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Coffee Break: ‘Julianne Himiko’ Diamond Star Pendant

A diamond white gold star pendant on a chain

Kat told me about this brand, Dana Rebecca Designs, whose pieces are very highly rated at Nordstrom. The Dana Rebecca site notes that designer Dana (Rebecca) Gordon is a third-generation jeweler, so that counts for something too!

I really like the brand's designs because they're understated but beautiful. They could work at the office, for a dressy date night, or at a gala or other special event. We're entering charity gala season, after all! (That makes me sound like a socialite philanthropist … but no.)

One of the necklaces I love is this “Julianne Himiko” diamond star pendant. It's delicately pretty, with pavé-set, round-cut diamonds (color G-H, clarity SI) on the 3/8″ pendant. The 16″ chain is available in white gold and yellow gold. A couple of the product images show how nicely the necklace looks paired with a second.

This sparkly necklace is $355 at Nordstrom.

P.S. Happy Pi Day!

In the past we’ve talked a lot about jewelry, including how to build a jewelry collection for work, how to store your jewelry, and how to buy pearls.

Sales of note for 12.5

127 Comments

  1. I have rosacea. I wear sunscreen every day. I keep flirting with tinted sunscreen. IDK if it is my skin color or the rosacea overlay, but I can’t find one that I like. I feel that any tint is noticeable enough that I use less product than needed for sun protection. And yet, I’d like something less sun-screen-y on my face. Am I looking for a unicorn? I feel like tinted sunscreen works for many. What am I doing wrong?

    1. I have rosacea, but it isn’t always showing.
      I like Colorscience Flex Shield as a tinted option.
      I also like the ELF glow screen dupe. There is a tinted version from them.

    2. Just use regular sunscreen and then foundation/BB cream/whatever product you want for coverage.

    3. Look for a physical sunscreen versus chemical. I like the tinted one from Skinceuticals. Patch test just in case. It doesn’t give a ton of coverage. If you are looking for more, I would then layer a light, gentle foundation (with no chemical sunscreen). Most BB creams and such will have a chemical sunscreen, so are likely to be too harsh.

      1. I have rosacea and my worst sunscreen reactions have been to so-called physical sunscreens (zinc oxide or titanium dioxide.) The “chemical sunscreens are harsh” myth has generally been debunked. For me, Asian SPF is where it’s at. No issues with my rosacea & sensitive, reactive skin.

        1. Oh wow. I have rosacea and I’m fine with chemical sunscreens /unless I step foot into the sun/ in which case I get a bad flare up. I haven’t had issues with zinc and titanium sunblocks (yet) even when spending time in the sun.

          Maybe I should try the chemical Asian sunscreens, but the myth has always been true for me.

        2. Ditto. I was using Elta MD aerosol zinc oxide until they changed the formula, but lots of mineral sunscreens clog my pores and make me break out. I finally ordered a bunch of chemical sunscreens from Japanese Taste and all of them have been fine on my skin although I like the Rohto Skin Aqua Super Moisture Milk Sunscreen SPF50+ the best.

          1. I love that Rohto Skin Aqua. I also like the Country & Stream Honey UV, and the Biore. Bascially I buy whatever Jude Chao / fiddysnails tells me to buy, and it’s always worked out really well. The great thing about Asian sunscreens at my house has been that my husband and kids have been more willing to wear them because the texture is so elegant vs. something like Neutrogena or Supergoop.

    4. I feel like it’s always better to apply sunscreen by myself. Mainly because you won’t use enough sunscreen in a makeup-type product.

      I like Asian sunscreens followed by a stand-alone skin tint/serum type foundation product. The bonus of separate products is that you can get the skin tint from a line that has a huge assortment of shades, like Shiseido or Bobbi Brown.

    5. I don’t know why everyone else applies less when sunscreen is tinted than when it’s not. I’m almost certain I apply more because the coverage is visible and I can easily see where it’s thin.

      1. I apply three fingers of sunscreen that doesn’t include my chest. It’s supposed to be 1/4 tsp, which is more than most people think. If you don’t apply enough it provides something like SPF2. The returns diminish rapidly. Lab muffin beauty science (all one word) on IG has some great content on this.

          1. As I suspected — it’s likely not to work for me even with a perfect shade match.

          2. I guess I think she’s full of it. I’d burn in 20 minutes if it wasn’t providing protection at least against burning.

          3. It’s not just about burning (UVB) but I also want protection against aging (UVA).

    6. Maybe look into BB cream instead of tinted moisturizer? I got Bare Essentials tinted moisturizer and never wear it because it feels too light. I got the MISSHA BB cream and it’s really visible though.

      1. +1, I realized just how effective my Maybelline BB cream was as sunblock on a beautiful sunny ski trip. I wore it for vanity on Day 1 bc I wanted to look cute. Skipped it on Day 2 and guess who got a little burned in the mountain sun? Day 3 put it back on and just fine.

        1. My sister and I got in a spat about it. She said her BB cream was SPF 45 and I, who can’t stop watching things like labmuffinbeautyscience, said “no it’s not.” Then she got sunburned. Oops!

    7. Get ready to clutch those pearls but don’t wear sunscreen. I only wear it if I’m going to be outside all day in the sun, and then to prevent burning. For every day, there’s a lot of research that’s debunked the necessity of it.

        2. Here’s the *actual* piece referred to in the article which is an editorial/commentary not a peer reviewed piece of researchhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30012373/

          This is a 2020 peer reviewed article saying sunscreen does reduce risk https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7759112 as well as this 2021 expert consensus statement “ Conclusion: The proven benefits of primary skin cancer prevention outweigh the potential/hypothetical risks of sunscreen use, especially given insufficient real-world, prospective data for the discussed risks. As experts in skin health and skin cancer pathophysiology, the SCPWG believes dermatologists are uniquely qualified to lead future studies investigating sunscreen efficacy and safety and should counsel patients and the public on skin cancer primary prevention strategies” Marson, J., Farberg, A., Glazer, A., Litchman, G., Svoboda, R., Winkelmann, R., & Rigel, D. (2021). Expert Consensus on Sunscreen for the Primary Prevention of Skin Cancer: Results from the Skin Cancer Prevention Working Group Conference. SKIN The Journal of Cutaneous Medicine, 5(3), 190–202. https://doi.org/10.25251/skin.5.3.1

          1. FDA is kind of in a “jury’s still out” position on sunscreen and recommends sun shielding (like with garments) in combination with sunscreen.

      3. I’m aware that skin cancer rates have only increased, but it’s not clear why, and it’s still effective anti-aging.

    8. I add a drop of foundation to a colorless sunscreen to get a bit of coverage that matches my face.

  2. Has anyone bought a laptop recently? Figured I’d ask here if anyone is happy with one they bought… ideally under $1000, don’t really need it to be overly lightweight, don’t intend it for heavy graphic things like computer games. It would be great if the battery lasted more than 4 hours, though… thx!

    2. Decide on the essentials (10 key? ssd? etc) and go to Costco and buy the least expensive laptop that has your essentials. In my experience they have the best bang for the buck in general use home computers.

    3. I like Asus. I got one for $600-something that is still going strong 8 years later.

    4. I miss my HP Envy. I got a cheaper HP and it’s not nearly as nice. What I want out of a laptop is to be similar to a MacBook Air but run Windows and not MacOS.

    5. I’m a Lenovo fan but I always get confused by all the options they have. Bought this six months ago at the advice of a friend who knows more than I do, and I’ve been very happy with it:
      Lenovo IdeaPad 5i Laptop, 15.6″ FHD Touch, Intel i5-1235U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD.

      It was under $1000. Gave you all the specs so you can find a similar version if you’re looking for a 13″. FWIW Lenovo now sells through eBay, which is confusing but may get you a better deal.

      Good luck!

  3. Last year was wildly busy. I was gone all the time for work, I hated what I was working on, and I didn’t have enough of a team to delegate up or down. Things started to slow down in December and I basically recovered for 3 weeks. All 2024 so far has been incredibly slow. I’m billing maybe 3 hours/day, compared to 13-16 hour days most of last year. On the one hand, it is nice, on the other, it feels weird. I wrapped up a lot last year so I’m actually not alarmed about my earnings for this year, but my motivation has hit the skids. I have stuff on my to do list that has lingered for 6 weeks now. (Not urgent, no deadlines, but still…) Someone posted recently about “just doing it” and yet, it is…hard? Any help?

    2. When this happens, I find that either I’m not excited about the work or I’m burnt out (or overwhelmed, or some combo). If it’s burnout can you just take an actual vacation? Do something else that counts as a Big Treat?

      If the work on your plate isn’t exciting can you delegate, or find more exciting work to mix in?

      If you really have to power through it, I find it helps to break things down by easy/medium/ hard tasks – the easy ones get done quickly, and the medium/hard ones you can break down into smaller chunks.

    3. If you’re that slow I would intentionally only work part of the week – like be truly off half days three days a week. That will make it easier to rest your mind and body which it sounds like you need, and with less time at the desk you may be more efficient.

  4. How do you handle a vendor you have an ongoing relationship with who you feel is trying to screw you? We have a web agency who handles the maintenance for our website, and we were just assigned a new project manager. I feel he’s always trying to upsell, overcharge, or try to say requests will incur additional costs when they really shouldn’t. Our last Project Manager was great, but this one will try to reneg on commitments the previous one made and it’s leaving me with a sense of distrust. WWYD?

    1. I don’t know the answer, but I do know that PMs like the new one are a huge headache even for the people who work with them on the vendor’s side of things.

    3. Revisit your contract and then ask if they can be more detailed with scope of work (how many hours are covered? Can you get hours estimates before work for you to review and approve?). The project manager isn’t usually the one setting pricing but they do have views into the hours involved in making the change. Ask the PM if they can bring in the web designer and/or developer to make sure you are in sync with what is required. Ask if they can recommend a cheaper way to accomplish X. A lot of web time goes into how custom a request is–is it changing something on a templated style (super easy and will likely take minutes) or programming something entirely custom (can be hours involved). Is it an off-the-shelf integration for the software (for example, a form template where data is being exchanged in a way the software is already piped to do-like a WordPress site dropping data into Salesforce) or something possibly requiring programming to integrate (a responsive form that wasn’t standard to the software or where data needs to connect in some way that’s more involved, moving out of the site’s platform and into a sales database where that exchange needs to be coded). I wouldn’t necessarily assume they are trying to screw you. My background is marketing (not web design), but I’ve been on enough projects to see that project difficulty and time to execute can really vary by the type of change and whether it can be executed by a production person, a web designer or a web developer (not the same skills and not the same pay level and likely not the same level of time involved). Are they plugging in a light when the light switch is built or being asked to put in the wiring–it’s that sort of thing.

    5. From my son, “He was drinking a boo.” What’s a boo? “You know, like a beer.” He thought a “boo” was the singular of booze! As in, bringing in a six pack to a party and saying, “I brought some booze!”

  5. I need a laugh. What are your favorite Mondegreens/ misheard phrases or lyrics?

    My kids thought Lake Temescal was Lake Tennis Ball for a long time.

    My husband was singing along to “Jack and Diane” in the car once and sang the lyric: changes come around real soon make us swim like a man. My kids have never let him live it down.

    1. Both from Midnights:

      “My panties made your crown” – Karma (pennies, not panties!)

      “I miss you, but I miss Spiderman” – Bejeweled (it’s sparkling, not Spiderman)

      2. I hear “I miss Spiderman” too!

        With the re-release of 1989 it’s a great time to bring up “Starbucks lovers” and my other favorite mondegreen from Out of the Woods, “your neck was hanging from my neck” (it’s necklace hanging from my neck).

        1. I hear it as “Starbucks lovers” every time. But I think she tried to enunciate it more on the new version.

    2. When we were kids, my sister thought the Bachman Turner Overdrive song “Takin’ Care of Business” was about jail guards – because she thought they were singing “takin’ care of prisoners, every day.”

    3. I have a dear, dear former boss who said “spear of influence” instead of sphere of influence. I honestly think a spear could be very influential!!!

      1. HAHA
        my former coworker said “ka dooz” in place of “kudos” and, unfortunately, really glommed onto the idea of sharing kudos and letting us all know the client had given us ka dooz for our great work.

      2. Ha, my cousin thought it was “crime shame” for most of our childhood rather than “crying shame,” but it’s not all that far off!

      3. I immediately thought of Airplane! and the inexplicable use of a spear through the control tower…

    4. Back in the day a friend was singing along with the Bee Gees’ Stayin’ Alive from Saturday Night Fever: “ah, ah, ah, ah, day in the life, day in the life!”

    5. My friend once said she was “turning into a new leaf” instead of “turning over a new leaf”. I thought it was so charming that I still use it to this day

      Another friend went for years thinking that the song “Bette Davis Eyes” was “Better Days Aside”

    6. I may have shared this before but I really did always think it was Knights in White Satin and had the medieval mental imagery to go along with it. In fact, I’ve still never broken that association.

      1. I may have shared this before but I really did always think it was Knights in White Satin and had the medieval mental imagery to go along with it. In fact, I’ve still never broken that association.

    7. Tom Petty. Free Fallin’.
      I thought it was “Loves Cheez Whiz and America, too” until 2005. (Rather than “Jesus and America, too.” Sorry, Jesus.)

    9. A francophone friend described a classmate as “lucky go simple” instead of “happy go lucky” and it was much more accurate!

    10. I have two, one is mine and one was my kids.

      When they were around 4 & 2, the older one said they were going through a growth sprout instead of growth spurt. I loved that so much that I never corrected them.

      Mine is this: It’s a Jamiroquai song and I thought the lyrics were:
      “Candy in my heels”
      Nope, it’s canned heat. I like mine better though.

    11. When I was little, I though the song was Secret Asian Man, rather than Secret Agent Man. My parents never corrected me.

  6. Does anyone here have a SAH spouse? How do you handle retirement savings? We’re considering having my husband stay home for a few years as we TTC our second kid. However, he got a very late start on retirement savings and is very much behind, and we would not be able to save nearly as much as we currently do on just one income. His profession lends itself well to freelance/consulting work, and we would try to have him work 5-10 hours a week.
    If anyone has any other advice for going from two incomes to one, I would appreciate it.

    1. I’m not sure what you’re asking. Are you asking how to handle the drop in savings? You simply have to. Do the maximum for your retirement savings, and you can have your husband contribute his freelance income to retirement if that works for you day-to-day.

      General advice for going two incomes to one: you need to really know what you spend money on and where you can/will cut back. We went from two cars to one, for example; that might or might not be feasible for your family. Think about vacations, school costs, camps, and day-to-day stuff like groceries, medical bills, utilities, etc. See where you can or should lessen those expenses.

      And you didn’t ask this, but I’d like to offer: my husband became a SAHD a couple of years ago (with some freelance). It was a household adjustment for both of us. I wanted to offload things that I tended to keep in my head (kid schedules, birthday party dates, etc) and that took some practice, for both of us. All to say that it’s a transition and takes some patience.

      If you’re asking how to set up retirement accounts for freelance work, then I’m not sure, but I’m certain there’s someone on this board with that kind of investment expertise.

    2. I did. He got laid off when our first was a bay and stayed home with them till the youngest was 2.9/ old enough for preschool. His 401k was less than mine over that period but we didn’t have a ton of extra money so it just was what it was.

      He did work part time toward the end. He has a master’s degree so he was able to teach some evening classes at the junior college level. At first he taught three evenings per week, and we hired a babysitter for the hours. Then when the kids went to preschool, he taught morning classes for a while until he went back to work full time. It worked out well for us. The teaching didn’t pay a lot more than daycare but it kept his skills up and gave him something to do. The budget was tight, but daycare is expensive too.

      Both of our 401Ks are community property so mine are larger because I made more over my entire career, but not too many years later we were both maxing them out, so we really did fine overall.

    3. Roth is only for earned income, so that might be a good target for his consulting income – just use that $ for retirement.

      How does his salary compare to what you’d save on childcare? Will he have problems getting back to work?

    4. I posted on the earlier thread about being unemployed for a long time after a move, and we certainly did okay financially. We kept maxing out both of our Roth IRAs (he makes decent money, but well under the Roth limit for MFJ) and made significant contributions to his pretax retirement accounts with the understanding that that all of this was truly our money even if it was in his name (we live in a community property state, so this is legally true as well). I did most of the cooking and other house work and am an excellent frugal cook, so we spent far less money on food than most people do, but still ate pretty well. We’re definitely savers, not spenders, though, and already had a decent amount in retirement accounts that continued to grow by nearly as much as my previous income during the time I was unemployed, which made it more tolerable. If you can defer staying at home for a couple years while saving aggressively, that would give you more breathing room, though I understand that might not work for your particular circumstances.

    5. I am your husband in this situation; I probably average 10 hours/week but it’s lumpy- I make about $90-120k/year, though this year it was 85k and the year before it was $140 (has to do with when my clients pay over the winter!). If I were in my former role, I’d be making ~$200 with a ~50k bonus. DH and I regret nothing. We made the decision when I was laid off and, like your husband, I can make consulting happen. We have 3 kids (all elem and older) and I really couldn’t imagine how our household would work if we were both full time out of the house working. Further, we didn’t have the cost of full time daycare x2-3 kids ($60k) or a full time nanny (?$50k?). Instead, my kids went to part time preschool.

      For retirement, I have a self-employed 401(k) which has some great tax benefits- you can contribute as both an employee and an employer (profit share). I stuff it full of money. I do pay a lot in taxes but I also have some good write-offs as a self-employed person (car, office, supplies, tech, utilities, etc). You can also contribute to IRAs with earned income, assuming DH has some earned income to speak of (he will- he’ll get bored!).

      I am not sure my advice will be helpful as when DH and I bought our current forever house, we did so when we were both making $200k+. We put a bigger than usual down payment down and chose a house we could afford on only one of our incomes (though tight). That was 10 years ago and he’s gotten promotions/raises, and I’ve been able to keep my consulting gig pretty steady. DH’s company was sold a couple years back and he had some equity, which paid for a big home reno ($350k) we would have otherwise not been able to afford.

        1. Yeah I don’t think you’re a SAH parent if you make around $100k. You work part time, and earn much more than most people working similar hours. Good for you, but I don’t think it’s very applicable to OP.

        2. Yes I wish people like this wouldn’t even comment. It is great for you and very impressive, but you have to realize that 1) you are extremely rich and 2) you are working 10 hours a week and making more than most of the country who works 40 + .

    6. I had a stay at home spouse, and a federal pension, so not as much pressure on my retirement savings. We just threw a lot of money at retirement accounts as we could. I put the max into the TSP every year and maxed out traditional IRAs for both of us. We managed on one salary, and the one salary thing factored into everything. We also put as much as we could into 529s and other savings for the two kids. We didn’t have fancy vacations. My kiddos have only been to Europe twice and they were fairly budget vacations, but we got a week at the ocean and plenty of road trips. We had smaller wardrobes and not-fancy purses and shoes, but both kids played sports, had plenty of friends, rides a plenty, and graduated from under grad and grad school debt free. I retired in ’22. I have a small federal pension, decent size IRAs we haven’t touched yet, a TSP that helps out and I plan to collect SS when I reach full retirement age (in 3 years). We didn’t keep up with the Jones or many people on this board, but things have been good. DH worked as a substitute teacher for a bunch of years, so always was able to get the kids to school and was off on their holidays or if they were sick.

  7. How is Anthropologie about returns? I ordered a gift for someone and it arrived damaged. The packing job was awful. The item wasn’t wrapped or padded, just shoved in a too small box and the ends arrived in tatters. The object is metal and the ends are badly damaged. Unfortunately the product is now sold out (I ordered it on Monday). I can take it to a store this weekend to return, but I want to make sure I will get my money back without needing to start a credit card dispute. I also need to find something else as the gift. The last thing I needed to deal with at the end of a horrible no good week.

    1. Never had an issue just returning things I changed my mind about. Can’t imagine something broken would be harder.

    3. They should be great. I ordered a beautiful c*cktail dress from them last year — with pockets! — and the lining of the pockets shredded over the course of the night I wore it. Even though the item was worn, they gave me a full refund, which I thought was amazing.

  8. Talk to me about colposcopy’s. I’m scheduled to have one in a few weeks that will include a biopsy and it is stressing me out. Everything I’ve read on the internet makes it sound like it’s no big deal but is that true? Should I do anything special before or afterwards? I am going to take the day off so I can lay on the couch in sweats with a heating pad if needed, but that feels slightly excessive.

    1. The actual colonoscopy is a breeze. When I woke up, my husband and I went to lunch together and then I had a totally normal day. No pain, no anesthesia hangover whatsoever.

      Prep is gross & annoying, mostly because you have to glug down a bunch of Miralax and then poop your brains out. They’ll give you a whole explanation on what not to eat the day or two before and then the schedule of miralax. Just follow it. It’s not hard or scary or anything.

      I promise, it’s easy-peasy. No need to stress!

      2. I think OP is talking about a colposcopy of the cervix, not a colonoscopy.
        I haven’t had one, but have friends that did and they mentioned some cramping and that they were told to take Advil. Hope all is well.

    2. You can take ibuprofen beforehand. It may depend on how much they have to biopsy, but it’s kind of like a slightly more involved pap. They’ll paint the area with vinegar, make some notes, biopsy, and then paint a liquid bandage on you (which will later come out looking like coffee grounds). Bring a pad if you don’t like the kind the doctor gives out. I think I had minor bleeding, as in drops of blood, and didn’t find it to be a big deal pain-wise. Good luck!

      1. I took valium beforehand. I have a vasovagal reaction to my cervix being manipulated. Highly recommend. My OB was very willing to prescribe me just two valium pills (never used the second one) to get through the procedure.

        I didn’t bleed much but my sister had to call the doc because she bled a lot after. I don’t think she had to go back in, but it was one of those things where they wanted her to go to the ER if it got worse, and then it finally stopped.

    3. I would probably take Tylenol 1000mg and an ibuprofen 200mg 30 minutes beforehand. Because I’d be scared of the pain.

    4. i had one 15-20 years ago and remember it being a sharp pinch… getting my leg hair lasered off hurt more IIRC. i think you’ll be fine with advil, but any excuse to chill out on the couch with a heating pad is always welcome also.

    5. Had the same procedure a couple of years ago and don’t remember it being at all painful. Good thoughts that everything comes back with no issues!

    6. I had one and for me it was no big deal. My gyn asked if he could attempt in office (the procedure wasn’t scheduled) during my appointment and if at any time it was too much, to say stop and we’d schedule.
      Afterward, the way he explained it was that for those of us who have been dealing with pelvic pain for many years (endometriosis, woot!) that our pain tolerance is built up such that he can usually do the colposcopy quickly and patients don’t report much, if any pain. That 100% tracked with my experience. For me, it felt like one of those sort of sharp gas bubbles that happens sometimes when you overeat.

    7. Am I right that the vinegar solution of quite smelly? Like I wanted to take a shower after because I could smell it.

      1. OP here—that’s an autocorrect error that I did not see. Let’s give people some grace.

        Thanks for your responses all! This seems like NBD but I’ll still take the day off :)

    9. I found it challenging (it is kind of like a very long pap spear and then a pinch) and appreciated having someone to drive me home. A not insignificant subset of women have some dizziness or nausea when things are done with their cervix, so I would be prepared for a few minutes of feeling not great. My OB gave me an icepack for the back of my neck and I felt better quickly.

      I hope they find nothing concerning at all and you can move on from this quickly!

  9. Shyte!! I slept through a client meeting this afternoon. Both the client and my boss texted to ask where I was / if I was ok. The real answer is that I’m dying from allergies and laid down to rest and just overslept. What do I say to them?? I’m the lead for this client!

    I don’t have the best track record as an employee – I’m inconsistent bc I suffer with terrible depression I’ve (had for a decade and/but have) been working with a psychiatrist for over a year now to get under control. I’m still here because I’m popular with clients and good at my main job and can turn it on when it really counts.

    “I took a nap because of allergies and overslept” makes me look awful. But just adds to my flakiness, I guess. Crap crap crap.

    1. Honesty is the best policy here. “I wasn’t feeling well so I was resting before our meeting and next thing I knew I missed it.” Be contrite, apologize, etc.

    2. ugh, that’s not good. I guess I don’t need to tell you. I’d just apologize profusely and say you were unexpectedly very sick without going into details. I assume they will assume it was some awful gastrointestinal thing, and they don’t really need to know it was allergies.

    3. It kind of sounds like you weren’t okay. Did you make the mistake of taking a first gen antihistamine? (They knock me right out.)

      (And you didn’t ask, but with terrible allergies and refractory depression, are there any concerns about a relevant immunological issue?)

    4. I’d apologize and say I was sick and honestly I’d probably take tomorrow off. While off I’d get some doctor appointments made, check if my company is big enough for FMLA. Make damn sure I have multiple alarms set the next time I have a meeting with boss and or client.

  10. 1. This brand seems very cool. I have more of a budget for sterling silver, but I wouldn’t mind some of these pieces (and consider myself very picky in the jewelry department).

    2. Smocking seems to be so prevalent on current women’s clothes. Elastic seems so transitory to me. Are these essentially pieces for a year or two before the elastic gives out?

    1. In all honesty, the smocked look might be out of style in a year or two, so I wouldn’t expect to wear these pieces for a decade regardless of how good the quality. The smocking on my Hill House dress seems solid enough.

    2. Elastic shouldn’t die in a year or two. Do you put it in the dryer and launder it hard? I have lots of items with elastic that are 5-10 years old.

  11. Ugh. A friend who I think would know better is posting about WHERE IS KATE MIDDLETON. I cannot believe that this has moved beyond the fringe (or that the fringe has expanded to people who are otherwise quite sensible).

    2. I know so many otherwise smart people who think she’s dead or kidnapped or something.

    4. Because it’s fun? It’s a mindless distraction from work. It’s not reflective of people suddenly becoming nutters.

      1. Speculating about someone’s health status after they had major surgery is “fun”? It’s invasive. Let the woman have some peace.

        1. I am of two minds on this. Genetally, if course, Anon at 9:40 pm is right. But the British Royal Family? It’s literally their job to be in tbe public eye and it seems a bit precious to act all shocked and appalled when people respond as they’ve been encouraged to.

          1. Does their job really include giving out all details of medical conditions though? Is ‘abdominal surgery’ and a return to work date not enough?

            I find all the speculation really gross.

    5. I’m old enough to remember what happened to the last Princess of Wales, so I find this level of obession concerning on a few levels…

  12. I can’t reply to her directly above in the sunscreen thread but it’s a general question: is the FDA doing ANYTHING? It seems daily that they’re useless (sunscreen, supplements, compounding labs, etc).

    1. One frustration with the Biden administration is that he hasn’t really rebuilt regulatory frameworks decimated under Trump. Don’t ask me why; maybe donors wouldn’t like it!

      I know people who actually benefit from vaccination are sick of this topic, Evusheld was withdrawn a year ago, and a pharmaceutical company has finally submitted an emergency authorization use request to the FDA for a new monoclonal antibody treatment to provide protection for patients who have had to mask and isolate all this time… two months ago. Studies appear to indicate it works great against current variants, but by the time it actually becomes available, who knows.

      I hope they’re going to review the cardiac medication my cat needs on schedule; it’s supposed to be approved next month, but I’m worried about understaffing and backlogs.

    2. I mean, this is what you get when you have a society that doesn’t want to pay taxes and distrusts and demeans the civil service. We’ve gotten what we’ve asked for.

  13. How important is PD for online glasses? I forgot to ask today so I checked my old scrip and it was 65, but the Zenni app keeps telling me 61

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