Hello ladies :) i am needing your help to source some pieces for a new years eve murder mystery party! its one of those kits you buy where you each have a named character and you dress up! anyway ours is a 60's themed party and my character is "bab's crayfish" (???) and my costume suggestion is "frothy, pink and plastic, bubbly hair". so i was going to ask...

has anyone seen any pink, short, could-be-sixties dresses in primark?

where would i buy a cheap-ish blonde wig on the highstreet?

My boy, Angel, ignoring my attempts to get cute kitty-in-the-snow photos:



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Tia did something quite funny when I was trying to take the photos. The snow in the grass was up to the kitty's bellies, and she decided this wasn't suitable for her to poop in. So she dug a hole in the snow - WITH HER FACE!!! LOL Then she and Angel ruined the cuteness by doing their business! lol But they were considerate enough to shovel the snow back over it! ;)

Gosh, I have such an annoying cat. I wish I could have some fun AND shut her up at the same time.

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When you have an annoying cat, Take Heart! There are many ways to deal with these creatures in humane(ish) and hilarious ways!

Really, Ominous Voiceover?

Do you live in Wisconsin?

Boy, I sure do, Ominous Voiceover!

Did it just snow a fuck ton on your back yard?

Heck yeah, it did! But I don't like that sort of lan..Well, follow these three god damned easy steps and you'll get exactly what you need, jackass.
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No cats were harmed in the taping of this episode. Just slightly chilled.

So, a co-worker of mine is pregnant with her second child. I don't see her much as we're in different departments, so I don't know how rabid she's getting over the pregnancy. However a couple days ago in the breakroom she was showing off her sonogram images. It's the newer type that are 3D-ish and brown and show details better. Apparently the child, who's not even BORN yet, is just like it's daddy. She and the girls looking at the images were talking about how the baby *I'm unsure if it's male or female, as I just don't care XD* looks just like the father. "I think it's his nose, he has So-and-So's nose." And there were also comments of "So-and-So lays down just like that all the time. He's relaxing just like his daddy does!" Yeah, I'm sorry but your fetus is not relaxing just like Dad. Fetus does not have room to stretch out and get comfy in there. Please stop making yourself sound stupid, because I know you're generally smarter than that.

I was wondering if anyone here had any experience with being in a relationship with someone in the armed forces? More specifically the navy? I've recently got together with my boyfriend and he has to move down to plymouth for 4 months and I stay 500 miles away. I really didn't think it was going to bother me that much and I knew what getting myself in for but I'm getting more and more upset as the time goes on. How do use cope when they are away, does it affect your relationship?

Or just general long distance advice?

And so everyone can join in. Would someone being in the armed forces put you off having a relationship with them?

Honestly, the cats have made out better this year than we have.

This year, duckierose made the 'kids' some adorable little mice with hemp tails stuffed with catnip. Here they are playing with the toys.



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I've got an appointment booked on Wednesday to get my hair cut for the second time this year. I've had the same hairstyle for about 6 years, apart from 1 time when I got it cut short but that quickly grew out. I never know what to do with it and am pretty rubbish at maintaining any kind of neat style due to being incredibly lazy and bad with hair. If anyone can suggest any styles, or if you think I should keep it for another 6 years, please tell me! I feel like someting different should be done!  Here are some pictures of what it's like... ( Read more... )( Read more... )

My first twitter layout! I went for a minimalist look.


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You all may remember my posting about a coworker wanting to give me her family's guinea pigs. Well I saw them last Thursday and I am taking them.
The cage the piggies are in is too small and needed cleaned badly but other than that my reason for taking them is the way her youngest behaves around the animals.

The older one is okay. Seems like a nice little boy actually. We had to pick him up at his after school care and he asked if he could hold my hand on the way home and was very polite. The younger, who the grandparents picked up once his school was out, was the one made me want to pull my hair out and I was only in their apartment 10 minutes. He kept trying to pick their youngest cat up by the cats front paws and its tail. This was the litter mate to the one he strangled to death (mentioned in a previous post). The cat would bite him to try to make him let go and the kid would just laugh. Can we say "psychopath"? I knew you could. The guinea pigs were calm when I held them until he ran in and then they tried to run for their lives. The older cat was very sweet. He gave me tons of kitty kisses and I think he was asking me to rescue him instead of the piggies.

Anyway I am still not sure if I am suitable guinea pig owner material but I am excited about them moving in on the 10th of January. I just hope she doesnt get her kids anymore pets and manages to teach them how to handle the ones they do.

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yesterday i acquired a small furry creature! i don't know what to name her. :( she was the runt of the litter and she was born in late august/early september. i really like geeky names and kind of funny names. i would probably be naming her voldemort if she were male.

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Someone, who frankly should fucking know better, came out with me today that old tired cliche of "if you don't want children, you shouldn't have sex!". This being a woman who was previously my friend, pro-choice and cool, who then discovered she had fertility problems and became mega hardcore dipshit fuckwad anti-choice. Basically since she might not be able to have kids, nobody else should ever be allowed to abort them.

So I've just lost a friend in other words. There is no way I can even stay civil to someone who comes out with stupid shit like that, it's a deal breaker for me - become pro-life? get the fuck out of my life. Especially since she KNOWS I've had an abortion in the past and I'm totally fine with it and how committed I am to remaining childfree it bloody hurts to have someone supportive turn against you so suddenly.

Yeah fine, you have fertility problems. I could have remained a sympathetic friend but the instant you start spouting bigoted shit about my life, about how dare I get an abortion, how dare I have non-procreative sex, how dare I get married without the intent to spawn sprogs then that's it. Friendship over. Go fuck yourself.

I live in Boston, and we got a good snowstorm yesterday. Jacoby was fascinated with the flying snow. He's seen snow already (we went for a walk after a light dusting), but it was nothing like this, and when it was falling it mostly fell at night when he couldn't really see it. But this time...


...he couldn't get enough of watching it. He tried to catch it, too. I made a little movie, but I didn't manage to catch him trying to grab the individual flakes.
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I'm one of those people who overhears someone saying something offensive to me, and either retorts loudly and regrets it, or bites her tongue and regrets it.

So, when I was sitting in front of a young teenager at the pantomime the other night, and was chatting to her mother who was sitting next to me. Also, the girl was immaculately dressed in a smart red coat and blonde hair and generally looked like the kind of girl who wanted for nothing. Shame about the snobbish expression on her face....

Nonetheless I thought initially "How nice...she must be a really mature girl for her mother to let her sit on her own".

Hahahahah. No.

Her younger brother and her were yacking throughout the whole thing and the mother did NOTHING to reprimand them. I thought of doing so myself but I convinced myself they'd settle down after the interval. Nope....too good to be true of course.

The theatre we were in has a habit of selling flashing wands and stuff to kids to wave around in the panto. They used to be controlled by ushers telling them when it was appropriate to turn the wands on - quite impressively effective too! Nowadays none of the ushers can be bothered to explain this. So the girl and her brother insisted on laughing loudly and waving the stupid wand around throughout the whole second half.

I should have said something I know I should, but the mother had been so friendly and nice that a large part of me didn't want to reprimand her kids, because in doing so I'd obviously be insinuating she was a terrible mother and thus an awful person. Sigh.

The worst though was at the end of the show and the girl-brat turns around and says in a self-satisfied, pretentious voice "Call me critical, but I think that pantomime could have been a LOT better!".

I swear, I have never wanted to roar at someone more in my life. What made it 100x worse though was that one of my friends was in the main cast, and he's a fantastic actor, and I was about to say "Excuse me?! You want to say that again? Have a little respect for the people up there that have worked so damn hard this evening to entertain your spoilt, pampered ungrateful ass!!!" But...I didn't. I'd got as far as glaring at her and opening my mouth....the words on the tip of my tongue...but then I think the mother saw how murderously I was looking at her pwecious babaay and quickly said goodbye and chivvied her away.

I have never felt so angry with myself in my life for not sticking up for my friend when I'd had the chance- especially against such a foul, conceited child as she was.

School's out for Christmas and the co-worker can't afford child care so she brought her 7 year old boy to work. Her sniffly, smelly, won't sit still brat. I want to go home :(

...though he's not so little anymore, 10 pounds at 8 months old.



The cone head is do to some bald patch / lesions that he's got - the vet thinks it's allergies, possibly to food. I'm kinda wondering if it might not be dry skin. Anyone have any experience with either of these? He's seems mentally fine, aside from the cone. And the obsessive licking.

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