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No More GUILT
The worst, worst, WORST part of parenting, at least of mothering, is the guilt that society tries to push upon us. L at Homesick Home wrote a wonderful post the other day about her feelings after reading a New York Times article titled “Breast Feed Or Else“. I read L’s post, and I was horrified…horrified that people are actually equating not breastfeeding your children with smoking while pregnant. With going to a bar, riding a mechanical bull, and smoking while pregnant. Give me a fucking break. (Sorry, I tried not to swear there, but no other word worked for me. Get over it.) The current culture has really made a…
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Movie Update
We watched “To Kill a Mockingbird” the other night…it was pretty true to the book, very good, very sad. Too bad they took out the part about Scout and Dill being ‘engaged’…I always thought that was sweet and funny, but they only had 2 hours, so I guess it was best to stick to the main points as much as possible. Also no sight of the rich white man with the black family. Missed him too. I do understand, however, the difficulty involved with taking a book and all of the nuances involved in that medium, and putting it into a coherant narative for people to view and understand on…
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WTF Part II
I’m a bit confused…is our American diet so screwed up that we need all of these products to help us with our intestinal tract health? Is no one pooping anymore? Last week, in my multi-subject post, I mentioned a product that kind of freaked me out called the “Almighty Cleanse“. It freaked me out because there was a God/poop connection going on that was somewhat confusing. Well, even though none of my 4 loyal readers commented on the product or it’s disturbing connection between the Almighty and colon health, apparantly plenty of people found my blog by googling “Almighty Cleanse”. So people are out there, looking this stuff up. People…
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Black Diamond Mines
Maya’s class had a fieldtrip today to the Black Diamond Mines, in Antioch, CA. (That’s Maya’s BEST friend, Jackie, in the picture to your left.) I had never been there before, so I was happy to volunteer to drive some of the kids, and go check it out. The mines were for coal in the mid-1800s, and many men who came to California looking for gold ended up working in the coal mines instead. Actually, though we found out that CA coal is inferior to coal from Washington State or China, so when that coal started coming into CA, the mines closed down, and the cities disappeared. I kind of…
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Reading Lists…
I had a fabulous weekend, but for some reason, not so much in the mood for talking about it today. Maybe tomorrow. So, what else is on this mind o’ mine? I kind of wish I had saved the ‘Almighty Cleanse’ bit or the very cool lunchbox link for today, because I don’t have much. Oh well. I didn’t, and now it’s too late. Well, I was just thinking of going to the library to pick up this book, which is on hold for me, and then I thought I would also pick up Jane-Emily, which was suggested by L on her blog. And that got me to thinking of…
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What About This, is THIS Wrong of Me?
Maya and I were out and about today, and Gloria Gaynor’s disco hit, “I Will Survive” came on the radio…and it took me back to 1999, when this little video was making the rounds at work…I’m sorry, but I just looked at it, and it STILL cracks me up.
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Is It Wrong of Me…
To be thankful that the damn bluejay that used to SCREAM outside my window EVERY morning at dawn seems to have dissapeared? Not that I wished him harm…just that he would move to another neighborhood and bother someone else. Maybe he did. Don’t really care. Now if we can just do something about the guy with the bass cranked up so high on his car stereo that it shakes the buildings…
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Too Many Random Thoughts…
Better grab yourself a beverage and sit down, because I have way too much today, and I suspect it’s just going to spill out in a bunch of randomness. If I were to make a post of each one, and save them for future use, boy, I’d have a lot of posts ready, wouldn’t I? I could use them one by one when we go on vacation or something. But I have faith in my bloggareah, and that I’ll still have other things to tell you all in the future, so I’ll just spill it all now. Some of it is thoughtful and important, some is more of the ‘light…
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Proof of the Apocalypse #2
I found myself agreeing with some guy on MSNBC last night. I thought that was a conservative run station, and probably it is (I don’t watch enough of it to be sure), but this guy, Keith Olbermann, was talking about She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named* last night, and her latest desperate plea for attention…and I agreed with him. Of course, nothing that she has done lately has changed my opinion of her in the least, because I HATE HER and I think she is EVIL and surely has 6-6-6 tattooed on the underside of her tongue (as well as the inside of her eyelids), but maybe, just maybe, this time she has gone too…
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13 Embarrasing Songs – MEME
13 Songs that I LOVED when they were popular, but which it is humiliating to admit to ever having liked now….mostly crap from that pre-teen sentimental era, but a few from later as well…ugh. The things I do for you people. Have You Never Been Mellow – Olivia Newton John. Before she got Physical, she was all mushy and such. This song was on the radio every 5 minutes or so when I was 9. Wildfire – Michael Murphy. Had the perfect combination of tragedy (she died) and horses. Again, I was 9. Run, Joey Run – David Geddes. This one is truly horrifying, but yeah, I liked it. Even…
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A Fish?
If you remember, our good friends Cherry and Eric came over for dinner last weekend. In addition to the lovely ice cream and homemade sauces that Cherry made, they also brought us this lemon. I know, it looks like a grapefruit. I suspect that Cherry has been waiting to see if it pops up on my blog, because it’s so huge, and because, well, blogarreah. Well, finally, it’s time. Every time I see this lemon sitting next to our other fruits, I wonder, “What shall I do with this lemon? Lemon pound cake? Lemonade? What?” The most common use for lemon in our house is as a sort of bath…
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Recipe Wednesday
Back when I first moved to San Francisco in 1987, I moved there with Troy, who was ready to brush the stench of Stockton off of his shoes as much as I was. He found us a great flat in SF, at Fulton and Masonic, for only $850 a month. Boy, what a deal. Anyway, Troy was a great guy, he used to work at a hotel down near the airport on the graveyard shift, and I worked at a hotel in downtown SF on the 4 – 12 shift, and we both went to school in the mornings. A few times I woke up and found flowers on my…
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I Voted….Did You?
Several states around the nation are having primary elections today. We just went and voted (not for Arnie, in case you’re wondering…), and boy, the turnout was BAD. We were voters #12 and #13 for the day, so far. Ted got to try some fancy new computerized system, and I had to do a provisional ballot, because I requested an absentee ballot, but then forgot to fill it out and send it in (and I also lost it…). So at least we provided a little bit of excitement for the folks at the community center. 🙂 If you haven’t voted yet, and you’re in a state holding elections today, get…
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Go Ask Alice?
I was talking to my niece recently, who is just finishing up her freshman year of High School. She was reading “Go Ask Alice“. Did any of you read these fake annonymous books back in the day? Remember the horror with which you followed her decent from a ‘good girl’ to a ‘druggie’, remember how quickly it seemed to all go wrong? I never read “My Name is Davy, and I’m an Alcoholic“, but I’m assuming it’s pretty similar in that way, as was the anorexia horror, “Goodbye, Paper Doll“. What is it about teenagers that makes them so fascinated with reading about others who are dealing with tragedy? Books…
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Weekend Wrap-Up
For some reason on Friday, I woke up at 4am with Ted, and couldn’t go back to sleep when he left for work. I usually sleep until about 5:30 or 6:00 lately, so this was odd. Well, that all caught up with me at about 1:00. Luckily, since I work from home, I could take a 30 minute power nap after eating lunch, and see if that helps. It didn’t. I woke up grumpy and feeling like I had a nap hangover. So when Ted came home and said he wanted to go somewhere nice for dinner, somewhere in the city with French food, I was bitchy. I didn’t really…