have the cards gotten worse at Hallmarks?

CVS has the worst cards in the world. Kroger, oddly, has pretty good ones.

Well, I didn't say Christianity = perfect. But I figure it means they at least *try* to not steal shit. At least some of the time.

Yeah, the people who like to live by the saying I quoted are often the ones I'd prefer had never heard it.

I was gonna say that I haven't given anyone a card in a long time (because I am a bad person who forgets to give cards) so I wouldn't know, but I did look for a card for my MiL's birthday. I can't really complain that I didn't find anything appropriate, that's a tough one.

Relatedly,

do people send Easter cards? I didn't know that you send cards for Easter.

I think my grandmothers used to send us Easter cards? I'm not sure. My one grandmother was very religious, and the other really liked sending greeting cards, so that's no guarantee that it's a normal practice.

Do they even try and find the people who commit the credit card fraud? The charges on my card seemed to be quite tightly clustered, and $1500 is an annoying amount of money, fuck it.

Jilli, that RDJ is great! I love him and his sexy facial hair.

I am so damned beat. Totally overshot my mark when it came to consuming resources, but at least my hair is short again, the Christmas cake delivered, the produce side of my groceries done, and a Dwayne Johnson movie seen. I do have enough leftovers to not do the bulk of the menu planning and meat buying until Monday.

I keep zoning out. Or falling asleep, I guess. I don't feel sleepy, but I am realising intermittently that my eyes were closed, and my mind had wandered far from what I had been looking at--this happened three times during the matinee too. No doubt that's a cue to lie down. I should just brew up one of the new teas I bought.

I think my grandmothers used to send us Easter cards? I'm not sure. My one grandmother was very religious, and the other really liked sending greeting cards, so that's no guarantee that it's a normal practice.

Yeah, I'll definitely get an Easter card from my one grandmother. She loves to send cards! (Although is pretty much blind now, so I got a birthday card at Valentine's day....)

Oh, yeah, I meant today that RDJ sounds awesome. I like the attitude even more than the costume (which is pretty perfect for the pics I've seen of RDJ at Comic-con and whatnot)

That sounds like a lot, ita. I did so much less than that and have already taken a nap.

Did any of you guys become infatuated with certain music after the age of 30 (a different music than what you already loved by age 25)? I would love to hear your experiences.

I got into chillout music in my early thirties, while I was in Philly. (Bec had been loaned a CD of Christian chillout music at her church, I liked a couple of utnes and decided to go looking for some less denominational stuff.)

I became a MCR fan in 2007-ish, and the only thing different between now and my teen/twenties music fandom is that I have the disposable income so I can go to out-of-state concerts and buy limited edition merch.

Oh yes, you guys turned me onto Danger Days, which I likely would otherwise have passed over. It's now one of my favourite albums, and one of the few that I'll often listen to on my iPhone as a whole album rather than part of the mix. (Others include: Beatles albums, especially from Help to Revolver; and the Gorallaz' Plastic Beach.)

I've been thinking about this a lot - that we tend to set our lifetime musical taste on what we liked/listened to in the teen and early adult years - and how some people never want to hear new music (or are constantly comparing it to what they grew up with) after the age of 35 or so. I've seen so much evidence of this among friends and family and it's led to interesting discussions.

I've been thinking much the same thing of late. (For me that means Eighties music.) Incidentally, the neuroscientist Robert Kapolsky has suggested getting into new kinds of music as a good way to help keep one's mental faculties from deteriorating as we get older.

My grandmother used to send us cards for everything. Easter, St. Patrick's Day, Halloween, you name it. She was Hallmark's target market.