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  1. sheeplady

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    That song has always been a point of reflection for me that Janis herself was done in by the consumption of drugs, fueled by her aassociates use and her own addiction. The heroin epidemic was about mindless consumerism, or rather consumerism to be mindless. There's a tragic irony in that: some...
  2. sheeplady

    Garden plans this year?

    Very sorry Renault! I am glad you and yours are ok, and no damage to the house. When I was a baby (and asleep in my crib); a tornado struck and took the roof off of the neighbor's house and put it in our front yard. It didn't touch our house at all. They are weird things.
  3. sheeplady

    The wonder of wedding bands

    I'm the sort of American who finds the whole royalty thing... odd... because it is so out of my own cultural context. So to me, I wouldn't think that they had a PR department (or even put any thought into if they did), but it makes sense they have an established one. Suddenly the whole Diana's...
  4. sheeplady

    The wonder of wedding bands

    I felt sorry for Kate Middletown (that is how the media refers to her over here- or by Princess Kate) too. Less because of the ring, and more because the media at the time seemed obsessed with comparing Kate to her deceased mother-in-law in *every way possible.* it's really hard to compete with...
  5. sheeplady

    The wonder of wedding bands

    Some with children save them for the kids (assuming the divorce was not contentious). Most people I know sell theirs and buy themselves something nice.
  7. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Pre-kids we used to like to go shopping 11pm on Friday or Saturday night (at the 24 hour grocery). Too early for the bars to close, so the drunks weren't out yet; too late for normal people. ;) So, I am really mad at my son's carseat. It was my daughter'so before his. She moved up to a new...
  8. sheeplady

    The wonder of wedding bands

    I have a vintage engagement ring and a modern band bought to coordinate. After having our daughter and going through cancer treatment, I found my knuckles had "swollen" and my rings no longer fit even after i had lost the weight. I have bony hands, so my knuckles keep my rings on. (I asked if...
  9. sheeplady

    How do you feel about(Vintage) fur?

    I don't think of sheepskin as fur either. Sheep aren't grown only (or even primarily, in most cases) for their pelt, but it's a by-product. Fur I consider to be the product of the primary reason an animal is raised. There's a grayish area here.... like Sable rabbits that are often raised for...
  10. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I've witnessed people get mad when someone asks said people to please not touch their service dog, s/he is working. Talk about entitled. I want to go to these people at work and constantly stick them with a pencil. What, it's hard to work when you're being annoyed? Jab, jab, jab. Huh. I...
  11. sheeplady

    Why did we make ourselves into walking advertisements?

    Did ladies wear these buttons as well? Personally I love t-shirts. I do a lot of grimy dirty work that necessitates throwing them out after wearing them for awhile. I collect the free ones, normally I snag 2 to 3 a year, which keeps me in good supply. Then I don't feel bad when I need to toss...
  13. sheeplady

    How do you feel about(Vintage) fur?

    So I think this is a generational thing, at least in my area. I'm trailing Gen Xer. I kind of grew up "conscious" of the fur debate all my life, and I've chosen not to wear it as of yet. I'm part of the "101 Dalmatians generation"- I grew up with that movie. I own one vintage piece of fur, a...
  14. sheeplady

    Lost art of proper relaxation

    I'll have to locate a good fountain pen. A suprising number of my students handwrite notes, about half. Basically the ones paying attention do. I allow laptops, but I assume most of them are disengaged. (I teach adults, if they are non-disruptive I don't police what they do in class.)
  15. sheeplady

    Lost art of proper relaxation

    I always thought my cursive was horrible as a kid, my mother used to complain about it so much that in high school I started printing all the time. In college, I simply couldn't print fast enough to take notes, so I wrote in cursive. One of my professors looked at one of my not books in class...
  16. sheeplady

    Garden plans this year?

    Aww! We fight grass at the new place. It has very rich rocky soil (lots of thorn apples, supposedly they only grow where it is rich?) The stuff is really bad. I'm 5'7" and it will get as tall as me. It hasn't been cared for in years, so it is full of goldenrod and quack grass. I grew up on a...
  17. sheeplady

    Garden plans this year?

    I see that hose is redundant for the next couple of days. If I want rain all I need to do is spend several back breaking hours getting out the hoses.
  19. sheeplady

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    Sadly they didn't realize we'd [almost] all be walking around with earbuds in our ears and screens glued to our eyes that "customize" our advertising content, while making us feel "proud" to be individuals rather than "cattle." I need to think through this a bit more (working now, so this is...
  20. sheeplady

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    I think it would depend on *who* you asked. The First Nations child ripped away from their parents to be "reeducated" (and often sexual abused) in a boarding school or by white foster parents would certainly say no. One of the things I don't like about, "oh, let's think about it like they did...
  21. sheeplady

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    That's interesting. I guess part of what amazes me is how quickly mainstream society bought into consumerism. I get that the WWII generation had been through the wringer. (I had two grandparents who ended up permanently damaged because of the absolute poverty they faced.) I am not making light...
  22. sheeplady

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    I think this is one of the reasons you see the rise of homesteading in the 1940s. If you read books like The Have More Plan it seems to be a reaction by those who wanted out of consumption and wanted to define life by means other than material. We tend to think of a "counter-culture" movement...
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