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  1. Viola

    Question: Tipping in Restaurants, for Services, ??

    I always tip 20% and if I can't afford it I figure I can't afford to eat out. I don't go over unless service is good, though, or I'm just rounding up to a dollar. I think it varies by region, though - 15% is still considered okay someplaces, and occasionally I am chided for not going to 25%...
  2. Viola

    The Antipodean thread

    May I come say hello in this thread? I have just today been informed by my migration officer I have leave to come into aus on my prospective spousal visa! Hooray, I love my man but long-distance relationships can go jump. I won't dissemble - I am just so happy I am telling everyone.
  3. Viola

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    Please, the proudly German Bild Lilli doll is not amused!
  4. Viola

    What You'd Like To Have, What You Won't & What They Will Probably...

    I'm an organ donor, too. I just want the leftover bits taken care of. And cremation is my big no-no. I like the old cemetaries where you can have a tree planted on you, I'd like that.
  5. Viola

    The turban-like hat

    I think this is the same Beyond Retro
  7. Viola

    Most Over-rated Actress of the Golden Era?

    Lizzie, a clenched-teeth New Englander, you? lol I like Kate but I like her as that type, not for her range. Rather like my feelings about John Wayne, or Sly Stallone, actually - their stock role is a character I enjoy, nothing less nothing more. I nominate Vivian Leigh.
  8. Viola

    Revolutionary War Films?

    I suggest John Wayne be Daniel Morgan, bigger, badder, louder, and more ornery and more country than Washington.
  9. Viola

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    Gallivarda is how tempermental, James? Its lovely. I want one. But I try to stick to "Roses For Newbies" you know that parade of like really stubborn solid shrubby roses like Knockout and Carefree Wonder, etc.
  10. Viola

    What You'd Like To Have, What You Won't & What They Will Probably...

    I don't know what I want my tombstone to say but I've been assured by friends they expect to see "fiery shootout" in the obit. :D
  11. Viola

    Weight loss options

    I have to start doing that again. Today I did a bit better, I had 1 can of pineapple and 2 pieces of fresh fruit (apricots) as well as pasta w/ broccoli and mushrooms. I know canned isn't ideal but its makes a good work-packable lunch.
  13. Viola

    Exercise and vintage style

    Why? I work out multiple times a day its the only way I can fit it all in. I do mascara, lipbalm, and eyeshadow to work out. I think if I know my brows look good, and have just a bit of pop at the eye I can tell myself its nearly '40s natural-girl-next-door then I just put on a red lip...
  14. Viola

    Weight loss options

    So far today I had rice w/ sundried tomato dressing, two hardboiled eggwhites and one whole hardboiled egg, and a small can of mushrooms. NEED to go buy produce but it is danged expensive so I will have to ration salads, which is sort of a sad thing to have to say. There's an Asian market a few...
  15. Viola

    Weight loss options

    For now at least I am going to eat eggs and dairy but no mom not fish and chicken (it eludes me how one can be a vegetarian and eat chicken and tuna but my mom is a sweetie) while I grow accustomed to not eating meat at LEAST once daily the way I have been. I know its not hardcore but I need to...
  16. Viola

    Does your lipstick have to match your nail color?

    Warm pink looks good on my nails but not especially nice as lipstick against my complexion, not enough contrast and yet not as natural as gloss if I want to be nude-ish. Red lips and warm pink nails work. Also I love French nails best and that natural-esque pink-and-white works just fine with...
  17. Viola

    Weight loss options

    I have just, and I mean JUST (as in yesterday's dinner and today as first whole day) gone vegetarian and am feeling very tremulous and worried about doing this correctly. I was told it could help my joints, which is a thing for me already having arthritis and general joint-yuck at ripe ol' 26...
  19. Viola

    I'm stuck in the 80s...automotively

    A-Team had some good ones too. Back later wi' goodies from Miami Vice lol
  20. Viola

    I'm stuck in the 80s...automotively

    MAKE CAR FASTER (just like painting it a bright, BRIGHT color, and also T-tops!) Do not argue with the memories of being five, D-back. I do vaguely remember thinking even at five the guy in the neighborhood who put decals of Jesus over his lights so He would sillhouette was in questionable...
  21. Viola

    I'm stuck in the 80s...automotively

    I sometimes daydream about the car I fantasized about owning when I was five years old. I was an '80s baby, in Philly, and that meant it had to be a Trans Am with a louvered back window and a screaming chicken on the hood. Pure quiet sophistication, of course, lol, just like "the big kids" in...
  22. Viola

    The Return of the Man's Man

    I never got the Bond appeal, perhaps I am a mutant. I feel especially funny saying it on the lounge, I know its akin to disliking Indy or Jimmy Stewart around these parts buuuut there we are.
  23. Viola

    central A/C

    I've never lived in a house with central air and in my family we try to save the little AC units for nothing but a couple nights a year. It can be done. Easiest way is, of course, by not being able to afford to run it.

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