Bizarro. Japanese designers have come up with a new product to fill in the gap in lonely, single women’s beds: the Boyfriend Arm Pillow

I really don’t understand why anyone would steal a well-known famous painting, like The Scream. Who’s going to pay money to hang an obviously stolen piece of art in their home? Or what museum would pay for that? Man, she’s bitter Which Nigerian spammer are you? Yesterday, while standing in line at the grocery store, I picked up a copy of Seattle Magazine and was most excited to find my doctor listed as one of the Top Doctors in the area. Woo hoo! Read an article in Newsweek about the new SAT—no more analogies! Sheesh, those killed me. Instead, there’s a new writing section which includes an essay that colleges…

Things I want to do over the next couple of weeks: 1. Sign on a regular housecleaner (how grown-up of me, isnt’ it?) 2. Meet with an interior designer to get color recommendations 3. Buy more decorative furniture/accessories 4. Paint I love my place but it’s too cold for me right now. It definitely needs a homey-er feel to it, which I think I can get through some warm tones and little accessories to really pull the place together. The rainy weather hit Seattle today. Bleh. And it’s, like, 60-degree rainy weather, a hint that fall is around the corner. But wait–summer’s are supposed to be a bit longer here.…

A few days ago, I went and picked up my license plates for my car. While I was there, the car sales guy helped me activate my XM Satellite Radio. I knew I had the hardware installed on my car but didn’t realize until a few days ago that I got a 3-month trial subscription by virtue of purchasing my car…so now I’m cruising around with over 120 radio channels with commercial-free music. You know, when I first heard about this concept 2 years ago, I thought it wouldn’t really take off–who wants to pay for radio? Of course, I have it for free now and I’ve only had it…

Happy Birthday to Dad, Pierre, Auntie Loretta and moi! Later tonight, Pierre and I are having birthday drinks with friends at Barça—come join if you can. Just got back from the last shisha night at Jigna’s before she officially moves over to the East Side (Issaquah). Ah–so sad. I’m really going to miss the view from her balcony of the Space Needle and the Puget Sound. That apartment has the most amazing view. A bunch of us were over there. They completely surprised me at midnight by bringing out a yummy tiramisu cake from Larry’s with a candle on it for my birthday! What awesome friends I have.

I played tennis yesterday for the first time in, oh, 15 years. I forgot how much I liked it…but man, my right forearm has been incredibly sore since. What a fun way to get some cardio in…I’ll have to build it back up though. To get through these non-AC hot nights in Seattle, I’ve found an incredible product: the Chillow. It seems like one of those As Seen on TV products (and for all I know, it is)…I decided to get one after seeing it come up in numerous Amazon.com and Drugstore.com emails…and with the price not being too hefty, I figured “why not?”. This thing really does keep relatively…

I just went downstairs to buy my daily latte and the lady behind the counter wouldn’t take one of my nickels because she thought it looked counterfeit. After looking at it, a guy behind me in line said that it was an old nickel, a buffalo nickel. I just checked this thing out—some versions of it can fetch up to $14,000! The one I have, at best, may be worth 75 cents–but hey, that’s still 15 times more than it’s currently worth to me! Anyone know any coin dealers/buyers in Seattle?