For a good time, follow/subscribe/like...
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1. Elan Morgan's Five Star posts. Seriously. THE BEST weekly curation of posts on the internet.
2. The Gender Avenger newsletter.
3. The #FeministPrincessBride hashtag on Twitter.
4. Farrah Braniff on Instagram for her Monday Inspiration posts
5. My favourite Tumblr blog EVER!
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Selfie: An Official Word.
In honour of Selfie becoming the official word of the year according to the smarty-pants peeps over at Oxford Dictionaries, I give you 13 of my very own selfies.
The good, the bad, the 'what the hell was I thinking', and the 'yeah, that's right, I did just post that SELFIE all over the internet, future employers be damned'!
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1. The 'Look I am at the hospital and they made we wear this ugly gown.' selfie.
2. The 'Trapped under a sleeping child.' selfie.
3. The 'Look how artistic I am, I caught myself in a ray of sunshine.' selfie.
4. The 'My kid is the handsomest EVER' selfie.
5. The 'Duckface' selfie. (I am so, so, sorry!)
6. The 'I don't really go to the gym, I swim instead and look like a dork in my swimcap.' selfie.
7. The 'make a funny face and stand sideways so you look slimmer' obligatory, bathroom selfie.
8. The Pet Selfie. (That took 15 takes!)
9. The 'Look at me, I got caught in a torrential rainstorm.' selfie.
10. The 'fresh out of the shower' selfie. What? Cleanliness and Godliness and all that....
11. The 'kissing my little mini-me' selfie.
12. A picture of a POLAROID selfie! (This shit is GOLD people!)
13. And finally, the 'its -30 degrees Celcius and this smile is actually frozen on my face' selfie.
LONG LIVE THE SELFIE!!
natasha~
a peek inside
Okay, okay, time to do some writing. Now, what am I going to write about today.....???
*Goes off to check Twitter and Facebook. Gets sucked into a vortex of Youtube videos of Jimmy Fallon singing like Neil Young.*
OK, seriously.
Yes, that's a good idea, let's write about something serious today.
*Goes off to watch another Fallon video - this time it's the one with my no-he-is-not-too-young-for-me movie star boyfriend, Joseph Gorden Levitt, lip-syncing to Nikki Minaj.*
Maybe I should write about that thing that I read about the other day. You know the one.
Or...
Maybe I should try my hand at some abstract poetry. Something deep and meaningful.
And PROFOUND.
Yeah, yeah, let's do that!
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{crickets}
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OK, nothing profound happening today.
Let's go back to that first idea.
What was it again?
Oh, screw it.
I'll just do some free form, stream of consciousness writing and see what comes out.
(10 minutes later, hits delete on 457 words)
Well, that was just crap.
Now what?
*Heads off to see what's happening on Twitter-again. Posts a picture on Instagram.*
Ok, no, really, that first idea was a good one. Go back to that one.
Yes.
Okay.
Off I go.
*Closes all other open tabs, takes laptop to quiet room and starts writing.*
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A few weeks ago I bought myself a couple of notebooks to help give me a kick in the pants with my writing and get into the habit of writing SOMETHING at least once a day.
I decided to open up the 642 Things To Write About book today at a random page and this was what it said.
You're welcome {to the inner workings of my very easily distracted brain}.
natasha~
Feminist Fare Friday: Edition #9
It's a short one this week. I am recovering from taking care of everyone else who was recovering from various stages of stomach bug and between washing every towel and bed sheet in the house and wiping all variety of bodily fluids off of everyone, the internet and all it's fabulous feminist fare took a back seat to family this week. Due to the sheer exhaustion that made me fall asleep on my poor, poor husband last night, all you're getting today is this wonderful gem. (I hope you are not as disappointed as he was.) [youtube]http://youtu.be/IbXfrZt-6pw[/youtube]
I sure do miss SCTV.
Have a great (healthy) weekend everyone!
natasha~
Feminist Fare Friday: Edition #7.
Todays feminist fare is brought to you by boobs. Why? Because God knows that the sight of any part of one gets the whole damn internet/media/complete strangers in a crazy uproar! So without further ado. I give you the boobs of....
1. Amanda Palmer. This past June, the UK's Daily Mail reported on her little nip slip (and practically nothing else) after her show at Glastonbury. Amanda wrote this lovely little ditty for them.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/RRWp4B0qsW8[/youtube]
2. Tina Fey. It seems that last weeks Emmy's were so far from exciting that the only thing anyone wanted to talk about the next day, aside from Bryan Cranston being ROBBED, was Tina's nipple. So, talk all you want people, IT'S JUST A BOOB!
[youtube]http://youtu.be/NEqG---qVp0[/youtube]
3. Breastfeeding Moms Everywhere. It is World MilkSharing Week and human milk donations all over the world are helping to feed babies. Whether it is in our own informal milk sharing mother communities or through donations to milk banks, for some of these babes, every drop counts and is a labour of life and love! In honour of that, and for breastfeeding in general, I'd like to re-post this beautiful spoken word poetry from Hollie McNish.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/KiS8q_fifa0[/youtube]
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
XO
natasha~
For your viewing pleasure...
Here's the deal. I had this really deep, insightful post that I was working on earlier today... and then something shiny must have grabbed my attention, because I totally lost my train of thought and couldn't get it back on track to save my life or the post, which is now sitting in my ever growing draft folder. BUT...
I really, really wanted to publish something today and I have been watching videos on Youtube for the last 40 minutes. So now you get a list of what makes me cry, laugh, laugh some more and then drool. I won't blame you if you never want to come back again... but I do hope you will. Please tell me some of you 'get me'.
1. This one might make you cry. I did.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/TUM4Mb9rUTU[/youtube]
2. I know you've probably all seen "The Fox" video from Ylvis, but this one is my new fave!!
[youtube]http://youtu.be/PaEnaoydUUo[/youtube]
3. Best poop commercial EVER! Also, B tells me that they have some of this at his office and it totally works!
[youtube]http://youtu.be/ZKLnhuzh9uY#aid=P-6YCzt26Ik[/youtube]
4. Miley Cyrus released her new video last week and then this happened! I can't stop laughing!
[youtube]http://youtu.be/2XQGcMrq4bQ[/youtube]
5. Not a video, but you have to check out these shots of my TV boyfriend, Kit Harington. Makes me wish Winter would just get here already (sadly it won't until Spring 2014)!! Mama needs some SNOW!
Good night all!
natasha~
Happy Mother's Day. No, really....
Yes, here it is. The Mother's Day post.
Now before you roll your eyes and click over to some other link, just hold on....
I will not be bombarding you with sappy stories of motherhood and heavily filtered "candid" shots of me kissing my kid through a sheer curtain.
There will be no, "these are the lessons my mother taught me" huge revelations for you to get all teary about.
And I promise not to bore you with a ridiculous list of household chores I wish someone else would take care of for one day.
Nope, none of that here.
What you are going to get is a dose of reality. It may be only MY reality, but I am putting it out there because I am not completely convinced that I am alone in this.
Do you know what I really want for Mother's Day?
NOTHING.
Absolutely nothing.
And NO ONE.
That's right.
I want a full 24 hour coffee break from my job.
This job. Mothering. Being a mom. Mommy, mama, MOMMMMMEEEEEEEEeeeee!
I want a day off. And from this day forward, every year, from now until eternity , that is what I want Mother's Day to be.
This "job" is like no other job ever. You are "at the office" 24-7, 365 days a year (364 if I have anything to say about it). You are on call ALL THE TIME and have to be available for any and all emergencies, from the slightest "I dropped my bottle on the floor" to the more extreme, "This is the school calling, {insert kid name here} fell off the monkey bars and we think something is broken" or even, please let this never happen to me, "Hi Mom, it's me. Can you come and bail me out....". When you are a mom, you can't just pack up and go home and leave your work at the office. There is no logging off for the night or weekend. Your life is your work. And your work is your life.
So for this one day. This overly-commercialized, make-you-feel-guilty-for-not-thanking-your-mom-for-EVERYTHING-she-does, buy-her-some-kind-of-stinky-candle-or-another-tea-mug, day, I say NO THANK YOU.
I do not want any things. I don't want presents or flowers or candles or tea or jewelry or spa shit. Heck, I don't even want a card.
I just want to be left alone.
I want to sleep in a bit and then have a nice long shower and take as long as I damn well please to get ready for my day. And then I want to go out, by myself, for the rest of the day. I want to get a coffee at my favourite cafe. I want to go shopping at all my favourite boutiques. I want to take my dog for a long, leisurely stroll along the river valley, just the two of us. I want to go to my OTHER favourite cafe with my book and my laptop and read and write without a limit on how long I have before I need to get back to anyone. I want to eat a late lunch from a food truck and sit on a park bench while I watch people go about their day. I want to go to a yoga class and not feel rushed to either get there on time or leave to get to somewhere else to pick up someone up. I want to find a patio to sit on and have a few Grey Goose dirty martinis and a plate of nachos with extra guacamole. And then I want to go to a movie, OF MY CHOOSING, with a big bag of popcorn all to myself. I want to check into a boutique hotel and have a long bath and slip into a plush robe, curl up in the big poofy over-pillowed bed and watch all the TV I want.
So yes, for Mother's Day I want to be selfish. I want every hour of that day all to myself.
Because for every other hour of every other day, I can get all the cuddles I want from my kids. I can have as much time as I want playing in the backyard with them. I can get someone to clean my house and yes, I can even get an hour or two to myself (although they are usually at the grocery store). I don't need a special day on the calendar to ENJOY my family.
But for this day, this "Mother's" day, the day created on the calendar by some dude at Hallmark, what this mama really wants, is to ENJOY being with myself and by myself for the day.
A whole day.
ALL..... BY.... MYSELF......
Happy Mother's Day Everyone!
I hope you all get exactly what you want.
Mwauh,
Natasha~
P.S. I just couldn't resist, I love this cover, and I am pretty sure I rocked that hairstyle sometime in the late '80's....
[youtube]http://youtu.be/o22i_gqAf_o[/youtube]
{And actually Celine, I DO wanna be all by myself. At least for this one day...}
#40silverlinings: Vet bills, zombies and Taylor swift
Some days the silver linings are harder to see. I haven't posted anything since last week. We have been busy. The kids had Thursday and Friday off because of teacher's convention and we had a lot going on.
I know the silver linings were there, I just had to look really hard for them through the fog of the migraine that I had for two days and a road trip on my own with two kids.
#17. A new vet who actually gave me some answers and proper treatment for my poor puppy's infected ears!
#18. My kids deciding to sing along to all songs on the radio these days and how cute C sounds when he is singing Maroon 5's 'Daylight' and the hilariousness of my 4 year old daughter belting out "We are never, ever, ever, getting back together!".
#19. Getting to know my step-mother (my late father's wife) better and seeing my kids embrace her as their 'new' Grandma.
#20. Realizing that I do not have to keep every single piece of paper my kids bring home from school and subsequently clearing out two bins of crafts and two binders full of said papers.
#21. Sunday night and zombies and Rick and the gang.
It's a new week and the sun is shining.
That is a good start.
Won't you join me in this quest for #40silverlinings and share with me your daily moments that shine?
Also, this is what happens after two hours on the road and less than five hours of sleep the night before. I'm warn you, it's not pretty!
[youtube]http://youtu.be/5uQ_inuD9FI[/youtube]
Till tomorrow,
Natasha~