I like poodle better than princess. In those particular borders, anyway.
When I was 6 or 7 we redecorated our whole house. My sister and I picked out a red bandanna print for our carpet. My brother had a really great yellow carpet with prints of all kinds of games on it - checkers and backgammon and what have you - that you could use to play on the floor if you had a mind to. 6 months later my dad was transferred. We never did a thing to decorate the new house, it had white walls and the carpeting it came with until we moved out.
Aimee! I was watching one of those "entertainment" shows last night and they had pictures of the premier of "Sahara". Penelope Cruz arrived with a CAMEL. He was very cute. She said he didn't smell at all.
And one of the home decor magazines - something about painting that I flipped through at the store - had pictures of a room that would have been perfect for Em. It was pink with MONKEYS! no zombies, though.
Camels! Pink and monkeys!
WANT WANT WANT it all!!
well, of COURSE you do! haven't you always? (me too)
In other news ... I'm now doing the dance of low blood pressure. After months of wrestling it down, my last trip to the doctor it read 110/62. yay me! (I do miss the caffeine, though zzzzzz)
I tricked Joe. He said that when we have a house and at least one acre of land, that I could get 1 alpaca. Know what an alpaca is??
A CAMEL!!
well, cousin to a camel. No hump, don't think they can go without water for too long, adapted to high altitudes, but they do have those beautiful eyes. And their wool makes nice yarn and cloth (insanely expensive, but lovely).
Yay Toddson with the low blood pressure! Well done.
Monkey stencil border Whoops, can't link to the specific page, but if you search for "monkey" the relevant stencils will come up.
Thank you all. Now the doctor's told me to work on getting my weight down. (I know I'm getting old - he looked about 14.)
RAGE:
Salon has an article on their front page about Hot Topic [link] where they seem to feel the need to consider the question of whether making non-fugly large clothing encourages obesity.
Lawrence Miller, a clinical health psychologist with the Nutrition, Exercise and Weight Management (NEW) Kids Program at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, says that feeling attractive in clothes could decrease a teen's motivation to lose weight -- though only insofar as "feeling attractive" is her or his main goal.
Yes, clearly, the best option is to shame large kids and teens into conforming. In fact, lets do away with clothes for fat people all together - it just helps them pretend to fit in. That would be hard on the thin folk, though - maybe some burlap bags would do the trick?
