Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Earth Mother with a Twist

Maybe a bit of a step back from all the life-changing blogs and back to more little daily life observations and such.

I was just remembering a conversation I had with PMix about how I thought sometime it would be cool for Sharon to start wearing those long sort of flower-patterned skirts. Seemed kind of consistent with her personality. Mix commented something like, "Yeah, she's kind of the earth-mother sort-that would make sense."

Well, one aspect of 95% of the earth mothers that I didn't consider. There is an aspect of their free-spiriting femininity that still clings to a fashion sense. When I suggested the idea to Sharon, she was all for it, except that somehow the dress would have to match t-shirts and/or a sleeveless REI fleece vest. Kind of funny. It's not that Sharon is opposed to nice clothes, it's just that she approaches it kind of like me-she never thinks about it until times of necessity, and then just gets by on the bare minimum requirement (now a FUNCTIONAL, performance wardrobe-that's an entirely different matter in the Hylton household).

Anyway, one of the many things that endears her to me (perhaps the first part of the "why I love my wife" series).

6 comments:

C.F. Bear said...

Maybe you should look into a nudist community? I would love to visit you there! :)

Pat said...

T-Clog might join you if they had communal toilets.

Dan said...

Sharon has tossed around the idea of having a composting toilet in any home we might have built. I think I may have to draw the line there, however. We compost our table scraps and are on the verge of overflowing a second unit. I consider that warning enough.

C.F. Bear said...

You will have to have two spare bins just for me when I visit. Damn, T-clog did it again! One time I overflowed the toilet at my friend Roger's house when I was in high school. The water carried floaters up and out of the toilet. My turds were all over the floor. His mom insisted that she clean it up. Also at Mixdorf's wedding, I clogged his toilet when we were returning the speakers. Fuck, I think that I flushed at least 20 times, and plunged 15. Shit Mixdorf, get a power flusher. :)

Dan said...

Ever since adpoting a fiber-rich diet late last summer, 2 flushes on my home toilet have been the norm for me. So much so that I don't even flirt with danger by waiting for the first one to fail. I just flush after the first plunk.

Pat said...

Your crappy diet has more to do with clogging toilets than anything.

Glad to know you defiled my house while I was gone.