I received an invite in my inbox inviting me to be a VIP guest at a Fashion Show coming up, which is very exciting, but I am not sure why they believe I might be an asset to this sort of thing. Still, I can see me there. It could happen. Mostly what I want is to read the write up in the fashion pages the day after. PEOPLE magazine needs me.BBBGG (Beautiful Bleached Blonde Gay Guy): Quiche Medeadly! HOW did you LOVE the event last night??? SO glad you were there! Made the evening!!
QM: (that would be ME) Oh, dude, I loved it! SO many wonderful people, really, wouldn't have missed it! Was curious about the Gift Bag, what the heck is "Eye Cream"?
BBBGG: Let's talk about your outfit, Fabulously Whimsical knee socks from Target, black workout pants, and a delicious tattered pink tank top, was it hard to decide? Or did it just come together?
QM:It was easy, came together instantly, it's an outfit that's so right for anything. And all I currently own.
BBBGG: I know you've been photographed in a variety of hairstyles, and forever you've been going with the Messy Bun look, and now, you seem to be sporting braids, why the change? We LOVE it by the way, SO five years old!
QM: The bun doesn't fit under my either my Derby Helmet or my Riding one.
BBBRG: And PINK now? Very trending, your doing I suspect, pink is the new purple! Why pink tho? What lead to the switch?
QM: My hairdresser was out of purple that day and I was wearing pink socks*. (*Actual real event)
BBBGG: Tell us about your jacket...
QM: A Naptown Hoodie. Armani, I believe.
BBBGG: Those boots were too too! Michael Kors? Jimmy Choos? Was the mud a Steampunk reference or were you going for a "Crawl out of the Ooze" evolution statement?
QM: Red Wellies. Spring in MN. Be a fool to go with anything else.
BBBGG: We SO admire your stance on not accepting any designer jewels! Diamonds are SO yesterday!!! What are you wearing?
QM: Bee earrings. Only ones I could find two of.
BBBGG: Is that a BENGAL in your bag? Most people carry Little Doggies at these events, don't see any tonight tho...And is that a CASANDRA Designer Purse?
QM: Ah. The purse. Nordstrom Rack. I was weak. And the thing IS cool. And no, there don't seem to be any little doggies around anymore, who can say?
BBBGG: We notice that you are CURVIER than most of the sized 2 and zero starlet and icons here tonight, they look positively starving beside you, do you have any comment for young women in regards to this?
QM: Hell yes! I am a normal sized women and normal sized women have curves and aren't a size zero, who would you rather go to bed with? A stick or a women with something to hold onto*? (*Map of Tasmania reference)
BBBGG: Er...
QM: Oh. Right. Point. The point is I am HOT in whatever I wear, I look GREAT, and I am FIT and happy.
(Network/Mass Media note: We are not running those last comments, cut interview at question 8)
You know, I may well go to this fashion show at that. I got some points to make.
Love and Fashion,
Lorraine
How cool. If I got an email asking me to be a VIP guest at the Fashion Show, I'd be wondering why my spam filter wasn't working.
ReplyDeleteGo and McFashion the bees wax out of them!
Show those fashionistas what's real!
ReplyDeleteHee hee hee! I love it. You so funny. Mr. Jess and I are totally going to marry you.
ReplyDeleteBut what will I wear??
Yes! Go and report back to us!
ReplyDeleteAnd tick
ReplyDeleteRock on. And if it were my fashion show, you'd be welcome not just in the front row, but On Stage should you wish!
ReplyDeletehow fun!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely you should go. We need real people, and real women to go to this kind of thing, plus your write up will be so much fun to read.
ReplyDelete.....now I can't get the idea of Bengal In A Bag out of my head.
ReplyDeleteHilarity would ensue.
LOL!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to read about the reality. Will be wonderfully entertaining I am sure!
But are they the bee earrings that do not actually match? If so I recognize those!
Don't forget to wear roller skates.
ReplyDeleteBest,
Billy
"the only ones i could find two of..."
ReplyDeletehaHA!
did your bay prezzie arrive, braidy lady?
i miss you all there in the snow n' ice.
today it is sunny and 60*....woooooooo!
Wicked! I can just see it! Great picture, by the way.
ReplyDeleteMum & Venus could wear their purple harnesses (perhaps blinged up a little with sequins) and their coats. Their slim elegance would make them the envy of all the models.
ReplyDeleteWhat could possibly go wrong?!?
Mum & Venus could wear their purple harnesses (perhaps blinged up a little with sequins) and their coats. Their slim elegance would make them the envy of all the models.
ReplyDeleteWhat could possibly go wrong?!?
I too would be the least appropriately dressed person at a Fashion Show, but OMG I would still totally go! I hope you go and tell us all about it!
ReplyDeletetick
ReplyDeleteI have doing the bookkeeping, in preparation for doing the taxes. I think I'm finally getting the hang of double-entry bookkeeping, after spending a lot of time and energy doing it wrong.
ReplyDeleteIt should be much smoother from here forward.
Now I get to move on to other exciting things, like housework and a shower.
The glamor of my life threatens to overwhelm me sometimes.
You will definitely be the most interesting person there. Can't wait for reports.
ReplyDeleteI had to learn double entry bookkeeping in order to qualify, but I'm not sure I still remember how to do it.
ReplyDeleteMercifully, the package we have with our (partnership) accountants means they do our individual tax returns, too, so one I started having to file one, I started having someone to complete it, too.
Oh, Phiala dear, I can help you with double-entry stuff, did I mention that my first degree is in accounting? :-D
ReplyDeleteNot going to this event, mind you, just thought it would be funny if I DID.
ReplyDeleteBeen thwarted trying to get to the rink and skate. Too far out in the country, no roads anymore, ain't happening.
Going to skate in my dinning room with the Bengals now. Seriously, there's a lot one can do on the ground.
But I am right grumpy about this.
my little slice of lala-and is having a solo ted leo show for a tenner!
ReplyDeletelove this.
one of my first dates with boy was to a ted leo concert.
Of course, it'd be hard for the reality to be as entertaining as your imagined interview etc.
ReplyDeleteSorry you can't get to the rink, though.
Priceless.
ReplyDeleteYou should go QMD, just for the entertainment value alone.
I think we should have a virtual fashion show - our Fearless Leader has shown us the way.
I want to see QMD as a model at a Kambriel show!!! ANd I love the disappearance of pocket dogs reference...cat in a bag, indeed.
ReplyDeleteYou should go! I once was sent to cover a fashion show for a newspaper, and I didn't make it past the ropes outside the club. I showed the bouncer my press credentials, but they told me the venue was all full up. Then, I got to watch blond stick woman after blond stick woman get waved in right in front of me. I ended up leaving, going out for dinner with a couple of friends, then writing a story about getting snubbed and another about the restaurant. It was a lot of fun once I took control of my evening back.
ReplyDeleteOnly place I'm going now is my bed, Fods, I am tired.
ReplyDeleteIt's still snowing. Like a LOT. Huge snowing. ALL THE SNOW IN THE WORLD is coming down HERE right now.
My car is out on the street, buried halfway up its tires.
So sad it is.
Cozy in the Spooky House tho, and all the Bengals are curled up and sleeping.
If you're up early tomorrow, see you then!
Sweet dreams, my Fiends.
is it cozy on he correct side of the street?
ReplyDeleteWendy that is so damn RUDE. I'm so glad you got sweet sweet revenge *wicked grin*
ReplyDeleteQMD, are you surethe Bengals didn't organise all this snow so you had to stay home with them? I suspect they Haz The Powerz.
You are too hilarious lady!
ReplyDeleteJust got home from a vacation w/ the folks. Had a great time. Ate a lot of oysters. Came home to my Sock Dreams order..yay!
Q, you will be getting a package in the mail in a few days...as soon as I actually get it packed and addressed...a little "you go girl"/derby present :)
OK, bedtime for me.
Interesting morning.
ReplyDeleteGot the car dug out and then found out class was canceled, which I am not REALLY upset about as I have a 2 hour thing tonight, but it WAS kind of harsh to have been out there in the dawn digging and all...
I am sore as hell and about to practice my Derby skills in the dining room, which is darn interesting.
Also having a pretty interesting conversation on FB about just whose panties were in Dark's gear bag, that I currently possess.
SOME of them were hers but the red striped ones remain a mystery...
And it is snowing AGAIN.
Interesting Monday.
Schrödinger underwear!
ReplyDeleteI just love that you're not letting a little weather stop you from skating. :)
ReplyDeleteNo, no. Schrödinger pants are the sort where you don't know whether or not your arse is really in them until you take them off.
ReplyDeleteto arse or not to arse, that is the question of the pants.
ReplyDeleteKinda wishing you would go to the fashion show and send us some more entertaining commentary. I confess - one of my guilty pleasures is Glamour magazine. It's like traveling a foreign country, only much cheaper. And Glamour's lipservice to women of all sizes and shapes is rather better than that of the other magazines.
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ReplyDeleteI am late, sorry, but here now! Awesome interview. I like pink tank tops, and pink hair.
ReplyDeleteI, for one, am a big fan of your Target socks, leggings and shirt ensembles. The hair pulls the whole look together. I am rather inspired. I have a nice collection of Target socks myself.
ReplyDeleteWhen I met you I thought it looked like some of your colored strands of hair were tie-in extensions. If this is true, how did you do that? I used to have pink streaks in my hair and loved it but it ended up being too high maintenance for me after awhile.
Morning Fiends!
ReplyDeleteNot a great morning, I'm growly at everything. On a nice note, that is so exactly right for step class with the PB's, that I im no way wish to go to.
Winter is getting to really be no fun. Want some spring.
Cheer me up?
Have some LoLkitty.
ReplyDeleteOr some music
Presenting... The Llama Song
ReplyDeleteIf you haven't seen this yet you will love it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF9-sEbqDvU
ReplyDeleteDo you like Mystery Science Theatre 3000? That always cheers me up. I have a playlist of shorts and clips: http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=1C97CF02AFABB0BF
Need a cuteness fix? http://www.flickr.com/photos/necilbug/
Go to iTunes radio and under Ambient choose Bird Song Radio. It's just birds singing. It always makes me feel a bit like spring is around.
Now for words of encouragement:
You can make it! Take the opportunity to walk around in a blanket and drink copious amounts of tea. You can do anything what with your colored hair, crazy cats and bad ass roller derby side! You are woman and you can roar. C'mon, roar!
Okay, so, if all else fails, grab the cats and come to Lincoln. You can skate your heart out and bask in sunshine and eat good food. Also, I will let you play with my cats and rats.
Do you have a favorite gemstone or color? I'll make you some pretty jewelry. :)
I don't think it's morning anymore, even in Quicheland. I hope you are feeling cheered by now.
ReplyDeleteOn a seperate note, did you all see that Maureen Johnson is offering a chance to win an ARC of her latest book? details here, and if you don't win the book, you help victims of the NZ Quake & other disasters.
I am lots happier now! Hated the class but it worked well, turned whatever it was.
ReplyDeleteGoing to skate at my Bouncy Castle track now! Then find food.
Becca, you are a chatty new Fiend! Welcome! It was lovely to meet you! You will love these Guys, I do. All of them.
Well, ok, most of them.
More or less.
Kind of.
(I slay myself!)
You would be lost, LOST I SAY, without us!!!!
ReplyDeleteYay bouncy castle track!
My friend just joined a coed derby team in VA. I think I will try to make my first bout next month.
Glad the day turned around! You should be getting a package from me in a day or 2. I mailed it yesterday! :)
ReplyDeleteI've been having a very philosophical, strange day. I posted a very serious blog post about abortion and shared the link with the world. That put me in a strange place. (Don't feel obliged to read, comment or anything on the post, just trying to circulate it in this volatile political time).
I pick up ben in about 45 minutes. He usually brings me back to goofiness.
and by "obliged" i meant "obligated"...yeah, literature major here.
ReplyDeletesorry if I'm overwhelming you with all my chatty-ness ;)
ReplyDeleteBeing sick=the internet is your social life. Aw,hell, the internet is the whole world's social life. But you know what I mean. I think...
You're just fine, my dear. We LIKE chatty here, and the Fiends will like you too!
ReplyDeleteWe'll be your social life! MMMaaaahahahwahahaaaa!
Becca, I'm in the same spot...this is my wonderful cheery hang out place, where I get to feel that I'm still able to do all these wonderful things like riding and skating and so forth.
ReplyDeleteHere in the antipodes we are still pretty much focusing on our cousins in NZ. Hera and Ms T, if you're reading I'm with you in spirit. And any other lurking Kiwi fiends.
Only 1 sleep until I see Jason and EvelynEvelyn, and 2 sleeps until the AFP show. Am I excited or what.
Tomorrow I am wearing my Eye of The Quiche shirt! Seems pretty apt to me. I may just wear my glowing Quiche party shirt on Saturday.
Grading papers. Just popping in to say "Hello!" to the fiends.
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GOOD MORNING!!!!
ReplyDeleteHappier today, but sleepy. Slept IN even, no morning workout today, dentist. No, not any persky dental work, I get my mouth guard this morning!!!
Pricy little thing, but WAY better than the sports store ones. It's boring tho, no exciting colour or fangs or anything. We'll wait for first bout for that one.
Glad you got some extra rest today, anyway! But damn, it still seems like you're up awfully early.
ReplyDeleteTen degrees colder here today in Lincoln than where you are. And we're supposed to get snow! *grumble* So... not leaving my bed.
Mostly I am up by 6, easier in the summer than the winter...
ReplyDeleteMy brain entered intense-land yesterday. Going more for candyland or maybe just get-stuff-done-land today.
ReplyDeleteI see our queen is shopping for her own derby gear....Exciting!
I have a feeling we're not going to get any more snow this year, and it makes me sad. So Becca, if you can figure out how to send me your snow I will gladly take it. just push it in the direction of DC. Seriously snow days are one of my favorite things. Granted I still have to work since I don't have a commute, but having the girls stay home from school makes me VERY happy.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of snow...*we're* supposed to get snow!! Ben's school is pretty much guaranteed to have snow tomorrow, it's at 1800ft. But they're talking snow in Santa Cruz!! So, I usually offer my place as an escape from the cold but you may not want to come this weekend.
ReplyDeleteOf course, cold here is 30-40degrees...*above* zero. That's REALLY cold. Crazy, everyone whines and freaks out cold.
Cecily, you can have ALL the snow, even the bit that's still on the ground. Aesthetically, I don't mind snow but practically, no. I will do my best to send it.
ReplyDeleteI liked snow better when I lived on the east coast in Maryland. You people get nicer snow, methinks.
We're supposed to get ice pellets, then rain, then snow, with a quick trip thru freezing rain on the way. I'll trade that for pretty much ANYTHING.
ReplyDeleteIs it wrong that I am seriously envious of all you people getting winter weather?
ReplyDeleteChantrelle, stay off the roads!!! If you guys never get snow then the driving will be atrocious. That's what happens here. MD/DC/VA drivers have no idea how to drive in the snow, so it's crazy when there is any snow. I spent half my youth in NY, and since snow happened a lot people knew how to drive in it.
I seriously need to win the lottery and buy a winter home in New Hampshire or Maine, where I can go hibernate for a few months. *stares of into space day dreaming* *le sigh*
OFF stares OFF into space...sigh
ReplyDeleteNo kidding, people can't even drive in rain here and that happens for a good chunk of winter. I do have to drive up to ben's school in the morning and home in the afternoon. Should be fine though, most of it is rural roads. The snow we get in santa cruz won't really stick, it'll just dust and be pretty....that whole snow on the beach thing here is cool. It happened when ben was a baby. This is how much snow we get here, that's our backyard 6 years ago. And this is a house across the street from the ocean. So as you can see, our definition of snow is a little different than yours ;-) Ben's school gets a little more.
ReplyDeleteAnd that is my photo presentation for today. :)
We got ice pellets yesterday and I was out in them.....honestly my strongest reaction was "what the hell - who is throwing things at me?" Ah winter....
ReplyDeleteIs there a way that Q's blog can email me her posts. LOL!
ReplyDeleteI am soooo consistently late to the party that it's not even fashionable. ;-)
snow?
ReplyDeletei am so spoiled. although last weekend we had snow in the next mountain ridge over, it was beautiful. snow is something i see off in the distance. i would love for it to snow in lala-land. i would laugh so hard, no one here owns a jacket, let alone knows how to drive in snow.
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ReplyDeleteYou guys are making me so cold with all of this snow talk. I refuse to let it snow in Boston again. We're done. :-)
ReplyDeleteMarcel the Shell is very cute. LOL. Thanks Becca.
Why must Comicon hotels be so expensive? Sigh... The world is not my oyster today.
Cecily, I can send you some Boston drivers, if you'd like. When it snows is the only time they know how to drive well. :-D
ReplyDelete...says the Bostonian who is a former Californian.
SNOW?
ReplyDeleteNo snow in Rome this year (at least thus far) but we had gelid weather today (well, gelid for Rome. It was still above freezing temperature in the day time) but we had gorgeous weather.
I wonder what the magnolias are making of the sudden chill.
Nathalie, I have a question for you, but I can't find your email address. If you get a chance, can you please email me at e.m.underwood at post.harvard.edu ?
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Erin
I love Marcel. Marcel is my hero. We won't fight unless we're provoked! Damn skippy.
ReplyDeleteHello Becca! Yay, fresh meat, I mean, New Fiend! \o/
Hello all you lot also. What's happening? I'm all behind and stuff.
What is happening here is that I have coffee. And I am supposed to be writing a BIG SEKRIT EXCITING NIGHT GARDEN POST which will go up tomorrow. And then you will all know what the big exciting sekrit is. Provided I can get my butt off twitter and write the thing.
Erin you can keep your Boston drivers. Out of all the places I have been, they are by far the WORST drivers I have ever seen, and that includes NYC cab drivers.
ReplyDeleteI was about to make a "we don't get snow at this time of year" comment when I remembered that my parents had snow on their wedding day, which was on 1st March, so I decided it might be tempting fate. (Admittedly, that was 42 years ago, and I don't think they have ever had a snowy anniversary, but still)
ReplyDeleteI have snowdrops in my garden, and they are in all the hedgebottoms I drive past. Still feels cold, though.
And I am feeling grumpy & uninspired.
LOL, just found this weather site via a friend on facebook. Warning, contains profanity but is F*&#ing hysterical ;-)
ReplyDeleteIt does not accept an address outside the US..
ReplyDeleteGlad ya'll like Marcel. And hello and well met, Fiends! I know Lorraine because she was the one who organized my visit to Neil. We chronically/terminally sick adults don't have a Make A Wish Foundation, we have a Fabulous Lorraine! Which, in my opinion is far more funny and sexy than some foundation.
ReplyDeleteBecca, I totally agree. I think the Fabulous Foundation is ... well... fabulous!
ReplyDeleteIt's great to have you on the list. You'll notice that we come and go and ... often... spin in circles.... but we always return to she who is Fabulous and the Fabulous Fiends. :-)
Becca - I'm sorry to hear the reason you have found us but I"m glad you have! This is an amazing group that has been drawn here.
ReplyDeleteI need to go to the store, but i'd rather just sit and stare at my computer....sigh.
Just catching up on everyone's links.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, Becca - I *do* love Marcel (and hadn't seen it before)
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ReplyDeleteWhoahhhhh! Guess who now has teh internests at home? Live in FEAR!
ReplyDeleteAnd if you do Twitter fiendishly and are content to listen to my momness ravings, come find me: notanyani.
ReplyDeleteLET ME COMMENT! This IS my blog???
ReplyDeleteBlogger keeps eating me and offering to "Let me create my OWN" blog...
Blogger eats my comments but lets Marjorie post many times?????
ReplyDelete*feels welcomed* :)
ReplyDeleteand omg, snow for the rest of the WEEK?! That has GOT to be wrong. Then again it would stop my stressful problem of having to get a ride to errands I don't feel well enough to do in the first place...
Oh. I guess it likes me again. Kept telling me to get my own blog started and eating what ever it was I said. Not that I can recall..
ReplyDeleteWhoops. Not sure what was going on there! I SWEAR I pressed post Once, and Once only. AND blogger said it hadn't posted.
ReplyDeleteAni, anything special we should be scared if you doing? I prefer my fear to be specific, y'see.
Q, Marjorie has the blog keys and she is driving. :-)
ReplyDeleteNoNoNoNoNoNoooo!
ReplyDeleteI'm not qualified to drive this blog, especially not in the snow. And on the wrong side of the road.
Marjorie, I'm scared of Ani's sheer wonderfulness, but maybe that's just me ;-)
ReplyDeleteI need to blow off steam - if the fracking federal government shuts down next week, I won't get to see my sweetie who I haven't seen in over a year. I'm not going to get into what should or shouldn't be in the budget, because I'm sure we all have our opinions, I just want them to settle on it already!!!!! They're interfering with my love life!
DG, they're also interfering with my livelihood. Not to disparage your love life, of course. :)
ReplyDeleteAs someone living in Wisconsin I'm not all that pleased with ANY flavor of government right now. Even the Milwaukee City Hall is getting into the act - a piece of masonry fell off the building so they've got a lane of traffic blocked off including my bus stop! The nerve!
ReplyDeletePhiala, they're screwing with his livelihood, too, of course. But what can I say, I have a one-track mind... ;-)
ReplyDeleteI sent you an email, Erin.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't mind a few days off in March, even unpaid - I have novel revisions to do. But I'm travelling for work a lot in March, and that needs to happen.
ReplyDeleteDear Fods people, I was only gone a half an hour!!!
ReplyDeleteYes. Madness has struck.
ReplyDeleteAll doomed.
ReplyDeleteI must have these. All Of Them.
ReplyDeleteI ordered my first set already :)
ReplyDeleteYes...dooooooomed.
Doomed you say?
ReplyDeleteI REALLY need to work...can't seem to focus...
OK, i'm really going to the store now. I think. Actually, maybe lunch first.
ReplyDeleteThe lovely olga nunes suggested i make lamb for dinner when i threw the question of "what protein" out htere. I've never made lamb. Not even sure if i like it. But i'm taking the challenge and making this tonight. If i'm going to cook lamb for the first time, it's going to be adventurous!!
I can't order mine yet!!! Our old bank is a MD state credit union, and we don't have a VA bank yet, but there are no branches for my old bank anywhere near here, so I can't deposit my checks so I have no money in it so I can't order things.
ReplyDelete*collapses in despair*
Chantrelle, I have some ground lamb. Haven't made anything with it yet. Normally I'm a vegetarian but I keep getting anemic and since I have Crohn's Disease I need a meat that's easy on the stomach. One of these is supposedly lamb. Let us know how your lamb tastes!
ReplyDeleteChantrelle..I'll be right over...*drools*
ReplyDeleteFor the first time ever? Wow. I would never have supposed you to be a lamb virgin, Chantrelle.
ReplyDeleteWill do! If it works it will show up on FoodPorn.com. I tend not to post my failures there though ;-)
ReplyDeleteI can see this is going to be me going to bed with a clean inbox and logging in next morning with 140 odd messages waiting...
ReplyDeleteMeat in general is a relative new addition. I always ate fish, chicken came in before ben was born but beef and pork just made their way into my kitchen in the last couple of years. When i first started eating meat again, i didn't cook it, just ordered it when we went out.
ReplyDeleteI make a mean meatball now! Among other things but that's my down home, quick and easy dinner comfort food.
As long as I don't think about the original shape of the meat, I'm ok eating it.
ReplyDeleteOMG. Think Geek? LOL. There went 20 minutes.
Check out the Zombie Haiku: http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/b6a9/
This is a classic:
Brains, BRAINS, BRains, brains, BRAINS.
BRaiNS, brains, Brains, BRAINS, BRains, brains, BRAINS.
BRAINS, BRains, brains, BRAINS, brains.
Crohn's Disease, Becca? Have you read Martin Millar's "The Good fairies of New York"? I seem to remember the heroine suffered from the same. It is a great - hilarious - story. As is his "Lonely Werewold Girl".
ReplyDeleteErin - You've never been to think geek!! Oh dear. i actually bought that book in Mpls on the house on the rock trip and forgot to gift it to a fiend at HOTR. I am saving it for the next gathering :)
ReplyDeleteLonely Werewolf Girl is awesome. I need to get all his other books.
No, I've never read those. thanks for the suggestions! I did hear about another book where the heroine had Crohn's...let's see...Kindred by Tammar Stein
ReplyDeleteI was surprised, too. I think partly as I think of beef as being 'meatier' so I'd imagine you going through lamb on your way to beef ( as it were)
ReplyDeleteI am experiencing a sudden craving for roast leg-of-lamb, with onion sauce & redcurrant jelly and roast potatoes.....
Hmmm. I wonder if it is too late to invite myself to my parents home for the weekend?
I LOVELOVELOVE ThinkGeek so very much. I got that book for my Sister-Out-Law this past xmas. I also have a friend who happens to be their t-shirt designer. She has agreed to take me to work one day. I am very eager.
ReplyDeleteThat's cool Cecily! Ben was cracking up at the "Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies. -V" t-shirt. He loves going through the think geek catalog.
ReplyDeleteDrats. I went onto Think Geek and ordered 2 t-shirts. as if I hadn't plenty already! AND postage to Europe is outrageous PLUS I will probably have to pay taxes on arrival AND go to the post office to retrieve the parcel. Buggerage and darnation. But, hey, cool T-shirts.
ReplyDeleteI am giggling because we are a Sexy Foundation. My mind is unravelling so soon. Hello, I am twelve. :D
ReplyDeleteWow! Fiends are awake today! Love it.
ReplyDeleteMorning Fiends.
ReplyDeleteTis the day of the Jason Webley/EvelynEvelyn gig. Guess who is just a little excited?
Morning Sally, HAVE FUN!
ReplyDeleteSheesh people, some of us go away for work meetings for only an hour and a half and the mailbox FILLS UP. :)
Yeah, I love it when Fiends are chatty.
ReplyDeleteLamb is my favorite meat. Luckily Australian lamb is both delicious and generally not that expensive.
Mmmm, lamb. Now I know what I want for dinner before my (first) big night out.
Any lurking Melbourne Fiends here? I'll be the one with those flashing necklace thingies draped around her walking frame - tonight at Jason Webley and tomorrow at AFP.
ReplyDeleteWhat a weekend I am going to have!
Dammit, I killed the conversation. Have you all gone to bed or something?
ReplyDeleteIt's still work-hours in the US for those of us with office jobs, Sally. We're around, but, y'know, working. Really.
ReplyDeletePhew...thought I'd bored everyone to sleep ;)
ReplyDeleteNot asleep! Definitely try to finish work up. I am very excited for you and your show filled weekend. I hope to see both of them again when they come back to the states.
ReplyDeleteNot asleep Sally, just out buying lamb! :)
ReplyDeleteHave fun at the show (like there would be a chance of a not-fun show!)
Apropos of nothing, i just got an email announcing a show of a band called !!!
ReplyDeleteNow, how do you say that?
bang bang bang?
3 exclamation marks?
The artist formerly known as WTF?
I'm awake!
ReplyDeleteI'm just distracted by watching House.
Hey, Becca! I haven't been around much and haven't had a chance to say hello. I'm Lihua, or Emily, or Lili. LihuaEmily. :) Welcome!
ReplyDeleteI think you should go to the fashion show, Ms. Fabulous. You had clothes to wear in New Orleans, so I know you have more than workout clothes. Granted, if all it will do is raise your blood pressure, don't go. :)
ReplyDeleteHi, Becca! Welcome to Fiendom! Here is your white buckled jacket. You are welcome to personalize it any way you wish; supplies are over there. :)
If you haven't taken a look at The Night Garden, you should. :)
You know, we've never really talked about what our individual buckled jackets look like.
ReplyDeleteMine has been decorated with sparkling purple, and dragons, naturally. There is some swirling aqua and pink in the mix too...and if you look hard enough you may find a frog and gecko as well.
Victor Borges would have said that band name, "whistle POP" with a downward slash of index finger, and then a poke at the audience. No, you have to be there...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4qii8S3gw
ReplyDeleteWelcome to Becca, and, Chantrelle, if you don't like the lamb, I'll take the left-overs! One of my very favorite meats, and I don't live down-under.
I am sitting in a cool hotel in Chapel Hill, where I am attending a training, and pursuing a mini-Fiend meet with Jane. We hope to connect on Saturday...I'm excited. And this hotel has cool motion sensitive, color changing squares on the floor of the elevators. I want to ride up and down and dance!
I got to see Victor Borge before he died...it was great! Went w/ my mom and grandma :)
ReplyDeleteThe last (and only) time we were in chapel hill was last year when ben was the sickest he's ever been. We saw our hotel room, the urgent care and, briefly, our friend's living room. Everyone was really nice though!
Chantrelle - how lucky to see Victor Borge. The man was amazing, and I can never watch that clip enough. Thanks Dabbler.
ReplyDeleteThere can't be many better ways to spend your time than watching some of the Victor Borge clips on Youtube...
ReplyDeleteI need to think more about my buckled jacket.
ReplyDeleteVictor Borges!!!
ReplyDelete<3
*twirls* becca welcome:)
one of my coworkers suffers from chrones, it's always an issue to find something for him to eat because he also has celiac with it.
also, i <3 good fairys of new york. i don't often laugh out loud as i read, but i did with that book:D
also, i have been a bad girl. today there was a fruit announcement, and i bought some new froot. (macbook) technology is my crack. (i so need that on a shirt)
my jacket has bells on it. it chimes everytime i move. darn it, if i'm going to be crazy, i'm driving everyone else around me bonkers too! i want company :)
ReplyDelete*twirls*
I think my jacket has an original Starfleet insignia and an electron. There's a Musketeers hat to go with it. I rock.
ReplyDeleteMy jacket shall have an embroidered picture of a liver on it with a green ribbon (organ donation) and also some pictures of my ratties. On the sleeve shall my a diamond-studded black cat with a nurses cap on (for Nurse Velvet) and, um...okay, I didn't really plan this out but it has to involve something along the lines of those features.
ReplyDeleteJust got some new, pretty origami star paper. I'll have to post pictures. Lorraine can tell you about her origami stars I gave her. Miss Fablor, this new star paper size makes stars between the size of yours and the tiny ones on Neil's piece.
http://journalstar.com/news/local/article_ce9b0c71-8118-5968-8db5-8efc375f4993.html
I had never planned my jacket...well...can it start out black? I say yes.
ReplyDeleteBlack...must have some skulls...something food-related...maybe sushi patches or something? I haven't thought it through.
I always love the smell of subway and hate the taste. I prefer Quiznos if i'm going for insta-sandwich.
That's you Becca? You are now officially a Fiend Star.
ReplyDeleteBTW, we have a Fiends group on Facebook. Really, we need to make it more active again gang.
go here
Mucho cool, Becca. You are so close to my age, closer than any other Fiend, I believe! (I'm eighteen.)
ReplyDeleteCHATTY! Love this!
ReplyDeleteNot wearing a jacket, just now. I am making dinner tho, which is huge for me, and not whinning for someone to come and cook.
Yessirreee. We got a Sweet Potato all cut up and a veggie corn dog. Baking the things. Eeeeaaassssyyyyy....
Forgot I had gigs this weekend. OOPS!! Fitting them in will be...Tricky. Going to sleep LATE on Monday tho!
There's a Facebook group and I wasn't added...I'll try not to take offense, as I weep quietly into my Coke Zero...no no it's ok...I'll just go work on my jacket...in the corner...and the dark...
ReplyDeleteHow the heck did THAT happen Cecily. Glad I am that this has been rectified.
ReplyDeleteLorraine, can I have some of that dinner? I'm too tired to make myself anything and I'm sick of drinking Boost (can you believe the doctors once wanted me to drink 5 of those a day?!)
ReplyDeleteI love me some sweet potatoes. sweet potato fries are an awesome way to eat 'em!
Thanks all for the lovely compliments :) I sellsome of my origami and some gemstone jewelry at a local shop a then I give away tons of origami to people in hospitals and clinics. I also give them as gifts, of course :)
Also, keep in mind, Emily, that article is rather old. I'm 23 now, 24 in the summer.
ReplyDeleteI am cold and uncomfortable. If it weren't for you lot, I would be totally bored. :-) Thanks for entertaining me tonight.
ReplyDeleteQ, when do we show up for dinner?
Emily, you are still the youngest. :-) Heh!
Vampi, I love your jacket. I want one.
Yes, still the youngest, but Becca is still the second-youngest, I believe.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny to think I was fifteen when I started as a Fiend.
I'm thinking The Night Garden Project needs more origami. That's what. If you fancied contributing something, Becca, we'd love to have you join us there. nightgardenproject[at]verizon[dot]net if you're up for it. Email me. We'll chat. :)
ReplyDeleteblogger not doing well tonight...
ReplyDeleteMuch better now. Lost a huge long post - oh well.
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to say Hi Becca! I have a close friend with Crohn's and she's finally gotten the treatment she needs to have a good life - i really hope you can get to the same place. It's hard, I know from her experience...
I think Sally is at the Evelyn Evelyn show in line right now! She will be having some fun!
ReplyDeleteOh, good morning!
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteDang, you all were chatty yesterday (Hi Becca!). I was at an afternoon-long meeting that broke my brain. Still planning on meeting a friend to see Spellbound on the big screen (looking forward to the Dali dream sequence) on Saturday. But the rest of the next several days will be spent following up on the brain-breaking stuff.
ReplyDeleteRiding here this morning, then work, then workout, then gig.
ReplyDeleteRather a bit much, but sometimes the cards fall where they do.
How wise I sound this morning!
I believe you are right, Our Sally is rocking away at the EvelynEvelyn gig even as we speak :-)
ReplyDeleteSock, I hope the brain-breaky stuff has things which are interesting and/r useful or productive?
I seem to have spent most of today and yesterday banging my head againt (metaphorical) brick walls.
Right now I really, really want to know what training (if any) is given to Social Workers about effective communication - I mean, if your job involves working with and advising people and trying to support them to make changes surely the ability to explain clearly what they are being asked to do, and what concerns there are about what they are currently doing (or not doing) is a fairly fundemental part of the job?
Fods know, it isn't an EASY job, but it really matters that it gets done right.
Grrr.
/rant
*Ahem*
Also, Good Morning / Afternoon / Random Time Of Day.
I am afraid they get no specific training in that at all.
ReplyDeleteIt's almost "flee the office and walk 9km ont he treadmill" time here, which feels pretty random but MOST welcome. I swear today had more gravity in it.
so sick this morning. feel awful. I felt awful yesterday, too, but today it's worse. Say some prayers for me, Fiends. :)
ReplyDeleteJust an fyi, I have a liver disease called PSC that is very rare and does not have a cure. I'm waiting for my third transplant (although I've been waiting 4 years). My disease is end-stage. The lovely thing about PSC is it often comes with Crohn's. Anyway, head on over to my blog to learn more about it. Also, go to pscpartners.com and get some cool gear and donate money for a good cause at the same time! Okay, that's my plug for today.
Jess, I will email you about origami as soon as I can.
In your own time, Becca. Take care of you. Keeping you in my thoughts.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the Big Sekrit is out. Help us scream, Fiends! Tell everyone you know. Then accost random strangers in the street.
ReplyDelete*snugs* becca
ReplyDeletethere is a good sized japanese population here in pasadena, and i know a shop that has some beautiful origami papers. do you have something similar? if you like i can run by there and get some. i<3 origami. i'm not great at it, but i make a few things.
ohi friended you on twitter(vampiress) and bookface (donielle). not stalking...
ReplyDeleteyour blog is amazing. you are so brave to be so honest and share so much.
vampi: that's okay, I'm a "stalker" too, lol. I have an old blog at http://beccainnebraska.blogspot.com but I can't access it anymore because the Google monster ate my password.
ReplyDeleteI do love the japanese-style origami stuff. It's so pretty and classic. Most of the origami papers I get are from Korea just because they make the papers for the stars, turtles, boats and hearts. For cranes, though, I like to go Japanese. That is uber sweet of you to offer. If you want to send some I ain't gonna stop you :)
Feeling a bit better now. Better enough to listen to Neil read "The Graveyard Book and fold some stars. Also going to upload some pics of my origami. I'll be back with a link to them.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=288553&id=512053809
ReplyDeleteThere we are. A few origami photos. They're cheering just to look at, I think. The colors and all.
Those are beautiful! I love the teeny tiny stars. That's gotta be a challenge. :)
ReplyDeleteActually, they're not that hard. Then again I've been making them for years and I have tiny fingers.
ReplyDeletewow! amazing. so beautiful. i really like how you string them up.
ReplyDeletenow i have a reason to go to the kimono store and buy some pretty paper!
Love the turtles, Becca!
ReplyDeleteMy goodness...I step away and all heck breaks loose!
ReplyDeleteWelcome Becca! Love the origami and will read your blog next.
Am listening to new Decemberists (I am so in love with this band!!!)
Chantrelle, I've never particularly liked lamb until I had the Australian...hope your recipe turned out swell.
My Fiend's extra long armed white jacket is plain on the outside to fake everyone out...but the inside??? Covered in a painting of reflecting water and undersea kelp gardens and poetry to make one weep and smile and laugh.
Sally...how was the show???
Since you aksed Pi...
ReplyDeleteI wrote a comment last night but blogger ate it, and as it was hours and hours past my bedtime, I gave up.
The show was AWESOME.
Those of you on twitter may have seen this
I wore my eye of the quiche shirt, pointed at my chest and told Amanda who I was...got extra huge hugs from her, and gave her hugs and love back from The Fiends.
I decorated my walker with flashing disco balls - damn good idea when trying to navigate through a crowded room!
I cannot tell you how awesome the night was. The only one I didn't get to chat with was Jason, because I had to get my young friend Jess, who came with me home because she starting work in 6 hours!
Oh -and Becca, your origami is incredible. How do you make those incywincy stars?
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're feeling a little better now.
Sally that's wonderful! I don't think I've ever seen you this happy! Yay and super Yay!
ReplyDeleteSally...love the shot of you and Amanda...awesomeness abounds!
ReplyDelete(Glad you had fun!)
Sally, so much fun! That is made of awesomeness.
ReplyDeleteYou go girl!!!
So happy for you, Sally!
ReplyDeleteGuys! Staged reading tomorrow! Just wish I didn't have to like ... TALK into the mic.
Li Em! Lili. Emily.
ReplyDeleteYou will be fine. Do what Quichie told me ages ago, when I did a reading: Be the King. While you're up there, you own it. People are there to see you; they wouldn't be there if they didn't want to. Be the King.
Also: it helps to breathe. Go slowly, and breathe. :)
Awesome picture, Sally! Hope the show at the Forum tonight is even better! :)
ReplyDeleteI have this feeling I'll be forced to join the Book of Faces. :/
Hope the feeling better continues, Becca! {{Becca}}
Ariandalen (and everyone else) when I was speaking to Amanda, and then to Tom Dickens (he of the lemon cake song) they both said tonight is going to be even more awesome.
ReplyDeleteI am currently sitting here in my underwear trying to decide what to wear. Its hot right now, but wet stuff is predicted for latter.
*sigh* Such a hard first world problem.
You could go with just the underwear, Sally... I'm sure Amanda wouldn't mind!
ReplyDeleteSo glad you had fun, and have more to come - I've been keeping all my fingers firmly crossed for you that you would be well enough to go and to enjoy.
LiEm...Jess is right.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget to breathe!
(Good luck!)
You'll be fine.
Morning!
ReplyDeleteSally, glad you had so much fun! It's a wonderful show, isn't it? And you sounded HOT!
Awww, Jess, you listened to me! I never knew.
Derby practice and Rock are going to have to learn to get along. Clearly. Being up this early is all kinds of wrong.
Just that one time. I'm totally tuning you out now. That's how we know we're married.
ReplyDeleteNo, no, no.
That was one of the best things anyone ever told me, actually. I like to pass it along. :)
Just home from the (second) Amanda concert. Totally awesome.
ReplyDeleteIts interesting contrasting last night's show, which was a nice 'intimate' night at a pub, and tonight's show which was the full on at a theatre concert.
Winding down now for bed. At least that's the plan. I think I'm still on a high.
Sally! Wow! Really all I can say...
ReplyDeleteKatilou - Facebook is not the evil monster :-)
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of evil monsters, what the hell's up with Twitter? Going into withdrawal here. *trembles*
ReplyDeleteYou guys are having so much fun! I'm jealous!!
ReplyDeleteJess, careful. The TwitterBeast will get you!
Muahahahahha!
Thanks, guys! I am leaving in five minutes to get to this thing!!!!
ReplyDeleteSorry to be so absent...been actually DOING things..weird I know.
ReplyDeleteHave fun EM!
Great picture Sally!
good afternoon ya'll. Somehow I wasn't receiving the comments for a bit so sorry I've been absent.
ReplyDeleteSally: So jealous.
As to how I make tiny stars...um...I just do it, I guess. Bit more challenging at the moment since my medications sometimes make my hands super shaky.
Squared: Yay! Yes, the next blog will be about my meeting with Neil and after that probably a health update.
There. Finished review that was due yesterday (asked for an extension).
ReplyDeleteNow to work on Night Garden website stuff for a bit; have a pesky hosting problem that really needs to be solved.
The thrills never end around here!