17 posts tagged “girlie stuff”

No matter what you think of Michael Moore, I am posting this mostly because he has a voice that is so much louder than mine.  He's heard by so many more people than mine is on my silly LJ and VOX... and what he said about the choice of Palin and what they're trying to say about women = YAY!  Thanks Michael Moore for calling them out. 

My mom always find it either cute or disturbing when I'm ranting and mad heh, so mom umm you might want to skip this post ;)

Being a big news and politics junkie this election cycle is teaching me something.  Our country is even more screwed up than I thought.  I didn't think that was possible.   I already knew there were lots of racist, sexist, homophobic, idiotic, hateful people in our country.  But, I guess  that deep in my heart I truly believed we'd come a lot further than we have.  We did come very far in nominating, officially, a black man as a candidate to a major party's ticket last night.

BUT...

Since McCain announced Palin as his running mate it feels like being a woman has been turned into an insult of some sort.  For the first time in my life I do actually feel like a second class citizen.  A few of Hillary's supporters started this movement, but now, I just want to throw something.

Clearly Palin's main role is to energize the religious right.  And that's fine, she'll do that.    But that's not what today is about... The entire coverage today is, in a much smarter way than I am saying, claiming that women are stupid creatures, with no brains, who are not capable of thinking for themselves and who are only capable of voting for women because they're emotional idiots.  And SHE fed into that.  She used Hillary and Geraldine Ferraro's names and told women basically hey hi, I'm here now instead. 

I am a woman.   However, when I vote, I am not my gender.  I am my brain.  I am not my skin colour. I am not my nationality.  I am just my brain.  I am my opinions.  What I think about the war.  What I think about health care in this country.  What I think about social issues like gay marriage, abortion, etc.  I do have opinions on those things.  On who will most closely respect my stand on said issues.  I don't care if the person on the ballot has boobs or a penis or  both.  Shocked?  I'm not.  I'm shocked that so many people think I'd vote based simply  on the fact that someone is male or female.  White or black.  It's insulting.

I don't know about how everyone else was raised, but I was raised to think.  To have an opinion.  By a strong woman who may not always agree with me but always wants me to think for myself anyway.   By a woman who really did teach me that white or black, male or female, gay or straight, it doesn't matter, we're all equal.  I'm ashamed that so many supposedly strong women "leaders" are on my tv today telling me to vote for a woman who doesn't believe in what I do simply because she is a woman.  And yes, they are saying that flat out -- in pretty flowery words they think I'm too stupid to understand but I do understand them and I want to vomit.  This is what they think women are worth?  This is what being a strong woman leader is about?  This is what those "18 million cracks in the glass ceiling" are for?  To tell women not to think, to give up everything they believe in, to vote for a woman even if they don't believe in what she does at all?  Just overlook all of that and say hey she's a girl too how cool!  I should vote for McCain he's got a chick on the ballot with him!  Soooo coool. OMG!  Look at her hair, so pretty.   Wonder where she gets her clothes.  Aww look a baby! She's a mom.  Issues?  What?  But ohh her shoes!  *gag*

Thanks for insulting me all over the news today.  Too many of you to name.  Mostly women.  :(

I guess that works for some, but not for me.  I honestly don't think I've been more insulted during this election season than I was today, and I've been pretty shocked and insulted and ranty this year.

So since Biden was OFFICIALLY announced I've skimmed some blogs and boards for reactions.  I suppose I shouldn't be surprised but in ways people DO still surprise me.

On my LJ sidebar I have the following Thomas Jefferson quote:
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. "

Apparently a lot of Clinton supporters don't get that.  Let's be honest, Clinton and Obama couldn't have worked together.  Period.    Her supporters are hurt.  I'm hurt Edwards didn't win and then they broke a scandal out in the open with his wife battling cancer.  But see politics is ugly, they know it, they sign up for it, they're not perfect, they can only hope when they make mistakes they don't get caught, when they do they hope the scandals fly by quickly, and when they lose they take the hits -- maybe in private they cry like babies, who knows -- but they put on a brave public face and they MOVE ON and keep fighting on anyway.

There is a sect of Hillary supporters that have decided that moving on means something like "I'm a Hillary Democrat, Obama didn't listen to ME and pick HER, so now even though McCain believes in everything I don't, I'll vote for him to teach Obama a lesson, even though Biden is a pretty good choice".  Those, aren't exact words, but I've seen those sentiments all over the place.  People don't actually seem to mind Biden, some actually flat out say he is a good choice and they LIKE him and he's the one to take on McCain... BUT.... He's NOT Hillary, SO...

The SO.... being Soooooo.... Obama is a traitor... a traitor to "Hillary Dems"  to womankind.  blah blah blah.  WTF?  Ok what is Nancy Pelosi?  Chopped liver?  She's the 3rd most powerful person in politics in the country!  If Bush and Cheney drop dead she's the president.  Unlikely but does that position mean nothing?  She's not Hillary, she didn't run for pres, we don't acknowledge her achievements.

It seems to me that this sect (yeah like a cult) of Hillary supporters aren't really Dems, they don't really have a core set of political beliefs they're standing up for, if that was the case they wouldn't be making some of the statements they're making now -- claiming they're willing to betray their own beliefs, their party, etc to punish Obama with their vote in November.

Their only belief is that we need a woman in the white house at any cost.  I'm offended, as a woman, that they'd betray other women with their little protest votes to try to prove how serious they are.  Bitches.

Ahh just when I think I've seen all I need to see of human nature on the internet, my LiveJournal friend Phinnia always finds a link that makes me scratch my head.  It seems that all of the how to please your man or how not to scare a man or how to be a ditzy woman wow someone gets paid to write this crap kind of magazines that I have to roll my eyes at when at the grocery store aren't enough.  Nooooo.... You see, we women, we need a reason to use the internet too.  I mean sure some may have figured out how to do a Google or YouTube search for their favorite soap star (women do still watch soaps right?) but then what? 

Now we have Shine by Yahoo.  Our own little place on the web since those other places like normal Yahoo or Google are too complicated or scary for us!  Where else would I find the answer to the question "Should a boyfriend admit he cheats in his dreams?".  I'd have to Google it!  Then someone would have to tell me how to Google.  That'd be hard to do.  And then I'd have to run a separate Google search to find out what 6 things will scare my man!  And yet another to know if a good husband is the answer to a working mom's success!  And another to know if I'd respect a stay at home wife!  And I'd never even know to look up the fact that Ryan Phillipe's girlfriend is creepily turning into Reese! OMFG the things I'd miss.  Obama is too fit to be president? !!!!   Are beards beautiful? Well... are they?  Some guy wants to know... what's he doing reading our internet?  There's a spy among us!

Excuse me, I'm going to go gag now.  I should also tell my sister about it, sadly, I think she'd appreciate it.

The Department of Health and Human Services moves to define contraception as abortion...
Yup it seems everything is abortion now.
I started having my period in 6th grade.  As many have pointed out all over the net guess a period is a wasted egg is abortion now.  Ohhh what a baby murderer I am.  Not to mention those years I spent on the pill and depo -- all of the condoms.  Hell I just had a period, oops another chance for a baby I didn't take.  Damn I'm going to hell or something.

I should just have a sex change so I can control the world and my body.  Brian would be upset though.  

Some people love shoes, some clothes, I love purses.  And so, when mine broke at Disneyland and I haven't bought a new one since the family visited last year, I had to buy a new one... I wanted a small backpack style purse, but sadly they were all too big, or more backpack style than purse.  The one I had was nice but meh couldn't find a replacement I was happy with that cost a reasonable amount.  Sure if I were an idiot willing to spend hundreds I could.  I'm a big fan of never spending over $30 usually not over $20.  And this purse is so me, Yay.  Ok it's marketted for teen age girls, don't care, I never grew up or something.  It's almost the same orange as my sweatshirt (which I'm clearly not wearing now), and it's got a cute artistic girl on it.  It's the right size.  And just yay.  With a few minor changes it'd have been made for me.  Still need to figure out where to put the Obama button doesn't quite work on the front and the straps are thick, I took off the cheesy "I'm a fashion icon" button it came with but left the slightly less cheesy I Love you one.

Girlpurse

Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Ready For State Supreme Court.  That's right boys and girls, the issue goes before the court tomorrow.  There's a link in that story for live streaming coverage that will be available at 9 am Pacific time for all who are interested.

Sleep could wait.. until now.
I was starting to write an entry about Mijn Favoriet, he's the main reason I'm still up (him and the fact that I slept a lot yesterday to make up for my recent lack of sleep).  But what I wanted to express wasn't really coming to me... so instead I'll just say, I'm alive, I'm tired, my MS brain fog is still semi here and made worse by some girlie issues.  And now I need sleep...

Maybe some other times the thoughts I was trying to put here today that I failed at. 
This weekend = hopefully starting to learn a bit about Wordpress.

I think I cursed myself when I said I hoped Brian just had some food that didn't agree with him.  As I now have what he had.  Though I somehow avoided most of the puking part of it.  I am not enjoying the other symptoms and am fighting to stay hydrated.  Sleeping for about an hour, waking up, going to bathroom, downing water, repeat.  ugh.  Every muscle in my body hurts.  Then I reminded Brian I'll have it worse than him, Thanksgiving this week = my period always likes showing up for holidays.  Sure enough, next time I woke up... It's not so pleasant here.  NORD app will have to wait til weekend.  And unless I recover as fast as Brian did, my Thanksgiving will = 7 up and JELLO cups. 

Back to bed.  If I'm not online before...
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL (well all who live in a country that celebrates).

Fires:
My uncle was able to go home this morning.  They only lost some landscaping and not much of it from the sounds of it.  I'm not sure if they're totally out of danger or not, google maps now shows their neighborhood in the yellow zone while around them is still the orange zones.  But for now it seems all is well at least :)

Apparently some people think Al Qaeda is behind the fires... ... ... ... umm... really?  The Santiago Fire was arson but was most seem to think it was likely set by someone like a firefighter.  The Malibu fire was caused by downed power lines, caused by the Santa Ana winds (now 100% contained).  Police killed one arson suspect it seems, when he tried to ram their car as they confronted him, hardly the markings of Al Qaeda.  

 [Me] yeah it's really bad... and apparently a few idiots in the world are trying to say maybe al qaeda did it lol
 [Me] which would be really impressive for the malibu fire! terrorists now control winds!
 [Mijn Favoriet] yeah
 [Mijn Favoriet] it could pose a real threat
 [Mijn Favoriet] maybe they caused the cold here too!
 [Me] yeah!  probably!  hmm any rain ?
 [Mijn Favoriet] not too much luckily
 [Me] hmm thought maybe they sent it all to you to be sure we got none
 [Mijn Favoriet] lol
 [Mijn Favoriet] nah, hardly any rain
 [Mijn Favoriet] it's just cold
 [Mijn Favoriet] cold dry weather
 [Me] dry!  watch out they might make fires there too! :P
 [Mijn Favoriet] heh
 [Mijn Favoriet] we could do with some warmth

Bday:
I was too worried about my uncle yesterday to mention I got mommy b-day presents.  A sweater, a pooh bear coffee mug, cute slipper socks, a Superman bathroom rug that I'll hang on the wall, a metal photo album, I am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert, and some candy.  Think that's it.  Got something else coming from her in a separate mailing but it hasn't arrived yet, so no idea what that is :)

Today:
No sleep and didn't sleep well at all today, err yesterday.  Or the day before for that matter.  Been a bit twitchy this week.  Two nights (well days, my nights) this week I had those major body twitches I usually get worst when I am laying down (and yes I have been taking my Topamax).  Usually I only get those twitches every so many months, twice in a week = major blech right when I am still recovering from the two spinal taps.  Which is why this section is labeled today... in 1 1/2 hours I will be on my way to get the results.  Hence not sleeping now.  So in a few hours I still won't know if I have MS or NS but will know what the spinal tap results were.  Ohh and I am crampy.  These past few weeks have been rough on my body...Wonder when I will have a good sleep day that is also completely pain free.  It does happen, just not in weeks now. </whine>

♥ Ik hou van jullie allemaal ♥