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I'm getting older. You know, growing up or whatever

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Char Aina

22:15 / 30.11.05

Though he really does need to give his a wash.

oh, god yes.
it smells of garlic from the other day when i ODd on the stuff , only to pass out after some heavy drinking that same night.
i had no idea garlic sweat was that bad.
said 'house coat' is currently on the kitchen floor awaiting more light clothing.

unfortunately i like heavy metal, so it could be there a while.

Spaniel

11:00 / 01.12.05

I own a dressing gown, which I love.
I own a pair of slippers, which I love.
My partner gave me my dressing gpwn and slippers for Christmas.
I always look at the kids and think "they'll get cold".

Grown up enough for ya?

Spaniel

11:08 / 01.12.05

Actually, the funny thing about being thirty is that I look pretty young. Ask a random person my age and they'll usually go for the mid-twenties. This is a good thing in many ways, but it also means that people tend not to take me as seriously as I would like. Just the other day I cut a salesman off in his tracks by insisting that I wanted a very particular product and his attempts to give me the hard sell were going to fall on deaf ears, he responded by calling me "young man" for the rest of the conversation. Very annoying.

He stopped trying to sell me shit, though.

Goodness Gracious Meme

14:37 / 01.12.05

2 dressing gowns.

One long, quilted, mandarin-collared black thing with masses of embroidery and soft lining - think a Ming The Merciless relaxing after a hard day's terrorising.

One short - Red Chinese silk 'smoking jacket' type thing. Short, but mega warm.

Dressing gowns rule. I am sitting toastily in one right now

Cherielabombe

16:25 / 01.12.05

But which one????

I used to have a really great silky tapestry number. But damned if I know what happened to it. I need a new robe for Christmas!

Persephone

16:33 / 01.12.05

I know, I sooo want to get a brown ladybird robe. But it's hard to justify, I already have three robes...

ibis the being

18:16 / 01.12.05

My main problem with robes lies with the belt. I can't stand to have anything wrapped around my waist. But one can't very well tie the belt around one's hips - the robe would fall too open at the chest.

I'd much rather snuggle up in a big sweater and loose pants. And slippers, of course.

Persephone

20:20 / 01.12.05

Not all robes have belts. My one robe has snaps.

Goodness Gracious Meme

20:51 / 01.12.05

oh, I'm sorry, Cherry. I was modelling the Ming.

Slim

22:14 / 01.12.05

My sister and her friends tease me frequently about being "old". My response is always that each year has been better than the last and that it would be a sad life indeed if it reached its peak at 21 and declined for the next 60 years.

Age brings opportunities and freedoms not possessed in youth.

Spaniel

22:27 / 01.12.05

Like the freedom to own slippers!

Persephone

22:40 / 01.12.05

I totally forgot that this was a thread about getting old.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:41 / 01.12.05

The memory's the first thing to go, you know.

I SAID DO YOU WANT TO GO TO THE TOILET?

Goodness Gracious Meme

23:11 / 01.12.05

brown ladybird robe

A robe with a giant brown ladybird print? Shaped like a brown ladybird? Reckon you'd look good in that.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

23:19 / 01.12.05

An appreciation of fine dressing-gowns = a touch of Chrestomanci in one's makeup.

If you are unhappy with this, you are unhappy with life.

Persephone

23:27 / 01.12.05

Oh, ha ha --because Raddles surprisingly got a coat of many colors for his new robe & now I want a brown robe because then we will look like a peacock and a peahen. It's a very complicated feminist statement. I'm weird.

Persephone

23:29 / 01.12.05

In addition to deaf and losing my memory.

Spaniel

23:32 / 01.12.05

Don't forget incontinence.

grant

00:58 / 02.12.05

Raddles?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

01:01 / 02.12.05

Persephone: In Ukspeak, ladybird = ladybug. Hence the confusion. I myself was thinking polished and polka-dotted until you mentioned peahens, when the penny finally dropped.

Cherielabombe

08:04 / 02.12.05

I was confused, too but it must be senility.

BTW kids, Auntie Cherry's advice for getting older:

1: Behave very badly when you are young so you don't mind getting older.

2. Acting immaturely will keep EVERYONE from guessing your real age!

>>hobbles away to find cane<<

ONLY NICE THINGS

09:29 / 02.12.05

That whole ladybug/ladybird thing is really difficult. When Lyndon Johnson was president nobody from the UK wanted to meet him, because they thought he was a wrongcock.

Persephone

10:55 / 02.12.05

Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I was not actually aware of any confusion beyond the robe-as-bird trope; that's obscure on its own, isn't it? That's what I was laughing about.

So when you google "wrongcock," you also get the word "munter" a lot.

Goodness Gracious Meme

10:59 / 02.12.05

OIC. Ladybird. My mistake.

Had you considered a ladybug dressing gown?

Goodness Gracious Meme

11:00 / 02.12.05

Chrestomanci fetishises dressing gowns?

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:11 / 02.12.05

The Chrestomanci books fetishise dressing gowns, as part of a broader process of fetishing Chrestomanci. Whether Christopher Chance himself fetishises dressing gowns is a bit of a different question.

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:15 / 02.12.05

Oh, and p'sephone - this may be a little late, but DON'T GOOGLE WRONGCOCK.

pointless & uncalled for

11:53 / 02.12.05

DON'T GOOGLE WRONGCOCK

Thanks Haus, just in time for my Christmas T-shirt.

Axolotl

13:11 / 02.12.05

I find you can embrace your oldness, while still retaining your childlike joy through a simple procedure.
Firstly get out of bed on a saturday morning and get into your dressing gown and slippers.
Then make yourself a big bowl of cereal, preferably loaded with sugar and additives, I prefer cocoa puffs, but ymmv. Finally watch cartoons for at least an hour. Looney Tunes are the best, but y'know, whatever floats your boat. If by the end of that you're not feeling younger, well, there's no hope for you.

Goodness Gracious Meme

14:13 / 02.12.05

Whether Christopher Chance himself fetishises dressing gowns is a bit of a different question.

Hence my confusion.

ONLY NICE THINGS

14:18 / 02.12.05

There's only one solution. We must google "Chrestomanci" "dressing gown" "fetish". And possibly "wrongcock".

Goodness Gracious Meme

14:29 / 02.12.05

After you, my dear...

Goodness Gracious Meme

14:31 / 02.12.05

Well, the first three search terms leads us here

OMG!1!!!

Red Cross Iodized Salt

15:34 / 02.12.05

I'm not all that bothered about getting older. I think I am ageing ok, although I suppose 31 isn't particularly aged. About 40% of my hair is grey* and I'm definitely getting a little craggy faced around the eyes, but that seems to be the worst of it. I'm more inclined to worry about not having grown up enough. I'm quite good at certain grown up things like regularly showing up for work and paying bills on time, but not so good at other grown up things like going home while it's still dark out and not squandering my disposable income. I refuse to wear slippers though, even if this will immediately imbue me with the sense of responsibility that I feel I lack.

*Admittedly, I did have a a self-conscious moment about this at a party the other week when a very strange guy who had taken too many mushrooms cornered me to tell me that I looked like Nick Fury.

ibis the being

18:46 / 02.12.05

Then make yourself a big bowl of cereal, preferably loaded with sugar and additives, I prefer cocoa puffs, but ymmv.

Fuck. My favorite sugary cereal is Frosted Mini-Wheats. I guess I might as well pack it in.

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