October 2006

Daily Dose of Cupcake Toppers

Cupcake Toppers /

blackcat_1.jpgGood grief, it really is Friday the 13th. I lost my entire cupcake topper post just a minute ago – talk about bad luck! So let’s try again, fingers crossed and rabbits foot out…

In honor of Friday the 13th, I’m pulling out the spooky stuff a bit early. If you hurry, you can grab some Boo & Eeek cupcake picks on ebay. Black cats, skulls and bats would also be very appropriate. I’ve been searching for miniature hockey masks but so far no luck – I thought for sure I could find a hockey mask/Friday the 13th keychain but alas… no luck. I found stickers (and some great Pinhead stuff, I am a Pinhead fan) and there are Jason Lives buttons that you could use. Oh, check these Friday the 13th buttons – a little big but they’d work.

Be careful out there today, bad stuff happens.

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Carry Me Down

2006, Books in Bed, Fiction, Reading Lists /

Down, down, down and down some more. This book was properly named.

Carry Me Down took close to a week to read and not because I wanted to savor every word. Everytime I picked it up I would hope something good would happen and everytime I put it down I just felt depressed and hopeless.

I am very glad this did not win the Booker. It was well-written. It was interesting. It was depressing in what I’ve begun to think of as the “Irish way”. Angela’s Ashes-like. Aren’t there any uplifting Irish novels?

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The Booker Prize

3 Comments / Favorites, Fiction, Reading Lists /

Well, as suspected, Inheritance of Loss is the 2006 Booker Prize winner. I haven’t read it yet and now that it has won I have some irrational desire NOT to read it. Weird, eh? Ah well, it is on my shelf waiting patiently so I will give it a go… after I finish Carry Me Down. (In the Company of Men is still on my reserve list at the library and I will read that too, eventually.)


I would like to thank the folks who blogged about the short listed books on the Man Booker Prize Blog. I really enjoyed reading their thoughts about each of the books and following their progress through the stacks.

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Daily Dose of Breast Cancer BS

6 Comments / Health and Wellness, Money Talks, News and Politics, Pet Peeves /

No I don’t like Pink Ribbons or the Pink Ribbon Campaign.

Yes I think big business and the  medical community (and the doggone patriarchy, for that matter) are doing a great job of causing women to be afraid of a cancer that probably isn’t going to kill them.  And, they’re doing an excellent job of using breast cancer to continue the attack on women through negative body image messaging.

No I don’t think all breast cancer research is worthless. 

Yes I bought a pink roomba which did "sort of" support breast cancer research.  But I bought it because it represented Hazel (the TV show you culturally illiterate people) and not because it supported breast cancer. 

No I would never buy THESE and I cannot see why anyone WOULD buy these. THIS is an example of how we are being USED.  If you buy these, you are allowing yourself to be USED.

Yes I would donate money to breast cancer research or breast cancer support groups.  I have done so in the past and I am sure I will do so in the future.

No I don’t love the Red Dress campaign either. But as sassymonkey has recently pointed out, marketing seems to be the only way to reach women (why is that – I have my theories, do you have yours).  At least the Red Dress campaign is helping to make women aware of a health condition that probably WILL kill them. 

 

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All the Pretty Colors

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Finally! My bookshelves are sorted by color! My final birthday gift has happened and I love it. I loved doing it with Chris and Jenn (Michelle boycotted). I loved arguing about discussing which color each book was with them. I was completely amused when Jenn said, “Ya know, I feel like I want to read an orange book now.” She’s right, if you sit there and look at it for a bit, a color jumps out at you and you really do feel like you need to read a “color”. Very amusing. Very interesting.

rightbycolor.jpgAnd I do not have enough bookshelves – some books didn’t fit, some didn’t fit in the order we wanted them to go in so they’re not “perfect”. Some books are in a hidden cabinet. We didn’t even touch the books under TW’s desk. I need more shelves, lots more shelves. But I already knew that.

I wonder how long I will enjoy them this way. When will I get sick of the color-codedness of them and beg bribe Michelle to put them back to their original sortedness (by fiction/non-fiction and alphabetized by author).

This was a GREAT birthday gift. I highly recommend the experience.

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