Chat-A-Thon Thread

[dededi]

Happy Sunday everyone, have a great day!

[Lynn49]

[SillyLoocie]

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[Lynn49]

Mmmmm....yummy, @SillyLoocie...so many great groups back then! Loved The Animals myself...their slightly bluesy songs...and The Turtles, The Kinks, Dave Clark Five....ALL of them!! Our Son-in-Law has all my old albums (he loves vinyl and still plays them) as well as my precious 45s collection..

[Natalka]

Found this pic while looking at recipes - we had a set similar to this when I was growing up, used for special times in the summer.
The proportions were different though - the pitcher was huge, but so were the glasses.



Interesting tip with the soda in the recipe, will have to try it

Southern Sweet Tea
2 Family Size Tea Bags
1 cup of sugar (we prefer our tea a little less sweet)
1 gallon of water
1/4 teaspoon baking soda (to help with bitterness)

In a small saucepan fill with water and add the tea bags. Bring the water to just under a boil and turn off. Let it sit for about 5 minutes to steep. In a gallon pitcher, add 1/2 gallon of cold water and sugar. Remove the tea bags and add the baking soda and stir. Pour into the pitcher and continue to add water to fill the pitcher and stir. Chill in the fridge.

[Lynn49]

No kidding, Natalka! Baking soda?! Absolutely will have to try adding it to regular tea the next time I try it. I usually only drink green tea or the Tetley peppermint tea. What a peculiar recipe.

You must also have had those coloured metal glasses for outdoor drinks...I loved them! They're still being sold...

[Lynn49]

No kidding, Natalka! Baking soda?! Absolutely will have to try adding it to regular tea the next time I try it. I usually only drink green tea or the Tetley peppermint tea. What a peculiar recipe.

You must also have had those coloured metal glasses for outdoor drinks...I loved them! They're still being sold...

[Lynn49]

Stupid ipad.

[Natalka]

LOL, Lynn - I hate posting from my tablet as well, would much rather do it on the desktop here.

No, we never had metal glasses. I remember plastic ones of all kinds, including Tupperware - which I was able to get when our son was a little one, and still have a few of them. They were great with the lids.

[Lynn49]

Hi, NAT!!

These are the ones we had...gosh I loved them!
...mine was the pink one!

Regarding baking soda, besides using it for baking, my white hair can take on a slightly beige overtone which, I imagine is caused by the environment, so whenever I feel I need it, I take a 1/4 cup of it into the shower, make a paste and rub it into my hair to get that colour OUT! Do NOT mess with my white hair! LOL!! I've even had women stop me in the mall to ask if I colour it that white!! Nope...just lucky, I guess..

I hope you have a great sleep tonight, my Friend!!

[Natalka]

Oh, that's cool it works for that! One of my sister's husband's has lovely pure white hair, and tons of it.

My oldest sister stayed natural grey, keeps her hair cut short, she looks so cute.
Second oldest sister gets blonde lowlights put into her grey hair, so it just looks overall blonde (I swear, she has a magical hairdresser, because it always looks amazing). Her hair is in kind of a modified bob.
Next oldest sister, I think she'd be all grey, but I don't even know what the base colour she gets dyed is - maybe a medium brown? Then she gets orangey and blonde streaks in it. Honestly, it looks like but she's been doing it like that for years.
These last two have been dyeing their hair since their 20s - so crazy!

Me, only a very few silver streaks. Everyone thinks I dye it. My mom didn't start getting greys til her 50s, so I'm beating even her. She had a little nest of white at the front on one side, and just used a brunette mouse to darken that patch. Her hair was a darker brown than mine - I'm just a light brown.

Dyed my hair once - well, ended up kind of being twice. In my mid-20s, thought I'd like some auburn highlights, so tried one of the temporary thingees out at the time, was supposed to wash out in six to eight shampoos. Well, it turned out to be blazing clown orangey-red.
Now, this was on a Sunday afternoon, small city - absolutely no stores open to buy dye. I washed it and washed it and washed it, to no avail. My now-husband had come over, saw me - and to this day, hasn't let me forget it.

Well, things got worse than him bugging me. At the time, I was working as a reporter for a local newspaper, and the next morning was our Fair Parade - I had to be there early to help organize the order of the floats, etc. WITH MY RED HAIR.

The most shocked look I got was from by BIL, who was the constituency assistant of our MP< and he was there with him.

After work, I ran to Shoppers Drug Mart, bought some brunette real hair dye - and of course, it turned out darker than my usual colour.

That night, I was working at our church Ukrainian food booth at the fair - so put up with all the ribbing there. But anything was better than that red mop I had!

[Lynn49]

HAHAHAHAHA!! Weren't those products back then something?!! In highschool I had a short bob hairstyle and always had grey/white streaks put in it by my Mom's hairdresser...the stories she used to tell of the "fixes" she had to do for those who ventured into the hair-dye aisles back then! I've worn it in a short bob for years until this spring when my DD said, "Why don't you grow it out to see what it looks like?" Well, never one to back down from a fun challenge, it's now almost to my shoulders!! I usually wear it now in a straight-ish style, but poofy, iykwim...or, on days like this, in a low ponytail tied with a wide black ribbon. C'est chic, n'est pas? On really, really bad days, like at camp, I just put it up in one of those long claw clips...it's my "who cares who sees me here" look.

So how do you wear your hair these days? Now that we're alone in this room talking all girlie...

[Lynn49]

Mine's pretty much like this, maybe a little longer....unfortunately, not the face.

[Natalka]

Ah, I would KILL for hair like that - I've seen pics of you, you have thick hair.

I do not, I have always had fine hair. I used to have a regular amount of it, but with me having PCOS, I've been losing SO much over these past years - not "baldy" yet (as my husband bugs me), like no bald patches, but it's really thin - not so much that one can see scalp through, but it's getting dicey... Lots of women with PCOS get extensions.

Anyhoo, since last summer I grew it out again (I usually donate it every few years) - and am long past to where I need to get it cut; it's past the middle of my back, but scraggly. My sweet husband puts it in a back braid for me. Otherwise, it's in a ponytail, but that starts to pull at me, so I try to avoid that.

I'll just probably get it cut to my shoulders and layered. It holds absolutely no style, so it's no sense getting anything else done - I'll just end up keeping it back with a hairband or bobby pins. I have a big cowlick at the front, so no bangs (well, it was ok in the early '80s with those wispy bangs, but mind you, then I always had a loose perm and shorter hair).

I'm tempted to go shorter, but I always chicken out. I did have it like that when I was younger, and it was nice - but, again, then it was cool to spike it up and such, lol!

[Natalka]

Happy Monday!