Yay!

I won! I won! I knew that spending hours entering Fall Y’all blog giveaways would pan out for me!

So, thank you Jen over at The Pile I’m Standing In! I’m looking forward to digging into the book.

Fall Y’all!

If you get a chance soon, check out The Fall Y’all! Bloggy Giveaway. I found the link too late to be one of the blogs doing a giveaway, but I’ve bookmarked the site and I’ll probably give it a go the next round.

As part of that, I ran across this giveaway. I’d shop for Christmas gifts there for WhatsHisFace in addition to a few other hard to shop for men, but the cats out of the bag on a few of them by doing the post.

Delurk! Delurk!

(which should be said in your best Tattoo Fantasy Island voice)

Schmutzie over at Milk Money has declare today the Great Mofo Delurk. So go forth and comment!

So as to not leave you high and dry, I’ll even help out with some possible topics for commenting on here. You can always leave the answers on another blog, because that would just be so confusing to them and almost count as bad naughty fun for me. If you do that last one, drop me the link so I can be in on the fun too!

1. BJ Hunnicut or Trapper John?
2. Silly hats or fake facial hair?
3. Which side of a duck has the most feathers?
4. Fast moving zombies or fluffy bunnies?
5. Of all of the voices in your head, which is your favorite?
6. What’s your favorite spice?
7. If you had to choose, which would you rather have: herpes, a root canal, a computer virus, a colonoscopy, or a polygraph?
8. Aliens or elves?
9. What show/movie/relationship was so awful (trainwreck) that you just couldn’t turn away?
10. Zen space. Make up a question and provide your own answer.

Hehehehe

I just bought this:

It’s a sock zombie. She has an Etsy shop now. I’d been reading her blog for a while and admiring the sock creations, but since it was through a feed, I had no idea I could buy them.

Hehehehe

I just bought this:

It’s a sock zombie. She has an Etsy shop now. I’d been reading her blog for a while and admiring the sock creations, but since it was through a feed, I had no idea I could buy them.

The Whore…

Everyone has bad days, right? And more than a few of my friends seem to be hanging on by their fingertips lately. If you’re not one of them – if you are having a good day or month or year, then try to remember one of those bad times that everybody has experienced at least one time in their life.

Got that in your head? Good. Now imagine being in that place and then go read this.

I wish sometimes that I could make everyone feel what I feel. It makes my heart ache.

Edited to add: the title is referring to Hurricane Katrina, not the author of the linked post. Shannon aka CharmingBitch aka CharmingDriver calls Katrina that in her post.

The Whore…

Everyone has bad days, right? And more than a few of my friends seem to be hanging on by their fingertips lately. If you’re not one of them – if you are having a good day or month or year, then try to remember one of those bad times that everybody has experienced at least one time in their life.

Got that in your head? Good. Now imagine being in that place and then go read this.

I wish sometimes that I could make everyone feel what I feel. It makes my heart ache.

Edited to add: the title is referring to Hurricane Katrina, not the author of the linked post. Shannon aka CharmingBitch aka CharmingDriver calls Katrina that in her post.

This?

This? Is completely disgusting. Eww ewww ewww ewwwww.

(and yet, I had to share it. Odd, no?)

This?

This? Is completely disgusting. Eww ewww ewww ewwwww.

(and yet, I had to share it. Odd, no?)

Out Wailing In The Rain

Her mind lives tidily, apart
From cold and noise and pain,
And bolts the door against her heart,
Out wailing in the rain.

Dorothy Parker (1893 – 1967)

Source: Sunset Gun, 1928.

This quote spoke to me. It is me. The way I usually deal with stress or anything that causes me pain is to push it away. Pretend it isn’t happening until it stops. I bolt the door on the pain and live apart from it. It works until things start seeping through the cracks. Because I can’t contain it forever. That’s my usual method. But for today, I’m not doing that.

I read a post yesterday by Kevin, and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head. I can’t even begin to touch the first photo and story from his post. It’s just too huge and ugly and painful for me to grasp. It’s not that I’m locking it away as much as that I lack the ability to put so much pain into words.

But the video at the end, that I can deal with. I know how I feel about that.

I hate this war. I hate that my friend worries about her daughter Liz every day because she’s in Baghdad now. I hate that there are families all across the world that worry and fear for a loved one like my friend does. The sacrifice and courage shown daily by Liz and all her fellow soldiers amazes me. And it terrifies me as well. Are we worth that? Can anyone be worth that?

This isn’t a rant against the politics of the moment here in the United States. I don’t have the knowledge or experience of world politics to assume that I can say the war is right or wrong. It doesn’t even matter if I voted for or against the current political leader. None of that will change the past.

Watch the video and see the people that are in harms way because of what we’ve allowed to happen. Watch the video and pass it on. This isn’t one of those emails that profess undying patriotism as a disguised way of declaring a political view. This is beyond politics.

Find a way to pass it on.