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A friend of mine (glitterophelia) works really really really really hard to support herself and her family (including two adorable kids), and it's harder and harder in this economy to do that. Anyway, she also makes and sells her own jewelry, and sells Cookie Lee jewelry, both to help make those ends come closer to meeting. I bought one of her pieces a while back, and I love it. Serene-bob says check it out:

Glitterophelia's Etsy Shop

Her Cookie Lee store

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The first time I talked to stonebender on the phone, his dog Gilly started barking, and scared the bejeebus out of me. I had always been afraid of dogs, and Dobermans, even silly ones like Gilly, sound really scary when they bark.

stonebender and I were a bit nervous about how this would affect our in-person visits, and she was in her crate the first time I visited. Then when everything calmed down a little, he let her out, she galumphed across the floor, and something remarkable happened -- not only did I fall instantly in love with this dog who acted like an addled toddler, but I lost my fear of dogs. Very amazing and silly dog, this Gillygirl.

And now she's sick, and had a vet appointment, and I don't know what's up, and she might be nearing the end of her life, and I'm just so fretful about it. I met her when she was young -- 4, I think -- and now she's old, and there's never been a time in my relationship with stonebender when she wasn't a factor.

I'm not generally sentimental about animals, but I don't want to think about losing the Gillygirl. :-(

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Gilly may just have a slipped vertebra. (That is, no recurrence of the cancer, and no arthritis.) Poor doggy, but still, much better news than it could've been. Whew!

Noteishness

1) Non-spoilery review of "Ratatouille": Really? You liked it? I mean, *really*? someotherguy and I got about an hour into it before we chewed our legs off to get out of the trap of dullness.

2) I have this sickness. The second my kitchen is clean, I suddenly need to cook, right away, or else. SOooo, my kitchen stays clean for maybe two minutes at a stretch. Today, it was breakfast; brunch (see note #3); green tea and coffee ice creams; tuna casserole; wheat bread; wheat bagels; and baked kabocha squash that will marinate overnight in soy sauce, rice vinegar, and sugar and become my favorite snack of late.

3) Turns out someotherguy is right: the off-brand Spam stuff (in this case, Treet) tastes better than Spam. I'm not sure I wanted to know this info. Anyway, I was going to make the potatoes and veggies with cheese on them, but he requested Treet instead of cheese for the protein, and it turned out to be pretty yummy. Go figure.

For my office desktop

my partners It is *hard* to get my boys to get their pictures taken at all. Here are the cutest ones I could find of each of them. Aren't they darling?