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MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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MinnieM123 said:
Oh, for the gals on this thread, have any of you used those (sort of) new hair styling wands? These are not to be confused with the previous ones that had the clip thing. Some of these newer ones are fun, if you want quick, loose waves (term they use is "beach-y style ocean waves"), or even tighter curls if you want.

I have medium-length hair (just below the shoulders) and I really like the "look". (Can't be bothered to do this every day, but a few times a week, or for a night out, these are the bees knees!) :joyfull:

(Here's the one I bought (Infiniti Pro Conair, titanium curling wand-- retails around $30, but I had a coupon and also a special sale price, which knocked it way down!) :)

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We have one. My oldest uses it. Not that brand though. She wants now to get some sort of curl former to do a hairstyle that women had in the 40’s? Kind of like a bob with a wave?
 
Mr Ferret 75

Mr Ferret 75

Thank you sir. You were an inspiration.
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MinnieM123 said:
@figmentfan423 , where are you? Ferret is running around out of his cage, and we need reinforcements here to quell the disturbances. Forget the kale and okra at the Farmer's Market this morning--need you back here now to help restore sanity. :jawdrop:
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You are expecting Figgy to restore sanity 😂😂😂

Maybe i need to send you some snow as yoi are obviously suffering from overheating .
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Goofyernmost said:
Hauling a 3 ounce phone around just doesn't seem like much of a burden especially in a place like a theme park. It is so easy to get separated and not easily seen. She has had the propensity since she was a very young child to just wander off. She did that at a open house at a huge Air Force Base with thousands of people in a crowd, when she was about three. I thought my mother was going to have a heart attack. After that she was forced to go the harness route. Without it she would probably still be lost. She hated the harness and even into adulthood was angry about being humiliated by having to be "tethered". Even 4 years ago when we went to Europe together, she would disappear. If I didn't watch were she was every minute I would lose track of her. I started to intentionally lag behind her when we were walking. Otherwise she might see a "Squirrel" and I'd be a mile ahead before I realized she was no longer behind me. She is a highly intelligent women and yet, those particular life lessons never took root.

Yup, that is true about WoD. My grandkids are all in their high teens. 17, 18 and almost 20. I have one young enough, but, I don't want to just buy for one. Besides I get her enough things through the course of the year and her birthday and Christmas. I just don't buy any souvenirs at all anymore. I did buy two Disney T's to replace two worn out ones that I threw away, but not at Disney. The gift shops that line the highways just offsite have a lot of Disney merchandise with the Disney label for about a quarter of the cost of the same thing onsite. Yea, I know I'm to cheap to be a pure Disney fan. I just keep thinking that if I live into my 80's I'd like to be able to buy food for myself and I won't be able to if I spend more money then I have. I blame my parents, if I had been born rich, I wouldn't have to be this frugal.
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My niece is like that...running off if you turn your back for 2 seconds. My brother and his husband were really grateful to my daughter for keeping an eye on her at Disney. More often than not, E was following N around like she was a moon orbiting its planet. My brother would be looking at something, and turn around and N would be gone, he'd turn a bit further and see my daughter, following the munchkin and keeping her from causing mayhem. I can imagine Disney would be a scary place to lose sight of your child, because it's SOOOO big, and they could be ANYWHERE and there are so many people. And E was really good about correcting N's behavior if she started climbing on things, or doing something that could be dangerous or be rude to other patrons. I think my brother enjoyed his trip a lot more than he might have had they traveled there alone with the kiddo. And E had fun playing "big sister" to her cousin. I suppose it's a bit harder when your sister is a grown adult. You can hardly scold her for wandering off as she has every right to do so. I doubt she'd let you tether her these days.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Goofyernmost said:
Me too, and I almost never get a call, but feel absolutely naked if I forget it on occasion. It makes me laugh though, when you consider my age and the number of years when we all had to be disconnected if we traveled. I can remember when I owned my nursing home, Checking in with my staff to find out how thing were going. I even had to arrange for a replacement freezer that went bad while I was gone. Called the appliance place and talking them into delivering one that I would pay for as soon as I got back. All from a pay phone in Magic Kingdom. We always had to deal with not having a cell phone at least to the middle of the 1990's and even then it was iffy getting a signal. Went miles and miles, days and days away with no phone, no texts, no nothing and never gave it a thought. My how things have changed.
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I got my first cell phone when I did my student teaching in...2000? I was living with my mom, but the schools were an hour away, so it was good to have in case I had trouble on the road, or if the weather got bad and I might need to stay in town. I still don't use my phone as much as most people do. I didn't switch to a smartphone until something like 2016? Everyone else seemed to have them and I didn't want one, but I kept losing my grocery list, and I made a comment about needing a small notebook I could hang around my neck so I couldn't lose the list and my husband said "You mean like a smartphone with a grocery list app?" And he got me a smartphone. I have to admit it comes in handy, but I rarely get calls, and I pretty much only use it for the grocery list and for communication with choir about upcoming performances, and work to trade shifts. I can happily do without it most days. Although, the one time I forget it at home is the one time I end up needing it for some reason...like the time I went to help decorate the kids' school for fall, and it was only 2 minutes from my house, so I didn't bring the phone. On my way home, I heard screaming and looked over to see a group of teenage boys beating up another boy, and I had no phone to call the police. I ran back to the school parking lot and flagged down another mom who had a phone, but she wouldn't call the police. She turned her car around to shine her lights on the boys, hoping they would stop. None of the moms would use their phones to call for help. Finally, the preschool teachers who were meeting next door were finished and came out wondering what we were all standing there looking at, and as soon as I explained it to them, THEY went and called the police. I don't ever intentionally leave my phone home now, even for 2 minutes...I always think back to that moment hearing that boy scream and not having any way to intervene, and no one would call for help. (something that boggles my mind....why would you not call for help??) I want to be able to call for myself and not rely on someone else.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Songbird76 said:
I got my first cell phone when I did my student teaching in...2000? I was living with my mom, but the schools were an hour away, so it was good to have in case I had trouble on the road, or if the weather got bad and I might need to stay in town. I still don't use my phone as much as most people do. I didn't switch to a smartphone until something like 2016? Everyone else seemed to have them and I didn't want one, but I kept losing my grocery list, and I made a comment about needing a small notebook I could hang around my neck so I couldn't lose the list and my husband said "You mean like a smartphone with a grocery list app?" And he got me a smartphone. I have to admit it comes in handy, but I rarely get calls, and I pretty much only use it for the grocery list and for communication with choir about upcoming performances, and work to trade shifts. I can happily do without it most days. Although, the one time I forget it at home is the one time I end up needing it for some reason...like the time I went to help decorate the kids' school for fall, and it was only 2 minutes from my house, so I didn't bring the phone. On my way home, I heard screaming and looked over to see a group of teenage boys beating up another boy, and I had no phone to call the police. I ran back to the school parking lot and flagged down another mom who had a phone, but she wouldn't call the police. She turned her car around to shine her lights on the boys, hoping they would stop. None of the moms would use their phones to call for help. Finally, the preschool teachers who were meeting next door were finished and came out wondering what we were all standing there looking at, and as soon as I explained it to them, THEY went and called the police. I don't ever intentionally leave my phone home now, even for 2 minutes...I always think back to that moment hearing that boy scream and not having any way to intervene, and no one would call for help. (something that boggles my mind....why would you not call for help??) I want to be able to call for myself and not rely on someone else.
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What was their reasoning for not calling for help? Why would they not have intervened?
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
I miss the neon colors, rolled up jeans with oversized tops/sweaters. The socks that you scrunched down, and the Reebok hi-tops. I wasn’t a fan of shoulder pads and would cut them out if any of my shirts had them. Ripped jeans from the 80’s are now back in fashion.
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Did you guys double the scrunched up socks with complimentary colors? Like, I remember for cheerleading, our school colors were black and gold, so we had to wear 2 pairs of socks...one black, and one white or gold, so you had both colors showing. (sorry, bad quality photo...it's a picture I took of a photo in the photo album, and the original picture is from when I was in 8th grade.)
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Occassionally, we even reversed the one pair of socks, so we had the black on the outside on one foot and the other color on the outside on the other foot. Did you guys do this, too, or was this just us? It took some convincing to get my mother to let me scrunch my socks...she thought it looked ridiculous. But I loved it...I thought the multi-colored thing was so cute!
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
What was their reasoning for not calling for help? Why would they not have intervened?
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I have no idea. I still to this day do not understand that mentality. I guess they just didn't want to get involved...I was thinking, what if it was your child on the ground being kicked by 4 older kids and you found out that there were adults standing there watching and they did nothing??? Wouldn't you be livid? I mean, I BOOKED it back to the school when I saw what was going on. I debated running home...I was not quite half way there...it would have taken me less than a minute to run. But then I would have had to fumble with my keys in the door, go get my phone...in the end I decided it would be faster to run back to the school where someone else already had a phone handy. I wish I would have just run home. But it never occurred to me that someone would refuse to use their phone to call for help in that situation.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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StarWarsGirl said:
Ugh. Yet another thing that I won't miss. The song is nice enough, but that singer needed some serious voice lessons. Her vowels make me cringe and she needs more expression in the song.

My mom started laughing towards the end of the live stream when she came on like, "Boy, you won't miss her will you?" 😂 Apparently I've done a good amount of complaining about her over the years.
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The vowels didn't make me cringe as much as the scooping to every note did. She's worse than Adelle with that! But to be honest, it sounded like she was trying to sound like Celine Dion...did you notice the "S"s are all more like "sh" the way she sings them. Celine Dion does that, too. Not the best technique, but I've heard worse. I think her voice is fine if she had better technique. She kind of does this crescendo/decrescendo too often, and that together with not hitting the notes directly, but scooping up or down to them, makes it...not as nice? It's kind of....inconsistent, I guess? I think she's trying to make it more dramatic and melodic with the dynamics and suspensions/anticipations, but she does too much of it, so it becomes annoying rather than adding dimension to it. Like a car engine that doesn't quite want to start, so you have to rev it a few times. But she's on pitch for the most part, which is why I can't stand Adelle....she is consistently flat. But, then, to each his own...I know a lot of people LOVE Adelle, and I can't listen to her. I'm betting there are people who love this singer, too, though she wouldn't be my top choice. It's a shame really, because when you think of some of the talent Disney has available to them....like the Voices of Liberty, why did they go this route? But, I guess it's a "moo point" now that the show has been replaced. I haven't seen the new one...are the singers better?
 

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