Yay, GC!!! Best wishes!
Buffy: You tossed that vamp like he was a... little teeny vamp. Riley: You wanna go again? C'mon. I bet this place is just teeming with aerodynamic vampires.
'Help'
Spike's Bitches 39: Cuppa Tea, Cuppa Tea, Almost Got Shagged, Cuppa Tea...
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
sj - Mar 11, 2008 8:23:52 am PDT #9521 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Emily - Mar 11, 2008 8:25:44 am PDT #9522 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Last month, my father went to visit a woman whose first child I'd helped take care of for a week several years ago (I think he may have been out of diapers, but still in a stroller). I thought, "Wow, Aurelien must be 13 or so now!"
Apparently he's 21.
Susan W. - Mar 11, 2008 8:29:25 am PDT #9523 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Susan, are you around? I need you to point me to some of your fundamentalist/dominionist blog/other resources links.
I'm around now.
Vision Forum is by Doug Phillips, who apparently is one of the big mucky-mucks in the movement. His blog is revealing, and if you look at the books & media, All-American Boy's Adventure Catalog, and Beautiful Girlhood Collection, you get a good idea what they're about and what they consider appropriate gender roles. (Boys get to have WAY more fun in their world, surprise surprise.)
Visionary Daughters are two young women whose father is well-connected in the Vision Forum crowd who've written a book and produced a video on their view of the role of teen and unmarried adult daughters in the Christian family. They come across as sort of the princesses/beauty queens of the movement.
Stacy McDonald is a co-author of Passionate Housewives Desperate for God, another new book on women's roles. The interesting thing about her and her husband are that they're a blended family who came into their marriage both divorced with small children, but since that wing of Christianity is opposed to divorce and remarriage, you'd never know from what they say that their oldest children came from previous marriages.
Ladies Against Feminism has a lot of illuminating articles and links.
For a critique of the movement by other conservative Christians, check the True Womanhood blog or Under Much Grace.
SailAweigh - Mar 11, 2008 8:32:55 am PDT #9524 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Whoohoo, GC! Good luck!
Ginger - Mar 11, 2008 8:33:20 am PDT #9525 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Yay for Julia's friend! There has been so much progress in treating childhood leukemia.
From an eBay listing:
Not a smoke or pet free environment..{ my cats smoke while wrapping the packages. .]
DavidS - Mar 11, 2008 8:33:39 am PDT #9526 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
How are your babies big and small?
Emmett's good. He's getting big. He's just under 5' and he weighs about 113. Solid through the chest and thighs. He's 11 but he's wearing size 14 or 16 in Gap jeans. Baseball season starts this Saturday.
Matilda is very gabby and cute and tiny and not-sleeping. JZ and Matilda will be wearing matching gingham dresses at my reading this Friday.
Polter-Cow - Mar 11, 2008 8:36:20 am PDT #9527 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Good luck, GC!
HI CINDY.
Miracleman - Mar 11, 2008 8:36:47 am PDT #9528 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Holy smokes, GC! Awesome!
Toddson - Mar 11, 2008 8:37:58 am PDT #9529 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
P.M. Marc - Mar 11, 2008 8:50:09 am PDT #9530 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Go go GC and GF!