I am baking 2 pies

one apple one pumpkin

and doing laundry

listening to JT and TR play pingpong and laugh - JT has a pingpong champinship tourney this week at ETSU

Jess is hand washing belly dance atire and singing songs

It's hard to believe that tomorrow Jess - our youngest child turns 17

in 17 more days I will celebrate 20 yrs of marriage to my best friend and love of my life

time flys



I am so deeply blessed


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Two weeks from today I will see my mom for the first time in 14 months

Spend Thanksgiving with the people I love the most in this world

Introduce someone to something he has never participated in, Thanksgiving!

Just a few days away from experiencing something new for both of us

Showing my uncle love & support by spending a week with him so he is not alone on Thanksgiving since losing his wife in April

It's all good!

lemon tea =

my friend/crush is leaving for basic training for two months and i'm gonna miss him. it sucks.

i get to see my best friend for the first time in months at thanksgiving; i can't wait.

i think i might be getting sick, which CANNOT happen as i have a hard week coming up at work. uuugh.

i think i'm going to take my mom out to dinner tonight

drinking herbal teas ~ the last normal of anything until after a colonoscopy tomorrow. worried about the preparation ~ the solution is evil and too much.

contemplating my friendships with some wonderful and wise women and a beautiful man ~ so grateful for these

putting together a plan as to how I can help my mom in more meaningful ways to cope with her dementia

watching a few ships on the Lake Huron. the geese are heading South in orderly amazing formations. The Universal Code visable. It is very humbling

it is the hardest thing in the world to find GOOD and RECENT scholarly articles on Judy Chicago's Dinner Party.




i miss my boyfriend.

i don't know if i can do this professor thing - it usually requires you to be a good/great writer.
i'm kife.
after all these years of writing essays, i still can't write worth shit.

i don't know if i'm smart enough for this school thing.
i'm feeling dumber and dumber the more people i meet.

'hi i'm so-n-so. i'm a psych major. i have 8 essays due this week and they're all done. i think i'll up my average to a 90 this semester '

'oh hai, i'm samille. i'm an artist. i don't write too often but when i do it's shit anyway. no one understands my work and i want to be a professor. i think my average is dropping for sure this semester. '

I wonder what happens if I drop out of college

sammij said:

finding recent stuff is hard as hell. if you can use sources other than articles, i think there's some good clips from a documentary about her Dinner Party on youtube.

and at the risk of sounding like a snob, fuck those other majors. art's much more difficult. i used to sit in on 4th year sociology & psych classes for my job when i was in school and be STUNNED at how easy their stuff was compared to ours!

I stayed up until 6 am this morning. It was fun.

I have a test I'm dreading this week. And another one the week after. I'll be glad when this semester is over.

I'm going to be visiting with someone very special in two weeks and I can't wait.

My kids are going to their dad's for Thanksgiving and it will be my first big holiday away from them. It will be hard.

hokie said:

evenstar3 said:

thanks love

i know it's easier theoretically because most of everything else requires systems or formulas and the rest you just plug in yourself...
... well for maths and sciences anyway...

i dunno, i have some english majors as close friends, and i never speak about my stuff to them because i feel so out-weighed in value.

i can't even talk to my family because i still get dismissed.


i'm just really depressed that i'm spending my sunday - off from work - writing about a feminist piece of work that i just don't really like.

i meant it's a GREAT piece in relation to the size and all the work and for the time period it was completed in...
but it's so contradictory... i guess the dinner party in itself, encapsulates the notion of feminism on a whole..






(see, i know you're an art student so it's easy for me to be confident in saying what i did... i can't do that with anyone else...)










fuck my life, i feel stifled.

sammij said:

OMG, i thought the exact same when we covered that work in postmodern!

& on top of that it just seems very...fabricated? i dunno. she isn't my cup of tea by any means.

just bang out the essay and then self-medicate by reading about something you do like, i did a lot of that my last year

evenstar3 said:

oh god, christmas break will be reading strictly for ME.

Judy Chicago is a narcissist. She hired over 400 volunteers to pretty much make the work for her.
I can't even begin. It's art fuckery at it's best. (and then there's thomas kinkade, of a completely different kin )

i mean i like the piece because it's so loaded, but i think that's the only reason why.

out of 39 plates and 999 painted names on the floor - she neglects Angela Davis, Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott-King? Really?


what's even funnier is half of the women named were never known as feminists, but just working hard for themselves...




bah, i dont know how i'm going to start this essay!

I love the Sunday NFL games.

I wished I would stop thinking about work when I'm off

In the afternoon I watched episodes 6 to 9 of True Blood. Now I am listening to Dinah Shore to get ready for the festive season.

I think I will go to bed early and do lots of household stuff in the early morning, so I can read my new book in the afternoon.

Lykke Li is amazing.


I want to make my own makeshift symphony in the park.

I want a Xmas tree, damnit! Get it ON!

do you need to use egg when you make hamburgers? what about turkey burgers?

where can i find a recipe for fish stew?

damn, i'm hungry.

WTF -

"The Strangers " was based on a true story ?

JasmineFire said:

- egg does help to make it stick together better... probably cooks better too...breadcrumbs are helpful as well

- fish stew... you could probably find a good recipe on a jamaican recipe site

- me too.

sammij said:

thank you!!

I had one crazy weekend!

JasmineFire said:

welcome



Chunky's southwestern chicken sooooouuup.....

It's so quiet


I am hungry

Mmmmm hot apple cider.....


I have a ton a projects I am working on


maybe I should narrow it down, but I can't



Damn it's getting cold and I got no one to snuggle with




I have to testify in court for my friend's BF who got beat up by the Po Po


On the funside I got a massage and the whole day OFF tomorrow


that dude had the nerve to rub it in that my biological clock is tickking...duh I know it....he'll never chg....he'll always be a
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Ah, bon....

that turkey burger was goooood...

perhaps a hot chocolate before bed would be nice...

I bought a kilo box of mochis in the store where I sent the master the other day and he couldn't find any. There were lots there!

MrsMdiver said:

happy for you... for you BOTH!!

I don't have much positivity to spread right now... that will change though, and hopefully soon

It is an absolutely gorgeous day here in Sydney

Natisse said:

I thought you lived HERE