I want you all to wear shorts cause then I can say, "Blow it out yer shortssssss" You old bags of winds and kiwis of wind too. Etc. You are wrong, wrong, wrong. Maybe just kiwi and wabby are wrong. Maybe I owe Bagzie an apology. Cherry, were you wrong too? Sugar is still unavailable so possibly wrong.
Bagz, honestly, on a real subject .. sad sad sad .. the beach in this county is 27 miles long. Four people drowned on Sunday. All tourists. Most, possibly all, drowned trying to save someone else. Red flags were up. Deputies were telling people to get out of the water only to find they went back in when the deputies left. I think these people ranged from 42 to 60. There aren't any lifeguards here but they spent $1,000s inticing tourists to come. I remember your gorgeous brother-in-law and how p****ed you were. What do you say to people who spent their savings to come to vacation paradise, and won't come out of the water???
Despite that fact that I have the legs of an 80 yr old. I'm not sure if I'm wrong. Probably. What was the question again? I like ds website, Peachy.
That's awful about the drownings. We have no beaches, just thunderstorms where people get killed by falling trees. A 5-yr old girl was in a kind of hot air balloon ride at an amusement park and the wind ripped the ropes off the balloon and dragged the girl to her death. *sigh* It's all so depressing.
I'm never wrong. Just ask DH. I am a big bag of wind, though.
I have mosquito bites and they itch. I also still have a cold from 2 weeks ago, which keeps me up at night coughing. It's getting very annoying. Also the coughing is making me feel like a really old lady who will soon need diapers (enjoy that image. Thank you, I aim to please).
All the teachers at DD's high school are leaving or retiring. Seriously, over 2 dozen of them. I shudder to think what it will be like next year. DH is applying for a teaching position, even tho' he didn't study edu. in college, nor has he had any experience teaching. But they will be so desperate, they might just hire him.
All the teachers are retiring here because their retirement plan/scam will be changing soon. Their retirement is invested in the stock market, but if the stock market fails to perform, they are guaranteed a specified return. Guess who pays for it? Yep. All us schlumps in the private sector, who's retirement IRA's have just dropped into the basement. I wish the private sector got a guaranteed return. Maybe I'd be able to retire someday.
I wear shorts even though my legs are veiny, white and blubbery. I don't need to impress anyone.
Peaches, you can't keep ppl out of the water. The water at the beach here is fffffrrrrrreeezing cold and still ppl go in and some drown every year. Or kids jump into the rivers and break their necks and get paralyzed, but there's no stopping them.
Can you tell I'm still mean?
I got a pedicure yesterday, which has cost $20 for as long as I can remember. I gave the girl a check for $23 (included tip) and she told me the price was $25. She implied I was trying to stiff her. This annoyed me to no end. Here I was feeling all generous and I ended up feeling like a cheapskate. I think she should have told me that the price had gone up when I walked in the door, not after the pedicure.Oh yes, I am still mean. Do you think it's hormones? Or just annoying ppl? At least my toes are pretty.
Yep, you're still mean. That's why I like you. People who work in beauty salons do not understand normal human reaction. I have a friend whose hair stylist said to her "you're so plain". This is not the utterance of a smart person.
I haven't had my hair cut in 2 years because I dislike beauty salons so much. They always make me feel stupid, even though I know better. Or they do disturbing things to my hair, like make poodle curls out of bangs, or french braid my hair when I ask them not to (how do you stop someone like that without sounding like a shrieking harpy?) My solution is to go home quickly and undo whatever they did and never go back.
The best haircut I have had in my adult life was a spur of the moment idea to walk into this place called Selene's in town. Selene turned out to be a somewhat aging woman whose business adjoined the retiree hangout, and I got the impression she spent most of her day there. When she started cutting my hair, I looked at her countertop and supplies and was horrified to see dirty, hairy combs and stuff all over the place. I was honestly afraid that I might get head lice, but I have to say it was the best haircut I've had in decades. Of course, I don't go back there either, because, well, ewww.
Wabby, you aren't mean...how could someone with pretty toes be considered mean?
I get my hair cut once a month, I like my new person...she doesn't even suggest a curling iron or "product" to perk up my look. I leave with wet hair.
In NJ non-teachers can become teachers if they pass the NTE and jump through a few hoops. I think there is a shortage in most parts of the country.
So, Wabby, back to the mean thing...I'm sure it is hormones. Mine are calming down. It's wonderful. I will soon no longer be peri-menopausal... I'm so excited to be approaching post menopausal zest.
I'm so happy school is almost over. My legs look like fireplugs in shorts..but who cares....I have a new curves friend....maybe I'll start going, again.
I'm going to go cook dinner..bye...L
Hey, Lushie, welcome back to the herd. I love, love, love my hair cuttin' person. I've gone to her for at least 15 years and she understands fine hair - and me. She always fixes my hair so it looks so cute and stylish. Then I go home and fix it the next day and it looks like somebody's mom. And she's the best psychiatrist a girl could ever have. It's really my own fault for not liking my nail person. I should be less cheap and not go to a vietnamese salon. Not that I don't like vietnamese gals, but I am terrible at understanding her, and I worry a little about how careful she is about health regulations. She reuses files (big no no) and my friend who used to do my nails has told me all kinds of horror stories about what can happen if everything is not perfectly sterile. I haven't been getting my fingernails done and my hands look like a sharecropper's.
All the teachers in Oregon should move to New Jersey. We have an oversupply due to all the budget cuts. My friends husband has been substitute teaching for 2 years, trying to get a permanent position. Did you know we have the highest unemployment in the entire country? Our school funding has been the subject of a couple of Doonesbury cartoons. That's when you know its bad. We have no sales tax here, we have property taxes and income tax, so when property values go down and unemployment is up, our schools are hurting. One of our pro basketball players funded half of the Portland spring athletic program, and businesses matched the rest. What a pitiful way to fund schools.
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Kiwi, how can this person make you feel stupid? The trick to finding a good hairdresser that you relate to is to keep trying until you find one. Then stick to her like glue. She should make you happy to see her and make you wish your appointment was longer so you have more time to visit.
DH is off baling hay tonight. I can go home and do whatever I want. I just don't know what that is. I may have to stop by my favorite flower nursery on the way home to see what's blooming.
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I love, love, love my hair cuttin' person. I've gone to her for at least 15 years and she understands fine hair - and me. She always fixes my hair so it looks so cute and stylish. Then I go home and fix it the next day and it looks like somebody's mom. And she's the best psychiatrist a girl could ever have.
Lucky you!
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Kiwi, how can this person make you feel stupid?
Well, no, that twit wouldn't make me feel stupid. But frequently hairdressers make me feel pretty "beauty impaired," if you know what I mean.
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The trick to finding a good hairdresser that you relate to is to keep trying until you find one. Then stick to her like glue. She should make you happy to see her and make you wish your appointment was longer so you have more time to visit.
Quite so -- too bad I have never found anything even approaching such a thing! They are either so young and ditsy they make me feel like their grandmother, or they are the scary, run from the salon screaming, type. Like the Korean woman who insisted on French braiding my hair even though I said no, thank you -- she had such a grip on my hair, I didn't dare move. Then the phone rang and she took my hair with her to answer it!
And the guy I went to a couple of times, who kept badgering me so much about cutting my hair short that I was honestly afraid that he might chop it off without my permission!
Obviously I could do with a positive experience or 2. I lump hairdressers in with doctors. If I can get by without them, I will.
very glad to see the Pool Party Cow is back in the herd!!!!!love the haircutting discussion----- i think once you are our age,any haircut makes you look like a dyke,so just forget it and suck it up---------that is my wise comment for the evening----now i have to go and pick up teenagers {not like Demi Moore does} just the regular pick up. i am not a lush. period. i never drink except for friday night.
I would like to order four dozen period sponges. I plan to use two dozen to paint my new walls (i.e. mess up the professional paint job) and two dozen to hang on my tree in one of my ever-growing-number-of Christmas displays.
I got email from Herbie today and cringed when I saw it. That is, before I opened it. I'm saying that seeing that I am about to be communicated with by Herbie makes me anxious in a bad way. The email itself was not worth mentioning.
Sugar, I read half of an adorable children's book today by a German author. Don't remember his name but the book was "I, Freddy" I think that was it. A hamster book. Really cute. He says a man who has a cat and guinea pigs smells like sweat and stale peepee. Americans don't think like that. Peepee is peepee. No stale about it.
Love you all (for varying reasons)!!!! Cowsie
p.s. Lusho musta recognized me. Welcome back sweetie
Speaking of sweetie, I may have told this story before but it's so cute to me. I worked in L.A. with an Israeli woman who had met a Russian Jew in Israel, married him and they moved to America together. He had been a fashion model in Russia. His English was not as good as hers.
One day, he told her he had lunch in one of those big-city places that are bars and restaurants both and some women there thought he was Swedish.
you are hi larry *** there missy Cowperkia!!!! did you ever find your GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENshoe!!!!hahahahah---your sponges are in the mail---love the Christmas tree idea---will steal it myself!!!--------you forgot to mention if you have a dyke hairstyle or not?????gotta drive dd to work ---summer job time--------my house expand to five teenage girls andone adorable baby boy of COURSEin the next ten days and i have lynnie's wedding to prepare for------------how can i lose eight pounds in four weeks????------------LUSHIE!!!! TELL ME ABOUT YOUR NO SUGAR DIET!!!HOW DOES IT WORK------------AND DOES IT EVEN WORK AT ALL?????
hehehehehe! you cowsies are so funny. I do not have a dyke haircut, Bagzie. Do you have a Rosie 'do? I wonder if they go into special hair salons, or do they just go into regular hair salons and ask for dykey dos, or do all haircuts on dykey gals turn out that way automatically? You know we'll probably get hate posts on this.
Bagzie, you will probably lose weight just because you have no time to eat all summer. How does Demi Moore pick up teenagers? I thought he was 20 something.
You should see the beeeutiful flowers I bought yesterday. Now I have to get them planted. This nursery I go to is so beautiful - they have display gardens that I covet. It's what my yard would look like if I had unlimited plants and time. My big thing this year seems to be heucheras and hydrangeas. I'm looking for plants that don't require constant tweaking to keep them looking good. Kinda like a good haircut.
Wayyyyyyyyt a minute, who's getting married? Is that your sister, Bagzie-poo? Do we get a vote? Is she old enough to get married? Is he really hot? Does he have a good paying job? DAMes should be consulted in these matters.
I'm so excited about the period sponge painting project, Cowpeachia. Is DS going to use them for his fern painting too? Oh, I certainly hope so. Have you heard from him? Do you suppose he's swimming at all? Is he a CIT or a plain old camper?
Today was DD's last day of school. She had 6 finals this week; looks like she aced them all. We don't have her final grades yet, but we have given her her new electric guitar anyway. She has certainly earned it (and DH couldn't wait any longer, he's worse than a kid at Christmas). It's a beauty, all silvery and gorgeous, semi-solid (partially hollow) body. She'll be taking it to music camp with her. She'll probably kill me when I inform her that I want to label it with her name, along with everything else she is taking.
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Oh yes, I am still mean. Do you think it's hormones? Or just annoying ppl? At least my toes are pretty.
It's really my own fault for not liking my nail person. I should be less cheap and not go to a vietnamese salon. Not that I don't like vietnamese gals, but I am terrible at understanding her, and I worry a little about how careful she is about health regulations. She reuses files (big no no) and my friend who used to do my nails has told me all kinds of horror stories about what can happen if everything is not perfectly sterile. I haven't been getting my fingernails done and my hands look like a sharecropper's.
