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28 February 2007

Things I swore I'd never do but did anyway →[More:]

1. Myspace.

2.

post by: dersins at: 17:38 | 30 comments

Buy leggings.

But I will never, ever, EVER confuse them with pants.

LEGGINGS !=! PANTS

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 28 February | 17:39

Get old.

posted by dg 28 February | 17:50

Go to graduate school.

posted by amro 28 February | 17:51

Kill again.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 28 February | 17:57

Listen to Frank Sinatra.
Get involved with another stripper.
Play video poker.

posted by mischief 28 February | 18:01

Wear those goddamn platform fuck me boots again. Stupid sesamoiditis.

posted by Specklet 28 February | 18:12

I never swear.

hehehe

posted by carmina 28 February | 18:13

1. get a cell phone
2. move to L.A.
3. utter the words "when I was your age"
4. consider retirement planning an exciting topic of conversation
5. break Paul Weller's heart by declining to run away with him to London -- what? And leave all this glorious sunshine?

posted by scody 28 February | 18:22

1. Do it with a guy.
2. Eat beets.

(I enjoyed one of these experiences.)

posted by danf 28 February | 18:27

become a smoker

posted by brina 28 February | 18:27

Though I don't remember actually swearing I never thought I'd own a minivan and now I own two.

posted by Mitheral 28 February | 18:41

1. Have a second child
2. Buy a self-help book
3. Go back to work on a hellish floor
4. Yell at my kids
5. Library fines

posted by LoriFLA 28 February | 18:48

Buy jeans with elastic content. Haven't yet, but was very tempted this weekend.

posted by casarkos 28 February | 18:48

Work in a cubicle.

posted by knave 28 February | 18:57

Funny, a lot of the things I swear I'd never do, I've managed and revolve around things my dad did.

I swore I would never be stubborn about getting reading glasses the way he did (he got to the point where he was reading the newspaper standing up with the paper on the floor, turning the pages with his feet).

I swore I wouldn't get all huffy about going gray (my dad sulked for pretty much a full day when his mother-in-law referred to his graying at the temples as an "aristocratic touch of gray"). I was really hoping to gray in that pattern, although it looks like I'm going salt-and-pepper in my bear first.

posted by plinth 28 February | 19:20

Your... bear? *snickers*

posted by Specklet 28 February | 19:25

I really can't think of anything. Either I never swore I would do thing X, or I'm still pretty true to my principles. Actually, I do remember swearing I would never wear Birkenstocks (it involved the phrase "take me out and shoot me"), and I still have never worn them. Maybe I once said I wouldn't wear anything in a flowered print, and I have worn a couple in recent years.

posted by matildaben 28 February | 19:28

For the record, I should maybe point out that I was only joking above. I've never sworn to never kill again.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 28 February | 19:32

1. Myspace
2. Smoke
3. Get a cellphone (technically I never have gotten one, my mom got one for me)
4. Love again

jk about 4, of course.

posted by CitrusFreak12 28 February | 19:35

1. Smoke
2. Move back to my hometown
3. Let my daughter watch The Little Mermaid. (It upsets my feminist sensibilities.)

posted by jrossi4r 28 February | 19:40

Like 'tilda, I can't really think of anything I swore about except stuff about kids. Since I've never had any I haven't had my resolve tested kid-wise.

posted by deborah 28 February | 20:53

I never thought I'd wear anything remotely orange - with gold accents no less - but then I tried on this dress and I've discovered I can.

I also I never thought I'd wear gold jewellery again because I don't like how it looks against my skin, but I was inspired by the dress above to make this necklace and now I don't know if I can sell it because it's one of my favourites.

posted by phoenixc 28 February | 21:36

Cool necklace. Now let's see it against the dress.

posted by mischief 28 February | 22:05

Move into a new apartment/house
Eat soy burgers, sausages, etc.
Get fat

posted by youngergirl44 28 February | 22:12

1. Get fat
2. Live in the suburbs
3. Not give a damn what new music was out there.

posted by octothorpe 28 February | 22:27

Thanks, mischief. :) I don't have the dress with me at the moment, but I have tried the two together, and it's a bit overwhelming in its orangeness, if that makes any sense. I have plans to make a matching bracelet to wear with it though.

posted by phoenixc 28 February | 22:37

Drink again.

posted by rainbaby 01 March | 00:04

Move to New York
Scody's #1
Crave chopped liver.

posted by brujita 01 March | 01:20

Dig into my 401k.

posted by chewatadistance 01 March | 08:35

"1. Do it with a guy.
2. Eat beets.

(I enjoyed one of these experiences.)"

I never liked beets either.

Do drugs more often than I could remember. Do drugs alone. Live off my girlfriend. Oh, god, this is a horrible pattern, innit?

posted by klangklangston 01 March | 18:07

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