June 2007

The perfect present at the perfect time

4 Comments / Daily Dose, Day to Day, Love or Sex, Movies & Television, Work /

I worked my ASS off today on about 800 different things and I have about 42 really important things left to do tonight before I go to sleep. I did so many things that I am just now finding time to read my feeds. Mostly I was just mindlessly clicking them and telling myself I was reading them. I hate that “mark all as read” option. I’d rather click and stare blankly and give a half hearted attempt to scroll through the 42 items posted today on flogging baby. So, I was clicking and not paying attention until THIS appeared.

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A present from TW. Heh. I love The Princess Bride. True Love! You killed My Father! Inconceivable! Now I can go back to work – well after I finish mindlessly clicking through the last 252 new items in my reader.

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The UUs like y’all

2 Comments / Daily Dose, GLBT, Religion /

Good news, (or not?) for our Trans friends and family members. Are all you trans men and women going to rush off to the Fellowship on Sunday? You’re welcome any old time. Sort of?

Interesting. Now I really wish my mom had gone to GA this year.

Here’s an update, CC linked with the explanation of what happened with the transgender inclusion issue. I haven’t had time to read it but wanted to put it out there for those who DO have the time.

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The Problem With Melissa is… she doesn’t know who she is

2 Comments / Melissa Ferrick, Sights & Sounds /

Before I ramble, let’s not forget that I love Melissa. I have loved everything she has ever done (except the cruise, but I say that with a smile) and I am guessing I will love everything she does in the future. But when I read an article like this, I get a little annoyed. Melissa says the folk label got attached to her, but she’s a rocker? umm really? OK then.

Melissa the “rocker” loves to rile up her audience by saying things like “I’m a user friendly folk singer” (after relaying a story about Ani telling an audience that “she’s not a user friendly folk singer”). So ok, Melissa isn’t a folkie, she just plays one on stage for fun.

Melissa is also a “rocker” who adds an awful lot of country twang to her songs every once in awhile, just out of the blue (I wonder what brought that on). Never give up is just rock n roll. OKKKKKKKKKK then. And there’s the Melissa who started her show after Delmhorst Andrew and Teddy opened for her by sitting on a stool and playing all alone saying “see I can do folk too, that’s where I started” (yes, I’m paraphrasing because it was like 2001 or something when I saw that show.)

I have absolutely no problem with Melissa being who she wants to be (or who she is), but damn woman – make up your mind or just claim it all – ha – claim your freedom to be all forms of music, but don’t deny the folkie or the country. Sheesh.

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Revolution: Women’s Health

5 Comments / Daily Dose, Health and Wellness /

I just got off the phone with a group of bloggers, (Our Bodies, Our Blog, Women 4 Hope (Catherine also blogs at BlogHer, Well Soul, Women’s Health News), Cynthia from Don’t Gel Too Soon (and Revolution Health) and Sherry Marts, PHD from the Society for Women’s Health Research. The phone call was organized as part of the Revolution Health Online Health Fair. You should click that link and then roll your mouse over the little computer icons until you find a topic (or multiple topics) that interest you. Every time you click into a topic (once per day per person) Revolution Health will donate money to the organization featured in the Online Health Fair. So click. Or better yet, click the Society for Women’s Health Research icon (it’s at the bottom, they’re alphabetical) and support their work.

Now, about the phone call. Interesting stuff and I was lucky enough to be the first blogger to ask questions and lucked into getting 3 questions instead of just 2. Yes I am a lucky woman. (Too bad people don’t really win the lottery or I’d be sooo in there, wouldn’t I? heh)

My first question was about women being prescribed medications that may not (probably not) have been tested ON women before they were approved. It wasn’t until like 1993 that the FDA mandated drugs be tested ON women. So those drugs you’re taking… well… you figure it out.

My next question was more complicated and had to do with women who talk about having more chronic pain and more auto-immune flares at certain points in their menstrual cycle – and not finding research that indicates this DOES happen – and not being able to find doctors who believe it happens – and not getting specialized pain treatment because it does happen.

Last but not least, I asked about HIV/AIDS drug testing being done on women. We’re doing such a good job of preventing HIV/AIDS in gay men but in minority women it’s getting to be a very serious problem – and the HIV/AIDS drugs have not been well tested (if at all) on women because they’ve been traditionally a hard group to study (in the early years of drug treatment testing, the women who contracted HIV tended to be sex workers, IV drug users – folks hard to keep track of).

The other bloggers in the group asked questions about hormone replacement, funding for women’s health and HPV. A transcript and/or audio cast of the event will be available some time tomorrow and I’ll link it in this post when it’s up – and click here to listen.

Now go click the Revolution Health Online Health Fair icons today and for the next five days so Revolution Health can donate some of their “hard earned money” to your favorite cause(s).

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