Name: Abigail M. Schilling
Hot Chocolate and Turtlenecks
Yesterday, it rained all day long. It also stormed the night before with thunder peels so loud I woke up and listened. Listened for several minutes as it tore across the sky and then listened when my roommates came piling into my room and on to my bed.
"We'rescared! We'rescared! We'rescared!!"
We all snuggled tight and I told them the story of the day they were born.
Wait. This is the wrong story.
I mocked them and then we all went back to sleep because I had to work and go to school and read a book all during Tuesday.
I got it done all during Tuesday but that didn't leave me much time to think about the rain.
So, today, when it is sunny and warm I am wearing a turtleneck and a cardigan. I have also been a fan of turtlenecks. I wore them for about 6 years with stirrup pants until I reached the age where that was social unacceptable. Also, I don't think they make stirrup pants anymore. Or maybe they just don't make them my size.
An old friend of mine, once told me that turtlenecks were his least favorite item of women's clothing. He was at the height of his game, having secured the women he loved, and apparently felt enough authority to make an objective call on turtlenecks.
Well, I object.
Turtlenecks are great with cardigans. Or with a pair of colorful pants. They are great for keeping your neck warm when you want to have your hair up. And hiding things (like hickies).
I do not support turtlenecks with patterns around the necklines. I am okay with the Olympics logo.
As Brandon would say, I've completely fallen down a tangent. I'm going back to the hot chocolate now and the (not) rainy day.
posted by Abigail at 8:42 AM
17 Comments:
I loved this post up until you quoted Brandon. You don't want to get mixed up with a guy like him. He's what the Egyptians called a Hxxcok.
As Blue's Traveler said:
Thunder?
Don't scare me at all.
Lightning?
Well, just a little.
Hello, Abigail.
secret word: hxxcok
I really didn't want to quote Brandon. I wanted to use the phrase without his permission. But then I would be a bad person.
I can't read Hxxcok without wanting to pronouce it Hick-coxx. No matter how many times I try to say it correctly, Hickcoxx comes out.
Cpymuwl. It's a hybrid animal. Cow? Mule? It's hard to tell.
FYI, they DO make stirrup pants in adult sizes.My grandparents bought me some when I was in high school. They were plaid.
And my mom made me wear them when we went to visit.
Let me just be the first to say...
Oh hello, Scott. Fancy meeting you here.
... that, I for one, love the turtleneck, but cannot wear it. First of all, my neck is as long as a giraffe's.
Second of all, it is too hot in Georgia for sweaters.
Not to threadjack your post, but I also agree with Scott, as one is wise to do with these sorts of people. I also do not make direct eye contact, avoid sudden movements, and pepper my conversation with a hefty dose of 'everything is going to be okay.'
Talk about falling down a tangent...
Yeah I remember that guy. As I recall, the woman he loved kept wearing turtle-necks, and eventually they broke up.
I guess it was just too much for him.
I, for one, would like the internet to take a moment and please remember the printed turtle-necks with the matching sweat pants. Do you remember when sweatpants were like, real clothes?
Those and the stirrup-pants. Man I miss elementary school.
Well, I live in that provincial part of the country, the midwest, that has an entire industry devoted to thematic turtlenecks (and sweaters, but that's another blog topic).... and fall is the appropriate time to roll 'em out because up till fall (or a couple more weeks into it), it's just too freakin hot to wear turtlenecks... which makes me ask, Abigail, why are you wearing a turtleneck in So. Cal in SEPTEMBER?
So, the fall turtleneck themes give way to Halloween to obnoxious secular turkeys to Christmas and.... oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.... I live in the part of the country that also gives equal time to Hannukuh Harry! Yes, friends, there are turtlenecks available with our friend, Hannukuh Harry along with the other paraphenalia Madison avenue thinks up. Don't believe me? You buy, I'll fly and mail it anywhere in the continental United States!
Oooh and speaking of Hannukuh.... my secret word is Hebrew: tevwiwim
Stirrups in or stirrups out? I could never decide. I guess it depends on the sock. When I had exciting socks on, I couldn't let the stirrup have all the attention.
And as for turtlenecks, I am one of those people that doesn't "wear" clothes. Clothes wear me. I sure hope people didn't stop reading after I just said I didn't wear clothes. Because I do. Or maybe I don't, if it would mean my blog got more unique visitors.
Sal-Pal,
Your comment reminded me of a story your daughter told me yesterday--involving you and a Christmas-themed sweater featuring a sequined fireplace and a 3-D dog. To be honest, I might come visit during the holidays just to see that :)
Stirrups in! I don't understand how stirrups out would even work. Wouldn't they be trailing behind the shoe?
I was wearing a turtleneck because I work in the frigid tundra known as Administration Building where it is illegal to have the temperature above 68 degrees.
I want to hear about the Christmas sweater.
Heather dear.... sad news, true, but sad.... I parted with the sweater just last year - something to do with food (from a Christmas party when Abigail was 4) stuck on one of the eyes, under the fur of the cat/dog's face. I use to lift the fur as if I was lifting someone's skirt... "whoopee, look at this, oh, old food...)
BUT - being the perennial "let's make a tradition" mom, I replaced it with a fake crystal laden twig Christmas tree. Marked down from $125 to $19.99! Did I lose you in the transition?
Abigail wore her stirrups OUT!
You lost me when you said "Christmas Tree."
Folks, what she is describing is more of a Christmas branch. Well, really, just a branch. A branch that the Ice Queen would use to lord over little ice elves.
I deny any such stirrup accusations.
I assume stirrups out means outside the socks but inside the shoes, correct?
Here's my question: Stirrups down or stirrups up? Depends on the direction of the feet, and it's entirely relative.
Speaking of the direction of the feet: Did anyone ever wonder about the expression "falling head over heels"? Isn't the head always over the heels? Shouldn't it be "falling heels over head"?
I'm just wondering.
Hello again, Abigail.
secret word: iazil, which is some sort of foot medicine, I think.
Speaking of stirrups and 3d... I cleaned out your old closet and found two Audrey Lopata 3d pony sweaters: one blue,one pink...that you use to wear over your stirrup pants... also over a turtleneck. Should I forward them to you?
The head is "above" the heels.
Isn't "lazil" what you take the day after Mardi Gras in Brazil?
Oh, and Miss Abigail, the branch tree might double as something for the ice queen, but in my world, it looks cool and is just as perennial as that fake tree, Fred!
ooh - russian "mpwovhsv"
I"m going to speak for abigail and say YES PLEASE to the 3D pony sweaters.
i got a radio station name: kyqve. playing the best hits of the '80s, to go along with the pony sweaters and stirrup pants. and why has there been no mention of scrunch socks, everyones favorite spandex accessory?
Had to be past puberty to wear scrunch socks!
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