5 posts tagged “blog”
So I'm in trouble for not posting to my blog. Who's going to make a hundred fake flowers and leaves for me out of fondant so I can post about that ridiculous anti-Obama ad McCain put out?
To assure that my last post is tempered.
Five things I am thankful for today.
1. I have curtains in my diningroom finally. Now we can work in here at night and not have people halfway down the street be able to see us. I appreciate mom and grandma's time and attention to this.
2. New slippers. I've been meaning to mention this but it hasn't made it on the list yet. They are finally broken in and are very warm and comfy.
3. A good cry. I knew I needed to discuss what is happening in life on my blog at some point. I knew I needed to be able to look back in a couple years and say, "Yep, we overcame that." I think the post accomplished that. I also got a good cry out of it and feel so much better now.
4. My penset. I was using one of the pens from it earlier. I really love them. They have such a great weight to them.
5. Tea. My friend Mandy would laugh at this but tea really does make the world so much better, IMO. So I am thankful for the set of tea my parents gave me for Christmas. I think I've already drank half of it.
*Keeps Straight Face for Three Seconds*
*LOL*
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
To explain my title, the last post I made was a rarity. It was set to a privacy setting. Pretty much because it had pics from my sister-in-law's baby shower and I don't think all those people would like their pics shown to the world. Thus, privacy setting. However, I wanted to share my picture of my wonderful hair-do this afternoon.
You see, we played the game where you can't say "Baby" or else you lose your clothes pin. Everyone got one clothes pin at the beginning of the game. Within 10 seconds of Rain explaining the rules, I had her clothes pin as well. Within ten minutes I had five. First, I used my clothes pin to hold back my hair. You see, people are less likely to go after you clothes pin if they can't see it. This is how the clothes pin hair-do began. A simple innocent beginning:
Cute. Effective. I always love learning new ways to mess with hair. And since Rain won't sit down and let me learn how to do a five strand braid on her hair, I was forced to be creative with what was at hand. Soon, I began to dominate the game. I also got hot yet had no hair tie to pull my hair up with. Thus, the clothes pin tiara was born.
It was really effective and fun! I think I will have to do this again! Here's me sporting the clothes pin tiara in the mirror. Myspace Shot!
Yes, stylin'. By the way, after this, I walked into a Leslie's Pool Supplies store wearing this and had totally forgotten about my hair-do. Now it kind of makes sense why that guy gave me that look . . . Still, I think it was great.
However, to not dissappoint all you titilated by my post title, I will try to post soon about Rain, Snape's Girl, and my pact to go a day commando and then blog about our revelations. We also all vowed that we wouldn't wear jeans that day. And Snape's Girl vowed she wouldn't do it while in Texas. I think it'd make her post all the more interesting. Anyone else want to join the "Commando-For-A-Day-What-The-Hey" voxing fun?
Specifically Western culture . . . I was doing some more research for my historical fiction novel (90 pages now!). I was trying to find a good paper about the practices around etiquette and pregnancy in the late 18th century. Unfortunately, a lot of the sites with the interesting papers required to have a paid membership. There's something about paying to know history that rubs me the wrong way. It's a very US idea but history seems more of a right than anything else to me. I know that that's a rather foolish idea but that's that.
Here are some very interesting links I came across. Since I was researching pregnancy and conduct, be warned that there will be discussion of gender roles, sex, pregnancy and media contained. There aren't any pictures of sex but there are some of birthing rendered into copper plates.
Transcript of a discussion with textiles and costume curator, Linda Baumgarten
“Pleading the Belly” About women using pregnancy to cheat the gallows
A review of the book, The Politics of Motherhood, about the use of pregnancy in the 18th century
Though I learned alot, unfortunately, I didn't learn quite what I had been looking for. I believe I will need to redefine my search. Unless anyone here is an 18th century European history scholar. Then, you're my new best friend.
Are you for real? Apparently. Here's a link to the blog I saw talking about it. The entire play takes place in a virtual reality theatre house fashioned after the Elizabethan theatre style of the late 1500's. Even the people attending the play attend it as their virtual reality selves. Does this jar anyone else as much as it is jarring me?
Still, I think I'd like to do it. Once. I want to learn more about this!
