Monthly Archives: November 2007

Help a Girl Out

Hey, people. My links are woefully out-of-date and I intend to weed through them in the coming weeks, but I need new, cool blogs to introduce to my surfing regime, so please send me links to either your blogs or blogs you think I’ll love. Thanks!

My Thursday Morning Moment

I’m sitting here on my couch with cold barefeet touching my chilly hardwood floors, sunlight gleaming off the frosted roofs in the neighbourhood, traffic droning past. I’m thinking today would be a good day for the scooter — sunny, cold, but a continuing forecast of clear for this day. Snow is forecasted for the weekend, [...]

From Here to Infinity

I’m a big believer in starting with the little stuff and just going with it when it comes to writing because, like building a snowman, it can be surprising as hell when you see it take shape.
I was doing just that just now, writing about the weather and the fact that I’m all cushy, blogging [...]

Giving to Get: The Spread of Gratitude

Part of my changing my life and improving who I am, my major project for the next year — reconciling who I want to be with who I am — means giving more to other people.
That got started today with my joining Kiva.org after seeing it on Oprah this morning. The principle of it is [...]

Film Chickette: Westward the Women, 1951

I’m a film geek.
I once mentioned to a colleague (keep in mind I work in the film industry) that I had finally bit the bullet and seen Casablanca, which I had the good sense to see (and have since loved) at an independent film house that ran in first-run in the Dirty ’30s. He asked [...]

Checkin’ In, and a RANT about Fat Stereotypes

I’m just rushing out for breakfast but I wanted to check in quickly. I’m in ‘adjusting to world of pain’ mode right now as I’m ramping my fitness up by several degreees, thanks to learning that my knee’s finally able to handle an elliptical trainer at the gym. (I’ve blown it out a few times [...]

A Recipe! My Thai Peanut Salad Dressing

I’ll share my newest culinary creation with y’all. I’m getting prepared for a week of salads with roasted chicken in ‘em, and I’ve just come up with a nice new salad dressing. Last night I made spring rolls for the first time ever, baked ones. (Not bad, but I know how to improve them next [...]

Reader Asks: Why Do I Keep Hurting Her?

I’ll have to go back and find this email to share with you all, but a longtime reader sent me a deeply personal email in which he more or less explored the realms of self-loathing as he told me about how he’s gone around fucking up the lovelife of this girl he cares passionately about. [...]

Kickin’ Ass and Takin’ Names

As part of the blowback from eating a little badly of late, in spurts with goodly, and a fear of weighing myself, I am now entertaining the notion of joining a kickboxing cardio class in the ‘hood.
I mean, kickin’ ass and takin’ names sounds like a good way to kick my own ass and sculpt [...]

The Facebook Reunions: Round One

You ever have those times you run into someone from your past, hook up, get a glimpse of what your life might’ve been, and then have a headtrip kinda night?
Behold the power of Facebook. Hooked up with someone from the old days yesterday. She still lives in the ‘burbs, has that laid back kind of [...]

Renovation Week Begins

I’ve been wanting to get social again for a long time, but the thing holding me back was my wardrobe. I’ve been really fucking tired of my clothes for a long time, long enough now that they themselves are looking tired, too. I just haven’t really had the money to go shopping — it’s hard [...]

Workin’ For a Livin’ Every Night and Day

I’m having one of those red wine-epiphany kinda Fridays. I’ve had a long week and have a three-day weekend, so staying in and chilling makes a whole lot of sense. I have two more weeks of OT coming at me, but it’s helping me take care of long-time needs that really ought to be rectified [...]

I Support TV Writers

I don’t have a union job, but I work in the TV industry. I support the TV writers. And before you go off saying “Oh, boo-hoo, the poor rich writers”, you should know the main thing they’re striking for: to be finally recompensated for any work they’re being made to do for the “new media”, [...]

Just Taking A Moment… Venting on Nancy Grace

Okay, I just need to vent: What the fuck is wrong with Nancy Grace anyhow? Like, it’s not enough that news is news… there’s always that stupid fucking card at the bottom of the screen that reads– no, not “news”, but “URGENT NEWS”. Yes, all caps.
Jesus. And it’s of a story about an 82-year-old grandma [...]

Further Notes on the Adventures of Steff

(Someone left a comment to my last posting, asking what images I was blowing up for Christmas presents this fall. I can’t do the shots of people themselves since that breaks one of my personal blogging rules, but these are some of the images of my own work from the last 18 months or so, [...]

A Self-Indulgent Posting

I’ve caught the end of Desperate Housewives. Good time to mention: SPOILER ALERT.
It’s the end in which Lynette finds out she’s beaten cancer. She has this moment of total realization all that which she’s escaped when she’s in the back yard, soaking in the starry-starry night and the evergreen air and she glances down to [...]

The State of the Steff

I’m going to sound like one of those people you hate if I complain right now, because I’ll be honest, I’m still down on the weight. I’ve gone down to 17lbs off this fat ass of mine this month, but I’m disappointed. I thought I could’ve had a far better week. I mean, I’ve eaten [...]