I'm pretty comfortable with both lace and socks. If there's someone local, so that you can try them on as you go, that might be better, but, apart from that, I'd totally be game.
Congratulations to the class of 1999. You all proved more or less adequate.
Snyder ,'Chosen'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
DebetEsse - Sep 15, 2011 12:00:35 pm PDT #29609 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Atropa - Sep 15, 2011 12:04:18 pm PDT #29610 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Thank you, Debet. I will check with my local knitting peeps, but I don't know if any of them are quite up to it. Mom was kind of our local sock queen.
sj - Sep 15, 2011 12:04:59 pm PDT #29611 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Jilli, those are gorgeous! What color are you going to do them?
Atropa - Sep 15, 2011 12:06:46 pm PDT #29612 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Well, I have black yarn for them, and variegated black/pink/white yarn. Ideally I'd like stockings in both colorways.
I went into Fred Meyer (the chain Mom worked for) yesterday and looked at the Halloween stuff that was out, and got a little sniffly because I was identifying things she would have set aside as presents for me, or things she would have told me about.
brenda m - Sep 15, 2011 12:11:24 pm PDT #29613 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Eh. I can see what people are saying about the pile on but really, I don't think it goes over the line very often.
And even less often do I see people come in with a rant that's not either a) clearly a get-it-off-my-chest temporary thing or b) full of self-examination about what we did to contribute or how we might be reading it wrong.
If anything, we generally tend go too far on the b) option to begin with. (I've been holding back an FPC rant myself recently but I'll save it.) So a first chorus of "Yeah, fuck that noise!" and creative cursing and you-know-we-love-yous that by and large winds down into more of an advice/analysis place anyway - yeah, I got no problem with that.
sj - Sep 15, 2011 12:13:43 pm PDT #29614 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
{{{Jilli}}}
Toddson - Sep 15, 2011 12:16:23 pm PDT #29615 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
ooh! I made myself a pair of Halloween earrings! small rock crystal skulls (about 3/4" front to back, 1/2" top to bottom and side to side) hanging from silver ear wires with black lace ribbon bows.
Atropa - Sep 15, 2011 12:23:24 pm PDT #29616 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Toddson, those sound lovely.
Scrappy - Sep 15, 2011 12:28:00 pm PDT #29617 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I hope I didn't come across as saying people shouldn't feel free to rant or get hairpats or any of the wonderful things that Bitches provides. I did not want to suggest that at all. I just feel that sometimes we get mad instead of offering support or trying to figure out solutions. I am not talking about the brilliant and hilarious invective that many bitches specialize in--that stuff is funny.
Just something to think about. Or not.....
DavidS - Sep 15, 2011 12:38:48 pm PDT #29618 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What do you think, Bitches? Am I off the mark?
Unsurprisingly, I concur with Scrappy. I'm not big on hairpats and brackets anyway, and definitely don't default to validation. I haven't noticed it in particular lately (though I was a little taken aback by the mildness of smonster's roommate's actual note which seemed pretty different in tone from how she interpreted it). (Let me amend that by saying that's not a critique of smonster as I definitely think there were some passive floppy boundaries and odd communication issues with the roomie.)
On this hand, I certainly value the "your enemy is my enemy" dynamic but the other hand is bigger and it holds all my discomfort with reflexive validation.