The Schrutes produce very thirsty babies.
I got these at Target the other day, thanks to whatsherdeal. They are sitting on my cube at work now and make me really really happy. Colin (with guest appearances by love_adhesive) & I have been watching Season 3 and now restarted Season 1. I seriously cannot wait until the new season starts.
I'm finally feeling almost 100% better. Some things still irritate my stomach but I was totally able to get a full night's sleep without having to wake up with stomach/abdominal cramps, aches, or worse.
On Monday, I got the above on my cellphone. Slight backstory - my boyfriend & I used to work together at a kid's museum and that's how we met and ended up dating. I quit about a year ago but he's still working there. So he gets to make things with legos and like get paid for it. And apparently he's really really cheesy and nerdy. So all in all, it looks like I win.
I read thesugarmonster's guest blog on The Shapely Prose yesterday and almost started crying at work. We've been lj friends for a few months and I have to admit, I've sometimes felt uneasy at her WLS-talk but this put her situation in an entirely new light. I think it was easy for me to pass judgement before reading it because I am in no position to potentially need WLS, nor am I in her position. And so while I'm still anti-WLS, it was good to hear someone else, someone who I generally respected before and is part of the movement, say, "hey! it's not that black & white!" and still maintain her ethics about it. Please read it if you're at all interested in fat politics.
I've been thinking for awhile now on my place in the fat acceptance movement as someone who is inarguably on the small end of fat. I am slightly bigger than the proposed average size. That said, beauty standards and the general consensus (maybe I should precursor this by saying that I do live in Los Angeles and I recognize that this might skew things) tell me that I am fat. So is it invalidating to other fatter people to call myself fat? I realize that I carry a lot of privilege when it comes to this and it sometimes makes me feel like I should be an ally instead of aligning myself directly with it. Then again, does doing that invalidate my fat experience and the shitty things I've gone through because of my weight/looks? I really don't know where to stand on this.
I bought this because of superblue and these because of whatsherdeal last night when I went grocery shopping. I rarely buy stuff like this but they made them sound so good!
I love Netflix, most of the time. The other day, I watched Chaos, which opens with a disclaimer/warning about the dangers of drug use/raves. Oh hello eyeroll, I did not see you coming. The rest of the film was full of bullshit audience-manipulation, sexism and exploitation. I LOVE horror movies, I love gore. I tend to excuse a lot of the bullshit offensive ignorance in horror movies. Chaos just took it too far and apparently all for humanity's sake. Spare me the after-school special crap please. The only thing I was even remotely amused by was a dvd extra in which the producer & the director dissect, piece by piece, a zero-star movie review that Roger Ebert gave the film. They obviously spent a lot of time thinking about it and sat there in front of a camera with sheets of paper and tried to defend their film. It was really kind of sad & petty.
In happier news, when I got into work this morning, Joe deemed it Weird Animal Day and has been sending me photos of really cute animals all morning. It's been good & happy. Mr. Slothypants was my favorite.
What's your favorite weird animal?