This is my kind of government change making activities:
A++ for creativity
A+++ for empowerment
A++++ for wit
A+++++ if you could also take a photo of his face when he opens his mail.....
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/02/24/dear-franklin-here-tampons
Book Club?
I am all about community. I love it. I even love riding the bus, well except when teenage twerps are on there being super annoying.....where else can you have a conversation with a relative stranger without any danger of being creepy? And if the person turns out to be odd than you are only 3-7 stops away from saying "see yah" and adding the whole experience to "what makes life interesting" folder within your head.
The hard part of community is actually creating it, allowing space for it to develop...once you are past k-12 age range it can be pretty dang tough to find like minded individuals to converse with........
Soooooooooooo When I saw this call for a book club right up my alley I was super stoked. I just got an email saying we need roughly 4 more people to start it and so I thought I would pass the info along. If it isn't a good fit for you, maybe someone you know?
I have no dea when/where/etc/etc just that I really want it happen and I can't wait to belong to a little group of awesomeness. Hope to see you there~
Lacy
Howdy, All,
I'm a hungry mind seeking other rabid readers! I'm looking for a small group of female foodies who are as crazy about food books (memoir, essay, cookbooks) and experiencing the bounty of PDX's many fine farmers' markets, restaurants, and cafes as am I to forge a book circle.
This group will meet once a month to discuss a mutually chosen food-themed book accompanied by an outing (per the above) so that we might sate our book and foodie hunger!
Here's a brief list of the types I've enjoyed in past (and that might appeal to you?) But the real fun will be in discovering what each member brings to the table!
Bon Ap,
Sadie (books_a_go_go@yahoo.com)
The hard part of community is actually creating it, allowing space for it to develop...once you are past k-12 age range it can be pretty dang tough to find like minded individuals to converse with........
Soooooooooooo When I saw this call for a book club right up my alley I was super stoked. I just got an email saying we need roughly 4 more people to start it and so I thought I would pass the info along. If it isn't a good fit for you, maybe someone you know?
I have no dea when/where/etc/etc just that I really want it happen and I can't wait to belong to a little group of awesomeness. Hope to see you there~
Lacy
Howdy, All,
I'm a hungry mind seeking other rabid readers! I'm looking for a small group of female foodies who are as crazy about food books (memoir, essay, cookbooks) and experiencing the bounty of PDX's many fine farmers' markets, restaurants, and cafes as am I to forge a book circle.
This group will meet once a month to discuss a mutually chosen food-themed book accompanied by an outing (per the above) so that we might sate our book and foodie hunger!
Here's a brief list of the types I've enjoyed in past (and that might appeal to you?) But the real fun will be in discovering what each member brings to the table!
- American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It)
- Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved my Life
- Au Revoir to All That: Food, Wine, and the End of France
- Blood, Bones, & Butter
- Food Lover's Guide to Portland
- The Language of Baklava
- 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families
- Life, Death & Bialys
Bon Ap,
Sadie (books_a_go_go@yahoo.com)
Spring.
Just ordered a bunch of seeds for spring.............Sooooooooooooooooooooooooo ready to get dirty.
Anyone growing something new this year?
Love.
So I must share that I am absolutely in LOVE with Kyle Anne Metals, every piece she does makes me want to rob a bank so I can clean out her shop! I am not a minimalist...far...far...far....from it (dudes remember part of me is from Idaho). I usually love vintage, gaudy, ridiculous pieces I pick up on Sundays (half-price) at Estate Sales...but whatever this lady does I am on board.I have yet to buy one but my weakness is hot pink so I am thinking that whatever she makes with these new stones will probably be on my finger pretty soon....even if I have to give up eating/drinking/heat....Sparkles are a necessity right??
::::::::::Drool:::::::::::
Happy Pres. Weekend!
Lacy
*would like to note that photos were borrowed from her blog
Guess what I am making...
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| *one hint...it contains 2 things I adore: cheap booze & the promise of sweets. |
Finding my "voice"...
I read so many amazing blogs..usually by woman who inspire me to be stronger, cooler, more self-reliant. They write these witty things and take these amazing photos and I soooo want to be them. If that is woman #1 who is an amazingly creative canner/preserver who's jams & jellies make me want to buy 50 pounds of X, Y, Z fruit...or woman #2 who is saving the world or even woman #3 who has 3.96 kids and yet still has time to be fashionable and funny. As I look at my past posts (few as they are) I realize instead of being "me" I am trying to be either 1,2, or even 3 (minus the 3.96 kids + 2 snorty dogs).
BLAH TO THAT.
Who I am:
-I am a great reproducer.....wait...that didn't come out right...Not like biologically...oy. (knock on wood) BUT I can follow a recipe like no ones business, or recreate a craft with no problem...hell I even find putting together Ikea furniture easy.
What I am not: Creative.
Seriously folks....
Nothing about creating makes me happy...it makes me frustrated and focused on gifts I just ain't got. So instead I love following what someone else has already invented (some of this might also come from me being lazy) and putting my own spin on it.
-Currently I am not a mother or a teen....or even a early 20 something....I am between the "wise" stage and the "know it all" stage....I call it the have "tons of fun/yet still have tons of responsibilities/make shit up along the way" stage. I am not at a place where I can comfortably give advice yet am at a place where I can receive it.
This whole middle stage leads me to also feel very pulled in many directions....My family is hinting at babies, my bank account is hinting at fleeing to Canada to avoid Student Loans, and the world is saying to rise the corporate ladder...so on any given day I am contemplating doing one or all three of those things....
You should see my Amazon Suggestions......
Seriously...Hot mess.
So yup I am going to stop worrying about being judged. Stop succumbing to pressures I made up and just be myself. Whatever the hell that means.
Lacy
Burning both ends of the candle...
Sooooooo I thought being unemployed would be awesome, laying around eating bonbons & making homemade preserves....BUT I have actually been more busy "unemployed" than employed! I know it is a blessing of a problem but it is starting to wear me down.
The problem is that I have no concrete plan in place so instead of focusing all my efforts on one thing I have been focusing on three major (and complete separate) things...All three would be very different life paths, and they all have very unique benefits & negatives. The awesome thing is that all the options are starting to really pick up and while none of them are entirely full-time yet having three part-timeish jobs= a very busy gal. On top of that I am not used to being a "kept" woman...I HATE that my partner now has the burden of paying for stuff and while we are super lucky he can do that I have always paid my own way and in a way to overcompensate for feeling guilty I have taken on ALL household chores x 3! I somehow think if I clean enough, or cook enough than I will feel less guilty and that somehow I am contributing to our household (I know I am, just doesn't feel like it).
I am keeping an open mind, doing stuff day by day and trying to focus on my successes (landing another contract today! And someone told me they had heard of our agency!) instead of my undecided future. This is the first time in my life that I don't have a clear plan or goal and it is hard to be on that "growing edge". It has really opened my eyes to how amazing my loved ones are! Brent has been uber awesome, last night he told me to really put all my effort in starting my own business. He told me he supports me a 100% and he can see how much happier I am when I do it and that is what he wants. God I am lucky..right?!!? My family and friends have been equally awesome, taking my calls 2-3 times a day when I share every success, worry (or boredom).....
I guess I am just going to keep going, doing what feels good and really learning to live in the day. I am going to count my blessings that most nights I go to bed exhausted, it doesn't get much better.
Lacy
The problem is that I have no concrete plan in place so instead of focusing all my efforts on one thing I have been focusing on three major (and complete separate) things...All three would be very different life paths, and they all have very unique benefits & negatives. The awesome thing is that all the options are starting to really pick up and while none of them are entirely full-time yet having three part-timeish jobs= a very busy gal. On top of that I am not used to being a "kept" woman...I HATE that my partner now has the burden of paying for stuff and while we are super lucky he can do that I have always paid my own way and in a way to overcompensate for feeling guilty I have taken on ALL household chores x 3! I somehow think if I clean enough, or cook enough than I will feel less guilty and that somehow I am contributing to our household (I know I am, just doesn't feel like it).
I am keeping an open mind, doing stuff day by day and trying to focus on my successes (landing another contract today! And someone told me they had heard of our agency!) instead of my undecided future. This is the first time in my life that I don't have a clear plan or goal and it is hard to be on that "growing edge". It has really opened my eyes to how amazing my loved ones are! Brent has been uber awesome, last night he told me to really put all my effort in starting my own business. He told me he supports me a 100% and he can see how much happier I am when I do it and that is what he wants. God I am lucky..right?!!? My family and friends have been equally awesome, taking my calls 2-3 times a day when I share every success, worry (or boredom).....
I guess I am just going to keep going, doing what feels good and really learning to live in the day. I am going to count my blessings that most nights I go to bed exhausted, it doesn't get much better.
Lacy
Musings.
I just finished watching The Pianist, I know I am 5 years too late to the party but what an amazing movie! At the end of it I find myself wondering what I would have done as a German. Would I have said No? Would I have sat by trusting my government to do the right thing? Would I have believed the rhetoric bullshit?
I cannot answer for sure.
I know what I hope I would do, but I clearly have never been in such a situation and I can only hope that I never have to know for sure.
As the Mister and I were talking about it we started talking about how genocide still takes place all the time. Sometimes in the same extreme manner which is both as horrifying and degrading as what took place with the Jewish & their allies. Yet sometimes this takes place in much subtler ways..........
Which I worry & predict will end up with much more horrifying results.
I have long worried peoples' ignorance and the lack of feeling connected to one another will be our downfall.
A couple of years ago I witnessed violence against random individuals where a Max full of people sat by and ignored. 2 people out of 200 said "no, enough". I was embarrassed to be apart of the 198 that sat by asking myself...should I say something? Should I mind my own business? Do I really want to get involved? That moment is one where I cringe and would give good money for a do-over.
Instead of wallowing I will learn from this moment and vinge to never repeat.
This feeling of separateness from our neighbors is the start of bad things, I can feel it in my bones. It is the epidemic sweeping the nation with no remedy in sight.
Every time I see someone in the grocery store wearing ear buds instead of making eye contact.........
Every time I hear of someone not voting because "one vote doesn't matter anyway".....
Every time I hear of yet another death of a teen because of bullying....
Turning a blind eye has lead to millions of deaths over nothing but ignorance & hate.
When will we learn from past mistakes?
I hope that I am wrong. I hope that the revival of neighborhood, community schools, and even homemade brews changes this.
But tonight I start to examine my own life and the world around me to make sure I play no part to hate & ignorance.
Lacy
I cannot answer for sure.
I know what I hope I would do, but I clearly have never been in such a situation and I can only hope that I never have to know for sure.
As the Mister and I were talking about it we started talking about how genocide still takes place all the time. Sometimes in the same extreme manner which is both as horrifying and degrading as what took place with the Jewish & their allies. Yet sometimes this takes place in much subtler ways..........
Which I worry & predict will end up with much more horrifying results.
I have long worried peoples' ignorance and the lack of feeling connected to one another will be our downfall.
A couple of years ago I witnessed violence against random individuals where a Max full of people sat by and ignored. 2 people out of 200 said "no, enough". I was embarrassed to be apart of the 198 that sat by asking myself...should I say something? Should I mind my own business? Do I really want to get involved? That moment is one where I cringe and would give good money for a do-over.
Instead of wallowing I will learn from this moment and vinge to never repeat.
This feeling of separateness from our neighbors is the start of bad things, I can feel it in my bones. It is the epidemic sweeping the nation with no remedy in sight.
Every time I see someone in the grocery store wearing ear buds instead of making eye contact.........
Every time I hear of someone not voting because "one vote doesn't matter anyway".....
Every time I hear of yet another death of a teen because of bullying....
Turning a blind eye has lead to millions of deaths over nothing but ignorance & hate.
When will we learn from past mistakes?
I hope that I am wrong. I hope that the revival of neighborhood, community schools, and even homemade brews changes this.
But tonight I start to examine my own life and the world around me to make sure I play no part to hate & ignorance.
Lacy
