How vain are you?

bobogirl

Hey Barbe:

I just don't like to hurt cows in anyway.  Really love cows.  I don't think it's necessarily possible that the cows used for meat are the same ones used for leather -- logistically, I don't think this would be possible in all cases -- and I don't eat the meat anyway.. I teach a bioethics class at the college, and we get a little bit into slaughterhouse practices, so while I'm not an expert, I know most slaughterhouses don't save the skins and export them to leather manufacturers.

I do wish I could have an Eileen Fisher obi belt, speaking of vanity.  They are always in leather.  I really want a belt of that shape!  But she never makes it in cloth or artificial products. XX

barbe1958

OMG $150 bucks and it isn't even leather??? 

Leather from a slaughter house would be ground up and made into "bonded leather" which is used in place of a skin. Free-range cattle have better skins as they don't rub up against wire fencing and damage their hides. It takes 7 hides to cover a couch, FYI. I was in the furniture business for years and years and this is what we were taught. It's the tanning of the hides when they used the acids to tan and colour the original "blue" hides that caused so much damage to the environment. Now hides are aniline, and semi-aniline died now which is "safer" to the people who do the treatments. European and South American hides are the best. Less than 5% of hides produced are good enough (big enough areas without flaws - like a bug bite) for furniture and the rest are used for purses, belts, clothing, etc.

The methane gas from farmed animals is the major cause of the ozone depletion! Larry says so and I believe him!! Seriously though....

SelenaWolf

Well, if Larry says it, then it must be true. 

Momine

In other news, if you need to improve your bone density, lose weight! I have osteopenia on my spine. My last DEXA showed additional loss, putting me right on the border to osteoporosis. I went back for a follow-up DEXA, and as I am lying there, the tech is checking my stats: age etc. So he asks, do you still weigh 75 kilos (165 pounds)? I tell him, kid, the only time I weighed 75 kilos was the day before my (11-pound) kid was born. Oh, he says, that means they made a mistake last time. 

Long story short, apparently your weight is a factor in the calculation, and using my actual weight means that my spine is not -2.3, but "only" -2.0, which is a major difference. So, my onc can take his prolia and stick it

SelenaWolf

You go, girl!

SelenaWolf

If any of you walked into a cemetery office and saw a staff member wearing this in a dark colour, would you find it inappropriate?  Would you be offended?

 

Momine

No, I think it is really cute. My guess is it would look good on you.

bobogirl

I think that suit is very sharp.  Are you going to buy it, Selena?  

Momine, from what I remember, you have been very successfully keeping yourself at a low and healthy weight.  Stick it, onc!  

Momine

Bobo, yeah, oncoman, he in big trouble now. Is has been busting my chops about going on prolia. But I don't wanna, dammit!

bobogirl

Stick your Prolia, onc!  Momine is not Blythe Danner (American spokewoman for Prolia)!!!  Our Momine is just delicate-boned and a hothead!  That does not necessarily warrant medication.

bobogirl

I am liking telling Momine's onc to 'Stick it.'  I am really feeling like spreading that around.  Selena, do you think you could add something to the top of our thread?  Right after your kind and non-bullying and reasoned addendum?  Something like, 'And if you don't like what we're talking about here on the vanity thread, you can stick it!'  I think that would really smooth things over.

kayfh

Yah in your face, go away if you can't say anything, nice, funny, snarky, enlightening.  If you just want to be nasty-stick it!

Spookiesmom

Selena, it's a really sharp looking suit. But even in a dark tone, not so much for a cemetery office. JMO. 

AmyfromMI

Beauty sleep.  We all know how important it is.  But have you seen this?  A friend of mine just sent me the link.  I found it very interesting.  Thoughts?

http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/01/27/fragmented-sleep-accelerates-cancer-growth?msource=MAG10

Selena, the outfit is gorgeous!  

wyo

I actually think this suit would be business -appropriate for your line of work Selina- I think the picture gives it a more "up"look that you would probably do differently with you choice of shoes etc. Those shorts are longer than an awful lot of skirts I see and the jacket is modest yet feminine- just my humble opinion

j

exbrnxgrl

Looks appropriate to me, but you know my perspective is California casual. Whatever you might wear it for, it's lovely.

Caryn 

Momine

Kay, I only know because we live close to parliament and I couldn't, at first, understand why demonstrators painted their faces white. The last 2 years, there hasn't been tear gas, though. This was back in 2011, when we had a very bad summer.

barbe1958

I think the shorts outfit is too casual for an office such as a cemetery (fab in an office that didn't have such a serious bend). Would work for traveling nicely though. I liken it to imagining what you would wear to say, a wedding. Would you dance in that outfit? Probably not. Doesn't mean I'd dance in my work-wear, but I would go to a "formal" situation in them without feeling over-dressed. Perhaps a dark colour would work better. I always think of lighter colours as golfing outfits....

Missed the post on MOM; are we talking Milk of Magnesia? Supposedly a great laxative but doesn't work for me. In a hospital situation MOM is considered a "bomb" for people who are constipated.

Anonymous

Selena - do you see the public in your work?  If so, I'm on the "maybe not for the office" side.  

LOL on MOM.  Learn the most interesting things around here.  Maybe we should tell larry....

Got my Maybelline under eye thingie, took forever to figure out how to USE the darn thing   Works, but feels very "dry" think I"m more of a creamy person.  Anyone know a good creamy coverup, not cakey.  BTW, what causes these dark circle as we get older.  I sleep alot, so it's not that.

barbe1958

Sunflowers, I've read that our skin gets thinner so more blood vessels show. Also if our blood is "low" it can add to it. Sad to hear that concealer is dry. I once bought a stick one that was SO dry it was like I was putting Preparation H on my lids!!! My eyes grew tight around the lids as well. I think a company was trying an experiment or something!!!!

Anonymous

barbe  - whaddaya mean "low" blood?  How would I know, and don't say ask larry

pupmom

Lol, well if I'm ever in the vicinity of tear gas, I'll know what to do!

SelenaWolf

Sunflowers... I work a lot with the public, but rarely face-to-face.  I'm contacted by email- and phone from all over by people looking to discover the last resting place of great-great-aunt-whatever and help them with research, but rarely - if ever - do the actual face-to-face meetings with families to arrange for burials.  I have an office in the back where the vault archive is; the public never sees me, except when I go walking in the cemetery grounds.

Barb... I was thinking about a darker colour; most of my office clothes are dark: black, charcoal-grey, navy.  However, it may turn out to be a moot point; haven't heard back from HR if such a suit meets our corporate standards.

Hey Yorkie... good to see you.

Whoever thought that MOM had such a subversive purpose?  I might have to get some, if only to ward off the perhaps-maybe tear gas attack!

I've been using Aveno's tinted moisturiser for the last few weeks; it's pretty nice!  My skin is getting so dry with this uber-cold weather (minus 29 Celsius windchill today) that - if I smile - I feel like I'm shedding a skin.  Since I don't wear foundation, the tinted moisturiser provides a bit of skin protection against the cold/wind and minimises my undereye circles.

barbe1958

Selena I guess that's why I like the Cover Girl creme foundation I use as it has Oil of Olay in it. Strangely, while I was just off for 2 1/2 years on disability, my skin got worse!! Now that I've been back to work for a couple of months it's much better. Daily scrubbing off of the foundation is my bet. When I was lazy I was just using a toner or water to keep clean. Also, the added SPF and moisturizer has made a difference for sure.

Low blood means anaemic or low iron. The skin under our eyes and around our noses breaks down to thinner properties as we age. But low blood can cause that bruised eye look. I've had dark circles all my life so I don't pay much attention to them.

TwinMamaHeather

Selena, I would think that if I walked into a cemetery office I would have more important things to worry about than being offended by the attire of someone working there and if I was worried about someone's clothing then the distraction from the sad thoughts that landed me at the funeral home would likely be welcomed. ;-)

I'm starting to realize while reading here that maybe this little club wasn't actually formed to discuss beauty! Haha! Original reason for "breaking away" aside, I like it here, snark and all, snark especially actually. 

TwinMamaHeather

As far as under eye cream, I really love erase paste by benefit.

Momine

Twin mama, I have absolutely NO idea what you mean by "snark." This must be some strange, American slang term 

Momine

I posted this elsewhere already, but for the vain thread it is a must, and with special relevance for those of us with tit deficit. 

My grand-parents at a mardi gras party in 1935:

Ariom

Momine, what a fabulous picture, of a great looking couple.

Your Grandmother is just gorgeous and is indeed, "rocking the flat!" 

MelissaDallas

Here are my grandparents. Yes, sometimes the doctor did marry the nurse!