Where can I find Calfskin boots?
 

I am having so much trouble finding a pair of calfskin boots. It seems Jimmy Choo is a bit queasy about using calves. Would one of you be willing to donate an unpopular relative so that Marcella and I will not have to wear that bulky suede? We will get blisters! It is so unfair; I recently had to go to Bankok for crocodile, now this. Those leather-look shoes all of you are so fond of are available right in your neighborhood. The clothing I wear should be available in my neighborhood. It is discrimination.
Oh well, no matter. I had a lovely time at the party. That was the only reason we were here, tomorrow morning we leave for the City of Lights. See you in Paris next week, Marcella!
Fondly,
Letty

Bye Letty, Have fun!
 

Have a great time in Paris. We are still struggling to be allowed to leave the country with refugee status. Paris is the usual destination. Maybe we can get together!

lohani----are you still doing your no sugar diet??? i am reading the atkins book to see if i can do it,and it seems kind of hard,what with the no apples and no corn or potatoes------------i like all the cheese and nuts and meat,but i like a bit of roughage in me--------aren't we grazing herbivores all about GRAINS-------look what happened when we were forced to eat MEAT!!!!

Hi hi.

I'm new here...actually I am old here, but I'm new this time..and although I've not been following your threads I'm very happy I found you.

What attracted me was the poetic juxtaposition of a thread about calfskin boots next to the vegetarian posts. Kind of like the same little happy feeling that I get when I see that Christian books and New Age books are right next to each other at the Barnes and Noble.

There really is humor in everything for me, and I can be delighted by the most trivial matters.

Glad to meet you all.

choosie

Second chance, perhaps not LAST!!
 

If you want to buy a whole cow, you can go here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ayphotohosting

Choosewelll... this is a VERY odd group, IMH(BEC)O.....
And thanks to all who liked my poem. Painting coming eventually.

Chosewell... if you like the juxtaposition of religion and new age in the book stores, you'll probably feel the same way I did in college when I found out that the Library of Congress book cataloging scheme puts Christianity in "BS" For some reason Art was in the "N's"... but I don't remember any of the others off the top of my head.

oh, PainterWoman...meet me at any coffee shop and I bet we can get kicked out for laughing too hard and loud...

Since this is the place for all things bovine...my business side must mention http://www.contentedcows.com/ where two guys have figured out that happy people are productive people. Just imagine that applied in our workplaces...it boggles the mind.

Ruminatin'...choosewell

SugP, we were doing simul-posts. Great to meet you...what a cute little butterscotch hamster.

Uh-oh, another food cue...

choosie

Hi everyone, welcome Choose.

Painty, I don't have the imagination to know what those letters mean. Can't you spell them out? Are you sure this is an odd group? I think the more earnest groups are far odder than this one. Anyway, you're here now...so you're odd too.

Bagzie, here in Pakistan we don't take Atkins too literally. We eat fresh foods &proteins. We avoid processed foods like sugar and white flour...at least that's what we mean to do. The reality is a little different.

Because Letty is traveling I will defend her and say that the copyright on The Inferno ran out a long time ago.


Hi Sugar! You're right...we're trivial, but charming.

I'm off. I spent my morning at the soccer field and the afternoon at the grocery store..it's 4PM and all I want is a nap.
XXOO,
L

Hi Choosewell! You've chosen well! :D
I quite agree; contrast is what makes life worthwhile. The other day while I was waiting for DD to get out of drivers ed, I was browsing in the little library next door -- now this is not held in a school; they use a classroom in a quasi-church/mission/youth center place. The library was a dump of people's cast-off, mostly religious books. I enjoyed flipping through the frightening book about how a woman can bring her husband into "the faith" using the Nutcracker Method :eek: -- I kid you not. It involved a lot of chapters on such topics as "Becoming More Submissive". This was lying next to Shirley MacLaine's Out on a Limb. That made me laugh.

I could use a nap too. But I have to watch 'them boys' play tennis. I am recording the beginning of Roddick's match because I really had to get online -- since I haven't been here much lately. We went to the h.s. football game last night, mainly to watch the band of course (DD plays clarinet), but that was fun. Also watched a movie: Bringing Down the House -- pretty funny. I love Steve Martin, and I have to say Queen Latifah is pretty terrific too.

I am dogsitting this week to my friends' little Heinz 57 "Amy". She's a love. The cats are staying away. I don't think they are even eating. Last night I came in the computer room to find Amy under DH's desk (she likes the den feel of it) and Coco, my dopiest cat, sitting on the desk chair staring at her. Weird.

Kiwi

In My Humble (But Ever Changing?) Opinion. Or something.

I think that people use "bugger off" because they think it is exactly the same as "bug off". In other words, they don't know what they're saying.

Which just goes to prove that just because you're on NPR doesn't mean you have a brain. I've noticed that, likewise, just because the NYTimes publishes your reviews of books, it doesn't mean that you can write a decent paragraph--(case in point)

Kiwi

Nutcraker Method??????
 

Cripes! (is that a bad word?) I'll take Shirley McLaine any day.

Speaking of turning your man around, I just ordered a book called "How to Get through to the Man You Love". Anyone read it? Oh, and also "Divorce Busters", just as a preventative measure. :o

When I was young, we always used to say grace before dinner (nobody really knew why) and since we're on a food theme I'd like to share my little brothers' versions with you all:

God is great, God is good, lettuce thank Him for our food.

and my personal favourite:

For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly grapefruit.

I'm not kidding you.

Kiwi, that link just takes me to a page when I can sign up to the NY Times stuff.

Ok. I give. I went to that NYT review, and couldn't really read through the review. Having done a fair amount of reading and a fair amount of writing in my time, this surprised me. Too many words.

If you want some semi-Grisham without the lawyer books, without too many words (and you happen to be studying how to write decent fiction conversation) may I suggest Harlan Coben's "Tell No One" to you? Not that anyone asked (and I gather that the theme here is non-thematic responses and general unprovoked opinionation), but that guy is pretty good.

We went to Sam's, after we went to the Mongolian BBQ (bd's, it's called). This was my bright idea. When I said bright idea, I meant it for a change. It was one place I figured I could control the veggie content of my meal, and I was right. Also I brought half of it home, another good thing. Back to Sam's. I ignored the free cream puffs, the pizza bits and the other high fat tastes, and FINALLY got to the lady giving out cherry tomato samples. No, I'm not kidding, it was absolutely lovely.

Pretty sad when you get all excited about being able to take a free sample at Sam's because it doesn' t trash your points for the day.

Then we came home and took naps. I had to turn up "The Princess Bride" really loud because my husband was snoring so soundly in the green recliner. Such a young man for such old man habits.

Kiwonk, hi, and thanks for the welcome.

choosewell

And Cowpernia, I think it's because there's this big crowd of Britophiles in the US now (because of Poirot and Jeeves and Wooster and Emma), but some of them don't understand that these things really mean something. People who know better (you and me, apparently) realize that they are actually saying something pretty unacceptable...well...think of what that means, substitute an americanized versions and .oh, my! That will never do.

Unless it was a Real Live Brit, in which case they are basically thumbing their nose at us and telling us to bugger off for not knowing what it actually means.

Pop quiz: what does the two fingers up sign mean (it looks like a peace sign, but you show the back of it to the objectionable person). Just a little historic trivia. Since we are in a downward spiral of trivia today.

choosie

Everyone here knows that because we're all really, really smart...and Sissy lived that "low" kind of life and used many bad words before joining the cult.

not only USED them. I still do. So bugger off.

Ummm....I thought I was pretty smart...but I don't know what that means...please enlighten me. Can I use it when someone cuts me off on the highway?

As long as we use the words, not DO the words. (Little halo over choosie's head is notably tarnished and has slipped to the side a bit).

I used to be here in another incarnation. reincarnation...maybe just a carnation, I'm not sure. Anyway, I've written to a friend to find out what my old Me was, and honestly we don't know. It was several years ago. Anyway, I just wanted to remark that notably some things have not changed at all..I mean I have only been back this week after about a 2 year absence (abstinence) and the same tones (tomes) come from the same folks. The posts that have The Voice of Reason (these are the people I wish worked with me, instead of who does) are still here. Of course, they were probably angels and posted for the two years I was gone (eating) and probably maintained their losses.

I'm just saying, that's all. I'm not trying to start anything, just saying that it's refreshing and sometimes you CAN go home again, no matter what Dylan Thomas or ...oh, who said that? No, the Moody Blues didn't say it the first time, it was someone else...shoot. Anyway (of this I'm sure), Heraclitus was right, you can't dip your toe in the same river twice...my new eyes (thank you, Proust) see plenty.

Literally speaking, that is, and only because I'm trying to keep up with what is apparently a very smart herd....errr..crowd.

I need another nap.

choosewell

choose did you post with US at one time?

No, not with y'all. I know that you would know me if I had, because you are all really really smart. Also, I might not ever have left. (Here's where you swish your toe in the dust and say, "awwww....shucks...").

I've tried my dog, my cat, my other email address...I don't know. It will eventually come to me. I was careful not to tick anyone off, very low key. It doesn't matter. choosewell suits me, and I'm not having an identity crisis or anything. I just wanted to start again, and here I am. Fat AND forgetful! :)

And drinking water...everyone has water in their hand, I suppose, except me? I better go get some.

choosewell

I'm going to ignore that because I am the more charitable person.
I bought a tiny can of caramel corn for $7.00 from a Cub Scout at the grocery store. Now I am eating it. There are no healthy give-aways at my store.
......pause in action while I wash the sticky stuff off my hands.....
Choose, were you HERE two years ago? Who are the reasonable people? Sugar and Cherry? Kiwi has become reasonable, too. Most of the rest of us still have that hormonal thing going on.
Of course you can go home, home is where when you have to go there they have to take you. (can't remember who said that)

I can not sleep. I tried my best to take a nap...after being up since 3AM FOR NO REASON..... now I can't nap. When exhaustion and sloth fail me I have nothing else.

I'm so confused. Help me.

Doesn't the two-finger sign mean "up yours"? (Am I allowed to say that here? I guess if you can say arse you can say anything.)

my son is selllling POPCORN.... buy it from him you mean old cow

It DOES mean "up yours" Sug, and it's from the archers at Agincourt. The French soldiers said that when they captured the archers they would cut off those two fingers (which meant the British archers wouldn't be able to arch any more). SO, when the brits won against great odds (I don't remember the odds, I only remember odd things), that was the sign they came up with, "Yah, so there, you French meanies!" Like that.

No, I didn't mean on this thread or in this group. I meant in general. I stopped in today because I read y'all a month ago or so (lurking around, getting up the nerve to lose weight etc), and you seemed like a fun cowd. Crowd. I also visit the turtles. Dangerous waters are out there in the WW General area, and WW Food and Points, just like the olden days.

In spite of the fact that you call each other names ("mean old cow") and tell each other to bugger off occasionally, I think this is a pretty interesting and safe bunch. I have enough babies in my life (meaning adults who should act like professionals), I don't need it on line, too. That's why I'm here.

Is this ok? How much trouble can a bunch of cows get in, anyway? Well..I could tell you that specifically, but that can be for another day.

choosehell

not only do we call each other cows,====we have been called arses,hogs,swine,TANKS,refrigerators,tractor trailors----told to go to ****,and now to bugger off and we can turn anyones name into whatever we like----Lushcow,lushtank,lusharse,lushbutt,peacharse,peach tart,peachbag,======i really like CHoose **** {a fair choice considering some of the people who have told me they will be in heaven} ----anyway-------------we do like to blab and whine and sometimes we even sell period sponges on the side-----but we hate affirmations and correct bedtimes and leopardskin catsuits.AND,except for Wabby,no one loses weight.Except for Frappe who lost weight by doing a liquid fast and then she disappeared.i am tired----and i have to have a hudda.

Bagzzzzzz (= Bagzz sound asleep)____

I don't know what a hudda is, but if it's firm (a mattress) or hot (like cocoa) I might like some of my own. I do know what buddha, cuppa, hubba-bubba, flub it, and tub it are, but definitely not hudda. What or who is a hudda? Considering you have to have it, it must be good.

We got home too late to cook the burgers we had planned for tonight (cow allusion there, sorry), so I had a deli lite sandwich on a Nature's Own bun, no sugar added variety. So it would seem that in spite of past behavior I have now had 3 days OP.

Stop the Insanity!!!! This madness must end.

Good night. loosebell

ChewsWell, I hope you get some hudda soon.

Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot about that. I will paste the abstract here (which is all I've read yet anyway--talk about making snap judgments)

2. Also Reviewed This Week: "Four Spirits" by Sena Jeter
Naslund
================================================== =====

In her "historical novel centered around the Birmingham,
Ala., church bombing that killed four black girls in 1963,"
Sena Jeter Naslund "has done something unusually fine --
she's written a drifting, collective portrait of a city in
distress," says Will Blythe, a contributing editor at Men's
Journal.

"By cutting back and forth from one character to another, she
achieves ... a panoramic and even mysterious view of the way
diverse citizens immersed in their daily struggles affect one
another." "Naslund interweaves historical figures from the
local civil rights struggle with a varied array of fictional
characters," including "a local white college graduate" who
is "perhaps the most central among the novel's generous array
of sensibilities and an apparent stand-in for the author,"
writes Blythe.

"Naslund shows the quotidian inside every epochal moment,"
says Blythe, "the gradual way that history unfolds in a
thousand little encounters off the main stage." "Naslund
consistently displays a fine feel for the nearly inaudible
drama of the psyche, for the quiet ebb and flow of moral life
in the backwaters. It's as if Virginia Woolf went down to
Birmingham to cover the civil rights struggle for The
Bloomsbury Times," says Blythe.

----
Isn't that crappy?
Kiwi

Orson Bean

2 fingers held up backwards means "I'll have 2 hotdogs/beers/popcorns/snocones" Haven't you ever been to a ball game?

And yes, hudda can be firm and hot, but it can also be soft and squooshy. Or old and dried up.

(Sorry, kids)

This HERE is an example of people proving something is true as they deny it. It's like those people who write letters to the editor saying their opinion is right while saying such nutty things that you know they're never right. This one is about librarians who want people to realize how relaxed and friendly they are while protesting a little librarian doll because it stereotypes them.

I wonder what time it is in Paris.

"Amazing push-button shushing action" - I LOVE IT! I want one.

At the tone it will be precisely 10.58 a.m. in gay Pareee. Just the same time as it is here. How come I don't have a café au lait and a croissant in my hot little hands?

If the bags could all agree and afford a meeting in Paris,i propose we make a plan to meet there in Autumn of 2008------------approximately our Ten Year Anniversary.---it's not far off ,so start saving.We will stay for a week and nothing short of the best will do.We will also have an overnight trip to Provence.

oh no,Perfect '04 is coming up!!!!----We did so WELL in Perfect '99!!!!

I am absolutely up for a week in Paris. As long as there is hudda and wine (I'm guessing these are not the same things, but are also not mutually exclusive). I understand that as the newest member of the entourage I might have to carry someone else's bags, but hey, I'll burn off those extra croissant calories.

What was Perfect 99? I think I gained 20 pounds that year. See, I WAS in the wrong group!


Chose-and-Swelled

I'm up for Perfect '04. I am fatter than I was for Perfect '99. In fact, I was a 14-16 at in the spring, now it seems I'm a 16-18. I'm wearing the 16's but they hurt. Bad. My adorable blue eyes are crushed under all the chubbiness of my eyes. My kitchen is a mess, my living room has stacks of mail, my dr table has stacks of mail, my foyer table has stacks of mail. Why do they send me all of this stuff? My point is that I may not be as perfect as I want to be. I think people treat me differently when I am chubby like this.

I am going to wrap up some crack laced hudda for all of you. I love you that much.

Paris in 2008 sounds good. If we're going to do that we Must lose weight. Let's not talk about it, though, OK? Except Cherry, she's very inspiring. And Wabby, because she actually loses as opposed to talking about it.

It is big house projects day today. We are repainting the outside of the windows. They should be replaced, but I like them.
DD is doing great. She is a maniac about her physical therapy and eats properly. Where did these kids get this discipline? It sure wasn't from me.
Orson Bean was the celebrity spokesman for Wilhelm Reich's Orgonics. He was also on game shows...what else did he do? Did he say my quote? Oh Kiwi, you're so smart.

Must go...feeling lazy in comparison to high energy husband. Remember years ago when DH sold business and said he'd only work part of the year? and would travel and spend time with us for the rest? ha ha
bye