The Kalashnikitty shirt is back for sale! I have two of these, Hub has two, and they rock.
If you’d like one, there are ordering instructions at this link. We bought our shirts from this very same gentlemen and it all went perfectly.
My health insurance company took 16 days to process a payment, during which time it became overdue, so they canceled my insurance. In the meantime I had sent yet another payment, which they also sat on. This all happened a month ago. The only reason I found out about it was because I went to the pharmacy and they said I wasn’t covered. So now I’m supposed to mail them a cashier’s check or money order for the amount due, plus fax them a letter asking to be reinstated. This, while it was their fault for sitting on the damned payment. Not to mention I haven’t gotten my damned checks back from them, so I’m out four figures and they want me to send more.
I was informed of this at 5:00 this afternoon, too late to go to the bank and get a money order to overnight to them. And I’ve got a prescription I need to pick up this weekend for migraine pills which I’ll have to pay $120 out of my own pocket for.
Grrrrrrrrr.
How long will it cause my heart to twang to see movies like Trading Spaces and Ghostbusters II which prominently feature the Twin Towers in the NYC skyline?
I had no idea when I wrote the little entry about handbags that it would end up being the most popular one on the blog, spawning 50 comments (and counting) and getting linked to by various fashion forums (Hi, Makeup Alley readers!). I’d have to say that 99.9% of the people who come to this site via web searches do so by some combination of searching for Hermes or Coach or Louis Vuitton handbags, real or fake, or even wanting to know how to tell the difference between authentic and knockoffs.
Weird, huh?
That was strange.
The dogs kept barking and barking, and I kept hollering and hollering for them to shut up. Finally I went out there to see just what in the hell was wrong with them, and I heard opera singers. Apparently it’s my next door neighbor’s birthday (for I later heard them singing to her), and they had a really good classical pianist and two sopranos over there singing. I put on a coat and camped out in the back yard to listen. I feel like I got a little culture. Or something.
I’ve been quite dubious about the upcoming Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie. I’ve been a HHGG fan for a long time. My original nom de net was Trillian, actually. I was lucky enough to have my Trilogy signed in person by Douglas Adams several years ago in Austin. And I thought that there was no way in hell they could turn the books into a big-budget Hollywood movie without utterly destroying the spark that made it so fantastic.
The trailer has somewhat convinced me otherwise. Looks like there might be a cheesy love plot with Arthur and Trillian, but other than that, it actually looks… pretty good. I am keeping an open mind.
I’ve been saving pennies for the last couple of years for a color change garnet. I wrote to Richard Homer, who famously facets gemstones concavely instead of in straight planes, to see if he ever worked with them. He said he was just about to go to the Tucson gem show and would be happy to look around for something there. Well, he found an excellent stone and cut it for me just today! It’s got a 100% color change and is a VVS clarity, which he says is quite rare in colored stones.
The neat thing about these garnets is that they act like Alexandrites in that they are one color in daylight or fluorescent light, and another color in incandescent light. Some turn pink to brown, some turn pink to red, but I think the most dramatic shift is in the stones which turn from green to red. This stone turns from a teal hue to a raspberry red, and I think it looks really nice!
Now I have to figure out what I’m going to do with it, and where to wear it. Tough life, huh?