In this Gothic Charm School post Of Gentlemen’s Summerwear and of Alternative Genders, Jilli says:
The Lady of the Manners admits that she herself hadn’t been aware there was a name for the genderqueer or genderfluid until quite recently; when various friends over the years said things like “I’m a boy and a girl”, or “My gender is Batman”, the Lady of the Manners just tried to remember to ask her friends which pronouns they preferred to be addressed by.
Teppy, was it you who said "My gender is Batman"?
Someone on my Freecycle list posted "Wanted: Cowbell." The list moderator doesn't have much of a sense of humor, so I doubt if she'd approve a "Wanted: More Cowbell" post.
I am eating pan roasted skinny asparagus, greek yogurt with strawberries and honey (gotta eat up the super ripe ones!) and drinking a halfway decent rueda verdejo on my deck. I can pretend I'm at a bar in Spain. Well, except for the fetching the cats off the railing. And my yogurt making me bleed. And the washer running downstairs. And...well, fine. It's pleasant anyway.
How did your yogurt make you bleed?
Either the foil seal or the plastic edge cut pretty deep into my thumbpad. Doesn't hurt, but bled all over the place before I noticed.
Overheard at the bar: “It’s our enemy’s birthday—we have to go.”
Teppy, was it you who said "My gender is Batman"?
Hee! It was actually another friend of mine, but I can totally envision Teppy saying it, too.
I got to sleep in and have a lazy morning for the first time in forever. Then I took CJ to a birthday party and wandered around on my way home. I continued my quest for Templeton Rye (still no luck) but found some wonderful Blackberry Whiskey. Then I wandered around a couple of other store and found an end table with drawers (been looking for something to replace my glass end table for a while).
Now that I'm home and have switched out furniture, I have given myself a manicure - white with colorful dots. Silly but fun.
I have the house to myself for at least another hour. Time to be lazy again. I have no clue what/if the kids have plans for tomorrow. I'm trying not to be too invested in wanting something special, but it is tough.
For the first time in weeks, I am pretty much on top of my laundry--most of it is done, and all of the clean stuff has been put away.
I also walked up to the local organic food store and bought an ear of fresh corn, along with some other stuff. SO GOOD. I suspect I am going to be doing that a lot as long as the season lasts.
