Anyone for Coffee? (no boys allowed)

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Originally Posted by kasie

I used to carry a huge bag with my entire life stuffed into it - the first time I went out with a certain gorgeous bloke, he chivalrously handed me my my bag, buckled under the weight, and muttered, 'Typical! You have to be a weight-lifter to carry it...' so I thought, 'Right, matey, I'll show you!' and went out and bought the cutest, dinkiest little bag you ever saw, all gathered leather, soft as could be, a girlie bag. Next time we went out, he turned to me and without batting an eyelid said, ' I think I'll leave my jacket in the car - I don't suppose you have room in your bag for my wallet?' No, Sunshine, I do not - and you've only got yourself to blame. But somehow he hung around for the next twenty-odd years, so my handbags went back to being big enough to carry my entire life again - and his, as well.

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I think that story is so adorable Kasie!!!

I can't get started on handbags...oh dear I got so many of them! I find that I too always have to carry everyone's things in them. Often when my best friend and I go to the movies with our guy friends, we're carrying their drinks and snacks to sneak them in!

My dad spoiled me this Christmas and bought me a B. Makowsky handbag and already it's a weight lifting nightmare! Perhaps it's a good idea to clean them out once a week or something.

Speaking of the Christmas handbag....it's a cream leather hobo....so it's very light and doesn't do well with the spilling of chocolate shakes...does anyone have a good in home remedy? I'm scared of damaging the leather.

Thank, Grace - carrying his wallet was the least I could do for him - he fixed things for me all the time, he understood I was not-very-good with-mechanical-things.

Oh dear, oh dear - I went to M&S yesterday - it was only to recycle my Christmas cards - honest.... They had the recycling box right by the door, I didn't have to go inside the shop but they had this line of new spring cardigans just inside the door and there was this lovely long-line jacket style cotton cardie in blue stripes that would just go with my travel wardrobe of blue and I don't have a light-weight cardie - well, I do , but it's short and zips up to make a sweater - and it spoke to me and positively begged me to take it home with me...

Then when I got back to the car with it, I realised I had parked outside Accessorize and they had their new line of spring bags in the window and some of them were blue and I could do with a carry-on bag for my trip - I resisted their siren call though I did pop in to have a look and very nice they were too but I do love browsing in Accessorize.

I broke a nail :( I was keeping them long for two "dates" (long story) I have this weekend :(

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Originally Posted by Koa

I was keeping them long for two "dates"

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Should we ask?

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

Should we ask?

:D

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Giiirrrrlllllll We want details!!:lol:

Ya know, nails are another thing that confound me. When I don't pay attention to them they grow long, I notice they're long and I start to fuss with them (putting on polish and strengthener) then they break. I get disgusted and stop paying attention and the cycle continues.:alien:

I don't even bother with my fingernails. I work with kids so I'm constantly washing my hands and sticking them in bleach (that's what we use to clean surfaces and toys and stuff) and they are a papery, uneven mess. Now my toenails are a different story, those I like to keep fancy. :D

I'm terrible. I'm afraid I'm that person who still bites their nails and I can't seem to stop. I'll go for months without biting them, but then I'll stress a bit and chew them all off. All too often I'm stressed out so I seem to always be biting them.

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Originally Posted by mkhockenberry

I'm terrible. I'm afraid I'm that person who still bites their nails and I can't seem to stop. I'll go for months without biting them, but then I'll stress a bit and chew them all off. All too often I'm stressed out so I seem to always be biting them.

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There's still hope! My mum bit her nails for 52 years before she stopped.

I used to bite mine too, but I stopped a few years ago. The problem is, I'm just a really fidgety person. My hands just have to be busy. When I stopped biting my nails, I started another habit which I cannot break and it drives my friends crazy- I'm constantly twirling a curl around my fingers. That, and I still have a few other fidgety habits that I've always had. I don't really do much to take care of my nails- they have to be short when I'm working in a clinic or when I'm at the barn or they just break and get all gross. I'll get a manicure on the rare occasion I'm not going to be at the barn or working.

I don't bite my nails, but that might be partly because there's nothing to bite :p I've always kept my nails very short, first because I was playing the piano and then because I was used to that (and the fact that with my atopy I do far too much damage to my skin even with what little nails I have now). Nail polish just won't stay on my nails (it gets all "wrinkly", probably because I can't help scratching), so I very very rarely bother.

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Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*

There's still hope! My mum bit her nails for 52 years before she stopped.

I used to bite mine too, but I stopped a few years ago. The problem is, I'm just a really fidgety person. My hands just have to be busy. When I stopped biting my nails, I started another habit which I cannot break and it drives my friends crazy- I'm constantly twirling a curl around my fingers. That, and I still have a few other fidgety habits that I've always had. I don't really do much to take care of my nails- they have to be short when I'm working in a clinic or when I'm at the barn or they just break and get all gross. I'll get a manicure on the rare occasion I'm not going to be at the barn or working.

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I'm fidgety too, and I think that is part of the problem. I'm a pretty high strung type individual, and I'm afraid I keep life too stressed. I think my record is something like a year or so without biting them,but I've been terrible the last couple of years:blush: I also catch myself tapping on my keyboard when I type if my thoughts aren't coming fast enough. I actually had to take up crocheting as a hobby just so I could sit with my husband and watch a TV show. Otherwise I'm always up and down and moving everywhere.

I'm kind of fidgety as well, although I don't bit my nails, I crack my knuckles...pretty much constantly. It drives my mother nuts! :lol:

I bite my nails off too, because long nails cut your palms when you make a fist. Also, long nails get in the way when I'm playing with my bow and arrow.

Well I don't even really know the feeling of cutting fingers... I bite them, although now I only do it occasionally cos I keep them long, but a time alwys comes when I bite them all off and start again... I started doing so when I was about 15 (always been a biter before that, I remember being told off for it when I was like 3...) and by now I can even go a couple of days without nail polish and without biting. But usually it's nail polish all the way, I love it, it was the only girly thing I did for years (now I'm all girly, thought it would happen eventually... :lol:)

As for the datey things, I have no time now but I might let you know more when I have a longer time to spend online. First one was confusing...

Hey all! I hope you girls are doing fine!

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Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*

I used to bite mine too, but I stopped a few years ago. The problem is, I'm just a really fidgety person. My hands just have to be busy. When I stopped biting my nails, I started another habit which I cannot break and it drives my friends crazy- I'm constantly twirling a curl around my fingers.

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:eek: Now you mention it... I think I started doing that right after I stopped biting my nails! I just never noticed the connection until now :smilielol5: And I don't think I'll ever stop twirling my hair - It is just like Edmund in the movie for Count de Monte Cristo ;) I just hope I won't grow bald because of it :p
As for the biting, I just decided it was enough... Putting nail-polish on my nails helped a lot, but it would not have helped if I had not decided to stop for real - it was just a reminder. Nowadays I've got quite long nails, because I never cut them (still bite them when they get too long :blush:) I just think it's such a shame to cut them - I can finally show that I've quitted biting them :lol: Childish and not practical at all, I know ;) This doesn't stop me from doing so though.

Ow, and here you all go: after all this is the coffee corner!

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Originally Posted by mkhockenberry

I'm terrible. I'm afraid I'm that person who still bites their nails and I can't seem to stop. I'll go for months without biting them, but then I'll stress a bit and chew them all off. All too often I'm stressed out so I seem to always be biting them.

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The exact same in here. -_-

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Originally Posted by Sapphire

Ow, and here you all go: after all this is the coffee corner! [/COLOR]

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Mmmmmm, love the smell. AND of course, the thing itself.

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I got a manicure yesterday. I hadn't had one in a while and my hands were quite crusty looking. I sat under the UV light and sprayed some quick dry stuff on them and the manicurist told me that they were ready but to be careful. So I wandered around the mall for what seemed like an hour carefully holding my jacket and not touching anything and ignoring sales people (though it probably wasn't that long and just seemed like it since going to the mall bores me to death these days unless I'm on a specific shopping mission) and then I get in the car and bump my nail polish on the steering wheel and smudged the paint! How were my nails not dry after all that time?? I even used the spray! I thought the spray was supposed to work. I didn't want to go back and have them fix it because I didn't want to be in the mall anymore so I am sitting here with a smudge nail. :rolleyes: And this color is dark purple and I can only pull this color off if I have it professionally done because it's so dark. If I do it myself then it just looks terrible. on the bright side, when I take the polish off I will at least have neat nails.

Shalot I had the same thing happen to me last week. I got a manicure and a pedicure done at a different place than I normally go to because it's cheaper. I had my feet under the UV light for 15 minutes and the lady told me I was good to go, knowing full well I had to put socks and boots back on. I got home and I had a sock imprint in my toenail polish :(. Not surprised though, the lady also didn't paint white tips on my french manicure. What is a french manicure without white tips?! She told me I said I didn't want them. Grrrrrrr.

I generally ignore my nails as long as they are short enough, maybe occasionally I will pop some moisteriser on them but that is about it really!

But I have a question can climate affect the speed your hair and nails grow at? since I have moved back to egypt I am back to having to cut my nails 2 or 3 times a week and my hair is growing at the rate of an inch or so a month. Thats beside the fact it has dried out and gone all icky! :(

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Originally Posted by Nightshade

I generally ignore my nails as long as they are short enough, maybe occasionally I will pop some moisteriser on them but that is about it really!

But I have a question can climate affect the speed your hair and nails grow at? since I have moved back to egypt I am back to having to cut my nails 2 or 3 times a week and my hair is growing at the rate of an inch or so a month. Thats beside the fact it has dried out and gone all icky! :(

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According to sofeminine.co.u.k climate and stress can affect hair loss. So, maybe the opposite is true also. Maybe you're under less stress in Egypt then you were before and you're seeing it in your hair and nails. I'm reaching I know. Or, it could be diet. Maybe you're eating better than you were??? I don't know. At least it's not hair loss. If my hair starts to thin like that I will probably just go Sinead. I'm not sure about the nails. It seems like if you're under-nourished or stressed, your nails suffer as well as your hair.

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Originally Posted by Nightshade

I generally ignore my nails as long as they are short enough, maybe occasionally I will pop some moisteriser on them but that is about it really!

But I have a question can climate affect the speed your hair and nails grow at? since I have moved back to egypt I am back to having to cut my nails 2 or 3 times a week and my hair is growing at the rate of an inch or so a month. Thats beside the fact it has dried out and gone all icky! :(

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Yes, I have the same problem since I moved in Egypt. My hair became very dry, although i am using hair creams. I think is about the water used in here.

:eek: They took the coffee away! :eek:

Here we go again:

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:p

Enjoy!

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Originally Posted by Lacra

Yes, I have the same problem since I moved in Egypt. My hair became very dry, although i am using hair creams. I think is about the water used in here.

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Yupp the water is a funky color alright, and the taste is unique!
Any tea or hot choclaate going saphire?

Sure :) Hot chocolate it is :)

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ENJOY!

Good morning, Nightshade and Lacra - just back from Egypt: came to conclusion that water there is 'hard' as I had to use lots of soap and shampoo and ended up with soapy scum in the basin. My skin is dry and flaky too, despite lots of sun cream - I'm used to 'soft' water, so it may take a while for me to get back to normal. Can't answer for the taste - we nish Brits were advised not to drink water from the tap! And yes, my nails grew - but I think that's more a case of what my Mum called "Lady's hands" - no work for a fortnight!

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Originally Posted by kasie

Good morning, Nightshade and Lacra - just back from Egypt: came to conclusion that water there is 'hard' as I had to use lots of soap and shampoo and ended up with soapy scum in the basin. My skin is dry and flaky too, despite lots of sun cream - I'm used to 'soft' water, so it may take a while for me to get back to normal. Can't answer for the taste - we nish Brits were advised not to drink water from the tap! And yes, my nails grew - but I think that's more a case of what my Mum called "Lady's hands" - no work for a fortnight!

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Hehehhe, I use to buy mineral water as I am afraid to drink water from the tap. The same problems with the skin and I watch my Egyptian colleagues here, they have such a soft and shining skin. What did they do to look this healthy way? I have no idea! Maybe is something related to the land we are born in: the water, the air, the sun are designed to fit perfectly... I don't know...

Heeeey, Nightshade's back. :wave:

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Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf

Heeeey, Nightshade's back. :wave:

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I am :D :nod: :wave:

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Originally Posted by Lacra

Hehehhe, I use to buy mineral water as I am afraid to drink water from the tap. The same problems with the skin and I watch my Egyptian colleagues here, they have such a soft and shining skin. What did they do to look this healthy way? I have no idea! Maybe is something related to the land we are born in: the water, the air, the sun are designed to fit perfectly... I don't know...

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Well it really depends on where you are in Cairo, I actually preffer egyptian tap water to say english tap water, bu I wont drink it unless its filtered and even then I dont drink that unless its boiled anymore because it appears all the egyptians have stopped drinking it too, so just being safe!
I just discovered egyptian women use chickpea flour on their faces, not sure how exactly but that might contibute to the shinyness!

Hey everyone! Kinda new here. Hopefully I fit in!! Where I live is really hot and dry skin is always an issue. Some home rededies my mom told me about are: Using olive oil to massage your skin before bed or applying a mixture of egg, olive oil, a few drops of rose water and few drops of orange or lime juice for 10 mintues in the morning.
Wearing sunscreen is always helpful too. Prevention is key! :)

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Originally Posted by sweetdisorder

Hey everyone! Kinda new here. Hopefully I fit in!! Where I live is really hot and dry skin is always an issue. Some home rededies my mom told me about are: Using olive oil to massage your skin before bed or applying a mixture of egg, olive oil, a few drops of rose water and few drops of orange or lime juice for 10 mintues in the morning.
Wearing sunscreen is always helpful too. Prevention is key! :)

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I was told to make sure I drink plenty of water and keep healthy oil in my diet. I also use a lotion that is oatmeal based. Aveeno makes a good one.

I always get dry skin in the winter along the base of my ears, along the bridge of my nose, and occasionally under my eyes. I'm too lazy to do anything more than use a moisturizing lotion when it starts to get bad though.

I am a male infiltrating this thread.... I have an extreme form of atopic eczema, and as a result always have extremely dry irritated skin, the solution... use a neutral moisturiser........... abd hormonal salves, but that's a doctor's prescription and doesn't count. ;)

And starnge as it may sound sleep! A couple of years a go I spent 2 weeks sleeping about 20 hours a day and my skin glowed! obviously you cant sleep 20 hours a day but get atleast 8-10 hours in :nod:

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Originally Posted by AimusSage

I am a male infiltrating this thread....

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Thanks for the warning! :smilewinkgrin:

Drinking enough water is essential for a health skin and I remember reading that it also helps many other trivial problems one faces.

I feel having enough sleep is important too... Why don't I give that a try sometime? :rolleyes5:

And don't forget a good facial scrub to get rid of the dead skin cells.

:oh oh oh I need to celebrate! :banana: You know how ( well you don't but whatever) i have been steaily gaining weight for the last 4 years, tonight I am back 2 years and in less than 4 months! Woot!!!
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I went to the cupborad and said right this is riduculous I m nevere geting into this again I can donate it... and it fit!!! after 2 well nearly 3 really years! oh I am happy happy happy!
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Alllllll Riiiighhhhttttt, good for you!

:cheers2: Congratulations! That is the best feeling in the world!

Congratulations - keep up the good work. (And what is your secret ? Do tell.)

Yeay Nightie!!!!

Hmmm... well, that's good if you feel healthy but don't get too skinny. Women are more beautiful with some nice soft, healthy flesh. No bonyness.