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Oct 16, 2014 11:47AM
I just had to look up "peanut galley" - I was thinking Peanuts/Snoopy but no it means something different! I learnt something new! Using Urban Dictionary (as their definition is the funniest), Peanut Galley is "a group of (sometimes stupid) people that make comments on something they are watching or listening to". It was the "sometimes stupid" that made me laugh especially as my first thought after reading Almeta's sentence was along the same lines as Travis! I won't say a word...
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I've often wondered what it would be like to shave off all my hair! Especially as I seem to constantly moult my hairs everywhere! I too would look awful Almeta so I won't be doing it any time soon!
I'm adding books to my library-must-reads shelfFinally got emmbership i town library(after 4 long years!)
My neighbor and I used to take turns highlighting each others hair. We both had short hair and one day we decided we could save some money and only buy one hair coloring kit. Hers turned out fine, but mine was a disaster! We put the coloring agent in the refridgerator while we waited for her hair to get done, and by the time she got done with mine, it had lost its power to color my dark hair. What I got was mostly light orange clumpy streaks. I couldn't stand how it looked, so I bought some dark brown dye and tried to color it over. The dark brownish orange streaks were not the best, but I could live with it after that. It took several hair cuts before it was all gone. I never tried to color my hair again after that.
I hate paying good money for a haircut I don't like. I most recently cut my own hair after letting it grow out for past 18 months or more. Loved being able to put it all up and get it off my neck in Texas summer heat. But didn't like wearing it down. Too stringy : (It looks better than it did longer, but next cut will be in a salon for a more professional cut (hopefully).
Travis of NNY wrote: "Seems like required 10 inches in a sentence should spur at least one penis joke by someone"lol!
I knew I could count on you! :D
(Well and Rusulka, Is she asleep?)
Sarah wrote: "...Peanut Galley is "a group of (sometimes stupid) people that make comments on something they are watching or listening to"..."lol! Well that may be a little harsh.☺
I was actually thinking more of Howdy Doody's Peanut Gallery.
More like this definition: "A peanut gallery was, in the days of vaudeville, a nickname for the cheapest (and ostensibly rowdiest) seats in the theater, the occupants of which were often known to heckle." ~ Wikipedia
The NHL season has been underway for a week or so! I have missed watching hockey:-) plus there is a free preview of NHL center ice right now! I am happy that the intermissions are 20 minutes..I can get some reading in between periods :-)
Travis of NNY wrote: "Seems like required 10 inches in a sentence should spur at least one penis joke by someone"lol, of course!
I wish I was asleep. I was in a planning day where they had terrible wifi and I got lectured by people who don't do our job on how to do our job. Otherwise I would have been all over it... wait... I went to the hairdresser last year the day before running to the UK and got a hair cut. I had hair down to the small of my back. I said can you just trim off the spilt ends. She was concerned and said really? I said yep it's just hair it'll grow back. She snipped and about 7 inches fell to the floor, up to my chin. I just had to laugh.
Travis of NNY wrote: "Seems like required 10 inches in a sentence should spur at least one penis joke by someone"Seems like it did! ROFL!
Sarah wrote: "Did you do it yourself Janice? I've had some awful haircuts at hairdressers when there's been a miscommunication of what I wanted. I've never cut my own hair before though. Now colouring?!? Oh boy!..."No, my hairdresser cut it. She coloured it, and then asked, "So what are we doing with your hair?" And I said, "Something different!"
So far, everyone seems to like it. The waitress at lunchtime asked who my hairdresser is because she liked the style. My hairdresser says that I've "kept the length" in the front, but I look in the mirror and think that it's quite short.
If it doesn't grow on me (HA!), I can grow it out again.
Congratulations on the new job, Tasha!
Well that's a nice compliment Janice from your waitress! I often think it takes a week or so to get used to a new hair style. The real test for me is once I have washed it - it always looks so much better when you come out the hairdresser but then when I use my crap shampoo/conditioner and hairdryer plus add the fact I'm lazy, then my hair just doesn't look the same!Congrats on the job Tasha!
I have the day off work today so I'm off indoor climbing in about an hour and then this afternoon we are driving down to my sister-in-law's house as it's my niece's 18th birthday! Makes me feel old! Hopefully she'll be able to remember more about her 18th than I can about mine!
AH! Panic! Just found out that my boat might be ready to pick up 6 weeks earlier than we originally thought. In just over 3 weeks! So much to do...
Grats on the new job Tasha! Missed that on my phone. Wonderful news!I agree with Sarah. Sometimes it takes a bit to get used to. I remember when i was 10 and I had my long hair cut off into a bob. I woke up in the morning and went to flick my hair out from underneath me. I couldn't flick it, and screamed. Mum came running and it took me a few minutes in my sleepy state to work it out and that no one had stolen my hair in my sleep.
So exciting Sarah! Terrifying, but exciting. You rent your flat at the moment? Or do you own?
Sarah wrote: "AH! Panic! Just found out that my boat might be ready to pick up 6 weeks earlier than we originally thought. In just over 3 weeks! So much to do..."That's so exciting!
We rent our flat so that makes things a bit easier. We've not told the landlord yet so once I know what the hell we're doing I'll have to speak to him. The problem we have is that the boat will be ready early but quite a number of the locks on the canal system will be closed for repairs for 6 weeks Nov/Dec so we won't be able to move it down to where we want to be living on it.
Oh that's stupid. I'll growl at the canal workmen for you from over here.You only have to give them two weeks notice over there as well?
Thanks Rusalka! Yes I'll be growling at them too!We have to give a months notice to the landlord.
Just seen that a guy was locked in Waterstones book shop in London and he tweeted updates and to ask to be let out. Personally, I'd have loved it. Free reign on all those books!
Bah. But fair enough. Gives you time to sort out your things. Rent here is advertised as weekly (eg $500 per week), but you tend to pay fortnightly, so the two weeks notice. But no one gives two weeks notice unless you hate the landlord. The polite thing to do is at least 4 weeks. Where cultural norms and expectations plays a large part in proceedings, but I'm not sure where you learn these things...
It's been covered here as a "guy finds himself in most people's heaven". Pretty funny though. Are we going to notice people hanging around bookshops at closing time during topplers now? Those staff are going to get their arses kicked though.
Thanks everyone for the congratulations about my new job, my husband and I went to dinner last night to celebrate. All this talk about hair makes me want a change mine it is past my shoulders the longest I have had since I was a kid but the amount of shampoo is crazy and it takes an hour or more for me to dry it and straighten it so mostly I wear a pony for work and around the house.
Sarah wrote: "Just seen that a guy was locked in Waterstones book shop in London and he tweeted updates and to ask to be let out. Personally, I'd have loved it. Free reign on all those books!"I would have loved it too! That would be my idea of heaven! The only thing that would actually beat that is being locked inside 'The Cemetery of Forgotten Books' (if it were a real place).
Tasha wrote: "Thanks everyone for the congratulations about my new job, my husband and I went to dinner last night to celebrate. All this talk about hair makes me want a change mine it is past my shoulders th..."
Same here Tasha. I kind of want to change my hair now! I have had long hair for quite a few years and there is a part of me that really wants to get it all chopped off. However, another part of me wants to keep it long! I have had bobs in the past but have never gone shorter than that. I guess the thing to do is not to think about it too much and just go for it. Maybe I will. Someday.
That's exciting about your boat, Sarah! Most rentals here require 30 day notice. I'd love to give mine. I must go check out the new apartment building being built. I need to know if they take pets and what rent they'll be asking. Right now, the city has no vacancy for rentals, so the prices are stupid. The new place is either going to jump on the band wagon with high prices, or... no point in speculating. This city is all about money.
Got the call to go get baby girl from daycare. I go they say she has slept all day and not eaten anything. Just oick her up go home and wait a couple hours until my wife can get home. Sounded easy enough until i got home and she turned into volcano baby. Pretty sure she ate something this morning. Now she and i are clean. Floor is clean and clothes are in wash. Hoping we can have a little peace watching Tom and Jerry for the last 40 minutes until mommy gets home.
You're not having much luck with projectiles recently Travis! When you said volcano baby, my first thought was of the little baby in The Incredibles!Wow that's crazy Janice that there aren't enough rentals! One of the things that has annoyed me for years while I've been renting is that I'm paying someone else's mortgage! During the credit crisis here, interest rates fell and therefore peoples mortage repayments reduced significantly but none of that saving was passed on to the tenants, in fact, rents went up.
Right I'm off to an 18th birthday party now. Let's hope they play some decent music!
Where I live demand for housing is high and supply is low. So voila - high rents. Average rent for a 1-bedroom apartment is about $1200 per month. I remember paying $300 per month, but that was like 30 years ago in early 1980s.
Ooohhh hello, I hadn't noticed this thread had started! Today has been a PJ day; watching TV, reading and playing on the internet. Lovely :)
42 Celsius at shadows today in this part of the globe. ( an is only Spring, officially). Trayin to survive the heat. Remains another 5 month from the same thing
Oh hope she's feeling better Travis. Ick!Rentals here in Canberra have only had 1% vacancies for the last 5-8 years. So our prices are ridiculous. It's not unusual to pay $500 per week for a 3 bedroom house in the suburbs or for a 1 one bedroom flat in the city. And remember our dollar was worth more than the US dollar for a few years of that!
We actually only bought because rents were skyrocketing 8 years ago, and we could pay $50 more a week and pay our own mortgage, and then the next year the selling market went insane and some of our friends have been saving for those 8 years and still can't afford to buy. We were incredibly lucky.
Enjoy the party Sarah. Hope it has better music than the 21st we were at the other day.
Mariab stay cool and hydrated!! Not looking forward to those temps starting again.
We had Lexx's workmate and her partner and kids stayed over in our flat last night. We got told one of the kids went and "made friends" with the birds. They left and I went to let the birds out and all three of them were terrorised and hiding in the corner of the pen and wouldn't come out. They are seriously traumatised! It's going to take us all weekend to calm them down and get them to trust us again. I'm pretty unhappy and angry about it :(
Hope your daughter is better soon, Travis. You sound like you had everything under control though. I got home from work one time when my twins were little and found them laying on the floor in a mess in only their diapers and their dirty clothes in a pile next to them. My oldest daughter was sitting with them holding their bottles for them. My husband was cleaning out his car. It was all he could think of to do after he heated up their bottles.
TGIF! I am looking forward to the weekend. Work has been crazy all week.
Thanks doc says she has bronchitis so guess the upchuck was just a gift for dear old dad today. Meanwhile the son has been shipped to grandmas for weekend to try to keep us with just one sick child
Sick kids, scared birds... is there a full moon?
Yes, there is a full moon somewhere... always!
Ahw, poor birds :(Bf is at work today, so I have the whole day to myself. Usually I spend a good part of that time reading, but I don't want to start a new book before the toppler, so I guess I have to think of other things.
You could come over here and clean my house.. ;)
Well I'm back from the party. The teenagers spent the night in one room of the house while us adults were in the other so we got to listen to what music we wanted to listen to which was a bonus! Drank a bit more than usual and I didn't get much sleep so I am hanging a little this morning. So a reading day for me!
Well I'm back from the party. The teenagers spent the night in one room of the house while us adults were in the other so we got to listen to what music we wanted to listen to which was a bonus! Drank a bit more than usual and I didn't get much sleep so I am hanging a little this morning. So a reading day for me!
Birds have taken all day but back to normal late this afternoon. Bloody kids.That's hilarious Cherie. And Tasha, great thinking!
Glad it went well Sarah. Berocca and fry up?
I had a baby shower this afternoon. Not usually my thing, but brother's girlfriend so kinda important. So other brother's girlfriend, Mum and I went and were supportive and had a glass of bubbles, a ridiculously sugary piece of cake, smiled lots at people we didn't know but were obviously judging as the family members of the dad (I know I would have), and cooed at baby things for a bit. Came home and felt a million times better in trackydacks, with a beer reading The Lies of Locke Lamora lying in the garden.
Thanks for the offer Tasha, but I think I pass ;-)
The weather is amazing! 24 degrees and we're nearing the end of October! I'm sitting outside on the balcony right now, can't remember that ever happening this late in the year.Enjoy your reading day Sarah!
Rusalka, baby-showers (and babies for that matter) are not really my thing either.
It's quite warm here too for the time of year. Sadly it's quite wet and windy today so no sitting outside and reading for me.
We had wet and windy the past few days, but the weekend is fantastic. I just read on the local news that today is the warmest October 18 since 1921! I notice that a lot in the past year though, these weather extremes. Coldest, wettest, sunniest, warmest etc. day/month since a loooong time. Seems almost like every month has something that makes it stand out.
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