The Old Folks Home

[drumstick diva]

I used to cut my own hair because I couldn't afford to pay a hairdresser and tip them. Besides I used to trim dogs and thought "how hard could it be." Well I really goofed up and one side accidentally(?) got shaved to the skin. Couldn't figure any way to make it look better, so did the same to the other side.

Was standing behind another woman waiting to be served in a store. She turned around and told me to move farther away from her. I'm guessing she thought I had cooties. At that moment I wished I had and got them all over her. Boy I was ticked off.

A man I knew from high school said he almost died when he saw my hair - he thought I must have been dying of some disease. I told him just a bad haircut.

It was funny I was in a grocery store and a little boy came over to me and said "Are you a girl or a boy?" I have a feeling his mother put him up to it. I said "I'm a girl with very short hair." He didn't look convinced and neither did his mother.

My sister had a fit and said "people are going to think you are a "you know what?" I said
"you mean all it takes is a short haircut?" Then I pointed out that my sister's professionally cut hair was just as short as mine but, she paid plenty to look that way.

I had my hair very short for several years. I liked the fact that after I got out of the shower it dried very fast on it's own. I used to keep it longer in summer and in fall cut it very short because winter coat hoods & hats made it look horrible.

The last year or two decided to let it grow. It's below my shoulders now and I love it except when I zip up the winter coat & hood- some hair gets caught in the zipper. OUCH!! Can't braid it because I have very fine straight hair, it doesn't hold a set and if I try to braid it, it just falls out straight again. I figure you have to pick your battles wisely. I'm NOT tired of long hair yet, so I let it be.

 

[microchick]

My hair was down to my waist when I cut it short, DD. It's been short since then and that was back in 2003 when I turned 50. And yes, I heard the same thing and my reaction was the same as yours only I told the commenter that I worked with nurses who were...well, you know....and their hair was longer than mine was before I cut it. So much for stereotyping people.

My husband loves my short hair and every time I moan about having to trim it every three weeks and threaten to grow it out I get a resounding NO! from him. Doing the bike riding and racing that we used to do and then motorcycle riding, having short hair is just so much easier to deal with.

As to dealing with stuff being spilled on floors, our whole house is laminate planking. Something gets spilled (eggs rolling out of the refrigerator where I've hurriedly tossed them until I can get them washed and cartoned) stuff falling off plates, etc, all I do is yell CLEAN UP! ISLE 3! and dogs come running to do the job for me. All I have to do is mop up afterwards to get all the doggy smoots washed off.

Pets have a job also! They also prewash plates before they get popped into the dish washer. I've heard more than a few EEEEEWWWWWs about that but then I explain that bleach gets added to the dishwasher so all's well in the germ department. Hey, doctor told me to cut corners when it comes to work so I do as I am told! I had a cartoon at my office desk of a dog standing in the dishwasher licking the plates with the caption "pre-wash cycle" Now if I don't shut the dishwasher door the cattle dogs will climb in to pre- wash for me.

Now if I could just get the cats to do something besides leaving fur balls all over the house, life would be perfect!

 

[perchie.girl]

I wore short Short hair for years Like one inch short... Till I got older and Fatty bumps started growing on my head... Now I have to let it grow to about two inches to cover them.

Before the short hair I had a perminant for years... Short hair short perminant. Before that was when Wedges were in style.... Then I got accused of looking like Donny Osmand.... In went the perm.

IN highschool My hair was long and I wore a leather head band... Parted in the middle. it was about half way down my back.

My hair is fine and when I braid it up its a little string... So the perm went a long way to making it look fuller.

deb

 

[CapricornFarm]

My hair was very straight , but as I get older it has started to get a curl to it if I let it dry naturally. I like having hair at least shoulder length, so I can tie it up if I want to.
I did have it cut short last time my hair got really long, donated the ponytail to be made into a wig for a child with cancer. Not a fan of short hair. Hubby has his buzzed off ( he asked me to do it) . Not a fan of that either, but it is his hair. He likes minimal maintenance. He looks like his Dad.

 

[microchick]

I did the same thing, Cap. 18 inches to Locks of Love. They asked me if I would grow my hair out for them again and I told them it probably wasn't going to happen.

 

[ronott1]

All that work, vacuuming, and mopping all the floors Monday night, and the kitchen floor is a disaster now. One kid spilled a whole glass of tea. One dropped his plate, as he was carrying it to the garbage to clean it off, before putting it into the sink, and got ketchup all over. The youngest dropped food all over. Sheesh!

Kids can be quite messy!

 

[ronott1]

Serous is normal at first. I'd just keep the wounds slathered with triple A ointment and covered. For some reason I've never found dog bites to be as bad as cat bites when it comes to healing them up and our dermatologist agrees.

Today the vet's 'office cats' were out in full force and every one of them had to come up and see Varn. Now this little termite who has been the terror of every cat we own was rubbing noses and wanting to play with the kitties.Some times ya just wanna cry!

The office manager said that just about every cat hating dog that comes into the office loves the office cats. I think it's because there are about 10 of them and they are all just adorable pushy hair balls.

@perchie.girl, I hit about 4 hair stylists before I found one that when I said 'I want my hair to look like Hallie Berry's when she was a Bond girl' knew what I was talking about. I told her I was relocating and needed to be able to trim my hair myself and she showed me how to do it. She did a perfect job and I've kept that hairstyle for over 15 years now. Women tell me that they love my hair and wished they had the guts to wear it as short as I do mine. I tell them it's simple and even if you make a mistake, a baseball cap and 8 weeks cures all problems.

@ronott1 was it you who said to wrap my gifted pheasant in bacon? Well the little devil that sits on my left shoulder whispering 'but you LOVE bacon' won out and I bought bacon today.

I love bacon too!

I do not remember posting that but bacon wrapping game meat is a classic way of keeping it tender

You can brine them too

 

[Peep_Show]

Funny for the day....

 

[bruceha2000]

Here's the one where they did it in 2017, which is exactly how it was done today.

i hope those guys spend the rest of their lives in the slammer.

Now if I could just get the cats to do something besides leaving fur balls all over the house, life would be perfect!

They do! They track litter out of the box so you have something else to clean up.

 

[microchick]

Yeah, and with 5 cats.....lots of litter. My favorite (not really) trick of theirs is to kick litter out of the litter pans (we use these huge cement mixing pans that are about 2X3 feet and we have one for each cat + one extra) and then they poop outside the box on their little piles of litter that they neatly scrape together for us.

I keep threatening that I'm going to turn them into oven mitts but they just purr and rub up against my face (knowing I'm allergic to them no doubt) saying we wuv you mommy.

Speaking of cats, our diabetic boy pulled a fast one on us today. After having blood sugars in the mid to high 400s the past month, the little snot suddenly went hypoglycemic on us just like he did before. I was watching him and suddenly it dawned on me that he was acting 'goofy'. He was crawling around on the lower shelf of our entertainment center and then walked over to the futon and couldn't find his way around a light cord....I'm not joking. He couldn't figure it out. He had his forehead on it and couldn't figure out how to get his head 'around' it to walk away. DH asked me to help Cash as he was tangled in a cord and I said, ummmm no, we had better check his blood sugar. Sure enough 39.

So I grabbed the honey and got a gob down him. Little turd bless him, he's trying to go into remission again. I hope he succeeds.

The funny thing is that our Jack Russell mix dog, Spot was following him around while this was happening. She wouldn't leave him alone. We chased her off a few times but she kept after him. Suddenly dawned on me that she was sensing his change in body chemistry. I've read that they can 'smell' blood sugar drops in diabetics and are being used as service dogs trained to smell when young people with brittle Juvenile diabetes go hypoglycemic and develop acidosis. She never bothers Cash so that had to be it. She got a hug, an apology for ignoring her and a big dog biscuit.

Sure made a believer out of me.