Eep! *runs away from the padded room* I started with about that size... Just to make you all jealous - I glanced through a tutorial for peyote, sussed it out, picked up my 11/0's and needle and thread, and did it first time! No 'frog stitches' at all. *smug grin*
Yeah, I used to park far away to make sure the closer spots would be open in case any old ladies needed them. Now that I'm an old lady I park far away to keep my heart pumping! ;-0
Has anyone taken you up on the offer? My god.. how lazy can anyone be to park in a handicapper's spot? Is it really that hard to walk a few extra yards? Then again, Im one of those who will encourage DH to park a half mile away just to avoid that stupid circling and waiting for a parking spot game.... Diana
Congratulations. I find it a very restful, satisfying stitch... especially when you don't have a pattern so intricate you have to tie your brain in knots getting each bead in a row in the right place according to the pattern, but can just 'see' where the colors belong.
Deirdre
Yes, even when fat is a result of meds that keep you alive, there generally is an assumption that if you're fat it not only is your "fault" but is also the reason for all your other problems. And then of course, you (or I) MUST be fat because we're self-indulgent, lazy, have no pride, etc, etc.
Tina
I absolutely hate that assumption.
I would imagine that Pam is in the high 200 range. She has a heart of gold and people can only see her body. It just makes me sick. I'm pretty overweight myself and I have this tendency to just not pay much attention to people but I've heard comments, mostly from teenagers and younger kids. And I hate the way my body looks but damn, we are not our bodies. How can you hate a person because of their body without even knowing the person? Makes no sence to me. And the chair has nothing to do with her, its just a stupid another excuse for her to dislike Pam. My sil & I have discussed my mil's strange dislikes and came to the conclusion a long time ago that there is no changing her mind on anything so mostly we ignore her but sometimes its just hard to ignore certain things. When it bothers me this much, I just have to walk away from it. She has always been very racist and then her grandaughter had a child by a black guy and OMG, the things she said. She didn't think she could love Brandan but she is ga ga over that kid and of all the people in the family, Brandan goes to her first. Go figure.
Jo Jo
Oh definetly. Except my mil doesn't see anything wrong with her way of thinking. She thinks everyone else should think like she does and like what she likes.
Jo Jo
Pretty big head on your MIL.
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Kandice Seeber" :
]I like me, and that's ]all that matters.
too damn right!
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@mindspring.com (Lee S. Billings) :
]The equivalent male version says "Buddha".
you've met DAVID????????
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
She's just a strange woman. She can be so nice and loves to do stuff for you but her mind... well its different than anyone else I know. My husband doesn't think like she does. His oldest brother, he's got some of her traits but he's not as vocal around us. The majority of people don't know this stuff about my mil. Its just the family that knows her so well. When dh & I first got married 26 years ago, I can remember my mil saying she hated old people and if she lived to be 65 she wanted someone to shoot her. When my sil reminded her years later that she said that, well, lets say she has a selective memory and would rather not be shot.
Jo Jo
When I was getting sober, they told me at AA that a Fuck You attitude would prevent me from getting well. I didn't, and don't, agree. There are far, far many more women with addiction who suffer from too little ego -- sense of self and their rightness -- than who suffer from too much.
Tina
Maybe your mom and my mil are long lost sisters. My mil just turned 79 and she gets worse the older she gets. I told my sil that she honestly thinks the way she feels is right and my sil thought I was making excuses for her but I'm not, I really think the woman can't help the way she is.
Jo Jo
That attitutude is changing, the thought was that AA was a one size fits all program changed somewhere. Youre right. Women need to have a more assertive attitude to help them through to recovery. The generalization use to be that all alkies needed their ego knocked out from under them. I sure didnt need that! What little ego I had needed the same attitude you got, the *uck em attitude. ( mine was p*ss on it, but same diff) Times have changed. Thank (insert appropriate higher power). Diana
Well, from what I have read that includes you, dollface.
Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.." -- Counting Crows
Ooooohhhhh yahhhh.. you betcha!!! :-) Di
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