What's on your mind? (2025) - good way to start... even if a bit early... :-)

Happy Birthday! Your plans sound great - enjoy! :birthday:

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Weirdly, I can see that working.

If they’re anything like the kids I teach, you’ll get a detailed recap.

Heck yeah! New horizons await you. Sometimes liberation can follow disaster.

I have never understood makeup, in general, save for acting and the like. I always felt the women I knew who wore makeup in quantity were doing it to impress other women, not guys. I’ve told every girlfriend I’ve ever had that the makeup is unneeded. Show me the soul! I work in a school where very few wear makeup, and those that do seem to have a feel for moderation. My God, those long eyelashes I’ve seen some wearing are hilarious, to me. I have trouble taking folks seriously with those on, when I look them in the eye. The “cat eye” makeup, too, can’t wait for that fad to die. Seems to be dying, though.

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You shop a lot like I do. I buy bulk things that last, and am always looking for deals. I have a Woodmans (huge grocery store) I shop at and they always have clearance fruit/veggie bags for $1.00. There’ll be pounds of food: Daikon radish, rutabagas, peppers of all kinds, etc.

I started young, too. Love my mom. Started with basic homemade bread. Now, working on perfecting her beef Wellington, a forgotten classic. Bought the tenderloin cheap off a farmer.

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LOL!!! Thanks. I’m in jail right now, and that lifted my spirits.

Lovely critter and photo. I’m pretty into biology and animals in general. Never heard of these.

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Adorable. As a squirrel hunter, all squirrels seem to have a natural tendency to do that. Usually now butt up, though. Flatten out and circle. Stunning animal. Look at the paws on that thing.

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I have pine squirrels by my camper, and they are the most beautiful things. I’m muy color blind, but I believe they are dark red. Love watching them frolic.

I work with kids on self control, including some serious OCD, MDD, PTSD, BPD. Control your air, you control you. After we get the breathing down, then we work on self talk. What you say to yourself matters. Really help kids to kill, or at least tolerate, rumination and think rationally.

Now you’re talking. Being a WI-inite, I never noticed that none of our pro teams have a predator mascot. Occupations: Packers, Brewers, and our favorite prey: Bucks. Our college football, Badgers, are a reference the the miners in the state of yesteryear.

This is why I’m getting my dog certified therapy dog training. Like you and me, kids often feel the same way. He’ll love it more than the kids. All he gotta do is, act naaaturallyyyyyyy.

Yeah, it’s hard for me to take someone who has hair awnings glued to their eyelids seriously. Plus, the installations fail in clumps, not all at once. Looks even weirder.

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I’m much less critical with kids. They experiment with vanity all the time. Great to see them come to the conclusion: " I look better just as me." Yes you do! You don’t cover up beauty trying to look pretty. I expect the whole dress up at prom and homecoming; but the beauty shows in the boring day-to-day: cute little kids to bonehead middle schoolers, to young, beautiful adults. I’m blessed to be able to observe the metamorphosis from age 4 to graduation and beyond, with most.

If you come to my office wearing a KISS shirt, though, I’m gonna give you some raspberries.

With all the health issues a number of us here are experiencing, this spoke to me:

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This sounds like you’re telling people what to do with their own faces, but that can’t be right.

Yes, people present as they do for all sorts of reasons, not all of them involving attracting romantic attention.

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Tarantula eyes! To each their own, I guess.

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Have a great celebration! Looking forward to :pizza: Saturdays to come.

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