Xander ,'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Miniature cattle - family pets that provide milk
For between £200 and £2,000, people can buy a cow that stands no taller than a large German shepherd dog, gives 16 pints of milk a day that can be drunk unpasteurised, keeps the grass “mown” and will be a family pet for years before ending up in the freezer.
Oooh, presents! I like presents! And apparently I'm one of the easiest people ever to shop for. Is it gothy/b&w striped/black & pink/festooned with skulls, bats, or both? Then I will probably like it.
I would love any of those things, too.
previously belonged to Anita Baker
What an AMAZING gift!
Random moment of my day-- I'm in SF for the day, and went to lunch with the SF library staff, who were talking about HRpeople who had come and gone since they had been working at the firm. I was kind of zoning out until they got to "...and of course David Smay".
It was so weird when we bought our own towels for the first time. We were all, like, what makes a good towel? What color does "silver sage" mean? How many do we need?
Up until then, we had random colored non-matchy towels our whole married lives. But it was okay, because really, would we have tried to match the orange, mustard yellow, or avocado green of the stripes in our pink house bathroom?
I ask for Kneipp bath oil from everyone who asks me what I want every single holiday (at $19 per bottle it is too pricey for me to get for myself at this stage) and I have never gotten it. Clearly I am asking wrong.
Which scents? I'm deeply in love with the hops, and a couple of years ago I got a 3-pack of oils just to get at the hops but I'm pretty sure one of the others has never been opened. It smells heavenly; it's just not always easy to get childfree tubtime in our apartment. If I get home and it turns out to be (a) indeed unopened and (b) a scent you like, want it?
the orange, mustard yellow, or avocado green of the stripes in our pink house bathroom
Was your house stuck in a 70s time warp?
"...and of course David Smay".
Ha! Of course David Smay!
I should have specified (when I asked for towels) that I havea ton of hand towels and washcloths, but really I don't mind having more that match the towels. (When I moved out on my own, my grandmother gave me a TON of hand towels and washcloths, because "I don't need so many, being alone now." Yeah, I was living alone too. Ah well.)
Was your house stuck in a 70s time warp?
One third of it was. One third was stuck in a 50s time warp. And one third was the third that used to need the outhouse, epitomizing the word "timeless" but not in a good way. In a way that meant there was a giant hole in the floor.
And we couldn't make any repairs because a) we were clueless and b) it didn't belong to us.
Ah, good times, good times.
"...and of course David Smay".
The Notorious Mr. Smay.
If I have towels that match, it's purely by accident. Same with plates and cutlery.
Yeah, I come from a family that was, not poor exactly, but needed to be very careful, cause if they had not been careful to really stretch a dime, they would have been poor. And most of our friends were like that too. So we always made sure to discuss gifts - cause getting someone a gift that they did not want was an unaffordable waste. Surprise gifts were seen as wasteful, something the rich or the unthrifty did. And not really a fair viewpoint. But the opposite of the "no lists" people.