Green with Envy

The good news:  I received an email from Amazon informing me my GOW2 has shipped....

I just checked my friends list on xbox live and grablifebyhorns is at Level 50 in Horde Mode....and several others are playing.   I am envious! 

Unbelievable....I am out of the loop yet again!

Last Days

Good-bye, Ingrid.  Your absence has left a vast and staggering hollow space.

Who is going to keep me warm at night?

"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation"  ---  Kabil Gibran

For those of you wondering...

Noun: bas bleu 

1. A woman having literary or intellectual interests
   - bluestocking

History of Bas Bleu (blue stockings)

The Blue Stockings Society of England emerged in the middle of the eighteenth century, around the year 1750, and waned in popularity at the end of the eighteenth century. It was a loose organization of privileged women with an interest in education to gather together to discuss literature while inviting educated men to participate. The Blue Stockings Society leaders and hostesses were Elizabeth Montagu and Elizabeth Vesey. The women involved in this group generally had more education and fewer children than most English women of the time. During this time period only men attended universities and women were expected to master skills such as needlework and knitting: "It was considered “unbecoming” for them to know Greek or Latin, almost immodest for them to be authors, and certainly indiscreet to own the fact. It was not till the beginning of the next century — after the pioneer work of the bluestockings, be it observed — that Sydney Smith, aided, doubtless, by his extraordinary sense of humour, discovered the absurdity of the fact that a woman of forty should be more ignorant than a boy of twelve." (XV, Cambridge History of English and American Literature). The group has been described by many historians and authors such as Jeanine Dobbs[3] as "having preserved and advanced feminism" due to the advocacy of women's education, social complaints of the status and lifestyle expected of the women in their society, seen in the writings of the Blue Stocking women themselves: "In a woman's education little but outward accomplishments is regarded...sure the men are very imprudent to endeavor to make fools of those to whom they so much trust their honour and fortune, but it is in the nature of mankind to hazard their peace to secure power, and they know fools make the best slaves."-Elizabeth Montagu[1] 1743.

Also wanted to show off my improved and un-squished blog banner (much thanks to jerseydevildog)

Life of a Rescued Dog

She is old and tired now and won't be with me much longer.

Size DOES Matter

I freely and willfully admit I am enslaved by sugar and all things chocolatey sweet. An unfortunate consequence of aging is I can no longer eat an entire quart of Ben and Jerry's without consequences. My body, particularly my belly and rear end, retain every fat and sugar molecule I consume.

In my attempts to prevent my body from betraying me any further, I have made it my mission to find healthier, less waist-expanding alternatives. I carefully investigate all isles in the grocery store, scrutinizing dessert products to find something sweet and satisfying, yet calorically humble. I recently spotted what, at the time, I believed to be my solution. Sitting on an end cap, featured if you will, were boxes of Weight Watchers chocolate cake. I read the following description: "Rich, delicious and satisfying. Weight Watchers chocolate cakes with chocolate icing help make achieving your everyday successes easier." A small footnote mentions they are artificially flavored. I don't care. They only have 90 calories. I drop a box into my shopping cart. I feel quite pleased with myself and dismiss the Ben and Jerry's.

I felt betrayed when I opened the box and layed eyes on those artificially flavored nuggets. Who do they think they're kidding? What cruel sadistic marketing rep thought this was acceptable? I now understand why they are only 90 calories. Even if I restrain myself, this teensy-weensy minuscule dwarf cake only renders me two contemptible bites. These cakes would only appease my sweet tooth if I ate four of them.

Note to self: Follow your passion even if it adds another inch

sorry: still can't figure out how to post a pic!