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.

[cathshaffer.livejournal.com]

Careful you could open a worm hole to Ann Arbor.

[redbird]

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

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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.