Thread Drift

Nanci & thread drift "you know when you've worn your panties for the absolute last time, when they aren't even fit to be period underwear any more?"

Suddenly soooooo glad I don't have to keep "period underwear" anymore

"Do you wash them one last time, or throw them directly in the trash?"

Straght to the trash before I forget and sort 'em again

"do boy shorts only look good on women who have butts like Tour de France riders? (tiny)"

you mean the boy style briefs? or real boxers? 'Cause boxers look good on any gal (which is probably tmi)

and aw c'mon, we're all beautiful women here, even if we don't have butts like Tour de France riders (I just want legs like a TdF rider, the butt would just look weird on me).

I have a note in my wine log that says "French Wine sucks!!!!!!!" Except for Banyuls, and some red Bordeaux cheapo thing from Publix. Why can't they just say what it is??? So what about "terroire," I just read a big article about a blind tasting that prove it was all BS!! Muscadette- sucks. White Bordeaus- sucks. Anything from France, including Goat Boy, sucks!!

This thread is like what I'd talk about, if I still lived in MN, if I still could call my girlfriend Sue that I miss more than anything in the whole world, and talk to her every night.

I think girlfriends, the kind you have for your whole life, through all BFs and DHs and kids and pets and jobs and school and cars and horses and houses and all, are the most irreplaceable thing ever, once you move away and things aren't the same, unless you go home to visit for a week every five years, when things just fall back into how they were before you ever thought of leaving.

I wish I had one here.

Oh Nanci - I disagree with you on the Frog wine, but I'm glad that we all can just rant about anything and everything!!

And it was the underwear thing that I loved! I just decided a pair of bike shorts is dead (no holes in bad places, the chamois just turned counter-productive). Anyway I washed them before throwing them out - actually I may keep them to use some of the material to patch a hole in my new Shebeest pedal pushers....

Icky undies get washed, then become rags to clean the bathroom. Appropos, I think.

Any woman looks fabulous in boxers. Especially in knit boxer-briefs. UnderArmor. (girl-cut boxer briefs are best)

Boy cut undies.... cut like the old-fashioned tighty whities... not so good. Haven't seen them on a real woman looking good, just looking good on models. I've bought a few pair (ex officio, Jockey, Bali) cuz I'm an optomist. Used 'em to clean the bathroom.

My favorites: UnderArmor women's compression shorts. I think they have a 6 inch inseam. Man, are they comfy. My second favorites: Ibex Roaster Boxers (womens). Very warm, not the best for hot days but great on cold damp PNW summer days (50-55 degrees) when you really really want to wear shorts.

Seattle Summer Wear: sandals with wool socks, shorts, turtleneck with wool sweater, rainjacket.

I'm old enough to remember when we wore LONG underwear bottoms under our shorts in the summer. The height of fashion around here was blue polypro longies under khaki shorts. My longies were white, and I felt like a pre-adolescent pariah.

Today's summer wear here in north Seattle: I'm wearing wool socks, long khaki pants, wool zip-front Icebreaker shirt, and wore my Ibex wool sweater over it most of the day.

Underwear - I wash them, too! Usually they make it through a couple more rounds of wearing/washing than they should have and then I eventually throw them out.

I have a bathing suit with boy shorts. I DO NOT have a TDF butt. Hubby seems to like it! :)

I like what you said about this thread Nanci. It's a good comfort spot where we can vent what we like and whine and laugh all in one. Lise said it was like "home". I admit - it's the first thread I check on here when I log on.

Summerwear in Mississippi - tank top, shorts, sandals. Hot, humid, and mosquitos in the shade and at dusk that could carry you away!

As soon as I get home from work, I take a bath and put on my PJs. Cotton capri bottoms, tank top or, if cold, Mountain Hardwear Microchill Fleece top, which I could probably live in, if I had to pick only one top ever again.

I pretty much hate shorts, except bike shorts. Good thing I'm cold blooded!

Hoping the new Sugoi shorts get here today, AND I like them...

I saw your avatar on the back of someone's car yesterday when I was out for a ride. I almost yelled, "fishie!", but realized the extreme unlikelihood that you were up in Chicago, driving south on Elston Ave. So...what does it mean?

Seattle, while beautiful, sounds too chilly for me. I know, who am I to talk, with Chicago winters, but we do get a bit of summer here. Two days ago I got a long lunch break at the clinic. A friend and I walked up to "Little Vietnam", ate in a storefront restaurant, walked around, picked up some pastries in a Vietnamese bakery, walked back. It was a beautiful, sunny day, not too hot, not too cool. I said, "hmmmm....June 14. One of the 5 days a year in Chicago when people say, 'I could live here forever!'." The problem is the other 360 days! It looks like it's going to be good today, hot this weekend. My problem is that the City fritters away its money keeping the clinic freezing cold somedays. Unpredictably! So I bring a range of clothes in my backpack.

At the risk of jinxing the Green Hornet, I'm saying it here: I'm riding her to work today! :D

Good luck Lise! I'll think good tire thoughts for you!

Nope - it wasn't me. The avatar - the ribbon is for the Louisiana Disaster Relief Fund to help rebuild after Katrina and Rita. Money from the purchase of the ribbon/pin/t-shirt go the fund. Of all organizations that could sell it - Abita Beer (a local microbrew) came up with the idea. They had a special beer, too. The motto is..."rebuild New Orleans one beer at a time". How cool that you saw one all the way up there!

I had Abita Beer at IM Florida last year- this guy from New Orleans brought it. I think they had a blueberry wheat beer or something that was wonderful.

NO guy had his house/bike/everything destroyed, so the forum he participates in rented a really nice Cervelo for him for IMFL.

I just had a patient who is a dairy cow vet. They get their C-sections standing up! Right out in the field! They get an epidural somewhere on the tail, which still leaves them able to stand, and then the vet just cuts right in through the side! Amazing!!

Nanci

Mooooo...I love cows...Moooooo...

Anywho, i didn't pass any mooo cows tonight...We rode to Fremantle & back on a social ride with some biking friends...(mtn bikers...) The ride there was alright temp wise...the way home....BRrrrrrrrrr....it was 3c!!! My knees were the coldest thing on my body & i felt so full on the way home i rode oh so slowly uphill...

Tomorrow & sunday are off road ride days...Dirt!!!!

c

Abita beer is one of my favorites. They make seasonal brews and then have their regulars as well. They have a raspberry wheat called Purple Haze - I like that one!

The guy I carpool with has a Ph.D. in Animal Science (Idaho) - he's handy when picking meat - I'll have to ask him about cattle c-sections! I've heard too many stories about preg-checking cows. Yick! When I was trying to get pregnant (for my 2nd), this guy (who is a good friend of mine, btw) predicted that I would "be carrying by July". He meant well.

CC - 3C???? Hard to imagine since it's in the 90's(F) here today!

Thanks for explaining about the ribbon. You see so many of them these days, but that one really stands out.

I learned today that my ex-boyfriend, the cop, has married some Romanian woman and is helping her get her citizenship papers. Must've been a whirlwind romance. ~sigh~ Even though I didn't want to marry him, it kind of hurts that the guy who said, "I love you and always want you in my life", but "needed more freedom" although "it doesn't have to be forever" ... is now married to someone else. Reality check: I am really glad not to be settling for what that relationship had become at the end. And I truly do wish him well.

Both photo guy and sober guy want to meet me, and I them. And the beat goes on!

Best of all, the Bianchi rode like a dream this morning. There's a guy I see at the clinic occasionally who was walking out as I walked in. He said, "Great bike! I just told my wife that my next bike's going to be a Bianchi!" Decent of him to mention the wife, so I know we were really only talking about the bike. :p L.

Remember that line from "When Harry Met Sally" where she says (paraphrase- can't remember perfectly, but I sure know the feeling!!) "It's not that he didn't want to get married- he just didn't want to marry me." Story of my life.

I wash everything before it gets tossed.