Comforting The Disturbed And Disturbing The Comfortable

goddessofpurple @ 2009-12-27T10:51:00

2009-12-27T16:56:46Z

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=36931634

These are freaking adorable. I want to make a ton of them and, I don't know, put them in a glass jar on my counter or something.

I know it isn't rational, you are talking to the girl who has a wooden bowl full of vintage wooden blocks in her bedroom.

goddessofpurple @ 2009-12-27T10:26:00

2009-12-27T16:31:38Z

I adore this picture of Julia and Paul Child so much I want to print it and frame it. It was taken some time while they were living in France.

goddessofpurple @ 2009-12-26T18:52:00

2009-12-27T02:52:42Z

Originally uploaded by Mr.e...

goddessofpurple @ 2009-12-26T19:48:00

2009-12-27T01:48:12Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND9XITtG0xw&feature=rec-fresh+div-r-5-HM

Innappropriate language, NSFW, etc. etc.

This video makes alot more sense if you have been following Liam Kyle Sullivan's Kelly character. This is Kelly's lesbian aunt (also played by LKS). Hilarious in it's own right, even if you don't know the character backstory.

goddessofpurple @ 2009-12-24T18:17:00

2009-12-25T00:17:43Z

Halito! Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito!

goddessofpurple @ 2009-12-24T13:31:00

2009-12-24T19:36:22Z

Dear Internets,

And in this case, Mei. Stop teasing me with fabulous textile art that I cannot do. Because now I want this too.

http://www.doctorwhoscarf.com/index.php

goddessofpurple @ 2009-12-12T15:03:00

2009-12-12T21:08:24Z

http://freshlyfound.blogspot.com/2009/12/crochet-and-snow.html

While I'm going through all my favorite design blogs and having covets, I want this too.

goddessofpurple @ 2009-12-12T14:30:00

2009-12-12T20:35:36Z

http://gallery.apartmenttherapy.com/photo/ch-ohio-tour/item/97468

I want a dresser runner made out of yo-yos!

goddessofpurple @ 2009-12-04T08:51:00

2009-12-04T14:57:01Z

I am having weird spacing issues in Word I can't make go away. And spacing has APA guidelines so if I can't fix it I will be graded down.

Some of my paragraphs are spacing down an extra space and I can't correct them. Some are fine, some are wonky. Does anyone know how to fix this? Can you tell me how or let me send you my document? I would normally ask a classmate but we arn't supposed to look at each other's work for this, we would influence each other too much if we did.

Half Breeds and Bacon Grease

2009-11-25T15:44:37Z

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?

Mission Totally Possible If You Have Better Photoshop Skills Than Me

2009-11-23T19:56:01Z

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?

goddessofpurple @ 2009-11-12T19:41:00

2009-11-13T01:46:58Z

Ohai.

goddessofpurple @ 2009-09-15T10:32:00

2009-09-15T15:38:22Z

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!

goddessofpurple @ 2009-09-11T07:38:00

2009-09-11T12:48:48Z

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!

Best Craigslist ad ever.

2009-08-21T02:17:48Z

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

goddessofpurple @ 2009-08-05T15:23:00

2009-08-05T20:23:11Z

Dieting takes up too much psychic energy.

goddessofpurple @ 2009-08-03T18:23:00

2009-08-03T23:28:56Z

You know what's worse than the doctor telling you you need a vaginal ulrasound?

The doctor telling you that your DAUGHTER needs one.

"I'm sorry, I didn't get that. Please say your four digit pin number..."

2009-07-29T01:53:18Z

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

How We Dress

2009-07-21T14:43:52Z

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?

goddessofpurple @ 2009-07-17T16:03:00

2009-07-17T21:03:31Z

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)

goddessofpurple @ 2009-07-17T15:14:00

2009-07-17T20:14:22Z

`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!

Politics, The Law, and Habits of Thought

2009-07-09T23:22:50Z

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.

goddessofpurple @ 2009-07-02T19:00:00

2009-07-03T00:06:01Z

...prepping for my RA interview with my mad research skillz.

goddessofpurple @ 2009-07-01T19:10:00

2009-07-02T00:17:09Z

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.

Trying to keep the fat balanced.

2009-06-27T19:06:34Z

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.