What should you be doing less of?

[Margot]

preening

[Phil]

Margot wrote: "preening"

But you look so good!

[Félix]

She does, doesn't she?

[Margot]

you should see me in sepia

[Félix]

Is that a village in Italy?

[Susan]

At the restaurant in Chicago?

[Félix]

[Susan]

Beautiful.

I wish I looked like that in sepia.

[Phil]

Then you'd have to sleep with a president, and sing happy birthday to him.

[Susan]

Jees. Such a price for monotone.

[Margot]

Staying up to 5.30 a.m posting online

[Louise]

Sitting down - I just saw a BBC health program that stated that "the chair's a killer" - apparently sitting down all day is really really bad for you, even if you work out in the evening/morning

[Aliyah]

profile-stalking enemies or people you generally dislike

[mark]

enemies! i remember when i had enemies. now i just have irritating people with whom i actively try to not engage. the feeling is more bored contempt than that hot feeling of hate. i assume it is the aging process that has taken away that heat. such an old man!

[Heidi]

OH! I have a pic in sepia. :)

[Phil]

Hubba hubba!

[Susan]

Hubba hubba is right!

My wedding picture is in black and white. No sepias, though. Not a one.

[Margot]

It gives a romantic feel to the image

[Heidi]

Thanks, TawNub, Phil, Susan, Margot... :)

That was taken umpteen years ago at my sister's first wedding. The actual photo was taken in color. I used some online photo editing and thought the sepia one looked decent. What I most liked about the sepia coloration is that you can't see that my hair is orange. My friend did a REALLY bad dye job on my hair the weekend before this wedding. I'll dig around to see if I can find a picture of the orange hair.

[Heidi]

:/ Orange hair:

[Susan]

It does not look orange! The bun is really pretty.

[Margot]

It looks to be a soft orange and quite nice in the photo. Not an artificial Lauper orange.

[Heidi]

Uhhhh... let me see if I can find more photos of the unflattering color. I know I have one of my hair that was taken the week after the wedding. I had gotten a hair cut by then.

[Heidi]

Okay... it's a bit more obvious that it's a bad dye job in this picture:

[Heidi]

VERY orange clown hair (taken the week after the wedding and after a hair cut):



Also, my neck freaks me out in this picture - my thyroid glands are HUGE.

[Susan]

I see a little more of it in #224 but I have some bad dye jobs and highlights in my past, too. I even thought it was a good idea to go blonde for a hot second when I was in high school. It was very bad.

[evie]

Louise wrote: "Sitting down - I just saw a BBC health program that stated that "the chair's a killer" - apparently sitting down all day is really really bad for you, even if you work out in the evening/morning"

Sitting down puts a lot of pressure on your back.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Louise wrote: "Sitting down - I just saw a BBC health program that stated that "the chair's a killer" - apparently sitting down all day is really really bad for you, even if you work out in the evening/morning"

Yeah I've been seeing these headlines for the past year. So we should all become farmers again, or iron foundry workers. Time to do away with the entire 21st century knowledge economy, apparently.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Your hair does not look orange! If that's orange, then 1/3 of the women I see on the street have orange hair. That is a very normal blond shade. (Normal meaning normal from a box, of course.)

[Susan]

Coal miners is the way to go.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

evie wrote: "Sitting down puts a lot of pressure on your back. "

Standing puts a lot more pressure on my back.

[Susan]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Your hair does not look orange! If that's orange, then 1/3 of the women I see on the street have orange hair. That is a very normal blond shade. (Normal meaning normal from a box, of course.)"

I would say more like 5/8 of the women I see.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Well, of course.

[Margot]

The hair is nice, and the neck is a little freaky.

[Aparna]

i should doing less worrying .. and internetting..

[Aliyah]

Not sitting and texting in lectures :/

[Martini]

Talking to people that see every little bit of constructive criticism as an affront and instantly start to attack you.

Hmpf. Idiots.

[Heidi]

Margot wrote: "The hair is nice, and the neck is a little freaky."

I'm not sure whether I should be relieved you agree with me on the neck thing or upset, Margot. I'm probably gonna go with relieved.

[Heidi]

BunWat wrote: "I see what you are saying Ideah, its a very brassy blond."

YES!!!

[Susan]

Heidi wrote: "Margot wrote: "The hair is nice, and the neck is a little freaky."

I'm not sure whether I should be relieved you agree with me on the neck thing or upset, Margot. I'm probably gonna go with relie..."

I will take your lead on this one, Heidi. But it first made me not happy.

[Margot]

Heidi wrote: "Margot wrote: "The hair is nice, and the neck is a little freaky."

I'm not sure whether I should be relieved you agree with me on the neck thing or upset, Margot. I'm probably gonna go with relie..."

I'm very sorry. What I meant is that it did look a little funny in that picture.

Sorry.

[Heidi]

No apology necessary. :) It freaks me out when it gets like that. Thank goodness it hasn't been like that, though, in 10+ years.