LMAO! The things we do to try and look beautiful! I've tried these strips. I can totally relate to the ...............OMG I'm blind.....I'm blind statement!

I've never tried anywhere but the eyebrows, and even that made my eyes water up.  I've learned you should never have any waxing done in a store in the mall unless you are ok with walking around red, swollen, and in pain.  Threading is way better anyway.

I got my eyebrows waxed at the mall once. NEVER again.  I told her I wanted them cleaned up..................well she pretty much took them off!  I've never been a big fan of the reallllllllllllly thin eyebrow. People probably thought I was strange because I wore my sunglasses in the mall the rest of the time I was there. I was mortified. LOL Live and learn.

I had Miss Kitty waxed once...my eyes didn't just water - they shot out of my head. I'm also a firm NEVER AGAIN!!! 

Colitas: that's frikking hilarious... if it makes you feel any better, my girlfriend Jenny did the exact same thing to herself in the exact same locale. I tried to wax my gorilla-brows once, and have plucked ever since, shave the rest.

Off topic: I saw they finally ran your mom's obituary today... again, I am so sorry for your loss. I have never forgotten the day that they came to take you out of class for Darrel... I never will. 

Did you see that the Stebbins boys' dad passed as well? It seems like there's so much loss right now... very sad.

Riceme, that day in class seems like a lifetime ago....hell, it was it was almost another "life" ago....things were never the same after that.  But if it wasn't for my experiences I wouldn't be the great, wonderful person I am today...lol.  Yeah, things are weird all over right with death and people getting bad news.  A good friend of mine is having surgery in about a week because they believe she has cancer (won't know 100% until they go in and take the mass out and test some nodes) and she is our age Riceme.  Shit in our class.  By the way how did your knee surgery go?

My surgery did not go well, but I don't have cancer, my knee just doesn't work. Here's the update I sent to my friends and family (copied and pasted):

My surgery did not go as expected. As you know, it was supposed to be an "exploratory" arthroscopic surgery to see what was really wrong since Dr. Turnage couldn't see anything in my x-rays or MRI's because of all of the stainless steel hardware in my knee and tibia. The surgery was supposed to take 15- to 20-minutes, but took 2-1/2 hours. Dr. Turnage said that if he had known how bad it was he would have had a second surgeon with him and he would have done it at the hospital instead of at the surgical center across from his office. He only intended to go in to see what was wrong on Thursday then schedule a surgery to fix it later, but he said it was so bad that it absolutely could not wait.
 
My ACL was completely torn loose from my tibia and it had taken pieces of bone with it that were floating freely in my knee joint. He had to anchor the ACL back to my tibia with a big staple-type thing by drilling a through-and-through hole in my tibia. The meniscus (cartilage) between my femur and the knee was completely destroyed and looked like someone had taken a filet knife and a cheese grater to it (I saw pictures of it and I almost threw up). There were dozens of pieces of loose cartilage and bone that were floating freely around in the knee joint. He replaced my ligaments and cartilage with cadaver and synthetic parts, but I don't remember which went where... I was pretty out of it. There is more, but that's all I can remember... he will tell me the rest again when I see him for my follow-up appointment on 1 July.

I am very lucky to have found such a great doctor for my second opinion... the official diagnosis of first orthopaedic surgeon I saw after my re-injury in mid-April was that I had "arthritis". Period. But basically I've been walking around on a chipped -- or broken -- tibia, with no ACL, and no femur-to-knee cartilage for over two months. Yes, I am very grateful that I sought a second opinion and that I found Dr. Turnage.

This was the "soft" version for my grandma and parents... reality is that it hurts like a son of a bitch and I cried for three days afterward wishing that someone had amputated my leg above my knee (for those of you who are about to throw barbs at me for that comment, I would advise against doing so. You don't know the extent of my original injury or how I was injured. You don't want to go there with me).

Colitas, email me privately about our classmate who is having surgery tomorrow. You should be able to send email to me via my Tehachapi News profile... it has changed since the last time we emailed.

My god, when WAS that?? I remember which classroom we were in, and exactly where everyone was sitting. I remember everyone who was there. But I've no clue what grade we were in... 2nd?? I guess it must have been Mrs. Beerline's class, right?

Nothing was ever the same after that... it changed everything for me, too. You have to remember that I had just lost my mom when I was four. This was loss on a totally different plane to me. Not that it compares to what you and your family went through (and still do), but it messed me up too.

Naw, I was in 5th grade maybe 6th.  I always said 5th grade because I was 10, but he died in Oct which would have meant the new school had started already.  So that would have put me in 6th grade.  But I can't remember the teachers name.  Actually I don't really remember much of anything else that was going on during that time expect the death.  Wow, I can't remember anything about school expect getting cards/notes from the kids in class.  I think that's around the time or at least the same year we all went to Mountain Park for like a camp thing.  It could have been the year before.  Like I said, it's like a blank to me.  I'll try to email ya later.

Wow... we seemed so young in my memory of it all. So tiny... I guess we really were, just a skewed childhood memory. I don't even remember who I had for 5th or 6th grade teachers, and I don't remember the Mountain Park thing. I mean, I remember that it was planned, but I don't remember being there.

Jeez, I thought it was just my memory that was bad...lol.  Glad to know it's not just me =)

No, we are actually getting old, girl!