June 2007

BlogHers ACT

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bloghersact_0.gifElisa announced the brand new and very exciting BlogHers Act initiative today.

Have you ever imagined the impact if every member of BlogHer – more than 11,000 bloggers strong and growing every day — focused our considerable brainpower, ingenuity and influence on one red-hot issue? How about if that one red-hot issue was the focus of an organized, year-long campaign to make a measurable difference that this community cares about?

Cooper and Emily have posted the information you need to participate. And the always amazing Suzanne has posted the very first suggestion: Early Childhood Education and Care.

What’s your issue for 2008?

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101 Things Update

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Let’s see, what did I accomplish in May? Not a whole heck of a lot, I think.

We did listen to a book on audio. A good book on audio. TW reminded me that we listened to two books on audio, two good books on audio! This is going more slowly than I expected it would.

I did clean out my RSS feeds last week so that’s scratched off the list. Unfortunately I haven’t developed a strong pattern of doing this. I had hoped I’d get into a routine and it would become a habit – one I’d end up sticking with. I don’t think that has happened.

No blogroll update though I keep thinking about doing it. Maybe later this week. Again, I’d hoped to develop a schedule that turned into a habit. Hasn’t happened.

TW and I did have a mommy & me weekend, Mother’s Day weekend.

I’m working on that gardening supplies thing. I’d say I’m about half-way there. I got distracted with working in the yard and need to finish that before I get back to really clearing out and organizing.

We’re doing well with the gator food thing – we’re on our 3rd month. Yea us!

Not having much luck finding the perfect house, though we’ve looked at many.

We did save money but then we turned around and spent it so I’m not counting it lol. Maybe next month, knock on wood!

And that’s that. Not great but not bad really.

On another note, Michelle has created a 101 things list. She hasn’t shown it to me but occasionally mentions she is doing something on her list (like cleaning her room, playing her sax, researching colleges). Cool, eh?

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Kinflicks

2007, Books in Bed, Feminism, Fiction, Queer, Women /

We have a bunch of Lisa Alther books sitting on the TBR pile from the library. TW read them all last month or the month before that. When she started reading the first one, I knew right away how it appeared on our shelf – Chalice Chick was so excited about Alther’s newest book, and some of her old ones, that I headed to the library website and reserved all they had.

So, I read Kinflicks and found it as CC described – Rita Mae without the hokey (and the damn cats). I’m looking forward to reading the two that CC says are the best (though my library has neither so I’m waiting for them to appear via ILL for now).

Loved the snake handling. Loved the moving from relationship to relationship and adapting a new personality each time. The only thing that I didn’t love were the super long chapters. I prefer to break at a chapter and Alther made it difficult to do that, lol.

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Heart Shaped Box

3 Comments / 2007, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction /

Heart Shaped Box is what you get when you cross Stephen King with Tabitha King – a really excellent piece of horror writing. Joe Hill has a lot of his dad in him and a good bit of his mom. And, I do believe, this little book of his might just be better than the majority of what his father has written. Really, really, really nice book. Loved the metal references. Angus and Bon hahaha, loved the seeing dead rockstars in the hospital. Oh, and this would also make a fabulous movie – especially if all of those rockstars (the live ones obviously, though the dead ones would be cool too) made appearances. Awesome!


The only problem I had with the book was that listening to it on audio made me want to flip off the book and plop in some AC/DC or something. Weird because I really don’t ever get that type of urge.


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The Perfect Post

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I don’t usually do this. Do what? Write about stuff that’s all gooey and emotional and junk like that. But that Mir, she’s just so pretty and funny. And then there’s Otto who is also pretty and funny, even if he is a man. Oh Chickadee and Monkey, are there two prettier and funnier and sweeter kids in the world than those two? I don’t think so. With all of that pretty, funnyness flying it was just a matter of time before I broke. Boy did I break.

A Perfect Post – May 2007
I nominated Mir for the Perfect Post Award because, well, her post is perfect.

When you love people, when you allow them to become indispensable parts of your life, they will leave a hole behind if they leave you. And by “leave you” I don’t just mean packing up and taking off, I mean anything that takes them out of your life. There are a million ways that can happen, and the end result is the same: Loss.

If you’ve been reading Mir’s blog then you had to know something like this was coming. All of those blessings. All of the madness. And then the marrying and the moving. Lord.

It’s a perverse luxury, this, to have a life full enough to be able to see loss—both real and threatened—in the stark relief against so much bounty. I know this.

I know this too but it was really really perfect to hear Mir say it last month. And say it so perfectly. Go read the whole thing.

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