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All i can think is these girls are supposed to be preparing for their careers. And I can only imagine one career where such clothing actually advances one's career. And men without shirts. Are you Patrick Dempsey? No? Then put your damn clothes back on. I wore a shirt today. My husband wore a shirt today. YOU, also, can wear a shirt today. I don't care if it's hot out and you're mowing the lawn. I live across the street. It is also hot all the way over here. And I am mowing my lawn. And I am wearing a shirt. See how easy this all is?

Nice. Who would want to be with someone who isn't?

I have three friends in plural marriages, two in an effort to comply with their religious beliefs and one in an effort to thumb her nose at religous beliefs. Huh. Funny that they're all trying to do different things and end up doing EXACTLY the same thing. I never really thought aout that until just now. Anyway, none of them are happy. Not even close.

old country is good. and jolene by dolly parton is one of my all time favorites. And I'll just say it, I think Loretta Lynn is brilliant.

Power Source of course! (I'm SUCH a suck-up!)

I will say this once, and only once. And I will deny that I said this. But when boys talk their Star Trek it's totally hot.

You have totally gotta be from dearborn. My friends and I used to hang out there, and think we were cool. I went there a while ago and they have, and I am NOT making this up, a store that sells Grillz. Like for your teef. Grillz. Gold grillz. I can't believe they need a store! Okay, the store I'm thinking of was very hot in the 80s and they sold like spandexy things that you were supposed to be able to wear as a skirt OR a haltar top OR a headband OR a belt. Was it called Units?!?!? Anybody?

Before Guy's grandpa passed away we would go visit him at the nursing home every week, sometimes twice a week. Between us, his brothers, and his mom, he had plenty of visitors. I would always bring the babies, and it was SO sweet, some nurse would walk in and say 'If you wouldn't mind, Helen in room 214 would really love to see the twins, and Ruby in 220 and Anne in 219. Would you mind?' I mean, it was SO sweet - they would see my babies and tell me about their kids, and their grandkids, and try to give my babies licorice, which is weird, but still, it's nice. I actually kind of miss taking the babies around to see the old people - I think the babies liked it as much as the old people! And, speaking of old people and driving, OH MY GOD. When we went to Florida last time and visited my grandparents, I was in the car with my grandpa and he had stopped at a red light, looked up and then just blew right threw it! And he was like 'Stupid lights. They take too long.' I mean, it's not like he screwed up - he was just sick of waiting for the light to change and so he just ran right through it. And I was like 'Jesus, grandpa! What are you doing?!?!' and he was like 'I don't have time to wait around' and I was like 'You're retired. We're going to Perkins for meatloaf. The ONLY thing you have is tiem to wait around!' Seriously, I was never so grateful to get out of a car in all my life.

How did NO ONE mention this before?!?!? Good point.

It's the preserving pets thing part of that article that was SO weird. But, anyway, what's the big deal? Sheesh, just die already people.

Is there a tree for this holiday? There'd better be a tree involved... Although...I can't decide what to put on it....

Last King of Scotland. Horrifying movie. I thnk Phee was in it...

Iraq is hot. Immigration is hot. The Christian right will continue to beat their drums about gay marriage and abortion, but I wouldn't call those 'hot'. They've been working those issues for decades.

Um, it's not lame for starters. I totally went on to this Detroit Moms board. Lame. Totally lame. It just didn't seem to have any, bite, y'know? Personalities did not clash. Everyone said LOL to totally stupid remarks. Lame. Where else can I talk about pleather, God and how cute my kids are all at the same time?

Yes, like art galleries! $10 to $200?!? When I lived downtown, I lived right next to C-Pop, and they had a new artist opening the first Friday of the month or something like that. And it was free! There were other galleries in the area, too, that had openings, I just don't remember the names anymore or which day they had new artists. :( And, speaking of first Fridays, the DIA is re-opened and they have stuff going on ALL the time! I haven't been since the re-opening but I hear it's wonderful. And it's like $4 to get in. If you go to geocaching.com, you can find instructions for all of the caches.

Art openings...not only are they free, they have free beer and munchies. I don't know much that's totally free, but for cheap you can: Go rolleskating! All of the rinks have an adult night and they play 80s and 90s music, sometimes even Depeche Mode! And they ALWAYS play some Pretty Young Thing at least once. Yeah! Ice skating is also good. Have you heard of geocaching? It's like hiking with a purpose. have some friends over and cook dinner and get drunk on three dollar wine.

See I'm a numbers girl myself. All day long I work with numbers. I total up my grocery bill AS I go shopping. I do the bills. Numbers, numbers, numbers. I like numbers. If it only frustrates you, drop it. Don't worry about a goal number. For someone like me, numbers let me know how I'm doing. If I lose two pounds, I can't see it on my frame, but I CAN see it on the scale and that gets me all geared up.

I know a politician can't be everything to everyone all the time. Heck, I can't even do that, and I'm freaking AMAZING! And it is SO hard for me to pick which issues have priority, because of course, if education takes center stage, then the environment falls down on the list, and so on and so forth. So, like everything in life, I have to distill this down to which issues REALLY matter most to me. I would have to agree with Steven that the integrity of the family (or lack thereof) I find very troubling. Of course Iraq is a priority, and everyone is talking about an exit strategy for Iraq, but dang, I still haven't heard an exit strategy for Korea!

Tastes great. Is an autographed picture of Judith Light a good Christmas present?

Robert Goulet phone anyone?

FC, I love this thread. I am beautiful because you're all drunk. I am beautiful because I have perfect teeth. No really, I do. I am beautiful because I just got my sister a Robert Goulet picture from Ebay. I am beautiful because I find the beauty in everyone.

Why my husband is the best: Breastfeeding the twins didn't work out. This actually made me very, very sad. Like I cried about it. I know, I know, it's silly, but that's just how it is. So, Guy decided to buy me a present to cheer me up. What did he get me? A day at the spa? I'm sure some women go for that, but it's really not my style. Perhaps some shiny new bauble to wear? Eh, I like my jewelry the way I like my women - trashy and hanging around the dollar store - so that wouldn't have pressed my buttons either. No, he got me a bottle of Glenlivet scotch. In my opinion there is nothing a new mom needs more than a nice scotch.

Also, as it turns out my sister has Grave's disease. Sounds horrible, doesn't it? Well, here's the symptoms... over-active thyroid so she eats all she wants and can't gain weight shiny hair Clear complexion I am not making this up. And I'm like, why is this disease so bad, exactly? But, apparently, over time, it can cause all sorts of problems AND it makes your eyes kind of pop out, like Barbara Bush. It can all be fixed with medication, no biggie, really. But, until she's been on the meds for a while her left eye sort of googles out when she opens here eye really wide and she showed me and I shreiked, so now she does this to me like all the time. We'll just be chatting about nonsense, and she'll make her eye go all buggy. She's not very nice. Googling her eye out at me like that.

So, we go to a Halloween party last night and LB comes dressed as a taint. Yes, you read that right, a taint. Pipe cleaners for pubes, and a volleyball as the...well, you can figure it out. And there's this girl from Germany who doesn't know what a 'taint' is, and LB gets all bashful and shy and can't explain what a taint is. Um, you can't come to a party DRESSED AS A TAINT and then act shy about it.

Fear not. The great things never truly die. You can now get shrinky-dink inkjet printer paper and make your own actually. Avery Printable Shrink Sheets. Staples has it. Craftster.org has some awesome jewelry made with shrinky-dinks. Obsess much, Sass? Yeah, I know. I can't help it! I love those things!