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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
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9:28 pm - Talent, I has it.
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I managed to pull/strain a muscle on my sternum today. Every single movement hurts, and there's not a damn thing I can do about it besides hope that 2 ibuprofen helps a little.
This, after I sprained my toe 2 weeks ago. A winnr iz me!
current mood:  irritated
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| Monday, September 28th, 2009
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11:01 pm
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On April 10, 2007 we bought a house and promptly tore out all the carpeting.
As of tonight, almost 2.5 years later, we have flooring in every single room.
Victory is mine! The Monkey Room is done!
We still have to clean it up and put in the furniture, but I now havea functional 3 bedroom house. Finally. After 6 months of badgering Kevin about it. It's done :) :) :)
current mood:  thankful
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| Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
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1:52 pm
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We have Zubbles!!!! They are awesome!
For the record, "Presto Pink" is actually purple.
current mood: chipper
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| Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
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1:36 pm - Zack Morris, 20 years later
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| Sunday, June 7th, 2009
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12:27 am - I'd expand this to Irish as well...
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| Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
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11:59 am - Meme fail
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So you know that idea about how we're all fatter because we're sedentary and yadda yadda?
Yeah, total bullshit.
As physical activity expenditure has not declined over the same period that obesity rates have increased dramatically, and daily energy expenditure of modern man is in line with energy expenditure in wild mammals, it is unlikely that decreased expenditure has fuelled the obesity epidemic.
We are as active as people in 3rd world countries, as frigging WILD ANIMALS, and MORE active than we were 25 years ago.
Bottom line, obesity epidemic ideas a utter bullshit.
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| Friday, May 8th, 2009
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3:44 pm - In things that boggle the mind....
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Ok, the trend of taking popular/cultish movies and turning them into stage musicals has gone too far.
First we have The Titanic (which bombed). Then Legally Blonde (which amazingly didn't bomb). Then 9 to 5 (success yet to be determined). And now...
The Wicker Man!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I adore all things musicals, but this is just damn ridiculous. There is no way this could work on stage. None.
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| Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
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10:53 am - Fat hate to the next level!
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| Friday, April 10th, 2009
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4:49 pm - Heh
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4:08 pm - Best Youtube clip. Ever.
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It has a full trifecta of things Ashley loves!
current mood: amused
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| Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
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3:34 pm - A new resolution
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I need to stop reading the internet, or at least trying to get medical advice on the internet. Because seriously, it's written to freak me out, and that's just mean.
I'm going ot take my two obscure and easily explained away signs of pre-eclampsia (compared to the normal signs that ACTUALLY suggest something's wrong) and take a nap.
For the record, my midwife says everything's fine, and I'm just being neurotic. Which, I am. Bah!
current mood:  nauseated
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| Monday, February 2nd, 2009
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12:10 am
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I've been watching a lot of the Hercule Poirot mysteries from BBC lately, which were made in the 80s, I think. I find it hilarious how bad their American accents are. Invariably, the American characters on the show speak quickly, rudely, are often vulgar or at least over-casual, and sound like they're in a Western.
The thing is, by the 60s we'd figured out that there are several different and important British accents (My Fair Lady anyone?), but they seem to think we all sound like John Wayne. Yes, even the women.
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| Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
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10:27 pm
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| Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
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1:21 pm - Blog for Choice Day
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Today is the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and like many women, I must mark this occasion with a post.
I am pro-choice. Outspokenly, adamantly, born and bred pro-choice. I was literally raised to be pro-choice by parents who are pro-choice. I will be doing the same with my daughter.
Because I am pro-choice, my daughter will always know that she exists solely because I wanted her. Not because my religion tells me I must breed (I'm looking at you Catholicism and Evangelical Christianity), not because my culture tells me I must breed (personally notable, Indians), not because of any political ideology (Republicans), not for any social recognition, not for any monetary reward (*cough* Duggars *cough*), not to make the world a better place or influence politics in any way (Evangelicals). Not even to please my family (despite my stepmother-in-law's prodding).
I am pregnant for the one truly justifiable reason to be so: I want to. I wanted to be a parent, and thus I will be. I think the fact that I have not been coerced in any way, that this pregnancy is my truly free choice, is vitally important and profound.
And it is my dearest wish that my daughter has this same choice.
I did not grow up believing that I was going to be a mother some day, that it was a foregone conclusion because I am the owner of a uterus. In fact, for a long time, I was convinced I never would be, and not just because of infertility. I similarly believe the same about my daughter. She may be a mother, she may not. That's her choice.
I do not believe that I am doing anything "right" or "good" because I got married at 22 and decided to have children at 22. (Of course, infertility and all means I won't have a child until I'm 25, but that's beside the point), though I have been explicitly told so. I do not believe I did anything "wrong" or "bad" because my husband is not my first sexual partner, or my second, or my third, or that he has done anything "wrong" or "bad" because I am not his first, or his second, or his third, and that neither of us have any other children because of sufficient use of a myriad of birth control options, even though I have been explicitly told so.
I believe that the only way to have a just society is to let people follow their bliss, to quote Joseph Campbell. That means to give every single person the free choice to decide their own life. I may in many ways be living a rather "traditional" (whose tradition?) female life, but solely because I choose to. I could have chosen to go to grad school and pursue a career in history and never had a family; in fact, I almost did.
I expect the same for my daughter. I have no life plan mapped out for her. She may go to college, she may not. She may have children, she may not. She may marry, or not, and may have sex with 15 women or only one man over her life, as she so chooses.
And should my daughter come to me someday and tell me she is pregnant under less than ideal circumstances, my reaction won't be to applaud or denigrate her, it won't be to tell her what to do, but to ask her what she wants to do. And then I will fully support her in any choice she makes, because I trust her enough, and value her enough, to let her make her own decisions.
Because of this, my daughter will be luckier than most, happier than most, and healthier than most. And that, right there, is the legacy of Roe v. Wade.
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12:02 pm - How long will people remember this?
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| Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
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8:04 pm - Best Damn Hat EVER
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6:19 pm - HOLY FUCK YEAH
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Thank everything above!!!!!
I've been scared to death, almost literally, about the new rule Bush put in, set to take effect today, that amongst other things labels "any act" which can conceivably be construed to "causing" the end of a pregnancy to be abortion. It further made it illegal(?) to fire any employee of a health institution if they refused to do any part of their job because of their religious beliefs.
I've read the actual regulation, and it is worded in such a way that, should I wind up in hospital bedrest, an evangelical janitor could refuse to clean my room because of my religious beliefs. It was SPECIFICALLY, INTENTIONALLY worded in this way so that reproductive treatments could be denied to homosexuals.
Obama is not the feminist I was hoping for, but he has been steadfastly pro-choice, thank everything above. This new rule would have amazingly horrific consequences for women's health, and ON THE FIRST FUCKING DAY of his administration Obama put a stop to it!
HOLY FUCK YEAH OMG THIS IS SO OMG YAY!
I can't be any more coherent than that. I was so afraid he'd overlook it and other horrific regs Bush put in in the last 60 days, and he didn't!!!!!!
I'm so proud of my country and MY PRESIDENT!
current mood: thankful
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12:32 pm - A few words on the Inauguration
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I have to say that it is indescribably cool that my daughter will never know a time when there wasn't a viable female candidate for the President, and when we haven't had a black President.
I cried during his speech today. Luckily Kevin's co-workers didn't see it.
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| Thursday, January 15th, 2009
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9:17 am - Damn
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| Friday, January 9th, 2009
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5:35 pm - To bitch or not to bitch
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My OB practice ran an HIV test on me without my consent. I, in fact, have the consent form in my living room right now, which means they most certainly do not have it.
To bitch, or not to bitch.....
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