I’m taking a break from WoW for a week. I need to focus on other things and if it’s there, I’ll just be distracted. I’m having two guests stay at my house this week. A cute couple from Austria. I’m really looking forward to it because the girl and I have so much in common. I mean when she contacted me about staying here I had to say yes in the basis of her profile picture alone- a picture with her and her Hello Kitty Toaster! Just like the one I have back in the states that toasts Hello Kitty’s face on every piece of bread! They’ll be here for a week starting Monday.
My week was tiring and long! The mom of the kids I nanny for, is out of the country so I had to work extra hours. I didn’t realize how much she actually contributes to my working week until she was gone. She gets back this weekend, thank goodness. It’s now the weekend and I thought I would spend it sleeping, but my Dutch dentist inflicted so much pain in my mouth that I can barely sleep! I went to the dentist yesterday to get a root canal on one of my molars. I was freaking out because you never hear good things about root canals! and even more so freaking out because my last Dutch dentist told me I wouldn’t get anesthesia! Thankfully, the one I saw yesterday hooked me up. I was still squirmy and freaking out in the chair. She had to stop a bunch of times to tell me to calm down and breath or she’d stop the procedure half way through. I couldn’t help it! I still felt the drill! :( We finished the first half of the procedure and I biked home…yes, I biked home after a root canal, with a numb face. There was drool, chapped lips, and I’m sure my face was drooping. After the anesthesia wore off, I was in fucking pain! Of course I wasn’t prescribed with pain killers(what’s up with that Europe!?) So, it was Tylenol PM, imported from the good ol US of A, and some Darvocets I had leftover for some previous ailment. Still, I got no relief! I hate to say it, but I definitely abused the drugs and took way more than I was supposed to. I had to in order to get some sleep and stop the tears! Not looking forward to the second part of the procedure on Friday. :(
This morning I am feeling much better! There’s pain but it’s a lot less severe than yesterday. I hope it stays like this. Especially since I’m off to eat pannekoeken(my most favorite Dutch thing…EVER!) with Emily and Kate! And hopefully a stop by the comic book store if I can manage it!
This 25 things is going around. I did it on facebook, may as well post it on here!
Rules:
Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.
1. I am the princess of procrastination. I procrastinate with anything and everything
2. I have about 20-30 hand written journals from age 8-present.
3. I was named after Sophia Loren
4. I haven’t chemically relaxed my hair for almost 2 years
5. I’m allergic to the citrus in limes
6. I can’t sit through a movie-If I’m in a theater I pass out or text and if it’s a download, I stop numerous times throughout to send emails/play warcraft
7. One of my best friends is someone I know only through the internet.
8. I can’t walk in heels…I kind of just shuffle
9. I have 3 siblings
10. I was vegetarian for four years
11. on my 21st birthday I protested the war in Iraq(it started on my 21st bday!) at Bush’s ranch instead of getting wasted!
12. I would live in Amsterdam forever…if it weren’t for these darn visa limitations!
13. When I settle down, YEARS from now, I don’t think it will be in the united states
14. I debate whether I want kids or not daily. At the moment, and most times, it leans towards not
15. I was once paid to cup someone’s balls. (lol thanks devynn!)
16. I’ve bungee jumped
17. I’ve spent 84 days playing World of Warcraft since August 2005. That’s 2088 hours! or 37 minutes per day(thanks jamesfrancis mathgenius)
18. I don’t feel bad about it at all. Other people spend that much time putting make up on in the morning…I prefer to pew pew(that’s the sound of me shadowbolting)
19.I got in trouble for reading “I know why the caged bird sings” in third grade
20. In the summer I’m always naked or close to it…in my apartment. ask my old roomie!
21. I own an article of clothing from every boy I’ve dated. (Not on purpose)
22. I answer to 3 names on a daily basis-Sophia, Ayda, and Apricot
23. I’m a klutz. I fall, run into something, or spill something at least once every day
24. I can speek lolcat. and has conversashuns in it 2!
25. I don’t really like wearing pants. 95% of the time you see me, I’m in a skirt or a dress
I’m adding this to my random fact page :D
Today I had a laughing fit for about 10 minutes. This ten minutes included-snorts, laughing with tears in my eyes, high pitched giggles, giggles where it sounded like I couldn’t breathe. If I told you what I was laughing about, you wouldn’t understand.
can’t explain why, but it was so refreshing!
My priest hit 80 today. finally! sheesh
whoops! Was supposed to post this in the last blog. better late than never, right?
love this song…not a big fan of the video though
gosh, i’m such a poop sometimes. I was all comfy in my pj’s and under my covers ready to watch the latest episode of the office, when it started and I realized….oh, this is the episode from last week *headdesk*. I downloaded episode 11 again! SO, while 12 is downloading, I decided to blog. I would’ve picked playing WoW, but then I’d get sucked in and never watch the office. Besides, the download would lag my game playing :P
Had a good week. Work was meh. Had a 10 minute screaming match with a 4 year old over shoes. It was the rainiest/nastiest day Amsterdam has had in a long time. Of course she wanted to wear her nice sparkly glitter shoes and I was the “stoute au pas” (bad au pair) that wanted her to wear her rain boots. After ten minutes of screaming/arguing and getting nowhere, I just told her the glittery shoes were lost and for whatever reason that seemed to pacify her. I’ll never completely understand the way a kid works. *sigh* Went to Paradiso with Mike and his friend on Wednesday night for the fischerspooner dj set. I wasn’t expecting the set to be that great, but it was! I had so much fun dancing until early in the morning. Really glad I decided to go. I was contemplating not going because I had to work early on Thursday morning. But if you know me, know you about my strange power (omg, now I want to hear that magnetic fields song. In fact you should too! i’ll post it at the end) to go out until the wee hours of the morning and wake up at the crack of dawn like I had slept the entire night through. It’s weird and I’m not sure where I acquired that power, but I’m not complaining! Didn’t work like that today however! Due to far too many drinks last night. I had planned on staying in last night and hitting 80 with my priest(about time, right?! )I dinged 79 the other day and decided that this was the weekend for me to hit 80. or so I thought! Arjan called and convinced me to go out to a party at teh sugar factory where a friend of his was VJing.. Glad I went because I had so much fun. Dancing, drinking, and I even got to play VJ for about 10 minutes and I fell in love with it. It probably sucked, but I had fun doing it. Didn’t get home until 5am or so, and woke up at 10 feeling really crappy. I stayed in bed and watched The Darjeeling Limited. I loved that movie. It re-sparked my love for Adrien Brody, which forced me to download the pianist so that I can re-watch it for the millionth time. He’s just so good in that film…also, it’s a great film. Anywho, enough about Mr. Brody. I loved the movie! I dont know why so many people dislike it. I thought it was beautifully shot and had great dialogue. But what do I know. I’m the girl that still counts My Girl in my favorite movies of all time.
I had a real American burger today! MMM MMMM MMM! It was so good. I dunno what it is about Dutch burgers, but they aren’t very tasty. They taste kind of rubbery. So, I was beyond excited when Emily suggested we go to Hard Rock Cafe to endulge in some American food.
oh and i’m sick again! With some cold-like-thing. Probably because I didn’t fully recover before I started my usual going out antics or maybe because I forgot to turn the heat on last night (woke up frozen!). So, now I am officially NOT going out or drinking until I am 100% recovered. so, don’t call me and try to convince me to come out with your offers of free beer and “omg, soph, there are hot boys here!”. i will not fall for it this time! I hope…
oh and my boss got me an iphone
a chocolate iphone. cute. but I would prefer an actual non-edible one…or at least a milk chocolate one! sheesh
My pro choice hope( from yesterdays blog in honor of roe v wade) is now a reality!
Obama reverses abortion-funding policy
This isn’t mine. It’s by a blogger named Chris Clarke. I posted it to my myspace blog(lawl) on the 35th Roe v. Wade anniversary and found it hilarious! It’s his blog post for last year’s “Blog for Choice Day”.
“So today, being the anniversary of the decision in Roe v. Wade, is “Blog For Choice Day,” and a whole lot of feminist-oriented bloggers are writing eloquent posts about why they’re pro-choice. They’re talking political rights to bodily autonomy, respect for the full human status of women, resistance to the nascent kleptotheocracy the US seems set to become, and a whole bunch of other good reasons. They’re writing political tracts, personal stories, and thoughtful essays, and you should take a look at this roundup of posts at Feministing or the, um, mother lode at Bush v. Choice to get a sense of the range of writing.
And in fact the people who’ve written so far have covered all the usual valid reasons why a guarantee of full reproductive rights for women is the bedrock of a truly free society, so I don’t have to talk about any of that. Which is great, because it frees me to reveal the real reason I’m an avid supporter of legal, accessible, and affordable abortion services.
Fetuses are goddamn punks.
I mean, just look at ‘em. Sitting there all floaty and unconcerned, not taking any responsibility for the world around ‘em, content to just sit there and leech off of someone they don’t even know yet.
Meanwhile, we’re out here every single day using our own lungs and kidneys, and using our own skeletons and muscles to hold ourselves up against the pull of the earth’s gravity, and we do it 24/7, even when we’re asleep! Not only do fetuses not pull their own weight, they don’t even support it. They just sit there in their hot tub with their precious little bulbous heads, their immaculate little eyespots, sucking the oxygen out of women’s blood and replacing it with toxins, then kicking them if they get bored.
And for this they want full legal status as human beings?
And get this: they can’t even be arsed to argue for constitutional protection. No, they have very important naps to take and thumb-buds to suck. They hire that work out to sleazy legislators and sanctimonious zealots.
But the worst of it? They’re cowards, hiding out in Club Uterus until they’re “ready to be born.” “Ready” my ass. More than a third of them off themselves rather than face the cold hard world, most of them before they even become fetuses! “But it’s too haaard to grow a central nervous system!” “I don’t wanna differentiate my genitalia!” “I miss being a blastula!” “That placenta is itchy!” “I wanna stay stuck here in the Fallopian tube where it’s snuggly!”
Goddamn whiners.
I have an idea for you, little Mr. “but I can’t breathe on my own,” little Ms. “Don’t drink a beer, Mommy.” You want full rights as a human citizen of the world? We got this little hazing ritual you have to go through. It’s called “birth.” If you want to be taken seriously, you crawl on out through that birth canal, mister. We’ll even go so far as to give you a little help with a Caesarian section if you need it. We’re nothing if not fair. Your blubbering about how you’re not ready for it doesn’t impress anybody. Even the weakest human out here has done it, Bucko. Even the babies.
Because seriously. Right now we’ve got enough problems keeping our own civil rights, and we really don’t have time to worry about granting them to some little glorified embryo who’s not willing to commit. You get yourself born and we’ll talk. I don’t work with anyone who’s too good to use her own lungs like the rest of us.”
Posted by: Chris Clarke
As I wrote yesterday, today I ,(along with other bloggers!), am celebrating the anniversary of Roe. V Wade by blogging for choice. This year’s topic: What is your top pro-choice hope for President Obama and/or the new Congress?
My top pro choice hope for President Obama is rumoured to be becoming a reality this week! My hope is that the global gag rule is overturned. I’ve been waiting oh so long for someone to come into the office and overturn that nasty rule that Dubya re-instated on his first day of office(jerk!).
Quick background on the gag rule(taken from Planned Parenthood)
The Reagan-era global gag rule mandated that no U.S. family planning assistance funding can be given to organizations that provide abortion services, offer counseling and referral for abortion care, or advocate legal abortion access in their own countries — even if they do so with their own funds. International reproductive health care organizations have faced a dangerous dilemma: either accept desperately needed U.S. funds but deny women life-saving services and information, or reject U.S. assistance and be forced to cut crucial prevention services. The global gag rule has meant that approximately 200 million women around the world have faced enormous barriers in seeking family planning services.
Completely inhumane, right?! This rule hurts women by denying them basic rights. Information and education. Come on! This does more harm than help. By denying women these basic things, this rule is preventing the very services that help women avoid unwanted pregnancies and abortions in the first place. And it’s not just a women’s issue. Without the financial help that these clinics depended on, the global gag rule has meant the closing of these clinics. Clinics that provided basic healthcare for women, children, AND their families! I don’t want MY United States to be the reason for that. This rule is plain ridiculous and of course hasn’t helped on how the international world views us. So President Obama, I really hope the rumors are true. That my hope will become reality this week. Please, please, please, make MY United States a country that respects basic rights, a country that lends out a helping hand, a country that cares!
sheesh, I kind of got cheesy at the end, but I truly mean it!
Sorry if you’re my facebook friend and have to see this twice! >.<
I’ve participated in blog for choice for the past 3 years and you should too! I love the idea of it. It’s an issue that i’m very passionate about and I love reading other blogger’s blogs on the issue. I will warn you. If you do participate there is a risk in getting your blog spammed by anti-choicers. One year someone even went so far as to make a blog post complete with graphic pictures of aborted fetuses saying “the following people are murderers!” and linked to bloggers that were participants in Blog For Choice Day. My blog was linked and I got a few comments/emals from anti-choicers, but more from Pro-choicers who just wanted to show their support. Anywho, if you’re interested in participating here’s more info taken from the NARAL.
Snagged from the NARAL site.
Guess what, pro-choice America? IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! Tomorrow is Blog for Choice Day, 2009!
For the past three years, pro-choice bloggers have come together on January 22 – the anniversary of Roe v. Wade – to write about our reproductive health and our pro-choice values in order to celebrate Roe and to keep choice in the national spotlight.
And every year, it’s been amazingly successful. Last year we had over 600 participants!
So I hope you’ll join NARAL Pro-Choice America and hundreds of other bloggers again this year for the 36th anniversary of Roe to Blog for Choice.
This year, we’re asking people to blog their answer to this question: What is your top pro-choice hope for President Obama and/or the new Congress ?
You can sign up here ( http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/choice-action-center/bfc09-main.html)
Please consider taking a moment to promote it on your blog, telling your friends, and joining us tomorrow, so together we can ensure that on January 22, the blogosphere is flooded with pro-choice blogposts!
Thanks for all that you do,
Molly
Molly W. Jackson
Communications Manager
NARAL Pro-Choice America
