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Modest Swimwear for Women and Girls: a take (and suggestions) from your friendly Fashion Police
Modern swimwear for women has a problem: it is Too Tight and Too Skimpy. Don't get me wrong; I love the beauty of the human form, and feel that there is no shame in artfully displaying the bodies we are carting around. I think form-fitting and/or creatively skimpy swimsuits can be lovely and lots of fun to wear, but...there are Problems. Three ( Read more... ) -
What is this weird creature in my sand?!
(Nabbed the subject line from a thread regarding nano-reefkeeping. Prepare to be edjumicated ( Read more... ) -
Bathing Cats
"Eeew...BertBert, you stink ( Read more... ) -
Eep, it's WINDY here!
...really, really windy! Apparently Winter in this corner of Old Home Terra takes the form of Wind. (And if you were out in it lately, you would capitalize the word, too.) And, with the wind, comes the Dust ( Read more... ) -
Random thoughts
::sigh:: I am supposed to be doing useful stuff today. Will get to it, really -- just...in a bit.
Am once again spending lots of time on my knees...wielding the Pointy Stick Of Doom. Dandelions fear me. Thistles shudder at the sound of my footsteps. I've been doing this particular job for how long now? Fifteen years? And still getting ( Read more... ) -
This is dieting?!
Had forgotten how wonderful chicken breast sauteed in olive oil smells as it cooks! It's so nice to finally have basic kitchen-stuffs unpacked again. ("Convenient" as it may be, cooking spray is not going to be replacing olive oil poured from a bottle anytime soon in this kitchen ( Read more... ) -
They killed my flowers!!
Those bastards, whoever they are -- the flowers were still blooming, hurting no one, just being beautiful. And someone showed up at my house, mowed my grass, and mowed the flowerbeds. Even the ones raised up and surrounded by bricks, around the ornamental pond -- blooming tulips, daffodils, narcissus, hyacinths, and who knows what else which ( Read more... ) -
Rising from the grave...Happy Easter!
Am thinking that watching "Resident Evil" (with commentary) in the wee hours of the morning is a peculiarly appropriate way to welcome in Easter -- also snuggling my new friend Edmund. He is my big, fluffy, stuffed Easter Sheep. (What else do you do for Easter when your diet doesn't allow candy ( Read more... ) -
They don't warn us about this part of "grown-up" life:
...which is that vacuum cleaners, will, from time to time, require exploratory and corrective surgery ( Read more... ) -
It BIT me!!!
Of all the cheek -- I am BLEEDING more than I have bled from any injury in I-don't-know-how-long because of a freaking shaving utensil. This offends me ( Read more... )