NutMeg

I love this picture! And they're color coordinated too!

Haha. Of course you must have fun, that's the whole point!

Damn, @Mountainair, that's hard... Sending my sympathy and condolences.

Musician makes me think of Breathless Manohey. Who may or may not have worn a feather boa (if memory serve, a fur stole or coat maybe), but can easily be covered in blood (preferably someone else).

No idea what you're thanking me for ;) but glad if I could help in some way :D Again, I want to now what the final product will be!

I had no ideas bananas could be frozen for any use, so this has been enlightening. Can they be frozen in the perfect state to eat too? (Because I don't bake)

OOOOOh, a feather boa, that is a new ball game! With blodod, still? I think there are a few characters you could recreate, or invent, then. (The boa is super exciting, I must say!!!). Have fun, and please report back!

Have you looked up Internations? I know of it from international expats, but they may be good to meet recent relocates. https://www.internations.org/georgia-expats/americans From what I hear (and need to explore), the idea is not so much to go to broad meetups (I did, and I had fun), but more to target specific activities you're interested in.

If you like blood, the best costume I ever saw was one in a prisoner orange suit, with fake arm and face tattoos, heavy makeup and dried blood as if it had streamed from the eyes. The makeup artist was magnificent. Otherwise, the Dracula mystique is always a classic, as is the Adams family. Let us know what you go for now that we are invested!

This is absolutely brilliant, why did I never thought of it?! Otherwise, my pet peeve is me; I left clothes drying way too long. Because the first day, when they were only slightly damp, heavy rain started, and I was all Sweet!!! then 3 minutes (seriously, that's all it took) later I remembered the wash and run (it was truly soaked by then). It then rained all day. The next day, I rushed to a meeting nearby, so I walked, and just as I was midway, it started raining heavily. There goes the wash and there goes my hair, which is very fine but reaches incredible volumes when rained on.

In some way, he reminds me of some (slower? sleepier? stoner?) version of Eric Balfour, who I first saw in Six Feet Under (and HE was totally crushable).

This review is making me confident that the film might be worth it: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/31/a-star-is-born-review-lady-gaga-bradley-cooper It's not often that I see a 5 star review there. In particular, the part about gives me hope, because I think she's one of the few people I can think of who can both be very ordinary but also totally believable as an out-of-this-world superstar persona, or "extraterrestrial celebrity empress", as the article calls it. Also, she CAN sing, which some might not be aware of. (I've seen her in concert. She's a beast. She jump and sings and plays the piano and does many weird things. While keeping singing, in key and with power. There's the occasional loss of breath, so you know she's live, but it's short, she gets her voice power back really quickly.)

My recently aloof cat being cuddly again with the slightly colder weather, working on her winter fur AND settling next to my leg again at night. Renewed attempts at regular cooking after months of now really bothering turning out well - somehow, I wasn't sure this new kitchen and me gelled until then. Cooking attempt was to recreated home feel for my son who's like a castaway because of life upheavals, so it was particularly good that it turned out well. September. New classes, new notebooks. Scarves, sweaters. Not quite winter, but a cool, crisp newness. Wood fires any day soon.

I just read your three posts back to back, and I'm truly awed by all you had to deal with and how matter-of-factly you go about it. Indeed, it makes sense that your son and daughter in law adjust to provide for a child-minder that is not you by default, and you're right to schedule vacations, especially with how tough this year has been to you. I'm very impressed at how you're adjusting to all that's been thrown on your lap, and how a magnificent job you seem to be doing to both take care of business and keep your sanity. You're the adult I want to be....

I don't mind Deja per se, but I do mind that she's taking time that could be used on other characters who've been there since the start but haven't been developed yet.

Catching up after holidays and before watching the finale The talk about murder ballads makes me expect Nick Cave's Where the White Roses Grow next - creepy as hell and would fit well here. It's also interesting to me that the "problem" child in the family (I mean Camille) is the one who is the most resilient and rejected all (gently killing) smothering. Lastly, quoting from https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/sep/02/my-boyfriend-called-me-a-slut-now-i-dread-seeing-him-mariella-frostrup

I found this episode absolutely stunning. There were a lot of very good moments, such as how Noah reacted during Anton's reading - 1) does anyone realize this is me he's talking about?, 2) hum, it might be better if they don't realize it's me he's talking about, 3) WTF!?, Cole taking the urn to Gabriel, Cherry comforting Cole (although this season Cherry bears very little resemblance to previous seasons Cherry), exes Noah and Helen behaving friend-ish-ly, as only people who know the best and worst of each other can, and probably others that don't come to mind right now. I don't feel the season ended on a cliffhanger and I like that. Rather than the mystery of how Alison died, I'd like next season to be about how each character's life is changed as a result of her death, what happens after the death of someone you loved or once loved. Also because we have another death looming, Vik's, and this one is announced, in a way. I'm increasingly seeing the affair as the "butterfly" whose effect spreads and affects even people who had no close ties to it.

I've watched it all (on BBC Two), but not sure how much of my opinion I can share here if some of you are not done yet. I'd love to discuss it though, wish we could have had episode threads.

You know, I thought I'd be in till the end. And I had all the strategies of the contestants I'd watched that I could cite as examples on forum debates, etc. But even though I still find some contestants exciting, I'm kind of wary of the whole shebang. What's the point of getting me excited about A or B if C, which by all means should have been out, now gets a shortcut to F3 and the win (because winning the fire and the votes seem to go hand in hand, don't they). Doesn't matter if I like C, this is seriously fucked up. More generally, since the seasons started having random names, I have no idea who was on each season, and I even forget who won each, or who was on the season that X won. I'll still be watching come September, but over the past 12 months I realised I watched the show later and later, sometimes 3 days after airing. Maybe I'll soon be ready to watch it after the season is over, knowing the outcome, and FFing the talking heads of designated stars of the seasons and other boring shields. Come to think of it, this summer, someone hooked me on Love Island, which is total trash, but which I ended up watching with a relatively minor time involvement, catching up every few days and FFing through all the parts that involved people who I got to find boring. The longer it went, the more I zoomed through it all. A 45 min episode? done in 25, max. Once the contestants are embodying characters, its easy to know if they interest you or not. I'd be sad if Survivor became that, but given the way it's become increasingly gimmicky, and the very limited editing of contestants, I think it might soon become a show to binge watch when in bed with a bad cold.

Back to hair topic - as someone with similar type of hair as Camille's here, the point in her hair at the bottom is the result of not caring/not getting it cut. Because I know hair grow faster at the nape, and we end up with a V shape that looks like a rat tail. Straight haired girls have it cut this way, but curly haired girls know that doesn't work for them. But it gets this way if we forget about the hairdresser. So, short hair Camille happy with her sister, and later long haired Camille: for me, if she was happy with her short hair, it could mean she stopped giving a fuck. Alternatively, based on personal experience: her mother insisted that her hair was cut short. After her sister's death, Adora was busy with her pain, and Camille was able to grow her hair, almost on the down low, and she's continued since. And it's twice the rebellion: Adora wanted her to keep short hair, to be less feminine; she doesn't but still she lets her hair live wild, which is probably another in that town and one that must be painful for her mother (mother of the year, that one, sheesh, not maternal is one thing, and then there's her.)

Forgot to say, in version 1, the song Alison is listening to has an audible verse that is "No one can be trusted".

Wow. That's what I felt after watching the show. And because I don't know anybody who watches it, I rushed here. So many different reactions, emotions, and interpretations... So, before I start on how I understand this episode, I'd like to send to those who relived physical violence trauma while watching this not just my sympathy but some virtual equivalent of "I get you girl, it's been hell, it's over, you're gonna move on, you're gonna be alright", with many virtual hugs. I know it's inadequate, and I wish I could do more, but to all of you who were reminded of things you put behind or want to put behind, I'm sending my fiercest wishes and encouragements. You survived, you will survive, don't let the bastard get you down. Back to the episode: I saw it as Alison preparing for a meet up scheduled a long time before. In the first version, she rehearses how she wants it to go, and it's the best case scenario. It's also the one where she's ready to spill her guts about her sense of culpability. So, she's expecting to get and to give total honesty, which, despite her intention to stay away from married men, could still let them get close. Of course, when faced with the real Ben, none of what she previously rehearsed works (the guy is seriously weird from the start). For me, it was gut wrenching that she had such high expectations for that meeting, even while she was planning to end the relationship, she still was very hopeful that Ben would rise up to the challenge and be her ideal man. Fix her mundane problems, see her and love her as she is and with her past, and open up to her about his past. As I see it, the RPQ (?) must have come up earlier, maybe during that seminar, because it seems that while she knew of it, she didn't know the full story there. Lastly, I think this is one of the best send off I've ever seen for an actress who leaves the show. Far from thinking there was any resentment, I see it as a last opportunity to honor the actress and her character in this series by giving her an amazing way to exit it. Plus that monologue at the end. It's clear that she's been very much valued by the show runners until the end.

I quite like the idea of a newspaper mysteriously delivered to my door. Although it would depend on the kind of newspaper, I guess. Every 30 seconds is weird. I have the same alert sometimes, I click on my antivirus icon and update, and it says I'm already up to date. But if it keeps popping up, it might me an annoying malware or some such. Maybe try activity monitor?

I love this because it brings to mind how conventions have changed over the ages. Back to the French court, there were times where it was essential for men to have long curly hair (or later perruques, probably invented at a time when a king was going bald), wear high heels and "rouge" (i.e. make up - again, probably because a king needed it to look healthy enough). All things that now are thought of as fringe choices, but which were very mainstream way back then. And back to Claws, I love its craziness. Yes, some people don't know that a shirt is supposed to be buttoned. Yes, everyone thinks crazy nails are supposed to be the norm. Yes, shit gets crazy all the time in unexpected ways, and that's what I love about it. Shows that keep on surprising you (I mean, me), and in a way that's coherent with their DNA? Hell, yeah! This is one I want to go on watching.

Well, basically, it boils down to the girl with the most love drama being the most boring, and I'd add the one with the most real-life-past-drama integrated into her work life being the most insufferable. So, writers, please bring us more work situations, and leave the historical pathos to a minimum. Yes, they have a life outside the office, and we should see some of it, but really, I'm more interested in their work life, whatever form it takes (employed, freelance, etc.), and on how the magazine survives in this new era. And for the record, I've loved seeing Sutton getting better and better at her job. Not sure how I feel about Jane's articles, and no idea what Kat does all day (at her job).