Runaway October

So I totally spaced on the Etsy sale this past Sun­day. I had it in my plan­ner, I reminded my mom a mil­lion times, but still for­got. Instead I’m bor­row­ing this idea from Kris­ten of Cheeky Beaks. Looks like we have some fab­u­lous local Etsy tal­ent around here.

All pic­tures are linked and prop­erty of their orig­i­nal owners.

Is there any­thing for which you would will­ingly give your life?

Absolutely. My Chil­dren. Enough Said.

How would you com­mu­ni­cate with some­one if you didn’t share a com­mon language?

Lots of wild arm flail­ing and hand ges­tures. Maybe draw­ing. We know quite a bit of Amer­i­can Sign Lan­guage, but that’s Amer­i­can Sign Lan­guage and most likely the said encounter is not tak­ing place in Amer­ica or with a Native-born Amer­i­can so it would be a moot point.

Where is your ideal place/location to have a wedding?

I dunno. I was always one of those lit­tle girls who dreamed of the big per­fect church wed­ding. But church just doesn’t do it for me these days. I’d love a nice out­door wed­ding but that would most likely have to take place out of state which would be expen­sive. Hell, at this point a JP behind a dump­ster would be good, but I keep get­ting the feel­ing that Matt’s stalling on pur­pose.

Today is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s. You can get as many as you want, as long as you’re will­ing to stand in line each time.

This is prob­a­bly the only time I’d actu­ally go to a Ben & Jerry’s shop as their gun views don’t sync with mine, but hey — It’s free! Click the pic­ture to find a par­tic­i­pat­ing shop near you. Here are the Ari­zona ones:

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I’ve been work­ing on this blan­ket for awhile now and while I’m pleased at how it’s turn­ing out I’m not pleased with the ten­sion issues I’ve been hav­ing. I also hate to admit it but I found not one but TWO dropped stitches and they’re quite a few rounds back. I’m con­tem­plat­ing frog­ging the whole thing and start­ing over. I think I would prob­a­bly cry while doing it, but I really need to reeval­u­ate my gauge again.

I just hate to use a larger hook because that means larger holes in the throw right? I hate that — makes it too drafty. Actu­ally I just looked back and it seems I may be using too big of a hook already?!

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In other sad news, it’s gonna cost us quite a mint to get the car repaired and the bank has decided not to help us with that as half of our income (mine) is gone. It looks like I’m gonna have to give up all the crafts and fancy recipes again for awhile. I just wish there was some­thing I could do at home with­out becom­ing the Evil­StressQueen of Har­well Street. I wish I was like Dooce and could get paid for each of the mil­lions of read­ers I have. Haha. Nev­er­mind, I think I have 3 but I love you all!

I can’t say that I’m not a fan, because I’m not even sure if I’ve heard any of her music. But I came across an inter­view of her and I have to say I’m a fan now even if I haven’t heard her music.

When asked how moth­er­hood has changed how she views the world:

“Being a mom seems to have changed the way the world sees me more than the other way around. Being preg­nant really shifts your rela­tion­ship to soci­ety, and then walk­ing around with a baby shifts it again. I love the feel­ing that I get from other par­ents — women in par­tic­u­lar — of being a part of the club. Club Sac­ri­fice, you might call it. It’s cool to have cama­raderie, warmth, and open­ness with strangers. I wish that dynamic was more preva­lent in gen­eral, but I am grate­ful to have it now.”

When asked if she would have a home­birth again:

“I would def­i­nitely choose a home­birth again despite the fear mon­ger­ing of this patri­ar­chal soci­ety, which con­vinces women that they are inca­pable of hav­ing babies with­out the inter­ven­tion of men and their machines. I look at soci­eties where women are mar­gin­al­ized and oppressed their whole lives (even cov­ered head to toe in tarps!) but are still in con­trol of birthing prac­tice, in a whole new way now. I mean, who is really more advanced? To take birthing out of women’s hands and deny us the con­tin­uüm of eons of wis­dom and expe­ri­ence is to eject us from the very seat of our power. I believe that women in hos­pi­tals are pre­vented from being able to have nor­mal, healthy birthing expe­ri­ences because of the intim­i­da­tion of being on the clock, being pres­sured to take drugs to make it quicker, being inhib­ited in their move­ment and activ­i­ties, and alien­ated by a ster­ile, flu­o­res­cent lit, feet-in-the-air type envi­ron­ment. You know the clas­sic “per­for­mance anx­i­ety” of not being able to pee or poo because somebody’s watch­ing you? Mul­ti­ply that by a mil­lion! A cervix is a sphinc­ter after all! Then to add tragic insult to injury women are numbed through their great moment of rev­e­la­tion. I believe the act of giv­ing birth to be the sin­gle most mirac­u­lous thing a human being can do and it is surely the moment when a lot of women finally under­stand the depth of their power and con­nec­tion to all of nature. You think it can’t pos­si­bly be done, you think you can’t pos­si­bly take the pain, and then you do — and after­ward you look at your­self in a whole new way. If you can do that, you can do any­thing. Check out the books on this sub­ject by Ina May Gaskin. She’s one of my great heroes. P.S. I was in labor for 43 hours. Pushed for five hours. It was bru­tal and scary and pro­longed, and if I was in a hos­pi­tal, they would have def­i­nitely cut the baby out of me. I thank the god­desses that I was at home with patient mid­wives who knew how to go the dis­tance. The mem­ory of pain always recedes. The mem­ory of tri­umph does not.”

I just love that last quote. So true.

I’m not gonna get on my high horse or any­thing, but I really wish that more women would think about birth choices and the effect that it has on every sin­gle per­son in this soci­ety. Too often do I talk to moth­ers who don’t even know that there are choices. Life in Amer­ica is all about the choices ladies! Please ask what they are.

Via [Celebrity Baby Blog]