Monday Night Lounge
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Beer – it’s what’s for dinner
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May the 4’s be with you
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Beer – it’s what’s for dinner
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Please recommend
(and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier) |
Maryb alluded to it in another thread, but I thought I should alert The Lounge that Global Orgasm for peace day is fast approaching.
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I checked, and the winter solstice on 12/21 is Family Man’s day to host the lounge. What do you think he’ll do to mark the occasion. Ok, mark probably isn’t a good word choice.
on your all day shopping spree to aid the effort?
I sort of decided that I better stop pining away for our big family thanksgivings with 50 people and start making it seem like a big deal here, with my little family. So for the first time in my life I bought dishes that match, and a tablecloth, and even (gasp!) cloth napkins!
And then I bought jeans and sweaters and candles and shoes and socks and my favorite gingersnaps from World Market.
Oh, and I bought a Menorah just because it was so beautiful and I’m in the middle of my celebrate different faiths phase of my life.
and I’ve seen a lot of menorahs and socks are okay and jeans are jeans so tell me about the shoes and the sweaters.
It’s hard to find sweaters this year that aren’t wool. I hate wool – I’m allergic to it and it’s scratchy. Except cashmere which is soft but it would still make me break out. I got a soft gray sweater that’s sort of a shrug in that it’s mostly arms and back and not alot in the front. Of course you wear it over a shirt, because if I didn’t I’d scare people. And I got a couple thick cotton pullovers with a deep v-neck to wear over thermals or some other equally feminine attire.
And the shoes are coming tomorrow. They’re the Frye clogs that CG bought a year ago and I thought they were too expensive, but they’re so cool and they remind me of my carefree bumming around the mountains days.
I used to like bulky cotton cardigans with pockets but I never wear any kind of sweaters any more. If I’m cold I just put on my fleece jacket.
I’m impressed — you can wear clogs and walk. Me, I just fall out of them.
I just bought these (but I got them for half that price).
Also got these.
Next up, saddle oxfords.
Uh, not since 2nd grade when I was a pee-wee cheerleader. 🙂
I see — your retro has time limits.
No, just taste. ;p
sorry, that is a concept with which I am not familiar.
I answered you downthread so as not to break the diary.
I have a pair of black boots that are the same brand from a two years ago sale. I have worn the heck out of them and they were a little scuffed but my husband’s Army shoe black made them look brand new again.
Good to know they’ll hold up! They’re very comfy.
And it was about you. Do you find it hard as a mom to remember that sometimes it needs to be about you? I’m breaking out when it comes to shopping and getting some fresh new things, but every time one of my children was a baby I had to break out again. Breaking out of the Joshua world has taken longer. When my daughter was a toddler I woke up one day and realized that I hadn’t had sex in about two years too. It was a pretty easy fix though.
It’s the first time I’ve shopped for myself in years. I usually pick up socks or those 2-for cotton shirts at Old Navy with the change of seasons, but I’ve never bought so much stuff at once before.
without my knowledge. I’m sitting here in a twofer Old Navy shirt 🙂 It must be a common ailment among moms. Good on you and your shopping spree. I try to remember to get myself a little something once a month but my daughter will have all new bras and tops. I will be some place and see something and think, “She would love that”. She did talk me into getting some skate boarding shoes at Pac Sun last month when she was getting some new ones. I justified that I was worth it because they were “half price”, they are the most comfy cool shoes. The nurses laughed at me though in the recovery area when I was putting on my skate boarding shoes….never laugh at a woman taking a shoe risk or having a shoe experiment. Bad nurses! I will never feel the same way about the nurses in that building again.
Did you have some sinus thing done? My daughter has to have a full rhinoplasty in a few weeks (from get hit by the truck)and I was wondering how the recovery was going to go. She’s a banquet server/college student and I guess she’s going to have two black eyes….for how long?
was going to phone and then my daughter had a car accident experience that weekend but she only got bruised and yanked a bit. I had a deviated septum and yes, the openings to my sinuses were very small (abnormally so) and they made them bigger. I didn’t have to do the full nose thing, but it does seem like they really know what they are doing now where the nose is concerned and they do as little tissue trauma as possible. It was pretty amazing how little tissue trauma I have had to feel like I’m recovering from. I will keep you both in my thoughts, what a crappy thing to have happen. She had to have dental work too didn’t she?
Yeah, the dental work is what’s going to take the most time and be very very expensive. She had just gotten her braces off 6 weeks before she was hit and they put them back on = $5,000. At least two of her roots have died so she will have root canal done very soon on those. Six of her teeth were broken and will need veneers, which are about $900 EACH! That’s why we’re suing the guy – our insurance wasn’t going to cover some of the dental stuff, and he was a jerk.
driving to your house and CB’s for Thanksgiving break. He asked me who I was talking to while I was reading about your daughter and I told him. He asked me something and I said “Uh huh”. Big mistake, he was congratulating me seconds later for giving him the trip to see you guys. Man, dental work is a do it yourself thing isn’t it. Our daughter will have braces another year, you must have had yourself a good cry or two just for the pain suffered alone. Braces are really painful sometimes. And if I ran into a pedestrian or bicycle I’d be undone. All of us in vehicles know we are responsible for those on the roadway who aren’t, at least that was what I was taught. I would have to consider suing too.
mist at the drug store is well worth the purchase price. My husband purchased some of that along with regular saline in the squeeze squirt thing for me and I mixed it up when it came to irrigating my nose….because I can’t blow it for like another week. It’s yucky, but when my nose was feeling really painful the saline mist seems to be able to get into the nooks and crannies more gently once you get the knack of pressing the nozzle in a way that doesn’t press your nose. They did have to “pack” my nose, not because I bled a lot but one side of my sinuses needed more help from the drill than they anticipated. I was also a difficult intubation and the whole thing went so smooth with the guys that do this everyday. They removed my packing the following day in office, I did so well following the surgery that I could be an outpatient. Of course I would have had to be dying before I was offering to stay the night, anesthesia makes me even more stubborn than I normally am.
I’ve never heard of the pressurized saline, but it sounds like a good thing.
And you guys are welcome anytime. 🙂
I saw a Pressurized Saline gig at CBGB’s in 1982 or ’83. I thought they split up when Sal died in a back-alley rhinoplasty gone horribly wrong in the early ’90s.
You know, a shoe is a pretty decent weapon for both throwing as well as smacking. I’m just sayin’.
If he doesn’t feel better he won’t do anything. I’ve got a super sized cold right now. I’m just dropping in to say hi and bye. I’ll try and check back later.
An orgasm will cure you, FM. Give Elly May a call.
either way, I’m sure she’d be willing to share her chicken soup.
Your response was so much more classy than mine.
olivia — canadians have an automatic class quotient.
Not approaching too fast, I hope.
This is a good yuk. I’m curmudgeonly enough to wonder about those who take it seriously. But then, I guess I’m stuck with my reality and their fantasy may be more amusing. Or it could be the other way around. Maybe my reality is a fantasy and their fantasy is real. And little lambsy divey.
Maybe I should a hot tea and lay off the hard stuff. Would George mind whipping up a pot of Barry’s Golden Blend, for the confused man at the table in the corner. And a couple of Carr’s Ginger Lemon Creams, my good Canine. That’s the ticket.
I’m sorry, but that’s pretty fucking silly.
What I’d like to know is, if there’s no set time or place for ‘synchronized’ orgasm, why hasn’t it worked yet?
Hey folks – hope all is going well!
I’m going to a punk rock concert tonight. Should be good stuff… 😀
Watch it. My little pacifist daughter got in a fist fight with 3 guys last time she went to one. Those mosh pits can be rough.
I don’t think I’ll be moshing…not really a ‘punk’ to begin with, just someone who happens to enjoy the music. 🙂
She’s not a punk either – just got caught in the mosh pit and had to totally emasculate her boyfriend by coming to his rescue. All 110lbs of her.
from studying. And don’t listen to SN — go out there and get in trouble!
Is it the early eighties again? All the good punks are dead or Republicans. The dead ones are luckier.
What about your crippling load of capitalist dogma you were complaining about last night? Did you speed read through the oppressing the workers bit? 😉
If by “all” you mean “not all”, then we agree.
Signed,
80s punkrockgirl, neither dead nor Republican
😉
I do find it tres gêner when people challenge my pithy generalizations. Why, oh why, must I endure critique from a woman of a certain age with a safety pin in her cheek that is old enough to vote?
Fear not, Teach, I pass for a suburban soccer mom now so when I sass you it should roll right off your back.
My God, a free-range Safety Mom! How did you escape the Republican’s siren song?
Oh, I’m not actually a mom (although I would like to have been, things just didn’t work out that way), I just blend really well with the category here in the Dayton ‘burbs. I’ve pretty much always been a lefty, though, and can’t imagine that would’ve changed if I’d been lucky enough to have little ones.
Things didn’t work out that way for us either, so I understand. I was mostly joking about the way the Repub pols first named suburban women, “Soccer Moms,” and then renamed them, “Safety Moms.” The Repub strategists seem to be unable to think of women as anything but Moms.
These are the ones I ordered from Zappos. Link
Tres butch. ;p
Ain’t they tho? 🙂
Where are walking to in those girl?
The wild streets of Cleveland! 😉
Look like they’d be good for kicking small dogs out of the way.
I actually bought some shoes last month. First ones I’ve bought in two years (yes, I do hate to shop).
E loves that brand; she has several pairs of loafers from them.
I buy really cheap shoes except the ones I wear to the gym. I’ve been wearing the same pair of Land’s End suede clogs for 3 years now and really needed a change. I’m worried about walking in even that tiny, chunky heel.
I don’t buy cheap shoes which helps me to not have to shop for them very often. My ‘work’ shoes are 7 years old (josef seibel and really comfortable — unfortunately I waited too long to try to replace them and they aren’t made any more).
I would buy him a good pair of shoes for Christmas. He was wearing some black tennis shoes from a dollar rack or something and he’s an old guy with a back not so good. We went to the shoe store and he picked a pair of that brand. They were like $200.00 shoes weren’t they? That’s my dad, if you tell him he’s precious he believes you. He said that I could not help him pick out his shoes because I wear ugly fuggin shoes, I was wearing Borne clogs.
I’m sure he’s definitely precious but I would give my mom $200 if she would not go buy shoes with me. The only thing worse than shopping is shopping with my mother. 😉
I can so identify with that.
Those will look swell with that pink tule poodle skirt you’ve had you eye on.
There’s a Harley dealer in town that sells the top part. Knucklehead can probably hook you up with someone to sew them on for you and add your colors.
I`ve got different strokes for different folks.
May I interest you in something like this.
Biker boots and sweet peas (or something similar). Great combo.
That,s a birdhouse with “Purple Wort”. Just a way to recycle as much as possible.The biker birds do need to watch their mouths though, from time to time. I don`t like the darned mocking birds always repeating what I say in “that” tone of voice.
Glasses are a wonderful thing sometimes (tho I hate them) – now I see the detail. Biker birds – somehow mockingbirds seem appropro!
I should try something like that with the hideous plastic cat yard ornament our neighbor gave us. It’s well over the 200 point max. that we have for stuff that one of us hates. Both of us hate this, but being saps for the kind old lady next door, we are in a bind.
My idea;
Cut a large opening in the top of it & use it as a planter for herbs or “herb”. Make sure whatever you plant, drapes over the hideous part & then,thank the lady next door for the wonderful gift. Pretty soon, everyone will want one. Then go into production, patent it & make your fortune. Give some to the poor. Include youself, if applicable, & live happy for evermore.
Oh boy. I can hardly wait to float that one by Teach in the am. He’s been looking for a way to expand income. He’ll go right after it, I’m sure. He’ll even give you a cut of the profits.
Now the plant part, that’s a bit easier. It spent this summer hidden under the blue mammoth hosta, and I think neighbor was a bit hurt. Good idea for bringing it out in “plain” sight.
Well, tests are finally printed, i’m off the machine for a few. Keep the coast attached to the mainland overnight, please.
GOODNIGHT
sorry, that is a concept with which I am not familiar
Yeah, right, we all know what’s really true.
If I print this out and lay it upon his pillow I wonder if Mr Military would feel a little younger tonight. Get a little wild.
1 part wicked wit
1 part sharp smarts
1 part intelligent insight
Mix with a smattering of saltiness and a pinch of double entrendre. Bake until done but never overdone.
Aww, shucks. ::blush, toe in the dirt::
I love making you blush. 😀
Hang on you two, it’s not the 21st yet. Don’t make me turn the hose on you!
Pfft. I double dog dare you to whip out your hose.
Must I remind you once again that it is not the 21st yet? We must get a froggie calender for the lounge.
Did you get a load of the music on the Global Orgasm website? It’s just too tasteful and classy to make me feel very orgasmic. I think it should be Barry White.
I once lived near Fairfield, Iowa, the TM world headquarters. They were always mediating to convince the corn borers to only eat a small part of the crop and other helpful things. They had a kind of serene blandness about them. They radiated white noise. They appeared to exist in a hermetically sealed world, ethereally floating above the physical world of sweat, passion, and sensation. If they plan on having measurable orgasms, I hope their meters are extremely sensitive. Amplifiers might help, also.