Ani at NOW – she’s proud to join the ranks of the mommies. I bet she’d adore mommybloggers. Righteous Babe Mommybloggers, someone should talk to Righteous Babe about starting that type of mommyblogger network.
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I hate it when I enjoy Oprah Book Club books. I really hate it, particularly if Oprah has chosen the book before I’ve read it. But, I liked Midwives and I wonder why I didn’t read it sooner. What’s not to like?
I’m always surprised at how well Chris Bojhalian (link to his blog), handles women’s topics. Water Witches and Midwives, very cool. His choice of narrator, Connie – the daughter of the accused Midwife, was excellent. I can’t imagine how the story might have been told from the Rand’s perspective (Rand is Sybil’s husband) and I think if it had been told from the midwife Sybil’s perspective, it would have been to clunky. Connie was a good choice.
I enjoyed it, darn Oprah. I hate it when she does this sort of thing to me.
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Are you a Pro Blogger? Heh. I am a serious amateur. Imagine that. Give me six months and I’ll have been able to purchase more than coffee with my earnings (but I’ll still just purchase coffee with my earnings, because that’s the extravagant sort of woman I am) – and I really should move these things to my own server, shouldn’t I? Nah, I like Typepad well enough. Maybe when I do that whole lesbian sex blog thing, then I’ll need wordpress on a server, won’t I? Heh.
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Hey! Check out this wall hanging – a flamingo tapestry! Heh. I don’t think I’ve ever owned any Tapestry Wall Hangings. I’m trying to figure out where I might display that flamingo but coming up empty. I think, instead, I’m going to order one for my sister as a housewarming present. I’m pretty sure she has a spare wall or three to hang a tapestry. In fact I’m pretty sure her house was built for these wall hangings.
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Chris moved home and along with him, is THIS beast. What IS this THING doing IN my HOUSE – Monday or any other day? Kids. Hmph.
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Mrs Shakespeare shares some inside information about her husband, she’s not really his biggest fan. Poetry is just not her thing. She also shares some bedroom secrets, deep dark bedroom secrets worth hearing about.
Very amusing and very quick read.
What is up with magazines? We get a good dozen different magazines, none of which we’ve actually subscribed to. Or if we’ve subscribed to them, we haven’t actually paid for them. They seem to be free one year subscriptions. This has been going on for quite some time now. When one subscription goes away, another one seems to take its place.
Vegetarian Living, Car and Driver, Entertainment Weekly, Computer World, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Red Herring, Eweek, Alternative Medicine, ack the list goes on and on and on.
We rarely read these magazines. We toss some to the big kids. We make big piles of magazines to take to doctor waiting rooms, (but rarely remember to take them). Mostly, the magazine pile just builds and builds and builds.
With all of these magazines, you would think we might actually be subscribed to something we want to read. No, not really. The Vegetarian, we do like and we do read. RJ does still get the Nickelodeon magazine, so that’s good. Chris gets some photography magazine that my mom has been subscribing him to for about five years. So, ok, four magazines we really do want and appreciate. But we actually need some others. Children, in particular, have been asking for some magazines on a regular basis and it seems like this is a good time to start the subscriptions. Actually last month would have been better, but I forgot. Typical.
I’m using MagazinePriceSearch.com and have found I can order the four magazines people have most recently and most frequently mentioned. I like being able to order everything at one time. One stop shopping, I like that a lot.
Now if someone could explain why all of these other magazines have been appearing in my mailbox for a year, or more, I’d be happy.
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I loved The Land of Women. The mixture of Irish and Spanish, the pagan rite of spring, the mythology of The Land of Women brought to life in the dress shop.
I really liked this, I’m glad I ditched Gravity’s Rainbow, heh.
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Gravity’s Rainbow is the last “difficult” and “scary” read from my Summer Reading Challenge and I’m ready to give up. I was ready to give up on page 7, again on page 16, also on page 34, then on page 43 and now on page 116.
I don’t want to give up on it, so now I’m in search of study guides, reading guides, something that will help me follow this, this, this… I don’t even know what to call it.
Anyone out there have any words of wisdom? Anyone out there who can tell me why I should keep reading? 600 pages is a long time to muddle through if I’m not going to get anything out of the muddling.
Help!
Updated – 8/6/6 – I’ve given up, for now. I may go back to it later but another 50 pages last night proved that I just wasn’t going to get anything out of it. Darn it.
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Friday snuck up on me, imagine that! Little kids come home today, after a very long time away from home. In honor of our evening celebration, let’s go with “Home Sweet Home” cupcake toppers, shall we?
The easy way to do this would be to grab some Monopoly houses (or hotels) and plop those on top of your cupcakes (wash them first, please). If that’s not your thing, then how about the foam pieces at the craft store, they have small house shapes that would fit perfectly on top of a cupcake, laid flat or on a toothpick. They also have tiny wooden houses, pre-painted or unpainted that would be the perfect size for a cupcake topper.
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