some blank dvds so I can get going on one of my summer projects, to finish burning all of my videotapes onto dvds and clear off some shelf space.

It's 100 degrees here. The beach house has no air conditioning, because no one ever needs air conditioning in Maine. On the beach, there's a bit of a breeze, but there's also way more sun, so for now, staying inside with the fans seems like the best bet. Also, getting to the beach would require far more energy than I currently have.

Yeah I just bought a bunch of polish. heh. I have a friend who adores designer handbags, she convinced me that my splurges were completely acceptable, what with being $8 a pop and all. Of course, there's also the nice bath soap splurges, and the make up splurges, and the good coffee splurges, and the nice wine splurges. My splurges are cheap, but they are consumable, which means a week goes by and I need to buy more.

Skating tomorrow morning, then movies with friends tomorrow night. Sunday, getting up VEEEERY early to drive the DH to the airport. He is off to drive a motorcycle around Oregon for a week.

Rest of the week: watch many TiVoed episodes of Leverage and Criminal Minds.

I am going to see Captain America tonight, and maybe tomorrow I can get my house in some sort of order.

I just carbon-dated myself to one of my co-workers. When he (Indian) asked me about cricket, I said I stopped watching before Brian Lara came on the field, and that I was a Viv Richards fangirl, and that I followed Somerset when Ian Botham played for them. Am old.

It's weird--the bonding I do with the Indian co-workers is entirely contingent on my life in the Commonwealth. Hell, not even that. Canada doesn't count. Only up to age 18. I'm surprised I remembered what team he played on.

Y'all don't understand how fly I feel with the Batman belt buckle. Fie upon the dress code.

Wow, it's looking more and more like the bombing and shooting in Oslo and Utøya are the work of a single Norwegian individual.

It's unbelievably horrible the more you hear about it.

Wow, it's looking more and more like the bombing and shooting in Oslo and Utøya are the work of a single Norwegian individual.

What, this guy drove the car up to the office building, set it off remotely, and then went to Utoya and started shooting? That's just horrifying.

I think I'm worried that I'll end up spending more cash mailing the clothes to the winning bidder than I'll get from them in total.

Kathy, you charge for shipping and handling as well as the purchase price, most often, if that helps.

I had a very successful time of keeping cool -- haircut, errands, movies, shopping. I bought some shoes I'm on the fence about, but I can always return them (and I would, because I just bought them around the corner). I was going to do more grocery shopping than I did, but cat food was buy one, get one, and I already had the shoes to carry, so I'll make another trip for other heavy/bulky stuff later in the weekend.

Tomorrow, it's off to my uncle and aunt's to celebrate my grandmother's birthday -- oh crap, I forgot again to get her a card. Will I go back out tonight? Stay tuned!!

Sunday I don't know.