Just wear a watch with a band wide enough to cover the tat. Or a cuff bracelet that's wide enough to cover it.

That's pretty much my plan. It'd have to be a pretty wide watchband to cover, but even just semi-covering I figure would be good. A cuff bracelet is definitely something I'm planning to find and purchase!

"No, actually, I was listening to them. Annabel was the queen."

Nice!

hopefully we can all agree that usage ultimately defines a word.

Or even, in this instance, that dictionaries do.

ok, I have to admit, I am really liking the On Demand thing of Digital Cable. Catching up on WEEDS, and thus avoiding chores.

Oooh, new Weeds tomorrow. I almost forgot. And now we're past the screeners.

OK, question for everyone: What is appropriate funeral attire? I was rather surprised at the funeral I attended this afternoon, I would say less than half the crowd was wearing black.

And some were wearing like, blue jeans and a blue and white striped shirt. We're not even talking "Oh, I don't have black so I wore dark purple" or "Well, she didn't like black so I got dressed up in her favorite color pink" or something.

Color wise - I'm not to worried about what people wear - I have to say I expect more conservative/more formal types of clothing.

I think of proper funeral attire as being dressy and sober. Not necessarily black (neither my mother nor I wore black at my dad's funeral), but dark and/or muted colors. I can't imagine not wearing a dress or skirt to a funeral, and I'd expect a man to wear a tie. Nothing perky or festive and nothing too revealing.

What Beth said. . . I would be surprised if the people closest to the deceased weren't wearing black but other attendees? I think formal daywear is what I would expect.

Funeral attire: I think I would be comfortable in any semi-dressy outfit I would feel pleased to go to church in - ya know, nicely dressed up so as to show respect and create the right mind-set for worship. This is as opposed to those times when I have shown up to church in slounge-y clothes on the principle that hauling my butt into a pew in any old thing is better than not going because I could not manage to dress up.

I'd be surprised at the jeans, but hardly anyone's worn black at any recent funeral I can remember, other than on people who'd be wearing black anyway. To me the new standard of funeral-appropriate is mostly (if not exclusively) dark and fairly sober cuts -- not a lot of flouncy ruffly things, for instance.