This is why I'm learning to sew. My hips are one size, my natural waist is two sizes smaller, and my bust is right inbetween.
Natalie--My hips are two sizes larger than my "rise". The "custom" fit on the jeans at Lands' End didn't do a lot for me--I sent them back three times and just kept the fourth one. The only rack LE that might fit would be boy's size 14 jeans.
I knew there was a reason I liked men's jeans, back in college. Despite too much material in front...
I still can't get jeans that fit right when I'm standing and don't cut me when I sit down (Unless I buy Canadian Ikeda, which I find in an out-of-the-way boutique in Whitehall, MI). Even Ikeda binds after a while. Since I have a medical condition that can cause large size variance in a short period of time, I've pretty much sworn off pants, unless they're sweat pants.
If I ever do an outside 8-5 again, it's going to be skirts with a lap blanket for winter, because learning to sew well takes time, and learning to manage chronic health takes time, too.
I chose eating over dressing well.
But Lands' End could still put pockets in their sweat pants!
Two of the cams in NO show no image.
http://www.earthcam.com/usa/louisiana/neworleans/bourbonstreet/index.php?cam=3
I remember George Alec Effinger and Debbie Hodgkinson fleeing New Orleans before an incoming hurricane--this was many years ago. They weren't sure there would be anything to return to. That time, there was. I'm glad George missed this--he loved his city, and losing it would tear him up.
Mary Kay: but the other full size one I ordered was the one that changes color dramatically. The name is slipping my mind.
Mutabilis? I'm going to plant one of those, too--there's also a climbing variety!
Hee, indeed...8^)
Mary Kay,
You were VERY bad. Look at this. Or this. Or even this.
And that's not counting the ones that say "Texas growers are warned against this rose."
The herbs are going to be crowded out....
Aconite :
A quick search at Garden Watchdog should yield a good supplier or two.
Thanks for the great site, but no pics or info on Stanwell Perpetual or Drunken Lady...
I've been looking with interest at a rose called Red Cascade, one of Ralph Moore's climbing miniatures. Anecdotal reports speak of specimens run over by riding lawn mowers, or crushed under 18-wheelers, then bouncing right back. Other characteristics: will rapidly escape containers, will rapidly outgrow containers, will spontaneously root wherever its canes touch the grount ...
Teresa, I wish I'd known you were interested in the older style roses when you were in Dallas--I would have given you names of all my favorite Texas rose haunts. Come to Austin, and I'll take you to Barton Springs Nursery. Stay a few days and we can drive to Brenham and The Antique Rose Emporium.
I've been designing a three ring labyrinth in the side yard that will have herbs, Xeriscaped regional natives and roses along the sides, and Red Cascade is a very strong contender for one area. I've seen several in person, and the red is overwhelming--zillions of tiny, intense flowers. One was growing pinned over a railroad tie supporting a hill--the creosote didn't bother it. W loved this rose when he saw it, but now says he thought he remembered larger blooms. So, I'm investigating other reds that might work here--we're 8b, and the soil will need encouragement.
I must have a Mutabilis, because I can't find an Austrian Copper anywhere in Texas, and I'm suspicious this means they won't grow here (the Apothacary Rose isn't recommended here). I want a Cecile Brunner, and am considering a Katy Road Pink or a Belinda's Dream. But then, there's the red candidate. I dream of that Red Cascade....
I'm thinking about either Red Cascade on a pillar in one corner or putting a climbing Cecile Brunner over there, and getting a compact red like Dame de Coeur, Frances Dubreiul, or Old Gay Hill.
Does anyone have a favorite true red or blue red rose that is tough and can take the heat of 8b? I saw that A&M recommended Knock Out, and it looks pretty good--but they have all sorts of threatening copyright notices up anywhere it's sold, and that doesn't feel quite right, starting out a relationship with a rose that way. I also worry about mail order roses--my friend who has tried that had half her Thompson & Perkins shipment die, and they sent her the wrong variety on one bush!
I'm afraid Drunken Lady and several of your other favorites turn up odd searches (like Jackie Chan movies!) Do you have a nursery you know carries them?
Thanks for mentioning the Earthkind results--it's nice to know some of my choices have a good chance of surviving.
Thus with the national situation. The looting has been swift and efficient, but it's taken a while for the full extent of the plundering to become apparent. We're going to be feeling this one for a long time to come.
The tragedy of this is that those of us ("us" being anyone to the left of Bush) trapped down in Texas warned people about Bush. He did this to Texas and then left in a hurry. There are people here who still refuse to admit that Bush spent or looted the treasury and split. Bush even admitted this in a Texas Monthly article--he said something to the effect of "Well, I won't be here, so it won't be my problem."
We're scrambling to deal with the fallout.
I hate to break it to you, but (these days at least) nobody actually cares whether you're a witch or not. ;-)
Actually, Paul, there was a Wiccan down here in Texas who was forced out of a small town and nearly burnt (her house, not herself) out of another one, thanks to constant rabble-rousing by one minister. Her sin, other than being a pagan? She was teaching yoga and aromatherapy classes.
It would be funny, except she really was in danger. Fortunately the local police (of the second town) told her they didn't hold with driving citizens out of town, and to come to them if she felt threatened. I never "out" anyone who is a pagan. If they decide to tell a group of people this, fine, but I am very careful about my pagan friends.
Suzanne: It turns out I have Lyme disease, fairly advanced--somewhere between 4-12 years duration, at my own guess. The first Lyme test was done at Igenex, a good lab, and was a Multi-panel PCR test. Unfortunately, current Lyme tests have a high false negative rate. The symptoms did not vary, even though my nutritionist kept me too healthy--in fact, he says it may be why doctors were unwilling to test me any farther. Only the raging arthritis is a clue to my condition. Finally, reports came out in early 2004 about a study being done on an antigen test for Lyme. The doctor working on it has a reputation for creating fast, accurate antigen tests.
http://www.bowen.org/
What happens is, they test your blood, your doctor gets a fax within 24 hours, and a color photo of your blood is sent to the doctor within 48 hours. Because of me, my doctor/nutritionist entered the program, so I was tested. I have CWD Lyme, cell wall deficient--it's been around enough generations for the cell walls to vanish, and the walls are part of what the most popular tests look for, apparently. After the new test is done, the blood is then sent to Michigan (from FL) to be cultured in the long, expensive manner, as a crosscheck for the accuracy of the new test. We have not been informed that the results changed when my blood was cultured--so I did the European treatment for Lyme, since a) I've had it so long they usually talk IV antibiotics and b) I have no insurance.
I explain all this in case anyone knows people at the end of their rope, looking for explanations of something. It wasn't cheap to eliminate this--I took the test hoping to eliminate the possibility once and for all--but the group is set up as a nonprofit, so the test is a write-off, since you receive no goods or services. They won't treat you. (Irony here--if I lived in CT or MA, doctors would have caught and treated it immediately.)
There is thyroid support on the market for people who are low normal and tired, but do not need prescription meds. However, the thyroid is a powerful and critical organ--I wouldn't advise self-treatment. Find an MD, DO, or a DC who has been licensed in nutrition and work with her/him. My low thyroid may be natural to me, or from the Lyme, but I still need to treat it or I am exhausted and can't think.
Hope this is useful--
It may be justifiable anger, but I won't trade the rest of my world for it.
--Theresa Nielsen Hayden
I try to live this--thanks for such a clear statement of it. Hope doubling the dose gets you back on track much faster than six weeks.
Thanks to Liz et al for sharing the systems that have worked for pill organization and doctor herding (probably similar to cat herding.) I'm going to post the list in my LJ, and will link to this post, if you have no objection.
I must admit that I would make sure that the people who screwed up knew that under other circumstances, they could have cost you your job, and, most importantly, your life. But fuzzy thinking went with my illness--I can't have doctors and other medical personnel dropping the ball.
I am grateful that none of the medical/supplement screw-ups in my past nearly killed me--although I believe one did cost me a pending job. I thought I'd add that if folks take both Rx and supplements, please, FIND A COUNSELOR WHO KNOWS THIS. Herbs and vitamins are NOT benign pick-me-ups. Some of them can ream you out--and at low dosages.
In my case, it's my licensed clinical nutritionist who keeps an eye on me. When others told me that my results were normal (low normal, but normal,) that I had just drawn the bad arthritis card, and that fatigue and failing thought processes were all in my head--he said, no, not true. And kept me going in functioning health until a research study blood test revealed the problem.
Still working on halting/repairing the damage, but at least I'm writing again.
I hope you're still coming to Dallas at the end of the month! My SO and I are pleased that you’re attending. (Also, we're going to Fogo de Chao Friday night. :} He will drive hours for this restaurant. Let me know if it interests you.)
--Kathi Kimbriel
I like the saying, and if you can possibly come up with a color that won't make me look jaundiced (not yellow, orange, gold, beige) I'll be proud to order one. Yeah, I'm a winter, and refuse to look dead anymore. I like stars and the 13 star flag, because I am proud of my flag but I don't worship it--it's a symbol, not the thing it represents. I'd learn toward the "power" lessening, as opposed to strength. I hope our strength shall grow in this powerless time.
Also--there is a great huge liberal flag shirt out there, with a big flag and the words "Thinking is patriotic" on it.
I also have decided I want something related to the constitution on a t-shirt. I am SO tired of the $%$#@ crap about the pledge of you know what, with its 1950's addition of "under god"--whatever happened to "Ye shall be of the world but not in it"? I'm seeing red, that may not be exactly right. I went back and made sure I remember the Preamble to the Constitution, because if we're going to have them recite anything, why not this? I had to learn it in seventh grade, and you can bet I've been thinking about it and going over those phrases a lot the past few years.
Or I saw a quote from Einstein lately:
"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure." -- Albert Einstein
But that may be too intellectual for this time? Also, I don't know the context on that one. If we're going to be intellectual, let's be obscure and intellectual--and add Prof. Tolkien as well.
I was talking to my mother this morning about the election and Bush's "moral values" and I told her that my moral values included keeping old people from starving in the street. There's your moral values sound bite.
Thanks, Ginger--that's a much better sound bite than the ones I was wrestling with, like, "Big Business plays with the environment--can you afford a maid to clean up after them?" or "As a child, my grandfather rode to church in a buggy. I didn't think my grandchildren would, too."
I'm afraid moderates need to learn good spin--fast.
Betsy--
Thank you. It's been a very hard week, and I felt like I **had** to glean out the specifics to write this letter, but I can't think today.
Thanks for the boost--
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