Re-Feminist History (aka Bitchstory)

As I’ve shared many times, my dream recall is low. And I prefer it that way.  The last week I’ve had many dreams. The only change is mercury rx in pisces. I haven’t changed any of my routine, eating, meds etc.  first dream I  recall was early this week... Nicholas cage was in a restaurant, at a buffet.  I was passing by and he was struggling with plates so I helped him.  But as I was holding this plate he started examining the sandwich on it.  It was held close to my body because I was holding other things too. He squinted and asked  “what is that between the lettuce and turkey??” “Um, my cleavage” “Oh haha I’m so sorry.  I meant the aioli.  Which is now also on your...um” I looked down to find pesto aioli on my shirt.  We laughed. He thanked me and apologized and that was that  Another night: Dreamed my car and my purse got stolen.  I’d left the keys in my purse, in the car. But without my phone I couldn’t contact anyone. I wa...

So my love, who works on the other side of the world, took me to virtual lunch.  I ordered my favorite thing- chicken Marsala.  This comes with red mashed potatoes, the perfect amount of gravy, and these green beans to DIE FOR. While I was enjoying my meal it came to my attention that someone in the dining room has one of THOSE voices.  My god she’s a megaphone.  Her laugh cuts through all other noise and their group conversation is loud enough for me to hear every part.  Really it’s not the group, it’s just her.  That’s annoying enough. But she was loud talking about gastric surgery and weight loss.  The side effects of such surgeries and the detrimental effects on nutrient absorption.  I was happy she was speaking correct facts but holy shit she was loud! Going on at length about gastric bypass and losing weight and mind games you play to modify eating behavior. Nothing was gross, but it did seem inappropriate lunch conversation.   ...

Mercury retrograde in pisces and other funny stories So, Mercury has been retrograde for about a week now. There’s always a lot of hype about this, and a lot of fear mongering. I try to maintain a positive attitude about it. Sometimes that works out great, sometimes it bites me in the spiritual ass. Generally speaking, worrying about this particular transit (or any of them) doesn’t do shit for you. Because inevitably, what pops us is generally unseen stuff that we swept into the back of the closet.  If you’re very aware, you can sometimes see hints of what’s to come in the couple-ish weeks leading up to it. But even being tuned in, I often get surprised.   So far, here’s Mercury retrograde in my world  Carpet installation at work went very wrong. Not my doing.  It has to be re-done. This is both funny and awful because it’s inconvenient, causes a loss of productivity, and the smell is horrendous. Actually it’s mostly not at all funny. Also at work, ...

Socialism. Can you say it? Can you say it without sneering? Can you say it without automatically associating it directly with communism?   How bout this. Can you say: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, Netherlands,  How bout, can you say Social Security? Medicare? Fire Department? Police Department? It’s really not that scary, y’all.  Things are not black and white. You can be sweary and spiritual. You can be healthy and fat.  You can be a man and like men, you can be a man who identifies as a woman who likes either or both.  You can be a socialist country that is also a democracy or a democratic country that incorporates socialism...like...we already do.