Jynnan tonnix

I keep waiting for those 80's shoulder pads to come back. I have very narrow, sloped shoulders, and that style really gave my silhouette more balance!

Seems kind of pointless to change the recipe when they just seem to get worse all the time. I only go to McDonald's maybe once in two or three years, and every time I go, I'm more disappointed. Not that it's ever been gourmet fare, but it did used to fall into a sort of comfort food category for me. The last few times I've had it, it was less and less worth bothering with.

Except then everyone had ping-pong balls on their antennas. The yellow ones with the smiley faces. And I remember a lot of those ones from Jack-in-the-box, with the pointy hats.

I actually had a somewhat similar dress back in the 80's, when the gunne sax dresses were in. But mine went low on my shoulders, and showed cleavage. And I never wore it with gloves, though I'll admit that I might just have been nerdy enough to do that had I been able to find some! Lol.

I still can't quite tell most of the boys apart, but that's as much because I was never able to remember which name went with which face as because the faces themselves are so cookie-cutter similar. Somehow, the girls' faces always seemed easier to differentiate.

They really do. It almost makes JD look, well, maybe not exactly handsome, but a good, solid average, with some extra points for congeniality. He really seems to have shed that sort of creepy Duggarish vibe that they all grew up with.

She is lovely. We have an ageless beauty as well, who will be 20 next month. I swear she has a repertoire of cover girl poses that she breaks out on a daily basis. This one was taken last week.

Well, at least for a girl, she would probably end up married sooner than later, so less time to have to deal with it. I don't actually think that Ezra Duggar sounds too bad. It's actually probably better, to my mind, than having a really graceful-sounding first name, then having to slam on the metaphorical brakes and follow it up with Duggar.

My first thought, when I saw the anniversary trip photos, was that she had that fuller look to her face which often seems to come with pregnancy. But it comes with just gaining a bit of weight, too, so we really have no way of knowing until (if and when) it is announced.

I've seen a couple of random references like this in the past few months, so feeling cautiously optimistic about it! I do hope it happens!!!

My first thought (honestly) was how much she looked like one of the characters from "Death Becomes Her" (if you remember that movie poster, where she is literally twisted back to front, still with the mortician-level caked on makeup and rictus smile).

Regarding the topic of Crockett Doodles raised on the lonely J's thread...I did consider looking for some sort of Doodle after we lost our little papillon last fall, and Crocket Doodles did initially look as though they might be pretty reputable despite being such a large operation. I really couldn't find anything concrete against them other than screeds from people railing against breeders of pretty much any sort, but especially against the "designer" breeds, and mostly for good reasons, though I do believe that people can be ethical about breeding if they honestly work toward the betterment of the breeds or mixes, love and care for all their dogs, and thoroughly educate themselves. At the end of the day, it was the sheer scale of Crockett Doodles more so than anything specific I could find that just left me with a bad taste in my mouth. That and the evangelical link, which they don't overtly push, but becomes an overarching link once you start digging a bit. I did send them an application, mostly out of curiosity at that point, since they said they only approve some 30% of the applications they received, but I got an acceptance mail back from them within hours telling me I sounded like a perfect home for one of their precious puppies. That did nothing toward making me feel more comfortable. In the end, I decided that probably getting another dog might not be the best decision in any case. Maybe an older rescue dog at some point, but I'm 65, Mr. Jyn is 68, so a puppy could well outlive us (hopefully not, but who knows?), plus now that all we have are a couple of cats who do fine left at home for a week or two as long as someone comes in to feed them and give them some attention (my daughter and her family live nearby, and more or less alternate between staying at their place and ours when we go away), so we are planning to try to get in a bit of travelling now that there's not the dog to have to make kennel accomodations for. So while I'm a bit sad not to have another dog, it's probably not a good time for it.

Taking this topic to small talk

Tessie looks to me as though she is starting to look a bit like Kaylee, who is also very pretty. Tessie has a bit more of a wholesome look to her, though (for want of a better word). She has a bit of that fresh faced milkmaid look going, with her rounder cheeks - though one does rather wonder how any of those waifs could possibly have round cheeks. Just genetics, I guess. Tessie always did have a slightly different look to her than the rest of the Rodlets, but her face does seem to be slimming down a bit. Hopefully that's just from outgrowing whatever baby fat she might have managed to hold onto.... I'd hate to think it was a purposeful campaign of getting her ready for the marriage market, but I do rather fear that it might be.

My granddaughter, who is about a month older than Janessa, has two adult incisors growing in behind her baby teeth, which are not even loose yet. Her dentist says it's not all that unusual, and is just keeping an eye on it for the time being, not seeing any reason to remove the baby teeth yet. Her teeth will definitely be very crowded when she gets older, though. She has the same tiny jaw as my daughter and Mr. Jyn. His mother also had a severe overbite, so my granddaughter will definitely need braces down the line.