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• 10:42 drawing thumbnails for SL#3. yay, red pop! are there actually "post ska-punk" bands? #ifnotijustmadeitup #
• 14:44 penciled 22 pages this morning. O_O #maybetheygavemeabionicelbowafterall #
• 14:47 @RoryATXPhillips you never can be too careful. #
• 15:48 folding laundry and watching the Here Comes Science DVD with Jonah! #
• 16:08 oh my god, this is so good. i had no idea there were videos for ALL of the songs! holy crap! so good. #
• 22:17 blogging + listening to radiolab. xxoo #

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Despite what the commercials claim, dieting isn’t going to fix all your problems.

No, joining weight watchers isn’t going to prevent jerks from slamming into your desk and spilling coffee all over your shirt. Nor will joining weight watchers prevent rain from falling from the sky and getting you wet.

I just… what?

Dieting isn’t some magic fix that will repair everything that’s wrong with your life.

Also, if you are an adult, don’t be surprised if a child’s size chair is too small for you. No amount of Special K magical special diets will turn an adult’s butt into a child’s butt.

Adults and children are different sizes. Children are smaller than adults. Yes, there are especially large children and especially small adults, but in general, child-sized things are child-sized because children are smaller than adults.

As baffling as the weight watcher’s commercial was (seriously? coffee spills can be solved by losing weight? only fat people spill coffee when jerks bang into them? rain, which once fell on the just and unjust alike, now targets fatties?), the Special K commercial seems more harmful. There’s the push to shrink female bodies, to reduce them to non-adult sizes. There’s existing rhetoric about how dieting mentality infantalizes women by removing their ability to chose what to eat, that dieting mentality punishes women for defying the ideal feminine norm and growing hips and butts and breasts (you know, secondary sexual signs). But now the message is coming clear: adult women are fucking hose beast lard bags if they don’t fit neatly into furniture scaled for children. Women: they need to remain child like and child sized or they are useless and terrible and need to be fixed. Adult women: there is something wrong with them.

The hell?

Note also that both commercials show conventionally attractive women who do not appear fat, or even chubby, and who have children. Ahh, true womanhood. Hot and fertile.

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How was yours dudes’s Christmas?  Mine was pretty killer.

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• 22:43 Good times tonight seeing one of Tod's close friends & ex-bandmates and his adorable fiance while they breezed through town. ♥ #
• 23:33 is prone to making monologues about her secret identity when she undergoes an internal crisis. #

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We hosted Christmas Dinner this year, the first time we’ve REALLY hosted a holiday meal. We’ve participated in pot luck in the past (including one year I made a turkey and it was the best tasting turkey IN THE ENTIRE WORLD and I’d never made a turkey before), and one year we half-assed it to the point of not bothering to check to see how long a spiral sliced ham needed to cook and wound up pan frying slices of ham for everyone’s dinner.

This year we made lasagna, cauliflower gratin, mashed potatoes, peas, 2 kinds of rolls, and a spiral sliced ham (well, the ham only needed to be heated up; it was already cooked). All of this, except for the ham, was made from scratch.

There was also cheese and crackers, pumpkin-cranberry muffins, and 4 types of cookies, as well as sugared almonds and spiced mixed nuts. The muffins, cookies, and nuts were also made from scratch.

This was a lot of cooking. I have a 9 month old who needs to be within touching distance of me at all times. I did a lot of prep cooking while he napped or was in bed.

Whew!

Nesko has never personally had to work to host a holiday meal. In the past, we either went to my parents’ or else his family hosted, which is to say that he sat around and drank and talked while Teh Wimmens busted their asses cleaning and cooking. Which meant that Nesko kept fluttering around the kitchen on Christmas early afternoon waving his hands and exclaiming that Christmas “was ruined.”

It was hilarious. And of course nothing was ruined.

The ham and lasagna went in then came out and were covered in foil to stay warm, and the cauliflower and potatoes went in. The peas were microwaved. The rolls were cooked the day before (but I should have heated them up in the oven but I was afraid they’d dry out or something).

Oh! There was also devilled eggs and fudge that didn’t set right (and I need to make a cake so I can melt that fudge down and turn it into frosting).

Next Christmas we are going to make appetizers, cookies, and pie. And if people want actual food we can have sandwiches or something. But people were very interested in the appetizers and were kind of full when the main meal came out. Sure, we could just skip appetizers, but they are MUCH easier to throw together than a meal is.

When we finally have a million billion dollars, we’re going to remodel our kitchen and put in two ovens to make life easier.

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• 09:08 Saturday mornings at our house = Bullwinkle & Under Dog! (and coffee!) #
• 13:03 doing chemistry projects (ok, cooking & baking) and booty dancing around my kitchen to hip-hop while tod is at his eye appt & j naps. xoxo #

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• 10:22 @applesanshanana !!! i have one, too! we'll have to play together! (merry christmas to you and dan! ♥ ♥) #
• 10:23 Hope everyone is having an amazing Christmas! #
• 11:07 @applesanshanana it's been a while, and I only shot a couple rolls back then, so I may have to re-learn while you learn! but um, fun!! #
• 11:53 @applesanshanana do you guys have plans this evening? #
• 12:27 @applesanshanana that's right! i knew you were leaving soon but i couldn't remember when. have a safe trip & a good time! #
• 19:22 is eating the Greatest BLT Known to Mankind. #
• 22:55 someone needs to make a website for the just last 5 minutes of tv shows and movies so you can go watch them when your DVR cuts off early. :( #

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