How vain are you?
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I think witchcraft is a form of "religion" with its doctrines and beliefs. That's kind of what I meant in my post about "rules" but just couldn't come up with the right word as I'm STILL sitting here in the dark before work! Damn I HATE daylight "saving" time! What daylight???
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Barbe,
Getting ready to start the day in the dark is no fun, but I love coming home and having some more daylight to look forward to.
Caryn
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Caryn, that's true, but the evenings were already staying lighter longer...sigh. I can't wait until the mornings catch up! But by then I'll be at a job that starts at a much later hour instead of 8 am!! I've been in retail for so many years, where stores don't open until 10 or even noon, that this office job in taxes is just killing me!
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Barbe... it depends on who you ask. The world of witchcraft is polarized into two distinct camps: those who feel that espousing doctrine- and organization will give them more respect and legal rights; and those who insist that the very essense of witchcraft is anti-doctrinal. I try to stay out of any- and all arguments on this issue because it is one that, I believe, can never be resolved to everyone's satisfaction.
"New Agers" tend to believe that there should be rules and doctrines to follow; and that these doctrines need to emphasize the "feel good" nature of the New Age Movement. They are the ones that make the distinction between "White" (good) and "Black" (bad) witchcraft, and advocate the whole "think positive thoughts" and "do good" philosophy. It is the New Age wing that tend to drift into the fringes of the movement; embracing things that really have nothing to do with witchcraft, such as faery witchcraft, UFO's, pyramid power, laying-on-of-hands, and magickal thinking (i.e., "because I believe, therefore it will be"). This tends to be the more vocal- and visible group who are seeking legitimization of their beliefs.
The "Old Style" witches believe that this is nonsense; that witchcraft is just "witchcraft"; there is no "white" and "black"; and that, by its very essense, witchcraft embraces diversity, fluidity, freedom, reality, creativity, and change. There is no "central doctrine"; that is the whole point. There is both good and bad in human nature, and both traits carry within them their own strengths and pitfalls; this is recognized, accepted and welcomed. Old Style witches embrace neutrality, harmony, wisdom, and accountability for ones' thoughts and actions. They tend to be those in the community who have earned the reputation of "wise woman". They are the midwives, the layers-out-of-the-dead, and the healers. And while Old Style witches tend to cringe at the New Agers, they do recognize that some degree of organization is necessary to protect themselves and to define what they are not (i.e., Satanists and devil-worshippers, Voodoo queens, or baby-sacrificers. And, yes, some people still believe this of witchcraft).
I fall into the "Old Style" camp (bet you couldn't have guessed THAT ). I prefer it's "grit", it's acceptance of human nature, it's focus on finding balance, and it's use of spell-craft and ritual to solidify thought- and put one in the proper frame of mind to actively affect change, rather than the "I want it to happen, so I'll wave my hands around and 'believe' in it happening" New Age mindset. Spell-crafting and things like Tarot are just tools for developing mental- and physical self-discipline, not to make someone fall in love with someone else or foretell the future. Being an "Old Style" witch has made me a skeptic with little tolerance for charlatans, quackery, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and all forms of "woo".
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Loved wyo's post.
Selana, more than 3 cheers for Old Style.
Remember once in large gathering, when His Holiness the Dalai Lama was asked a long, detailed (pedantic?) question about "what is your religion" and he answered: "My religion is Kindness" and then smiled that beatific smile. Heaven.
I'm rereading Thoreau, and R. W. Emerson, for the zillionith time, about as close as I get to "religion" - and love reading what everyone is posting here too.
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Well said Selena, better than I ever could.
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Kayb, always worth it to remind ourselves of that, and I agree (although it is hard sometimes).
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Kayb... you're so right. There was a quote once that I came across - I can't remember who said it - and went something like: if you are afraid of a recurrence and it never happens, you've spent your life in fear; and if it does happen, then you live it twice.
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Rats... now why can't I insert pictures anymore?
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Selena, I vote for the "old style" too!!! And kayb, that is good sense!
Is anyone elses' screen format kind of weird right now? Mine looks like an old DOS format for bco or something. Very simplistic, not pretty at all. I wonder if that's why you're having picture troubles....?
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Yep. Having the same issues here. It's bizarre. I've only experienced this since the update, so - perhaps - they need to iron a few things out...
We had a major winter storm two days ago and received upwards of 25 centimetres of snow. It looks gorgeous, but just about everyone I know is grumbling that it should be warmer out. Me? I don't agree - I'm loving this weather - but I am in a minority (of one!) I think. Spent an hour walking in the cemetery yesterday; snow coating everything and sparkling like diamonds, sky a deep, robin's egg blue. Ah!
Seaching for a pair of cotton-twill, full-length trousers for summer. In camel, I think. However, every place I've looked is selling such trousers in capri-length. I hate capri-length. With my long body-short legs, in capri's I look like a weiner dog. Argh.
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Selena, this may sounds a little crazy, since I know you are stylish, but LLBean has really good khakis, in various lengths and configurations. The only thing you have to watch out for is the sizing. Their stuff is HUGE! If you are normally a 10, get a 2 or something (I am joking, but seriously, order at least one size down from your normal size).
J. Crew also used to have nice khakis, maybe they still do. Their sizes are normal Anne Taylor/Banana sizes.
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Thanks Momine. I do have LLBean and JCrew catalogues around somewhere, my honey likes their stuff. I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip on sizing: I know it can get a little crazy. I'm indeed a size 10, but I have everything from a size 6 to a size 12 in my closet... and it all fits. It's gotten so bad that I keep a list of all the brands I like and what size I wear in each. It's nuts.
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Yes, the sizing is really annoying. Back in the dark ages I took some courses at Parson's. We had standard dress maker's dummies to work on. I weighed about 125 and I was a 10. Then I started going to the gym, lost some weight and was able to squeeze into an 8. Years passed, I gained some weight, and then, mysteriously, at 135 lbs I was suddenly a size 6. In the dark ages, I was a 10, no matter where I bought clothes. Now, like you, I have to keep a mental inventory of what size I am in which brands. I am loath to order off the net, because I know I can't trust their size charts, and I have no idea if I am a 2 or a 10 in that brand (ok, kidding about the 2, since my skeleton won't shrink, regardless of my weight).
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Another tip on sizes I learned when I worked in a fancy ladies shop. The more expensive the line of clothing, the more likely it is that they use "vanity" sizing. If you normally wear an eight you'd probably wear a six in theirs.
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Love the term "vanity" sizing. It's almost funny.
Caryn
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Seems like several years ago I heard ALL the clothing manufactures were going to agree on sizes. So a 10 would be a 10, no matter what line it was. It makes me so crazy to find my size, or one that fits. A mental list would leak out of my brain.
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Caryn, it's even funnier to me that anyone would care so much that fitting into a smaller size would make them buy it.
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Spookie, a lot of it depends more on the cut than the size too. I wear a smaller size in a full skirt to fit my waist when I don't have to struggle with it fitting my, um, "ample" thighs and butt.
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I'm so glad I happened upon this thread tonight, it has really lifted my mood. Now I have to catch up on pages 2-43, lol. I was a shopper before dx and since I think it has gotten worse. Especially since chemo induced insomnia and qvc are NOT a good combination. Speaking of qvc, Selena, if you can handle not trying things on, check out the Women With Control line on qvc.com. They have great pants. I took a Chance on three pair at once (which is risky when trying a new brand from just seeing it on models) and I love them. I am super picky about pants, well everything really...
To attest to my "vaindom", I show up to every surgical procedure in full makeup, including my bmx at 5am. Some nurses think it's cute, others not so much. Have a great night ladies and thanks for lifting my spirits tonight.
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Hi Sheila, great to see you!
You crack me up! I have never presented to any Op or procedure without makeup either. I even had to have a shower and get my makeup on at midnight, in labor, before going in to have my Daughter. I turned up for my SNB and Mx in full makeup, with my hair blow dried at 6.30am.LOL
I do, however, always remove nail polish, don't want to be turning blue without them being able to see it somewhere!
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v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1">Ah, vanity…5 a.m. BMX drag is so…so…ESSENTIAL, IMO!
Here is my Propofol face, right before they wheeled me in.
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v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2">Eight hours later and boobless, I’d say my hair and makeup proved to be
quite…durable.THanks for hte validation, DeleriumPie.
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Poop. Had tried ot show off the 'durability' of my own 5 a.m. BMX hair and makeup but, new to the forum, have not yet been able to figure out how to include pics. Let's all jsut assume I looked hot. ;o)
Thanks for the validation, DeleriumPie!
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hi ariom. As I back tracked the page 43 I saw you and thought of course you are here - not calling you vain or anything - just that it has always been obvious that you are a classy, put together lady who has such a lovely appearance. I have always admired your grace since I first "met" you.
I bet you were looking hot doubletrouble!
Did anyone experience losing their eyelashes more than once? I finally lost all of mine, save one very lonely lash that I put mascara on til near the end, just after my first chemo treatments ended, but then I started a new treatment a couple of months later. About a month or two into that one, I lost brows and lashes again. Not sure if it was from new chemo or just a new growth cycle. Anyway, the first time they returned full and thick quickly, but this time my left eye is just pitiful. Sparse, no length and super brittle. Is there any hope it will return to normal? It's been a long time now. The right side, which I lost first both times, has returned to a tolerable length. Maybe it's trivial but it bugs me every morning. I look like clockwork orange or something.
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Delirium, yes, it is common for the lashes to fall out more than once. It is normal hair replacement, but because they grew in all at once, they also fall out all at once. That was actually the hardest for me. I could deal with no hair and no brows, but when the lashes go ... I seriously considered getting fakes. There are salons that will do lash extensions.
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Thank you so much Sheila, I don't know about looking "Hot", but it made me feel better!
I couldn't possibly, not get involved, in a thread about being vain. Everyone here is fabulous and their stories are wonderful!
I am so sorry you had to lose your lashes twice.
I didn't have chemo, but I was sick a couple of years ago and had to have massive amounts of IV antibiotics and steroids, when I was in Hospital in Singapore. The upshot of that, was I lost nearly all my lashes from my left eye. WTF! Why one eye,I have no idea, but once I started to get a little growth I used Mavala Double Lash and it helped get them back the way they were. I still use it every now and then, for a couple of weeks just for a boost.
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The most I am willing to forego before walking out the door is eye shadow. But I absolutely must foundation, blush, eye liner, mascara and eye brow pencil/shadow. No way will I be seen in public otherwise!
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Unless going to a doctors appt (I'm sure they judge if we're "well" enough to care to put on make-up) I can get away with just a sweep of face powder under my eyes to soften the dark circles. But I HAVE to have some residual mascara left on to even be able to see my eyes!! I'm in a new town (only 3 1/2 years) and don't know many people, so I don't worry that I'll be seen. Was tougher when I worked and played in the same community!
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It was when my eyebrows went that I thought I looked REALLY freaky. They, or course, have grown back, and now, I have that "andy rooney' look unless I 'trim' some of the long ones....
Somehow I thought when I finished my 5 years of Arimidex, I'd stop getting Chin Hairs, L-o-n-g chin ( and neck!) hairs. Wrong, and you have to put the magnifying mirror sort of in the sun, in order to really see them. That, or they do, indeed grow overnight. Really do not like them.
My default need is blush. Cream ( bobbi brown) or I won't go outside.
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Stray facial hairs! The bane of my existence. I am often mortified when I look in the mirror of my car on a bright, sunny day and spy a dreaded hair or two that I never even noticed in my bathroom mirror. I think I need to have someone check my face before I leave the house.
Daily makeup- Tinted BB cream, powder, brow gel, eyeshadow and liner,mascara, lip tint, gloss or lipstick. On the weekend I might forgo the mascara and just go with liner and subtle shadow. My lips are always dry so may as well use something with color to keep the hydrated. I did not wear make up to surgery because I knew I'd wake up with smeared eye make up.
Glasses- Do you wear glasses and how do you feel about them? I was wearing contact lenses before my bmx. I got lazy afterwards and just wore my glasses, only rarely using my contacts. I had nice frames so I didn't mind. A few weeks ago, after deciding my frames were looking a bit dated, I had an eye exam. Lo and behold, my prescription had changed! I got new glasses, larger frames that are a medium/deep purple color and they released my contact lenses prescription so I ordered them quite cheaply on line. I've been wearing my contacts several days a week but love the new eyeglass frames too (they're kind of geek chic). My students, who had not seen me in contacts this school year were all abuzz the first time I wore them. I love those kids!
Caryn
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- 375 Members by Location
- 291 Older Than 60 Years Old With Breast Cancer
- 177 Singles With Breast Cancer
- 869 Young With Breast Cancer
- 50.4K Connecting With Others Who Have a Similar Diagnosis
- 204 Breast Cancer with Another Diagnosis or Comorbidity
- 4K DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma In Situ)
- 79 DCIS plus HER2-positive Microinvasion
- 529 Genetic Testing
- 2.2K HER2+ (Positive) Breast Cancer
- 1.5K IBC (Inflammatory Breast Cancer)
- 3.4K IDC (Invasive Ductal Carcinoma)
- 1.5K ILC (Invasive Lobular Carcinoma)
- 999 Just Diagnosed With a Recurrence or Metastasis
- 652 LCIS (Lobular Carcinoma In Situ)
- 193 Less Common Types of Breast Cancer
- 252 Male Breast Cancer
- 86 Mixed Type Breast Cancer
- 3.1K Not Diagnosed With a Recurrence or Metastases but Concerned
- 189 Palliative Therapy/Hospice Care
- 488 Second or Third Breast Cancer
- 1.2K Stage I Breast Cancer
- 313 Stage II Breast Cancer
- 3.8K Stage III Breast Cancer
- 2.5K Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
- 13.1K Day-to-Day Matters
- 132 All things COVID-19 or coronavirus
- 87 BCO Free-Cycle: Give or Trade Items Related to Breast Cancer
- 5.9K Clinical Trials, Research News, Podcasts, and Study Results
- 86 Coping with Holidays, Special Days and Anniversaries
- 828 Employment, Insurance, and Other Financial Issues
- 101 Family and Family Planning Matters
- Family Issues for Those Who Have Breast Cancer
- 26 Furry friends
- 1.8K Humor and Games
- 1.6K Mental Health: Because Cancer Doesn't Just Affect Your Breasts
- 706 Recipe Swap for Healthy Living
- 704 Recommend Your Resources
- 171 Sex & Relationship Matters
- 9 The Political Corner
- 874 Working on Your Fitness
- 4.5K Moving On & Finding Inspiration After Breast Cancer
- 394 Bonded by Breast Cancer
- 3.1K Life After Breast Cancer
- 806 Prayers and Spiritual Support
- 285 Who or What Inspires You?
- 28.7K Not Diagnosed But Concerned
- 1K Benign Breast Conditions
- 2.3K High Risk for Breast Cancer
- 18K Not Diagnosed But Worried
- 7.4K Waiting for Test Results
- 603 Site News and Announcements
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- 39 Mod Announcements, Breastcancer.org News, Blog Entries, Podcasts
- 4 Survey, Interview and Participant Requests: Need your Help!
- 61.9K Tests, Treatments & Side Effects
- 586 Alternative Medicine
- 255 Bone Health and Bone Loss
- 11.4K Breast Reconstruction
- 7.9K Chemotherapy - Before, During, and After
- 2.7K Complementary and Holistic Medicine and Treatment
- 775 Diagnosed and Waiting for Test Results
- 7.8K Hormonal Therapy - Before, During, and After
- 50 Immunotherapy - Before, During, and After
- 7.4K Just Diagnosed
- 1.4K Living Without Reconstruction After a Mastectomy
- 5.2K Lymphedema
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- 591 Pain
- 3.9K Radiation Therapy - Before, During, and After
- 8.4K Surgery - Before, During, and After
- 109 Welcome to Breastcancer.org
- 98 Acknowledging and honoring our Community
- 11 Info & Resources for New Patients & Members From the Team