I'm all out (gah!)

...of shorts. Started going through my closet today, preparing some clothing for (could it be? do I even remember?) warm weather, since I'll be in Vegas on vacation next week, and then in sub-tropical Hong Kong for a month. And I've discovered that EVERY. Single. Pair. Is. TOO. LARGE. Agh!

Skorts, shorts, skirts -- there's an ever growing pile of discarded, destined for Housing Works, clothing accumulating next to my bedroom door. I stopped counting after 8. And my favorite pair of turquoise cotton shorts....wah!

I know, I know -- it's a luxury problem. But I am out of shorts. I wonder if Century 21 is selling resort wear yet...if so, I sense a lunchtime sprint.

Today at lunch, I ran off to C21 for a leather passport cover. Now normally I pooh-pooh such frippery, but the new microchipped passports come with an entire set of care instructions: not, too hot, not wet, don't bend, etc. etc. And the covers are now stiff, like hardback books, and no longer flexible like those old bank books. They've also moved the photo in a page, instead of on the inside/p. 2/ so a cover is actually feasible now. I'm trying to find a nice leather cover that's also long enough to hold the boarding pass.

Yes, I discovered that my previous (old) passport would have expired on April 5th, while I would be in Hong Kong (oops) so my employer (a) paid the now $100 fee (!!!) for a renewal, and (b) paid the dunno-how-much fee to expedite the application.

Right now, I'm going to hide from all of my cranky-making problems by watching my Tivoed premiere episode of Dancing With The Stars.