i am the owner of so many beads now...what do you do with them after mardi gras? thanks,covington(ians - ??? i think this is what charlie said??)

so the actual covington mardi gras was a bust....very,very cold, and not very many interesting floats (but a guy on a tall unicycle and a bunch of people with big paper mache heads, so that's cool.) that was officially the most drunk people i've ever been around. seriously, inside the shop, outside the shop, drunk kids everywhere. a whole drunk town.

but inside the art shop, it was so much fun. i haven't stayed up and talked all night in ages. nor have i gone and gotten breakfast in the wee hours of the morning at a greasy divey local restaurant in a long time. i forgot how much i miss just conversing with someone and feeling like there's never a pause in conversation. wonderful.

but i am seriously paying for it now, as i got home at 5:30 AM and needed to leave for work at 7 AM, so i decided to skip sleeping the measely hour and a half and dick around at home instead. so i am at work, and even though i am surrounded by coffee, i am tired, tired, tired. so tired. like, "how the hell am i going to get through the day" tired.

i made a kick ass chinese paper cutout for julia's chinese new year party...i'll post a photo update later. i'm pretty proud of it, i've been working on it for about a month, and am totally inspired to make all sorts of cutouts now.

i think everybody at my work thinks i'm hungover. i want sleep like i used to want a vegan doughnut.

Apparently Craig's List doesn't see the difference between breastmilk and urine. Now that Oscar is getting older and is less dependent on breastmilk, I want to start transitioning into donating my breastmilk to another mother in need. I know about milk banks, but have had trouble getting information about them locally, and I like the idea of my milk not being mixed with other milk, and that I could actually SEE the family I was helping. I figured Craig's List would be a cool place to start because any woman reading it would be local, and that the ad would reach these women for free. I attempted a little humor in my ad...


Title: (baby & kid stuff) I Want To Be Your Cow!
I am a healthy, drug-free, smoke-free, alcohol-free vegan breastfeeding mama with 2 1/2 year's experience. I am looking to help another mother by supplementing her breastmilk supply. I am NOT offering my milk for sale. I would like to volunteer it, for free, to a mother in need. I do ask that you rent a breast pump from the hospital for hygiene purposes. Please contact me with your questions. I am okay with doing a medical screening, including HIV test. Please DO NOT contact me about buying breastmilk! Sorry to repeat myself, but I am serious about giving it away only!
Thank you.

"Well, I got two nice emails in the first 15 minutes:

"I just wanted to stop and applause you!!!!! I always wanted to do that everytime I breastfed my daughters,but for some reason I didn't!! I just wanted to say "you go girl!" I am very proud that you want to share the most precious food god can give you to a child! "


"
I just wanted to drop you a line and tell you that your doing a great thing. You could also look into giving your milk to places who give it to premies. Anyways your doing a great thing, the world need more people like you"

Overly nice, thank you! And then twenty minutes later, it's flagged and removed. My ad appeared among dozens of ads for formula and formula coupons. I asked the Craig's List forum why my ad had been removed, and the unanimous answer was that bodily fluids are prohibited. I feel this is ridiculous. To put breastmilk in the same category as urine or snot is disgraceful. Breastmilk is actually alive, a living, life-giving tissue capable of chemical changes. Urine is a static mixture of waste.

So I am frustrated, and not sure what real recourse I have on Craig's List, so I guess it is back to the drawing board.

Love roller derby? Love Midwest girls? Then you'll love "Better Red Than Dead," the 2007 Rollergirl Calendar Project.
Our calendar features 12 beautiful but deadly derby girls from "red" states. This is a history-making project with many leagues working together for the first time to create a multi-league fundraiser, not to mention, a kick-ass calendar!

Calendar Specs:
The calendar is full color, 14 pages, with observed and non-observed holiday indicators, as well as special information about the rollergirls and leagues that participated.

Purchasing Information:
You can buy this calendar from Riverside Rollergirls RIGHT NOW! Please send $12 via Paypal to uws@unitedweskate.com to snag your copy while supplies last!

While we'd love if you purchased it from us, if you live near any of these leagues, SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL ROLLER DERBY LEAGUE, and be sure to purchase it directly from them.

ARKANSAS: Fayetteville: NWA Rollergirls
ARKANSAS: Little Rock: Rock Hard Rollergirls Girls
COLORADO: Colorado Springs: Pikes Peak Derby Dames
KANSAS: Wichita: ICT Roller Girls
KENTUCKY: Newport: Riverside Rollergirls
NEBRASKA: Lincoln: No Coast Derby Girls
OHIO: Dayton: Gem City Rollergirls

For pictures and more details please visit the calendar's profile: http://www.myspace.com/rollergirlcalendar . Thanks to all the hard working girls from every league who made this calendar possible. Amazing things are possible when rollergirls ban together. UNITED WE SKATE!

That's right, thanks to everybody who voted (my god there were a lot of you) I am happy to announce that I am officially a Riverside Rollergirl.

Today, Northern Kentucky...

tomorrow, THE WORLD!

United We Skate, MOTHERFUCKERS!

So immaturity abounds this year, and we are in a prank war with our neighbors (and hopefully still friends) The Franklins (also known as Camp Bloodfart). We are Camp Awesome. Here is a list of the stuff that has gone down so far:

Camp Bloodfart:

 Put up crosses and Jeb Bush '08 signs in our yard (+5 for striking first)

Put up handcrafted signs all over our yard advertising it as a whorehouse with "tugjobs by Todd" They also framed porn pics and put them in our front window (+1)

Sent us pickled pig's feet in the mail (+1)

Put an entire econosized bag of cat food on our front lawn. (+1)

Floured Todd's car (+1)

They have also snuck the can of black eyed peas that we use as a trophy of shame back into our possession twice (+2)

10/18 They snuck the black eyed peas back into our possession. (+1)

10/18 They put a gross clown painting and some flags all over our yard. (+1)

10/26 They snuck the black eyed peas back into our possession, via our mailbox (+1)

TOTAL: 14 points

Camp Awesome:

We put 5 cans of sardines all over their front porch (+1)

We cleaned out our fridge into a big serving tray and dumped it on her truck (+1)

We put a rubber band on their sink hose and got them to spray themselves (+1)

We signed Lucia up for a mormon dating service (+1)

We put a proud conservative sign up in their yard with flags (+1)

We peanut buttered her truck's door handles (+1)

We snuck the trophy of shame into their house twice (+2)

10/18 We threw a stink bomb into their living room. (+1)

10/26 We snuck the black eyed peas onto their tv stand (+1)

10/28 We thwarted their attempts to get the black eyed peas back in our possession, and put it right back into theirs. (+1)

10/31 We shaving creamed their truck, egged their patio, returned the pickled pigs feet to their front porch, and pour spaghetti and marinara sauce into their mailbox. (+4)

TOTAL: 15 points

WE WIN!!!

We'll see you in hell, Camp Bloodfart!

It's a Fist Full of Fun with Riverside Rollergirls! Come (and bring your kids) to play carnival games, eat free food from local businesses and the rollergirls themselves, and try to win one of the countless prizes worth thousands of dollars donated from local businesses, including gift certificates to restaurants, hair salons, and tattoo shops.

And just try to beat my elderly ass at Black 'N' Blue Bingo!

We are also collecting items for the Freestore Foodbank. Think wintery: blankets, coats, hats, etc.

And best of all, YOUR Northern Kentucky Rollergirls, the Riverside Rollergirls will be there all night long.