Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for February 19, 2013

Va Voom… does ist mean ..?

Yes… and they should practice safe va-voom.

Val’s life is so domestically boring, she resents anyone else having a life outside parenthood. Which manifests her judgmental, self-righteous sense of how everyone else SHOULD live. She wants everyone doing the same ‘normal’ thing. Gotta say, sounds like she could be a republican. lol!

Yeah, you go, Granny!!

Practice safe eating; always use condiments.

Exactly! I’m with Edie! At 74, my man still wants to keep doing all the work at his HVAC business. He says it keeps him in shape (I agree) but it keeps him 100s of miles from me unless I return there; somehow I think long distance is the best way because we can REALLY appreciate each other. More than 2 months of the year would be better, tho’.

Va-voom doesn’t mean “intimacy” in today’s comic. It just means excitement!Wow, Cofyjunky, you have some issues that you’re projecting onto this comic. I don’t see any resentment from Val at all. She’s just asking questions because she’s curious. And speaking as a parent, I’m sure Val has plenty of excitement in her life and would love some calmness. Meanwhile, Evie has had a period of calmness and is ready for some excitement again. You go, Evie! Everyone should enjoy life (whatever that may mean to you)!

“It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.” Lyrics by Irving Mills, music by Duke Ellington.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQpZT3GhDg

to ‘lightenup’ – you nailed it. all of it.

good girl…yes absence makes the heart grow fonder and keeps it interesting!!!!!

va-voom! so great jan

Oh Golly!

It’s the little old lady from Pasadena! I know those lyrics!

I’m glad I get to visit more often than THAT! He prefers me to be the noisy one, tho’

I love that the old gal is still interested in Va-voom, no matter HOW she defines it!!