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Little Bits 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Women who do waxing in salons should wear leather skirts and vests. Especially when they wax things that make me cry. I mean, really. The girl, An., who does my pedicures and manicures came in the waxing room as I was gripping the table, biting my lip and trying my best to suppress a grunt. She looked quite sorrowfully at the tears filling the corners of my eyes and held my hand for a good five
Reassurance # 13 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Last night, I was writing smut when Chris got home from his Christmas shopping expedition. The smut I was writing is part of the ongoing saga of Esther Cannell and Jonathan Irving and has been published on my fiction blog. It is longer than I originally intended, but I wanted to publish a complete piece, and I haven't been writing as much . . . anyway, it's finally there now after some editing
Reassurance # 14 1970-01-01 00:59:59 It's a little odd to follow up a Thursday/Friday reassurance blog entry with a Monday night reassurance blog entry, but with houseguests coming tomorrow, it really seemed the only way.
Also, it's a little like a last chance. It's not that I'm going to disappear from my blog, particularly not after the generous and kind comments of Todd and Suzy at American Spanking Society. They wrote about this
FYI 1970-01-01 00:59:59 We have houseguests. I'll report in when I can, but that won't be often at all.
At least Alison Tyler has been allowed out of bed long enough to go back to entertaining me for a few stolen moments a day. Good things do come to those who wait (and those who don't).
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on
Our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yule-tide gay
From now on
Our troubles will be miles away
Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more.
Through the years
We all will be together
If the fates allow Read more:Merry
, Yourself
Orange Socks 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I wore orange socks today.
Orange
socks are a silent 'announcement' that my bottom has been missing its regular attention. Unfortunately, today all it earned was - in a moment of exasperation - the standard rejoinder "You are wearing orange socks, you know!"
I know. I know. Read more:Socks
Sister Mary Agnes's Parochial School In A Box 1970-01-01 00:59:59 If you have some time standing in line at Borders to return that cooking-with-wine cookbook or your 3rd copy of the Better Homes & Garden bible, look for a swivel stand with a number of small 3 inch square boxes. Chris brought one home (and gave one to a friend) before Christmas, but if you're lucky, there might be one of these little treasures remaining:
Wasn't your Christmas a little naughty Read more:School
, Agnes
Daylight Savings 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I think the name says it all. DaylightSavings
? Whatever it is, supposedly it just ended and we are now back on standard time.
Standard time?
Who thought up this stuff?
Yah, I know. World War II. Farmers trying to get all the daylight they could. Etc. Etc.
I don't care, I still don't get it. If a farmer wanted an extra hour of daylight to plant his crops, perhaps (a novel idea, I know) he Read more:Daylight Savings
Housetraining Faith 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Faith. The dog, that is. If you've time to read this blog, you've probably already read the news and know about this incident of animal heroism - or at least, animal training.
Yes, Faith rescued her owner - unconscious on the floor after falling from her wheelchair - by knocking the phone off the hook, pressing (with her nose?) the auto-dial 9-1-1, and barking into the receiver until the Read more:Faith
Please Vote 1970-01-01 00:59:59 VOTE. For SOMEBODY, but please vote.
I'll dig the utterly democratic (small d) election process tomorrow, when I've got more patience for tradition. Read more:Please
How Did You Vote? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Today is November 2, 2004, and it seems as if the only meaningful conversation today has to do with politics. In the United States, it's Election Day.
Oh yes, we're electing a President. It is, a number of important personages have said, one of the most important races in presidential history. I'll forebear on the reasons why, but I have to agree. Why forebear? Well, I don't mean this to be a
My Expectations 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I made my first post to this blog on October 24, 2004. It's now well past that date two years later, and this entry will mark the 200th entry I've written and have at least saved to draft. Most of these can be found in the archives (191 if I've counted correctly), although a few have bitten the dust for one reason or another. It's also the last entry for 2006, which has, in retrospect, been an
The O'Reilly Factor 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Extortion? Harassment?
60 MILLION dollars?
Hell, for $60,000,000, I'd listen to my boss tell me I needed a vibrator to loosen up, too. Well, yes, my husband is my boss, so that's slightly less offensive, but still... I'm sure that Mr. O'Reilly
just happened to have $60,000,000 as the balance in his checkbook the day that his former producer threatened to file the lawsuit. I mean, all news
Anthropological Hobbits 1970-01-01 00:59:59 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=198867&page=1
And we thought Tolkien wrote fiction. Maybe he knew more than he was saying. He was part of a fiction-writing group with some other authors with imaginations bigger than they could feasibly write down in a lifetime: C.S. Lewis was one.
Anyway, what coincidence that they'd be found with Komodo dragons and pygmy elephants!
Campaigns: Convincing Your Supporters to Vote For You 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Have you ever noticed that when presidents and president-wannabes campaign, they give speeches to people who already support them?
I thought the point of a campaign was to convince people who don't want to vote for you, or don't know who to vote for, to vote for you. Not to convince people who already are going to vote for you to vote for you.
Moreover, I fail to see how my neighbors putting Read more:Campaigns
, Supporters
A Rainy Drought 1970-01-01 00:59:59 We're supposedly in an 8-year drought. This last week, it rained for the first time in six months. That's not unusual, actually. It rains here from November to June, and then is dry through October.
Well, except this year. This year, we're approaching a record amount of rain for October - nearly 7 inches in the last storm and another one that will be here soon - perhaps tonight. Already, we've Read more:Drought
Juvenile Adults 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I've a bad habit of playing Yahoo! games, particularly Literati, a game astonishingly similar to Scrabble. This is only a bad thing in that it requires a good deal of time and thought to win.
It's really very easy: join a room, and either join a table or start your own and someone will come a-knockin'.
People are generally quiet when they play. The forum, while having a chat feature, is not Read more:Juvenile
, Adults
The Moral Minority 1970-01-01 00:59:59 [There are fanatics on both sides of every issue we face in society today. This editorial isn't directed or inclusive of these fanatical activists. People who murder because abortion is murder - and people who vandalize and assault because selling SUVs damages the ozone - are outside the scope of the current discussion vis-a-vis the moral majority.]
The topic on everyone's lips the past few days Read more:Moral
, Minority
Reassurance # 15 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Happy New Year!
The blogging community looks to be out in full force, and I'd love to be reading compulsively right now, and writing compulsively, too. However, Chris has taken on the task of entertaining a tired and unhappy-about-not-being-in-pre-school-this-week princess expressly so that I could write this entry.
Last night ended a year. We ended it together, in a way that seems quite
Santa's Naughty List 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I've been trying to decide for hours whether to write about fun kinky stuff or intolerant, ignorant politicians. In any event, I'll probably write about both eventually. But fun things first. I've got at least two more 'fun' Christmas gifts to write about, but only two that came in a box. Along with the Sister Mary Agnes's Parochial School In A Box, Chris also gave both Iris and I this little Read more:Santa
Get Brain 1970-01-01 00:59:59 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20041105/od_nm/life_sex_dc
And you thought you'd heard all the euphemisms... and seen the denseness... Read more:Brain
Every Third Night 1970-01-01 00:59:59 What am I doing?
It's 2 in the morning, and I'm sitting at the computer, playing games. It's not that I want to be up - certainly not. In fact, I've been peacefully asleep earlier ... for about 90 minutes.
And then the baby woke up.
There was no discernable reason. Her diaper was wet, but not dripping. Her room wasn't cold - and she had a warm blanket anyway. The light was very dim. Her Read more:Night
I Do Solemnly Swear... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Did you know that Minnesota has elected the first Islamic U.S. Representative? That's right. Minnesota's 5th Congressional District elected Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, an African-American Democrat.
A super-brief biography? He's from Detroit, Michigan, is a practicing attorney, and serves in the state legislature. (Oh, and incidentally, he converted to Islam in college.)
That's so cool! I mean, Read more:Swear
I Can Eat Chocolate Again 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I have strep throat and a cold. This reality has severely impeded my time sitting at the computer, time with my daughter, time doing housework, and time doing real work. I have, however, gotten more sleep than normal.
In fact, I want to do that soon - go back to bed. The princess came in and evicted me from the bed on the announcement that she wanted to sleep between Daddy and I. That's fine, Read more:Chocolate
, Again
An Adult Voldemort 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I know a guy who writes a blog - an excellent blog, for that matter. His name's Paul, and he recently wrote an article titled "He Who Must Not Be Named." His observation about those of us who feel no especial respect for the current tenant at 1600 is apt - I went back and looked in my own history (short so far) and realized he's right. Like many others expressing their political disaffection, I Read more:Adult
Check the Clearance Bins 1970-01-01 00:59:59 These photos represent the last of the funny startles we had while Christmas shopping and Christmas giving. You still might find this one on clearance at Hallmark.
Iris included this tiny package of naughty and nice tissues in my sweet Christmas gift from her. It seems we shop at the same place. (Actually, we sometimes shop at the same place at the same time!)
We didn't give her naughty and Read more:Check
, Clearance
Reassurance # 16 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I have a number of blog entries swirling in the back of my head, not least of which is special mention of a few new and exciting blogs that have appeared in the last few weeks. I've been avidly reading - I can hardly contain myself but want to jump up and down and say These are so cool! Read this, read this!
But of course those pleasures will remain in the back of my head until I've finished
The Democratic Contenders - Stage One 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Alphabetically, information on those who have filed papers to establish Presidential Exploratory Committees for possible 2008 election bids:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY): Still considered a front-runner, has not yet filed. Does not have an official exploratory site, only the one where she ran for the Senate.
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT): I don't know much about this guy, but the blogs on his Read more:Democratic
, Stage
Reassurance # 17 and Highlights 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I've been busy. Good busy - happy busy - but busy. Thus, no blogging. I haven't even read my favorite blogs and have been getting just a few headlines and news tidbits during the day.
Mostly, I've been working, doing the regular housework that never actually gets done - like laundry, dishes, and picking up - with a 3-year-old princess wrapped around my thigh, and playing with the princess. I Read more:Highlights
When You Wish Upon a Toy 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Chris asked me to pick out some ... er... toys for our anniversary. Awhile ago (at the beginning of the year), I made a wish list of adult toys. A few of these, notably a harness, a paddle with the word 'slut' cut out, and a vibrating butt plug, he bought for Valentine's Day. (Romantic, huh? Especially the butt plug harness... ;) Anyway, he asked me what I wanted for our anniversary, so I decided
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