Hair color
 

Diane, you might try searching backward-start with the product name, go to their web page and look for places that use the product. It works for me with skin care.

Welcome Diana .. nice to hear from someone new! I've never heard of Frameisi hair color, but some of the trendier places may use it.

Did you all get to meet Pturner? I'm still pouting because I didn't know she was here for a visit. But I did get to meet Boomer, so all is not lost.

Barefoot is packing slowly and sadly this week for her exile to Canada. :cryin2:

Bare,
You met Boomer! I'm jealous... and still bummed that I didn't meet my dear friend who turned me on to the eagles' nest and loves dogs and started this very thread and has a big heart and... :cryin2:

Mrs. Ohio
 

thanks for the input, I will give this a try! P.S. I love this forum!!!

Thanks for the warm fuzzies Pturner! :kiss: We'll meet up for sure the next time you're in TV.
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By the way, for those of you who haven't discovered it, the spray-on suntan stuff you buy at Publix works. I use Australian Gold spray-on bronzer. Your legs won't exactly appear well tanned, but it takes away that ghostly look.

(But don't use too much or it will run down your legs and pool up around your toenails. And you'll look like you've been doing way too much gardening. :) )

Here you go, Gals
 

Wonder if this is taught at the Learning Center? :pepper2:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a2DQC-ghio[/ame]

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Love your shelf! Hilarious islandgal. Thanks for posting.

I'm still laughing!
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Thanks for the laugh, Islandgal. That is really funny.

Whenever I see a shelf, I am immediately obsessed by a burning desire to put a doilie and a few knick nacks on it! Beware of exposing your shelves to me!

What a funny video Islandgal, I havant tried those tummy exercises yet.:laugh:

IslandGirl, Thanks, what a great way to start my day.
This is one class where I would excel. :1rotfl:

I'm on the brink of purchasing a Roomba, the robot vac that cleans your house while you go shopping. How cool is that. But I have a feeling that if the Roomba really worked amazingly, every single household would have one.

The information above from uujudy was posted in January 2009. It sounds as if the 2008 Roomba was a carpet sweeper and not a vacuum cleaner at all. I'm looking at an ad right now and it definitely says it vacuums carpets. I'm way too lazy to put away furniture and throw rugs and lamps and power cords and dog dishes .. that is more work than vacuuming!

Anyone out there have any Roomba experience?

Hire a Cleaner, they do it all...
 

Yes BF, you need to hire a cleaning person who can do it all, not just the floors. It sure is worth it and doesn't even break the bank....b

You know what Barb? You're absolutely right. That is a brilliant idea. And well worth the money.

Scratch the Roomba idea. :boom:

We just returned from a family wedding. It was fun. But the most fun of all was being seated at dinner across from the mother-of-the-bride's best friend from high school. This woman is from Alabama and is one of the funniest people I have ever met. We got into discussing all the tizzy that can come with weddings, the tizzy over doing things just so.

I told her that I had actually wrestled with a little angst over the fact that when I sent the gift of a check, before the wedding, I made it out to the bride only, but that after I did so, I thought, "Uh oh. The bride is 26." -- She probably thought it was weird that the check was made out to just her and did not include the groom's name. No and in sight. Not even an or on that "Pay to the order of" line. I started to wonder if I had possibly caused our niece to fret, asking herself, "Ohhhhh, what is Aunt Boomer thinking? Does she think he is going to abandon me at the altar?"

Now, being of an age, of course, we all know that is how it was always properly done in the past. Before the wedding? A check is made out to the bride only. Now? Oh... who knows?

Anyway, after I got a consensus that I was absolutely and perfectly correct in the traditional way of making out that check, we went on to discuss other wedding customs. For instance, my wedding gifts (from my first wedding that is) were displayed in the dining room of my parents' house in the weeks before the wedding. That was so my mother's friends could stop by to "view" them. (It was a long time ago.)

Then we got to talking about whether or not we had been to a wedding with a groom's cake, which seems to be a Southern custom. (Yes. I had. My sister had one made for her daughter's wedding last year. My mother's Southern influence is still with us.)

And that was when my new friend from Alabama told me about a book that I need to read because it is pretty hilarious. She had sent it to my sister-in-law before the wedding we were attending.

The book is called, "Somebody Is Going To Die If Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet: The Official Southern Ladies' Guide To Hosting the Perfect Wedding." I went to the bookstore today to look for it. But it was not there, and so I have it on order. I will find out if some of these things that have happened in my Ohio life are as a result of Southern influence. Or maybe all of you had your wedding gifts on display for weeks, too.

(And, btw, not a wedding thing, but has anybody else ever been taught that it is improper to display candles with a brand new wick? According to what I learned, growing up, you should always "touch the wick" -- with a flame so that it is burned. Light it and blow it out. Otherwise, I supposedly would be considered quite tacky with my candle display with untouched wicks. Oh my! :faint:)

Boomerbelle

Yes, Boomer, I grew up in Virginia being told about quickly lighting new candle wicks and I still do it.:shrug:

Oh, islandgal, do you ever secretly want to touch the wicks at somebody else's house? Ohhhh, it is so hard not to. But that would be so rude. I just can't. But I want to.

Boomer

I just need to vent!!!!
 

I still work and my free time is precious. My hair is just getting too long and shabby and I need to have it trimmed. Trimmed....that's all...just trimmed...not styled or colored or permed etc. etc. etc....just trimmed!
I went to Cal's Barbar Shop in the Colony Plaza. I was told I could just walk in...just like men do in a barbar shop. I walked in, all the barbar's were busy but no one was waiting. I entered my name in the book and checked that I was a walk-in. After waiting patiently for 15 minutes, one of the stylists finished up, then proceeded to the back room for about 5 minutes. I thought "Ok, she needed a bathroom break or whatever". She returned, walked over to me, asked what I needed. I told her and she turned away, walked over to the other 2 girls who were cutting hair and began discussing me. They talked, kept glancing at me (making me feel very uncomfortable) and she finally came back. She asked me if I had an appointment. I told her "No, I was told I could just walk in, just like the men do...I don't care WHO cuts my hair...I just need it trimmed". She then proceeded to tell me that they recommend that women make an appointment and would I like to make one? "No", I told her. She told me that they make appointments every 15 minutes and that they all had appointments. THERE WAS NO ONE WAITING!!! And in the 10 minutes she spent discussing me, she could have trimmed my hair! I feel totally discriminated against! Now, I am stuck. My hair is still too long and shabby and now I don't have time to get it cut for at least another week! I walked out in a huff and cried all the way home. Was I asking too much????:(
Thank you for listening...I feel much better now...even though I am shabby looking.

If you don't mind my 2 cents.
 

I always thought that wedding rules were the same everywhere.
I will tell you what happened at my wedding. I got married in Hawaii (I was living there and married a local) and most of my family was in NY and New England. So I opted for a small wedding. When I came down the alise there where only 10 people in the church. :ohdear: Apparently in Hawaii the churches (for the most part) are kind of small, and the weddings are huge, 300-800 not unusual, so people only come to the church if they get a separate personal hand written invitation. No one told the mainland haole. Everyone showed up for the reception.:icon_hungry: They give money as gifts but as I was not a local I also got 13 rice cookers I guess they had heard that I made long grain rice, so figured my new husband would go into shock. His friends also dropped by with raw fish about twice a week for months in fear for his diet.

Oh Boomer and Trudy
 

I did enjoy reading your posts. Boomer it seems many things have changed. Trudy... I bet you were surprised at your wedding.

Weddings in Indiana...well, yes, I did display my gifts for weeks before the wedding for friends to come and see...not so with my 2 daughters though. Also you you had the gifts delivered to the home of the bride and did not show up at the wedding with a gift unless it was money in a card.

Then there is the matter of the time of the wedding....I was taught the wedding should always be 1/2 past the hour...it was simpley bad luck if the hands of the clock were not sweeping up. Does anyone else remember this?

I had to relearn what is done now days when my daughters got married. First mistake I made was having my first daughter register for china which now sits in boxes in her closets. Not to worry ...she is building a new home with a dining room in it :)...maybe we will see the china after all. Youngest daughter married a musicain...good thing she never registered for china :).

So funny to her wedding traditions/etiquette.

Oh Boomer and Trudy
 

I did enjoy reading your posts. Boomer it seems many things have changed. Trudy... I bet you were surprised at your wedding.

Weddings in Indiana...well, yes, I did display my gifts for weeks before the wedding for friends to come and see...not so with my 2 daughters though. Also you you had the gifts delivered to the home of the bride and did not show up at the wedding with a gift unless it was money in a card.

Then there is the matter of the time of the wedding....I was taught the wedding should always be 1/2 past the hour...it was simpley bad luck if the hands of the clock were not sweeping up. Does anyone else remember this?

I had to relearn what is done now days when my daughters got married. First mistake I made was having my first daughter register for china which now sits in boxes in her closets. Not to worry ...she is building a new home with a dining room in it :)...maybe we will see the china after all. Youngest daughter married a musicain...good thing she never registered for china :).

So funny to hear wedding traditions/etiquette and wonder how they came about.

Ceejay I want to give you a hug! NO, you were NOT asking too much. I seem to go through these types of scenarios with hair stylists a lot myself. We are snowbirds and just b4 we left TV I had my hair cut and colored. Now I am old enough to know that if I get a bad hair cut to wait 4 weeks and get another one and everything will be fine. NOT so with this cut! Big chunks cut out all over, looked like my 5yr old granddaughter had gotten ahold of it. I had to hurry and find someone else and go back the next day for another $75.00 (had some highlights put on over the awful color), and that guy didn't do much better!
My point is I SO feel your pain....especially about crying all the way home. It gets so frustrating putting out all that money not to mention the time...and then constantly having a bad experience! BTW...Men just DON'T get what we have to go through! Hugs to you.......hope you are feeling better:)

Hi ssmith,

Yes. I know about that one, too. The hands must absolutely be going up the clock. Down the Clock = Bad Luck. :22yikes:

Before you were married, did any of you ever take a piece wedding cake home with you so you could put it under your pillow because then you would dream about whoever was to be your husband?

Boomer

Yes, took the wedding cake home and put under pillow (did not work)! LOL Also, did you ever hear the superstition that when you get an apple, you twist the stem while saying the alphabet out loud? When the stem breaks, whatever letter you were saying at the time is the initial of your future husband. When I was a little girl, back in the 18th century, we did that all the time.

Thank you for your kind words and understanding...and yes, I do feel better after reading your post! Have a great summer back home and God speed your return to The Villages!:wave:

Ceejay, I also want to give you a hug! What a bummer. The people at Cal's Barber Shop need a seminar on Customer Appreciation!

I find the whole hair care experience to be extremely frustrating. I had my hair died jet black last year at this time (but sadly, I'd requested light golden brown). It took pails of dawn dishwasher detergent and the whole summer for my hair to lighten.

I've finally found someone I like to color my hair, but the salon plays loud rap music all the time. And they won't change the station. So I'm trying to decide if I should keep the colorist and wear ear plugs, or find a new one.

Also, the woman who colours my hair can't cut it worth a darn. So I have to go two separate places! Arrrrrg.

I'm tempted to cut off my hair so it's an inch long and wear wigs all the time.

I dont have hair, I have frizz! The only thing I can do with it especially in this tropical climate is pull it up in a ponytail, all the time, every day, and Im sick of it! But I know better then to go to any hairdresser. I have gone to so many in the past and i end up looking like Alfalfa! My frizzy ponytail is the lesser of two evils.

in my next life, I want to have long, silky, hair.:ohdear:

I wish you'd wear your hair in an afro. I bet it would be adorable.

Nonie- I used to do a topsytail on my daughter's hair all the time. That would look good on you and give a little bit of a change. I've even seen upside down topsytails lately, and that would be really cute too. If you don't know what a topsytail is, here is the best way I can explain it: with you hair in a pony tail, loosen by taking the hair tie and pulling it away from your head a few inches. Then divide the hair in half between the hair tie and your head, and pull the ponytail through going from the top to the bottom. (or from the bottom to the top for the upside down topsytail) You can then tighten the hair tie up again if desired. If you can't figure it out, I'll do it for you the next time I see you if you would like.

(OK....let me see if I can do this....pulling hair away....pulling it through....upsidedown...over...under...around and through....OUCH!....look in the mirror.)

EEK! SS! I think I did not do it right. Now I've got that look of perpetual surprise like when a facelift goes oh so wrong. Ohhhhhh, I think Mr. Boomer is going to have to help me cut these rubberbands out of my hair. Geez. I wish the babushka would make a comeback.

Boomer

I did it! I did it!

From the back it looks really cute, but from the front, I look like that old lady farmer in the famous american gothic painting, , the one with her husband that is holding the pitchfork!!! :22yikes:

Im Hopeless! Im seriously considering the Afro Bare,I sure wish baldness would come into style, it would make life soooo simple and all we would have to worry about is beautiful earrings.:sigh:

Nonie, nonie, you are such a nutbar. You didn't tell us .... what did you do?

If you mastered SueS's directions for a topsytail, then congratulations. You must have used a GSP!

Nonie, get Bernie to take a picture with his camera and post it here. I'm lonely in Canada, I need to giggle.

Sue,
Great suggestion. I just tried it! The upside down one was kinda cute. When I pulled the hair through from top to bottom the hanging piece looked funny. I'll try again in the morning when I'm not tired-- and have on makeup.

I would love additional suggestions for ways to wear long hair. I'd be tempted to cut mine except... I love that it's long enough to put in a pony tail, which is great for when I'm either golfing or don't have time to fix it.

Ideas please.

And Nonie, please post the picture of you in the topsytail. Husband with pitchfork optional. :)

I think I finally figured it out! But you need long hair that isn't layered to make it work properly, right? When I do it, I just get the really tufty look.

Nonie, I'm looking forward to your pictures!!

I'm wondering if anyone has any "cures" for arthritis pain. I have a torn miniscus, but I think arthritis is making the pain worse.

The doctor says to take Tylenol 3 (until I have an MRI). But I don't like to do that. I've been trying a drink called "Elations" which is primarily Glucosamine. I have friends who swear by "Osteo Bi-Flex". I'm also taking hydro therapy in a 91 degrees pool.

I keep hoping for a miracle cure that will make me feel 18 again!

For arthritis, Aleve works best for me. It takes a couple of days to kick in, but when it does, you'll know it.

Oh Bare.

I know that hurts. Sweetie had one too, and it did heal, but it doesn't happen often. He did it when squatting and he never complains about things but that really laid him low.

He was prescribed a higher level of ibuprofen than available over the counter. I don't know what you have available in Canada. He was scheduled for surgery, but it cleared up before that happened.

My GP takes glucosomine, so I would be thinking that could help. I know you don't want to hear this but surgery can fix that tear.

Sorry you are not feeling good, Bare.

I'm with K-9 on this one....I take Aleve.

Does anybody remember Dr. Mirkin, who advertised on totv long ago? I signed up for his e-zine, and one thing he said to do to alleviate arthritis pain was to avoid eating mammal meat. (There was an entire page of scientific reasons for this, which I promptly forgot) Like you, Bare, I don't like to take medicines or chemicals if I don't have to, so I thought quitting the mammal meat for a month or so would be an easy experiment. There are plenty of chicken, fish & pasta dishes to enjoy.

After about 3 weeks of my experiment some friends asked me how it was working, and I told them I didn't think it was working at all. lol I stayed with the diet, but after about a month we were invited to a neighbor's for a steak dinner cookout. Who can resist? Ay carumba! The next morning my old knees could barely get me out of bed. Then I remembered... that was how they used to feel all the time. It might be worth giving up mammal meat for a while to see if it works for you?

On the other hand, my sister-in-law's vet prescribed glucosamine for her golden retriever, and the ancient, arthritic dog was like a puppy again!

I hope you're feeling better in no time!

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I kneed you to get better soon!