Great post!

You're going to love Perfect Peace, 32 Candles, Substitute Me, The Darkest Child, The Last Days... & Before You Suffocate... The Warmth of Other Suns is loaded on my Kindle waiting to be read. I can't wait to dig in to it. You have a great pile of reads!

NOT that I needed another excuse to shoe shop! Their site looks great. I didn't realize so many brands fell under Brown Shoe. I'm a huge fan of Naturalizer brand (If I could, I'd twitpic you the pair I'm wearing today). Also loving the feature that lets me just look at shoes in my size and width. As someone that wears a size that goes quickly in stores, I appreciate being able to find shoes by size and lessening my disappointment when I find out a cute pair of shoes doesn't come in mine. Must.go.buy.cute.pair.NOW!

I'll make every attempt to be there.

Part of it is a safety issue, the other part is there aren't as many troops as there used to be due to the lack of leaders. When my daughter was in grade school I really wanted her in Brownies. I actually had to sign up to be a leader and coerce other parents to assist me. We stayed at the school for 2 years and the troop disbanded when we left because no one else would step up to the plate.

I was a diehard Blackberry user for 3 years. I clowned iPhone people over the whole touch screen thing. I needed to FEEL the keys when I typed. When they blah blah blahed about their apps, I'd point out all of the apps I was able to use on my Bberry. And then came the day when I maxed out my Bbbery's memory. I had to switch out apps because it couldn't hold any more than the internal memory allowed. I resisted for months when the AT&T reps came to the office flashing iPhones for sell. And then finally, I broke down. I made the jump to an iPhone and I complained about it for about a month. And then I started finding apps for just about everything imaginable and I was sold. I've even gotten used to the touch screen. My 16 yr old now has my old Bberry and wouldn't give it back if I begged her for it. I'm happy with the iPhone (except for the fact that I live in fear that I'll drop it & break the fragile thing), but I'd go back to a Bberry in a heartbeat if they either expanded the internal memory or made it possible to save working apps to the external memory card.

Wow, nail polish has come so far since my Wet N Wild days in high school, lol. Love the site!