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Post by Siren on Apr 17, 2007 21:17:56 GMT -6
LOL! That's a family classic, for sure, Gams. Here's one of ours. Back in the day, my mom hung our wash on the line to dry. One day, a crew, including Mac, an old friend of my folks', was drilling a water well on our property. My sister, approximately age 6, went out to watch them, wearing my mom's black bra OVER her clothes! My mom still gets embarrassed, just thinking of it.
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Post by Phalon on Apr 17, 2007 21:26:04 GMT -6
BOLL! Poor Moms - and I keep telling LX it is my job as Mom to embarrass her. One day, I'm sure, it'll get turned around - paybacks are hell, you know.....and BP is at the age where she'll do almost anything big sister tells her to - I'm thinking I'm going to be in trouble here soon.
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Post by vox on Apr 18, 2007 13:08:30 GMT -6
You may well be Phalon, just wait! Here's one to make you giggle. talking about feminine products, my daughter had to have some Tena pads for when she was pregnant with the last little one, she went to get some out of the bathroom and found that they had all gone. She thought to herself "I can't have used them all up that quickly" so she then asked my darling eldest grandaughter if she had seen them. Of course the reply was "No, I haven't seen them mum!" upon tidying the eldest's bedroom, she came across them, my granddaughter had been using them as insoles for her shoes! lol
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Post by Phalon on Apr 19, 2007 4:57:06 GMT -6
LMAO, Vox. Who knew there were so many uses for feminine products, and it'd take children to discover them? Kids ought to do the advertising campaigns.
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Post by moonglum on Apr 19, 2007 13:25:25 GMT -6
'It was at this point that the dominant male of the tribe picked up his spear, hitched up his loin-cloth and walked from the cave with his fingers in his ears shouting LA-LA-LA-LA'.
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Post by Mini Mia on Apr 19, 2007 16:06:44 GMT -6
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Post by Phalon on Apr 21, 2007 5:38:14 GMT -6
That doesn't really work, does it, Moonglum? Katina's tried it - I think he's given up. Katina? Katina? Can you hear me now?
Hubs does it too - doesn't matter what we're talking about - but living in a "chick-fest", as he calls it, the girls and I can out-do his LA-LAs every time....unless he turns up his selective hearing aid.
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Post by moonglum on Apr 21, 2007 15:07:46 GMT -6
Tell Hubs I sympathise with him. I too lived in a 'chick-fest' for about 25 years, hence the voices in my head!
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Post by katina2nd on Apr 22, 2007 7:42:35 GMT -6
That doesn't really work, does it, Moonglum? Katina's tried it - I think he's given up. Katina? Katina? Can you hear me now? Sure can Lady P, and yep you're right, gave up on that a while back, after X amount of years here surrounded by ladies unmentionables, feminine products, B-cup threads and the like I've become immune, well partly immune .................... well I'm starting to grow accustomed to it I think.
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Post by vox on Apr 22, 2007 11:48:49 GMT -6
As long as you're not starting to grow anything else Kat! lol
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Post by katina2nd on Apr 23, 2007 8:04:42 GMT -6
No it hasn't gotten to that stage thank the Gods Vox ........... yet.
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Post by Siren on Apr 25, 2007 21:18:19 GMT -6
I think I've told this story on this board before, but here's a re-run: when we 3 girls were in school, we played basketball. Back then players wore tube socks. When we ran out, we'd raid our dad's drawer. Nabbed his t-shirts, too. He was complaining about it to my mom, and said that when we started pilfering his tighty-whities, that's when he would draw the line!
And here's another story about a male in a houseful of women. My dad was doing the plumbing on a house, and was discussing it with the owner, who was blessed with several daughters and one little boy. In the middle of the 2 men conversing, the little boy walked up and announced to my dad, "I'm a big boy now. I wear panties." The man looked down at him and said, "Shorts, son. Boys wear shorts.", then, without missing a beat, went right on talking to my dad. LOL!
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Post by Phalon on Apr 25, 2007 21:55:04 GMT -6
Boll, Siren. Poor little boy growing up in a house full of girls! But hey, I was the only girl in our house, (besides Mom), and I turned out with my sanity fairly intact. Of course, I did pilfer their clothing....jeans and t-shirts, but never tighty-whities.
BP wore boxer shorts to school today, (over her jeans). It was "Big Underwear Day". Don't ask - it had something to do with learning the letter "U". The kindergardeners had a "Big Underwear Parade" through school.
The boxer shorts she wore were her sister's.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 25, 2007 22:33:59 GMT -6
It took me a while to find this; it'd sunk all the way to the bottom of page four.
What's your favorite color?
Sounds simple enough, but my brain has a way of turning the most simple things into a complex mess of confusion.
I love bright colors. My favorites in house are red, yellow, and green - all together, in one room. The downstairs bath is in subtle tones of those three, and the kitchen in blaring shades of them. The dining room will be similiar....soon....I've had the paint for almost a year. I'd love to paint or re-side the outside of the house in red, but that'll have to wait. Someday. After I get to the dining room maybe.
Clothing - I have a fetish for orange. More orange in my wardrobe than anyone ought to have a right (mind) to have.
This is where the simple turns complicated:
What do we say by the colors we choose? I ran across this "color therapy" chart in Country Home magazine...
1. Yellow suggests joy, gaiety, and merriment. It is the color of intellect and reason. 2. Orange is the color of the sun and creative energy. It lifts spirits and energizes. 3. Red signifies passion, strength, and courage. It gives a sense of confidence and sensuality. 4. Violet is associated with decadence and luxury. It makes us feel mysterious and sensual. 5. Blue is the color of truth, devotion, calmness, and sincerity. It promotes meditation and independence. 6. Green signifies nature and healing and gives a feeling of renewal and rejuvenation.
(Sorry, Scrappy. No mention of pink in this article.)
And so what am I saying with my bright golden yellow, fire-engine red, and "puke" green as Hubs calls it kitchen? That I am passionate about cooking; that it rejuvenates my soul to slave over a hot stove, and joyfully and with a gay merriement down to my toes, I do the dishes?
Pfft. Yeah, right.
But there is that big, old hunk of wood in there....that huge slab of a kitchen table I've got that was once suggested here that I lay seductively across to cover the mar on top. The passion, the merriement; rejuvenation! Oh, the joy!
Hell, I should paint every room red, yellow, and green. Skip the dining room for now, and on to the bedroom first.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Nov 25, 2007 22:58:28 GMT -6
Favorite color of what specifically?
Clothes? Trees? Cars? Hair? OOH.....eyes?
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Post by Phalon on Nov 25, 2007 23:05:41 GMT -6
All of that...and for whatever else you've got a color preference.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Nov 25, 2007 23:22:51 GMT -6
Let's see....love green eyes. I usually wear darker colors in clothing. I prefer muted colors on houses...but then again I live in the desert. My room has a dusty blue theme going.
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Post by Siren on Nov 27, 2007 9:43:08 GMT -6
Looking around, it seems I choose clothing in blue, white, and green, mostly. I like brown, as well. If I had to choose a favorite color, it would be green.
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Post by katina2nd on Nov 28, 2007 6:35:10 GMT -6
Kinda partial to Burgundy myself ............ not for eye colour though.
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Post by fallenangel on Nov 28, 2007 11:52:06 GMT -6
I would say blue is my favorite color .
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Nov 29, 2007 23:40:51 GMT -6
Ok...mind if I sneak in Siren and ask one? Here goes...
There seems to be some controversy around here lately.....Garland. Do you use it? And if so, before or after the ornaments?
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Post by Phalon on Nov 29, 2007 23:50:25 GMT -6
We use beaded garland...strands of tiny red beads wrapped around the tree in one direction, and strands of bigger gold beads wrapped in the other direction so they make sort of a criss-cross pattern. And always after the ornaments. Red bows come last.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 30, 2007 7:27:59 GMT -6
Kinda partial to Burgundy myself ............ not for eye colour though. Oh, and Katina? I thought navy blue and white would be more your preference. Navy and white, arranged in this order: "Navy blue and white hooped guernsey, navy shorts, navy and white hooped socks."
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Post by katina2nd on Nov 30, 2007 20:25:54 GMT -6
Kinda partial to Burgundy myself ............ not for eye colour though. Oh, and Katina? I thought navy blue and white would be more your preference. Navy and white, arranged in this order: "Navy blue and white hooped guernsey, navy shorts, navy and white hooped socks." Sheesh I didn't think of that Lady P, but you're right of course, and what a lovely set of colours they are, brings a tear to my eye. By he way, did I happen to mention that we WON THE FLAG this year ............ yeah probably did, but you can't repeat it to often I don't reckon.
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Post by Siren on Dec 3, 2007 20:57:04 GMT -6
The little table-top tree I put up every year is adorned with ropes of tiny white pearls. I keep that tree simple: tiny ornaments, the pearl rope, tiny lights, and a star on top. When I was living in Arkansas, and was as poor as could be, my late granny gave me a ten dollar bill, right before Christmas. With that ten, I bought the little tree and ornaments to go on it. We lost my granny eleven years ago. I always put up the tree in her memory.
My mom likes a gaudy, much-decorated tree, with at least 2 kinds of garland (the fuzzy, old-fashioned kind), plus lights and ropes ornaments (some from my mom's childhood home tree) and shiny icicles. It's always a 10 to 12-foot cedar tree. Decorated, it's quite a sight.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 30, 2008 22:37:20 GMT -6
A very nosy question....
What are you wearing now, as you read this.
I'm in an alluringly sexy ensemble of a sweat shirt and Hubs' cast off flannel pajama bottoms....ones that he considered too hot, too small, and Look! Someone's been sleeping in them, and she's still there! All of which leaves Hubs a little bare, but I find them just right.
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Post by Siren on Jan 30, 2008 23:02:57 GMT -6
Rockies 5-pocket jeans (unbuttoned and unzipped for plenty o' room) and an OU women's basketball long-sleeve t-shirt. I just got back from the game, where we beat Kansas. Shamey shame, Gams, tantalizing our readers by describing that sexy ensemble!
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Post by moonglum on Jan 31, 2008 14:19:49 GMT -6
My silk(ish) 'Noel Coward' dressing gown.
[note to Mrs. Worthington............do not put your daughter on the stage]
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Post by Siren on Jan 31, 2008 21:51:24 GMT -6
Well, that confirms it, mg. I'd always pegged you for a sophisticate. Are you wearing the ascot tonight?
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Post by moonglum on Feb 2, 2008 15:44:23 GMT -6
'My dear, the Ascot and I were made for each other'.
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