Comments on: There may be a bunch of ways to skin a cat but in the end you still have a gristly feline minus a fur coat

By: Buf

Buf — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:47:47 +0000

True story….lol I never realized how many good family stories I had until I started commenting on your blog…thhanks!

By: Elizabeth A.

Elizabeth A. — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:23:42 +0000

She certainly tried.

If our loved ones are up above watching, then I’d feel really bad. That whole threatening to take an African sabbatical with my Sierra Leonean boyfriend would have killed her if the cancer hadn’t come along 5 years earlier.

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:58:42 +0000

@Liz I do like Mr. Jackson, but I am not a purist at all. And his jeans are pretty tight, aren’t they?

@Buf I had no idea this crease down the middle was so prevalent in the south.

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:57:33 +0000

Get. OUT! He thought his bright orange jacket was GREEN?! And I absolutely love the fact that your great-aunt thought he was drunk!

You have the best family stories, Buf.

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:55:57 +0000

No, I think that would just be part of it — the changing my life. She sounds like she instilled a lot of proper virtues in you and I think that would have helped me.

Sometimes I feel like I was raised by wolves.

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:54:27 +0000

Oh Liz. (grabs head)

Yes, she had tons and TONS of pantyhose.

By: Elizabeth A.

Elizabeth A. — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:42:59 +0000

I doubt Alan Jackson does any of his ironing, and also because his jeans are entirely too tight. That guy annoys me and I like country music a lot.

By: Elizabeth A.

Elizabeth A. — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:39:16 +0000

Yes, there are different brands of starch. You can even buy it concentrated. My grandmother was a stickler for appearance, especially for church. She didn’t like fabric softener because it interfered with having a crisp crease. And she preferred to be addressed as grandmother. You get the picture.

It would have changed your life? From getting stripped down in the kitchen and sitting on a stool in your slip.

I hang my silk on the light fixture to avoid the dry cleaners.

@Bumbles, Ironing is 90% positioning and smoothing, 10% actual ironing.

By: Buf

Buf — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:55:13 +0000

I’m with you Elizabeth! Parents are supposed to raise their kids to be successful/happy adults. Adults have to know how to do the day to day stuff of life like dishes, laundry, balancing checkbooks, etc. The best way to really learn these things is by doing them yourself as a child.

By: Buf

Buf — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:51:53 +0000

The ironed jeans with a crease down the middle are also very popular in TX…lol