[Zana]

I love all the cheering here! Thanks, ladies. I suppose if the universe can speak through many more esoteric things, it can certainly choose to speak through rhinestones and chiffon.

OK, I'm going to take a good look through the closet tonight and see what I have to sell that might make this work. Too bad it takes so many pretty bits of velvet from L. Rose to equal one Pharaonics! Unfortunately, I can't use a coupon.

Since you're all talking so much sense (and I seem to be letting it all hang out here anyway), please remind me that a costume I can't actually wear isn't doing me any good no matter how gorgeous it is or how sparkly it looks in my closet, and the fact that it's my favorite color doesn't make it fit or suit no matter how much weight I intend to lose. (It's been an "almost" since the day I bought it. Does anybody else do that? Crazy.) If I part with the Bella I know I'll never get another one -- I bought it before the dollar tanked and they doubled in price, and it was pricey for me even then. But sometimes you have to let something go to let something else in, right?

I can't believe I'm being so silly about this, and in public yet. Thanks for indulging me!