Boo, it would be a little more expensive then $38 dollars for me to fly to the convention site!

I de-seeded a pomegranate and it was exceptionally juicy; myself and the kitchen looked as if somebody had slashed my throat with one of the boy's global knives. They don't call them blood oranges for nothing. I've been suffering rage of late and the violence of prising the fleshy jewels from the skin was rather satisfying.

I'm curious to know which bustie derailed is.

chicago would make the most sense imho.... more busties per square mile.


confession: i am an utter bleeding heart dork when watching dog training shows. i can't help myself. i love dogs, so the entire time i'm watching 'it's me or the dog' or 'the dog whisperer' i am constantly cooing over the dog and saying it's name. "aaaaw, howie!" "tsk. ooooh, howie!" or just plain, "howieeeeeee!" or "aaaaaaawww..."

GT, would you come out for that??

tis tempting....lord knows i'd want to.

IF I have a good job by then (oh please maude) and could find a cheap enough flight I would consider going to Chicago in Autumn/fall.

I'm thinking September or October would be a good time, summer is done, students are back in school, Thanksgiving in Canada is the first week of October, or something like that.

aw hell,what with a quasi-promotion, i've got control of the work schedule for the next 12 months. i think a little self-nepotism calls for a catlady cameo at a chi-town bustie-thon.

My couch is open to anyone who wants to come over....as long as you don't mind Albus' after-dark shenanigans!

psssssst.... who is albus?

dunno... october is kinda cold round those parts....
vegas sounds warmer for october....lol ich, but for you culture, it's probably just right....*shivers*

My cat...why, what were you hoping for?

while it may be cooler in these parts during the Fall, we know how to keep the heat goin'. And the heat is always on right here....

polly - maybe GT would like getting some quality time with a little pussy.....

And Albus is pretty sesi!

He'd be happy to oblige, I'm sure- he's very affectionate.

I wish I were going to Coachella. I just want to go once to experience it.

mee-YOW!

y'all are out of control...

confession: I have no idea what Coachella is?

confession: as much as I love my Airygirl, I would so Lurve to snurgle w/ Albus !

confession: I wish I had eyebrows like Kim Novack in Gt's avatar, mine are so scrawny & blah.

confession: I just now archived my PM's so it's empty again; so I'm lazi, what of it?

confession:i am an eyebrow freak. freck, i shave and draw/paint my eyebrows on with waterproof liquid eyeliner every three days because they don't grow in a shape i like....and the shape i like keeps changing.

confession: a local free paper wrote an article about seattle's 10 worst, most notorious dive bars. we are talking down-and-outer, day drunk bars. is it bad that i've visited more than half of them? how about that i know where 8 of them are and could guide you there w/o address or map. how about that 3 are in my hood or near it? how about that know two guys that are regulars at two of the bars, i briefly frequented one, (dollar pbr! whoo!) or that i find it funny they left off one of seattle's most notorious, famous ones because most grundge bands used to frequent it, and most of the drunks there are under 45ish, and i used to get loaded there after work....? (ah the charms of park bench bar seating....)

Freck, Coachella is a yearly three day concert near Indio, CA.

Confession: I am thoroughly enjoying this white out. It's freezing & hasn't stopped snowing since midnight last night & it is awesome. Drinking submarinos, watching movies, & snuggling with the monster kitty.

Confession: I haven't spoken to anyone (local) in my mother's family since last July & do not plan on doing so in the near future. I've hung up (It's so cool that I can hang up my phone without answering it!) on my uncle twice today as I have nothing to say to him & will not put up with his hillbilly bullshit. Somebody probably needs money since I know they aren't calling about my well-being.

thank you ap, I thought it was more like a shopping thing!
and fyi? I'd call you just to say Hello if we were related.
it's rainy, warm & humid here and I am envying you your whiteout.

gt: please come to my house & patiently teach me how to do my eyebrows, will ya will ya please??

confession: I ate 1/2 a large cheese pizza & now have the burps.

omg, freck, i would so do that in a heart beat. i will talk your ear off about eyebrows, you'd get so sick of hearing me yap about eyebrows, you'll shave them off yourself, the freckette, the hubby AND YOUR PETS completely just to shut me up. one trick is practice, i'd get you a pointed brush and a thing of ink so you could practice on paper.

oh no, be grateful that you are half way across the country.

*waves at aural*

confession:a bustie called me and left a message on my vm, and i've been bouncing off the walls since. i get ridiculously loopy whenever busties call me. i lurve me some busties. i think they're swell. ^{_{(and they make me giddy too.)}}

Hi, GT!

I happen to have great eyebrows, but when I went to get my mani/pedi, I got accosted by the chick about waxing them. If I wanted 'em waxed, I'd have asked for it. Her brows were well shaped, but about a half an inch long, fuzzy caterpillars.

Freck, I just saw on the news that a tornado hit your town tonight. Is that weather not dramatic enough for you?

hope you are ok, freck!

hi aural!
my problem is that i'll see a magazine or a movie and i'll decide i want my eyebrows like that, just to see how it looks on my face, and zoop! gotta try it. along the way i try anything i can think of, powders, brow pencils, liquid liner, scissors, brow razors, brow combs... about the only thing i haven't learned is waxing....

i guess that's next.

confession: since the age of 9, i've been obsessed with my eyebrows. madonna was an inspiration for eyebrows. blond ambition where they were fuller and penciled in, during erotica, when the thin look was in. i transfered my eyebrow obsession onto my ex. thank goodness for my ex, i made her eyebrows into nice lovely shape flattering brows. i got pleasure tweezing her eyebrows. i think her gf should thank me.

confession: i can't wait to get my income tax check so i can buy bras that fits my girls since they decided to have an adolescent growth spurt....in my 30s.

confession: i miss the glamazons of the 80s and early 90s and that whole fashion period. the excess. yes, i miss cindi, naomi (before her cellphone throwing days), christy, linda, elle, stephanie seymour...those were models. i miss versace, gaultier, mugler. i miss herb ritts, bruce weber, avedon. i miss the threatrics of fashion. i am SUPERexcited thierry mugler is designing for beyonce's current tour.


(((freckle))) i hope you are ok.

lol... i learned my eyebrow obsession from kitty. she used to drive me nuts brushing her eyebrows the wrong way. funny thing was, brushed the right way they were picture perfect. but the wrong way they looked all mad scientist stylee. but she and i would girl watch, and we would comment on the brows. infact she could tell the girls i would get crushes on because of their eyebrows.

and star, i so agree, i thought muglier was the best thing since baked bread (and still do). his clothes were so witty.

Don't forget Kevyn Aucoin- I'm like the least makeup-y kind of person and I love his stuff, have a couple of his books.

Confession: I am obsessed with my husband's eyebrows. Oh, the glorious things I could do to those babies with a pair of tweezers ...

oh polly, i forgot about kevyn aucoin! too bad he was a fan of the pills.

rose, i admire your restraint with sheff's brows.

confession: i wish i had some kind of chip in my brain that could type out everything i want to say when writing papers. everything sounds better when i say it in my head. i guess that is what my hands are for.

Hey, if you had acromegaly, you'd be a fan of the pills, too. Kevyn's nose, tongue & lips swelled, as did his feet & hands. Combine that with constant headaches, joint pain, a sleep disorder, vision problems, etc. That shit was excrutiatingly painful, I'd have been popping the big Tylenol like candy as well.

Right, he had that pituitary problem. Did he die of an overdose or from the disease? I forget.

ditto on eyebrows. I started tweezing over 10 years ago. In high school I fucked them up and didn't know how to fix them, but was too afraid to grow them back out and start over-I didn't want to be in school with overgrown brows! But looking back at photos and seeing how horribly uneven they were, it would've actually looked better. After HS i grew them out finally and reshaped them, and they've been pretty marvelous since.

Eyebrows are the first thing I notice about a person's face, and also what I could do to them to make them better : P

The first time I got my eyebrows waxed was for my bat mitzah. I was 12 or 13. Haven't stopped since. I do them myself.

If I see someone with great eyebrows I will ask where / who does them. I don't trust people with my brows. I can count four people who I have let wax them since the age of 12.

At the place where I get mani pedis they always ask me if I want them to do my eyebrows. I say no because I haven't seen their work before . I need a portfolio of your eyebrow work or a great deal of trust before I will let some random person touch my brows. I am very particular.

lol....lady j, you are a riot.

so happy to hear that my eyebrow obsession isn't too out of wack....lol. but i totally notice the eyebrows first.

and the only make up book i have is aucoin.

same here, MLJ-I won't let anyone else touch 'em. But I LOVE doing other people's!!

Tylenol toxicity resulted in the failure of his kidneys & liver, so that was the official cause of death.

really?!?! yikes!
but yes we are totally ok & didn't know a thing about it!

thank you for all your busties love & concern.

aural, do you know everything?

ETA:
lol freck you are so funny.

To quote a line from one of my favorite films, "I don't know a lot about anything, but I know a little about practically everything."

I had an interest Marfan's Syndrome, which led to me reading about other endocrine disorders, namely gigantism & acromegaly. Acromegaly is particularly interesting because it goes undiagnosed for years until a person reaches middle age or so & it begins to present itself by basically disfiguring the sufferer. Which is what happened to Kevyn. He had no idea what was wrong, he thought he was having an allergic reaction (Swollen lips, tongue, etc.) & went to his hotel doctor to be checked out. That doctor happened to have a background in endocrinology & promptly sent him to see a specialist for tests where he found he'd had an undiagnosed tumor on his pituitary gland for years.

I always found the story to be so sad because he was somebody who saw beauty in all & sought to play it up instead of cover it up with tonnes of cosmetics (The line he headed up for Revlon in 1983 (When he was only 21, no less!), Ultima II, paved the way for MAC, Laura Mercier, etc. Because all they really did was copy his "New Nudes" several years after he came up with it.), only to discover that he could not only die from the acromegaly, but face disfigurement as well. The pain would be bad enough, but the knowledge of what it could do to me if I survived would only make it worse.

well, whaddaya know? learn something new everyday. i didn't know that about kevyn. that's sad. i just remember hearing some snarky gossip after his death about pills, sharing and caring with winona ryder...didn't know the actual cause for his prescription medication.

first, ass soap. now, eyebrows. i wonder what other things busties are ocd about...

Any time you want to come over, we'll get LeBoy drunk and do his. I brought some topical anesthetic home from work to help, but he won't even let me do it with that! Such a wuss!

I have a scar going across my left eyebrow. When I have my eyebrows "groomed" there is a gap in the middle of that one....

it was an incident involving me walking around as a child looking through a prism....

About half way through my right eyebrow starts to grow up, making me look perpetually devilish on one side.

confession: I'm thinking seriously about canceling my next therapy session to go to a hockey game.
I feel like it's pretty equal as far as what it does for me and I wish I could high jack my therapist to go w/ me sinse I think she'd really dig it.

confession: the mr needs to seriously chill the fuck out or go somewhere. he's all up in me N frecklette's face about the messy house & we are just so Over it!

confession: shhhh ! sinse I was so mad at the mr tonight, I farted "dangerously closely" to his pillow and then put my feet all over it (I was lying at the foot of the bed watching tv); now that I have cooled off some & he's apologised, I'm only going to flip his pillow over.

Confession: I yelled at my TV tonight because they kept interrupting the world figure skating championships to talk about tornado warnings. My priorities are all kinds of fucked up.

It's nice to know I am not alone in my eyebrow insanity. They are constant work.


I went to an art gallery to see a friends paintings and her brother was there. I was later in formed that he asked about me by saying " who was the woman with the eyebrows?" I was elated that someone noticed my brows because I spend so much time on them.

I read tonight that old school glamour brows were the next In thing.
hmmmmm ?

confession: I AM ditching therapy tom night to go to another hockey game but it'll only be 1/2 as enjoyable if my shrink gets the actual message "L: can't make tonight at 6:00- Fireantz are in the Playoffs!!" bc I know she'll crack up hard as she loves the idea of me getting out there & so into it.

confession: I really want an annoying cowbell to ring at the games.
and #14 waiting for me on my pillow.
really, is it asking so much?

There was a guy at the roller derby game with a cowbell. I'm totally bringing a noise maker next time.