i drew you a heart

the keeper of the key to the locks

2010-11-19T10:57:00.000-06:00

Normally every year on the first Saturday of December, Husband and I have our Annual Holiday Throwdown party where we get all dressed up, have lots of friends over, and eat and drink too much. Well this year we're having a baby instead so, you know.

BUT I can still long for the dresses, right?

Topshop.com has a bunch of limited edition dresses that are to die for. Here are some:

Coral flapper gown

Bronze flapper gown

White, long flapper gown

I love too, how they stuck to the truer flapper gown length (knee length or beyond) rather than cheapening it up for "modern" women. Not everything has to be short, even on skinny girls.

I did it my way

2010-11-16T09:12:00.001-06:00

Well, actually, Su-Lauren, you were different.

You didn't want a perfect life, a typical life, or even a normal life.

You wanted a one-of-a-kind.

How we doing?
The Universe

have you ever met a girl...

2010-11-12T13:26:00.002-06:00

Getchoo...Ah ha!

2010-11-12T10:35:00.001-06:00

So wonderfully creepy...

From Jordan to Chicago

2010-11-12T09:28:00.000-06:00

I know it's a day late but all the same. Thanks.

Vaseline over the Lenses

2010-11-09T11:54:00.001-06:00

Just as the acorn existed within the oak, even when the oak was a seedling; and as the oak existed within the earth, even before there were trees; and as the earth existed within the galaxy, even before there were planets... there has never been a time, dear sweet Su-Lauren, when you did not exist within me... during which we dreamed all else into being.

Far out.

Love you.

Well done.

Happy everything,
The Universe

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These last few weeks before the baby's here (3!!!) are getting to me. All the gross, unlady-like physical symptoms are really getting to me. I'm having Braxton Hicks contractions out the wazoo which makes Felix get all crazy jumpy, and that's wonderful. But then the horrid acid indigestion (to put it so politely) that comes with that- Vom. Literally!

So I'm ready to have this baby. Pregnancy stage, been there done that. I am really trying to listen to everyone who says Oh I just savored those last weeks. It'll be the last time with that baby that you can just be the one body and two of you together. But really. I'm over it. And the whole, Once they're out they can't go back in, scare tactic, over that too. I'm ready to have this baby (I think). Husband is ready to have this baby (I think). It's time to get this story started. (burp)

Of Montreal makes me very happy!

If it isn't penetration, then it isn't worth the kiss

2010-11-05T10:22:00.000-05:00

Thanks Pedro the Lion for always providing such a cheery title line.

Sucker Punch: Ladies, even you can be a badass in 5 easy pieces.

So I'm all for a bunch of ladies kicking ass, not taking names. But I mean really, do we need another film positioning it's strong women into the center of a circle jerk? I'll probably at least rent it, but don't get me started on why films feel the need to put their female action heroines in Sailor Moon short skirts and thigh highs, bukkake centralism at it's best. For those of you who haven't, your homework is reading John Berger's Ways of Seeing.

You breathe 1s and 0s

2010-11-04T12:59:00.000-05:00

I think this mom is awesome and I hope everyone starts subscribing to her blog. I especially love how she doesn't seem to care if you do consider her cool or not. Because she's right. It's truly none of your business.

Nerdy Apply Bottom.

I know people look at me and say, "Is he a Washington insider?"

2010-11-04T10:17:00.002-05:00

Eggzactly.

sing a simple song

2010-10-27T11:19:00.000-05:00

Oh my. I need. These may have to be my pre-baby body present to myself. Wow. I love. I want. They're beautiful.

We are down to the 5 week countdown. Good grief. And my joints are tired. I know it's a good thing. My doc says it's good. My mom too. It'll make it easier to labor being so loosey goosey. But gawd it's so painful sometimes even turning over in bed, getting out of bed, walking around. So I'm tired. But we're ready. I think. I hope. My little dude.

Follow me into the desert

2010-09-29T10:45:00.002-05:00

I really dig this starfish. Thanks Jake.

I'm only human on the inside

2010-09-22T12:07:00.000-05:00

My first cloth wipe! The rediculously cute flannel fabric was 75% off at Hancock's Fabric making these wipes cost about 25 cents each. Double sided and stitched to not fray. Each one takes about 2 minutes to make (seriously). I am loving it!

He came a long way just to explain.

2010-09-22T11:54:00.000-05:00

So things have been busy. Babymoon in Mexico was wonderful except that I was really too preggo to ever be that comfortable but having our friends Brandon and Jennifer join us was a wonderful treat. And Husband got to scuba duba his heart out and I got tons of reading done (most of the True Blood books , I confess) in the sun. A tan is a nice thing to have when you feel house sized.

We snorkled and saw a 5 foot long barracuda that almost sent me into labor. We snorkled and saw sharks. We snorkled to a starfish breeding ground and saw all the beautiful starfish. Soft and pliable on the sea floor, rock hard when you pick them up. It was pretty neat. We snorkled and did not see an octopus (pulpo) but that's okay because the first time I see my totem animal, I really want it to be as a diver, up close and personal, not from the surface.

So that was good. And we've unpacked even more. Got more things done on the house (fence, deck) and are trying to settle in. Now it's mostly all about baby. And naps. And eating snacks. You know, the good things.

So I'd like to use some of this space to talk a little about ideas Husband and I are committing to and throwing around for the bebe. You may have noticed new link button things on the side for Kelly's Closet (and I would love a button for Cotton Babies). We have committed to making our house a cloth diaper one. Not 100% in the beginning (meconium, yuck) but working towards that ASAP. Through wonderful sales that Kelly's Closet is always having, we've been able to create our original stock pile consisting of several different brands of CD's that I am extremely happy with pre-baby.

So much so that I even started sewing my own cloth wipes thanks to the youngest at heart and I am so happy with them! I will post a pic later. It may seem I am suddenly off the deep end but trust me, it's a habit I've been nursing since the day after I found out I was expecting.

Husband and I are blessed to be fairly economically stable, although I can already see the money savings by using cloth. We are very environmentally conscious, recycling everything humanly possible, composting, buying local, etc. In brushing up on my sewing skills I am even slowly convincing myself that I could probably sew baby clothes too. My mom sewed most of my clothes herself up to my entering the 7th grade. And I had some COOL clothes.

Here's another DIY wipe "recipe" if you're interested. (Thanks Angela and Serena!)

So it's more about choice. I love that in this day and age being a crunchy mom is a choice, not something necessarily forced upon you. I would love it if all this long hair I'm growing will stay put after Felix is born and I can wear it long and beaded with my jeans and silky tunics. It's good to mix up the system's expectations every now and then, right?

Party over here

2010-09-02T20:45:00.000-05:00

So we finally did it and that's why I've been so absent.

We finished the renovations (top to bottom) on a house that's almost 100 years old. We started about this time (early October) LAST YEAR.

We moved.

I'm so pregnant that I'm in my third trimester soon!

We are unpacked almost entirely.

We are going on vacation to Mexico THANK GOD.

My latest belly joke is that I can no longer sneak around corners. I still love being pregnant and Husband and I are in trouble because if it's always this relatively easy, I see 3 coming, bing, bang, boom.

My son already has so much personality. He LOVES him some Pastoral Symphony but has no reaction to Tony Allen's Black Voices (which is the best). He kicks me non-stop making me know he's going to be a go-getter. He loves to camp out right under/in my ribs because he's going to be snuggler. So, you know, I don't need to be able to move so much. Not for that.

And it's truly brought me and Husband closer than I could have ever imagined, in both the earthly spiritual way as there's nothing we wouldn't ever do for each other at this point, and the worldly realistic as hey! I can't see to shave everywhere anymore, my bad, but it still needs to be done, trust me.

You just do it for each other. And it's nice.

Felix likes:

Dislikes:

I was educated from good stock // When I start lovin', I can't stop

2010-07-20T08:58:00.000-05:00

See their good, Su-Lauren.

See nothing else.

Do it for you.

Tallyho,
The Universe

you don't know me at all

2010-07-15T16:10:00.001-05:00

Tim and Eric Ben Fold's video!

Using text from this here blog:

2010-07-15T13:23:00.002-05:00

I write like
Kurt Vonnegut

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

I love this

2010-07-13T11:41:00.002-05:00

Long live Paul!

And again

2010-07-09T09:16:00.002-05:00

Snakes and snails and puppy dogs tails // Yes throw the reins over // You're made with sugar and spice

2010-07-09T09:15:00.000-05:00

Well it's official. The little baby hiding out under my rib cage is a boy. Felix Calvin Wilson's due date is December 1, 2010. I love him so much. I love him so much.

maybe she's right, maybe she's right, maybe she's right

2010-07-08T14:32:00.000-05:00

So my big news is brought to me today. My Husband and I find out if the baby I'm carrying is a boy or a girl. It's been an amazingly easy pregnancy so far and I hope it continues that way to the end, at our due date of December 1st. I don't know why it has been so important to me to keep this to myself, but it has. Now, or at 3:45 this afternoon, rather, with what I feel like will be the introduction of my baby, I can no longer own it. It's everyone's. It's the world's.

I am so in awe. I am so ready.

blackbird has spoken

2010-06-24T11:37:00.000-05:00

SamRex, this is for you. How are things anyway?

Also, this is for you too.

Everyone needs to start watching Dr. Steve Brule every chance they get!

morning has broken

2010-06-24T11:29:00.001-05:00

Fuh-reaky:

Uh, where did those other legs come from?! I mean that's a lot of legs to be just sitting on! AHHH! My brain feels scarred.

on the clock

2010-06-23T12:55:00.000-05:00

Ok. I like this Ke$sha song (although live she's terrible) and I never knew there was so much debauchery on Star Trek (I was a Next Generation kid). So this in total makes me very happy.

I'm so behind on posting this but when I saw this on tv it also made me very very happy. I like how The Simpsons are changed up now.

The Simpsons Ke$ha Tik Tok Intro - watch more funny videos

kill the life inside of me

2010-06-22T14:06:00.000-05:00

I know I know!

I have been so absent and it's just a really busy time right now. Completely renovating a new house. Other things. It's hotter than Hades (100 degrees yesterday, 105 today and tomorrow, no shit). So I've just been a total slacker

BUT

You will love me because I'm here to tell you that the COURTNEY LOVE BEHIND THE MUSIC premiered yesterday

AND this exists.

So I love you. You're welcome.

PLO style

2010-06-01T10:31:00.000-05:00

Hung drywall all Memorial Day weekend. It was not the most fun way to spend the holiday but when it comes to putting a roof over your head...

Anyway, the Ratatat remixes got us through it in a groovy way. "Run" is my favorite. Now this video on the other hand. I have no idea what in the hell is going on. Especially the BJ scene in the middle. Wha wha???

Simmer down simmer down simmer down now

2010-05-28T13:48:00.000-05:00

Oh Man! Me want! WANT WANT WANT!!!!

For those who don't be knowing, we're renovating a house. An old house. That needs EVERYTHING redone apparently. Great because I get everything I want exactly. Bad because, well you know that whole money thing.

So maybe I've convinced a co-worker to help me make it????

quiet dog bite hard!

2010-05-27T10:58:00.000-05:00

This is SOOOO NSFW

NSFW

NSFW

NSFW

But it's SOOOO Amazing!

Barrett. Casillas. I just really want you to see this. Not for the flying penis. But because I think if we were together in person, it would be on you tube repeat while we pee-peed ourselves!!

It could be wrong, could be wrong

2010-05-26T10:29:00.000-05:00

This is pretty cool. How I would love to be a fly on the wall in old Hollywood.

Other news is happening but you'll have to wait a little longer to get the official scoop.

I'm very excited to hang drywall during my long weekend! What are your plans?

when you say no, she says "why not?"

2010-05-17T11:51:00.000-05:00

One of my favorite songs ever. And so sexy to boot.

Spooky Girlfriend. Go ahead. Listen to it. Buy it. Love it.

keep on rockin' in the free world

2010-05-12T13:33:00.000-05:00

If you enjoy political debates, you should have been following my Twitter account @sullywilson last night. I live tweeted the Democrat debate for Representative District 2.

I'm no reporter but I enjoyed it tons.

Now back to my regular rantings and rabies.

and the moon rose over and open field

2010-05-11T16:05:00.002-05:00

FAKE SCIENCE!

Because who needs real science? Not me!

walked on down the hall

2010-05-07T14:00:00.000-05:00

Genius! Because I've never been dropped off so tipsy I couldn't get the key in the door before pee-peeing my pants on the front stoop and then it froze because it was winter and my roommate had to ask why there was a frozen puddle right in front of the front door. No. Uh-uh. That's never happened to me. But hey! What are the discombobulated years after college for?

Wha?

In other news, Kristen Wiig is going to be a clown fetishist in a movie soon. Based on this book. Which I am immediately reading:

Who wants to be right as rain?

Peek-a-boo

2010-04-30T14:16:00.000-05:00

I need these shoes, these beautiful shoes!

I like to praise you

2010-04-30T11:13:00.000-05:00

Things I've been looking at lately:

AEON FLUX
I'm really into the body armour trend. I'd never wear it but man, oh man, do I dig it.

Started reading Push last night. Wow. What a book. Sapphire is right up there with my other favorite authors Toni Morrison and Edith Wharton who describe their own knowledge of their own culture of womanhood in such an inclusive way. I really know it like that.

So Tracy Anderson Method huh? You know when I do workout, I really am less into cardio type stuff than I am into muscle building bootcamp. But you know, that's when I workout.

So in saying that, I'm definitely looking to buy a treadmill. Any thoughts?

Wow. There are just no words.

2010-04-28T11:40:00.000-05:00

So I found this link today. It's about goddess Pam Grier, who I adore, and her cokey vajina. I mean I knew Richard Pryor was into some shit. But DAMN!

I will definitely be buying her memoir, out today!! There's nothing I love more than an f-ed up memoir about Hollywood days of yore.

Because I love you on a Friday!

2010-04-23T09:10:00.000-05:00

but I swear it was in self-defense!

2010-04-22T15:00:00.000-05:00

I stole this from my lovely friend Leslie's FB page. Enjoy!

Amazing! I need sunshine STAT!

All they got inside is vacancy!

2010-04-22T12:18:00.000-05:00

Since I'm a HUY-UGE Medieval buff, this is right up my alley!

Click on the pic to make it bigger. It's way worth it.

and it all comes back again

2010-04-22T11:36:00.000-05:00

You know what? Just don't be a dick. Just stop all that right now.

In other news, I too must be a genius 'cause my desks ALWAYS look like this:

Einstein's desk. Just like your mom said, kids, always wear clean underwear and clean your desk off daily! You don't know what day will be your last!

Working on updating contract price lists today and wishing I were at the beach. Permanently. I think I would make a good beach bum.

Things that do not belong in your vagina. One: USB Flashdrive. I like how he's like, I would still have sex with you. I just want my flashdrive back. Guys. Sheesh.

So I think I now have enough balls to read the Push by Sapphire book. But, you know, maybe not.

(So did you like that, how I slipped in that lil' bit o' Amazon.com? Did ya? Did ya? huh huh?)

hearts afire

2010-04-21T15:17:00.000-05:00

I know I have been so distant lately. Sodistant. And it's nothing personal it's just that it's been everything personal and I've not been at liberty to discuss. If you ask, maybe I will tell you one on one, but really it's been more about me and Husband. So maybe I won't.

Boo. Radley.

Anyway just know, you out there, that I miss you. I think about you all the time. I know I don't show it so well lately. Not even many funny posts! But soon enough I will be filling your head again with all sorts of nonsense and nonesuch.

Have you seen this? (sorry for the horrible video quality)

But when he recites Jabberwock, which is so totally vile and creepy anyway, I just get shivers up my spine.

Personally I enjoyed the movie. But it had 3 of my favorite components (so it's really not fair): Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, 3D! THE THIRD DIMENSION!

Okay. Early day off work. Time to plan my vegetable garden me and my friend Will C will be planting!!

Like a mother's morning dress

2010-04-16T13:31:00.000-05:00

Maybe that's supposed to be "mourning" dress but really, in context, it could work either way.

So the older, show obsessed me would have died for one of these LV steamers.

The current me is just as content to look at one as to own one.

So I guess Iceland exploded? I still want to go there tho. Sit in a hot volcanic bath. mmmm.

Making love is our motto

2010-04-15T13:45:00.000-05:00

JakeFreedom's blog is really good. This post is an example why.

His most recent post on why he blogs is good too. I totally agree with everything he says there. To be known, to have legacy, is truly the reason for existence.

But if you read this blog ever, you know, with me, you gotta take the nuts with the bolts.

Not enough time, for all that I want for you

2010-04-13T09:06:00.001-05:00

I know it's been a while. 30th birthday success and a whole bunch of other things. But I can't talk about them right now. But soon. Soon!

Be the love, Su-Lauren, you wish to see in the world.

Turn it up,
The Universe

My Cherie Amour

2010-04-02T13:53:00.000-05:00

UNICORN! UUUUU-KNEE-CORN!!! (Meat).

Great Job!

mon-ay

2010-04-01T14:45:00.001-05:00

Kinda awesome.

I want candy!

2010-03-31T10:38:00.002-05:00

Sweet Berry Wine!

At least they are cute!

For your health!

2010-03-31T09:20:00.000-05:00

Orgies are no fun when nobody wants to do with you.

via videosift.com

funny how time flies

2010-03-30T14:15:00.002-05:00

Warning: The post I'm about to post is very Barf-tastic. HORF-riffic. Gross in every way possible. But it's not about me so fair warning.

I work in medical supplies. I do alot of things at my job. Mostly to do with money. But also to do with medical supplies. Because of this I can get very high-horsey RE: #HCR. But I won't today.

I have always had a strong stomach. Been fascinated by 100lb tumors and conjoined twins. Blood and guts do not scare me. In fact, they fascinate me. My own mortality I guess. Doesn't it always come back to my own mortality.

Anyway because of said strong stomach, I handle one of the positions no one else wants to (we are a family owned, my family owned, small, 7 employee business- it just works out that way): ostomy.

Ostomy is when part or all of your large bowel/small bowel/bladder/vagina and or uterine wall/abdominal cavity have been removed. Usually due to organ transplant or cancer. Sometimes it's permanent. Sometimes it's not.

Anyway at work my customers call me the ostomy lady. For the most part, we all get along. I was fanatical about my colon health before landing this position and you can believe that after hearing people talk poop in a bag all day long, you can eat dinner off my colon, it's so pristine.

Not much "gets me." Never really has. Oh yeah, have I mentioned I'm a meat eater? Love meat. Meatatarian is more like it. Meat meat meat (but rarely potatoes and always lots and lots of veggies).

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WARNING!
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So today I get a new ostomy customer. He's been in prison and so his medical care has been basic at best. He doesn't know what he needs, only what he's always been given. Ugh. This makes it hard. And he doesn't communicate very well, and I'm trying, but I'm slowly getting frustrated. (I mean you hear all the euphemisms for shit and see how long it takes you.)

So I'm trying to ask him about his stoma size. The stoma is the part of the intestine/whatever that sticks out of your body to reroute your waste. It looks like what you would imagine it would look like. A pink part of intestine on the outside. It's small. Not that intrusive.

He doesn't get it. He doesn't get it. He doesn't get it. "Oh," he says, "you mean the piece of meat."

"Excuse me?"

"The meat. The piece of meat on my stomach. The meat. The raw meat." (YES HE KEEPS GOING IT'S SO GROSS IT'S SO AWFUL HE WON'T STOP I CAN'T MAKE HIM STOP GOD PLEASE MAKE HIM STOP SAYING THAT PHRASE)

Holding back vomit, I almost have to put him on hold. Cold sweat brace myself later I say yes yes the stoma that's it ok moving on blah blah get off the phone as quickly as possible. Oh my God. I had to step outside. I had to flee the scene.

I'm a little better now but queasy. Maybe I'm not, ugh vom. I just have to quit talking about it. God. Help.

So that's been my day so far. Yours?

Frere Jacques

2010-03-22T12:47:00.000-05:00

Adèle Blanc-Sec - Le film-annonce. sur Yahoo! Vidéo

Yes yes it is in French, BUT there are boobies in the trailer!!

between cottonballs and xylophones

2010-03-22T12:34:00.000-05:00

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

they get what they want and they never want it again

2010-03-22T12:02:00.001-05:00

Go Spirit Animal!!

Octopuses Rule HD? Of course they do.

of verjanas and pennis-es

2010-03-15T11:27:00.003-05:00

Last week was one of the best weeks of my life. And this video here just sums it up:

the kind you don't take home to mother

2010-03-11T10:47:00.002-06:00

Daily Geek Links, because I'm lazy but you need to see this stuff!

MST3K Haiku!

X-Ray Spex!

Doodie!

the significance of the pickle

2010-03-10T12:54:00.002-06:00

Well after all the mania lately, I feel like coming down. Now can I? That's the real question.

Anyway hoping music will help. B- these are some folkies and songs I found that I like. Please do tell:

Ok so the Arlo is just more for fun.

Join in. Start a Love Train!

2010-03-05T15:18:00.001-06:00

Ewww Antartica is creepy and gory in a way I never knew I'd love!

Words Here.

Image Here.

and we will live together, until the 12th of never

2010-03-05T12:45:00.001-06:00

College Humor just keeps topping themselves with these imaginary accounts. Here's the latest Twitter accounts. The Scotty Pippen one had me laughing out loud, uncontrollably at work.

I am really ready for the weekend! Lady times, here I come!

Why don't you love me?

2010-03-04T09:49:00.001-06:00

MARS, ARE YOU EVEN TRYING?

Go Dad Go!!

2010-03-02T11:51:00.001-06:00

My Dad is running for State Rep (Arkansas) and I couldn't be more proud!!!

A man for the people, not his pockets!!

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always I want to be with you and be in harmony harmony always!

2010-03-01T12:28:00.001-06:00

This is for you, every one of you!

Robot Unicorn!

The music is the best part. And safe for work, on your official lunch break that is.

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Adultswim.com games really are the best.

Pole Dance Hero?

Cream Wolf?

My Lil' Bastard?

Need I go on?

I want to be the girl with the most cake

2010-03-01T09:35:00.002-06:00

I find this very funny. Party Bus! Woot woot!

Also for a little Courtney Love-ness, visit www.katswank.com. I drooooool for those flapper/Stevie Nicks' style headbands!

will you let me come on inside?

2010-02-25T13:53:00.003-06:00

Kill Bill salute poster by Ibraheem Youssef.

These are really cool. Buy me one, today!

if i say to you tomorrow

2010-02-25T11:15:00.002-06:00

Yesterday was frustrating and crumby. Today's theme (much better):

Black Country Rock, Bowie.

the children of the sun begin to awake

2010-02-24T13:30:00.003-06:00

Sade's Soldier of Love. Sooo good. And isn't this the damn sexiest picto ever?

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I am completely ready for Spring. I need plants. I need to be in my garden. I need slate stones and iron sundials and wisteria. I need need need. I am never one to rush time intentionally but I'm ready for the Spring lambs to be born, grow fat for eating in the Fall. Grow ready. Come Beltane, come quickly!

Ooowee what up with that!

2010-02-23T12:27:00.001-06:00

I heart the Snooki and The Situation sketch on SNL 's Weekend Update.

It made me smile thusly, when I saw this:

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This won't ever get boring!

2010-02-22T09:26:00.002-06:00

Sarah Haskins is my new idol.

If you know me, you know how frustrated I get at my sex, myself as a woman, the way I succumb to all the dumb things focused at women while knowing it's dumb but still falling for it all anyway.

What can I say? I'm complicated? No, not really.

Anyway Sarah Haskins' series : Sarah Haskins in Target Women: XYZ is amazing. All my fears, smiles, agonies about my genitalia and how that represents me as a person in the world are wrapped up into one comic tidbit. Thanks. I needed that.

signed, sealed, delivered

2010-02-19T10:16:00.001-06:00

Bubs, this is for you.

Adobe Photoshop Cook from Lait Noir on Vimeo.

I'm addicted to you but you know that you're toxic!

2010-02-18T10:58:00.003-06:00

SHARKTOCOPUS!

Oh wow. That is so amazing!!!

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Slowly driving my coworkers insane with my Madonna/Lady GaGa/JT/Britney Spears Pandora station. 2 days in a row. What can I say? I can't help it?

it's such a perfect day, I want to share it with you

2010-02-15T20:46:00.002-06:00

In providing Bub moral support while he nailed squirrel netting in the holes in the attic, I stood in 32 degree weather for about 2 hours. It was ok as I had Words with Friends to get me by (Sullyspark) but the point is my face now, an hour and s half later, is burned! I got cold burned! How weird is that???

So to thank Bub for his hard work I made him a kick ass dinner (a Valentine's continuum if you will):

Sully's Maine Surf and Turf (lobster with spinach and oyster mushrooms- the best of woods and sea)--

Start with a large skillet, big pat of butter, some olive oil, red pepper flakes, sea salt, fresh garlic, balsamic vineagar. Make it a melty yummy mess. Add spinach, or tonight Japanese spinach, until it cooks up tender. But cook it slooooowly bc while you do that-

Reconstitute dried oyster mushrooms by boiling in water for 5 minutes. Remove and add to the spinach mix but place mushrooms on the bottom to keep soaking up all those juices. Keep the water boiling and add
(tonight) fusili.

Boil fusili 6 mins while starting another very large pot of water to boil. When almost 6 minutes have passed, put 2 lobster tails on to boil for 6 minutes.

Drain pasta and add to spinach mix. Drain lobsters, shell, slice up, and add to pasta mix.

Top with fresh grated Parmesan cheese. Eat. Live.

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Mislead!

2010-02-12T10:44:00.001-06:00

Kool & The Gang dance party at work y'all!

Watermelon Man

2010-02-10T12:47:00.001-06:00

Oh man! I can spend hours here...droooool...All I need is an iced tea IV!

The Juliana Watermelon Collar Necklace just makes me want to dance!

Banana Power!!!

2010-02-05T21:26:00.002-06:00

LOOK AT ME MOVE!!!

i said to you honey, "just open your heart,"

2010-02-04T12:40:00.002-06:00

Husband informed me recently that Joanna Newsome has a triple disc album coming out soon. Hearts exploding. All the blood. All the gutsy guts.

Here's a link (look under the Free Music! banner) to hear one of the songs.

hare krishna

2010-02-02T14:18:00.002-06:00

I need some vitamin D, obvs. These shoes could also help. And a sunny place to wear them to.

Also this makes me laugh.

9:30 bedtime, you are again already calling my name. Turns out looking at windows and doors all the time is really boring stuff.

Have you heard Fictionist yet?? Wowza!

Something safe for the pictureframe?

2010-01-28T11:39:00.001-06:00

Well isn't that just completely ironic? Start talking about Little Red Riding Hood, which actually is not in its original form a cautionary tale about sexuality, and I start my menses and probably ruin a pair of good pants. Well maybe they weren't that good but still.

I always preach the beauty of womanhood. It's mythology and differences. I accept and love my monthlies, signs to me of health and fertility. I really do love everthing about being female. Maybe that's because, awkward and awful as I was/am, I was raised to have strong well, to be headstrong. And it has made me more or less comfortable in my own skin and with who I am/was at different stages in my life.

But I escaped puberty mostly physically unscathed, awkward, but unscathed. None of the horrific acne from my father's side. None of the taunting of boys. I just wasn't that concerned or ready until much later. I had started my period and adolescence physically much earlier, years earlier, than everyone I knew so I guess I was used to it. Awkward at it, but used to it.

I never stained my pants. Now simple and, no duh, as that may seem, it is actually a pretty big deal in girldom to have escaped Junior High and High School without having ever leaked your period
bad enough to stain your pants. I have very vivid memories of the girl walking down the hall in the white shorts with the bright red stain. Mortifying for everyone involved on so many levels.

I never stained my pants until today.

I have sat and listened to the men who have come and gone and stayed in my laugh laugh riotously about sleepwalk peeing, pissing themselves when passed out, shitting themselves, shit shit and piss. And they are very funny stores told over drinks in dives and swanky places like The Capital Hotel (thanks Jake and then Hank for that one). So I guess that's the equivilent?

And you know big fucking deal, right? I am stanly built and I get it. Not life ending. Gross but not life ending. And really more annoying than gross. And definitely not life ending.

But there are some times when you feel the
Most Safe, confident in your woman's skin, and it all comes tumbling down. Worth, esteem, desirability, all because you couldn't stay stuffed. Patched up. Plugged. Sucks to be you, huh?

And by you, I ofcourse, mean me.

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mother stands for comfort

2010-01-28T09:56:00.003-06:00

Good Good. You know I don't know what it is and I'll admit I was really distrustful, hopeful, but distrustful that you and things had really changed. I don't think I was necessarily wrong to feel that way then, like now, this one instance, you are really nice, and funny, and like how it was way back in the neverland. And that's nice. So maybe it's true. But also, maybe it's not. Maybe I can just be kind in the eyes when I see you, but I do still see you, la finta nonna.

Swarmy comes to mind. Vulture. Feeder of death and the dying. A personal definition. I'm sorry, but I just can't shake that. Like my brothers. My childhood. I am just all too knowledgeable, unfortunately.

Radio free Europe

2010-01-26T12:06:00.001-06:00

iPhone pictures from the last forever! Revel in the quality!

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calling all in transit, calling all in transit

2010-01-26T11:56:00.001-06:00

People who do all they can, with what they've got, from where they are, Su-Lauren, no matter how puny their actions, how tiny their steps, or how futile it may seem, simply have more fun. Way.

Of course, to the uninitiated it doesn't appear that way. To them it appears as if only those taking gigantic leaps, who drive cars with fancy wheels, have loads of friends, perfect bodies, and fly around the world in First Class Sleeper Seats, are having fun. But what they don't realize is that we're often talking about the very same folks, just at different points in their journey.

Coffee, tea, or a brand new Bentley?
The Universe

Thanks Universe. My life is pretty dag-um awesome!

My baby love

2010-01-26T07:56:00.001-06:00

This morning I watched The Today Show's continuing segment on the navy SEALS and it was fairly insane. Makes me very proud of our men and women who serve bc one look at that 40 foot high rope climb and Alaskan ice bath and Lord knows it couldn't be me.

Also holla English Breakfast (the red packet)!

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it's gonna happen soon, but not today

2010-01-25T13:53:00.003-06:00

I have a new computer at work and man is it fast! See Twitter-ama for a pic.

We also have a new leaf blower SLASH leaf vacuum!! It's called Leaf Hog and it's amazing. I want to marry it. Have it's little leaf piglets. I am actually looking forward to going home and leaf hogging. Actually we do more like pine needle hogging but you know, You say Apple, I say Tomato. Right?

Dinner tonight is going to be all natural Arkansas grown pork chops, hand picked Arkansas dandelion greens (YUM. Big yum. If you like greens then you need to get your hands on some dandelion greens. Such a different taste. So good. Great with an olive oil vinaigrette and Kalamata olives. Good raw. Good.)

We're also going to brine our natural grub and grass fed chicken to roast for dinner tomorrow night. I finished The Omnivore's Dilemma and thought, you know if I feel so strongly about this, I need to practice what I preach. So this chicken came to us whole, raw, ready, and pretty actually, from a little trifecta (trifold) beast operation (read the book to know what I mean) of cattle, chicken, and pigs here in Arkansas. Near Harrison actually. Near where my family lives! Anyway. It's supposed to taste more like chicken than chicken. If this is true, I will let you know. And if it is not, I will also let you know. I do not want to pay more for food but I expect my food to be good. If I have to pay more I will. If I don't, then I won't!

So we'll see. My brine is going to be Hawaiian sea salt (muskier, earthier), lemon chunks, coriander, fresh rosemary from the garden, garlic, bay, and onion.

I am very excited. Very.

I told you, I've seen it all before

2010-01-22T12:40:00.002-06:00

All I can think about is Rachel Maddow talking about "Bye Bye Unicorn!"

W.T.F.?

It reminds me of the horse men in Equus (Harry Potter dong anyone?)

Anyway I just can't really. Hrmm.

Is this any better?

Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses
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The creepiest movie evar!!!

And in other news, Chris Brown is the stupidest human ever.

Let me see you Laffy Taffy

2010-01-22T11:27:00.003-06:00

Much to Husband's chagrin? Dismay? (I dunno), I very often dream of nudity. Full frontal, totally exposed, nudit-ay. Of him, me, our friends, family, strangers I make up in my mind, people I used to know.

Is that weird? I've done it my whole life, pretty much, and I just kind of expect it nowadays. But every now and then it surprises me. Especially when my dream characters have moments of consciousness about their nudity. I am always there to reassure them it's cool. A-ok. Feel the breeze. It's never inappropriate because it's rarely sexualized. I say rarely because I mean honestly, who can dream about all these nudie people and it not be sexual. But most of the time it's just funny. Because people at their most vulnerable is so uncomfortable you have to laugh. It's a requirement of being human. To laugh at someone else's misfortune is our caveman way of getting through the day. The "better you than me" buddy system.

But sometimes it's just funny because junk is funny. The penis. The vagina. They are funny looking. Strange alien creatures (have you seen AVATAR yet??) attached to our bodies, living, breathing basically independent of our minds/wishes.

And so often replicated in nature (or maybe the other way around):

See Voodoo Lily (Amorphophallus- the big joke in my garden club)

See Phallaceae Stinkhorn Mushrooms. Probably you'd recognize them from Little Earthquakes.

See Corpse Lily. Which, if you watch your CSI, you know people plant to hide dead bodies in their basements.

See various carnivorous plants (vagina dentata anyone?) like pitcher plants or other Nepenthes.

Aren't these great? Well, back to reading Jung and brushing up on my Latin. Agricola. Agricolae. Agricolarum. Ha! I kid!

2010-01-20T12:32:00.001-06:00

We had my brother-in-law in town job hunting in PR so we had dinner with our friend Spencer and his gf Jenn. Spence is all up in some marketing/pr so I thought some good advice could be shared. It went well and everyone loved dinner.

I made steamed fresh, whole greenbeans with butter and sesame seeds. Turkey meatballs which are amazing (see the recipie below), and roasted new potatoes with fresh Rosemary. Dessert was mixed dried cherries from our trip to Seattle. Bing, tart, and Rainier. Awesome sauce.

Turkey meatballs:
-ground turkey 85/15 bc you need a little fat
-Ricotta cheese
-Parmesan cheese
-smidge olive oil
-seasonings to taste
-lots of yummy Fennel seeds!
-egg and crackers to stick it all together

Mash it all with your hands and make meatballs. Thirty minutes at 400 degrees! Until golden brown.

I also made some soup for my friend Amber who is embarking on some serious life changes. It's carrot, Ginger, saffron, garlic cream soup. Basically the prettiest, creamiest, tastiest soup ever.

And tonight, I get to eat it!

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Bury my heart at wounded knee // Bury my heart deep in the earth

2010-01-10T13:42:00.001-06:00

In Seattle and loving it. You can follow my adventures by befriending me on Gowalla. It's like a treasure hunting app. I enjoy it anyway. Had so much fun with Mike and Abi and Brent and Christa last night. Thanks guys.

Is it the gray weather that makes everything in Seattle look closed or is it just that it's Sunday?

On my way to the Troll next!

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Our New Year // The latch was left unhooked

2010-01-08T09:27:00.004-06:00

Well 2009 was interesting. Can't say I'm sorry to see it go although it was full of very good events and also some very bad events. Things seem more clear now. Maybe it's the negative wind chill arctic blast. Maybe not. Anyway, I'm glad. Relaxed.

Listening to alot of Phish as well as alot of Funkadelic again. Specifically The Story of the Ghost and Maggot Brain.

Heading to Seattle tomorrow. A Velveeta debacle (see FB and Twitter for details). Get to see Lameliar. Abi and Mike. Brent and Christa. Frequent flyer mile flying for $10 roundtrip is the way to live. Also staying in swank boutique hotels on Husband's work's dime ain't too bad either.

Interested in coming along? Only if you're spirit animal is compatible with mine...

The Octopus

Octopus live in dens, crevices on the sea floor, or holes they dig under large rocks. They are night predators and feed on crabs, sea snails, and other small fish. An adult female has a short life span approximately one to one and a half years. . There are over 100 species of these solitary eight armed animals that live on the ocean floor. They range in size from one inch up to 23 feet.

Adults lay 1000’s of eggs at a time. They watch over the eggs for several months without ever leaving the den. Exhausted by breeding and starved by the vigil over her eggs the female octopus usually dies before or shortly after the eggs hatch. In the world of the octopus the cycle of life and death is continuos. The Greeks believe the octopus represents the sacred spiral of life, always evolving and ever changing. Near death and out of body experiences are common for those with this totem giving them the skills necessary to help others transition into spirit. They make excellent hospice workers and death and dying therapists.

The agility of the octopus is surpassed by none. Since they don’t have bone attached to the muscles in their legs they can squeeze through openings no bigger than a penny. If the octopus loses an arm it will regrow another one. Flexibility and regeneration are some of its teachings. The study and practice of Yoga would be an excellent therapy for those with this medicine.

The most unusual feature of the octopus is its 3 hearts. One heart pumps blood through the body and the other two-pump blood through the gills. This attributes to their constant high blood pressure. Octopus blood is blue and a poor carrier of oxygen. The rare condition known as a blue baby is associated with octopus medicine. Because of these physiological oddities the octopus has poor stamina and an inability to struggle offensively or defensively for very long. Heart conditions are common in those with this medicine so caution is advised.

These unique creatures of the sea have excellent eyesight but cannot hear. They are believed to be the most intelligent of all invertebrates. Those with this medicine are clairvoyant at birth but have difficulty hearing or responding to the voice within no matter how hard they try. When octopus swims into your life it is asking you to let go of your inefficiencies, stop trying so hard and focus on fine tuning the skills that are naturally yours.

Octopuses are experts in the art of camouflage and teach us how to utilize this skill for our own benefit. These fascinating creatures can change colors to mirror their surroundings and alter their skin texture to match the texture of sand, rocks or other surfaces they are on. They also squirt black ink into the water clouding a predator’s visibility so they can escape unharmed. The octopus is a powerful totem to have. By following its lead we learn how to move through life safely, securely and without struggles.

Can you hear me?

what we need is solar fire

2009-12-30T11:07:00.001-06:00

Awww. I know everyone has seen this commercial 1000X but the first time Husband saw it he said, "You know, I can't wait to have a kid just so we can Lego together."

Totally sold me.

Jammin' I hope you like Jammin' too

2009-12-29T09:21:00.002-06:00

Here's our big reveal! We're moving! We bought a house at the corner of Country Club and Polk and our orange hot mess labor of love couldn't make me happier.

We are very excited. Now I guess we start having babies?

Here's the front view. Orange house. Soon to be green house.

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I call your mom she says you're not there // and I should take care

2009-12-28T15:38:00.000-06:00

I really like me this guy's work.

Irish folktales scare the shit out of me.

2009-12-23T13:28:00.002-06:00

Feel like wasting your money on Ebay?

In the spirit of creation, a child is born!

I'm really digging this song right now!

Hitting up my parents farm this weekend. Maybe we'll finally get to meet the Amish across the road!

pink & glitter

2009-12-22T15:19:00.003-06:00

Not very holiday in spirit, but this is the saddest and most amazing thing ever. Full House was a horrible show. But I love Bob Saget and I think this is almost so meta. So ironic. So great.

Just watch at how despicable Danny Tanner's life is. I mean it's really depressing.

In other wonderful news, Husband got me the new Zelda DS game (Spirit Tracks) for Christmas!!! I was feeling kind of bummed last night for no good reason so he decided to surprise me!! Squee!!!! It's so much fun so far. Phantom Hourglass (also for DS) was so great. A really long enjoyable game. So was Twilight Princess. I tried playing Majora's Mask on our Wii but that shiz is hard! I can't wait for the next Wii game to come out. Maybe I should just play Twilight Princess again. It's been a while.

your heart only beats 1s and 0s

2009-12-21T12:38:00.001-06:00

Mario's closet. Very cute.

"Unsteadily, as in dim moon-shimmer, From out Makalii's night-dark veil of cloud thrills, shadow-like, the prefiguration of the world to be."

2009-12-21T09:25:00.003-06:00

As you probably know, I am obsessed with the octopus as my shadowside. Had one even printed on my wedding program. Last night, one of my dreams, my mixed up weird night of dreams, was about scuba diving (oh I wish) and how we came upon a sea bed full of octopi. But even that's not right because they are solitary creatures (unlike jellyfish. Did you know a "school" of jellyfish is called a smack? Well you do now bc you are smart, S-M-R-T smart). But you know whatever. It was a dream.

And it was so relaxing and wonderful that it made me come do some research. So here's some cool videos and creation myth links on the octopus.

"Kanaloa - The Hawaiian Creator, the equivalent of Tangaroa from Maori myths. He is also the god of the underworld, who can teach magic. He appears in the shape of an octopus."

"The Hawaiʻian creation myth relates that the present cosmos is only the last of a series, having arisen in stages from the wreck of the previous universe. In this account, the octopus is the lone survivor of the previous, alien universe."

Read more about the octopus as Supreme Idol here. Then maybe you'll understand my desire to lie down on the ocean floor, eight sucking arms wrapped around me.

Yes!

2009-12-19T19:31:00.001-06:00

I always had a sweet spot for Akbar.

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I've got to get home // Baby it's cold outside

2009-12-18T11:35:00.002-06:00

Super? Not So Super.

My fave so far is the Wonder Woman panel. Where she's mysteriously attracted to ironing. ha! A woman's world! Yuck Yuck Yuck.

Also my favorite version of the "it's cold outside" song is sung by Leon Redbone and Zooey Deschanel.

I love how he's ridiculously deep and big band and she's adorably flat. And I mean that sincerely. I really love this version.

To Kids From 1 to 92

2009-12-17T12:13:00.001-06:00

Yes!!!! Win!!!

Even though our healthcare reform is going to the toilet, at least we still have smart kids in college, right? Right?

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So hurry down the chimney tonight

2009-12-14T12:56:00.003-06:00

Just in time for the holidays! (helps with talking to other nerds as well)

Just in time for the holidays! (that was the droid you were looking for! Doh!)

Just in time for the holidays! (Swiss Colony Beeflog anyone?)

Just in time for the holidays! (Dear Sweet Etsy Christ)

Just in time for the holidays! (really every video on this is my gift to you, dear reader)

Holy Shit Santa! Help! Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Nutrocker" just landed on my Christmas Slacker channel! Noooooooooooo!

i need whiskey to ease the pain, but it's early in the morning

2009-12-10T13:27:00.001-06:00

HUZZAH!

Zombie Disney Princesses Rule!

2009-12-08T09:33:00.005-06:00

About to go get my thyroid checked again! Yee haw! I love being in stage 2 of puberty! Word! I'm so ready to not be exhausted! Yes!

In other news, I love these "whose been a-googlin'?" things.

And of course, my favorite:

my friend says we're like the dinosaurs // and here we are, doing ourselves in

2009-12-01T13:05:00.002-06:00

We'll make great pets.

So this is amazing. And barf-tastic. And wow. It's FML for Twilight set. I don't really know what that means except I like FML sometimes and I hate Twilight all the time. So.

My favorite is one about how "I asked my boyf to ice his lips before we kissed so it would be like kissing Edward."

Um. Yeah. I like kissing dead guys too?!.

Legalize it- Peter Tosh

2009-12-01T09:22:00.004-06:00

And he was bearded. And it was grood.

I like how Boba Fett has the natty dreads!

Today is the day I drink my coffee and don't let stupid people I don't even like put me in a bad mood because they're dicks.

Also it's a day for walking at the bridge, decorating the house for Christmas, preparing for the 3rd Annual Wilson Holiday Throwdown on Saturday

(the theme is 'the fat man's looking a little lean this year...'),

and having a glass of wine with the ladies. I'm very much looking forward to it. I've been busting hump at work the last few weeks and it will feel good to relax with friends, although Thanksgiving was fairly relaxing afterall.

And don't forget to remind me to tell you about the time last night when my mom and I almost burned down the Heights...