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Blog Killer

I deleted two blogs of mine that I had been sorely neglecting, yet didn't have the time or interest to maintain.  Joy or Death was my project where I was gonna cook every recipe in the Joy of Cooking, and "Fifty by Fifty" was my "bucket list" of things I wanted to accomplish by the time I was 50 years old. 

My business, calm by leslie, and my career (as a relaxation and wellness specialist) is keeping me really really busy.  That combined with the usual business of being a mom, wife, and home-owner meant that it was time to pare down.  Frankly, I need to pare a lot more down, but those two blogs were easy to cut. 

The Joy of Cooking project was a fun idea, and was fun for a while, but it quickly stopped being fun and turned out to feel more like an obligation.  Not the cooking part, I love to cook.  It was more of the "I have to use THIS book" when there are so many cook cooking books and magazines to choose from.

Reading Eckhart Tolle had a big say in my ending the "Fifty by Fifty" blog.  Living in the now is a current goal, and I will do the bucket list things when and if I like, but I don't want to add more obligations. I'm busy enough as it is.

Smart and Funny

A conversation I had with my hubby this morning:

Me:  Hey!
Hubby:  What?
Me:  I just registered to test drive a Smart car!
Hubby:  Cool!  When?
Me:  I dunno, they still have to contact me.  I just filled out a form online.
Hubby:  Cool.  I wanna go.
Me:  OK, but you can't point and laugh like you do every time we drive by one.
Hubby:  I can't help it!  They're funny!
Me: You have to suppress that urge.
Hubby:  That's ridiculous.  That's like saying "Don't laugh at a cow".

A Feminist Who Isn't a Hillary Supporter

That's me.  That's also, apparently, Queen Alice, who wrote this fantastic piece at DailyKos:

"After reading the latest in a series of condescending editorials by women accusing others of their gender of betrayal or ignorance because we aren't all supporting Hillary Clinton, I finally feel like I have to speak out. 

I have held my peace out of respect for feminists, especially older feminists, to whom Clinton represents not just a female candidacy, but the triumph of women over the many hurdles and obstacles they've overcome throughout years of discrimination and frustration in a male-dominated world. I don't share the disappointment they feel, but I understand it. And so I've been respectful and said nothing.

But as the newest of these articles trickles out and encourages a certain segment of women to disregard and disdain party unity in the name of feminism--well, I have to say something now. The bitter pill these women are trying to peddle as feminism is not the feminism that I was taught by my mother and the wonderful women-and men--in my life. It is not positive. It is a negative force that needs to be addressed and challenged."

[click here to read the rest of the article]

 

I (heart) FotC!

A Funny Graph

This one made me chuckle:

Thanks to Tony for the find!