I'll bet those Vogue fashions are right back in style.
This year, it's essential that you have a couple of "hostess outfits". Start sewing, Ruth. If we can't be thin, we can at least be elegant.
I collect 1950s and 60s knitting/crochet pattern books and cookbooks as well...not that I knit very well or am up for more than making a scarf or two! But maybe someday...my mother was enormously talented at knitting and sewing, which may be why I have trouble getting myself to practice now. My elder DD age 9 1/2 is just like her grandma though - she can crochet anything and any pattern! So she likes the pattern books too.
Ellis, I agree entirely about Ned. HOW many years is he going to be at Emerson College anyway? And does he even have a major? In the Nancy Drews with the Hardy Boys they do hint that Nancy and one of the Hardys (I forget which one) kind of like each other, but that nothing ever happens. I d*** well wish it would!
I like Martha Stewart because of the lovely photo shoots, and once and awhile she really does have a practical idea! I like country living, and weight watchers mag and canadian house and home... Usually I get mine from the library too, but I purchase my WW mag.
I collect... old pyrex! and coloured chunky wineglasses. And last week I bought this bizarre suit at Salvation Army for 3.99 - a mid calf legnth fuzzy, spackled purple skirt and matching jacket. Must be mid- 80's. I'd never wear them together, but the skirt looked pretty interesting with black knee socks and a black long-sleeved t-shirt last week...
Funk-i-fies the library a bit!
So tired, had insomnia last night until 3:30 am and I got up at 5.
I hate it when you look at the clock and almost have an anxiety attack about getting to sleep.
Lois, I'm the same... when I wake up during the night I just LIE THERE!! Wondering, "Should I get up... should I try to sleep for the next hour and a half... "
DH and I went to the Sally Ann on Saturday... I found a few pair of work-out pants and some T-shirts. And some books, of course.
Youth Fiction I love:
Island of the Blue Dolphin -- by Scott O'Dell
Bridge to Terabithia -- by Katherine Paterson
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret -- by Judy Blume
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing -- by Judy Blume
Sweet Valley High Series (I know! Brain Candy) ---- by Francine Pascal
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- by C. S. Lewis
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
Anne of Green Gables -- by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Little Women -- by Louisa May Alcott
The Chocolate War -- Robert Cormier
I LOVE C.S. Lewis, Jessica! I've got all of his Narnia books. Plus a bunch of his "adult" books.
And a ton of Lucy's.
And a ton of Louisa May's.
The Chocolate War... that sounds so familiar. Perhaps it's simply that "chocolate" sounds familiar.
I'm afraid I was the only girl in my grade 4 class who refused to read Judy Blume.
I was looking for both of those Judy Blume books not too long ago for my DD... they were some of my favorites. Love CS Elliot also... but Tolkien and the Dragonlance Chronicles are my absolute favorites.
My DS has been reading the Dragonlance Books since he was about 8 where DD has this thing for Lemony Snicket Series and love the classics- Mark Twain, Little Women, Jane Eyre, Anne of Green Gables (these are books I can't bring myself to read). I am just glad that they love to read, give them a book and I have a little peace and quiet.
Now If I could just get into Critical Care Nursing and Community Nursing the way I could get into a Hmmm lets say Stephen King Novel... I could be making straight A's
I recently read a few of Alexandre Dumas' books. I have a friend in the Ukraine, and he informed me with disdain that they are "books for a child". I guess they don't read The Bobbsey Twins in Ukraine/Russia.
S.E. Hinton:
The Outsiders
That was then, This is now
Rumblefish
Susan Cooper:
The Dark is Rising
Over Sea under Stone
Greenwitch
The Grey King
Silver on the Tree
(maybe not youth, but I read this when i was about 12-14)
Madeleine L'engle-A swiftly Tilting Planet
Kurt Vonnegut- Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five
George Orwell- 1984, Down and out in Paris and London
Ray Bradbury:
R is for Rocket
Golden apples of the Sun
The Martian Chronicles
October Country
Dandelion Wine
Farenheit 451
The Illustrated Man
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Halloween Tree
Anne McCaffrey Dragonriders of Pern series is one series I love... and recently I read Hominids and Humans by Robert J. Sawyer, really good! Even my 15 year old liked those two.
As a child I read anything, and everything.
My 10 year old is reading The Chronicles of Prydain, by Lloyd Alexander. A patron inter-library loaned them in from another branch and I brought them home for Foster after she returned them, he's on book 4, so they must be good! We have lots of Narnia, but eldest son is the only one who has read all of them. My daughter found the battles to be a bit much.
Oh I love Ray Bradbury! Almost any fantasy or Sci-fi.
Ellis - Dumas is one of my favorite writers (I read him as a kid but never thought of him as children's fiction). The Chocolate War is a great book on the conformity of the non-conformist group. Very Catcher in the Rye.
In high school my favorite book that we studied in English Lit Class was A Tale of Two Cities. My favorite French Literetarure class book was Le Petit Prince or The Little Prince (english language version) and I still own a copy of it. I love Alexandre Dumas too!
wow... i poof for a few months, and you guys are wildly popular when i come back... *s*
hi all. this is Shel, horribly remiss member for a really long time. but.... i'm back, if you all will have me. got some things straightened out in my life, am working on some others, and have my head on a little better, finally. tackling one problem at a time, so here i am.
if i'm even in the right place... not sure what the "main" thread is here anymore...
Mauv, Dent, Ellis? *knows i'm forgetting at least two names from before - bangs head on keyboard in frustration* HELP!!
miss the talk and support... and will gladly accept 50 lashes with the wet pasta product of your choice for just poofling like i did. i realize now that i can't get support if i'm not willing to open up with what i need support on...
geez, ramble a little, hey?
hi to all the new girls... i really ~am~ this crazy, so just be warned.
dragging my sizeable butt back in
but.... i'm back, if you all will have me. got some things straightened out in my life, am working on some others, and have my head on a little better, finally. tackling one problem at a time, so here i am.
not sure what the "main" thread is here anymore...
Welcome back Shel! 
