I really suck at updating.
Anyway...
Work is stupid but really fun. It was so dead tonight that we just goofed around I loved it.
In other news, I started a burlesque class two weeks ago. It is so much fun. First class we learned the many, sexy ways of taking off gloves. Second class, it was taking off stockings. I didn't find a garter belt in time, so I just had to pretend I was doing it, but it was still fun. Jackie is a great teacher, she makes everybody feel really comfortable. This weeks class is "hiding" (in our underwear) behind parasols and fans. The people in my class seem like people I could be really good friends with. I guess you have to be pretty awesome to have the guts to do burlesque in the first place.
Why can't I stop listening to the Veronicas (aren't they for 15 year olds?) or La Roux?
If I can finish getting my tuition paid off, I'm hoping to go back to school in January. Thinking of changing my degree to drama. Still gonna take the linguistics courses though.
This morning, I noticed that someone from Riyadh had looked at my latest blog post. This is what the blog looks like for them.
So, I've been using my Typepad account instead of VOX, and whenever I come back over this way I have shit loads of spam comments to delete. Surely, VOX, if you delete a spam account, it should automatically delete all of the spam comments they've left as well?
That I am in fact still here. I don't have an ergonomic computer setup at the moment so I'm not doing much typing, lots of surfing, but no typing.
In my virtual absence, life has been going along quietly here. It's spring and the rhododendrons are blooming. Petra and I walk round our garden most mornings looking at the flowers. I haven't had a garden for 10 years and had forgotten the deep satisfaction to be had from pottering amongst the plants even in a garden as tiny and down at heel as ours. 70-odd years worth of over-ambitious gardeners have crammed it to bursting with too many, too big, too close together trees and shrubs. Our gardening efforts so far have been very Costa Rican - we've taken to the bushes with saws, loppers, and secateurs, and have removed three trees so far. And I plot further destruction in my walks with Petra - she smells flowers while I pick shrubs for the chop. All the camellias and a couple of sad-looking rhododendrons are on my condemned list, and I plan to prune the hell out of the remaining rhododendrons next autumn.
pho with flank steak from a place by my house. Dessert will be at Puka bar.
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Halloween---a week later. Sorry about not sharing sooner. I spent most of last week exhausted and unable to concentrate on anything. I ended up taking half a sick day on Thursday and then proceeded to sleep the afternoon away.
Friday night before Halloween we carved our jack-o-lanterns. This proved to be very difficult as two of the pumpkins we had picked out were rock hard. After pounding one of the pumpkins with a hammer and knife Chris ended up using his jigsaw to cut the rest of the design out. The pumpkin Chris picked was a regular pumpkin and he did an amazing job with his design.
Chris spent Saturday helping our friend, Bentley, move. Jordan and I spent the day getting the garage ready for all of the trick-or-treaters we were told would descend upon our subdivision. We picked up some decorated plastic that turned our garage into a stone dungeon so Jordan and I spent the afternoon getting that hung. This was not an easy task as the wind was blowing which made it very difficult to tape the 'walls' to the garage door. I used a heavy duty project stapler to hang the plastic from the ceiling of the garage. Since we had recently had a garage/yard sale and what didn't go was given to charity...the garage was basically empty. Chris put a TV out there, we hooked up our DVD player and played an eerie Halloween dvd that was on a loop, so it just kept playing.
As I was gathering my costume together I realized something terrible. I sold or gave away the black shirt that I use with my costume. So, I was not dressed in all black as most witches are, I was dressed in a combination of purple and black. Chris made it home in time to get his costume on and then he helped Jordan get into his.
We/I bought about $75 worth of candy to hand out to the trick-or-treaters. I had picked out several bags of candy that was not our 'favorites' so I opened them to hand out the Pixie Stix, the gum, and the nerds out first. Towards the end of the evening I opened one of the five/six bags of chocolate. We were left with four/five unopened bags of chocolate. We don't know if it is the H1N1 that kept people at home or if it was all of the churches having their Fall Festivals on the same night as the trick-or-treaters....we just know that we were left with almost as much candy as we had given out. Chris took most of it to the office on Thursday.
after her performance of Strip Search at S Factor's LA studio.
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Our nephew Shane and his girlfriend Maggie eloped yesterday in Atlanta. We are very happy for them and will see them on Thanksgiving at Charlotte and Randy's house.
A year ago tomorrow Kevin's brother Shawn married Kim in San Jose. Kevin arrived in California the day Proposition 8 passed to celebrate his brother's happiness. This week we got to watch people a thousand miles away vote on the civil rights of their fellow citizens in the state of Maine.
So, since we have lived in Nashville we have celebrated our nephew Billy's wedding, Shawn's, Shane's, and in June next year Megan and Ryan will be married. My sister and her boyfriend Bob eloped also.
If, suppose, I died tomorrow Kevin would be left alone, lose his Medical Insurance, forfeit my pension, and have to ask my family's permission to bury me.
Each time we celebrate the union of those we love we quietly get to reflect on just what the implications are for us. We have only been together for 18 years. Collectively more than all our newly married loved ones combined as far as the time they have been together prior to getting married. There has been no party or anniversary wishes. No invitations to send out or thank you notes to write.
But we have each other for as long as we are alive and perhaps one day somebody will "allow" us the same basic civil rights as the people in our lives have.
As you know we love our families dearly and support them all and share in their joy each time a milestone occurs. It would be nice to invite them all to share in our joy but we have decided that we will wait until we can do it legally rather than do something symbolic. They all treat us as though we are married so it would really just be a technicality anyhow. Oh, and then there are the 1,200 legal rights we would enjoy in addition to a new toaster and a few gift cards.
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by making it illegal for you to divorce!
I am looking into getting a Referendum on the ballot to make Divorce illegal in Davidson County in Tennessee. Marriage is a right and not a privilege. It should be treated as such.
In the Judao-Christian tradition, barring anyone's personal beliefs it should be illegal, based on Christianity and the tenets of most Christian faiths to divorce.
What God has created let no man tear asunder........It doesn't matter if you are Jewish, Muslim, Agnostic, or Atheist. Your rights will be decided on by the religion of the majority. There is no Separation of Church and State and I want to help you get into heaven when the time comes for you to meet your maker.
I am looking into starting a Petition Drive to get this on the ballot in Nashville. I am researching wording for petitions and the process involved in making this happen. I will stand in front of large Christian Churches with petitions and then also go to Gay gathering spots to ensure getting enough signatures to get a referendum on the ballot.
Additionally I would like to make it illegal to remarry if you are already divorced. If you can't get it right the first time you should not get a second chance given so many people are not legally allowed to marry. That would be a gross abuse of a right that others are not permitted to exercise.
