luxe

just a quickie, for those of you who have sent me emails or just think i am a sucky blogger as of late (i am, admittedly). i have been really really really exhausted/feeling poopariffic as of late and getting nothing done. at all. nothing. i think it may have been a medication issue, and went to the doctor today to adjust it, so here is to hoping that i feel a bit better now. the worst part is that i feel really really guilty. i am super behind on blogreading, i have gone a couple of days without touching the computer and have forgotten about things that are super important that need to get done. asap. and i feel really guilty about it even though i know that i don’t feel up to it. any of it. i forgot that i was out of my sleeping pill (even though i had to go to 3 pharmacies today), which is why i am awake and blogging. but i digress.

i haven’t even been knitting or drawing, i have just been too tired, but i have finished the handmaid’s tale which was amazing. i know i rant and rave about how much i love margaret atwood, and i know this book had a huge amount of notoriety, but somehow i didn’t read it, and it is just amazing. it has such a historical feel too, as her books always do. it feels so real, it always does. and it reminds me that it is really easy to let people take away your rights. it is really easy to not get involved, to not know anything, and to take all of the amazing things that we have here for granted. in the book, there is a period when women are not allowed to work anymore, or have their own bank accounts. it reminded me of one of my women’s studies professors in college that told us about when she got her doctorate and got a job at a university, she went to open a bank account to deposit her first paycheck, and they told her that she had to have her husband or father open it for her. granted, she is an old(olde?) lady, it would have been in the 50′s or early 60′s, but isn’t that amazing? in america. something that always seemed ironic to me was that her last name was “mann”. not only was she a devout feminist, but also a lesbian and a women’s studies professor.

whilst in the eckard today waiting for scripts to be filled, i was looking at makeup and saw lipsmackers (the flavored lip balms that we all loved as little grrls) and started laughing to myself. i remembered when my friend john (whose wife diana just had the adorable baby) asked me if i had some lip balm and i had a mocha flavored one from the health food store i think that i thought had no color to it. actually, it was brownish and had sparkles in it, and was…glossy. it was so funny. i realized hours later that it was not clear, or matte and he had smeared it all around his mouth with wild abandon, so he looked like he had been eating chocolate. it was funny. it doesn’t seem funny typed out though.

anyway, i am really hoping to get some photos taken and finish all of the sock dyeing that i need to do. i feel so damn guilty about this crap week i had. it wears me down.

did you guys hear about OJ’s book? about how if he HAD killed his wife he would have done it. total piece of shite, he is. in case the few people on his side had any questions. i am hoping it will bite him on the arse, that he will get busted for some other crime. sigh.

also, i heard the brittany spears soon to be ex was blackmailing her to give him the kids and a huge monthly stipend or he would release a sex tape of them, she said no and he released it. i feel sorry for her. i wonder if she will ever be able to trust anyone again. it was a dumb move, yes, but it must be hard to always have to wonder what someone really wants from you. and the kids, so she is tied to him forever. unless he does the thing that you would expect him to do and offers to be bought off to drop out of the kids’ lives. dirtbag. he is “that guy” that everyone knows, that smacks his girlfriend, cheats, has herpes and has given it to dozens of people, is multiple baby’s daddy, has no job, no skills, pants falling down, has underage girlfriends…i will stop and attempt to sleep. kahlo wants to sleep on me and snores like an old man. i don’t know how such a sweet little kitty snoot can make such a sound. she purrs nonstop, too, which is actually really soothing. also, i have cramps. wooo hooo!

oh, and since i got vonage, the tivo won’t update, so i need to call them and figure out what to do. all this wireless gear and i don’t know what is causing what. sigh.

man, bitch and moan, bitch and moan. i have a couple of links for ya…mohop shoes these handmade shoes that have rubber rings that allow you to add your own straps! really really cool idea! a new use for art yarns anyone?

and! for anyone who wants to make a lightbox to take their product pics with, i found this awesome blog all about photography, which has a tutorial for everything you can think of. i told my pally barbe st.john who said, oh yeah, i have a light tent. what does she not have? tell me! tell me!

okay, i am actually feeling a bit sleepy. so. here goes nothing.
xoxoxoxo

This entry was posted on Friday, November 17th, 2006 at 2:43 am and is filed under Uncategorized.