Hilary, you are turning into Me! (Well, all except the cuisinart and Soup Dragons. What the heck is a cuisinart anyway?? It sounds Creative! Is there Art involved? Maybe I should know about it!)

Actually, this sounds like you are just finally adjusting to being A Thirty-Something. Well, Welcome Aboard!

MMMM… Boys in glasses are yummy.

Things I suddenly find attrative and/or enjoyable?

Sweater vests, strangely enough. Since I’m a poor law school student subsisting off of loans they are in the “want not a need” category (as is most non-essential shopping for the time being).

Documentaries about charedim. They seem so secretive at times but it seems they really try to live their lives according to halacha, in fact halacha is their lives.

Anything and everything at Bed, Bath and Beyond. I’m not yet a homeowner but having bought a bunch of wedding presents there recently it really got my wheels turning about how I’d set up my future home, whenever that may be.

British morning teas. I picked a box up a while ago and it really was a rich, full bodied tea. So now I’ve been googling teas to see what else is out there.

Anything from the 80’s. Now I’ve always loved anything 80’s, but recently seeing a certain movie or hearing a certain song makes me happier than it did before just per the simple nostalgia I suppose, maybe it’s because I’m pushing 30, I don’t know.

To comment on your list Hilary, I’ve always found the high ponytail to be just as a attractive as the low, and I think salt and pepper streaks make a man looked distinguished/dignified….there are even times when I wish I had them because it may make me look more “seasoned,” but then another part of me wants to hang on to my dark brown locks for a little while longer.

I’ll add some more to the list:

- non fiction about (gasp) politics.
- lucite but I blame domino/elle decor/design*sponge for that.
- liver - I dont know how this one happened but I love it. chopped, pate, foie gras - its all delicious.
- the french. (that’s a joke).
- pretty wallpaper. (see: lucite)
- my parents and I actually agreeing on politics (bush has pushed them much farther to the left - they always used to tell me I would one day become more conservative but the opposite has happened).

Pearls. Check! I think a nice pair of pearl earring automatically makes you look polished and together, and makes your skin look lumunious!
Cuisnart. Check! Thanks to my boyfriend, I can make pesto and cold summer soups to my heart’s delight. Sigh.

Stranger things that you can come to appreciate:

1.) Dirigibles 2.) Solid brass Maxim’s. 3.) Biplanes. Cloth/’String bags’ ones. 4.) Billy Mitchell was right. 5.) Well made American clothes. (Increasingly hard to find). 6.) Ditto for shoes. Not sports/running shoes, but real leather ’street’ shoes. 7.) Hand tooled belts. 6.) Chris Craft wooden boats. 8.) People who can play an instrument well, besides a guitar. 9.) Brass bands. Good town bands. 10.) Orchestration done well. 11.) People wo can actually write well on many topics. 12.) Ditto for folks who are actually aware of history. 13.) The natural smells of a small working farm. 14.) Smart ass kids. 15.) Real live useful customer service with a smile. (Rare as hen’s teeth actually). Cheers & Good Luck! ‘VJ

oh come on Hil.. dream big http://www.cuisinart.com/catalog/product.php?product_id=31&item_id=60&cat_id=7 !!

i’m a kitchen aid woman myself… don’t know how i survived w/o it!

Oh, Soup Dragons memories! I am still so upset at myself for giving my concert shirt to Goodwill! Do you know that the awesome CD we had isn’t available at iTunes (wanna burn me a copy of yours??).

Have a great weekend!

JAB, I’ll burn it and mail to you…email me your address. Right now I can only find LOVEGOD but I think I may have HOTWIRED in my car.

btw…when is that June thing at the studio that you were talking about driving up for?!

“Cause I’m free, to do what I want, any old time.”

Be you, Hil. That’s all any of us want. Own your pearl and sweater set fetish. Chase guys with grey patches (paging Andersen Cooper). Wear the Converses until they go out of style, which is apparently NEVER. U B U, as all the LOLing kids say these days. And if U can’t B U, then “sit, UBU, sit.”

All good thoughts from Esther. But what if your secret Air Ship desires come in say the Los Angeles Class size, (ZR3).[See:
[http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ac-usn22/z-types/zr3.htm]

They just a’int making them that big anymore. No plans to either, despite the new ‘boon’ in service plans for some models.

Although I may not follow all the media news from Hollywood etc., but I’m thinking that Anderson is somewhat unlikely to answer that page. Also there’s not much any woman might do to change that situation. And yes, ’sit, UBU, sit’ almost brought a tear to my eye. But not for the reasons most people may suspect.
Cheers & Good Luck! ‘VJ’

a grey streak in high school! haha, how sad!

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