Is there something in the air?? - Page 2 - Love Forum

bluesummer · #16 (**permalink**) 22-10-05, 09:40 AM

Totally...wow, you have six friends who've had work done? Damn. I don't know anyone. The only thing I could ever have majorly altered is my teeth.

TAVS · #17 (**permalink**) 22-10-05, 09:43 AM

I was just watching Entertainment Tonight and Tanya Tucker said she had permanent eye makeup and lipstick done.

Rosebud · #18 (**permalink**) 22-10-05, 09:44 AM

LOL.. I don't think I could even do that. Yep my 6th friend had her's done today actually. And all of them were about the same chest size as me and I'm the one that had kids.. I can see why they would do it and even I ahd thought about it but my body is the way it is for a reason and if I were to change that I think I would feel as if I was faking myself. (trying to be something I'm not.) Not saying that I look at other people like that but that's how I would look at myself.

bluesummer · #19 (**permalink**) 22-10-05, 09:47 AM

That blows my mind.....having your chest cut up and.....ew. No way.

I'm lucky however, I have a 'young' gene in my family.....all the women in my family look much younger than they are....in fact, people often think my mom is my sister. I have a 70 yr old aunt that looks 55. I hope to carry on this trend!

Rosebud · #20 (**permalink**) 22-10-05, 09:52 AM

I know the feeling. My mom is 62 and looks in her early 40's and that is who I get my young gene from. I'm 25 and I could seriously pass for like 16.

whaywardj · #21 (**permalink**) 22-10-05, 09:55 AM

True story: In my circles, I'm known for, inter alia, being good with my hands. Make furniture. Sew. Tool leather. Knock out walls and install new kitchens and baths. Virtually anything from the interior paint of a home inward I can either build, fix, modify or customize. (If you're interested, see http://www.unionstreetinn.com/ for some of my work in these directions.) One day a female friend of my ex-wife's came by our place for a visit. They were discussing their perpetual diet regimens, their figures, and health in general and the friend mentioned in passing that she had pain in her breasts she couldn't figure out if was from exercising too much, or something more serious. Unfortunately, she said it as I happened to pass by on my way to the refrigerator. So, I said, "Oh, breasts hurt? Well, I'm pretty good with my hands. Want me to check 'em out for ya?" and wiggled my fingers therapeutically before her chest. There was a moment of stunned silence accompanied by a dropped jaw, followed by a "Uh, no thank you, Hayward," as my wife just shook her head in a gesture of hopelessness and the conversation quickly veered away from the breast cancer it was heading toward to more genial, less mine-ridden topics.

Moral of the post? Nothing changes a topic of converation more effectively than maiking an ass of yourself does.

Rosebud · #22 (**permalink**) 22-10-05, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by whaywardj

True story: In my circles, I'm known for, inter alia, being good with my hands. Make furniture. Sew. Tool leather. Knock out walls and install new kitchens and baths. Virtually anything from the interior paint of a home inward I can either build, fix, modify or customize. (If you're interested, see http://www.unionstreetinn.com/ for some of my work in these directions.) One day a female friend of my ex-wife's came by our place for a visit. They were discussing their perpetual diet regimens, their figures, and health in general and the friend mentioned in passing that she had pain in her breasts she could figure out if was from exercising too much, or something more serious. Unfortunately, she said it as I happened to pass by on my way to the refrigerator. So, I said, "Oh, breasts hurt? Well, I'm pretty good with my hands. Want me to check 'em out for ya?" and wiggled my fingers therapeutically before her chest. There was a moment of stunned silence accompanied by a dropped jaw, followed by a "Uh, no thank you, Hayward," as my wife just shook her head in a gesture of hopelessness and the conversation quickly veered away from the breast cancer it was heading toward to more genial, less mine-ridden topics.

Moral of the post? Nothing changes a topic of converation more effectively than maiking an ass of yourself does.

LOL, I can totally picture you doing and saying those things too. I think that's what make's that post so funny.

bluesummer · #23 (**permalink**) 22-10-05, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Rosebud

I know the feeling. My mom is 62 and looks in her early 40's and that is who I get my young gene from. I'm 25 and I could seriously pass for like 16.

I got ID'd buying liquor not too long ago....and our legal drinking age is 19.

Hayward, you're funny. Some people are so uptight though......seriously, if that had been me, I would've found that pretty amusing. I might've taken you up on the offer too ha ha ha

whaywardj · #24 (**permalink**) 22-10-05, 10:32 AM

Ah, Bluesummer. Why do you toy with my heart so?

whaywardj · #25 (**permalink**) 22-10-05, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by TAVS

I was just watching Entertainment Tonight and Tanya Tucker said she had permanent eye makeup and lipstick done.

Went out with a woman for awhile in S.F. whose profession was just that: giving women (and men) permanent cosmetics. She specialized in lip coloring, but also did eyeliner. Did very well at it, financially. Strangely (or not), some months later, totally by chance, hooked-up with another woman who was one of her clients. First chance I had to see the former lover's work. Not bad, actually. If done well. By which I mean, subtly. I can see how a woman might drop $1,500 to $2,500 to do away forever with having to apply plain ole walking around makeup everyday. HUGE time-saver.

#26 (**permalink**) 22-10-05, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by whaywardj

True story: In my circles, I'm known for, inter alia, being good with my hands. Make furniture. Sew. Tool leather. Knock out walls and install new kitchens and baths. Virtually anything from the interior paint of a home inward I can either build, fix, modify or customize. (If you're interested, see http://www.unionstreetinn.com/ for some of my work in these directions.) One day a female friend of my ex-wife's came by our place for a visit. They were discussing their perpetual diet regimens, their figures, and health in general and the friend mentioned in passing that she had pain in her breasts she couldn't figure out if was from exercising too much, or something more serious. Unfortunately, she said it as I happened to pass by on my way to the refrigerator. So, I said, "Oh, breasts hurt? Well, I'm pretty good with my hands. Want me to check 'em out for ya?" and wiggled my fingers therapeutically before her chest. There was a moment of stunned silence accompanied by a dropped jaw, followed by a "Uh, no thank you, Hayward," as my wife just shook her head in a gesture of hopelessness and the conversation quickly veered away from the breast cancer it was heading toward to more genial, less mine-ridden topics.

Moral of the post? Nothing changes a topic of converation more effectively than maiking an ass of yourself does.

Ah, W, you are a gem! Ha! Sorry your wife wasn't clever enough to recognize what you were doing.

Is it possible, that you never explained yourself afterwards tho (to your wife, not her friend)...? Not good to leave something like that unexplained w/a woman.

Tone · #27 (**permalink**) 22-10-05, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by bluesummer

~Beautiful words~

God, you are sexy.

bluesummer · #28 (**permalink**) 22-10-05, 03:12 PM

I think you must be drinkin'! I need to do that.

whaywardj · #29 (**permalink**) 22-10-05, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by indigosoul

Is it possible, that you never explained yourself afterwards tho (to your wife, not her friend)...? Not good to leave something like that unexplained w/a woman.

Never have been much inclined to explain myself to anyone. (Probably due, in part, to my early Southern upbringing.) People either "get" and enjoy me, or they don't and reject me and I, generally, let it go at that. So, no. I explained nothing. This particular wife wasn't at issue with the exchange, though. One of the reasons she was first attracted to me, she said, was that I seemed to have this talent for saying the most god-awful, inappropriate things, but no one ever got offended by them. Shocked, maybe. But never offended. Never volunteered whether she thought it was because I was particularly adroit at it, or the people I might be talking to were especially dense. And I never asked. For her, it was just another moment where I left a roomful of people speechless with no one knowing exactly why it was they were, suddenly, so dumbfounded. To my dis-credit, I, admittedly, sometimes take a perverse, mildly sadistic, pleasure in creating such conundrums, revelling briefly in the sense of power they impart.

whaywardj · #30 (**permalink**) 22-10-05, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by bluesummer

For me, approachable is all about the body language, sort of like what whayward was saying. I tend to gravitate towards men with a sense of ease about them, with genuine smiles.

As for finding guys more attracted to you all of a sudden Rosebud...I've always found that it really has to do with your attitude, and how you're feeling about yourself. All the things you think and feel manifest themselves physically.....and will tell people whether you are 'approachable' or not. Let's call it a 'good vibe'. I've found I can go out in less than flattering clothes, no makeup and messy hair, and still get plenty of attention on days when I'm kind of feeling great about the world. Then I'll have nights where I'm dressed to the nines and depressed and...nothing.

In truth, I have no idea whether winter has anything to do with it, nor when the majority of people in the world were born. I was just being flippant to say so and offering up a bogus "Internet fact" to see how many might go for it.

Actually, I think Bluesummer hit it right on. It's all about your self-perception and mood at the moment. I think we all always have a little radar up, scanning the air around us for good vibes. Life seeking out life and further connectedness. I also believe our skin senses far more than we normally give it credit for being able to. That "sixth sense" we hear so much about.