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Mauv, I think we would have probably hung out together in high school. I graduated in 1989 and was quite the rebel... back when there still was such a thing. The 80's were so bad how could I NOT have been a rebel? I remember wearing vintage clothes (few people did back then) and all black and combat boots with skirts and dying my hair bright red and shaving it and having multiple ear piercings (six total... way over the top back then) and listening to all the same music you listed. What about New Order, early U2, Depeche Mode, Psychadelic Furs, Violent Femmes, Butthole Surfers, Sex Pistols, and of course The Smiths. I still love all of that music. We would hang out at the local Big Boy and drink pots of really bad coffee and smoke cigarettes and discuss politics and religion and society and everything wrong with the world and Ronald Reagan until the wee hours of the night. Ah... those good old days that produced us members of the cynical and jaded Generation X.

That show was "Here Come the Brides," Soozie...I LOVED Bobby Sherman!!! But the Beatles and Bob Dylan were my favorites...and the Rolling Stones. I did love the Monkees too, the show more than the music, actually...I know soozie and any other baby boomers out there must have read Archie comics...with Jughead and Betty and Veronica...what about watching them on Saturday morning cartoons? and Josey and the Pussycats? oh yeah! Did you ever see the movie, "Now and Then?" Those kids were the exact age I was, about 13 in 1971...another good one is "Stand by Me"...a trip down memory lane!

I'd like to wish everyone a wonderful holiday...have fun, relax, stay healthy, count your blessings...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!
HAVE A COOL YULE!

Hey Soozie, I remember when we were first allowed to wear pants to school - I was in 3rd grade (1970-71) and I got a pair of hip huggers with flares (very high low riders they would be today) & I was extremely proud of them! My very first pair of jeans.

In high school I really wanted pinstriped Osh Kosh overalls but my dad wouldn't let me wear overalls (I finally got some when I was 38 - ha ha! - haven't quite finished the teenage rebellion you see! When you are a very good girl in your teens, the rebellion never ends! Always unfinished business...always thinking oh gawd, why was I such a little patsy!:lol: )

David Bowie, Mauvais! Oh yes - loved his music (still do) and what a cute guy (ageing well too I think! not bald or anything, that's good!). In the 80s also: the Police, Steely Dan, Brian Eno ("King's Lead Hat" etc), the Clash, Devo, Elton John, Depeche Mode. Lots of others too.

Weak coffee and strong Jakartas. Really long heavy earrings, black T shirts, black anything (this in college - rebellion rumbling as best it could!). Sunglasses at parties (I remember being so pleased when the Corey Hart song came out - hey, I do that!:) )
Big jugs of cheap white wine. Yum yum. Staying up all night.

Now I'm lucky to stay up til eleven!:lol:

Kat, I did read Archie comics and I think I saw those cartoons too - Saturday morning was about the only time they had kids stuff on TV (or at any rate that is what I was led to believe!). But I only got comics when I was sick in bed! Sort of like Junket and St.Joseph's aspirin...

Lidian

YES!! I had forgotten Lidian, but I had a pair of overalls that I wore ALL the time!!! Anyone else remember Gary Glitter, Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, The New York Dolls (Junior High)......and Richard **** and the Voidoids, B52s, Talking Heads, Sex Pistols, Ramones (college)....did anyone else smoke clove cigarettes?

I still love the small of clove cigarettes! The still sell them! But since they are so much worse on the lungs than any other kind of smoking materials, I will pass! I am still looking for a good clove insence so I can smell it any ol time!

YUP!! The things i did to myself back then.......FOOD is now the drug of choice!!!!

Yeah, they are too strong for me too - anyhow I gave up smoking awhile back though I still miss it (I also liked light menthols). I always thought they put something funny in the unfiltered cloves...Clove incense sounds great - let me know if you find any, Flower! I can find cinnamon though.

I love the B52s - my friend said they played at her grad dance in college, how cool is that?! We just had some ole band from the college we were supposed to get excited about.

I liked Richard ****'s ex, Patti Smyth (I can't quite believe she is married to John McEnroe now, seems such a weird match!) & also Tom Petty ("Refugee"), Yes ("I'll be the round-about...") and Queen. My fave was Steely Dan though.

Den, when I think of some of the things I did back then I collapse in a mixture of helpless giggles and pure horror! Now I am a sedate fortyish chick all it takes for me to walk on the wild side is a second glass of wine and/or a box of Anton Berg chocolate liqueurs! Tee hee...

Lidian

Good Morning all,
I hope all are having a wonderfull holiday season. We had a beautiful white Christmas. DD is enjoying all of her new toys.

I'm still on the hunt for a new job but enjoying my time off with DD.

Well have to cut this short before DD deletes it for my.
MrsM95

Went to art school...of course they were smoking clove cigarettes...hated the smell of them...no, I only smoked the real thing...parliment lights!!! and lived on coffee...no wonder I didn't have a weight problem then.

Yeah, thanks Kat, it was Here Come the Brides...how totally un alternachickish, that would never fly today...or would it?

My wardrobe in college and then for years afterwards was black, black, black, more black and sometimes a small white item for an accent. Like a white t shirt under a black jacket with a black skirt or jeans. My boss at one job once asked me if I had anything with a color on it in my closet! I hadn't realized I had become so one demensional until she said that.

I loved wearing my favorite bleached out purple and blue demin skirt..it was long and full with my heavy black combat boots, my black top that fastened up the front with hooks and eyes...that was my favorite cool alternachicky outfit.

oh yeah, and you were right Ellis, I got the nasty virus. still recovering.
In fact writing this had exhausted me. Gotta go rest up now.
Wish I was joking. Good news. Lost six pounds in two days...anyone want me to breathe on a tissue and mail you the germs...oh, sorry for the sick humor. We all know this kind of weight loss is very temporary and remember this is a Healthy Weight Loss!!!!!!! Forum.
Love, Soozie

We used to smoke Turkish cigarettes from a specialty smoke shop.
They were long, black and thin with silver colored paper at the filter. They looked cool and I supposed we thought we looked cool smoking them at the local cafe over a cup of java while reding Nietze, Kurt Vonnegut or a book of poetry:lol:

I actually had an antique silver and ebony cigarette holder and a silver cigarette case that I used to use.

I usually wore black and most of my clothes were vintage bought from secondhand shops or the Salvation Army stores. I still have a few of my dresses in storage and I have a small collection of velvet pillbox hats that I can't seem to part with. I have a black feather skullcap too, it looks like something out of a film from the 40's.

Lidian - I can so relate! Maybe we're long lost twins! LOL


The only thing is that I have never smoked a cigarette ever in my life. For some reason......?


Soozie - hope you feel better soon !


Mauvais - one cool chiquita :)


Terri

Hey Mauvais!! I have some of those hats too!! And a glove collection. Salmon leather gloves, various dress gloves (to mid forearm and elbow length) Stuff my Mom used to wear. And a carved bone cigarette holder that i used to use!!! I still wear a lot of black. I'm trying to get off it a bit as a matter of fact!!

Mauvais, I remember those Turkish cigarettes but I saw them in all different colours, not just black. I had one once and liked it. But usually I stuck to Jakartas and Kreteks (those had cool tins!). Your vintage stuff sounds cool - I love vintage anything. I wish I still had my dress up box from when I was a kid, it was filled with my mom's high-fashion clothes from the 40s and 50s. Still have some of her long chiffon scarves though, and a few New Look suits with impossibly tiny waists...

Den, I love the sound of that cigarette holder! I had a little Japanese one that looked like a tiny pipe, I THINK it was a cigarette holder, but I don't know where it is. I do have my mom's leather ciggie case from Italy circa 1953 but have never used it.

I love black clothes. Love them! My mother used to say I looked all sad and droopy (she used to love the word droopy to describe my bohemian look!) and say stuff like "Are you going out looking like that?" -- what IS one supposed to say? Well, yes, actually! I am! But I think black is very good. I just bought some black capris that are excellent. But I still feel like my mother is there perched on my shoulder in the store going "How about something beige? Beige is nice. And get your hair out of your face! Are you really going out looking like that?"

But Ma, I'm already out!

And that's that...:lol:

Lidian

And Terri...having a twin would be cool!:)

I used to have a pair of houndstooth blue and white elephant bells that I wore with a blue and white tie dyed t-shirt, I also had a great pair of denim bells that had roses embroidered down the legs, and I wore a cool t shirt with those too. I was a hippie wannabe. I would watch the hippies when they would walk down the street and my ultra conservative father (think Hitler only more conservative) would complain about them, calling them names, and me sitting there wishing I was old enough to dress like that. I also had a pair of baby hot pants in pink with a halter top that was pink and white, with a pair of white go-go boots. My mother wouldn't allow me to wear the outfit saying I was too young (I was too young, only 5) so my father kept it at his house. I think one of his very young girlfriends bought me the outfit. I was born in 1968 so I remember the day of the hippie fairly well. I remember being one of the first people in my area to be over bell bottoms, and I always made my parents buy me the punk peg legs, and the shirts in the punk, and new wave styles. My mom would always shake her head and say what happened to the bells you used to love? I would always try to explain to her the way you do to parents, and the feeble minded that they were over, and punk was in. LOL! :lol: I was waaaaay to liberal, and arty for my family, but my Mom being the black sheep of the family always encouraged me to be different, and be proud of my uniqueness.

I had a mad crush on Peter Tork from The Monkees (funny, he is the only true hippy from the group, and one of the only two real musicians)when I was little, and I adored The Monkees, I never thought about whether they were a real rock group til I was older, but they did sing, and did manage to convince their producers to let them play their own instruments after the second album. I liked The Partridge Family but I knew they weren't a real rock group. I was about five years old when I bought my first real rock single from the bargain bin at K-Mart, and it was Love The One You're With By Stephen Stills, and he actually looks a lot like Peter Tork too. Hmmmm. Anyway I went on to love The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Who, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop, The Ramones, The Clash (RIP Joe Strummer), Elvis Costello, And then when I was a teenager I loved all of the New Wave stuff. Duran Duran, The Thompson Twins, The Eurythmics, Culture Club, and oh... too many to list. I also loved the consience rock of the 80s being from a depressed town I could relate to songs by people like Springsteen, and Melloncamp, and I loved Billy Joel's song Allentown.

I was only 3 years old when All In The Family started but I loved it, even if I didn't understand all of the jokes. I remember being about 5 years old and I would fight my Mom to watch it, and I also loved Maude, and The Mary Tyler Moore show, and The Bob Newhart Show. When I was 7 this really cool comedy show came on Saturday nights after the news, and when I was at my Dad's house I could watch it because he went to bed at 11:30, and when I was at my Grandma's or she was at our house I got to watch it then too, because my Grandma would make my Mom let me watch it. Can anyone say spoiled rotten? LOL! But I always liked the shows that were smart, and funny, not just the candy assed shows like The Brady Bunch.

I also love movies that celebrate difference. When I was about 10 my Mom made me watch this movie about a lady who takes her nephew in after his father dies, and I loved it, because I had no idea people like her existed before the 60s, and I thought Mame was sooo cool! If you watch closely at the party scene at the beginning of the movie you see all sorts of interesting people, and I'm the one who had to point the lesbians out to my Mom. LOL! You all know my favorite movies from my intro post so I won't bore you, but I love anything that is new or different.

I still love the weird, subversive shows, and I still like to dress in cool hippy/goth/bohemian/punk stuff when I can find it in my size. I love to wear black, and yeah I get asked if I'm depressed a lot. I also love to wear aubergine colored clothes, and crimson. So anyway sorry this is so long but the way the thread was going I was just compelled to tell you my piece.

Velvet, I had the greatest crush on Peter Tork too...in fact he became my standard for what I found attractive in guys (I usually ended up going for guys who looked just like him!) He is ageing very well too don't you think?:) I also quite liked Mike Nesmith but he would be a difficult sort...I never saw the appeal of Davy Jones!

I loved all those TV shows too! Watched them all.

And aside from black (and navy) my fave color is all shades of purple and lavender.

Steven Stills and Peter T. were/are great friends apparently. Did you ever see the special on the Monkees (not the Behind the Music one, an earlier one done in 1996) and PT said he and SS were in a group together in the early 60s. (I taped this show and the Monkees episode they did in '96, to the horror of my family!:lol: )

Hope you are having a good weekend and talk to you soon,

Lidian

Ah yeah, Lidian, when The Monkees had their 20th Anniversery Reunion tour in 1986 I was in the worst part of my depression, and the only thing that made me feel better, and kept the thoughts of wanting to die away was watching the episodes of The Monkees on MTV. I still had the crush on Peter (still do actually, love that dimple!), and so I became the fan I couldn't be in the early 70s when I was 4 and my Grandma would turn them on for me much to the chagrin of my Mother who never wanted to watch them. I have since read a lot about The Monkees, and Peter says Stephen tried out first but the producers said he was going bald, and his teeth were crooked, and asked if he knew of anyone with the same look, but with better teeth, and hair. I guess they had been mistaken for each other a lot because they looked so much alike. Stephen and Peter had been friends in New York when they were folk singers, and Stephen let him know about the audition. Yes Mike is a genius, and I love his music, but he has major issues about The Monkees, and fame in general, and can be quite a ****. He just dropped out of the 1996 tour with no explaination after the UK portion of the tour. I have met Davy and he is quite cute, but I'll tell you that guy is loaded with charm, and charisma. He is so funny and tells the best stories. But as far as crushes go I prefer Peter. Micky is just a big weird funny looking guy with a flat profile who does bad Jimmy Cagney impressions, but I like him.

Anyway, my depression became more manageble when I got involved in The Monkees fandom, and I met a really great friend who I still have 15 years later. I no longer belong to the fan club because she shut it down (Maggie please come back!) but I had fun, and have even cocidered going to Cali so I can see Tork in concert there. He is always playing somewhere wih his band The Shoe Suede Blues band. I am glad to know a fellow fan thanks for the response Lidian. BTW, have you ever seen their movie Head? It's great, I love it. If you haven't seen it I highly reccomend it.

Yes I have seen Head - some bits I like a lot but I find it hard to watch all the way through. Haven't seen it in some time though...

I remember watching TM on Saturday mornings in the late 60s. That was the only time I was allowed to watch TV then!

Lidian

Velvet and Lidian, are you all alone out here in cyberspace? :D

Changing the subject (slightly, heh heh), I am in the process of changing around my entire house. Despite being desperately ill and completely disoriented with a congested chest, I decided yesterday that it was time to get that (poor, dead) fat tree outta my house!
I single handedly defrocked it, and dragged it screaming out onto the verandah.
Then it was time to put my dining room back in the living room and vice versa.
Not content with putting things back as they were, I decided to change the whole damn look of the two rooms, and I am now up to my eyebrows in some sort of "Changing Rooms" episode.

I don't know if I've told you, but I've decided to dispense with the guest room (which is directly behind the kitchen) and convert it into some sort of grand, walk-in pantry. (my kitchen is a galley, and has virtually NO storage space!)

So the hoosier cabinet from the living room will be going in there. And I've moved my favourite little couch (I HATE having couches in the living room, but this one is a single seater, and the ends go down to make a chaise longue or a little "bed") into the living room from the TV room. And my sister's cool green sofa/bed that she gave me is going into the TV room. It's not particularly comfortable as a bed, which means that any guests who sleep over will NOT be staying for long!

Of course, the kitchen is partially torn apart waiting to be renovated (hopefully this year), and I'm anxious to build the fake fireplace with built-in bookshelves in the living room.

Oh, and also I'll be reupholstering my favourite couch, plus my four living room chairs.

Looks to be a busy year. :rolleyes:

Ellis, those all sound like fabulous changes to make! I love pantries and yours sounds like it will be brilliant! And I love built-in bookshelves....how are you reupholstering? Are you sewing or buying?

I have just committed myself to learning how to make plush octopuses. My youngest loves them but big ones are very expensive & hard to find. I bought some large aqua velveteen pants and am going to try with them...I mean, an octopus - a head and eight legs, a fairly simple shape. I hope! Well, I will try anyhow. Octopus are very cute I think - we have all the Ty beanie ones and they are adorable...

I would love to make slipcovers for our revolting couches and armchair but am just learning to sew a little and I am possibly out of my depth already with the toy thing, see above...Even my mom, who made my clothes and hers, did not slipcover on her own...

I am full of toast and diet vanilla Coke. Am off to clean up the rubble. Ellis, I wish we could get OUR tree out of here - it takes up half the downstairs! :lol:

Hi Velvet, how're you doing? And hi everyone else!

Lidian

HI ALL!!!

Ellis-Seems like we are thinking along the same lines again!!! I have all KINDS of plans for rearranging the house.....Only problem is that SOME of the plans are mutually exclusive!!!!! Just got through shredding some paperwork from a bank account that hasn't even EXISTED for 2 years!!! Flylady is great, but it is ALSO making me face up to how bad I have been at all this stuff!!! One cool thing, I just made DS #2 go in his room and throw away 27 items. He didn't mind that so much, and we are slightly closer to getting his new presents in there!! (Next step....getting him to give up some of his OLD toys!!):lol:

Hey darlings...
Den... figures we're doing the same thing. :lol: It would be a real snap if we only had some money, honey.
Listen, I'm really losin' it. I'm actually painting... RIGHT NOW... a wall in the living room! A couple of months ago I painted a dining room wall dark red because the new prints that I'd bought didn't show up well enough on the green. :rolleyes: So I'm extending the red into the living room, because now that I've moved my hoosier cabinet out of the corner, it looks like heck in there.
I do love my red and green.

Lidian, I'm reupholstering myself. It's not that difficult. If I can do it, anyone can. I've done two couches... this'll be my third. I think I may have to slip-cover this one. Which involves a lot of sewing, damnit. My second couch was a French Provincial style (long gone... not my style anymore), and it mostly required the use of a staple gun. :D
The octopus sounds so cute!!!

Den, I just deleted about 40 flylady messages. :lol: I'll start again tomorrow...
Hey... good one getting DS to get rid of stuff!!
This is OUR YEAR!!

Sojo- We definitely would have hung out together in high school :)
I als had a crazy rockabilly type hairdo that would have made the Stray Cats jealous :lol: that combined with black mini skirts and pointy toe buckle boots -scary!

Velvet-that movie that you watched with your mom is called Auntie Mame- I have it on VHS-it is one of my favorite movies-I watched it as a kid and thought Mame was the coolest woman ever! I loved her apartment and all the funky people at her cocktail party!

Lidian-we were new wave girls and would only smoke the black cigarettes or Gitanes :rolleyes: what were we thinking :lol:

Den-your dress up trunk sounds cool! I used to go out to clubs in the 80's wearing a 1950's black sleeveless cocktail dress, elbow length black gloves, a pillbox hat with a veil, vintage evening bag and silver cigarette holder-tres Breakfast at Tiffany's! :lol: That is definitely one part of the 80's I miss, it was fun to dress up and go out and be see and be seen and go dancing people don't seem to do that anymore.

Ellis: your ideas sound great! I watched the Trading Spaces marathon for most of the day on Christmas day-now I want to redecorate :lol:

Hey girlie-girls,
Nice to see you! Did you all say that the Monkees did a tv special? A TV movie or something around the time of their reunion tour? Does somebody have that on tape. I would love to see it.

Velvet, where and when did you meet Davy? As a kid I thought that he was adorable. He had the classic feminine non-threatening to young girls boyish looks. Or I'm a lesbian...or both.

I thought Peter was cute too. Did you know that Mike's mom invented white-out?

Well girls. Gotta run. So much to do. Ellis, you go girl. I didn't even think of taking that big fat needle dropping monster out of my house yet. All those friggin ornaments to repack into that plastic bin in such a way that they won't break and so that the bin will seal and be air tight so I can put it in the shed and not worry about bugs infesting stuff. Ugh. My house is pretty tidy though. Cleaned up the kids toys yesterday. have to pack alot more up for giving away to others. My kid just has too much stuff!! Even she says so.

Lets all remember why we're here. I'm doing okay with my food. Haven't been to the gym. Hope to get there tomorrow. Did some exercising and walking this weekend. Still haven't made plans for New Year's Eve. Obviously we won't be going out unless Ruth and Harry want to come down and babysit. (and the pups of course) otherwise we'll be with the child. Last year the three of us went out to our favorite restaurant. Maybe we'll do the same thing.

Goodnight Chickies.
Love, Soozie

Hi Lidian I'm good,how are you?

Mauvais- I like the version of Mame with Rosalind Russell, I really dislike the one with Lucille Ball, I love Lucy, but that movie was terrible, and she was so miscast. I can never remember the title of the one with Rosalind, it's Auntie Mame (tries to commit this information to memory). All I ever remember is that she is Mame. Love that movie! It's my favorite along side Blade Runner. Love it!

Hey Soozie, wow, yeah there were a lot of Monkees specials on in and around 86, but Head was a theatrical release made in 1968, and it is a bizarre movie made up of a bunch of strange viniettes, and it was written by the producers of The Monkee's series, The Monkees themselves, and Jack Nicholson, yea that Jack Nicholson. It has Annette Funicello, Victor Mature, Sonny Liston, and Teri Garr in one of her first movie roles. It is about tearing down their manufactured image, and trying to be taken seriously as musicians. Funny one of the magazines that ripped The Monkees the most (and still does) was Rolling Stone, but the way they get on their knees for N Sync, and BSB is kind of funny, if not incredibly hypocritical. I did know that about Mike's mom. I just wish my Mom would have thought enough if me to invent something worth millions of dollars. LOL! :lol:

I met Davy in Chicago in 1987. He was signing his auto-biography at the Marshall Fields and a bunch of us went to get our copies signed. I remember standing in line and he was there looking oh so Davy, and I thought well, I may never get another chance so when it was my turn I asked him for a hug. I was so dissapointed when his very big body guard put his arm up and said no hugs! Davy just shot him a dirty look and reached over his arm and gave me this really big hug. So sweet, and he smelled really good. It was kind of spicy, I don't know what it was though. It was in December too so all of the departments stores had their windows dressed up for Christmas. It was a very nice experience. Then The next summer I went back to Chicago for a Monkees Convention. It was so much fun, and definately a cherished memory.

Who's Mike? And Davy? Either I'm in a time warp, or my brain is fried from too many PC appetizers, Velvet. :lol: That's such a very sweet story about Davy. :yes:

Mauvais, until you're ready to redecorate your place, come over and help me reupholster this darned couch. :D I'm not sure how I'm going to do it... I HATE slipcovers, but with the "drop-down arms", I'm not sure what kind of success I'll have otherwise.
Ruth? You're good at that sort of thing! Never mind your limp wrists... get down here and I'll rev up the ol' sewing machine!

My new red wall looks great!! And the fabric I've got for the couch is perfect.
I've been trying to find my two wooden lounge chairs on the Internet. So far, no luck. Anyone know of any good sites for furniture design from the 1920's/30's/40's? I can't find ANYTHING like them! They must be enormously valuable. :D

Soozie, we're supposed to go out on New Year's, but DS just got out of bed and puked. Hmmm. And DH is going to see the doctor again today because he's still a little dizzy. DD is pretty much better, but she's got a residual dry hacking cough. And there's something in my chest. But I refuse to cough, and just keep using my puffer and applying Vicks.

OH MAN ELLIS!!!! Sorry to hear DS is vomiting, and that your whole family is still sick.

I was going to buy throws for the couch, since we have a big comfy sectional and it is impossible to find anyything fitted. Now I can't find throws I like!!!

Mauvais-I LOVE 'playing dress-up" and used to do it a LOT more. I also had a dress that looked llike the one Cyndi Lauper wore in the "Girls just Want to Have Fun" video. They HATED me at Lord and Taylor, because i used to wear stuff like that to work. Since I've gained all the weight I don't do it so much any more. I feel like when i dress funky NOW people just look at me like I'm nuts. Used to be I was "young and eccentric." Now i'm just nuts!!!

Well, I didn't mean I HATE throws... I just meant I'd rather it was upholstered because then it doesn't get all jiggly when people sit on it. Although it IS nice to be able to throw them in the wash!
Den, I got a catalogue from the states via the Internet... I forget the name, but the slipcovers were really nice and they were quite reasonable. Around 100 bucks. ?
I got my upholstery fabric for 2 bucks a metre (store close-out), which is right in my price limit. :D

Have you read that book, "When I am an old woman I will wear purple"? I should dig it out and type out the poem. I love it.

The slipcovers are always for couches and love seats, and we have a couch that is L shaped. I know the catalog you mean, but they don't have any to fit our couch. If i bought 2 slipcovers there would be wasted material (bulky 'cause of the "missing arms") I know what you mean about throws, so i was thinking of getting 'em BIG and using those furniture pins to lock the fabric in place more. We made the mistake of choosing a velvety material, which is COMFORTABLE, but the cushions are mushing down already!! Should have gotten something stiffer. On the other hand, it is a WONDERFUL "napping" couch!!! After his hernia surgery, DH and I both slept on it!

Also...those slipcovers look kinda strange around the arms!! But the velvety material is also kind of HOT in the summer. Still going round and round on this one!!!

I just love you all so much - I never get to talk about the groovy retro 80s stuff we used to wear, or the Monkees, or ciggies, or anything fun except here! I met a friend of DH years ago and HE loved all that stuff too, and we had a blast talking together for like a whole weekend, but alas he lives in Europe...

Ellis, I'm so sorry you are all still sick at your house! How miserable for you...DH and I are a little off-colour, not sure whether viral stuff is a-comin, but DD has recovered and the girls are their usual giddy selves as we feebly ask them to kick it down a notch...:lol: Tomorrow night we are probably just going to do the usual: the drinking of the champagne and the watching of the TV! Ellis, do you like Arts & Crafts furniture/houses? Early 20th century I think, a bit earlier than your 30s-50s (which I like a lot too). I dream of a nice Arts&Crafts style 20s bungalow with tons of space...someday!

Velvet, I actually have the video of Head somewhere and I used to show it to the girls (fast forwarding the Vietnam stuff etc) but they didn't really like it. They love all the Beatles movies though, even Magical Mystery Tour, which is uneven. And Yellow Submarine, which I had never seen until a couple of years ago.

Den, I would have loved that you dressed like Cyndi Lauper at Lord & Taylor - I think that's brilliant!:) I love that video too. I think she used to work in a vintage store in Greenwich Village - called Screaming Mimi's I think. I have a pair of purple crystal earrings purchased in Greenwich Village circa 1983 - they weigh about 3 lbs each! :lol:

The poem about the old woman wearing purple is one of my faves too Ellis - I am planning on being just like her! Jenny somebody wrote it - an English woman. (Vague but well-meaning, as usual!)

When I put throws over the old horrid couches someone either tosses them off, falls over them & then at least one heavily molting cat sits on them and covers them in a layer of grey furballs (which does sort of go with the blue couches, I guess!)

And Soozie, you are right! Sometimes we should really talk about fitness stuff too!:lol: I am hanging on until January trying to maintain...

Cheers, my dears,

Lidian

Hey, interestingly enough today is Davy Jones's, and Mike Nesmith's birthdays! Davy is 57, and Mike is 60 today. Happy B-day guys. LOL! :balloons: :gift: :jig: :jig: :hb: :hat:

Velvet- I own the version of "Auntie Mame" starring Rosalind Russell, I didn't know there was a version with Lucille Ball! I have to say that I can't picture anyone but Rosalind as Mame though and she won an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award for that role.

Ellis- that's funny, my living room and dining room are red too :chin:

Den-I love it! Cindy Lauper style at Lord & Taylor :lol: I had one outfit that was a black and white pouffy mini skirt with a fitted black cotton/lycra off the shoulder tank topped by a bolero hat-I can't believe I went out dressed like that :lol: I haven't worn a mini since 1994!

Lidian- I have a couple of pairs of chandelier type earrings leftover from the 80's too, I can't seem to part with them :shrug:

Oh, yeah...we are talking about fitness and diet stuff too, really we are! :o There are new water log, food journal and 2003 goal threads so we are getting back on track :D (really, I swear
:^: ) Why, I am just leaving now to start the first weigh in thread of 2003 :yes:

About those slip covers... Ellis maybe you are thinking of Sure Fit slip covers? Go to http://www.surefit.net

Mauvais- Yep Lucille Ball played in a made for TV version, that was actually taken from the Broadway musical version (starring Angela Landsbury) which in turn was made from the theatrical version starring Rosalind Russell. Whew!!! Did you get all that? LOL! I've heard people who knew Rosalind in real life say that if you want to know what she was like watch Auntie Mame, she was just like that. That makes me feel so good to know there are actually people in the world like that! Of course all of the women here are like that, and that's why I love you all so much! :love:

Den- I would have totally made a bee-line for you if I had walked in Lord and Taylor and you were working dressed like Cyndi. I love that look! Of course I would not likely go to L& T but what the ****. I LOVE the 80s. I was a teen then and I have many good memories of that time. I think that's one reason I love cyberpunk it was invented in the 80s, and is the epitome of the 80s attitude. Well, take heart loves the retro 80s thing will be rolling around in no time. It is something I look forward to. Now I just have to get in shape enough to wear the Flash Dance clothes! :p

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I already see tidbits of 80's retro in fashion magazines... I don't think I could do it again! I might have to sit out that fashion replay. The last thing I want to do is relive those dreadful teenage years and the perils of high school. So much for the "good old days" or "the best years of your life". Oh the angst!!!

Uh huh... retro. It was scary when my daughter went through the "70's" thing. She dressed exactly like me when I was her age! Polyester. Loud. Low pants with wide bottoms. shudder.
Surely we're not going to go through the 80's now, Velvet!? :lol:

Sojo, I think that IS the catalogue! They look pretty good actually. Except for the bottom front skirt thingy. It needs a line of piping running across it to stop it from looking like a slipcover.
Hmmm, you're right, Den. Those arms look a bit odd. What's all that bunchy stuff?

L-shaped, huh, Den? We used to have one of those. They ARE comfortable. Ours was grey velvet, and VERY cozy for napping. We had to get rid of it when we bought our first house. We had 3 tiny ajoining rooms to use as a "living room", and the largest of those was about 10 by 10! Needless to say, the couch did NOT fit!!

I just love it when someone like Lidian says, "I just love you all so much!" :)
Arts and Crafts? I like it, but I couldn't live with it. It's a bit "dark" for my taste. The houses were quite well designed; though, and the rooms were a good size. I studied architecture and design for four years, and I tend to go through phases with styles. Now I'm at the "eclectic mixed" stage. I've got antique, modern, and contemporary all mixed together, and it looks damned good if I do say so myself. :D
Our house is 100 years old, but it actually had a few "conversions" done in the 40's, so we've got a little bit of A & C mixed in. I love it... it's HUGE, and we don't even use most of the second floor... it's a separate apartment that we rented to my sister for a few years. Each of the three floors was converted to a large 2 bedroom apartment before we bought it, so we've got scads of space. If we used the entire house... as well as the 3 bathrooms, kitchen, living, dining rooms, etc... we'd have 8 bedrooms PLUS a craftroom, tv room, guestroom, and partially finished basement. It's great. :D I DO need servants, though.

Mauvais, you want to talk about losing weight, huh? Crazy! :D

Where oh where is our lesi-girl, Soozie?

Well, now you see why they didn't like me at Lord and Taylor!!! I worked in the boys' dept. and then in shoes (and a BRIEF stint in stock) for a total of 3 years. I HATED it and had a huge chip on my shoulder. Shoes was cool though. I got the sale price PLUS 20% off, and got some FANTASTIC deals. After 2 kids and all the weight my feet have really spread though!! I also used to wear my Birkenstocks. WITH NYLONS!! (required.) I found ways to get around all their rules and they just hated me. The feeling was mutual.

Hey Velvet, Wow that is pretty neat. Or while we're talking about the Monkees I guess I should say...Wow, Groovy! I have to rent that movie Head. I may have seen it if it was ever on TV way back when??? But I know that I didn't see it in the movie theater. Thanks for letting me know about it. Sounds interesting. Again, I have a vague thought that I may have seen it but that would have been like thirty years ago and I probably didn't really understand what I was seeing when I saw it...actually, now I'm remembering that I think that I did see it...yeah, I think so cause I'm remembering a seen of them being interviewed by someone for a tv show or something...hmmmm....but, I'll try to rent it.

Well, girls. I feel like I gained ten pounds in the past two days. Got over my stomach virus and made up for lost time. Ugh! Haven't been to the gym but so so so ready to get back there. A few days ago I was feeling like my body was really starting to look better and more in shape but today I felt like a big poofed up thing. May be PMS setting in I'll have to consult the calendar and see where I'm at.

So, lets start the New Year right...starting tomorrow I'm back to being healthy girl!
Love you all and Happy New Year Chickies
Love, Soozie

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:hat:Happy New Year!:hat:

okay, I know its tacky to post three times in a row but...
I missed all of page 8 when I wrote that last post...
Hello Soozie,
anyone home???
hate when I do that...miss out and then have to go back and read...
ugh
So, slip covers...yeah, they always slip don't they...well the throw kind anyway...they evoke the obssessive compulsive in me...i'd have to be pulling and tucking constantly. A unique weight loss alternative...obssess on fixing the covers on your furniture instead of eating...nah, that would make me really crazy.

So,here is the big lezzie herself Ellis. Life has gotten in my way of getting online as much as I'd like too :lol:

But, since it is now 3am I should really go to sleep! But, just want to add...Cyndi Lauper look at Lord and Taylors is one thing but Birkenstocks and nylons...Den you are a totaly radical...absolutely outrageous...I'm sure you drove them mad!!
I love it you wacky woman!
Love, Soozie
ps the site looks really sharp doesn't it?