As I said, it's now summer.  People want to wear as little as they can get away with, in order to not sweat like the character based on David Attenborough did in a Monty Python spoof:

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But I have some opinions about what might, or might not, be an appropriate choice of clothing.

Now, I used to be a tiny thing; wore whatever I pleased.  Didn't have to ( Read more... )

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 I watch American Idol a little bit (don't hate), and this week 2 ladies were eliminated.  It happens ( Read more... )

Recent surveys have indicated that part of what irritates people on FB is the number of "friends" they have who are constantly whinging about something ( Read more... )

Put this list in the order it occurred in your life:

Get married
Buy a house
Get Pregnant
Have baby #1
Have baby #2
Have baby #3
Have baby #4
Graduate college
Graduate high school
Meet significant other
Meet who you hoped was your significant other but wasn't
Move out of parent's house for good
Start college
Become gainfully employed
Buy a car
Get ( Read more... )

We've had a couple of nearly record-breaking days here - mild and warm.  By next week the temperature will have dropped 30 degrees and it'll rain, but for now it's great.

This warm snap. however, has caused me to have an "aha!" moment.

I cannot properly function in the cold.  Period.  It's not the lack of sunlight in the winter that stops me; it's ( Read more... )

At the salon yesterday, my stylist showed me pictures of her new baby ( Read more... )

I was watching In the Bedroom with Laura Berman (yes, I'm watching the Oprah Winfrey Network, don't hate)  and she was blathering on about how the guy was abused verbally by his father growing up and now he's verbally abusing his wife, yada yada yada, and I'm thinking, "Laura - you've missed the point!"

Here's what I would have said:  "Listen, ( Read more... )

Was involved in a surprising conversation last night.  A young woman is working out exactly how to introduce her (much older) boyfriend to the parental units.  (There are other complicating factors, but one step at a time ( Read more... )