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My mother, who looks a lot like Diane Keaton and if I'm doing the math right is forty-eight, is going to a murder mystery party tomorrow night as a twenty-year-old and wants me to go with her to the Salvation Army to buy a miniskirt.

Let's all stew on that for a minute, shall we?

Date: 2006-03-03 04:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crevette.livejournal.com
Hey, I'm 38 and wearing a miniskirt as I type this.

Date: 2006-03-03 05:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apocalypsos.livejournal.com
Yeah, but this is my mom. It doesn't work quite so well that way. It's kinda warping my brain, actually.

Date: 2006-03-03 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crevette.livejournal.com
LOL. My daughter is horrified by the fact that I'm wearing sexy underwear now that I've lost all that weight. Horrified is really an understatement, actually.

Ok, I have to ask...

Date: 2006-03-03 05:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seferin.livejournal.com
how does your daughter know the type of underwear you wear?

Re: Ok, I have to ask...

Date: 2006-03-03 05:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] etoilepb.livejournal.com
When my boyfriend moved out of his parents' house and into ours, his mother took over his bathroom as her private hand-wash-laundry center. So every time we go to visit or stay and I use that bathroom there are pairs of underwear and stockings hanging everywhere. I really, really wish I didn't know what kind of underwear she wears...

Re: Ok, I have to ask...

Date: 2006-03-03 05:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crevette.livejournal.com
How? She's 11, she's a girl. She sees me getting ready for work, getting ready for bed, what have you.

Date: 2006-03-03 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apocalypsos.livejournal.com
My pervy cousin once asked me if I ever heard my parents having sex since my bedroom was right across the hall from them. I don't think I've ever screamed, "NO!" louder than that.

Bad enough that I know both my conception story and my brother's. Gee, thanks, Mom and Dad. *eye roll*

Date: 2006-03-03 05:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarff-nodwydd.livejournal.com
My pervy cousin once asked me if I ever heard my parents having sex since my bedroom was right across the hall from them. I don't think I've ever screamed, "NO!" louder than that.

Bad enough that I know both my conception story and my brother's. Gee, thanks, Mom and Dad. *eye roll*


ALL of my children have walked in on us at least once. My daughter once announced to my mother (who called just moments after my daughter walked back out of our room) what we were doing.

And they've all complained that we're too noisy.

Crabby kids. :)

Date: 2006-03-03 07:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gruyere.livejournal.com
My parents' relationship is strictly platonic. I was the product of a virgin birth.

YOU CAN'T PROVE OTHERWISE, DAMMIT.

Date: 2006-03-03 05:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crevette.livejournal.com
Trying to talk to my daughter about sex usually ends up with her curled up on the floor in a fetal position with her hands over her ears as she screams, "LALALALALALA!!!" at the top of her lungs.

Date: 2006-03-03 05:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apocalypsos.livejournal.com
Oh, I can talk with my parents about sex. I just can't talk about THEM having sex. ;)

It could be worse.

Date: 2006-03-03 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seferin.livejournal.com
A friend of mind was asked by her stepmother about sex toys, and was asked to go shopping with her to purchase some. This occured at a table where her mother and father were sitting.

Re: It could be worse.

Date: 2006-03-03 05:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apocalypsos.livejournal.com
My cousin once bought my mother a rubber penis. Unfortunately, my mom didn't take it out of the packaging, because that would have been fun to have at our family parties.

My family once mocked bad Skinemax porn while waiting for midnight on New Year's Eve. We're all pervs.

Date: 2006-03-03 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lots42.livejournal.com
At least she doesn't tell you her poop problems for no reason. I am still traumatized.

Date: 2006-03-03 05:11 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sabotabby
In the editors' association to which I belong, all of the older women dress like 20-year-olds (or rather, like they did when they were 20, with leather miniskirts and such, not like a 20-year-old would dress now) and all of the younger woman dress like middle-aged librarians, with wool cardigans and kilts and such. We wonder about this phenomenon.

Date: 2006-03-03 05:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apocalypsos.livejournal.com
My mom's favorite store is Christopher and Banks, so the mini-skirt thing is totally throwing me off. Not that she couldn't fit into one, because she's at most a size twelve, but still.

Date: 2006-03-03 05:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] calligrafiti.livejournal.com
Well, as long as she looks a lot like Diane Keaton rather than Buster Keaton, it should be ok.

Date: 2006-03-03 05:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarff-nodwydd.livejournal.com
Ya know...I'm almost the same age as your mother. (I'm two years younger.) If *I* made that same request to my daughter, she'd feed me valium and put me to bed.

Of course, I look NOTHING like Diane Keaton. If you've got it, flaunt it! :)

Date: 2006-03-03 05:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarff-nodwydd.livejournal.com
Addendum: In contrast to looking like Diane Keaton in a mini-skirt. *I* would look like the Camel with the wrinkled-knees of Raggedy Anne and Andy fame.

Date: 2006-03-03 05:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] phoebesmum.livejournal.com
Hurrah for your mum!

Date: 2006-03-03 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flame-of-death.livejournal.com
Fantastic! Murder mystery parties are always a blast, and since she's a CSI fan, if my memory doesn't fail me, she'll have a blast and a half. Hee! Good memories... good memories...

The best of times is when you're the murderer. Everyone's throwing accusations left and right, and you only find out you're the SOB that did the deed on the last round of clues. That's for a moment of evil basking and smugness. Well, at least it was for me. Double agents killing princesses and stealing their identities are always badass in my book.

Date: 2006-03-03 05:57 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] thebitterguy
Pix plz.

Date: 2006-03-03 06:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] namey.livejournal.com
Can't stew without pics plz.

*dodges bricks*

Date: 2006-03-03 11:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zephiey.livejournal.com
My mother, who is going to be 70 this year wore a mini skirt when she was in her 50's. And she probably can still wear it and look good in it today.

Do you know what sucked about her wearing that mini skirt?

Her legs looked better than mine!

Date: 2006-03-04 12:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlmostlikely.livejournal.com
That is so awesome! I hope she has a fantastic time... the mystery party sounds like a lot of fun.

My mum is 60 this year; she still has quite a nice figure--actually, for her age, it's awesome--and loves fancy dress parties, having a drink and a laugh and such. Also, she breakdances!

I don't know ANYONE, and that includes my friends and people my age, who parties harder and has more fun than she does. All her friends love her because she brings so much happiness and laughter to any gathering.

I couldn't love her more or be more proud of her for just being who she is. The most valuable lesson I've learned from her is that being yourself, and not being afraid to be yourself, is so much better than acting "cool", and you'll always have more fun that way. She is the coolest person I know and I am the luckiest girl in the world because she's my Mum.

Flowers spring to blossom where she walks
The careful ways of duty,
Our hard, stiff lines of life with her
Are flowing curves of beauty.


- John Greenleaf Whittier (http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/W/WhittierJohnGreenleaf/verse/poems1/amonghills.html) -

Date: 2006-03-04 12:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] squee1123.livejournal.com
moms ar ein a class of their own

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