He and I aren’t close and I don’t actually know any of his friends. Well, I know 2 and for many reasons (won’t air that dirty laundry) I don’t and won’t talk to them if I can avoid it. We had a family dinner yesterday and he seemed okay. His party for the kids on Saturday went well so …who knows…
This is partly a Bitch and Moan, but mainly a Public Service Announcement:
Boys! Are you buying the lady in your life any sort of clothing?
Before you do, consider actually CHECKING HER FRAKKING SIZES before parting with your cash.
The sizes you’ll need are stitched into her current clothes, so it’s even easy to do!
This message as been brought to you by the International Society For The Prevention Of Accidentally Insulting Clothing Purchases.
Every time I put something in the cool thread that we have gone 4 days without a B&M something happens. Oh, well no more of that. Maybe we will be able to break the four day barrier some day.
That’s why I’ve never bought clothing for a female. It avoids a lot of awkwardness and everyone’s the happier for it.
Well, I had a slight moan yesterday, but it’s not a big deal. My proposed Beatles seminar wasn’t approved (though the department/grad committee gave good reasons and it will fit when we change our curriculum in two years. So, if I’m still around, I can teach it then) and the seminar I will be teaching is scheduled fr Tueday and Thursday mornings, which means I’ll have to drive up to Baltimore FIVE days a week next term.
And yet, I’ll be making a bit more money and it beats not having a job at all. So as far as B&M’s go, it’s a pretty minor one.
The insurance issue isn’t as minor, but it’s solvable. Just expensive. But not having insurance is not an alternative, so, there you go.
Well, Don’t announce it then! 
Itlike getting a 500 note streak in Guitar Hero. The second that notice comes up something goes wrong! 
Don’t get me wrong, it can be realllllly nice to get clothes n’ stuff, but it’s just a little job to check out sizes, and it’ll just make everything run smoother!
Yeah but you can’t ask sizes, it’s even worse than asking age O_O
Step 1: Go to closet
Step 2: Look at labels
Step 3: Buy things with the information from Step 2
Step 4: ???
Step 5: PROFIT!
Use caution when you give DP the ??? option. His ability to make $$$ from woman’s clothing knows no bounds. 
I just ask. Then, I go to a nice store with a helpful saleslady and get some suggestions from her.
Stopped by to see if spirits needed lifting, but everyone seems to be doing okay. The funny thing about going for days without a B&M, is that while it’s nice to think we’re all happy and well, I am one of those people who now depend on this thread to help me recover when it hits the fan. So I’m glad it’s here.
Send him some flowers. It worked for Ringo when he quit the Beatles. Then again, that was just postponing the inevitable.
But, hadn’t Aerosmith broken up once before and then rejoined to work with Run DMC in the mid 80s, thus relaunching their career?
This may sound vain, but I’m kinda bummed about my hair.
Starting late last year and into much of this year, I was really broke. Really, really, really broke. Like, where are all the jobs and why does all my stuff keep breaking down at once and do I have enough cold cereal to eat this week…broke. So I went without getting my hair cut for a while. I’ve never kept it particularly short, but it was getting noticeably longer than usual now.
Then Sean mentioned that he’d donated his hair to Locks of Love, and I thot that was a splendid idea. It gave me an altruistic goal in the middle of all my personal crap to shoot for, and a reason to tell people why my hair was so long other than, “I can’t afford a haircut right now.”
My hair’s always grown fast, so I figured I’d have 10 inches knocked out by the end of the summer. No such luck. It’s pretty long and shaggy right now, but the front is longer than the back, and I don’t think I have enough all together to donate yet. And it’s tangly. Horribly tangly. My hair is very, very curly, and if I don’t comb it out every morning–EVERY morning–and run some hair cream or pomade through it, it becomes a sloppy, corkscrewy, fuzzy mess.
I just got some pictures back that a friend of mine took of me in my Halloween costume, and I look like a bum. I had not dressed up as a bum. But I look like one.
In three months, I turn 31, and I’d planned to have a “bar mitzvah” party in which I would cut my hair, shave my beard, and don a pair of contacts (my insurance at Sbux will have kicked in by then), and basically start my fourth decade off with a fresh look. But I fear I may have to get clipped early, whether or not my hair is long enough to donate. It probably isn’t working for me professionally, and I imagine it worries the customers whose drinks and food I’m serving at work (no, I do NOT wear a hair net, thank you).
Plus, my dad asked me this weekend if I’d taken a Nazarite vow. Har-har…
Maybe I’ll just suck it up and get up earlier to fix my hair every day.
No worries there. The majority of LoL’s (odd acronymn that) clients are little girls (boys are apparently fine with a cap) so they like hair that’s seven inches or more, but they also sell the shorter bits to commercial toupe/wig/etc. operations to finance their day-to-day stuff.
Long story short, it’s going to help, whether it’s “long enough” or not.
And thanks for the reminder; I should get mine shorn as well.
Toupes!!! Ye godz…
We have a regular at the cafe with a truly atrocious toupee, the kind that sits way forward on his forehead, further down than his original hairline ever went. He pronounces his drink wrong, and we think he stole some stuff once. That’s, count 'em, three strikes against him.
One or two strikes is an annoyance. Three is a character.
Listen to Master Pike and do it. I am the proud parent of a girl who grew her hair over a year (and is doing so again) JUST to donate it to Locks of Love. I also have two dear friends whose oldest boy is going through a fight against kidney cancer, so anything that’ll help pediatric cancer patients has a place in my heart. If it only ends up going to vain, old men but it helps to finance the organization’s charitable operations, that’s fine too.
Well, there IS an accent on the e in latte. AND I never stole anything.
Oh, and what toupee?
My daughter just donated as well. I was so proud.