Argh! No, I wish!

It's indigo at the roots, and pale blue/ battleship grey for the rest of the length :mecry:

I'm tying it in pigtails (bunches) at the mo, as it breaks up the colour a little. I have some hairdye arriving tomorrow (I hope) or Monday. I'll post in RFN when I've done it.

I liked the blonde on Sundae, but what can I say, I'm blonde. (fake) (really fake)
:)

raining like a mof here. Supposed to rain all week.

This is Bad. We flood because our dumb/poor city has never had the money for proper drainage infrastructure.

We flood. People die trying to cross the street. In their cars.

on the plus side, since I'm stuck in the house, maybe I'll download the piccies from the Santa Fe trip. :)

Ok well...Maybe we should pick some out before you go all crazy on it. Make me look good Cloud. Make me look goooood. :) lol!

I'm having a Doctor Who marathon. Every so often I go Doctor Who loopy (who-opy). Usually this in the hiatus between series. I love the new style Doctor Who, but every now and again I like delving into the classic series. Late 70s through to late 80's for TV, and the massively extensive paperback range for 4th through to 8th Doctor. Oh....yeah, and the audio books and radio plays (classic doctor).

The last couple of weeks it's burgeoned into fully fledged obsession and I have decided to purge my system by wholly indulging:P

Sooner or later a new obsession will hit. Hopefully it'll be history related.....

That reminds me to go see if I can revive my old "kids in the hall' obssession with a marathon. My husband hates my marathon skills because he can never understand how someone can concentrate on "tv" for that long. Hmmm....this is what I can do today. Thanks for the idea.

I should go to the market now so I can get my marathon started as soon as possible!

I also want to see how funny they are from an older perspective.

My ten-year high school reunion is coming up, and apparently this means a flurry of reconnecting with everyone in advance, to find out if they're going to the reunion or not. Are people really that worried that they'll show up and no one "good" will be there? Do they not understand that if they wanted to be sure to only reconnect with people they like... they're already accomplishing that by contacting them right now? I swear to god, if I get one more out-of-the-blue phone call from someone I haven't spoken to in years, not to catch up but to establish whether catching up is going to be on our schedule in a few months, I might skip the stupid thing after all.

They want to know if you are going, to decide if they can include you in the list of people to slander, or not. ;)

Did anyone else see Greg Norman's performance in the British Open?

The only golfer to have lost all four majors in sudden death play-offs, the man who made an art form of losing on the final day, the man who had a car named after him because it had an automatic choke ... comes back from semi retirement for one more great coup, snatching a glorious defeat from the jaws of victory .... :lol:

Midnight Blue.
Sounds kinda dark doesn't it?
Comes in a lovely dark blue pot.

NO!

It's peacock blue.
It's blue-green and iridescent.

Strand test. When will I learn.

it's awesome SG. I totaly love it.

Going into school tomorrow to take placement testing, and I'm very nervous.

Which is entirely unusual for me, I'm not the sort who gets nervous about testing. Gotta get to bed sos I can rest up. Blech.

Good luck Razz:) You'll do great. Just relax and try to take it in your stride. You are more than capable, and deep down you know it.

I wish restaurants would make condiment packages (ketchup) that were BIG enough, EASY to open, and wouldn't make a godawful MESS!

too much to ask? say it isn't so!

Maybe you're going to the wrong kind of restaurants.

I'm talking take-out. Fancy or cheap, they all come with those teeny messy hard-to-open thingies.

Do your take-out orders come with easy to use ketchup packets? If so, I wanna know where you eat.

At the McDonalds in Anacortes, the ketchup was *on tap*.

You slid your little paper sample cup under the spigot and pulled the handle forward. Out gushed a pressurized stream of tomato-y goodness. Ketchup plumbing. What will they think of next?

well, sure. we got ketchup on tap here, too.

But I'm talking TAKE-OUT! Like for the cheeseburger quesadilla from Applebees that I had for lunch. (yummy nom nom!). First, they gave me two ketchup packets. Not enough--you can barely get a teaspoon out of one of those. So then, they gave me a handful. Fine. But I have to open 10 of the damn things to get enough, and by the end of the process my hands are covered with ketchup, so slippery that I can't open the final packets, and I have a big mess o'messy packets.

And, no, ketchup does NOT make good lube!

Cloud - more than two is a SERIOUS amount of ketchup (in this country - YMMV). I recommend you buy a squeezy bottle and keep it in your glovebox.

I've just had some home-made carrot cake. It was yum. But it had been wrapped in clingfilm all day and the topping was all gooey. It looked like it was covered in pus. I don't know whether to be proud of my logical mind for knowing it wasn't pus and eating it, or ashamed of my greed which over-rode my evolved sense of disgust...

Dude, we have those everywhere in Texas. I mean, not everywhere, but it isn't a novelty.
One time the drive through person at Taco Bell insisted that the rule is "one sauce packet for two menu items" ...think about that for a minute.

So we drove around, went inside the store, and cleared out ALL of their sauce packets.

Oh I missed that.
Yup, we have them in 90% of our McDonalds in the UK too.
And BBQ sause.

My first experience with pressurized ketchup. We've had self serve pump style for some time around here.

As for the packets, when I am eating fries behind the wheel, or hash browns, or some other suitable ketchup carrier, I usually use this method. I cut/tear a small nick from the corner of the packet. I hold the packet with my left forefinger and thumb along the long edge, away from the side that has the nick. I can still steer with my left hand now, since I've only drafted these two digits for ketchup duty. Now I can take a bite from the food held with my right hand, putting it down afterward, shift my right hand to the wheel freeing my ketchup hand, and then bring the packet to my mouth and squeeze a little ketchup into my mouth directly from the packet. Chew, swallow, rinse, repeat.

This doesn't directly address the question of ketchup/carrier proportions, but it can help reduce waste and mess.

You put the ketchup and the food in your mouth separately? No, no, no, this is wrong.

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Who made you de big ketchup sherriff ub de house?!
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Hi guys! I'm around . . . just supervising for a while. ;)

Michael Jackson turns 50 years old today.

Awww! How time flies! Here is how Michael looks today!

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I saw two grown men on a bike the other day.
One was giving the other a backie. Like they were eleven.

It was broad daylight (about 18.30) and they weren't drunk.
It was really... odd. Cool I suppose.

Yeh but his face is what 8 or 9?

So, ya reckon there'll be clowns and stuff at his party?
Party games!
Pin the tail on the donkey. Pin the nose on the freak.
Blowing bubbles. Blowing Bubbles.
Bobbing for apples (Michael, why are you standing behind me?)

I just had a conversation via facebook messages with my secondary school maths teacher. He retired from teaching about 9 years ago due to osteo arthritis, but sounds like he's thoroughly enjoying retirement. It's 21 years since we last spoke :P

wow. ze interwebs be powerful.

Ever notice how getting pregnant is so much worse than having sex?
It's like, if a teenage girl gets pregnant she is whisoered about and pointed at. But suggest that teenagers don't have sex and everyone would laugh in your face (outside of strong religious circles).

I knew someone who split up with her long term partner, and his new g/f got pregnant within a few weeks. They had been on-and-off for years but her attitude was, "Well I'd never take him back now" as if by impregnating, rather than just having sex with another woman he'd crossed a line.

Aside from issues of contraception and shared child-rearing, there does seem to be a knee-jerk reaction to sex meaning more if pregnancy results. Perhaps it's a numbers game.

It's the tinge of irresponsibility--yes, sometimes the condom breaks and 1% of pill users get pregnant, but statistically, people who get knocked up ended up that way because they didn't use proper contraception. When I was a teen, I used two methods, and the boys didn't even know about the second so they wouldn't try to argue about the necessity of the first--and yes, I looked down on girls who didn't take precautions like I did.

I think it's more subtle than that, myself. I think that pregnancy is basically proof positive of promiscuity (in society's eyes). As long as people are sleeping with each other and nobody's pregnant, it is private. As soon as a women is pregnant it brings it out into public view. It also transforms the woman instantly, in society's eyes, from free individual, to responsible carer. We want our responsible carers to be morally acceptable and thoroughly intergrated into our social norms.

A pregnant teenager or adult one night stand offends (even if only at a vestigial level) society's norms and so the pregnant woman is automatically being judged immoral and therefore potentially dangerous. We are sophisticated enough to deal with women having sex, but we are not yet sophisticated enough to withhold judgement on a mother-to-be.

Like I say, all at a fairly vestigial level.

YES.


having a baby also affects relationship dynamics. The girl says, "well, he's having sex with another woman. Asshole." THEN the other girl gets preggers and now there is a whole 'nother dimension to it. It's no longer him and her and her. It's him and her and her and the baby. Babies change the dynamics of couples in long-term, commited relationships. In short-term on-again-off-again relationships a baby is a deal breaker. Another human being with those two people's DNA is coming on into the world. It IS worse than having sex. An affair may be forgivable, but a constant, walking, talking, money-needing, care and love-needing person around to always remind you....not so easy.

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I am so mature! :)

I've been wondering....are we being post whores who DON'T get paid, or are we the paid kind?

I think we get paid in 'gifts'.

Parcel post whores?

Haha. Very good.

Yes - The forced responsibility for ones actions becoming a reality is a major bummer when until that point it was all fun and games. No more partying all the time or just hanging out.... Once the baby becomes a reality it changes the relationship dynamic. No more free and easy - now its taking care of another and teaching and responsibility and caring for and guiding and and and...another human being.
All that and there are all kinds of things that you HAVE to do while sacrificing what you WANT to do.
Lotta people can't handle that.

Personally I am on the other side of this as my kids are now all young adults and I am finally getting some time for me after 20+ years of putting my needs and wants away until after all theirs were satisfied.

It's post whores, not post prostitutes. ;)

If I'm like completely over this thread, am I a post Post Whore?

I prefer, "post woman of the night" thank you. :)

Post person of negotiable affection.

you can't analyze post-whoredom. You must experience it!

I didn't know whether to post this story here or in the What's Making You Happy Today thread. Obviously went with here:

Did you know... that in the classic children's book Goodnight Moon, the telephone is the only item named in the room that is never said "goodnight" to? Drives me nuts every damn time we read it.

And what's more, there's a perfectly good place for it in the scansion, currently held by the useless "Goodnight nobody" with a blank page for artwork. I've given very serious thought to drawing a little telephone there and changing the words.

I hate that book. It annoyed me when Lil Lookout had it. It really annoys me now that he reads it to 2.0.

I am so tired.
I'm tempted to go home and just go to sleep.

Sadly, I know if I do, I'll wake up by about 23.00 and then not be able to sleep. Damn not being able to buy effective sleeping pills OTC! I'd like to have the indulgence of falling asleep now without the payoff of being awake late.

Buy some Benedryl tablets...they will make you drowsy.

Tylenol PM. I would love to go home right now and pop a couple and fall asleep!

I went to a sumo wrestling tournament. I enjoyed it, especially after learning of some of the traditions and rituals that surround the sport, and I am very grateful that the wrestlers who would grab their opponent's loincloth (mawashi?) did not actually pull them off.

The hotel room has a Washlet device on the toilet bowl that has the words Spray, Bidet, Wash, Stop on the buttons along with some curious illustrations of backsides. I have never used a bidet before and this looks a bit startling, and it gives me pause every time I go in there. So am I missing something grand and fun, or is this just something too far out of my experience to ever appreciate?

I don't know, sweets, but that sounds like far too much technology for a bathroom to me lol

As a laydee, let me tell you that sitting on a bidet the wrong way round is a far more rewarding way to spend your time.

Psst... Sweetwater .... the Japanese toilet report.

Watch out for the giant ladybug robot though.

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That Washlet is much like the one here! And I saw a squatter - we were in line and the older woman ahead of me was next. She opened the door and backed up so I went up and reversed gears. Third woman took it. I'd try it sometime but not with a line of anxious people waiting!
BTW, I also take pix of bathrooms in different places. I thought our fancy hotel bidet was funny until we moved to a B&B in Florence. There was a hand-held sprayer piped from the water inlet, and a shower curtain to serve as a wall. Funny stuff.