SIDEBAR #18- Arias/Alexander forum

[aa9511]

I was born in 1951 and we moved to Texas when I was seven. We walked everywhere too. Two miles to the library and to the A&P and TG&Y, and on Saturdays we'd walk to the movies. You could get in, get a coke and popcorn or a coke and candybar with a dollar. In the summer we dared each other to walk barefoot across the street or in how long one could stand in the hot melting asphalt.

We learned to avoid stinging nettles and bullheads. We made Indian villages out of hay in the barn and the cowboys were out in the pasture, and we fished in the stock pond. During the heat of the day you read or watched soap operas with your mother and Icky Twerp and Slambang Theater in the afternoon before dinner. At noon each day the fire station blew a whistle and you knew it was lunchtime.

After dinner you stayed out and played Mother May I, Red Rover, freeze tag, and crack the whip. We'd catch Horny Toads, frogs and lizards, and at night lightening bugs and watch for shooting stars. We'd only go in to take a cool bath, sprinkle Cashmere Bouquet on the sheets and you'd be out like a light.

I can't remember mine (or anyone's) parents checking on us. I think they only called out to tell the younger kids to come in, otherwise we were on our own. You ate what was put before you, and bowed your head in thankful prayer. You said yes ma'am and no sir to adults, and you removed your hat when you entered a building.

Life has changed so much. We've done great damage to Mother Earth. We have cheated our kids out of simpler times of making do with what you had, and having to rely on your imagination.

I grew up in a small town, reading about your childhood made me so nostalgic for those simpler times! Sigh. Everything is different in smaller towns and country-side. Now I live in a big city...we mostly stay indoors in the A/C.

 

[aa9511]

OK, this Hampton Inn is party central. There are a bunch of people dressed in kilts and very loud and intoxicated. They all have their doors propped open so they can go from room to room. Think I could blend in ?

:floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh:
Your post made me smile

 

[aa9511]

I honestly have no idea. I'm cool with her being incarcerated for life, so I'm not really following the re-trial of the penalty phase. My guess is that there won't be a change of venue but may be sequestration if it goes to trial on the penalty phase.

In my honest (but not popular) opinion, I think there should be a plea of lwop and no re-trial of the penalty phase. jmo

bbm

Karmady, my opinion on this is that I feel like DA has probably offered that plea and I feel sure CMJA has rejected it. MOO. She either thinks the sentencing will go to JSS, who might give her LWP, or she'll get a re-trial or smething on appeal. We all know how out-of-touch with reality she is. I think she is hinging all her bets on appeal right now.

Last night, I was watching some of the stuff on that sicko kid Michael Bargo...it ended up with jury recommending 10-2 for death sentence. I guess in Georgia (I think Georgia?) the jury gives a recommendation and then the judge decides. And he did some very very sick stuff to the victim, maybe even more sicko than CMJA. And there were still 2 against giving him death. Now, I think age played a big part in that b/c he was only 15 or something at the time of the crime. But in most poeple mind's, CMJA is also relatively young, and this is her first crime with conviction. I don't know, I have a bad feeling it's gonna come back with hung vote again.

 

[aa9511]

Has anyone else used BB Cream? I bought some hoping to replace my foundation. I hate it. Makes my skin feel really yucky and greasy.

Funny you should mention that....I was about to buy the Clinique one on Monday b/c they have one of those free gift things with it at Dillard's....

 

[m1279]

Funny you should mention that....I was about to buy the Clinique one on Monday b/c they have one of those free gift things with it at Dillard's....

Clinique might be better than what I bought. Check online for reviews. I wish I'd done that before I dropped $15 on the Garnier BB cream. Ick.

 

[ArianeEmory]

Delurk: the American BB creams are a ripoff of a concept that was originally Korean. I hugely recommend the Skin79 BB cream, the gold bottle, it's one of the original Korean ones and it's easily gotten for under $20 on amazon or eBay. It's been my go-to foundation for years now. Another brand is Missha. You can also get sealed samples on eBay very cheap if you just want to try it first.

Check http://www.makeupalley.com for reviews before you buy any beauty product. They've been around for like 14 years.

Add: I tried the Clinique CC cream a few days ago...doesn't blend well. Had the same experience with Tarte. Keep going back to skin79.

One more add: it doesn't trigger my rosacea.

 

[Lucylu7]

Idaho Lynx Hope you have a good time. :seeya:
Just had to find out what those "elephant ears" were and found this: (because I'm nosy :facepalm: :floorlaugh

ELEPHANT EARS
(makes 15 Servings)
1 1/2 cups milk
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons white sugar
3/8 cup shortening
2 tablespoons active dry yeast
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 quart oil for frying
3 tablespoons ground cinnamon
6 tablespoons white sugar
Directions
In small saucepan over medium heat, combine milk, salt, 2 tablespoons sugar and shortening. Heat until shortening melts and sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and let cool to lukewarm, 110 degrees F (43 degrees C). Sprinkle in yeast and let sit until foamy.
Transfer mixture to large bowl, and stir in flour to make a dough. Knead until smooth, cover and let rise 30 minutes.
In a large heavy skillet or deep fryer, heat 1 inch of oil to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
Roll out 1 to 2 inch balls of dough into thin sheets. Fry sheets 1 to 2 minutes on a side, until puffed and golden. Drain on paper towels.
Combine cinnamon and 6 tablespoons sugar. Sprinkle over warm pastries. Serve.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/elephant-ears-2/

Don't they look yummy :rockon:
This reminds me of the Zeppole at the Italian feast in NYC except they are, sort of, like round balls and we sprinkle with powdered sugar. :seeya:

Thanks for the recipe,DH and I have been to our local fair the last couple of days,and we had these,they call them "horse blankets" here.Yummy!Went on the ferris wheel,first time in about 18 years,loved it.But couldn't believe the price!$12.50 for the two of us.Had a great time though!

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

I grew up in a small town, reading about your childhood made me so nostalgic for those simpler times! Sigh. Everything is different in smaller towns and country-side. Now I live in a big city...we mostly stay indoors in the A/C.

It's hard at times to think that just five years before I was born that the war in Europe ended and we dropped bombs on Japan. In 1951 the 22nd amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, color tv was introduced and Albert Einstein was still alive.

The tv is on and theres something about John Lennon and Mark David Chapman on and in 1951 Catcher in the Rye was published and Les Paul and Mary Ford released How High the Moon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UOzB7I2y7Ic

and Imelda May redid it in 2010.

Darrel Higham, Jeff Beck & Imelda May - How High The Moon .AVI - YouTube

 

[Sulamith]

I was born in 1951 and we moved to Texas when I was seven. We walked everywhere too. Two miles to the library and to the A&P and TG&Y, and on Saturdays we'd walk to the movies. You could get in, get a coke and popcorn or a coke and candybar with a dollar. In the summer we dared each other to walk barefoot across the street or in how long one could stand in the hot melting asphalt.

We learned to avoid stinging nettles and bullheads. We made Indian villages out of hay in the barn and the cowboys were out in the pasture, and we fished in the stock pond. During the heat of the day you read or watched soap operas with your mother and Icky Twerp and Slambang Theater in the afternoon before dinner. At noon each day the fire station blew a whistle and you knew it was lunchtime.

After dinner you stayed out and played Mother May I, Red Rover, freeze tag, and crack the whip. We'd catch Horny Toads, frogs and lizards, and at night lightening bugs and watch for shooting stars. We'd only go in to take a cool bath, sprinkle Cashmere Bouquet on the sheets and you'd be out like a light.

I can't remember mine (or anyone's) parents checking on us. I think they only called out to tell the younger kids to come in, otherwise we were on our own. You ate what was put before you, and bowed your head in thankful prayer. You said yes ma'am and no sir to adults, and you removed your hat when you entered a building.

Life has changed so much. We've done great damage to Mother Earth. We have cheated our kids out of simpler times of making do with what you had, and having to rely on your imagination.

I loved reading your stories ILikeToBendPages! Brought back memories I had forgotten about until I read your post. Horny toads, lightening bugs, frogs. Once I rescued a mouse from a cat but the mouse bit me. I remember playing the games you played. Making mud pies and letting them "bake" in the sun and then frosting them with thin mud.

When my grandson was visiting when he was around 6, I had to talk him into playing/hanging outside with us. He wanted to watch cartoons and play Nintendo. We bought a Slip and Slide and he did have fun with that.

Can you say where you moved to Texas when you were seven? We moved from Tucson, AZ to Marfa, TX when I was around eleven. Tiny town, so not much to do there but play with critters and walk in the fields!

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

I loved reading your stories ILikeToBendPages! Brought back memories I had forgotten about until I read your post. Horny toads, lightening bugs, frogs. Once I rescued a mouse from a cat but the mouse bit me. I remember playing the games you played. Making mud pies and letting them "bake" in the sun and then frosting them with thin mud.

When my grandson was visiting when he was around 6, I had to talk him into playing/hanging outside with us. He wanted to watch cartoons and play Nintendo. We bought a Slip and Slide and he did have fun with that.

Can you say where you moved to Texas when you were seven? We moved from Tucson, AZ to Marfa, TX when I was around eleven. Tiny town, so not much to do there but play with critters and walk in the fields!

A small town fifteenth miles from downtown Dallas. When we moved here from Norman OK there were about five thousand people, and now it's close to one hundred and twenty thousand. All the places we rode horses and the farms are now sub divisions. We 're in the old part of town where the yards are an acre and still have some space to breath, plant a good size garden, and have peach, pears,figs and pecan trees. My husband take offense when the squirrels take a bite out of a pecan throw it at him and try another to see if it's ripe. He yells "there all the same you morons, figure it out". We have a pasture with horses next door and our kids and grandkids feed then sugar cubes, apples, and carrots. So it's like an oasis in the middle of the metroplex.

One year we moved to Addison where we went to school in what is now The Magic Time Machine. The first and second, the third and forth, and the fifths and six grades each shared classrooms. There wasn't a cafeteria and everyone brought their lunch. I still love a baloney and cheese sandwich and a small bag of Fritos. We'd walk to the small store two blocks away for a coke and bag of peanuts to pour in it. My favorite was a Woosie Cream Soda.

My sister dislocated her shoulder when the older boys in the neighborhood told her to stand on a board while another jumped on the other end, I got kicked in the mouth by a Shetland pony. We'd been running and jumping from behind the day before, but didn't seem to like it the next morning. It split my tongue open, and I was told not to tell or you'll get it. The only thing I hated was I couldn't chew bubblegum till it healed. It was amazing what all we kept from our parents.

 

[Mollyandme]

Delurk: the American BB creams are a ripoff of a concept that was originally Korean. I hugely recommend the Skin79 BB cream, the gold bottle, it's one of the original Korean ones and it's easily gotten for under $20 on amazon or eBay. It's been my go-to foundation for years now. Another brand is Missha. You can also get sealed samples on eBay very cheap if you just want to try it first.

Check http://www.makeupalley.com for reviews before you buy any beauty product. They've been around for like 14 years.

Add: I tried the Clinique CC cream a few days ago...doesn't blend well. Had the same experience with Tarte. Keep going back to skin79.

One more add: it doesn't trigger my rosacea.

ooo i love make up alley. i currently use Make Up Forever foundation which works well, i went through a Bare Minerals phase but I felt like it looked too cakey. I also use MAC sometimes... i will have to try skin79

 

[Tulessa]

Way off topic, but can anyone tell me anything about how to use a webcam? Look how dark, or are they all like this?

 

[gcharlie]

dang, y'all are intent on outing us lurkers! lol I was going to comment on the strategies for getting kids to eat-- I have one who eats nothing and one who eats everything-- raised exactly the same, so...and decided not to since I hadn't been about in a while and not really following what's going on. If there's a need for documents, I can swing by on Tuesday and see what's there. Let me know if you think you're missing something important

It's not important, but my curiosity would love to read Juan's objection to the Twitter motion. I'm fairly confident that he takes aim at CMJA's twitter account and wonder if he specifically quotes any of her tweets.

The objection was filed late Friday, so maybe someone with the media will publish it. More and more people seem to want to read the motions instead of just relying on the media to spoon feed them the gist of the motion.

 

[gcharlie]

What is your favorite CMJA whopper? :razz:

Mine is her bondage with twine story. Come on, you expect me to believe that? Fulfilling all kinds of fantasies with much planning and you decide to use twine for bondage in a little sex play? It scratched her wrists! :floorlaugh:

Maybe she should have tried silly string instead.

 

[Niner]

Wanted to share this with you all - since we are talking about growing up in the '50s, as I did!!

A Stroll Through Time...

Remember when?? I still do!!

If you are old enough… take a stroll with me… close your eyes… and go back… before the internet… before semi-automatics and crack… before SEGA or Super Nintendo… way back…

I’m talkin’ about hide and go seek at dusk, sittin’ on the porch, Simon Says, Kick the Can, Red Light-Green Light. lunch boxes with a thermos… chocolate milk, going home for lunch, penny candy from the store, hopscotch, butterscotch, skates with keys, Jacks, Mother May I? Hula hoops and sunflower seeds, Whist and Old Maid and Crazy Eights, wax lips and mustaches, Mary Janes, saddle shoes and Coke bottles with the name of cities on the bottom, running through the sprinkler, bobby pins, Mickey Mouse Club, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fran & Ollie, Spin & Marty… all in black & white.

When around the corner seemed far away, and going downtown seemed like going somewhere. Bedtime, climbing trees, making forts… backyard shows, lemonade stands, Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, sittin’ on the curb, staring at clouds, jumping down the steps, jumping on the bed, pillow fights, getting “company”, ribbon candy, angel hair on the Christmas tree, Jackie Gleason, white gloves, walking to church, walking to the movie theater, being tickled to death, running until you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt, being tired from playin’… Remember that? Not stepping on a crack or you’ll break your mother’s back… paper chains at Christmas, silhouettes of Lincoln and Washington… the smell of paste in school and Evening in Paris. What about the girl that had the big bubbly handwriting who dotted her “i’s” with hearts? The Stroll, popcorn balls, and sock hops… Remember… when there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF Flyers) and the only time you wore them at school was for gym. And the girls had those ugly uniforms. When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up. When nearly everyone’s Mom was at home when the kids got home from school. When nobody owned a purebred dog. When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter a huge bonus. When you’d reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then. When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces. When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done, everyday and wore high heels. When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time. And, you didn’t pay for air. And, you got trading stamps to boot! When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box.

When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it. When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents. When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed… and did! When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms, flunk a test or chew gum. And the prom was in the auditorium and we danced to an orchestra, and all the girls wore pastel gowns and the boys wore suits for the first time and we stayed out all night. When a ’57 Chevy {I had one!!}was everyone’s dream car… to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped dental floss or yarn coated with pastel frost nail polish so it would fit her finger.

And no one ever asked where the car keys were cause they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. And you got in big trouble if you accidentally locked the doors at home, since no one ever had a key. Remember lying on your back on the grass with your friends and saying things like “That cloud looks like a…” And playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game. Back then, baseball was not a psychological group learning experience-it was a game! Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals cause no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger. And… with all our progress… don’t you just wish… just once… you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace… and share it with the children of the ’80s, '90s, '00s and ’10s…

So who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk… as well as the sound of a real mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike riders, playing in the cowboy land, baseball games, bowling and visits to the pool… and eating Kool-Aid powder out of the envelope.

Didn’t that feel good, just to go back and say, YEAH! I remember that!!

{and again Thank you all for the birthday wishes - you all are a great bunch!!!}

:seeya:

 

[21merc7]

Cashmer bouquet!!!

OMG, we are now old.

:floorlaugh:

I want to see the kilts, and not be hit by a log or giant tire, or sword................:laughcry:

 

[daisymae]

Wanted to share this with you all - since we are talking about growing up in the '50s, as I did!!

A Stroll Through Time...

Remember when?? I still do!!

If you are old enough… take a stroll with me… close your eyes… and go back… before the internet… before semi-automatics and crack… before SEGA or Super Nintendo… way back…

I’m talkin’ about hide and go seek at dusk, sittin’ on the porch, Simon Says, Kick the Can, Red Light-Green Light. lunch boxes with a thermos… chocolate milk, going home for lunch, penny candy from the store, hopscotch, butterscotch, skates with keys, Jacks, Mother May I? Hula hoops and sunflower seeds, Whist and Old Maid and Crazy Eights, wax lips and mustaches, Mary Janes, saddle shoes and Coke bottles with the name of cities on the bottom, running through the sprinkler, bobby pins, Mickey Mouse Club, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fran & Ollie, Spin & Marty… all in black & white.

When around the corner seemed far away, and going downtown seemed like going somewhere. Bedtime, climbing trees, making forts… backyard shows, lemonade stands, Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, sittin’ on the curb, staring at clouds, jumping down the steps, jumping on the bed, pillow fights, getting “company”, ribbon candy, angel hair on the Christmas tree, Jackie Gleason, white gloves, walking to church, walking to the movie theater, being tickled to death, running until you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt, being tired from playin’… Remember that? Not stepping on a crack or you’ll break your mother’s back… paper chains at Christmas, silhouettes of Lincoln and Washington… the smell of paste in school and Evening in Paris. What about the girl that had the big bubbly handwriting who dotted her “i’s” with hearts? The Stroll, popcorn balls, and sock hops… Remember… when there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF Flyers) and the only time you wore them at school was for gym. And the girls had those ugly uniforms. When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up. When nearly everyone’s Mom was at home when the kids got home from school. When nobody owned a purebred dog. When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter a huge bonus. When you’d reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then. When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces. When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done, everyday and wore high heels. When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time. And, you didn’t pay for air. And, you got trading stamps to boot! When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box.

When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it. When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents. When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed… and did! When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms, flunk a test or chew gum. And the prom was in the auditorium and we danced to an orchestra, and all the girls wore pastel gowns and the boys wore suits for the first time and we stayed out all night. When a ’57 Chevy {I had one!!}was everyone’s dream car… to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped dental floss or yarn coated with pastel frost nail polish so it would fit her finger.

And no one ever asked where the car keys were cause they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. And you got in big trouble if you accidentally locked the doors at home, since no one ever had a key. Remember lying on your back on the grass with your friends and saying things like “That cloud looks like a…” And playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game. Back then, baseball was not a psychological group learning experience-it was a game! Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals cause no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger. And… with all our progress… don’t you just wish… just once… you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace… and share it with the children of the ’80s, '90s, '00s and ’10s…

So who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk… as well as the sound of a real mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike riders, playing in the cowboy land, baseball games, bowling and visits to the pool… and eating Kool-Aid powder out of the envelope.

Didn’t that feel good, just to go back and say, YEAH! I remember that!!

{and again Thank you all for the birthday wishes - you all are a great bunch!!!}

:seeya:

Thanks, Niner! I LOVE THIS.

 

[Linda7NJ]

Updated tapatalk,.. Just trying to see how to post photos

 

[gcharlie]

Reality TV for a child of the 1950's:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YW-uv3Ibm8

 

[daisymae]

gcharlie - is your sister at the Open? Serena and Sloane are about to start.