<p>I think my gray makes me look very extinguished.</p>
<p>I have red hair and it isn't really going grey but it is faded looking if I didn't do anything to it.
It has always been strawberry blond but I always wanted darker and a bit brighter hair so now I have it!
I have friends with fantastic dark hair that has grey streaks very dramatic- if my hair was like that I probably would leave it alone- but I don't want to be all faded out looking. bleh.</p>
<p>Half the follicles in my once jet-black beard have turned white. (Hence the screen name.) My once mousy-brown hair seems to be drifting en masse into a dull pewter.</p>
<p>My four-year-old presented me this morning with a Father's Day card his teacher helped him make, which says "My Daddy works all day drinking soda. I know it is my Daddy because he is bigger than my Mommy and has a beard with glasses. He is so strong that he can pick up heavy toys. My favorite thing to do with him is play monster chase."</p>
<p>Drifting gracefully. H is way ahead of me in that department :p, and I still think of him in his "original" color, which is pretty much desaparu. I have slow greying genes. Father died at 48 with no grey, grandmother at 74 with none also. So, I'm still mostly mousy brown, hoping the final grey will be one of those pretty shades.</p>
<p>TheDad, maybe you should do something to keep your hair from looking "extinguished". Wait to shift from Depp to Tevye until you are ancient (about six months from now, maybe)! :p</p>
<p>Jmmom, if you are drifting and your gm was 74 and still her natural color, does that make you 75+?</p>
<p>That of my hair which has not gone elsewhere has mainly turned gray.</p>
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evil twin yemayo, stop posting under your sweet sister's name!</p>
<p>I am at that "brown-turning-to-iron-gray stage" myself. The best part of this is that in my teens I had that kinda of baby fine hair that could never hold a curl and had no body whatsoever and now I've got lots of body and even curls. So I am heading to spectacul dowagerhood I imagine....</p>
<p>Which reminds of the day of my senior prom nearyly forty years ago when the hairdresser (in trying to curl my hair) was so stoned and busy talking to her colleague that she didn't watch what she was doing and sucked half my hair up in the hair dryer -- all the way to my scalp!</p>
<p>They had to pry the hair dryer open to free my hair and it was frizzled and burned so badly that she had to cut off the other side of foot long hair to match it. And being the unworldy, dumn teen that I was, I still -- I still paid her!!!</p>
<p>A Cosmo, please. Make it a double-gynormous size. Just pour it in a bucket, and put it on the floor where I am currently residing.</p>
<p>On the way home from dropping D off at her summer college dorm, Dh and I determined that this was the fourth weekend in a row that we have spent moving crap. Tons of crap in, tons of crap out. Crap packed up in see-through, plastic bins. Milk crates of crap. Crap zip-locked into quart and gallon-size bags. It's ironic that the new car we just bought is called an Escape, and all we ever do is haul crap in it. We're full of crap, and we're exhausted!</p>
<p>Mudgeman, glad to hear your mudgekin is on the mend. And, thanks for the lol moments, you guys. Good news! Slugg, Jr passed all of his classes --2 B's and 3 C's. Dh said it was the first time all year that he opened a grade report and his chest didn't seize up on him. All I can say is, RIP junior year!</p>
<p>Now, would one of you kindly push the bucket over this way? At the end of the week, I'm switching to tropical drinks with little umbrellas in them. :)</p>
<p>there ya go sluggbugg, with a nice bendy straw so you don't even have to lift your head.</p>
<p>Maybe we could just hook it up intraveneously....</p>
<p>Do sluggs have veins? Guess no salt on the margarita....</p>
<p>Yemaya, I must introduce you to AriesAthena...you two have much in common.</p>
<p>champagne and orange juice...always feels like a party...</p>
<p>and chocolate, melted with strawberries</p>
<p>Just read some of this thread for the first time....the last two pages and the first 8 pages.....kind of sad that I missed so much of it... I do identify with a lot of what has been captured here...I have a Charles Chips can in my cupboard right now....cause I have worked with Vermont Country Stores in recent times and they had samples and they were quite delish.....and Charles is a great name.....</p>
<p>anyway, my contribution was prompted by someone who wrote about Wax Lips..... 2 yrs ago this past February, I found Wax Lips (the big red ones) at a store....and the packaging said they were made out of gum.....so I picked up several to give to my youngest son (age 11 at the time +/-) and his friends for Valentines.. I gave them to the kids after dinner .... and pitched the whole gum aspect....they were quite excited and took large bites.. and chewed and chewed.... until they realized they had a mouthful of wax....surprise, surprise....we were all surprised....the kids were aghast that I would encourage them to eat wax....to this day, they joke and ask me if I have any candles they can eat.....I still swear that I honestly thought they were gum.....</p>
<p>loved Sluggbug's rant about hauling crap...so much of my energy all these years is to ensure we have things that provide the most stimulating and challenging environment.....I kind of feel like I am the only one that got attached to all of this crap.....and because the home is small, I am the one that is moving things around to accomodate our current operating environment while at the same time I am hesitating to throw things away....it is kind of awful when you are your own worst enemy? n'cest pas? did we really all have this many shoe choices back when we were our kids ages? or is it that I am surrounded by males and hence, I really am the problem??? I do have majority owner share in 5 of 8 closets in our house......is that normal? or just indicative or a greater issue???? a "growing" issue...LOL.....</p>
<p>Well guys, I'm having this one more for the road (no salt, please), then I've got to be on my way. My designated driver is waiting outside and we've got a long way to go. Next time I'm passing through, I may stop in for a cold one.....</p>
<p>Is this a seedy, pass-out kinda bar? ...Where, if we're too tired to drive home, we can just fall asleep surrounded by pizza platters in the booths near the pool table and jukebox. Or are we in a dressier place (as opposed to "joint") in long jeans instead of cut-offs, with tables that have real, not fake, flowers on them....I'm just trying to get my bearings.</p>
<p>Seedy, for sure.</p>
<p>Despite the implications of the name, I dont think Sinners Alley is a seedy kind of place (unless thats what you need it to be.) To me, seedy implies a rundown, dirty place with nicotine stained windows and disreputable, possibly dangerous customers. Sinner's Alley may not be in the best part of town, but it is an anchor (and oasis) for the neighborhood. People may come here for confession, but they dont seek absolution, only companionship with kindred spirits. </p>
<p>Lets look around. What I see is that the furniture is worn but comfortable and still solid. It has none of those tiny tables that will barely hold your glass. You can lean your elbows on these tables (and stand on them later in the night if youre so inclined ;) ). We have a scuffed wooden floor that gets swept and mopped nightly (even if it doesnt need it.) The bar is also wooden, but smooth and shiny and wiped down regularly. Do we see any disreputable-looking characters here with us? Well maybe a couple, but they dont look dangerous. I think their scars are just more visible than on the rest of us. And if youve overindulged or just need a nap? You can crash in one of the corner booths, but that usually only lasts as long as your buddies keep you propped up, and until you start snoring. Snoring is likely to interrupt the conversation, so they help you to one of the couches in the back room. Its used mostly for storage, so it's quiet and safe. Well, thats what I see someone else may notice other details. </p>
<p>BTW, What do we have on the jukebox? The music and musicians that were discussed previously? Who else?</p>
<p>There's an eclectic mix on the jukebox: George Jones singing "It's Been a Good Year for the Roses"; Frank Sinatra doing "One More for My Baby, and One More For the Road"; Vince Guaraldi plays "I Cast My Fate to the Wind"; a forgotten polka band doing a version of "The Anniversary Waltz" is there, as is Rosemarie Clooney singing "Lush Life" with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Oddly, "Disco Duck" still sits among the others, though no one has chosen to play it since that unfortunate incident in 1978.</p>