The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Thanks for posting this link, Lauri. Very moving.

And now, for a bit of the eccentric:
http://www.biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=3379

(Somehow I think I'd get along with these folks!)

Cool! My book isn't along those lines of thought - whole different angle, so I won't be taking anyone's idea that I know of. It's from one of my dreams - so it can't be normal, right?!

Me too! If it weren't for people trying to kill each other all the time (and maybe me) I'd love to live in lots of different areas to see the animals.

That is too cool! And I love how she just knows she is the princess of the house!!

How's the cleaning going, Merle?? Thanks, by the way. It's contagious. I've stripped, flipped and washed the bedding on 4 beds, one to go and the bathroom is spotless!

Two inky plants (from Back East) come to mind, so I wondered if you tried them and what you thought of them as "media": black walnut husk, and the berries of something we used to call "poison sumac".

I love the idea of plant based dyes,paints,even make-up.....I always thought those soft sandy rocks(sand stone?) would make a good medium to decorate paper(like pastels)or faces or clay.I've been collecting different colors of them for years but havent done the grinding them to powder yet....I did notice that some very expensive "natural" makeups looks a lot like sandstone...hum?

The pink blanket on her head at the end of the clip is a nice touch, don't you think?!

Yes, they do! I wonder what natural product they use as a binding agent, to hold the powder together and keep it on one's face?

Most definitely!!

Well, I'll be signing off for today. Gotta' go pickup Kid #3 at middle school and swing by elementary school and pick up lil' girl. Kid #2 just called to tell me he left his bus pass at home so can I please come pick him up. He may be little wet by the time I drive the 20 km to his high school!
I will then take them all for supper after which I am attending Knitting Club!! ! OOOOOO, Blessedmom's living on the edge!! !

Take care of each other!

I'll have to grind some up and see.I just figured your natural skin oils would hold it in place(eeew,but true?)I personally gave up on wearing makeup because it feels like my skin is sufficating and you have to worry about rubbing it off on something/someone.I rarely even remember to check the mirror before I leave the house....my BF is my mirror.I told him to let me know if I am exposing to much skin,have to many stains on something I'm wearing,paint on my face,etc....

The bad thing is that he is as oblivious to this stuff as me
and the good thing is....he is as oblivious to these things as me (we get along pretty good,but my,what the neighbors must think,lol.)

the kitchen is finally clean to the bone! and I mean corners and old sticky summer ant killer and forgotten errant dry-melted cubes of watermelon behind the stove. All the fans have been cleansed of cat hair and the blades cut through the air cleanly. I scrubbed the high traffic areas of the carpet with woolite and am about to start on the bathroom, now.

The classical music station started playing a Mahler symphony just as I hit third gear on the kitchen. that helped...

a little lunch and then the bath!

how are you doin' Lupine? Is it getting tidy??

Merle

I had to get used to wearing make-up for employment reasons, but I generally use very little. I choose cosmetics (and soap, shampoo, etc) based on odor... or the lack of odor, actually. I'm not chemically-sensitive, but I don't seem to be able to "habituate" to the odor of any sort of fragrance that I might apply to myself... I can't stop being aware of it, and by the end of the day, I'm desperate to take a shower to get it off.

Oh, and something that REALLY creeps me out... fingernail polish. The few times I've attempted it, my fingernails felt like they were being squeezed, and I couldn't habituate to that, either. Then I had to use some sort of toxic organic solvent to get it off.

You betcha. Rented the Rug Doctor from the Safeway. Gotta bring it back now, so I'll be gone for a bit.

I did see some wonderful natural color dyes from Georgia. It seems a lady got the famous red Georgia clay on the knees of her golfing pants and could never get it out, so she got the idea of dying the whole garmet in clay slurry. . .and marketed them. They were wonderfully terra cotta but faded with every wash... into what ever else you were washing with them. . .

Merel

when I had to take on the persona of an upscale office inhabitant I bypassed the whole 'fingernail polish' but having acrylic nails put on. . .and I maintained them for years. .and they were lovely. But I have the fingernail polish "squeezed" feeling, only mine manifests as "suffocation". Isn't it strange, but with the heavier acrylic I didn't have that feeling, only those thin coats of polish triggered it.

and I have to have 'unscented' soaps and deodorants. . .or I am scrubbing it off in the restroom!

Merle