Month: May 2017

To wear Tie o’ the Day #1 properly with a tank top, you must wear a collar. To create a separate collar, simply cut a collar off a button-down shirt you decide you hate. The collar should be a loud one, so you can keep in line with the clash fashion you’re trying to achieve, I mean–it should clash with any tie and/or shirt you don. Another reason you must wear a collar is cuz you don’t want to get skin oils or sweat on Tie–especially since you will be sweaty in the summer heat. See, Tie O’ The Day is an educational website. 🎓

“Oops! I didn’t know you were in here, Tie o’ the Day #2! My bad! Feel free to read that Bruce Springsteen autobiography on the tank. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it as much as I do. Bruce has an intelligent vocabulary. And I promise you, Tie: Next time I’ll knock.”

 

So I come home from the post office an hour ago, and guess who I see knocking on our front door? Yup, it’s the LDS missionaries’ neckwear. Apparently, the ties had heard about my website and were quickly converted. They then had a burning desire to guest star on Tie O’ The Day! (Guest ties are always welcome to be on the tblog.) And I have no doubt that the missionary ties will be successful as they share the Tie gospel around the entire world.

 

This bigly generous IZOD Tie o’ the Day (#2) took one for the team. I didn’t have time to go to the grocery store this afternoon, and I didn’t have anything to fix for dinner. In loyal tie fashion, Tie sacrificed itself for the family’s nourishment. Guess what? Tastes like chicken! Har, har, har! 😁🙃🤣

I wasn’t peeping on Tie o’ the Day #1. I simply entered the bathroom to brush my teeth, and this is what I saw: Tie in the shower. Tie is going through early menopause, and the hot flashes are troubling her bigly. It seems she was just taking one of her daily two or three cold showers to help her get through these trying times. 😰

As a veteran wearer o’ ties, I can testify that a too-tight Tie o’ the Day is a pain in the neck. (Har, har, har.) The way to correct that is to…and here’s the revelation…LOOSEN YOUR TIE. Better yet, re-tie it to your own comfort level. Please explain to me why the makers of ties think we need “expandable” ties and ties that “flex.” Are the expandable ties for when we eat too much and our necks immediately get fat before we can loosen our ties? Do the flex ties have muscles to show off?

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Bow ties, but no church bow tie on this Sabbath. These two IZODs climbed onto my ears to show me they can be bigly earrings too. They are more than neckwear. They have double lives as earwear.

Yes, the photo makes it clear that I’m still in my pajamas. No church for me this morning, since I am not in Deltassippi. But I will soon begin to attend church in my Centerville ward. The ward house is only a block away from our abode, so I can stroll to Sacrament Meeting  on my own two feet. The development’s swimming pool is on the way there, so if I want, I can jump in for a quick skinny dip before I head into the church. 😇

Anyhoo… I will be able to accompany Suzanne’s parents to meetings here, since they live in my ward. That parents-in-law church-going will be an interesting experience for me. And my attendance at church will be equally interesting for the ward, since I wear pants to church. And also, I kinda stick out, just by being me. 👖

This Stacy Adams Bow Tie o’ the Day #2 is called a Big Boy. Let me remind you that Big Boy bows are…GUESS WHAT?…bigger than regular bow ties. If you are an amateur bow tie-wearer, you might not be able to pull off this look safely. You might possibly poke your eye out. You could even end up looking kinda clownish in one of these if you haven’t had the correct training. I mean, it has taken me decades to master the art of wearing over-sized neckwear. 😜

And this face? I’ve never been able to decide if I look more like Mom or Dad. I do know, however, that there is no question about who da baby daddy is. 🐝

(Bow) Tie o’ the Day #1 has been experiencing bigly back pain lately. As a result, Bow Tie has taken up both yoga and Pilates. Here, you can see Bow Tie doing some stretching and balance exercises on the bigly rubber ball. It’s a sad situation when my ties work out more often than I do. 🏋️‍♀️

You might not know this fact about me, but in one of my past lives, I was Clayton Moore. And I loved acting in The Lone Ranger. I believe the bandana around my neck in this picture is the beginning of my obsession with ties. In fact, I prefer to call this neckwear an ascot, instead of a mere “bandana.” And here’s some fine trivia for ya: Ascots are also known as “hanker-ties.” But the word “ascot” sounds so much more sophisticated and fashionable than those other terms. And being fashionable–clashy or matchy–is soooooo dang important to how the world functions. 😜 Hi, ho, Silver!