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Post by murderedmymuse on May 6, 2008 2:15:49 GMT -5
I hid candy in my Game of Life board game--I hid it under the plastic buildings that were hollow inside. However, I think some cockroaches or something found it because when I took the game out to play a couple of months later, half the board was eaten away! Ew, ew, ewww! Grosser than an insulin injection! I know. The cockroaches at our old house were yuck. As for the insulin injections, my dad had diabetes and had to have two injections a day. He was like a pin cushion, running out of places to inject himself. It wasn't so bad watching the injections, but it sure wasn't fun for dad. I had dangly parot earrings (shame) and bright pink stockings (even worse) Yeah, the entire reason I bought parrot earrings was because Claudia had them. And I never had the nerve to wear the parot earrings even once. I did wear the pink stockings to a disco, and they didn't last the night. I few giggles came my way, so I took the stockings off in the bathroom.
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Post by murderedmymuse on May 6, 2008 2:19:06 GMT -5
Sorry to double post but I accidently put what I typed about my dad's diabetes into wanderfrog's post. Just though I'd clear that up.
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Post by Rie on May 6, 2008 7:21:12 GMT -5
Ew, ew, ewww! Grosser than an insulin injection! I know. The cockroaches at our old house were yuck. As for the insulin injections, my dad had diabetes and had to have two injections a day. He was like a pin cushion, running out of places to inject himself. It wasn't so bad watching the injections, but it sure wasn't fun for dad. Yeah, the entire reason I bought parrot earrings was because Claudia had them. And I never had the nerve to wear the parot earrings even once. I did wear the pink stockings to a disco, and they didn't last the night. I few giggles came my way, so I took the stockings off in the bathroom. I think I'd like to have those parrot earrings.
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Post by murderedmymuse on May 6, 2008 7:45:15 GMT -5
And I never had the nerve to wear the parot earrings even once. I did wear the pink stockings to a disco, and they didn't last the night. I few giggles came my way, so I took the stockings off in the bathroom. I think I'd like to have those parrot earrings. I think they were thrown out long ago. Sorry. My dad had a thing for throwing out 'rubbish' (i.e. anything that wasn't his). He actually wrote a phone message on the back of one of my BSC books in pen 'cause there was no paper close at hand.
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Post by wanderingfrog on May 6, 2008 19:05:44 GMT -5
Mine are dangly wooden parrots. They're pink, green, and blue, and yup, I have worn them. Even as recently as last year.
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Post by greer on May 6, 2008 19:18:16 GMT -5
i have blue parrot earrings. i loved them so much as a kid.
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Post by wenonah4th on May 6, 2008 20:23:33 GMT -5
I had a wooden parrot necklace that my grandparents bought in the islands years ago.
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Post by sparklymouse on May 7, 2008 16:40:25 GMT -5
Every once in a while when I'm getting ready to go out, I wonder what would happen if I got distracted and only put makeup on one eye. I just don't get how Sharon could do that.
My mom currently has a silverware wind chime thingy hanging on her porch that looks vaguely like a polished, more professional version of that thing Claudia made in the beginning of the movie. I saw it on the porch one day and was like "That looks oddly familiar..." It's cute though.
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Post by wenonah4th on May 7, 2008 16:45:47 GMT -5
^I've seen lots of those at craft fairs.
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Post by lionessblack on May 7, 2008 19:44:41 GMT -5
I'm trying to think of things that I could possibly do to "pull a Sharon". Um... my socks never match because I always lose one, though I'm pretty sure most of my sock matches are somewhere in my sister's room, but you can never actually see my socks because I always wear jeans. Plus, I'm aware that they don't match.
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Post by wenonah4th on May 7, 2008 20:34:18 GMT -5
Surely the time my grandmother- usually a very with-it person- put the fresh pot of coffee in the refrigerator would have qualified.
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Post by Penny Lane on May 8, 2008 0:54:36 GMT -5
I've searched the whole house for the remote control and eventually found it in the fridge.
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Post by murderedmymuse on May 8, 2008 12:52:19 GMT -5
I've searched the whole house for the remote control and eventually found it in the fridge. When I was younger, at my house we used to store our junk food in the dishwasher--mostly because it was broken and there was no cupboard space left. My new friends got a laugh out of it when I asked them if they wanted a chocolate bar and opened the dishwasher to get it. A weird thing I did because of the BSC: I never had enough friends interested in baby-sitting to form a club. However, after reading Hello Mallory I had the idea (with my one friend who cared about baby-sitting) to advertise as double baby-sitters at half the price. We got a regular sitting job from that. We were 12 or 13 at the time. It was good 'cause we could just gossip after the kids were asleep, and I was a little wuss who didn't like to be alone after dark. Edit: I just remembered another Claudia fashion shame moment. In one book she dressed up 50s style, poodle skirt, bobby sox, hair tied up by a long dayglow coloured scarf into a high pony-tail. I had to wear a uniform to school (so I couldn't do the clothes stylings), but I did tie my hair up with pink dayglow scarf. Oh, the horror. But now I think about it, I reckon the rest of the outfit would have looked okay.
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Post by wenonah4th on May 8, 2008 14:13:13 GMT -5
A scarf like that doesn't sound bad at all.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2008 16:33:00 GMT -5
I spent the first few Tuesdays of 1991 dressing like one of the BSC members. On New Year's Day that year (which was a Tuesday), I dressed like Kristy, on January 8th, I dressed like Claudia, on January 15th (which was when the Persian Gulf War started), I dressed like Mary Anne, and on January 22nd, I dressed like Stacey. I think that's as far as I got.
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