<p>mezzomom,</p>
<p>Congratulations !!! wonderful news. Raising the glass to your D.</p>
<p>Mezz, I'll bet it makes her feel pretty great, too! Here's to the newly-minted adults who take charge of their future educations.</p>
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Where can I get some of that particular mint? Will it work if I put it on jmson's pillow? mezzomom, that is a great D you have there. With jmson having to kiss Tulane and its nice merit $$ goodbye, I am not even looking up the exact tuition figure for JHU - just don't wanna know. This little mezzoD celebration has me thinking... er, plotting....</p>
<p>Just your basic bump. Back at my desk. Hooyah.</p>
<p>Mezzomom - Congrats, neither of mine have raked in any money yet...but I watched in wonder last night as the 16 yr old DS, who is perpetually in a state of hunger peeled, cut, & parboiled potatoes before placing them on cookie sheet with grapeseed oil, salt, pepper, chilli powder and a drizzle of lime...broil 20 minutes and WOW! He let me have a taste... This what they are driven to when you don't have a microwave or 'convenience' food.... ;) . DD just eats cereal out of the box, leaving a trail of crumbs....</p>
<p>Well, took my 15yo D shopping for blue jean skirt. Pulled one out that was short, and showed it to DD. She looks at me as if I was crazy..What? I say</p>
<p>She says, in semi seriousness that the skirt can never be longer than it is wide....yeah, she's a size 0. So guess the time of the rectangle skirt has not yet passed.</p>
<p>Skirts are amazingly short again, arent they? I would say many are indeed wider than they are long. But at least this time around there are some very cute longer alternatives.</p>
<p>Gotta love fashion. This year brown is the new black and apparently it goes with everything, whereas last year it didn't. Socks must now not show above the top of the shoe (just like when we were younger, but they wouldn't believe us if we told them.) I have resigned myself to being an old fogey and am happy wearing comfortable clothes with little thought to how they look, so I guess I am a fashion fogey.</p>
<p>My daughter was wearing a VERY short denim skirt yesterday with a spaghetti-strap tank top. My first thought was, "She never wears skirts..." but I guess 98 degree temps with comparable humidity will make even the fashion-oblivious seek out the least amount of fabric to wear. But my next thought was, "Where did this young woman come from?" She suddenly looked so darn adult (and she has curves...how come I never noticed those before, particularly since I sew most of her clothes?); isn't she still supposed to be wearing a seersucker sundress with a matching floppy hat?</p>
<p>I know, its great going in and every looks good on them</p>
<p>My D for being 5 ft tall has LONG legs, so the skirts are even shorter</p>
<p>H jsut grimaces, but nothing is hanging out and at least most of the belly buttons showng is over</p>
<p>We did enjpy trying on heels at Nordstroms...oh yeah...that is a slice of heaven</p>
<p>She is ALMOST my shoe size, so is getting ready to raid my shoe closet</p>
<p>could someone explain to me the concept of the short denim skirts with the huge cuffs on the bottom (the cuff is almost as deep as the skirt is long). </p>
<p>I just have an :rolleyes: ing moment everytime I see someone dressed in one of these outfits (sign that I must be really getting old)</p>
<p>Congrats, Mezz!! :) Way to go!</p>
<p>Re: skirts. Yes, longer ones are "in." My definition of "in:" if you are walking across the street in a calf-length cornflower blue skirt with little sequins, girls in the car at the stoplight tell you that it's adorable. :) </p>
<p>That made my weekend. Actually, completely lying on that one. What made my weekend was being a bridesmaid at one of my best friend's weddings. Two of my high school friends caught the bouquet (none of the other girls wanted it!) and the garter. The guy ripped off his tie, strode up to the girl, pulled the tie around her neck, made some sexy moves as he knelt down, and then used his teeth to put the garter on her leg. HOT!</p>
<p>Laughed so hard I cried... harder than when the hairdresser put my friend's veil on in the salon. </p>
<p>If I'm not still cut off, how about some mimosas?</p>
<p>Okay,</p>
<p>You can drink again, but there's a heat wave her in NYC so we're not suppose to drink as much.</p>
<p>Now back to the wedding... Did the bride like all of you enough to put you in a nice dress or atleast a dress that you can wear again?</p>
<p>TRUE STORY about hideous bridesmaid dresses...</p>
<p>I was a bridesmaid for a friend who chose dresses that would NEVER be worn again-- puffy pink, cotton-candy-like, Scarlett O'Hara dresses (that perfectly suited the coloring & figure type of the one bridesmaid who actually lived in the bride's town--hmmm--- but looked awful on the rest of us).</p>
<p>The dress cost a fortune, so it was hard to throw out... but when my housekeeper admired it, I happily gave it to her.</p>
<p>The next week I was driving around doing errands and I saw it hung up for sale at a swap meet!!! I laughed so hard; I guess the housekeeper was just being polite?!</p>
<p>so many questions, SB, none of which I'll ask,..</p>
<p>ro,</p>
<p>let's ask them, let's ask them</p>
<p>Ok SB, now that you have given us a good laugh for the day... I think you should have gotten a cut of the proceeds from the sale.</p>
<p>Yes and no. The dress has bridal buttons down the back, so I wouldn't wear it again. It did, however, look good on both her sister and I, who are fair and blonde (well, I was blonde when we bought the dresses last summer). Lovely periwinkle blue in a style that looked good on both of us (me - tall; sister - short). She picked out a colour that she thought would look good on both of us and had us try on different styles in it. I nicknamed her the "anti-Bridezilla." </p>
<p>Bride did have a minor stroke when I told her that my hair was "alternatively hued;" she refused my offers to dye over it for the wedding, however. </p>
<p>No good Sinner's Alley stories from her - she's too sweet. :) No drama, no fighting. Her older sis announced her engagement at the rehearsal dinner. Bride asked me to ask the DJ to announce the engagement and do a special dance for sister & fiance at the wedding. Love fest all around. :)</p>
<p>If anyone would like to join me in a round of "Another One Bites the Dust," find me up on the bar, holding a glass of Veuve. ;)</p>
<p>Wow...I leave you people for a day and suddenly there's a new topic--weddings! It was rather startling to see in my inbox as we just celebrated my daughter's 1st wedding anniversary this past weekend. We all took son up for Case orientation, partied it up w/DD & SIL. It seems only yesterday we had a house full of teenagers; soon we will be down to one. How did this happen??</p>
<p>Back to fashion for a moment--girls are wearing their too-long jeans hugely cuffed up. This is a new one to me.</p>
<p>Fashion is always practical, as we all know. Those cuffs were designed to catch cake crumbs, loose change, movie ticket stubs, and stray cats. </p>
<p>Aries, your description of this guy with the garter...I'm afraid I need a few more details. (Not that it matters 'cause in my head, he already looks like Josh Holloway.) I've been married for 26 years, and sluggdad has never ripped off his tie and pulled it around my neck. I'm sure that he's thought about it while I was sleeping, but that's a whole different scenario. Just curious, but what does this guy do for a living? Is he a college graduate? Did he take a gen ed class called, A 2000 Year History of America's Favorite Father's Day Gift? How did he acquire this particular skill with a necktie?</p>
<p>Remind me to hide all of buggson's ties before he leaves for his freshman year.</p>
<p>Oh, SBmom..that was me at the swap meet offering to buy the puffy-pink Scarlett O'Hara dress thinking that I was still a Size 5 and could possibly wear it to the next company picnic. :)</p>
<p>Slugg, I have no idea how he acquired that particular ability. He was, however, more skillfull with his molars than with his accessories... although he was pretty darn good with both. </p>
<p>It was not merely the ripping off of the tie that was impressive; it was the swinging around his head, strutting to my friend, and using the tie as it was not intended to be used. ;) I'm only 25, but I think I had a hot flash unrelated to the 95-degree heat.</p>
<p>Now, the fun of this is that he had taken most of us girls to dances back in high school - the bride to sophomore semi, me to a senior semi, another girl to two proms, my sister (not present) to a prom. My dad called him "America's Date." This was, of course, before he came out of the closet. (One of my girlfriends from college wants to set him up with one of our guy friends from college, who has been known to do things such as using a doorframe in our apartment for impromptu pole-dancing.)</p>
<p>Maybe he can give your H some lessons. Queer Tie for the Slugg Guy?</p>
<p>Wait. The guy with the tie giving you hot flashes is gay?</p>