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KYouell
SAHM and Sign Language Interpreter (RID:CT)
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I hadn't heard a thing until I saw your tweet. I cannot believe the bile being spewed about. I think that I will take the time to email all the resources a commenter posted above and let them know that I do not want Ina taken off the air for this. The hate makes me sick. People are screaming about compassion for that boy yet they have no compassion to give. Horrible, horrible hypocrisy.
In Which Ina Garten Doesn't Make a Wish
There are other, more thoughtful posts floating around on my computer half-written but I am annoyed in a more than 140 character kind of way about today's twitter outrage. In a nutshell, Ina Garten declined to cook with a terminally ill child who requested it through Make a Wish foundation. We w...
I found out my best friend from high school had passed away about 3 years ago (my daughter was an infant at the time so I *always* know how long ago it was). I had to write a post about her. It's still up at http://kyouell.blogspot.com/2007/12/rachel-plosser-leduc.html -- I feel like you shared your loss with me so I am offering up mine to share with you.
Something that occurred to me after I wrote that post: she has acquaintances that will never have a better friend. I bet that's true of you too.
Though I hadn't seen him in over twenty years, I knew I'd miss him forever
I stood in the lobby of the Falcon Theater in Toluca Lake, and looked at Twitter while I waited for the rest of the guys to arrive. The walls were covered with posters from productions like CHiPs: The Musical and It's A Stevie Wonderful Life. Being in a theater during the day, when it's just a b...
BikePortland tweeted this, wanted to make sure anyone who came looking at this saw the update:
New on Front Page: Breaking: Greenlick bill to be amended; changed to study only http://bit.ly/iaiCym
Proposed HB 2228, ban for kids on parent's bikes and trailers, thinks wrong
Update: Jules Bailey tells Bike Portland he and Greenlick have agreed to alter the proposed bill to instead call for a study of family biking. I've written asking Greenlick apologize for jumping into this conversation by demonizing parents who choose to put their children on bicycles (and compar...
Can anyone tell me who the woman at :55 is? I know her face but don't know why & it's driving me nuts! Thanks, guys, especially Wil for posting this.
FLASHBACK! True Stories From Famous People
When I was a dorky teenager, I was sort of thrust into the spotlight by Stand By Me and Star Trek. I've written before about how weird the whole thing was, and how uncomfortable a lot of the attention made me, but it wasn't all bad; I got to do some cool things, and meet some cool people as a re...
Funny, I long for peace/quiet/silence when we're together & rarely get it. Alone, even with the kids in the house watching a video I'm noisy before I realize that I'm noisy.
And all this reading has made me wonder about "Thinking Off" -- I can do it, can you? It's kind of a subtopic in this article.
http://www.nj.com/insidejersey/index.ssf/2010/04/science_consciousness_and_the.html
Aria (if you know what I mean)
Aria: The term is now used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment. And that's just about how it sounds to me when Carmen Electra and I are alone together: me screaming, her humming and angels singing. At least until my brain hem...
Our door doesn't have a lock, so we are stuck with threats of a timeout yelled thru the door and the tiny nightstand/table in front of the big wood door. Let's suffice it to say that Mama likes quickies (that should be a blog title) and Daddy is learning that Mama is right.
Love in the Time of Children
Our nightly routine goes something like this: Eat dinner anytime between 5 and 6:30. 7pm bring the kids upstairs for baths. 7-8pm Utter Chaos 8pm lights out. 8-8:45 retuck a number of different children for a variety of different reasons 8:45 Either my husband or I completely lose our shit and s...
Kit: You know that horrible feeling you had when you were a kid and did something wrong and you weren't sure if your mom knew? It's payback time. You should totally FUCK with your mother and move that box to another cupboard so she's not sure if she put it back in the wrong place or if you did something with it.
I'm your new blog-stalker. I've loved everything I've read so far, but this... this... this is Bloggess-level. Wow.
Dangerous Letters, Vol. 7
Cinco de Mayo was the TWO MONTH anniversary of Blogging Dangerously so I'd like to take a minute during this weekly wrap up to THANK YOU all for the tremendous support you've shown me during the past two months. Reward yourselves with a margarita (or two) for being wonderful! Also, I know I say ...
Not a Canadian, but as you said that friends and supporters can sign I'm doing so. This is disgusting, outrageous and all the other adjectives that others have used. When a study shows that many women are willing to consent there is nothing but ignorance and paternalism left to explain why this would still be occurring. Unless you consider conspiracy and evil and lechery to also be possible. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and leave it at ignorance and paternalism. Shame, shame. You wouldn't want someone to do this to your mothers or your sisters. Now stop it.
Hmmm. Do they do the same kind of thing with male patients and proctology students?
Dear Nether-Probers: We, The Undersigned, Say STOP IT.
The letter below is an open letter concerning the practice of non-consensual pelvic exams, about which you can learn more at yesterday's angry rant. Please leave a comment in support, as a virtual signature, and we'll circulate this everywhere and make a big stinky fuss until these policies get ...
As someone with one relatively large tat, and who has a fantasy of the mother/daughter tattoo we could get together one day, I'm ringing in for major fail here. And that was before I got to the DIY part; DIY just brings it to a whole 'nuther level of FAIL. Dang.
Bad Moms Don't Judge, Except For Maybe Sometimes, Like Right Now
We're on record as being pretty open-minded about different parenting styles. Attachment parenting? Great - been there, done that! Free-range parenting? Also great! Helicopter parenting, hyper-parenting, set-them-free-in-the-woods parenting - whatever works! Tattoos? We've got 'em! For the kid...
No way is that abuse, I wish I'd thought of it, and yeah, my kids would tell. At least I think they would once they start talking.
Bad Moms Wanna Know: Is This Ad Bad-Bad, Or, You Know, BAD?
Okay, so. I'm just gonna say up front that I kinda grinned at this commercial. And giggled. And snorted. And such. Which is to say: I thought it was funny. Sure, the water-tossing bit was a bit much, but otherwise, I could kinda relate a little bit, you know? Not everybody thinks so, apparent...
I now follow @kleankanteen on Twitter too.
You could win a Klean Kanteen!
CONGRATS to KYouell & Launa. They've each won a Klean Kanteen water bottle. They will each receive an ultra-cool red bottle very soon. Thanks for all the interest! Keep reading StumptownMom for more give-aways in the near future. --------------------------- A few weeks ago we did our...
I'm @kyouell and I follow you on Twitter.
You could win a Klean Kanteen!
CONGRATS to KYouell & Launa. They've each won a Klean Kanteen water bottle. They will each receive an ultra-cool red bottle very soon. Thanks for all the interest! Keep reading StumptownMom for more give-aways in the near future. --------------------------- A few weeks ago we did our...
I would love to win because, as a car-free family, I always have to take beverages with us in the stroller. And, as a work-is-scarce family, I need all the help I can get in affording safe containers.
You could win a Klean Kanteen!
CONGRATS to KYouell & Launa. They've each won a Klean Kanteen water bottle. They will each receive an ultra-cool red bottle very soon. Thanks for all the interest! Keep reading StumptownMom for more give-aways in the near future. --------------------------- A few weeks ago we did our...
My husband sent me this, thank God. And thank you! I'm sure he thought I was nuts. It's lovely not to be the only one.
Quality vs. Quantity in the Bedroom
There's something guys don't seem to get. My husband included. When it comes to sex, sometimes (if not often times) a quick, intense romp in the sack is far more satisfying than a long, drawn out lets-see-how-long-I-can-last session. I don't know what they taught you boys in the 4th grade during...
I can't hear the video (need to reboot again, totally my prob not yours), but I'll forget to come back if I do that! I wanted to say that I love the inspiration you give to help newbies like me willing to even try to grow food. I've always had a black thumb, but now I have hope!
Cool Springs Press and BookExpo America
Well here I am in New York City...my second day and already have had awesome Italian food and eaten the best Reuben ever at the famous Carnegie Deli. Dude, the potato pancakes rocked, too! Thought I would send a short video post to tell you what we are working on...and, if you get a chance, go t...
Looks like it works fine once you log in. Yahoo!
I'm in Oregon, found out about this issue through Twitter, and totally support you! I happen to be an interpreter, but that's not why I support it. I happen to be a mom of a little boy with Down syndrome (our kids have a high risk of hearing disappearing suddenly and needing aids), but that's not why I support it. I support it because it's the right thing to do! How can insurance companies cover cochlear implants and not simple hearing aids? It's just not right and we need this legislation to pass in Illinois so that we can eventually get it passed at the federal level. I agree that as a society the costs are too high not to provide this.
Insurance Companies and Hearing Aids--The Time is Now
There's a drawer in my kitchen that's full of batteries, earmolds, cases, tubes--plus a tube blower. The drawer holds the vital stuff that powers my family's ten hearing aids. Yes, that's right. There are five of us with a hearing aid perched on each ear. Well, make that four of us-- the hu...
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