1. I’ve been wondering about hickies. Maybe hickies are only a social make-out thing from my generation. Maybe no one under 50 or 40 even knows what a hickey is. Dictionary.com defines a hickey as “a reddish mark left on the skin by a passionate kiss.” In school, if we saw anybody wearing a turtleneck shirt, we knew they were hiding the evidence, and they were immediately more popular than pre-turtleneck, because if they had a hickey, they must be a real party-animal. (We never considered that the turtleneck was just what their mom picked out for them to wear.) Are hickies still alive and well in this generation or has it been discovered they cause some dread disease or social anarchy? Do you have any hickey stories you’d care to share?
2. I love my flannel sheets. I crawl into bed on these cold nights and they are like a warm little cocoon keeping me all comfy and cozy. They even look warm and welcoming with their plaids and mooses and pine trees. What do you prefer in sheets? Flannel, silk, cotton? Is thread count important?
3. We live life really fast these days and we’re always busy, rushing, doing, scurrying, planning. When you finally have time to relax and to de-fuse, what is your downtime of choice? What de-stresses you? What rejuvenates you? How do you cope to do it all over again tomorrow?
4. Simple question: Can you sew on a button? Do you have needle and thread?
5. A true “citizen of Wausau” type question. Community is a great thing. Wausau, Weston, Rothschild, etc. all make up our community, and we participate in things that work towards the bonding of that community feeling of all being in this together. That’s a great thing. But my question is, on a smaller, closer, more personal scale, do you know the names of your next door neighbors right there on your street? Do you talk to them? Are you friends or at least wave if you’re both outside at the same time? Do you interact?
6. Are you scared of peanut butter now? What’s the next food item that will be tainted? If it’s chocolate, I’m eating it anyway.
Mohawk Matt
1:39 pm on January 30th
1. I see them once in a while on customers.
2. I still want to know when “blanket” turned into “comforter”. I don’t see a difference.
3. Video games and guitar.
4. Yes to both.
5. My next door neighbor broke into my house and stole one of my guitars. Now he’s in jail. Great neighborhood.
6. What’s wrong with peanut butter?
Lisa Shilts
3:48 pm on January 31st
1. No hickies for me! (My mom would be proud to know that!)
2. THis winter has been so cold that I think I will get an electric blanket for next year, just to warm up the bed for when I get in. Lately I’ve been holding my favorite fleece blanket in front of the fireplace to get hot, then running and jumping into bed with it! (Matt, there is a difference between a blanket and a comforter!)
3. This time of year I spend too much time de-stressing. I come home, flip the switch for the gas fireplace, and sit and read and watch tv all night. I’ve read three books in less than three weeks! Kinda’ opposite from summer when I’m outside as much as I can be and watch little tv.
4.I not only can sew on a button, I can run a sewing machine. (A sewing machine call also sew on a button for you!). I was quite the seamstress when I was young.
5. I love the Wausau community! We moved into our home on the southeast side about 2-1/2 years ago and had only met a few neighbors; it was getting too awkward to even wave since we had never met. So last month I had a party and invited all the neighbors, and it was wonderful! I not only got to know them well enough to consider them friends, I found out lots of interesting things about my home and the neighborhood.
6. I assume that most people damaged by tainted food are very young, very old, or not healthy. I’ve never had food poisoning of any sort (I think I just put a curse on myself!). So, I feel pretty safe, and have not given up peanut butter!
deepintheheart
10:44 am on February 1st
1) Hickies are the contemporary equivalent of driving a Camaro. They are both alive out there somewhere and probably both most likely associated with titles such as “Assistant Cart Manager” or “…recently appeared on the Jerry Springer Show.”
2) Egyptian cotton–and no less than a thread count of 600.
3) Stressing out is a simple fact of life. Even when we are comfortable, there are things to get us stressed out. I think everyone does a pretty fair job with denial and inebriation. Rejuvination comes from victories–no matter how big or small. An egotistical gold-star that reminds me I am here.
4) Sure, I can sew a button. I also own a sewing machine and know how to use all the fancy functions. Wanna make some curtains?
5) I have nicknames for my neighbors. I fantasize that they all dislike me and speak ill of me to their children. I think some of them speak English. One of them asked me for help with his garage door at 10:00 p.m. after a nasty thunderstorm blew it off the track.
6) Peanut butter is the least of my worries. I am much more concerned with products from China or the state of our beloved gulf oysters.
Timothy Pickett
1:41 pm on February 1st
1. Nothing more attractive than seeing a teenager with a necklace of hickeys … I’ve always found them to be stupid looking, but if that’s what some people want, who am I to say. Suck away Children of the Neck.
2. Not really too particular about sleeping, I can do that anywhere.
3. After a night of hard, hot work, I relax at home by playing some online poker. Rejuvination doesn’ really happen for me, just a battery recharge.
4. Yes to both.
5. I don’t worry about it but I won’t use an ingredient that has ANY potential of getting people sick. What’s next? I don’t know but I’ll put a bet that it won’t be salt.
jziembo
10:18 am on February 5th
1. Hickeys are still something that people try to hide.
2. Cotton all the way, and thread count doesn’t make a difference.
3. I simply watch some tv, or call someone to vent to. After that, I’m good to go.
4. Yes I can sew a button, but no I don’t have a needle and thread.
5. No i don’t know my neighbors, but if I see them in passing I will talk to them.
6. Peanut butter is good, but i would never give up chocolate.