December 2010
56 posts
men vs. women friends
Yesterday I posted on FB that I was irritated because I was expecting a call from an old friend, and it never came after they specifically said they would call that day. Now, I’m adult enough to know that we’re both married, we both have kids, and that life gets really busy and shit happens, and sometimes you just…forget. <shrug> But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t...
New Year Resolutions - 2011
mamannani:
Yeah, I’m doing resolutions this year. Luckily, I did a little pre-resolution work, so I’ve been doing several of these things for a little bit. The real goal will be doing the things I’ve listed for most of the year. Anyway, in no particular order:
Take more photos
Travel at every opportunity
Try new churches/go on a regular basis
Volunteer at the Humane Society 8 - 10 hours per...
This makes me furious
{Feminist scholar, rape victim and longtime volunteer rape counselor Naomi Wolf, for example, describes the sex assault investigation as “theater” designed to bring Assange into U.S. custody on more serious charges, not to enforce the law in routine fashion. “How do I know that Interpol, Britain and Sweden’s treatment of Julian Assange is a form of theater?”...
Wealth: When Will The 98% Tell The 2%, Enough Is... →
bollockszine:
Last night, as reported by News Junkie Post’s O. Olson, Congress passed, by an overwhelming majority, a two year renewal of the Bush tax cuts. The bill is a nice extra Christmas bonus for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans, and it will only amplify the monumental US budget deficit. The logic behind the bill goes against, not only common sense but also against the global...
The good, the bad, the ugly
The good: Christmas went off without any major family or domestic disputes. All parties well behaved-even spent a lot of time visiting happily and in good cheer with cousins who are often hostile and hateful, and also stayed at my Grandma’s a lot longer than I planned because my pregnant daughter was especially talkative and seemed kind of needy after a week of her sending me short, terse,...
Overall
My house is strangely bare of ornaments. I don’t have ornaments for my oldest two children, so my collection has lost about 40 ornaments for the tree in a very short time, and I promised my pregnant child she could have her ornaments after this year-so I will lose about 20 more. Yes, each year each child gets at least one new one, and I plan to continue that, but each kid will now be putting...
insomnia, then hungry, but now I'm sleepy...
First I can’t sleep.
Of course I can’t sleep. I drank a cup of coffee at 10 pm and forgot to take my night time medicine. Dumbass. So I took my medicine and drank a glass of water.
Then as I was finally getting a little drowsy, just a few minutes ago, I realized my stomach was GROWLING. As in, “Get your fat butt in the kitchen and eat another bowl of soup! And another...
Drink The Kool-Aid!: Remember Kids! →
ladyofleisuredc:
savagemike:
Remember Kids!
People on government assistance and poor people in general don’t deserve nice things! Yeah maybe they work a shitty job where they get treated like crap, or maybe they don’t work at all right now (because there’s something like 5 applicants per job opening) but they’re LAZY and GAMING THE SYSTEM and I WORK HARDER THAN THEM SO THEY SHOULDN’T HAVE...
Bank Of America Accused Of Breaking Into Woman's... →
mgolladwyne:
Bank of America has seen easier days. The bank been reportedly identified as a target by WikiLeaks— it reportedly maintains a war room to defend against the leak — it’s the subject of a federal racketeering lawsuit, one of many high profile lawsuits involving its foreclosure practices.
Now, the bank has been accused of breaking into a woman’s home and taking her possessions,...
this is NOT the time for this
I don’t get a lot of child support. $67 dollars every two weeks, to be exact, to take care of one 9 yr old son.
Yes, I know: since I am now a full-time student, and my ex is now working a full-time job, I could go and have that upped. That’s a ridiculous idea. You don’t know my ex.
Anyway, normally, that money is just earmarked for Andrew’s lunch. No joke-he can eat at...
Old article: Obama on the campaign trail-but... →
I forgot I had this. As a general rule, I don’t agree with a lot of what is said by this guy- for instance, I don’t agree that Israel constitutes “the longest, illegal military occupation of modern times.” My feelings are more complex, and maybe I’ll explain them someday and maybe I won’t.
What is VERY interesting, and something I didn’t pay much...
Scarlet Emily: On Being Polite →
scarletemily:
There are certain topics you really shouldn’t discuss with people you don’t know. I choose to employ this position with co-workers, acquaintances, and all those other people who you don’t know well enough.
The rule of three.
Don’t talk about money, politics or religion. It’s a guaranteed way to…
Of interest: being Native American means people think they can talk about...
Here's how the government is spending your money →
theweekmagazine:
According to a new report, tax payers spent $11.5 billion in 2010 to enhance zoos with poetry, honor the Greatful Dead, and subsidize the Department of Energy’s “inefficient” energy use. Here, some numbers (read the full list of ridiculous expenditures):
$175 million Amount spent by the Department of Veterans Affairs to maintain unused buildings, including an octagonal, pink...
“The reason I’m even responding now is because I want to address the “but I just...”
– madame thursday: “narrow views of aesthetic attraction”
I THINK I AM IN LOVE. SORRY I AM YELLING THIS AT MY COMPUTER.
(via wordsandturds)
(via thetemerity)
(via thisbodysfabric)
THIS.
And please don’t come to me with a “Tyra Banks” comment. I likely will track you back...
windows of the soul
I’m very aware that I really don’t have any facial expressions. Trust me. I work very hard at NOT looking pissed off all the time (which apparently is my “normal”, relaxed face-because I can just be sitting, minding my own business, and people will either be terrified of me, think I’m a total bitch, or ask me what’s wrong-and it’s because my face relaxes...
BP had another blowout similar to Deepwater... →
dancingferaldreamer:
jonathan-cunningham:
Striking resemblances between BP’s Gulf of Mexico disaster and a little-reported giant gas leak in Azerbaijan experienced by the UK firm 18 months beforehand have emerged from leaked US embassy cables.
The cables reveal that some of BP’s partners in the gas field were upset that the company was so secretive about the incident that it even...
The secret truth about depression I wish someone... →
captain-sonic:
The secret truth about depression
I wish someone had told me.
I wish someone had told me that I had a disease. This disease has no cure. This disease can be fatal. I will fight this disease until the day I die. Some days will feel healthier than others, but this disease…
I want you to read the whole thing. THE WHOLE THING!!
NOW READ IT AGAIN. DO IT.
Understand? Do...
HEY CINDY
thecindykelly:
Trying to decide if I should send my son to school. He still isn’t eating nor is he properly hydrated. He wants to sleep.
Cindy, your son is just two years younger than my son. Bub is wearing a size 10, and he’s got just a few things in a size 8 of winter stuff he’s outgrown, including a Land’s End coat, that I was going to either donate or sell. If you can use...
A New Year's Eve Wish for the LBGT Community: Joe... →
I’m sure you know that’s been my position for some time, but in harmony with Autumn’s post last night that summarized the complete Senate legislative fail yesterday, it’s simply too easy to point the finger at just Harry Reid, the GOP, or the President for the public bumblef*ck of DADT repeal. All of the FAILs lead to one obvious conclusion, though. It’s time for the...
skirting the issue
ladyofleisuredc answered: Bigger skirt! With a Fashion-y belt! Belts solve world peace.
I’m not going to lie and say I didn’t think about this. I’m worried, though. I’m 5’1. When you’re a short as I am, if you put on a belt (besides to hold up your jeans), if it shows at all, it really cuts you in half and makes you look squatty and even shorter than you are...
the tale of two skirts
It’s a skirt, right? I should be able to try it on, decide if it fits, and buy it. Simple enough.
IT’S TURNED INTO A MAJOR LIFE DECISION.
When did my life get so twisted, that I can moral and ethical judgements in an instant, but I want a skirt and it takes me a month to decide what size to buy? I’ve already consulted the two in real life fashionistas I trust (my sister and...
In the past week Tumblr must've been taken over by...
yellowonesdontstop:
“I’m really happy you wanna blog and Ima let you finish, but first I wanted to say, ‘Here, look at this little ugly red box for a while.’”
this. awesome.
Bush Tax Cuts
You know what?
Of the roughly 700 BILLION dollars of the FIRST Stimulus bill, not quite 300 billion of it was…
TAX CUTS!!!!
GASP! SHOCK! OH, THE FUCKING HORROR OF IT ALL!!!
Yes, President Obama signed three stimulus bills (is it only three now? Have there been more that I missed? There very well may have been, I can’t keep track of the freaking spending they do anymore, it’s...
Enlisting potential helpers!
My son, age 9, has a project for school, and I need out of state volunteers.
Some of you probably did something like this at some point in your education. He sends you a “Cardinal” (an envelope) and you’re supposed to send back a postcard with a picture of your state that somehow captures your state’s uniqueness. You’re also asked to write a little bit in the...
Princess Cha Cha: kelsium: Aside from the whole,... →
kelsium:
Aside from the whole, you know, sexual assault thing, which I know for a fact is going to be tackled by people who are better than I at such things, I feel like if you are going to make yourself the face of an organization that is going to take on world powers by flitting through…
agreed, but you say it more succinctly than I manged to.
The Young Gary Busey Chronicles.: So The News →
sadydoyle:
That Assange is not “just” charged with forcing sex on a woman without a condom after she’d said it would be a prerequisite for consensual sex, and not “just” charged with continuing to force sex on a different woman after she withdrew her consent and asked him to stop, but…
Just one little thing-neither woman felt like they had any reason to charge him with a crime until they...
this
thisbodysfabric:
I feel really bad about this (okay only sort of bad), but whenever one of my Facebook friends changes their picture to an ultrasound picture, I want to ask when I became friends with a fetus and not a person.
And I know that pregnancy is big news, and important, but it still weirds me out a bit.
So my daughter brought over ultrasound pics for me to see. And I excitedly...
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