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Hey there Mijos and Mijas! Thanks for dropping by!

I really *try* to update my journal every day. Sometimes every day becomes every week. But I will always try really hard to be worth your wait.

I am really good about reading my Friends pages, but really bad about keeping up with who has added me and wants me to add them back. So drop me a comment on one of my posts and let me know you have be-friended me!

For those of you who read this blog but do not have a Live Journal account, thanks for the emails! I love getting those and knowing you are out there! And if you have a blog account at another site, please let me know!

And feel free to grab a chair and put your feet up...the margaritas will be ready shortly!
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Nov. 25th, 2009 @ 09:39 am Half Breeds and Bacon Grease
Lifeismagic made me the fircest Half Breed design which now means I need a shirt too, not just one for my brother. We can be half-breed twinkies (and together make up one whole Indian!) She ROCKS.

I am frying bacon for the green beans now so I can use the bacon grease to bake the cornbread.

What are you up to?
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Nov. 23rd, 2009 @ 01:50 pm Mission Totally Possible If You Have Better Photoshop Skills Than Me
My brother bought me a totally inappropriate bag for my birthday. I won't go into details about the image but it is offensive in a hilarious way that noone can truly be offended at.

Which means? Game on.

I decided to get him back by buying him a tshirt that pays homage to the Cher song Half-Breed. Being that we are half-breeds and he's gay so he has to be into Cher even though he isn't. Inappropriate! But in a funny way!

You would think the internets would cough one up? But no.

So now I need a Cher Half-Breed image large enough to throw on a tshirt.

Anyone want to help me with this project?
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Nov. 12th, 2009 @ 07:41 pm (no subject)
Ohai.
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Sep. 15th, 2009 @ 10:32 am (no subject)
Need to leave for work in a bit, been doing stats homework all morning. All kinds of stuff due tomorrow, including a presentation I need to put together.

Semester is kicking in!
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Sep. 11th, 2009 @ 07:38 am (no subject)
I'm sorry.

If you have Facebook I've been more posty over there. I've been reading my friends page here but my postyness has been lacking. I started school three weeks ago and my new job last week. Love both, both are very challenging and different from everything I know.

My father has surgery today for his cancer. The postop will be yucky but the blessing is that should be the extent of his treatment since it was caught early. He won't need radiation or chemo unless it comes back later.

My brother had surgery before he went back to school and is doing well but his good news is that he got engage. My future brother-in-law Paul is the most amazing person and we are so blessed to have him in the family. I worried about some of the people Billy has brought home in the past but when I met Paul I just KNEW he was the one. My kids love him and already call him Uncle Paul. Even Ned who doesn't like anyone loves Paul.

Our wet Fall has started early in San Antonio. It's a huge blessing and was badly needed. It really feels that the season has changed and now the good things have started to happen.

Lunch today with former coworkers. Dinner tonight with a mixture of former coworkers and new cohort members. Good times!
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Aug. 20th, 2009 @ 09:11 pm Best Craigslist ad ever.
Y'all know that my biggest Craigslist pet peeve is people who list their wrought iron furniture as rod iron.

(Why the stupidity? Whyyyy?)

This ad does that.

Plus more.

Check it out, I don't want to ruin the surprise.

http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/fuo/1333571736.html
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Aug. 5th, 2009 @ 03:23 pm (no subject)
Dieting takes up too much psychic energy.
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Aug. 3rd, 2009 @ 06:23 pm (no subject)
You know what's worse than the doctor telling you you need a vaginal ulrasound?


The doctor telling you that your DAUGHTER needs one.
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Jul. 28th, 2009 @ 08:45 pm "I'm sorry, I didn't get that. Please say your four digit pin number..."
Dear Sallie Mae (and every other company with voice recognition phone systems):

My southern accent is not that strong. You can understand me, can't you? You probably arn't really even automated, it's just some bored employee messing with my head. You are just fucking with me so I will give in and give you money or my new phone number or whatever it is you want.

Not working.

Good try though.

-- GOP
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Jul. 21st, 2009 @ 09:02 am How We Dress
If nothing else (besides a ton of debt), my graduate degree has turned me into even more of a people watcher than I was before. I've always been interested in what people have to say, which of course, is way different than the words that they speak. In community mental health especially, how people dress can be an imporant indicator of a serious mental decline. You learn to pay attention. Although this list doesn't apply to them so much, they were the starting point to me thinking about this issue precisely because they are so far removed from it. Keep in mind that when I say dress I mean all of our bodily adornments. How we keep and wear our hair (or lack thereof), our makeup, jewelry, tatoos and piercings. Not just our clothing.

Also, this is just the stuff I think about when I'm up with a puking 9 year old.

Number 1s

Number 1s dress exactly like themselves. What they wear reflects exactly who they are. This isn't to say that they don't take the situation they are dressing for into account or ignore social norms, cues, or behaviors. But they are themselves first. And their self is who you see, not their clothing. When reflecting on which public figures are #1's I first thought of Gandhi and Mother Teresa. But this would lead people to think I connect 1-ness with holiness or goodness and of course, that is not the case. 1-ness is just about being exactly who you are in your skin and how you adorn it. Gandhi may be a 1, but so is Gary Busey.

Other 1s: Rachel Maddow, Martha Stewart

Number 2s

While most grown people strive to be 1s and think that we probably are, most of us are 2s. Number 2s are a little more complicated. We have a better idea of who we are and what we are and dress for the idea of that person. We use clothes to help define ourselves, rather than be ourselves. We arn't trying to be someone else, per se, we just seem to need the clothes to push us along. This isn't a bad thing, in fact this is something that society encourages us to do, so it makes sense that we are mostly 2s. Oprah Winfery is a great example of a 2. As her role in society grew and changed, so did her wardrobe, reflecting her changing role more than it did her internal growth.

Other 2s: Tom Colicchio, let's face it, you and me, most likely

Number 3s

The great majority of teengars (and probably just people under the age of 25) are 3s. 3s dress for what they want to be, for how others see them, for how they want others to see them. How they dress has nothing at all to do with their own sense of self. This isn't the domain of the very young however. While probably most adults are 2, there are plenty of grown people who are also 3s. 3s can be about the extremes, but maybe not in a way you may think. They can be about extremely standing out, or extremely blending in. It isn't about sluttiness or conservativeness of dress. Tila Tequila is a 3, but so is Sarah Palin.

Other 3s: Lil Kim, Nadya Suleman (you know, Octomom)


Thoughts? Additions?
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Jul. 17th, 2009 @ 04:03 pm (no subject)
If you saw ME in the back of a police car what would you think I got arrested for?

(and post this in your own journal)
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Jul. 17th, 2009 @ 03:14 pm (no subject)
`I haven't updated but I really haven't had much to say. Which isn't to say I haven't had alot going on. But nothing that makes for a fun, blog story. It seems that my a/c is functional again (with no payment for the house call, god bless hungry single men who took a sandwich as payment) and tonight I'm going out with the family and the gang to a local eatery that serves local foods and has a play area. Tomorrow is a friend's retirement party. I'm just marking down time until I start back to school, can't wait!
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Jul. 9th, 2009 @ 05:40 pm Politics, The Law, and Habits of Thought
So I finished a book by D.L. Birchfield that is about Indian political policy and law (specifically, the Choctaw, but not just the Choctaw). In it he talks about law not being the product of Supreme Court decrees and other nebulous, esoteric stuff but about being a product of culture, and habit of thinking. And that as habit of thinking changes, so does the law.   I'm paraphrasing because I don't have the book in front of me.  He said it better, but you get the idea.

And while he doesn't mention this, it also explains why laws that are before their time (Brown v. Board of Education, or more germane to this discussion, Loving v. Virginia) often fail in practice unil the surrounding culture changes to meet up the law.

We are having the opposite problem right now, and I think it goes a long way to explain our current civil unrest. Currently 67% of the population in the U.S. supports either marriage or civil unions for GLBTQ couples (Source) but the law is so far, far, far from catching up to our own, middle-American, habit of thought.

At best, the law should be there to push us to our better selves (see Brown and Loving, above). At average, it should represent the will of the people and the appropriate dominant culture. And right now it is neither.

Go Massachusettes for upping the ante this week.

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Jul. 2nd, 2009 @ 07:00 pm (no subject)
...prepping for my RA interview with my mad research skillz.
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Jul. 1st, 2009 @ 07:10 pm (no subject)
I have a research assistantship interview schedled for next week. It may start even earlier than the semester starts but I switched to a flex, pool schedule at work so I can accomodate that. It's a very competitive slot since it is a federally funded grant and UTSA is shaky on state money (moreso than other schools which is a long, boring story). I'm the only first year doc student even being invited to apply so I should say it's an honor to be nominated. Especially with my weak-ass vita. I've been studying up on the professors research and what she is using in this study so I can at least look like I've got skillz. Wish me luck. I'm so burned out in community mental health it's unfunny.
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Jun. 27th, 2009 @ 01:55 pm Trying to keep the fat balanced.
So my brother's boyfriend took a picture of me a couple of weeks ago that made me go "gah!"

I know I'm a big girl, always have been. However I am a less big girl after starting the GI diet a couple years ago and had been really good at keeping the weight off. Until this past late spring/early summer and it's concurrent work drama made me gain a few pounds back and all the new clothes I just broke down and purchased a few months before that arn't fitting right. The pockets are puckering and, as the aforementioned picture shows, I started rolling over my shorts again.

Essentially I gained about 5 or so pounds back (that's my guess, I don't have a scale at home or I would sit on it and cry and obsess) and all in my stomach. So my clothes, my lovely new clothes, are looking like crap on me.

So today at the grocery store I bought Atkins shakes for breakfast and lunch and sugar free popsicles and jello. I'm going to be a miserable bitch, but the only thing I hate worse than dieting is wasting money. And I had worked too hard to make those clothes look good, dammit.

Please excuse my supreme crabbiness over the next few weeks. I guarantee I will be.
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Jun. 21st, 2009 @ 07:31 pm (no subject)
I'm back from our version of camping (which involves an air-conditioned cabin). We are all sunburnned (despite the suncreen) and tore up the bottoms of our swimsuits on the Ingram Dam. Pics on Facebook!
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Jun. 13th, 2009 @ 07:23 pm Where There's A Witch...
I know I have alot of witchy friends and ghost-hunting friends on my LJ, so for those of you who DON'T know, Madelyn Alt's newest book comes out this July, which I'm excited about because I usually don't get her latest release in my hands until November. I've been reading the series since the first book and it is my favorite paranormal-type series because as a boringly non-witchy, non-ghost-huntery person I feel like I learn more (plus enjoy a good cozy mystery) without feeling like I'm not one of the cool kids who doesn't get it.

Check out the author's site here: http://www.madelynalt.com/
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Jun. 12th, 2009 @ 08:34 pm Some damn funny.
Someone set my Deaf client's sidekick ringtone to really loud porn music. I'm afraid to ask who, in case it was a staff member.
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Jun. 9th, 2009 @ 07:09 pm (no subject)
A sandy pelican? For serious? People do that, like, on purpose? And enjoy it?

No, I will NOT explain it to you, you will have to look it up on urbandictionary.com yourownself if you really want to know.

And you probably really don't.
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