Went to the mall across the street this morning to look for something to wear to dinner tomorrow. It's amazing how hard it is to find actual long-sleeve blouses this season; everything, including most of the sweaters, has 3/4 length sleeves (ack, ptui!) or none at all. After looking in four department stores, I finally found a nice blouse at ( Read more... )

The formal retirement dinner for my boss* is this coming Monday (assuming it doesn't get Joaquin'd out). I realized the other day that I have nothing to wear. (Summer stuff, yes; winter stuff, yes; too-snug fall stuff,yes; actually fitting stuff suitable for a dress-up dinner with movers and shakers, no ( Read more... )

My new recliner was scheduled to be delivered between 10:00 and 1:00 today. It actually came around 9:30. Fortunately, I was already up, and setting up the crockpot for dinner. It's beeyooteeful! However, it needs to be out from the wall a bit so it can recline, which means the accompanying "ottoman" (which I would call a footstool) is way out in ( Read more... )

It is astonishingly difficult to find a dual-alarm clock that is not also a radio.

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I went ahead and bought the Nook Simple Touch after looking at it this morning. Not quite on the spot--I did my other shopping first while I thought it over, then went back for it ( Read more... )