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Boycott KFC!

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I’ve tried to give KFC the benefit of the doubt. But I just can’t turn my head any longer.

My children have all waved signs outside of KFC, and flexitarian that I am, I still ate a bit of original chicken every now and then.

I see my son’s yukky PETA KFC bumper sticker everyday and still I occasionally crave some of their excellent cole slaw.

Those disgusting bowl dishes that look like you know who’s vomit, I just pretended those were never invented and went on my merry way smiling at Colonel Sanders everyday.

But this, I cannot tolerate this. KFC should not be selling fish sandwiches. It’s wrong on so many levels. It’s even more wrong for them to request the Pope’s blessing for their fish sandwich. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Hell I wouldn’t support them even if they were calling it something interesting like TW’s suggested “Popecorn Fish”. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

I am officially boycotting KFC until they remove fish from their menu AND apologize for making such an idiotic Papal request.

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Uhhh, sorry!

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I forgot to mention we are home from England.  We got home Monday evening.  And, I’m tired.  More importantly, I’m sick.  Like fever, sore throat, coughing sick.  I should be grateful to have fended it off ’til we got home…but I’m not.  I’m annoyed.  Sick and annoyed. Damn grouchy, too, in case you’re wondering.

If you’re the customer service people at Music123, you’re probably aware of that grouchy bit.  But you should know that even if I wasn’t sick, I’d have been livid to discover you are not currently accepting your own gift cards and do not know when you might accept them in the future.  In fact, if I wasn’t sick, I’d probably still be on the phone with someone at your establishment.

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Tubes, Tea and Shakespeare

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The tubes at the Tate Modern were excellent.  If you are in London and thinking about ignoring the “get there early to get tickets” advice – don’t.  Underground slowness this morning put us about 45 minutes late and we got there just in the nick of time.  Our tickets were for 11:30 and by 11:30 they were sold out til 3pm.  They are well worth the wait.  I only did Tube 3 and it was a smooth and easy ride, not nearly as bumpy as I was afraid it would be.  I was going to do Tube 5 but decided not to push my luck and instead stayed with E while the others did Tube 5.  The kids, they had a blast.

The modern art, also a hit but not a huge hit.  They were most interested in the light board in one of the last rooms we visited.  Prince J was interested in Guerrilla Girl art, which was cool.  They all liked Dali’s lobster phone.  E was thrilled to see the Pollacks and explain all sorts of things about his work.  She also spent a lot of time plotting out future art projects of her own.  Mixed media seems to be her primary interest.  Nobody but me really enjoyed “The Kiss”, hmph.

The Cofee & Tea Musuem was a nice and easy 3 aisle walk with a full tea afterwards.  Cucumber sandwiches, crumpets, tea cakes, scones and cake – and several pots of tea.  We actually did the tea thing after the tubes and went back to the Tate for the bulk of the art after the Globe.

Everyone we had talked to said the Globe was the best but I was skeptical.  They were right, it was excellent.  The kids had a great time in the exhibit area.  There are booths that allow you to read lines of various plays and then they’re played back.  You can practice or you can just launch into it.  RJ did Hamlet, E was Juliet, Prince J was Lady MacBeth.  It was fun and they’d have been happy to stay there and keep reading lines over and over again.

When we got off the tube at Earl’s Court, some big “to do” was happening with red carpets and papparazzi and celebrities and limos.  I have no idea what we walked into but we were there, lol.

A full, full day – and a pretty nice Valentine’s Day, too.

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Busy, Busy, Busy

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image1.jpgI’ve done absolutely nothing more on this little blog. I thought for sure I’d have the images moved from Books in Bed by now. But no, life got in the way. Plus all of the fun distractions the Tablet PC has to offer… crossword puzzles, Kou-Jong with a stylus!, Hexi whatever it’s called and Ink Art – fun stuff.

Maybe tonight, I’ll have more luck getting things moved and sorted. Maybe.

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February New Discoveries

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Angry Fat Girlz: They’re angry about their weight but they’re even more angry about the media and culture surrounding weight and body image.

I did not know that yesterday: All sorts of interesting things I didn’t know with some stuff that I did know tossed in to make me feel all culturally literate and stuff.

Mama and Mommy, adventures in gay parenting: It’s always nice to find a gay parenting blog.

Painting Each Day: Fabulous paintings. You can buy them for $100 a piece.

Reject the Koolaid: If there was ever a reason to reject the koolaid… sheesh.

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101 Things Update

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Another month slips away without much to show for it – at least from the 101 things perspective.  On other fronts, it’s been quite busy – and almost productive. 

Another book on cd, which I just realized I never blogged.  Someone remind me to do that tomorrow!

I did clean out my feeds but I’m avoiding the blogroll update this month because blogrolls as we know them will change next month.  Total waste of time to do it today.

I TRIED to clean my spurls but that was a no-go due to spam bots hitting spurl.    Bookmarks are going to be saved til next month when I have a nice new tablet to install them on.  Yes you heard me right, I said TABLET!  Heh.

I did download new music.  I can’t actually remember who I downloaded but she’s awesome and I’ll blog about her the next time I open up Napster or sync my iRiver. 

I thought we were going to the ballet but instead we went to see a play.

I think I’m adjusting the Starbucks thing  – we haven’t gone a FULL two weeks without Starbucks but we have skipped 14 days in January.  Actually we’ve skipped more than 21 days in January – and no we didn’t replace it with another coffee house visit.  We’re boycotting!

I’ve convinced Michelle to look at one college that wasn’t on her list and we’ll be at the preview event next month.  Yea!

There you have it – another month, another couple of things scratched off.  Life. 

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Crazyness!

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Life is crazyness, that’s what it is and it’s making me tired!

Jenn’s gone back to college, she got a promotion and suddenly has been put in for another promotion at work.  And, she’s trying to find a new apartment that she can afford, in a decent part of town.  She’s stressed over money and stressed over moving and stressed about life in general.  Crazyness!

Michelle is working as much as ever and going to school and to throw a kink into things, she’s dating again.  Also, her 17th birthday is coming and the possiblity of another teen driver in the household is making some of us a little edgy.  More crazyness!

Christopher is broke and none of us can figure out where his money is going.  He’s working non-stop and he seems to have ditched school again for now.  His car was sick, was repaired and now has come down with some other illness.  He wants to move out, we want him to move out, but again – where is his money going?  And, when is his g/f going to find a job?  Crazyness, extreme crazyness!

Work has slowed a wee bit for me, which is good.  I’m thinking about changing things up, blogging-wise (stay tuned for more on that as the days go by.)  But, work has increased for TW so there’s not really been any down time.  Planning a trip to England in our "spare time" isn’t always the most relaxing or pleasant of experiences.  Crazy!

Life.  Crazy.

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Lost to the Patriarchy

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I thought for sure my mother was safe.  After almost 25 years of being divorced and a zillion years of living with K and no desire at all to bow to the patriarchy and re-marry, she went and did it.  She snuck off and married K yesterday.

I should have known this was going to happen.  For the last six months she’s been making noises about marriage.  And everytime she made those noises I reminded her of the patriarchy.  I reminded her that if her granddaughters called and said "We’re thinking about getting married for health insurance…" she’d have said "NO! Don’t do it! Bad reason!" 

Bah.

She says she called last week and told me they had decided to do it.  She most certainly did not call me last week and tell me they had decided to do it.  I’d have taken down the pink flamingo flag in front and hung a black mourning flag up instead.  She did call and discuss the pros and cons of marriage with me.  But she did not specifically say "We have decided to tie the knot."

HMPH.  She probably confused me with my damn sister – again.

She also did not tell my brother.  But that is because my damn sister told her that he was off on a cruise.  Not that Mikey would have cared, he is part of the patriarchy after all and he bowed to it himself a few years ago after swearing for all of his adult life that he wasn’t going to get married.

Grrr.  What is it with my siblings who swear they are never going to do this or that and then turn around and do it.  Oh wait, they are their mother’s children – since she always SWORE she would never get married again.

Damn patriarchy.  Damn American healthcare system that encourages marriage in order to solve health insurance coverage issues. 

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