In Which There Are Pictures, Significantly More of a House, a Kid-Induced Bad Hair Day, Some Reasonable Outrage, and News of a Coming Toaster Award

The house is starting to look real.  I sort of believe it might someday be finished.  I mean, not counting on anything, but it does appear that there may, in fact, be at point at which I'm not sleeping in my dining room.

Also,

J (aka Jerry Poppins aka Governor aka the new male in-home day caregiver) and I were able to talk a bit because we were having our hair done by a pair of short hairdressers.  It was really hard to get the full sense from a photo (truly, it had to bee seen to be believed), but here's the best photo of it I have (with the artist in the picture--Henry did J's hair).

Truly, there's rather a lot of hair bling in there.  Anyway, it was a good talk, and we're happy, he's happy, and the kids are happy, and man, I'm just hoping the wind doesn't change.

Now for the outrage.  (For those not tuned in to the US news cycle and its cynical horrors, look here if you can stand it.)  I mean, it's horrifying that the hypocritical republicans let this go on.  But now they're trying to turn it on us truly boring gay people.  I mean, we're the ones whom you're trying to write out of the constitution just want to be able to get married.  You know, to be, um, monogamously committed to one (adult, consenting, power-equal) person.  Some of us don't even need the piece of paper to maintain our extreme boringosity.  The idea that you can claim a gay cabal in the republican house of representatives, and then blame this on gay people?  I...I....I mean...I just...what can you say?  How do you respond to something like this?  Excuse me while I scream now.

Before all this happened, however, I was doing something a bit more constructive than screaming.  I've been making calls for get-out-the-vote efforts in key races across the country.  It's easy to do and you can do it from home, and truly, most people are very nice and those that aren't just hang up.  So if you feel like it, I gather they need people to call in Foley's former district.  Go here to sign up.  Also, I've contributed to the exciting Mass. governor's race.  You can too if you like, here.  And then I think all we can do is keep screaming, because it seems like a pretty reasonable thing at this point.  And calling and contributing and volunteering, and...whatever you can, I guess.

Oh, and go me, I've biked to work every day this week.  I have a new bike on order, delayed with a shipping mixup--I'll tell you all about it when I get it, but i'm psyched.  I've got to get totally in the habit before the bad weather and really early nightfalls come.  I'm on my way.  And seriously, Riin, thanks for the inspiration.

As for toaster, master enabler Shannon Okey will be stopping by here tomorrow morning (hopefully fully recovered from her tête-à-tête with Dolores) with tips for the enabler and the enablee.  I love her new book: she gets a toaster for the thousands of new spinners she will no doubt create through it.  See you tomorrow!

 

Comments

[kmkat]

Nothing like those short hairdressers to liven up your 'do and your day. I just want to tell you that during this entire Foley crap thingy I never once thought to blame it on youse guys. I blame it on the Old White Dudes Who Have Forgotten How To Be Nice And/Or Fair And/Or Honest.

[Sara]

whee - can't wait to hear about the new bike!!!

[Sara]

PS - the new living room looks ginormous.

[maryse]

the house looks beautiful. i'm very excited for you! imagine all of the wheels you can fit in there ;)

i'm sorry that the gop is sucking ONCE AGAIN!!! i don't watch tv news anymore. i just listen to the progressive radio station so at least i'm listening to like minded people who are just as outraged as you and i are. "big eddie" seems to think that this is the beginning of the end for the phuckers but i'm not so sure. people are stupid. i'd say they were sheep but that's insulting to the sheep.

anyway, i'm on your side. oooh in my town during our democratic primary, we voted against the incumbent -- an old lady conservative democrat who was all for getting rid of the right to marry in mass. her challenger, someone much more progressive, won instead. so that's good news.

thanks for the links. i'm not good with the cold calling. i don't even like to call for a pizza. but i do feel the need to do something. i've even considered moving to a red state so that my blue vote might actually mean something (ok, i've considered it very little).

lucky you getting to ride your bike to work. i don't think i have 35 miles in my legs ;)

[Rachel H]

Yay for having your house back, Double Yay for the biking to work habit. Good for you.

I got nothing on that whole 'gay cabal' nonsense. It's just too stupid.

[Cheryl]

Your house! It's looking fantastic! And huge!

[Norma]

Oh, gawd, as soon as I heard the first breath of a word about that sonofabitch Foley "entering rehab" and "admitting he's gay as part of his therapy," I could just SEE what was coming next. Don't get me STARTED! Ugh, ugh, UGH.

On the brighter side, the house is looking great. I know how it seems to dragggggg on at the end, though, and it must be all the more annoying when you're living in it while it's happening.

And, hey, the hair art looks awesome, and J sounds like a dream. I hope that works out!

[Marcy, Not so Blogless]

Yeah. About the screaming--I don't usually yell at the radio or the tv, but I've been doing a whole lot of both lately. At least when I'm yelling at the radio in the car my windows are up. *sigh* They are SO full of shit.

[Carrie]

Fascinating. I wonder if it was the "gay cabal" who was running the Catholic Church for all those years? Hmmm.
(Am I the only one who thinks a "powerful gay cabal" in politics might be a good thing? GayProf for President!)
Hooray for the house! It will be soooo wonderful to move back into all that space.

[JoVE]

I can't click because I am already in the camp of CAnadians who feel sorry for America because it is so fucked up. I'm even doing my bit to get the vote out, at least on the super DOMA shit going on. There is good info on how it keeps all those from living their boring lives without being married folks can check out http://www.unmarried.org/stop_06_amendments/index.php

They are not content to hate gays, they hate just about everybody. And they are sneaky. Lots of people don't even know these things are on the ballot.

Great about the house. And Great that J is as great as he obviously is. What size feet does he have. We could knit socks to keep him happy.

[Sneaksleep]

Go you is right!!! There's a bike trail right near my house, but I haven't biked on it yet (the excuse is that my tires are flat, which is true, but still lame). If I lived about 5 miles closer, I would totally bike to work.

Don't get me started on the Foley thing. Or on the torture thing. Or the abortion thing. Or on any one of the vast number of icky, horrible, inconceivable-yet-real things going on right now. *sob*

[Judi]

Just a note: it isn't only gays that are enraged by the performances in D.C.

[Riin]

Alright, go you!

[Laurie]

Politics are weird because people are weird. And some people are weirder than others. Why can't they just leave us all alone?

The house will look bigger inside when the plaster goes on. The gray smallens things up. Down? Now that the wallboard is up, there are fewer subs that have to do stuff. That's a good thing. And I love boringosity. I think I will adopt that.