I had to run out to the pharmacy after my piano lesson. I succeeded in getting a raspberry seed from my afternoon snack (so I'm not shaky and cranky for piano lesson) stuck between the gold crown and the tooth next to it.

My teeth were tight to begin with; the dentist had to work pretty hard to get the crown in place. So floss only made it worse.

(I finally wound up going with a "brush pick." Apparently the brushes - which are like tiny bottle brushes - are for people with bridgework or braces or naturally gappy teeth (like Madonna, like Letterman). I can't get the brush between my teeth but the plastic pick did dislodge the seed to the point where I could floss it out)

But that's not the main focus of this.

No, I saw something that just struck me odd and funny. (This local pharmacy - it's part of a major chain - seems to have lots of odd, funny stuff. I mean, unintentionally funny. When they first opened, I was in there one day, and on one of the aisles, they had, I kid you not, "Bag O' Panties." Yes. A bag, o' panties. A horrible name for the product, I think, even if I do buy what is perhaps one step up on the ladder of respectability in undergarments (bag o' "Hanes for Her" or "Fruit of the Loom" - whichever they have my size in when I'm in need; apparently I am the modal size of women in this area as I can sometimes not find that particular garment in the size I prefer).

This was: Pantyhose in a Can.

Pantyhose in a Can! Seriously. They advertised it as "Like bare legs - but better." (Better how? I suspect the dye runs in the rain). It makes me laugh because it's such a random thing - especially to find at a pharmacy.

Oh, I know, I'm sure people use it and it might be a good product. And I do remember reading that in World War II, that when silk stockings became scarce, a lot of women used a form of pancake makeup on their legs to simulate stockings. (And they used something like an eyebrow pencil to draw the seams up the back. I think you'd have to have a friend to do that; at least I lack the flexibility to draw a straight line up the back of my legs. Or at least, I THINK I do... Though I will say it would get rid of the issue of "how do you keep the seams straight" if they were drawn on...)
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I did do 40 minutes of research-reading after dinner tonight but at 7 pm, "watch NCIS" won out over "read more." And then, "Check e-mail" won out over doing the additional 20 minutes. (Oh well. Maybe I can do an hour and 20 minutes tomorrow. Or maybe I just shouldn't be so tough on myself).

I did complete the second arm and the first leg on the amigurumi cat.