Today is one of those days where I wake up and immediately hate the day and everyone I encounter. It probably won’t stop until I allow myself to sleep later tonight. So that’s fun. The one positive thing I am pleased about today is my dear friend Dani’s sock club that is starting up soon. It’s my favorite theme ever. It’s called “Rock Your Socks Off” and it’s a yarn club with a music twist. Each three months has a different theme. She announced today that the first theme was “indie rock” but needs help narrowing it down to three bands or songs. But she mentioned Santogold and I hope desperately that she does incorporate her into the first set of yarn. Anyway, Dani’s yarns are always amazingly gorgeous and if you are interested, check out her etsy shop and club.
The beginnings of a bad day or a lesson in ending negative thinking… December 23, 2008
I had to get my dear Laura to the airport early, waking up at 5 am with an alarm early. Since I don’t sleep with an alarm at all, I kept waking up thoughout the night worrying about missing it. So I’m a little tired. After my shower I decided to put on my Marie club socks and tore the heel on one of them. It is now laying on the bathroom floor until I decide what is the best course of action. Then I dropped Laura off at the airport to leave for two whole weeks. I miss her already.
Beginnings of a bad day? Normally I would say “yes for sure no doubt about it” but since I have started therapy, I am trying a different way of thinking. So I am telling myself over and over, things happen and it doesn’t mean that my day is shot by 5:30 am. I’m trying…
Current Listening: Kimya Dawson-Remember That I Love You
You better audit yourself December 5, 2008
I have been attempting to catch up on my magazines from the past year (Bust, Bitch, Venus Zine, Magnet, Harp (now gone), The Big Takeover, Rolling Stone (which I have finally canceled after 13 years because I had enough), Spin (which I think I forgot to renew), Blender, Real Simple plus those crochet/knitting magazines. Everytime I enter my bedroom, my eyes always fall on the ever growing stack and I feel sad, out of touch and a bit lost. Sad I know. But I love magazines, hence all the subscriptions. I loved opening the mailbox and going home and reading the entire thing cover to cover. Even if someone I adore is on the cover or written about, I always read from beginning to end and waiting until I got to the article of interest.
This past weekend, I finally caught up on Bust Magazine I was probably at least 8 months behind. Having been a faithful subscriber since 2002, I struggle with my love/hate relationship with it. There are many things I love about it: the crafting, the columns that focus on feminist issues, the cover articles are always interesting and I learn a bit more about the person and how they feel about feminism or whatnot.
What I am starting to not love as much is their fashion spreads. They used to include plus sized models in their spreads but over the past years they have slowly disappeared. As a plus sized gal, it was always awesome to see other big girls looking awesome with the skinny ones. Even though I don’t have a ton of interest in fashion and am not fashionable at all, there are days where I imagine that one day I could be too (if I weren’t so lazy).
Another thing that has disappointed me recently was that in the last issue with Jenny Lewis. Most of the articles I have read about her usually focus on the Rilo Kiley situation with Blake, her childhood acting career and famous boyfriends. I was pretty jazzed to see her on the cover because I have always pondered whether Jenny was a feminist or how she identifies or what she thinks about the whole movement. I have had discussions/epic emails with friends using song lyrics to make cases how she feels so finally my question was going to be answered! But it wasn’t. The subject was not brought up and I was left super bummed and frowning and deepening my anger line. Bust was always able to bring a new light to an artist for me and plus it’s a feminist magazine! I hope that this won’t be a trend in their cover articles.
I didn’t mean for this to be a boo on Bust because I still love it mostly. My favorite issue of the year without a doubt was the 15th anniversary issue with Amy Sedaris. Now I am attempting to catch up on Bitch Magazine (I am like a year behind-boo to me!) I missed it so much and reading about feminism and pondering a little more than my anger at half naked women on the cover of Blender. I am auditing myself and where I stand with feminism and I need to get back to it and in the movement. There is clearly a ton of things that need to happen that hasn’t happened on it’s own. (More on that later).
I best get back to work and focused.
Current Listening: Jenny Lewis “Acid Tongue”
