Update: Peanut's sweater is a little more than half way done. I finished the second sleeve and have about an inch past the sleeve seams.
She is going to be Little Red Riding Hood for Halloween. I made her cape:
I'll post a pic of her in it once I re-hem it (I made it a little long). It is ADORABLE on her. I also got her a tiny basket to carry. She looks SO CUTE it hurts a little.
Once I am done with the sweater, and past Halloween, I am going to get back to knitting my own sweater:
I have the back finished and have begun shaping on the front left panel. And I have not touched in almost a month. Please note that I have only been knitting since the beginning of September.
I'll post something a little more, um, written soon. I am just so tired.
But a little note before I sign off:
If you are in California, and you are registered to vote, please Vote no on Prop 8. Revoking rights to marry for consenting adults is just wrong. I may not have as much money as the Mormon church to fight for something I believe in, but I do have my tiny blog with my tiny readership. So here you are: discrimination is wrong. Treating people differently based on something as non-important as sexual preference is silly.
Don't take away rights because you are scared of what schools might teach (kids are not taught anything about marriage- that's your job, parent), or because your church told you to (yes Mormons, I mean you), or because you don't like the idea of "non-traditional" relationships.
Remember- you have a chance to be on the side of the angels. You can be the one on the side of kindness, or hope, of love and progress and equality. (Good things, right?)
You can be the one person at your church who understands that love is love- and that trying to mandate who people can love is ridiculous at best. If you are uncomfortable with "non-traditional relationships", maybe you need to remember that generally, the gay guy/gal in your neighborhood is so not that into you. You are probably safe, regardless of whether that person can get married or not.
Please pretend that I finished this entry with something witty and clever and erudite. I have to go to bed.
2 comments:
It obviously shows that you have not read anything about what Proposition 8 is about. It's not about who a person can and cannot love. It's about letting the law makers know that they can't revoke something voted in a few years back and it's about preserving something sacred to the majority of the people.....marriage between a man and woman only. The only people saying that it is about their right to love who they want to love is people like you who obviously have a beef with religion. You sound like a very bitter person.....like many voting no on 8.
[This is a guest response from Musings and Meanderings' husband. Wifey is too angry to respond right now due to the assumption you've made that she hasn't "read anything about what Proposition 8 is about." Because she disagrees with you? Classy. She must be ignorant. ]
Is it about the children? Funny thing about being a taxpayer in a democracy. You don't get to decide where your tax dollars go. I don't get to say to Uncle Sam "Hey, howza bout you don't use my income tax to fund the occupation of a country that never attacked us?" And you don't get to decide what your free education teaches the children. Gay people exist. As in, they are an objective component of this planet. Are you opposed to teaching children facts?
And really, Chauncey? We're ignorant? "It's about letting the law makers know they can't revoke something..." Lawmakers didn't revoke anything. No one revoked anything. The judicial system fulfilled it's Constitutional role and determined that a law passed was not consistent with the Constitution of the United States of America. Once the gubment sanctions an institution (such as marriage) and bestows benefits to those who enter into this institution, The freakin Constitution applies. Equal Protection Bizatch! And for the strict constructionist out there, I don't recall which Article has the "No faggots clause."
It's not the state's role to decide what is or is not palatable, or as you so logically put it "sacred" to "the majority of the people." It is to fairly (and Constitutionally) interpret and implement law. Majority rule, as any careful reading of the Federalist Papers (and I doublemotherfuckingtripledogdareya [shout out to Ms Hannah] to honestly tell me you've read these 85 little darlings that are, in many ways, more important than the Constitution itself when it comes to deciphering the Founder's intentions) will tell you is only half of the function of the Constitution. Minority rights is the other half.
You see, once upon a time in this country it was sacred, and I mean that literally-preachers preached it- that slavery was ordained by god and "the majority of the people" agreed. At a slightly later date in our history it was sacred-again, the churches (and I guess god and "the majority of the people") agreed that women just weren't smart enough to vote. You see where I'm going with this? You see where my wife, and millions others like her might be "bitter", might find laughable your belief that the god you choose to worship, your god of 2008, is somehow more accurate in it's (really it is "his" isn't it? Your god totally has a penis, huh? No deity with a clitoris would be opposed to gay marriage) conclusions about our society?
I do feel the need to close with your own words. "The only people saying that it is about their right to love who they want to love is [and really, Chauncey, when you start with the plural of "people" you really need to follow up with "are" not "is,"] people like you who obviously have a beef with religion." Obviously, we are people who neither believe in, nor subsequently fear, hell, but atheists are maybe 5-8% of the population. Even if this pile of hateful nonsense passes, there will be 40-49% percent of Californian's voting against it. I don't think that 10% counts as "many voting no on 8." There will be hundreds of thousands of religious folks voting against this next Tuesday. Will they all be people who "have not read anything" about Prop 8? Will they all be "bitter?"
Please, for your own well being, don't bother responding to this. I'm too exhausted from masturbating to topless pictures of David Beckham whilst simultaneously teaching my daughter that a princess can marry a princess to respond to any more nonsense. This isn't even my blog, but while I'm here, talking about gods and shit, I may as well take the opportunity to say What the fuck, god?! My birthday present from you (Nov #1 mofos-I like gold, cheese, and What-The-Fuck-There's-A-Nailin' Palin-Porno--Gimme dat!) every year is supposed to be colder weather. I have to deal with a chode this sweaty in late October?! Bullshit, Jesus' daddy, bullshit.
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