Beauty

[just bee]

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@KaySDwrote:

Know how, when you clear things out, the mess seems to just gets bigger and bigger? That's where I am...

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@KaySD

I have so much to look forward to.

[just bee]

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@rnmomwrote:

@Oshare-girl-thanks for sharing about your mission trip, I look forward to hearing more about it! 

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@Oshare-girl

Fascinating!  And how cool for your family to have that experience.  KFC makes sense in Japan.  It would be like tempura except instead of seafood or vegetable, it's chicken.  Sort of.  (I'm definitely interested in the strawberry soda.)

One of my favorite classes in college was Asian Art.  Studied Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Indian art -- and a lot of the history.  I worked for a Japanese company for 13 years but never had the chance to see Japan.

My list of states and countries to visit has shrunk over the years but I think Japan is still a place I wouldn't mind seeing.  I'd made friends with Japanese students in college and as similar to Americans as we think they are, the Japanese are really quite different.

Riddle: My dog has an Irish name but it's spelled the Japanese way -- if that makes any sense to anyone.  He has a certain Eastern sensibility about him.  (His middle name is Ichiban.)

It's funny.  I was driving the other day and thought about my choices after college.  Every English major thinks about teaching English in a foreign country after graduation and sometimes I regret that I didn't.  How cool was your class?  The thought of teaching English to people who actually want to learn is intoxicating.  (Don't get me started on the state of education.)

Your trip is an inspiration.  There are two ways to travel -- as a tourist and observer or as a member.  Japan is so strong yet so fragile.  When I worked for the Japanese every earthquake was a heart-stoppper.  (They probably felt the same about their Silicon Valley location.  Loma Prieta happened less than an hour before I had to go to work.)

Yes, we definitely want to hear more when you get a chance!

[just bee]

@geezerette

In case you haven't seen it, @KaySD has a post for you in the March thread.

[geezerette]

@Oshare-girl

Wow, that’s an experience in a lifetime!  Makes me feel totally selfish and inadequate.

Globalization.  Has its good points and bad.  It’s a shame that we all now seem to want to be the same.  Same clothes, same food, same cars.  Our local/regional uniqueness is disappearing.  A shame in so many ways.

But, look at what you did.  You and your family gave of yourselves in a basic human way to people that, not so many years ago, our country was trying to destroy, and vice versa.  Yet here you are today, with many others, trying to help them survive and to carry on their traditions and culture.  Global interaction at its finest.

And isn’t that what this place is about too?  Simplicity.  The simple action of one human being helping another human being sustain life.  Food, clothing, shelter, emotional/mental/physical stability.  When it comes right down to it, a lot of the other “stuff” we get burdened with over our lives doesn’t matter at all.  In fact, we don’t have room for it in our lives if we’re busy doing the things that really do matter.  

Sort of like lipstick.  Sometimes, it just doesn’t matter.  Unless your husband happens to request it.  Yep, you just gotta love the guy. ❤️💄💋

[Janicecp]

Got a Krystal burger I .your area? Same concept! And delightful for those times nothing but those steamy greasy edges will do!  Sorry, read fast food craves for over an hour at 2 am last night. can you say bad timing!!! Lol.

[just bee]

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@geezerette wrote:

@Oshare-girl

Wow, that’s an experience in a lifetime!  Makes me feel totally selfish and inadequate.

Globalization.  Has its good points and bad.  It’s a shame that we all now seem to want to be the same.  Same clothes, same food, same cars.  Our local/regional uniqueness is disappearing.  A shame in so many ways.

But, look at what you did.  You and your family gave of yourselves in a basic human way to people that, not so many years ago, our country was trying to destroy, and vice versa.  Yet here you are today, with many others, trying to help them survive and to carry on their traditions and culture.  Global interaction at its finest.

And isn’t that what this place is about too?  Simplicity.  The simple action of one human being helping another human being sustain life.  Food, clothing, shelter, emotional/mental/physical stability.  When it comes right down to it, a lot of the other “stuff” we get burdened with over our lives doesn’t matter at all.  In fact, we don’t have room for it in our lives if we’re busy doing the things that really do matter.  

Sort of like lipstick.  Sometimes, it just doesn’t matter.  Unless your husband happens to request it.  Yep, you just gotta love the guy. ❤️💄💋

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@geezerette

@Oshare-girl

Wow, that’s an experience in a lifetime!  Makes me feel totally selfish and inadequate.

I've noticed lately that a lot of the nurses I know are paring down so that they can spend their final years as travel nurses, hopping from city to city, hospital to hospital.  I have a weird fantasy that's similar except it would be more like going to areas that need help and living there, helping to get a region back on its feet.  Not the Peace Corps, but some sort of organization.  But for now I'm sort of stuck in one place.  BH would ditch the house in a heartbeat, but I'm not as ready.  I need a base camp.

Our local/regional uniqueness is disappearing.  A shame in so many ways.

Yes!

Sort of like lipstick.

If you're on a mission, busy thinking about others and not yourself, your best option is Burt's Bees tinted lip balm.

[geezerette]

Just as I had suspected would happen, it’s 👎🏼 for me on the new spectacles.  The Rx is fine and even the fit is okay, but I just don’t like the way they look.  The brow piece is just too dark.  I’m fading as I age—not uncommon—and I don’t wear makeup anymore.  So dark frames just look too stark.  The bottoms are rimless so that helps a little, I guess.  And these were the best of the lot so I’d really be unhappy if I had gone with any of my original choices.

I liked my old frames just fine.  I don’t see why they can’t just keep making them forever.  

[aprilskies]

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@just bee wrote:

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@KaySDwrote:

Know how, when you clear things out, the mess seems to just gets bigger and bigger? That's where I am...

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@KaySD

I have so much to look forward to.

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@KaySD, @justbee,  Yes, things just seem to multiply.  One reason why I dread dragging things out of their hiding place.  But, it must be done - slowly.  

[aprilskies]

@Oshare-girl - that is so totally cool and great thing to do.  That is definitely an experience and the fact you did it as a family is really admirable. Nice going.  ....and you had me at strawberry soda. Sounds delis. 

@geezerette-  don’t you hate that.  I still haven’t use my news glasses.  Maybe only twice. I gravitate towards my old ones.  I have to put them where I can see them. ....and don’t ask me why I bought a whole year of contacts when I reach for my glasses.  One day, I will understand myself, or not. 🤣

[just bee]

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@geezerette wrote:

Just as I had suspected would happen, it’s 👎🏼 for me on the new spectacles.  The Rx is fine and even the fit is okay, but I just don’t like the way they look.  The brow piece is just too dark.  I’m fading as I age—not uncommon—and I don’t wear makeup anymore.  So dark frames just look too stark.  The bottoms are rimless so that helps a little, I guess.  And these were the best of the lot so I’d really be unhappy if I had gone with any of my original choices.

I liked my old frames just fine.  I don’t see why they can’t just keep making them forever.  

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@geezerette

I was in a conference all day and was checking out eyeglass frames.  Most of the frames were either dark, rimless, or dark on top and rimless on the bottom.  I only saw one red frame other than mine. 

And that's how it was when I was frame shopping.  Most frames were dark, rimless, or dark on top and rimless on the bottom.

They say you want contrast when you choose a frame so maybe you actually made the right choice.  Sometimes the frames I don't like at first grow on me and become favorites.  Or the ones I don't like get the most compliments.

I'm actually looking forward to the new pair.  I like to alternate: Metal frame then acetate.  This is an acetate year.  Or two years.  Considering the price of glasses I make them last two years.  By then I'm sick to death of them and want a change.

But I do love the way a Versace frame feels.  Sturdy, well-crafted, nicely balanced.  I'm at the point where I go by the way a frame feels more than how it looks.

My first Versace frame felt amazing when I tried it on.  Like a custom fit.  But it was peach and purple.  I don't do purple.  But I went ahead and bought it because it felt perfect.  One of my all-time favorites despite the weird color.

Just don't go to the Zenni website.  They have some of the most outrageous cat eye frames there and I love every one of them.  Totally Far Side.