On Nicole Cliffe, What's in Your Bag?
@Nicole Cliffe I can honestly say I was one of those pukers for many years, but in HJ. Now I am older and wiser and I did a dresage show a few weeks ago where I did not vomit or go into Crazy Bitch mode, and it was awesome! I guess I feel like I don't really have anything to prove. I was just having fun with my gelding, since it was his first show and all I was hoping was that he wouldn't poop during our test. Lower expectations are amazing.
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On Unfriending en Masse
@dj pomegranate "I have a visceral reaction to the phrase "Proverbs 31 Woman" which makes me come very close to disliking them personally even though I know I like them personally!"
The whole "SAHM/Probverbs 31 woman" thing baffles me! I grew up in a conservative family and went to church and even went to a Baptist university (I swear I am normal though) and I was always taught that the Probverbs 31 gal was a good role model because she was entrepreneurial and had her shit together. And then I see people equating her with a submissive mother and wife and I'm like "huh?" But then my parents wanted me to get an education and be self-sufficient, so maybe I had a different context for it.
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On Unfriending en Masse
@cmcm Ugh, my dad did that too, until he got put on The List (also on The List: boyfriend's mom and sister and all his friends who inexplicably want to be my friend, even though they never talk to me in real life).
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On Friday Open Thread
@Christina I know exactly how you feel! I spent three months making out with a guy who had broken up with his girlfriend at the airport when she was leaving to teach English in Mexico, except OH THEY DIDN'T BREAK UP and EVERYONE KNEW IT EXCEPT ME. And now they're married. I laid in bed for a weekend listening to Natalie Imbruglia and felt like a monster. And then I decided he was a monster and that's on him, and my friends are monsters for not telling me, but I forgave them.
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On Friday Open Thread
@becky@twitter I just bought the same kind of Steve Madden flat in three colors from DSW, all $39.99. Kind of obsessed. For what it's worth, they're the Heaven flat, and they're so basic and perfect and comfy. I now have them in black patent, blush patent, and gold glitter (!!!). HIGHLY recommended.
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On The Comment Section for Every Article Ever Written About PETA
@PistolPackinMama Ooh, I forgot about the reproducing requirement. So my guys are screwed (except they aren't, haha!). And yeah, I would think as long as the species in general is reproducing, that's what really counts.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the interview the Daily Show did with a VP from PETA. I'm not sure how that ties in with my point, but I have pneumonia so. There's a lot I'm not sure of at the moment.
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On The Comment Section for Every Article Ever Written About PETA
@PistolPackinMama I'm pretty sure nothing in nature would know what my little rescue mutt needs when he stares at nature and whimpers plaintively. I KNOW.
To be honest, he is a very smart little guy, but between his epilepsy and love of lap-sitting, not to mention the fact that his only means to acquire food is to sit on his bottom and stare at his treats, I don't think he would fend well.
Then there's my sweet, dumb, lazy gelding who needs rubber mats and bedding to keep the swelling down in his deformed legs and cannot flee predators at more than a brisk canter. And even my tenacious and rotten mare would wonder why I am not bothering her with my hugs and kisses. She won't admit it, but I know she loves it.
So I guess PETA would just kind of shrug and say "survival of the fittest"? But that means that my dependent animals are surviving because they tricked me into it with their big brown eyes and nuzzles and kisses, and then that must mean that they are the fittest, because they have their food delivered to them at the same minute every day and someone puts a blanket on them in case they're chilly, and I am willing to sell my soul for their survival. So in your face, PETA, my crippled, slightly dumb animals are beating all those wild animals at their own game!
I just really think animals and people were meant to co-exist, and some of them are here for companionship - they get it from us and we get it from them.
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On Author Leigh Stein on Her First Novel, The Fallback Plan
Bought it for my Nook! All the mediocre YA supernatural romances I've been reading while sick in bed have begun to melt my brain.
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On Mini Ask a Lady: The Thank-You Note
@themegnapkin I interviewed with a company (of attorneys but not a law firm) for a medical and legal writer (still not barred!) I wrote my interviewer a thank you note, mentioning stuff we had talked about and saying something like "Oh, I forgot to mention blah blah blah about my skills and this job." She sent my resume to the attorneys, who did another interview with me, and before I could send a thank you, I got a rejection letter. I still think my thank-you note helped and I would do it again, if I ever get an ever-loving interview, please Baby Jesus.
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On Nicole Cliffe, What's in Your Bag?
Jane Savoie!! I bought Dressage 101 because the first two chapters were about "forward" and "straightness" and the comments on our last test were "wandering" and "lacks impulsion." But to be fair, I had pneumonia and my horse was asleep. This is my favorite what's in your bag so far!