Pippi Startweezer, at your service.

[mrissa]

Today my goddaughter Lillian is spending the day with my mother. Mormor and Milly called me this morning so that Milly could ask a very important question:

Would Auntie mrissa put her hair in puppytails today too?

(Note for the uninitiated: my mother doesn't like pigs. So when I was growing up, one tail was a ponytail--a side ponytail if it was on the side, because I was after all a child of the '80s--and two tails were puppytails.)

(I also wore my hair in Princess Leia buns on a fairly regular basis. I had a very happy childhood.)

Well. So. Is there anything I wouldn't do for this kid? Probably, but messing with my hair is so not over that line. So today I am wearing my giraffe pants and a camisole top. I attempted low puppytails, but in combination with the cami it made me feel like I was about to suggest to people that if they wanted to commence a sexual relationship with me they ought to pursue friendship first and that, in fact, what I really really wanted was a ziggah-ziggah-ahh. So as Geeky Spice is not a persona I ever intended to adopt, I braided each side. Then I looked in the mirror at the finished result.

Um. Will somebody please buy me an autoharp? Seriously. This is just alarming. I know I don't actually smell of patchouli, but I have to keep sniffing to make sure. And I have the sudden urge to macrame something.

Comments

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Ziggah-ziggah-ahh?

But. I will look for autoharps for you. Even though I don't like the scent of patchouli.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I hate the scent of patchouli.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Musty basements. (This is one of the few times I can remember you hating a smell, rather than just being very aware of it.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Mostly I am very cagey about which smells I hate, so as not to make people uncomfortable about things they often can't change (or could change, but only with amounts of effort I consider completely unreasonable for casual social interactions).

[cathshaffer.livejournal.com]

Careful you could open a worm hole to Ann Arbor.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And go shopping at the Dawn Treader bookshop and have coffee with you and make you run me over to GR to see my new niece, oh nooooooes!

[redbird]

Is it too late to change out of the giraffe pants and/or the camisole?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I think the essential problem would have been intact through most of the wardrobe changes available to me. The only clothes that would have made me definitely not look like Pippi Startweezer would have made me look like Hello I Am Here To Play To Your Schoolgirl Fetish. Which, uh, no. Not at all, actually.

dlandon had not seen the giraffe pants and was frightened I might mean giraffe-print leggings. Not at all on that one, either, whew.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

We had an autoharp in the house when I was a kid. My grandmother was a fan of the Carter Family and a fairly competent player. I think my mom plays it as well.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

If someone bought me one, I would totally learn. I mean, we do own albums like Free to Be You and Me and stuff by Joan Baez and Carole King.

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

>> Geeky Spice is not a persona I ever intended to adopt

But you might win a prize in the Fourth Street Fantasy Convention Masquerade Ball!

If that doesn't work out, you will bring your autoharp to the song circle, won't you?

[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

So how much time did you spend in Berkeley before you moved?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Really kind of a lot, actually....

Also, people would sometimes stop me on BART to ask me how to get to various things in Berkeley. Because apparently I looked like I knew.

[freelikebeer.livejournal.com]

... in fact, what I really really wanted was a ziggah-ziggah-ahh.

[snicker]

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

this made me laugh. thank you.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

In my childhood, one was a ponytail, ponytails on each side were dog-ears, and braids on each side were pigtails. I can't recall if a single braid was a pigtail, a braid, or either interchangeably.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I grew up with ponytail and pigtail more or less interchangeable, and I later decided that as long as I was in charge of the definitions, a ponytail was hair loose and a pigtail was hair braided-- not a braid, but a braided ponytail. I like the word 'puppytails', though. May keep that.

[mac-stone.livejournal.com]

Macrame is a perfectly respectable, ummm, fiber art? *snerk*

Maybe you can get some of those very cool burnt-orange ceramic beads to work with?

As a child of the late sixties, my own self, I entirely sympathize. I'm chortling, but in a sympathetic fashion.

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

Macrame would seem to be the next logical craft for you to pursue, since you've already done stonework.

[one-undone.livejournal.com]

I loved that you granted her request! Oh, how I wish you had posted photos. This sounds like something I should have seen. :D

Your Geeky Spice comment made me snort into my cereal.