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I miscalculated. I need to shower today, and I'm going to have to go out less than two hours after I do, so my hair will still be wet. If I'd remembered today's Girl Scouts meeting, I'd have showered yesterday. As it stands, it'll be 11:00 by the time I get to shower (Scott's in there now). My hair takes three to four hours to dry. Girl Scouts is at 1:00, and half of the meeting will be outside. Maybe I can get away with not going? Cordelia is perfectly capable of walking herself to and from meetings (though I'm not sure the troop leader is supposed to let her walk home without an adult picking her up). The only question is whether or not I'm needed as the second registered adult. I really, really don't want to spend an hour outside.

Girl Scout cookie forms are due today. I think Cordelia sold fifteen to twenty boxes. Well, Scott sold fifteen to twenty boxes. He took the form to work and posted on Facebook about it. The first half of today's meeting will be for turning in the forms and, maybe, getting the information entered online. The second half will be outside-- One of the girls lives across the street from the community center where we meet. They have a metal fire tray sort of thing, on legs to keep it off the ground, and the plan is to have a fire and cook over it.

We did very little yesterday, so the bags and bags of stuff Cordelia wants to get rid of are still in the dining room and study and on the back porch. I need to look up when the PTO Thrift Shop is open and accepting donations. There are other places near there where we could donate, but the PTO Thrift Shop is our first choice. The money they make all goes back to the schools.

Scott and I watched part of The Grand Budapest Hotel (out from the library and due today). We did not enjoy it. I should know better than to take recommendations from my sister. Then all three of us watched Mr Peabody and Sherman which had just come from Netflix. That was pretty silly. Cordelia finished reading The Hunger Games. Fortunately, Catching Fire had already come in at the library, so we'll be able to get that today. In the evening, we watched the new episode of Mythbusters. Cordelia even changed the channel to watch it. She's never shown any interest in Mythbusters before. I had been expecting Scott to have to fight her for the right to watch.

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The bananas Scott bought this week are so green they may not be edible until after next week's shopping trip. He says they were the ripest of the lot. He also got galas for the apples. Honeycrisps are past their peak, really expensive and tending to go bad quickly, and he couldn't find Fujis. I will be eating galas for breakfast every day this week, I guess. I don't like them much, but they're the fruit we've got.

I suppose I could raid Scott's yogurt supply for my breakfasts, but that would mean he'd have to go back to the store mid-week. I try to avoid making him do that. He frequently assures me that it's no real trouble, but when I actually ask him to do it, he sounds like he really, really doesn't want to.

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Drat. There's a dress I saw on a mail order website that looked like it might be something I'd wear. It's cheaper than the dresses I normally buy by about $50. But, because it was November, I didn't buy it. I put it on my wishlist, figuring that I'd buy it for myself after Christmas if nobody got it for me. Unfortunately, I really shouldn't have waited. The only color now available in my size is black. I can get better color options if I go a size larger or if I go with a regular size instead of a petite, but I'm wary of doing either. I prefer long dresses, but a regular size is likely not to fit in other ways-- It'll have longer sleeves and a longer torso. With a larger size, well, I don't know.

Of course, I do note from looking at the different colors that the way the model is wearing the dress is deceptive. I thought it had an elastic waist, but it apparently doesn't. It just hangs straight down. Maybe if I got a belt... Why does no one make elastic waisted dresses any more?