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What is that beautiful house – We're Virgin Homeowners

By ~LS~ On September 5, 2002 · Add Comment · In This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Books, Family, Money

Reading: Jane Sexes it Up, by Merri Lisa Johnson

Life has been extremely complicated lately. On June 28, Steve and I bought our first home. Yes, we are a little late in the game, but we both don’t really want to grow up. Buying a first house was a stressful and time-consuming experience, as everyone warned. I didn’t believe them. Until I was in the thick of it. Then I learned.

In the process I did find this great book called The Virgin Homeowner, by Janice Papolos, which taught me about the structural aspects of a house. The book rocked. I showed it later to the home inspector, who also bought it and said he will now recommend it to all his new homeowner clients. Also, as everyone said, we will collect a number of stories about house-buying. And they were right about that as well.

For instance, the [...]

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Finding Found Money on the Internet

By ~LS~ On May 1, 2002 · Add Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Money

When surfing the internet I often do strange things I might not otherwise do. Like spend money. Well, no, actually I spend money all the time. I’m terrible with money. My husband Steve says I hemorrhage money. But on the internet, when your credit card account is saved and all you have to do is hit enter, spending money becomes oh-so-easy. And isn’t that the point?

So, here’s another confession. I paid to join Classmates.com. No point in putting a link to them since they advertise incessantly, but what’s a blog without links? Classmates.com sends annoying emails telling you that someone from your school just joined. Utterly annoying. I didn’t like most of those people in the first place. High school sucked. I don’t know why I wasted my money; I was consumed by the haze of a click-happy fit of nostalgia, I suppose.

On the classmates.com [...]

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Simple Abundance

By ~LS~ On April 25, 2002 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Books, Capitalism, Consumption, Gratitudes, Money

Another WTF was I thinking moment

I must have wanted simple abundance in my life. I cannot imagine why I might otherwise buy this book. Simple Abundance, by Sarah Ben Bretnach. I hardly think the Oprah Book Club sticker on the cover was a selling point. Simple Abundance is a “daybook” diary/journal that teaches readers to “simplify” their lives through consumption. The message is so ironic. One one page, Breathnach tells readers to discard all their glossy women’s magazines because they make us feel bad about ourselves and then on the next, in the very idiom of those glossies, she tells us to go shopping in order to discover our “authentic” selves. For instance, here is a representative quote from the Simple Abundance website:

Visit a hat store and try on a variety of chapeaux. You’re dashing in a black felt fedora, but perhaps the broad-brimmed straw with [...]

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A Book List for Tween Grrls

By ~LS~ On April 16, 2002 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Generations, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Books, Generations

Reading: Ella Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine
Listening: Ray of Light, Madonna

My church has a Mother (or guardian)/Daughter Book Club that meets once a month to read books of interest to middle school girls. Last month, Willow and I attended the potluck that gets the book club off the ground. Everyone got to suggest one book and since there were twelve of us (six mother/daughter pairs) we each got to recommend a selection. The selections were quite amazing. Nearly all of them shared a common theme of girl power, -literally-. Most of them were about magickal girls of one kind or another.

So I decided that I’d make an entry listing the books that we selected along with Amazon links (to make ordering easier for me later on and to bookmark the reviews and previews). Hopefully as the group progresses, Willow and I will add our own commentary. [...]

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Ozmidala

By ~LS~ On April 11, 2002 · Add Comment · In Humor, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Books, Movies, Pop Culture

Bizarre late night ramblings on Oz-like things…
….and forced coincidences.

Today Netscape featured a pic of Natalie Portman that linked to an Entertainment Weekly article on Star Wars. The picture reminded me so much of the cover of L. Frank Baum’s Ozma of Oz that I am beginning to wonder if Oz was influential to the production designers.

Interestingly enough, an article in the Chicago Reader points out that “the underwater city of Otoh Gunga could probably be traced back to John R. Neill’s illustrations in one of the Oz books,” so I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed this similarity.

This pic is from the cover of the 1907 edition of Ozma of Oz, illustrated by John R. Neill. I got the pic from a site trying to auction off the book. I bought my own volume several years ago; [...]

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