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[hennible]

That dreaded make-up!

 

[Alaskan]

actually, the photo that I posted of my grandmother.... well, she was never pretty.... she, on her best days, was simply 'plain'

 

[Bunnylady]

Handsome has to come with personality or it ain't worth a thing

Well, Alaskan sure ain't short on personality.

 

[hennible]

So true!

 

[Alaskan]

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I was told that I looked good..... back when I was young, and had thick hair (on the top of my head), ..... and..... and..... (less wrinkles)

 

[Alaskan]

personality tends to scare people

 

[dsqard]

Don't worry Alaskan, wrinkles jus show you have lived an interesting life. I have quite a few of them (SCG may say I look just like my picture but I have a TON more wrinkles) and would never have surgery to get rid of them. I earned every one of them!

 

[Alaskan]

 

[hennible]

personality tends to scare people

Yep I've been told by people that they thought I was pretty until they heard me laugh, or I just acted like myself in general... Thankfully DH is attracted to so called abrasive personalities...

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I know our temps are not unusual for most of you, but here, it is very unusual. We have tied many records for low temps on this date and it is not supposed to get above freezing until tomorrow afternoon. Our schools have delayed starting for two hours. Here in the south, we are just not set up to deal with temps that cold. I think there is a problem with the buses starting.

You're not kidding. We're prepared - we have contingency plans for the electric being out, we have all the clothes we need to go out and thrive in this, and we have vehicles that are prepared to deal with it. We can have a nor'easter with snow up to our crotches and the roads are fine. Something like that would cripple the DC metro area (where I'm from) for at least a week.

Alaskan I would bet some of the turkeys in the picture of your grandmother are Bourbon Reds (the ones that have the lighter color bodies and white wings). They are an excellent heritage breed. They don't get huge like the broad breasted varieties but they are extremely tasty. I might have to order up some fresh poults from Porter's this year. I am down to one tom and one hen after the coyotes visited this past fall and really need a more diverse gene pool.

You don't want me to re-gift some?

Actually, I don't think the women in my family tree have a facial hair problem.... they just tend to be more on the 'handsome' side. (or, uh, down right plain)

It's better to rely on personality - at least that generally doesn't change. Looks do.

personality tends to scare people

Yeah, but the people that I've found I scare generally don't matter. The rest of us are pleased as pigs in poop that we've met another of our kind.

I had a patient that I helped right before Christmas stop by today with some soup for me out of the blue. He was thanking me for being up front and lacking in bureaucratic bull feces with him, and told me that my personality was "refreshing." Now I'm pretty sure I've never been called refreshing before (I've been called a lot of things), but I had a lovely lunch conversation with him over refreshments. I have to say it was good timing - sometimes I worry that my personality hinders my job. It probably does in some cases, but in others, it's apparently refreshing.

And once again, chickens tend to be a great topic of conversation.