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I’m all about the bling…

6 Comments / Christmas, Daily Dose, Day to Day, Family Funk, Love or Sex, Memories /

Ha. Not. So totally not about the bling.

The car for Christmas wasn’t inexpensive and it was nice but it wasn’t the best gift TW has given me.

The really expensive and very special 40th birthday party was fantastic (even if I did end up having to do all of the work for it, ahem) but again not the best present (sorry Melissa and travelers from far away.)

I’m not sure I know what the best gift was, there have been so many…

1) The photographs from the newspaper, printed and framed, that TW described to me in those very early days. (want to see a picture?)

2) The carved jack-o-lantern she sent to me via USPS for Halloween.

4) A little pillow book with TW marshmallowy sentiments tucked inside.

5) The quilt, oh lord the quilt. TW doesn’t sew – or even cut straight – but I have a tiny practice quilt and a full sized quilt made by her own little hands.

6) The little book of, well, more marshmallow fluffy conversations that she and I have had. Very sweet.

7) The socks. Errr. So I don’t actually have those yet. She’s been working on them for 9 months because, again, she doesn’t knit. Or she didn’t ’til she decided she needed to knit me a pair of socks. But, she’s working on them and I might have one sock by Valentine’s Day. And I will love that one sock a lot more than any piece of jewelry, not because I don’t really like jewelry but because it really IS the thought that counts.

Forget the bling, give me a sock instead.

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Daily Dose of Cupcakes

2 Comments / Cupcake Toppers, Daily Dose, Love or Sex /

lovenote.jpgHappy Love Note Day! (How marshmallowy of me to know, right?) So what can you do with a cupcake topper for Love Note Day? You could obviously write tiny love notes, fold them like a love note and stick a corner in the cupcake. You could run out to your local craft store and buy some foamies or better yet some “shrinky dink” plastic and write mini love notes that would hold up better on a cupcake. Or, try and track down a dozen or two of these love note charm necklaces. You used to be able to find them pretty inexpensively at Claires but that was years ago (and I’m so glad I haven’t been in a Claires in years.)

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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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In sweet loving surrender….

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this sucks. Good luck Kate. Once The Riverdale Goddess – always The Riverdale Goddess. Blog or no blog.

I’d like to be a fly on the wall of the person (people) who initiated this. When they read her post, will that be enough? Is taking down the content really enough for them? I rather doubt it. They’ve made a decision that “The River Goddess” needed to go but now that it is (or will be once google cache disappears) won’t they expect something else from her? Won’t they insist she change something else about who she is? Why would removing her blog content be enough for these people?

I’m afraid this is only the beginning of The River Goddess’s problems at her “real job”. In my experience people who say “do this and you can keep doing that” tend to come back again with more demands, until they’ve taken everything they can possibly take – and then some.

I understand her compliance but I don’t like it. I don’t like that she was forced to choose.

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I’m not transphobic

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I’m definitely not transphobic.

And, while I do support women born women spaces, in some instances, this isn’t the problem either.

I simply do not like the transgendered monologue that has been added to the Vagina Monologues. It does absolutely NOTHING for me. It feels flat, uninspired and there is no passion in it. Ensler can do better and trans women deserve better.

Last year, I thought it was the multiple voices doing the monologue. This year, I’ve decided that’s not the problem. The monologue just plain stinks. Something called They Beat the Girl Out of My Boy… Or So They Tried should be a lot more passionate than it actually IS. I would really love to see the other trans monologues, surely they are better than this one.

Other than this little gripe, we enjoyed this year’s performance of the Vagina Monologues.

  • It was amusing having it at “our church”.
  • The crowd was too small.
  • The elderly man in front of us who told his wife very loudly during the Vagina Workshop that he was leaving was sad and amusing. (Why don’t people research these things before they attend? Why would he have agreed to go to something called the Vagina Monologues in the first place?)
  • Speaking of the Vagina Workshop – weird not hearing it with a British accent but I enjoyed the performance.
  • I was also pleasantly surprised by The Flood – except she flubbed her best line “Closed due to flooding” – she said “Due closed to flooding”, heh.
  • The tshirt is much better this year than last. It will look fabulous with Susie Bright’s “Clits Up” button. Now to get Michelle to wear it so I can take a photo.

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