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May 12th, 2008
10:40 pm - Some notes.
1) Home safe. Yay. Home at all, yay. Home home home. I'm home! If I was hermitty before I went, just watch me now.
2) Tomorrow begins a two-day heart-scan thingy for me. Maybe we'll figger out what's going on with my ticker.
3) Iron Man. Hm. Fun, but the more I think about it, the more I'm not sure I want my racism, xenophobia, sexism, and torture to be so fun. Y'know?
4) My three-year-old nephew's mom told him no about something, and he looked her right in the eye and said, "But I want to, so I have to, so I get to." Well, okay, then. (Um, NO.) This reminded me of ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rivka's kid saying "I'm going to cause something. Cause! Cause! Cause!" -- these two three-year-olds are gonna be trouble, I'm tellin' you.
5) I got to see ten of my thirteen niblings, my brother, my dad and his wife, and my darling mother this weekend. So glad to have done so.
Current Location: 94609, woo-hoo!
Current Mood: very tired
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09:26 pm
It's not just bias -- lots of people like sogwife's jewelry, as do I (I like it a LOT, and feel lucky to have a few pieces in my collection). Now you can buy some of it, if you want, and I don't care if you think I'm an LJ whore for saying so. ;-)
(I have a Sunlight and Shadow, and wow, is it impressive. The photo is a good representation, but it looks even nicer in person.)
There will be more pieces in the near future, and I'll put a link on my LJ userinfo and/or sidebar so you can come back if you think of it later.
Current Location: 94609
Current Mood: proud
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May 8th, 2008
06:39 pm
I leave in the morning to go to San Diego and see my mom, the munchkins, my dad, the non-wicked stepmother, and my brother's very large family (brother, sister-in-law, eight great kids). I am really looking forward to seeing them. I am NOT looking forward to whatever crazy drama my sister decides to throw my way while I'm there. She's batting 1000 for oh, say, the last 40 years of my life, so it's unreasonable to expect that nothing will explode in my vicinity. Such is life. Most of my family is a delight to me -- they don't all have to be.
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May 6th, 2008
11:27 pm
Good things about today:
1) Waking up happy and perky and in love
2) Spending the day eating yummy things and liking myself
3) Having dinner with mackenzie and eating way too many empanadas
4) Catching up with Miss mackenzie-Mack and seeing that she's still in one piece
5) Honey French yogurt
6) Tofu burger at Sconehenge. Way yummy, but way too much to finish
7) My mom and wtfpotatoes are getting along
8) The thing that's been taking up a lot of my mental energy is an exciting thing that I can tell you about in a few days
9) Getting to take a peek at the responses someotherguy worked on for his fundie-grams
Rough things about today:
1) Talking about babies, hearing about babies, and seeing babies make me sad about not having a baby
So it's running 9-to-1 for the good. I think I'll live. :-)
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06:49 pm
The empanadas are in the oven. I made 7 large ones, rather than 15 small ones. They're pretty. If they're tasty, I'll make 'em more often, because they're dead easy (if a little labor-intensive -- not a LOT, but if you think making pie crust, for instance, is too fussy, you'll want to skip making them, and either buy them or come to my house). :-)
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01:50 pm
Well, I almost went with coffee cake (because of that wicked tempter bettybaker), but I think my International No Diet Day delightment will be my first-ever batch of empanadas. I've been wanting them lately, and the funny thing is that I've never eaten them. We were thwarted in getting some at a local restaurant yesterday, so I've taken a friend's recommended recipe and made a shopping list. All for me, bwa ha ha! (Unless you wanna show up for dinner, of course.) If they turn out well, I'll make more to freeze and have later.
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10:29 am
It's International No Diet Day. Eat something yummy and think of me; I'll do the same for you. :-)
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May 5th, 2008
May 3rd, 2008
03:12 pm - Posted using TxtLJ
It's all elissaann's fault i'm walking through berkeley wearing a hulahoop right now. Just sayin'.
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May 1st, 2008
10:24 am
My latest post to the McDougall board:
This new newsletter's main article made me so sad. Here's a quote:
Research Shows:
American society adores the slim and deplores the fat.
Obese applicants are rated as less qualified for jobs.
Obesity has led to weight-focused job interviews, forced resignations, denials of promotions and insurance coverage, and exclusion from office social functions.
..and of course he goes on to encourage people to get thin, or "healthy" (healthy is NOT the same as thin). How do you think this would go over if instead it read:
Research Shows:
American society adores the white and deplores the black.
Black applicants are rated as less qualified for jobs.
Dark skin has led to race-focused job interviews, forced resignations, denials of promotions and insurance coverage, and exclusion from office social functions.
...and then encouraged people to bleach their skin or become paler?
I need to leave these boards. I feel anti-fat bigotry every day here, and I'm tired of fighting it right now, while I'm trying to regain my health.
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April 30th, 2008
08:20 pm
Hey, misanthropoid, look: Download Four and Twenty Blackbirds for free
(I've begun the book. So far, it is beautiful and haunting.)
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April 29th, 2008
06:42 pm
Eighteen days. That's how long it took me to feel completely deprived and cranky, and decide that when my family eats tuna casserole twenty minutes from now, I'm having some, too.
Just sayin'.
(This is not to say the experiment goes out the window now, just that 100% compliance to any imposed food rules just isn't gonna work for me.)
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April 28th, 2008
April 27th, 2008
05:28 pm
Busy weekend, and now I'm wiped. wtfpotatoes and I have been social butterflies.
Saturday: Movies and lunch with stonebender, then movie night with bastette_joyce. Long day, fun day.
("88 Minutes" was fine. Basic standard suspense flick. "The Invisible" was worth watching, if only for its novel-to-me treatment of what happens to us when we are dying/dead. It was much better than most suspense flicks aimed at teenagers seem to be.)
Today: A few hours in People's Park helping Food Not Bombs. I think I can't do Food Not Bombs any more. I completely support their work, with all my heart, but the food-safety squicks make it an emotionally draining day for me. I think I'll stick to making food in my kitchen, with fresh produce and running water and stuff, and giving it away in my neighborhood.
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April 26th, 2008
06:37 pm
I am planning an Emergency Kit party.
[EDIT: We probably have our 10 for May, and possibly an alternate. Next one will be in August. I will post then. I plan to do this quarterly or so. I think it's that important.]
How an Emergency Kit party works is this:
Ten people sign up.
I email each person a list of some of the items recommended for a one-person emergency/disaster preparedness kit (each person will get a different list, with cheap and less-cheap items on it). You decide which thing(s) you can afford to buy ten of to contribute to the project. You do this with the understanding that some of us will buy cheap stuff and some more expensive stuff.
Then we gather at my house and I provide us each with a large cooler or similar container to hold our kits in. Then we split up each of our items, and each person gets a copy of the whole list so they can add more stuff to their kits as they can.
Then we eat massive amounts of food, exchange emergency information (optional), and those who are neighbors to each other make readiness plans (optional).
I will use ready.gov as a reference.
The first Emergency Kit party will be some time in late May. If you want to be on the email list for planning, please let me know, and let me know how many people you will be representing (that is, if you're doing a kit for four people, even if only you will be in attendance, and you want to bring ten each of four things, that's fine, I just need to know so that the number of kits equals ten total.)
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06:09 pm
wtfpotatoes and I will be helping Food Not Bombs feed people at the People's Park anniversary celebration tomorrow. We start cooking at 10 and will probably serve a couplefew hours later. We could really use some help, so if any locals are free, come on down and hang with us and help out.
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April 25th, 2008
09:58 pm
When Munchkin The Elder is here, he often stays up until morning. Munchkin The Younger (aka wtfpotatoes) is different. We watched an episode of Buffy at 9, and then rather than watch another, she chose to go to sleep. I'd say it took her approximately half a second to completely zonk.
I'm a happy aunt. (No, not because she's asleep, but because she's here with me, well-fed and peaceful, and a joy to be with.)
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04:11 pm
Love letter to a fat man, via firecat.
(I don't know if my loves would be different people were they not fat, but they are fat, and some part of me believes that that informs their personalities in ways that make them good matches for me. Even if that's not true, I wouldn't change a single cell of either of them. They make my life so rich and joyful, in all their fleshy glory.)
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02:13 pm - Posted using TxtLJ
Wtfpotatoes is here & safe & sound. Yay.
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