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     Lucy Supporter Username: Lucy Post Number: 1812 Registered: 5-2005  |
That's it Las - you fill Bunny's with fans starting out 6 months and up - everyone knows you're hot hot hot!! | ||
| Ravenheart Citizen Username: Ravenheart Post Number: 51 Registered: 9-2005 |
Hank: Perhaps. I think that for guys, the only thing more appealing than a redhead is a redheaded lesbian, even if they are only members of the Timex subcommittee. With or without leather. | ||
| las Citizen Username: Las Post Number: 593 Registered: 10-2003 |
I dyed my hair red three times during our fourteen years together. No big deal, we were in love, he got off on it, was all in fun. He also wet the bed occasionally. Loving him I only wanted him to go back to sleep and not be humiliated. Hating him, well, I am posting it on the World Wide Web... | ||
| Ravenheart Citizen Username: Ravenheart Post Number: 52 Registered: 9-2005 |
Talk about having to sleep in the wet spot . . . | ||
| Virtual It Girl Citizen Username: Shh Post Number: 3422 Registered: 5-2001 |
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| ess Citizen Username: Ess Post Number: 372 Registered: 11-2001 |
I feel sorta bad about this....but that cracked me up. | ||
| bets Supporter Username: Bets Post Number: 22515 Registered: 6-2001  |
So it uses rubber sheets now? Perhaps the guy who wore the, erm....innovative costume to Bunny's Halloween party could lend it his doll? I think it had red hair? Even if it was plastic - she wouldn't mind the wet spots! (And Greenie, before you yell at me, I'm in my cheap BH hotel, sitting in the surprisingly nice pool area, drinking a glass of cool pinot grigio and enjoying the free wireless whilst waiting for my niece to pick me up for dinner. I'm on my own until tomorrow evening, and can use a day of vegging out, surfing the net for more than 1/2 hour at a time, reading, and (just maybe!) going for a swim if the sun decides to visit. It's the first time I've sat down (except in a car) since the early rush hour!) | ||
| Lucy Supporter Username: Lucy Post Number: 1834 Registered: 5-2005 |
Cheers Bets enjoy yourself and relax you deserve a chance to veg out a dear friend to all Love Ya! | ||
| las Citizen Username: Las Post Number: 599 Registered: 10-2003 |
Bets! Here's almost your first sock:  I'll finish this sock tomorrow, but have a paper due next week (I hate it when school cuts into my knitting time), so I'm thinking you'll have the pair inside of two weeks. I hope it's green enough... Miss you! | ||
| las Citizen Username: Las Post Number: 600 Registered: 10-2003 |
I was going to use this shot of Sydney, but thought it looked too contrived...  | ||
| Lizziecat Citizen Username: Lizziecat Post Number: 922 Registered: 5-2003 |
My Elizabeth was a calico, too but she was mostly white, with color on her head and tail. They have the sweetest dispositions. I still miss her. Yours is lovely. | ||
| bets Supporter Username: Bets Post Number: 22516 Registered: 6-2001 |
Oh Las, they're gorgeous! Thank you so much! And infused with cat love to boot! Sydney and I, healing together through a lovingly knit pair of socks. It's perfect. And neither of us would forgive you if you neglected yourself on our behalf. So take your time, dear friend, and ace that paper! | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 5948 Registered: 5-2001  |
Las -of course the photo is contrived. There is no way that furballs don't know what they are doing in times like that. No one can be that perpetually cute & cuddly without continuous planning. People who don't like cats are just intimidated by fuzzy things that are smarter than they. | ||
| las Citizen Username: Las Post Number: 602 Registered: 10-2003 |
No one can be that perpetually cute & cuddly without continuous planning. Tell me about it - you have no idea how hard I work each day to come across as perpetually cute and cuddly without continuous planning. Oh, Lizziecat, thank you. Calicos are the warmest, aren't they? You are so welcome to post Elizabeth's photo here for us all to gaze at and admire... Betsy, these socks will keep you so toasty - they will make you realize heating oil/shmeating oil, who needs it? | ||
| ess Citizen Username: Ess Post Number: 374 Registered: 11-2001 |
Very cool socks, yet very toasty socks. Lucky Bets!! Gets to lounge by the pool and come home to toasty socks. As for the rest of us, more and more planning just to look occasionally cute and cuddly!!! | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 5957 Registered: 5-2001 |
I sure hope that Bets isn't reading the "Fart" thread. She ain't gonna want those socks.... | ||
| ess Citizen Username: Ess Post Number: 376 Registered: 11-2001 |
OK, THAT one sent me right over the edge. | ||
| las Citizen Username: Las Post Number: 612 Registered: 10-2003 |
As a self-proclaimed hypochondriac I must kvetch to the world: Oooooh - I took a flump (combination flop/dump) down a couple of stairs yesterday morning trying to avoid Al the cat and Lord! does my bumm hurt so much! I thought I had difficulty sitting yesterday, but today my whole left side is sore. I managed to get a look at my rear in the medicine cabinet mirror (I live alone, I can do those things) and wow, was it gross! And not only do I have a gross bumm, there is a plum and blue bruise on my left cheek the size of Manhattan! Not to worry, Al the cat is fine. Although I pinned him between my foot and the wall at the base of the stairs, he manged to meow the f-word then walk away. Oddly, it seems every time I flump down the stairs Al plays a cruicial role. I seriously doubt it is coincidence... I herewith designate today a recuperation day and will not be working on my paper. | ||
| doulamomma Citizen Username: Doulamomma Post Number: 620 Registered: 3-2002 |
Arnica, las...it will help the bruising, swelling & pain (from Whole Foods; topical or by mouth) Are you saying Al means you harm?? | ||
| Lucy Supporter Username: Lucy Post Number: 1859 Registered: 5-2005 |
Las you can get that at the Health Food Mart in Short Hills on Morris Ave. It does work I hope you feel better  | ||
| las Citizen Username: Las Post Number: 615 Registered: 10-2003 |
I ripped and chipped a bunch of nails from my flump down the stairs the other morning and since none of my nails are past the tips of my fingers I decided to try the piano for the first time in three hundred years. I spent about twenty minutes on C scales - C scales in quarters, C scales in eighths, C scales in triplets and C scales in quadruplets, in spans of one to four octaves accordingly. I messed on the fingering with the quadruplets, to be expected as it's been about 8 years since I last practiced and I didn't split the scales or even conclude each round with one perfect four octave C scale then chords of I, IV, V, VI, II, V, I. And I certainly didn't progress to G scales, as the way I was taught you mastered C then moved to G, then D, then A, etc. So I practiced my one to four octaves/quarters to quadruplets messed up on fingering repeatedly and started over. And it felt really neat. It made me tingle on the inside from my stomach to my chest so that I had to breathe deep and I sat up straighter and started again. And when I finished my quadruplets for the fifth or sixth time my fingers went to the Rhondo of some Beethoven Sonata I used to play a lifetime ago, and I'd like to say I thundered through the chords and rolled through the notes but the truth is I stumbled quite bad because the black and white dots that were once a part of my being are no longer accessible to my fingers. Maybe there will be a next time, and maybe next time I will pull out the music. I guess I am lucky as I just found one more thing I can do instead of homework. | ||
| Pippi Supporter Username: Pippi Post Number: 1387 Registered: 8-2003  |
congratulations! This is fabulous news. I am sure there WILL be a next time | ||
| Meandtheboys Citizen Username: Meandtheboys Post Number: 1992 Registered: 12-2004  |
So glad you decided to keep that piano!  | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 5993 Registered: 5-2001 |
Las - I am deeply offended that you never informed me that you are searching for ways to avoid homework. Isn't that the point of friendships - to call on them for areas of expertise? That said, I am truly impressed and in awe that all your procrastination activities are so very high-brow and intellectual. I mean, who can look down on someone who creates beautiful things out of sumptuous yarn, or plays wonderful, rich music? It's so much better than working on a rubber-band ball collection or sorting naval lint by color and texture. Um. Wait. You don't mind showing me a receipt for the yarn you'll buy for mom's socks, will you? Nothing personal. | ||
| las Citizen Username: Las Post Number: 616 Registered: 10-2003 |
sorting naval lint by color and texture You do that, too?!? your procrastination activities are so very high-brow and intellectual Yeah, like tweezing things and squeezing miniscule blackheads until they become huge blemishes on my face and watching seven hours straight of CSI (with the text on my lap, of course)...oh! the list of my high-brow intellect goes on and on... Not to worry, dear, for Greenemum's socks I do promise, the fiber will not be second-hand. | ||
| doulamomma Citizen Username: Doulamomma Post Number: 627 Registered: 3-2002 |
It's a well-known fact that keeping one's text on or near one's body transfers the needed information by osmosis, so you actually DID study for 7 straight hours whilst watching CSI! Don't you feel better now?! | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 5995 Registered: 5-2001 |
Doula - I beg to differ. You must leaf thru the text during commercials and occasionally read a paragraph during a show in order for it to count. | ||
| las Citizen Username: Las Post Number: 617 Registered: 10-2003 |
I like Doula's theory a lot. I think it could work for me. It fits right in with my life goal of doing and being nothing. | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 5998 Registered: 5-2001 |
You can do nothing, but you can't be nothing. Unless, of course, you are dead. But then, you still are not "nothing", just "dead". | ||
| doulamomma Citizen Username: Doulamomma Post Number: 628 Registered: 3-2002 |
Technically, Greenie is correct...to get the fullest appreciation for the text, leafing is helpful. Now, if las was watching 7 hours of CSI, then maybe there was TIVO involved (if not, get it & call it a study aid!) & thus no pesky ads, so that *would* cut down on the leafing time...I like to just reread the same paragraph over & over, especially when my children are providing ambient sound to help me concentrate. If you really want to get a lot of studying done, everyone knows you must first organize & alphabetize the contents of everything in your home - that's a given. Regarding nothingness, maybe las is starting a new zen movement... | ||
| las Citizen Username: Las Post Number: 618 Registered: 10-2003 |
If you really want to get a lot of studying done, everyone knows you must first organize & alphabetize the contents of everything in your home - that's a given. Ah, yes, Doulamomma and her world famous labelmaker! I'm sure I could blow an entire semester studying under the Doula, learning to organize items I'd never realized could be organized: left shoes on that side of the closet, right ones over there; keys alphabetized by metal then sub-alphabetized by door; grapes by size and on and on... Doula you might very well be on to something. I'll call you during finals week. | ||
| Debby Citizen Username: Debby Post Number: 2090 Registered: 5-2001 |
"Doula - I beg to differ. You must leaf thru the text during commercials and occasionally read a paragraph during a show in order for it to count." Wrong. Everyone knows learning only happens if the whole page is highlighter yellow. If it's yellow, you know it. | ||
| doulamomma Citizen Username: Doulamomma Post Number: 630 Registered: 3-2002 |
Debby - great point - it's very important to highlight every single word. Use of the post-it flags helps a great deal as well. I've also found it's helpful to nap with one's face on a really key page - info is learned more quickly if the highlighter & words soak into your skin - it's called "trans-dermal acquisition"...drooling helps facilitate the process. By the way, The Container Store sells an organizer for said flags - I kid you not! las - I could always lend out the label maker, but you really should invest in your own...finals are just around the corner. | ||
| bets Supporter Username: Bets Post Number: 22518 Registered: 6-2001 |
las - I want to learn piano! All my life I've wanted to play piano. I learned violin in grade school and guitar later on in life (though I can't yet read music) but piano is my first love. It is so awesome that you can sit down at a piano keyboard and play scales. Cool!!! | ||
| doulamomma Citizen Username: Doulamomma Post Number: 631 Registered: 3-2002 |
las, re. knitting - my favorite yarn stores are in the city, but I've learned that there are several in Montclair & plan a field trip sometime soon - want to join me? | ||
| las Citizen Username: Las Post Number: 633 Registered: 10-2003 |
Would love to, although it will mean detracting valuable time from my studies. (My fave. store is Seaport Yarns, down on William Street.) (I meant to say: My FAVORITE store is ALL STRUNG OUT, my sister's shop, in COCOA BEACH, FL.) | ||
| doulamomma Citizen Username: Doulamomma Post Number: 635 Registered: 3-2002 |
After finals, then! What about Pearl in SoHo (their book is great too)& the Yarn Company on the upper west side ...have not tried Seaport Yarns...v. cool that your sister has a shop - love the name. I'm about to try to knit a curtain out of sisal twine! Not sure if it will work; thought of trying fine wire too...have to do something, as my new glass front door is fish-bowl city. doulamomma | ||
| las Citizen Username: Las Post Number: 638 Registered: 10-2003 |
I just saw Boris the barber down in World Fi for a trim and my hair was still wet from my morning shower so he sat me down and started finger combing my hair from roots to ends. And it made me ache and it made me cry and I said don't stop please do it again. You should never run away from home on your wife's birthday because it could really f*ck her up good. | ||
| las Citizen Username: Las Post Number: 653 Registered: 10-2003 |
He wrote: 11/27/00 Last night, I lay next to you for about an hour watching you sleep and I've been thinking about the reasons why I love you: - i love your compassion (with the girls, with strangers on the train, with stray animals - with me)) - i love your beauty - i love your smile - i love the fact that when the phone rings, i hope it's you - i love watching you work in the garden - i love that you know the difference betweeen a liatrus and a hyacinth - i love your courage (without that, we wouldn't have taken any chances in life) - i love the way you fold napkins to look like a function - i love celebrating white trash superbowl sundays with you - i love being with you - i love that you use the word hackney instead of cliché - i love sneaking in candy and going to a matinee movie - i love that you made your own wedding dress - i love holding hands and feeding the ducks with you - i love leaving work on a friday and looking forward to spending the weekend with you - i love telling people i'm married to the most incredible woman god's ever put on this earth - i love you I've always said I was brought on this earth to protect you. Well, dear boy, don’t think for a moment I believed when you told me last Spring that those words were fake that you didn’t mean them and the sentiments were unrealistic and that no one should promise their love. You loved me. You loved me so much it hurt you to think I might not love you back. I took off my rings because you didn’t respect me and you were beside yourself with the pain of having realized I might be right. And dearest, don’t think it has escaped me that today is your 38th birthday, it seems to come every Thanksgiving or so. I spent my day with the people we grew to call family and the old lady who used to be so wild about you – when she asked yet again if I’d heard from my husband and I said no have you – said who needs him? I certainly don’t wish you well but I do give the gift of your words to the world so they’ll know you are a liar and maybe some beautiful person will read these words and say he wants a woman like me and maybe someday you will stumble across this blog and feel some humiliation over my having shared your personal, desperate thoughts with strangers, typos and all. And maybe, just maybe you’ll think of me today and feel sick in your gut for destroying my marriage and stealing my home and selling my belongings all in one rash unilateral decision. I know your birthday is always the worst day for you, reminding you of your aging self, your career that has not yet taken off, goals you have not yet accomplished in your life. My birthday really sucked this year. I wish you the same. Hundredfold. | ||
| sbenois Supporter Username: Sbenois Post Number: 14244 Registered: 10-2001  |
I guess you never knew, Dear boy, what you had found, I guess you never knew, Dear boy, that she was just the cutest thing around. I guess you never knew what you had found, Dear boy. I stepped in, my heart was down and out, But her love came through and brought me 'round, got me up and about. I guess you never saw, Dear boy, that love was there, And maybe when you look too hard, Dear boy, you never do become aware. I guess you never did become aware, Dear Boy. When I stepped in, my heart was down and out, But her love came through and brought me 'round, got me up and about. I hope you never know, dear boy, how much you missed, And even when you fall in love, Dear boy, it won't be half as good as this I hope you never know how much you missed, dear boy. I stepped in, my heart was down and out, But her love came through and brought me 'round, got me up and about. Dear boy, how much you missed, |
