Now they're doing an advertising campaign comparing fat women to whales, in an effort to convince them to be vegetarians/vegans on account of how you're supposed to lose weight that way. I was just as fat when I was a vegan as when I wasn't. I was also malnourished because I was flat-broke & couldn't afford to eat properly without animal products. In fact, the only way I've ever managed to be less fat is by eating a meat and veggie diet sans grains.

But I'm thinking maybe now PETA could classify me as an endangered species & "protect" or "liberate" me?


Anyway, Dear Advertising People (for the 9000th time):  STOP USING MY BODY TYPE AS A FEAR TACTIC.


 

Except she is getting silver band near the top with her intials & "Attorney at Law" on it. The flames come up from the bottom. Ha!

Oh, that is incorrect. She is getting a nice wooden cane with the band & inscription for dress-up time.

SERENA! Yeah!

I knew it was going to be the sister vs. sister smackdown! Can women's tennis get any better?

 

 

HOLY FUCK N A HALF: NO! SERENA & HER SISTER, making America proud!!!!!! Yes!!!!

Next up....get kitties on LOLcats

30 minutes of fame, hear it!

I've searched everywhere, trying to figure out the title of a book I read when I was 12ish. It's about this teenage tennis prodigy whose family has to scrimp and save just to afford her required tournament uniforms. Anyway, ultimately, her main rival is accidentally killed by the teen prodigy's best friend overchlorinating the pool they all exercise in.

This book made a strong impression on me, but unfortunately it seems to have vanished.

Hmmm?

I'm selling a lot of my furniture and other items (the stuff that isn't thrashed by animals, movers, etc.) & I'm learning to enjoy the whole haggling/bargaining process. Not to mention cash-originating.

I can hardly wait to schedule my life to the gills/hilt/limit.

Just hanging on tight a few more months.

Scuba class for sure in three months!

Visiting with honorary auntie before the end of the year!

FREEDOM, how it beckons.

We haven't even been to the coast yet!

Bonus exclamation marks: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Movies I Want to See Because They're Based on Books I've Read:

Cheri/The Last of Cheri
My Sister's Keeper
2012

I know I'm being a jerk about it, but every time I see those ads about how many people can survive cancer nowadays, I get pissed off. When I see those "What Cancer Can't Do" prayers everywhichwhere, I get really annoyed in a selfish way. What cancer can do is rob me and many of my beloveds of the people who mean the most to us. I don't care about the people who beat cancer -- I want to trade them for the people I love who died.

Last night, some dumbass kept calling 911 repeatedly, tied up the system for 20 minutes, because his drive-through order at McDonald's wasn't right.

Eventually, the cops did arrive & took him away in handcuffs.

I hope Venus & Serena wind up competing for the Wimbledon prize. I love those gals.

This concept of visual trailers for new book promotions:   I do not understand it.

I don't trust people who won't dance.

My butch GF has repeatedly told me that my communication style is extremely male: interrupting, by trying to just figure everything out & solve it versus just listening. Trying to boil everything down to its basics and analyze it from there and then make a plan to fix things.

My exgal made this assertion about me.

Men/male partners have never accused me of this, though I do tend to get along better in professional/semi-social situations with males. My friendships have been pretty equally split between genders.

My BFF LGL, I believe, has an extremely direct communication style that is one of my favorite things about her. She will always say what she really thinks when asked & sometimes when not asked. She is very basic, practical, & unafraid of offending while somehow managing not being rude.

I have no idea whether I have a male style of communicating or I'm just sort of rude.

My Presumed Physiological Ethnicity

1/4  Swedish
1/4  Polish
3/16 French
1/8 British (of combined stripes)
1/8 Choctaw
1/16 Shoshone

(or something close to that)



There, now you know.

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2871565568/nm0000405



Holy chipotle, Michelle Forbes is pure seduction.





POSSIBLE SPOILER:

I've read in the Harris books that she is a maened, but I think the show has long diverged from the books. & based on the symbology used on the show, I mentioned I thought she had to be a god. GF said if she's a goddess, then she's Demeter, goddess of the harvest with a pig as one of her consorts. When we researched it, yes, all the symbology is there, down to what her acolytes do and wear.

Dear Chickens:

Please, somehow, someway, let me stop counting you before you hatch. Y'all are unfertilized & that leaves me bereft.

Yours,

perfectduck