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([personal profile] catelin Nov. 18th, 2001 10:09 am)
Thing I'm most proud of...coming up on two months of not smoking, working out, and feeling better than I have in years.

Creepiest movie I've seen...The Nanny with Bette Davis...gawd but that woman was skkkkeeeery!!!

Best advice I gave twice in one week...."No man is worth carving out pieces of your flesh to feed yourself from."

Most fun I had...making chocolate chip cookies with my kids. We made a huge mess, but boy was it ever fun!!

The thing that irritates me...that the fucking people working on my fence seem to have something against showing up for more than three hours a week.

Finally giving in...a photographer friend has been wanting me to shoot with him for ages...I told him I would.

Good deed...I fought with my boss over getting a guy into rehab instead of sending him to prison...and (I'm sooooooo much more stubborn than him) I won this round! The rest is up to the guy.

Lost things...probably put the final nail in the coffin of a friendship by being honest with his ex-girlfriend (also a very good friend) about his current living arrangements (living with some titty dancer chippie that he left her for). He's moved out, had three weeks to tell her the truth, and I'm not going to lie to her.

New projects...getting all of my holiday gift ideas in order. : ) Also working on several new short stories and doing some painting.

Reading...Speak to The Earth by Vivienne de Watteville and a biography of Rosa Luxemburg.

Best New Journal...I'm particular to Artemis and Athena, generally, but this is one of the best online journals I've seen in a while.

New addition to the menagerie...an old hard-scrabble Tom that's missing an ear...he's been hanging around and getting fed. I figure it'll be at least a couple of months before he'll even let me get close enough to touch him.

Enjoying...the leaves changing, the river's turning from deep green to stone grey, my kids getting excited about the holidays, conversations on the wire, the smells of cooking in my kitchen, life's little surprises.

From: [identity profile] nandan.livejournal.com


And We're Off... the holiday season has officially begun!

On another topic, it's so odd the kind of monster rolls that Bette Davis was offered and took on in her later years. It seemed somehow a crime that the woman had gotten older and put on a little weight. While any of the roles individually are fine, when you look at all of them together it's like looking at some awful conspiracy against women in general and Bette in particular.
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From: [identity profile] catelin.livejournal.com


Oh, you know, I never thought of that but it is so true! She really was transformed into this hideous creature by all those roles. I still wince when I remember her during the Academy Awards (I don't recall the particular year), after her stroke, doddering and loaded on the stage...it was too cruel for words. But you're right...it really does make a statement on Hollywood's view of women as grotesques/grannies after a certain age.

From: [identity profile] jema.livejournal.com


hey!
congrats on the non-smoking:-)
i am coming up on 6 weeks this tuesday myself.
*feeling mighty proud too*

once upon a time an old boyfriend gave me that rosa luxemburg book. tattered and torn with pages missing and scribbles and notes all over. i just can't read it. whenever i open the book i feel like i am reading Him.

From: [identity profile] emrecom.livejournal.com


How did you quit smoking? Did you go insane, blow up anything?

My gf and I are talking about quitting together.

Then I worry about Mustally Assured Destruction.


grrrrrr


From: [identity profile] verian.livejournal.com


Thank you for the link Cate, I just sent a submission to Artemis.

From: [identity profile] kudzublossom.livejournal.com

Sunday Morning


Grazie Milli Cate,
I'm been on a quest to feed my mind...I've been given wonderful morsels lately. The journal site is great.

From: [identity profile] harry-maglomrph.livejournal.com

Excellent!


I hadn't read that you'd quit smoking. Congratulations!

Cheers.
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From: [identity profile] catelin.livejournal.com


It was really just a matter of making up my mind to do it. I'd smoked since I was 15...and I was getting to the age where I couldn't kid myself that it wasn't hurting me anymore. Also, I didn't want my kids thinking that it was something "cool" to do. I thought it would be really horrible quitting, but it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. Not nearly as bad as dying of emphesema or lung cancer, for sure. Lucky me! : )
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From: [identity profile] catelin.livejournal.com


Yay for you, Jema!! : ) We must have quit around the same time. And I know what you mean about the "Him" books...I have a couple of them myself that I can't bear to read anymore.
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From: [identity profile] catelin.livejournal.com


Right on! I may submit something later...I've been so busy, I've done very few submissions over the last few months.

From: [identity profile] viedma.livejournal.com


One of the things i love about your journal is your heart. Eet ees so big! :-D It's true! I love how you make the time to do good things. Hope the Tom will let you pet him one of these days. He'll have it good either way, i'm sure, what with regular meals and all now.

(checks link) Artemis journal-- from my old stompin' grounds! (i lived in Roanoke for a billion years). Neato!

From: [identity profile] verian.livejournal.com

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It's probably a wise move, your writing is bloody rubbish anyway.
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From: [identity profile] catelin.livejournal.com

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Colorful metaphor...but then again, what do I know? ; )
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From: [identity profile] catelin.livejournal.com


Yeah, he's looking better already...and I'm sure he'll figure out that I'm not such a bad human after a while. : )

From: [identity profile] nandan.livejournal.com


If I may butt in uninvited.... the easiest way to quit is after an illness, that way, you go through physical withdrawal while you're suffering from other things. However, you may be too healthy to wait for your next serious bout. But I highly recommend this method. Of course, with two of you, you'd have to get infected simultaneously. Hmmm, something to work on, anyway.

From: [identity profile] ex-sinnie785.livejournal.com

Help? (Sent by the Doctor)


Hello! Let me introduce myself -- my name is Lori and I can't cook. :(

After a pitiful plea in my own journal for assistance, Doctorgogol suggested I contact you with a holiday emergency I am having; I have no clue how to cook stuffing. Yes, it's true, I am a culinary reject. :(

Do you, perhaps, have a recipe for plain, old fashioned cornbread stuffing?

Any help at all would be so appreciated that mere words can't even express it.

Thank you. :)

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From: [identity profile] catelin.livejournal.com

Cornbread Stuffing


Ha! No worries! I'll write down the recipe and send it on to you this evening! I've always just done it by looking/tasting, but it'll be as close as I can figure out. : )
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