My mom bought me almost the same chair. It's white and has arms.
- Heather
I know I'm lucky enough to be physically removed from this weeks and especially today's events. But they've frayed my nerves so badly. I've been a ball of anxiety for a good part of today and now I just want to hug every single person I know.
Called mom just to make sure she's not in Boston. She's not. Work and her event were both shut down. So relieved. Wont mind updates on what's going on with anyone. :)
Chris is taking me out to a surprise location. I have no idea what we're doing, but I'm supposed to dress for indoors. I'll let you know what happened when we get back. :)
- Heather
Don't worry about us just have lots of fun!
- SteVe C
IT WAS THE CONTAINER STORE! (If you don't get why this is a big deal, you forget I have OCD.) There's a Ban & Jerry's next door and we got ice cream after. ^_^ (Pics of my present soon.)
- Heather
The first I heard about Boston was tv coverage on the radio. They didn't say for several minutes what happened, just talked about injury numbers, Mass Gen, and Homeland Security. I don't think I can keep up on what happened until there are more solid reports tonight/tomorrow.
I got called a "fat chick" by the internet. I'm going to go cry in a corner and remember that my place is silent or praising all the "skinny" women who are obviously smarter and prettier than me. #eyerollscanhurt
Hell, you have your revenge simply by being SO AWESOME. Anything after that is just a bonus ;)
- Jennifer Dittrich
I'm not even sure how to parse the "fat chick" insult any longer. Should I appalled at the fat shaming? Or do I tamp down the urge to feel superior to someone who still uses the word "chick"?
- MoTO #TeamMonique
I'd go with both, MoTO (sans the 'tamping down' part.)
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Present companies like Tam and other FFriends excepted as appropriate - I have not found skinny women to be particularly much smarter or prettier than those of us with more meat on our bones. For one thing, if they're spending brainpower on being skinny, they're not using it on smart-people things, like having ideas about the world.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
My response (and I did wonder about making a comment about calling me a "chick" which I can't stand): "Great argument Kaitlyn, I'm so glad you added to the conversation in a well thought out and substantive way. You've really made a strong point and given me something to think about. I'd deny your claim, but I don't see a single reason why I should give a flying fuck about what you think of me. You obviously don't care that I think you're a vapid, superficial, infantile waste of space and oxygen."
- Heather
Monroe is such a good one! The question was on a survey I was doing and as soon as I read it all I could think of were really inappropriate answers (aka people I wouldn't actually want to be neighbors with).
- Heather
I adore Monroe as a character but I think he'd be attracting some scary stuff to the neighborhood... I think it'd probably be Lorelei Gilmore for me as well.
- Spidra Webster
I was just reconsidering because of how Monroe marks his territory. Gross!
- Katy S
Dang there isn't a bad one. I can't choose!!!
- SteVe C
so Heather turns into 1981 vintage Debbie Harry?
- Joe Silence
(My only problem with #2 is that it took me a long time to get used to her with short hair. I really liked her long hair. See "Blink."
- Betsy #TeamMonique
"URGENT ALERT: In Alabama, teachers are forced by law to lie to their students and say that being gay is a criminal offence. We have a chance right now to end this terrible law."
- Heather
from Bookmarklet
actually I'm appalled but there's no bujtton for that...
- WarLord
I have 2 weeks, but I need to think of what kind of cake I want for my birthday. Chris doesn't think he can make a cake that looks like a golden snitch, but that was my only idea.
One that looks like one of their books? Like Tom Riddle's diary, or Hagrid's big monster book?
- Jennifer Dittrich
I love that idea! I also have to figure out what type of cake I want too. He made an awesome lemon and raspberry cake last year. I'm tempted to go for lemon again, but I'm not sure I want to do the same thing.
- Heather
"Just last month, an animal that looked like a wolf was spotted in the mountain community of Reserve near the Arizona-New Mexico border so experts with the wolf management team had to investigate. They determined that the uncollared animal was most likely a pet that showed some signs of northern gray wolf heritage."
- Heather
from Bookmarklet
"When hybrid wolves are found in the wild, they are removed to protect the genetic pool. For example, wildlife managers in 2011 had to euthanize four wolf-dog pups that belonged to a female Mexican gray wolf that had initially been released into the Gila National Forest with hopes of being a mate for another lone wolf."
- Heather
Chris just equated his enthusiastically Pentecostal uncle talking about the Bible to a Star Wars nerd watching the movies with a newbie.
My dad has his camera on a tripod for when the deer come around, but it wasn't near the window (like usual). It was in the back room, so I had to run around like a dork.
- Heather
Finished my spray paint project, cut out the fabric for pj pants (my mom is going to sew them), helped mom make homemade Cheez-Its, and had problems with screen printing so it's been put off until my mom gets back from her WW meeting. Pictures coming eventually.
No, I don't remember the book that much and I know they changed stuff. But have you heard the dwarves sing? O.M.A.N.
- Heather
Also, sorry Chris, my mom said we can borrow it. :)
- Heather
So Earth Hour is tomorrow. I don't like to complain about a non-profit, but WWF really should have sent out reminders a while ago. I had no idea and now I doubt I'm going to be able to participate.
I think the argument that people can misinterpret Earth Hour and use that misinterpretation to belittle it, is really weak. People can misinterpret anything, that doesn't mean the thing being misinterpreted is the problem. And the fact that people get the point wrong isn't a problem with Earth Hour itself, it's a problem with communicating the goal. And I hate the argument that...
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- Heather
"And when people see how easy it is to change their day-to-day, they are more likely to look around and see where other changes could be made" -- this is the sentence that my cynical self doesn't agree with. People see how easy it is to turn off lights for one hour, feel satisfied, pat themselves on the back, believe they've done their part, and go back to driving their 15mpg SUV on their 80-mile daily commute.
- Tudor Bosman
There are those people, but there are others. And those others see that turning off the electronics for an hour isn't traumatic. They keep the lights off for 2 hours instead of 1, and or they decide a few days later to repeat it. There is often a smugness that "I've done my 1 good dead." when it's something piddly that's been done. But that's for some Prius drivers, church goers, Girl...
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- Heather
I'll participate, I think, but mostly because I am going on a 14 mile hike. :D
- Kelli H.
Kytty! Wait, are people supposed to know my tag? I mean, I haven't thought about this at all!
- Heather
well its all good here! we won't turn you in. and when you become famous we can be all like "oh yeh we know kytty she's the awesomeness of awesome"
- Sir Shuping is just sir
She already has a lot of street cred...so shes almost there.
- Chris Topher
You should do some Easter Eggs. My stepdad did my Easter Eggs in kindergarten with spray paint, and they were definitely the most awesome eggs out there, a lot of the others were just plastic or regular dye.
- Jimminy
You didn't use it the same way they're using it in the new American Eagle ad, did you?
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
Came downstairs and there was pannukakku for breakfast! (Finnish, literally means "pan cake")