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23418. arkymalarky - 1/19/2008 1:35:17 AM My grandmother was a beautiful seamstress and made my wedding dress. She made her whole family's clothes. I was always too spastic and sloppy to sew well. I had a good friend in high school who was great and sewed me stuff. I could hand stitch pretty well. 23419. wonkers2 - 1/19/2008 3:55:44 AM Both my grandmothers were quite good seamstresses and good cooks too. Somehow the torch didn't get passed to the current generation! Not enough time I suppose. 23420. arkymalarky - 1/19/2008 7:19:55 AM Grandmother worked in a sewing factory, but she was a respected seamstress there as opposed to doing repetitive assembly-line seams, and did a lot of sewing on the side. 23421. webfeet - 1/19/2008 9:07:15 PM Why don't more mothers end a playdate with calvados?
Each week I have a trolley car full of little people getting off at my doorstep. And I love it, because this frees my daughter from curling up with goldfish and asking, 'Can I watch a baby show?" or 'Mommy, pway with me' to which the answer is almost, routinely, no, and lets her dress up like a fairy princess, instead, with a friend. And my son exits the crusades on-line for human contact, for actual jousting with a star wars light saber with a willing opponent. What could be better?
Yesterday, at the end of a double playdate in which my son ran into the kitchen asking me for 'green food coloring' and I, insanely, acquiesced, I walked into my bedroom to find that he and his girl-friend had wrapped themselves up in toilet paper and were playing mummies on my bed, and that the green food coloring, was somehow 'leaking mummy intestines' and it stained my already shabby pottery barn rug in parts, green.
And, then having to go behind the back of the hulkish, joyless nanny from somewhere in the caräibes who did nothing but berate her poor irish charge (until the poor child burst into tears on the toilet because she'd soiled herself) I did a calvados shot. It was either that or kahlua (which I use to make truffle bars with, of course I don't drink that!) and calvados, decidedly, won.
And this lovely parent, who is always class mom, who told me she never ever drinks, and whose daughter had just traashed my apartment with my son, joked: "I bet that keeps you company during the day, too."
This is what I mean by *no parents I know, even the fun ones, are fun.* Instead of joining me for a drink, it was apparently more fun to insinuate that I am an alcoholic.
23422. wabbit - 1/19/2008 9:30:05 PM t'ful, that dress is beautiful! I used to make all my own clothes when I was in Jr. high/high school - you can't even begin to imagine. The Home Ec. teacher hated me, because I just couldn't bother following along with the class. They'd spend four weeks making an elastic waist A-line skirt, and by then, I had made the skirt, a shirt or two, and was on my third pair of trousers. I'd show up with stripes and plaids and fabric with a nap, then make my own pattern, and she'd go wild and send me to the principal's office. He and I got to be great friends (he had a crush on my mother, which didn't hurt). I used to tell him, "This is what you get for not letting girls take mechanical drawing," which was the class I really wanted to take. But sewing class was required for 7th grade girls back then. Cooking was for 8th grade girls. And the boys got into that class a few years before girls were allowed to take mechanical drawing, nevermind shop.
Ok, rant over...
Webfeet, your book is going to be a bestseller, I'm certain of that. 23423. webfeet - 1/19/2008 10:32:31 PM Picture me at this stage, hacking through the dead skulls along base camp as I plow my way up Mt. Everest..I still have a long way to go, wabbit, but you have always been a dear source of inspiration along this jagged, lonely ice-worn path. 23424. jexster - 1/20/2008 2:52:56 AM Wonks..
I've a friend here in SF I've known since DC days...30 years..getting on in years and so he's moving back home..home that he left in 1963...or fled
Home sweet home
LIVONIA MICHIGAN!
Got himself a fine 2bdrm apartment - 800/mo
Couldn't find a studio in SF for that 23425. wonkers2 - 1/20/2008 4:27:06 AM There are plenty available for even less. We are in foreclosuresville thanks to the Californians buying Toyotas, etc. 23426. arkymalarky - 1/20/2008 4:33:55 AM Maybe Arkies will start retiring in Detroit rather than vice versa. 23427. wonkers2 - 1/20/2008 4:38:02 AM The more the merrier! 23428. arkymalarky - 1/20/2008 5:19:58 AM You know, I was kidding, but I think it would be a good possibility for Michigan. I loved Detroit the one time I visited, and summers here are hot enough and my allergies are bad enough, that moving in retirement would have appeal--and I'm like a lot of people around here. I won't move because I'm too in love with where I am, and if I did it would be to where our cabin is in CO; but AR has done well by welcoming retirees, since our business economy is so poor. Maybe y'all ought to start advertising in states where old folks looking for reasonable housing live. 23429. arkymalarky - 1/20/2008 5:21:53 AM Of course I guess it's so cold, and older people are looking for warmer areas, but it's really far too hot and humid for elderly people here, especially those with breathing problems. 23430. judithathome - 1/20/2008 5:18:17 PM Spent Friday night at the ER for 4 hours. Keoni came home from work with a huge swelling in his lower abdomen on the lower left side...I thought it was a hernia or something. He had a fever of 102.
So he was seen by a doctor finally and they didn't take blood or get a urine sample, just gave him Tylenol and a massive shot of antibiotic and said go see your doctor on Monday. Oh, they also gave him 2 prescriptions.
He feels better today...I ran out and bought the makings for Miso soup and I think that has improved him more than what they did at the ER!. I think it's a lymph node that is swollen and that he has some sort of infection in his "plumbing". Anyhow, eventful weekend.
Hey, Webbie! I'd have joined you in a second...that prude parent is probably mainlining valium even as she chides you for a short tipple. Those types are always the sort that do...and expect you to feel guilt.
You should work in a nice little aside about her breakdown later in the book...heh.
23431. jexster - 1/20/2008 6:14:48 PM Don't give me that shit about Toyotas you Honking plutocrat!
I was watching First 48..TWO Detroit homicides....One of the DETROIT POLICE CARS - A NISSAN ALTIMA!!!!!!!! 23432. arkymalarky - 1/20/2008 6:19:22 PM I hope Keoni gets that resolved asap. ER's are such a crapshoot. My grandmother had a severe reaction to an antibiotic and the ER doctor told her it was "nerves." 23433. jexster - 1/20/2008 6:44:24 PM I went twice to an ER
First time so in extremis that they wheeled me right into the Code Blue room...
The second time 105 fever and infection on my fucking spine, I lay on my back for 18 hours while they looked for a room and dripped morphine..
Seen both sides..SFGH though has one of the top ER's 23434. wonkers2 - 1/20/2008 7:24:11 PM Emergency rooms are among the most disorganized operations I've ever seen. They need a good Japanese management consultant. 23435. jexster - 1/20/2008 7:26:43 PM That's why they're called EMERGENCY rooms
Sheesh
Funny isn't it that a pastured US auto manager would recommend the JAPS!
As David would say "'nuff said" 23436. judithathome - 1/21/2008 5:33:17 PM Keoni went to work this morning and sees the doctor this afternoon. He couldn't find his wallet and acted like a spoiled child. Not good at being sick, obviously. 23437. arkymalarky - 1/21/2008 6:12:05 PM Let us know how it goes, Judith.
Our little hospital is excellent, and their ER care is, as well, but it's the doctors that get me. You absolutely don't have a clue who you're going to get, and they're not from here. Bob and I each on separate occasions had doctors who were so excellent we asked about their private practices. Both happened to be from Little Rock.
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