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Originally Posted by Bruno28
Hey, you need any bridesmaids in hula skirts? I'm sure your PNW buddies could come up with some costumes...it would add a really elegant air to the proceedings.
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Originally Posted by Bruno28
Hey, you need any bridesmaids in hula skirts? I'm sure your PNW buddies could come up with some costumes...it would add a really elegant air to the proceedings.
Thanks for the good wishes everyone.
Thanks for your offer salsa - such a connoisseur of good taste. Actually, I am somewhat sartorially challenged and don't have a wedding outfit yet so I may be in touch re a bridal hula skirt.
My friend Angela is on the case re wedding outfits which scares me......she's already talking about spray tans:eek::eek::eek: (you have to read this in the context that Scottish people's natural skin tone is blue.)
Veronica has come up with what looks like a promising location on the Hawaii thread.....but don't give up, our lines remain open.
Forget spray tans. Hey, so you've already got the 'something blue' part covered.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruno28
(as in something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue")
LOL - good point!
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I'm waiting for my small town high school band to show up on the parade route...I don't believe the major networks are going to show the whole parade, though. Our band is near the end. :( I'm hoping CSPAN stays with it, though!
Karen
Fox is still showing the parade at 5:43
I am watching the inauguration repeat on bbc..I'm awed by the masses of people! Wow!!!
I wanted to watch it live but I really wanted to do a longish ride this morning & had to get up at 415..
Happy Inauguration Day to us. Hope I stop crying at SOME point.
Oh, Happy Day.
Whatever you want to say about Obama's speech, I think the guy who stole the show and summed it all up for me was the preacher who gave the Benediction. It was lovely, and more poetic than the poet laureate.
And I'm so grateful that even though NO ONE else did, Obama, Biden and their wives stayed for the whole parade, right to the end, and our high school band got to see them there. It's just the right thing to do. I vaguely remember a former president not staying until the end of the parade one time, but I can't remember who it was, now. How disrespectful that was!
Karen
I didn't get to see the whole thing but my husband (who voted for McCain) was impressed with the speech and very impressed with the pastor. The speech would offend those who didn't want Obama and electrify those who did. Most political speeches do that, what I saw of it was good.
I personally was not a Bush fan but I was saddened people would boo him and be so disrespectful of another person. One of the things I always liked about him was his aw-shucks let it roll personality. I don't know if it is denseness or just his way of coping but it makes me smile, I personally would cry.
Did anyone see Michelle's ball gown? I am not a big fashionista but I like to watch the red carpet, her gown was a bold move from the sequined and lace frocks of the last 20 years. I dug it and am amused by the keen interest in her clothes. "She wears J.Crew can you believe it?" :p
I liked Mrs. Biden's red one better. I like red.
Karen
I forgot to watch the concert. Dangitall. And I read that they didn't broadcast Bishop Robinson's prayer anyhow. :(
I have an unopened jar of peanut butter that I'm afraid to eat. The company website doesn't say anything about the recall. I need my PB! Guess I'll just have to get some more pecans instead. I'm not really afraid of serious consequences but I don't even want a mild case of food poisoning, thank you very much.
Oakleaf,
I believe the PB recall is actually over a peanut paste compound that is used in other products, not peanuts ground into peanut butter. They've talked about crackers, cookies, icecream and such being recalled not jars of PB spread.
Oh yeah, I liked it better to. Had to go find a picture. She is a beautiful woman, I dug the red coat for the inaguration. It was loud, I liked it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuckervill
Actually one of the first products to be recalled, if not the first, was end-user peanut butter. Not the brand I have in my pantry. But still. I don't plan to throw it away, it'll keep until I know for sure if it's safe.
No, there are some actual peanut butters being recalled:Quote:
Originally Posted by bmccasland
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/script...Peanut%20Paste
We should avoid ALL peanut products temporarily until all suspect products have been identified. The 'bad' list is growing every day. Best to not take a chance until it's all been figured out. People have died, after all. :(
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Originally Posted by OakLeaf
Mea culpa :o But I suppose the jar of Jif in my cupboard is safe since I've survive eating 3/4 of it. Just checked the web site, and it isn't on the list.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
First ladys' wardrobes have always been a big subject of discussion, I can remember the fuss about every dress that Jackie Kennedy ever wore...
but that ball gown apparently was designed by a teenager!
I liked Mrs Biden's better too.
but what i liked the best was Aretha Franklin's hat. OMIGOODNESS!!!
I remember when Clinton was elected and poor Chelsea was picked on for being awkward. Don't see the Obama girls having that problem since they are ridiculously cute and meticulously dressed.
Both Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Biden have fun styles. I really should notice something else but what the heck. I only liked Obama's dress because it was SO DIFFERENT, really it looked like a horrible wedding dress to me but it was just so unexpected. Kind of fun since it wasn't safe. Great, now I have to go find Aretha's hat. :p
http://cmsimg.freep.com/apps/pbcsi.d...xH=650&title=0
she is SO BEAUtIFUL here
:eek:WOW. I guess when you are the Queen or whatever you can wear something like that with pride?
yep. and i think i look funny in my bike helmet. :p
Just so she doesn't sit in front of me at the movies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Biciclista
LOL! I loved the hat too! And the closing prayer. That guy definitely stole the show.
I hate to even say it, but did the quartet seem kind of contrived to anyone else?
I didn't get to see the whole show :(
I was at my fave cafe today talking to the owner chick about Pres Obama & she loved the speech. BOth of us admit we still get teary eyed when we listen to his final election thank you speech. I need to go & listen to the Yes we can speech. I have to admit when you ladies were discussing this moons ago I didn't pay much attention!
I slept in today...I was supposed to go swimming but i think i pushed meself too hard on tues am biking with Ian & yesterday morning. I might get to sleep in on Monday as it's a long weekend here. Biking on tuesday morning should be interesting..how much glass can the Australia day revelers break?:rolleyes:
Miss Aretha is wearing her black ladies church hat and she is rockin' it.
She sounded damned good, too.
I thought the quartet was fantastic and especially liked how happy Yo looked.
Michelle's swearing-in ensemble was so classy.
And that first dance?
Mymymy. I want to make a remark about that but I'll practice some self-restraint. Rare, I know.
And there you have my Inauguration review.
Is is just me or does Bernie Madoff look like George Washington?
Oakleaf, I love yo yo ma AND Perlman. I also loved the clarinetist. so no, i didn't think they sounded contrived.
I thought they were thrilled to pull that gig, even if it was 28 degrees out.
I definitely dug the quartet. Simple Gifts is such a powerful melody, especially solo on the clarinet rising from the moment. Aaron Copeland used it in Appalachian Spring, which is in my top five favorite pieces of music ever.
And Aretha's hat is beyond wonderful! When I lived in DC my bus route (not my bike route--too much traffic) would pass by a famous and sought-after Ladies' Hat Shop on Rhode Island Avenue. Made me wish I was church-going just so I could justify buying a hat for myself. Never did.
If I was still living in DC I definitely would have braved the cold and gone down there, as close as I could get, on Sunday and Tuesday. As it was, I was happy to be warm and watching it on MSNBC.
I have been tempted by some very lovely hats at a shop in the French Quarter. Will be happy to point it out to any visitor - they make their own hats (WHAT is the word???). Came very close to handing over my credit card for a $500 hat, before my good sense gene FINALLY kicked in. No I didn't have an "occasion", it was just SO pretty.
A milliner is a hat-maker, and millinery is the craft/art/practice of hat making. They used to use lead (or was it arsenic?), thus the Mad-Hatter.Quote:
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mercuryQuote:
Originally Posted by tulip
I am still having to take in how BIG the Swarvorski crystals are. One day I will have a hat like that just because I am the type who thinks I can. :p
Mad as a hatter
buy a Mad Hatters hat
http://www.villagehatshop.com/mad_hatter_hat.html
and speaking of stylish clothing, this from jezebel.com
"Sasha and Malia's colorful ensembles were all from J. Crew kid's line Crewcuts. When consumers figured this out yesterday, traffic crashed J. Crew's site."
I thought that hat was TOTALLY cool. I liked the quartet and yes, especially the joy on Yo Yo Ma's face. I think the entire Obama family is just flat out gorgeous. I could have lived without Rick Warren, but on the other hand I didn't mind him greatly either. I'm just pretty happy.
Yeah, Warren showed admirable restraint. About the only admirable thing about him. Lowery was magical! Almost made we want to be a believer. ;) The poet laureate wasn't as exciting emotionally, but I did ready myself to shush anybody interrupting. The poem was well worth listening to! The quartet was nice, in spite of the cold, and there are moments in that piece that are really lovely. Aretha still has some voice! Not as much as before, but she's a truly great musician and was able to carry it off. She also clearly knows how to wear a hat! Obama's speach, even though no sound-bite phrase sticks in my mind, was also well worth hearing. I've felt my hopes for his presidency dwindling in the past weeks, but he recommitted himself admirably to some of the really important stuff (you kinda had to wonder how Bush managed to keep his face in neutral there, and how the Bushes and Obamas managed to seem so cordial at the farewells :rolleyes:). Emotionally it hit the right buttons. Made me feel willing to dig in there and do my bit :). And while some of the local pundits interpreted his warnings to terrorists as militaristic, I didn't. That bit reminded me more of Krustchov's "We will bury you" which, being a Russian grandchild, I knew was a phrase about survival, about the old and experienced out-living the young and brash; it was NOT a threat! Another thing the local newsfolks got wrong was the stumble in the oath. My DH also first said, "woops! is he nervous after all?" To which I replied, no no no. He's got it memorized down pat! It's the other guy who screwed it up. Then they showed a rerun of the moment, and DH said yeah, I was right. It was Roberts who screwed up. Next morning the Norwegian papers had it that Obama had stumbled, but this morning they've corrected their mistake. And now so have Roberts and Obama. The oath has been redone.
As for the fashion aspect: I didn't stay up to see the ballgowns. I thought Michelle's yellow coat and dress were nice, balancing the dignified and the celebratory, also well-tailored, but the color and texture didn't show up well on tv. Then I read that it was wool and was more impressed with it. I was wondering how she managed to seem so comfortable in the cold with her coat only loosely tied and half-open :eek: And the green shoes and gloves kind of highlighted the in-betweenness of the color. So on the whole, I liked it. The girls' outfits were perfect! Jewel colors, nice cuts, age-appropriate, and warm. What I've seen of the ballgown after ... eh. well. nice try. I don't think all the gathers and fluffy bits flattered her truly elegant figure. But the flow of the skirt worked, and the ivory color worked. Then again, it depended on the angle of the photo. Some shots look better than others. And from seeing the stills I'm sorry I missed them dancing to "At last", but staying up the extra 6 hours for the time zone difference just wasn't doable. I had to be rested for work.
Anybody have news on how Ted Kennedy is doing?
News here says he's home resting, and that it's just a normal side effect from his treatment. Here's hoping!Quote:
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CA
YAYYYY!!! Long weekend here in Aust :).
Lots of mtn biking to do :D. We're also helping out with some MTB trail maintenance.
Yayyyy
I heard on the radio this morning that hat has been in high demand from the shop. Alas, if you are not the Queen you can only get a knock-off with a satin ribbon.
happy friday. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
no bike commuting for me this week. i am recovering nicely from my cold, but it's just TOO cold outside! (near freezing in the morning)
i guess i like to pamper myself.