Speaking of pants (but not jeans), I went to Lucy and got two new pairs of pants, one for stretching/lounging and one for general daywear. And I got to apply TWO coupons, which brought the price down to reasonable. Yay!
Hey, I've been in a firefight before! Well, I was in a fire. Actually, I was fired from a fry-cook opportunity. I can handle myself.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Burrell - Feb 27, 2006 5:50:37 am PST #9809 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Jesse - Feb 27, 2006 5:51:05 am PST #9810 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
tommyrot, the last pair of jeans I bought, I tried on the size/style in the store, and then ordered the extra-long from the website. It was like magic!
bon bon - Feb 27, 2006 5:55:35 am PST #9811 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
What's the deal with replacing the core of your wardrobe, ita? Do you have a plan?
Lee - Feb 27, 2006 5:59:20 am PST #9812 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
bon bon just asked what I was going to. What's up with the core?
I just sneezed on the clean sheets I put on the bed yesterday. Is it too early to ask for a do over on the day?
TomW - Feb 27, 2006 6:13:40 am PST #9813 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Tom W, your daffodils will not die. Daffodils have been surviving New England's wacky springs for many years now.
Sweet. Thanks, flea & theo.
I was hoping that is the case, but you know: long-time worrier, first-time gardener.
juliana - Feb 27, 2006 6:27:31 am PST #9814 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
It feels very Monday (which means I would rather still be in bed and I kinda am pissed off at everyone for no good reason),
Hoo boy, do I ever feel like this. Grumble.
sumi - Feb 27, 2006 6:34:56 am PST #9815 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I just read that there is going to be a big new BBC production of Jane Eyre.
Toby Stephens as Mr. Rochester. I like Toby Stephens but is he really right for Mr. Rochester?
Nutty - Feb 27, 2006 7:00:10 am PST #9816 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I saw a Jane Eyre with Timothy Dalton as Rochester, which was pretty cool, and one with William Hurt, which was lame. (The Hurt one had Charlotte Gainsbourg as Jane, who is ravishing and has a neck that is five feet long, but, Hurt was totally the wrong Rochester.)
Stephens I've only seen in 1-2 things, but he's never actively annoyed me. I would, at a guess, have said he's too young to play Rocehster, except I just realized that Rochester is probably no older than 40, isn't he?
The good part about a TV/movie version of Jane Eyre is that all the stuff that happens off the page in the book, annoyingly, can be put onto the screen in the movie. I mean, it's really really hard to make a climactic fire worth my while, if somebody just says, "Oh yes, this happened too." If I watch it happen, it kind of matters.
Sue - Feb 27, 2006 7:00:20 am PST #9817 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Oy! I should know better than to buy strawberries on sale in the dead of winter. They taste like chemical flavoured cardboard.
It's my day off today, so what do I do? Get up at the crack of freaking dawn to go for breakfast. Then I come home and go to back to bed. So much for being productive.
§ ita § - Feb 27, 2006 7:04:22 am PST #9818 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What's the deal with replacing the core of your wardrobe, ita? Do you have a plan?
My wardrobe was two things: boring and boring. There's boring I like (like today's outfit of a red silk knit mock turtleneck tee and grey pleated wool trousers) and boring that just sat there and took up space.
The boring I like is boring because it's mock turtleneck knit tees in black or red, long-sleeved knit tops in black or red, turtlenecks in black or red, paired with black or grey bottoms. All similar lines.
The boring I don't like are clothes I somehow acquired that I don't really like and don't really fit.
So the second group of boring is all gone. The first group needs to be pared. No one needs as many black knit tees as I have.
The replacement (mostly tops for now) hinges on color and style variance. No knit tees unless they do something different -- different colours, embellishment, something. Anything I get has to be totally a staple, or have something interesting -- pattern, colour, cut, something. Prefereably more than one different thing. And I have to enjoy it. I want it to be something that makes me happy to own just fingering past it in the closet. AND I have to know at least two pieces it will go with.
Pretty. I can do with more pretty.
Today's wardrobe decision was driven by my choice to wear the lidocaine patch during the day instead of night. Also need to consider covering various injuries.