Anyone for a nightcap?

[LilyBart]

Stick some lemon in the Heffewiezen.

I had Tabula Rasa Cab - omg. Wow.

Serious? The lemon can't be enough to make it lighter...can it?

I have 5 more bottles. That's 5 more experiments....

~LB

 

[intothewoods]

Serious? The lemon can't be enough to make it lighter...can it?

I have 5 more bottles. That's 5 more experiments....

~LB

I like it with lemon. Love it, actually. It's my favorite kinda beer.

Oh no, I don't think so. Not after what you said in the great bestiality debate v 8.2

Okay, you're right. I'm funny!

On the young feminists...or non-feminists, whatever...

My mother marched for the ERA in Washington way back when.
I was a young volunteer.
I wouldn't put either my mother or myself in the feminazi category...even using Limbaugh's standards. But it all trickles down. My daughters are acutely aware and are not afraid, ever, to point out inconsistencies to authorities. Or at least to me.

Both are feminine, but strong young women. OK, one is not quite yet a woman, but the other is the same age as 00Syd. The older one was involved in historically (not necessarily traditionally) male dominated activities since her early teen years. But more than that, I see her and her peers, now all self-possesed young women of 20 or 21 years who really don't put up with much. In fact, I think they are all Dommes in the making if you ask me. Maybe not sexually, but socially and politically...yep. Most of an open mind and willing to explore the world...whatever that world is. Far less judgement than of previous generations. And not afraid to ask for what they want.

Perhaps its the environment (although my daughters have led maybe a slightly priviledged life compared to the greater universe of girls this age,) I like to think that my daughters and their peers have, for the most part, had open-minded parents who encouraged them to question any and all. At least that is what I have hoped for. No topic has ever been off limits in our house and I believe, personally, that this is what fosters intellectual growth and the courage to challenge anyone else's idea of what is "right."

Really, being able to speak your mind without fear of judgement... disagreement, OK... I think this is the root of keeping empowerment...anyone's empowerment, alive.

While there's still a way to go in terms of pure equality in income and other points, I am really impressed with the young women that I see, at least. Feminism is not a fad. Maybe the word...but not the philosophy.

Back to my nightcap.


~LB

I was raised in a similar household, but found myself in high school feeling like the weird, loud, argumentative Jewish girl. I didn't always play nice. I questioned authority. I was a giant pain in everyone's ass. Looking back, I don't see that as perfect behavior or anything, but it does chap my hide that girls (students generally, but mostly girls) who were quiet and followed the rules and never questioned the teacher were praised and celebrated, while I was treated like a giant waste of time.

Guess what, asswipes. I kinda did all right for myself. It's fine to require people to be polite and quiet at times, but you can also try to encourage those rough around the edges girls who are actually quite smart and creative.

Anyway, not sure why I started rambling here except that it's Friday. Since icky high school, I have had the pleasure of meeting a lot of bright and fascinating women who do proudly call themselves feminists. Actually, at this moment in my life, I have probably the most women friends I've ever had, and I feel so lucky to know them. My sandbox posse (was that the name?) consists of women who are good moms, have non-mom interests, and like screwing. Some nights we talk about the kids. Some nights we talk about men. Some nights we talk about women. It's a nice group.

 

[midwestyankee]

A locally made meritage. I'll finish the bottle, I suppose,but it's not as good tonight as it was when I had it in a tasting room.

Oh well.

No comments to add re:

a) Netzach vs. ITW - who's funnier

b) Women's lib, old or new style

c) Scarfless selves; this one speaks for itself

d) JM as The Decider; this one has a unique one-shot-for-glory feel about it

 

[intothewoods]

A locally made meritage. I'll finish the bottle, I suppose,but it's not as good tonight as it was when I had it in a tasting room.

Oh well.

No comments to add re:

a) Netzach vs. ITW - who's funnier

b) Women's lib, old or new style

c) Scarfless selves; this one speaks for itself

d) JM as The Decider; this one has a unique one-shot-for-glory feel about it

Only Netzach could get away with that with JM!

Booze: A chenin blanc from France, related to Trimbach, but I forget in what way. I found the greatest wine store. All of the guys who work there are adorable and adept at steering you in the right direction to determine the perfect purchase. It's really hot.

 

[intothewoods]

Bump.

Sipping an Italian red - Ruffina Toscana Fonte al Sole. It's their budget wine at under $10, and I love it. Just what I like, spicy but fairly subtle. Not too much going on.

Had an intense weekend. Some really intense pain play (for me) with a few people, and my first time with needles. It was great to really let go and push myself in that way to take more pain. Once I "broke through," I completely lost it and cried like a baby.

Am coming down from it all now. Mister Man was really great about it. We had rules. I followed them. No jealousy or resentment.

 

[CutieMouse]

Celebrating yummy coolness news with a very cheap pino grigio (no idea what), a veggie egg roll and some brown rice.

 

[rida]

Bump.

Sipping an Italian red - Ruffina Toscana Fonte al Sole. It's their budget wine at under $10, and I love it. Just what I like, spicy but fairly subtle. Not too much going on.

Had an intense weekend. Some really intense pain play (for me) with a few people, and my first time with needles. It was great to really let go and push myself in that way to take more pain. Once I "broke through," I completely lost it and cried like a baby.

Am coming down from it all now. Mister Man was really great about it. We had rules. I followed them. No jealousy or resentment.

*bumping glasses* cin cin! (although it is still morning for me )

Sounds like you had an incredible week-end!
I've not figured out the "really letting go" part yet ... but hopefully eventually I will.

(now that you are coming down ... get Mister Man to hug you tight ... it will also help keep the bonding with him ... I know it does for me, to have Hubby help me through sub-drop after I play with someone else )

Celebrating yummy coolness news with a very cheap pino grigio (no idea what), a veggie egg roll and some brown rice.

Whatever the news ... Cin Cin to you too!

 

[minotaurzombies]

Good night my dearies

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[intothewoods]

*bumping glasses* cin cin! (although it is still morning for me )

Sounds like you had an incredible week-end!
I've not figured out the "really letting go" part yet ... but hopefully eventually I will.

(now that you are coming down ... get Mister Man to hug you tight ... it will also help keep the bonding with him ... I know it does for me, to have Hubby help me through sub-drop after I play with someone else )

He did, and I think that really helped me today, and made me feel really centered and okay with it all.

As far as letting it go goes, the friend I played with really talked me through it. He told me when to breathe, told me I could take it, etc. And I was in a place where I wanted to let go. I mean, physically - I could relax. I wasn't in my bedroom or anything. The results are some really pretty bruises.

 

[midwestyankee]

Had a Dogfish IPA with my chicken salad from Baja Fresh tonight. It was good. Earlier this weekend had a bottle of Fox Valley Vineyard's Chardonel, which I'd bought after a tasting this summer. Crisp and light, but not available outside of the land of Lincoln, drinkin' and fraud. It went very well with Spielberg's 1941, though an argument can be made that cheap beer would have been more appropriate. Last night: a bottle of J. Lohr Merlot. Tasty and a tad fruitier than some but very, very good after a day of fighting rain and incoming water.

 

[Netzach]

Some crisp and over summery Hungarian white Muscat thing, not as bad as it sounds, 8 bucks.

A fine bit of perfectly proletariat vino.

 

[intothewoods]

Still drinking the Italian red. Life is back to normal. Feels so weird. Like I can do this - get my kink on, have a successful relationship, be a mom. That is pretty crazy.

 

[midwestyankee]

Still drinking the Italian red. Life is back to normal. Feels so weird. Like I can do this - get my kink on, have a successful relationship, be a mom. That is pretty crazy.

Crazy? Sounds reasonably well balanced to me. Or maybe you just meant "crazy" as in "unbelievably cool."

 

[intothewoods]

Crazy? Sounds reasonably well balanced to me. Or maybe you just meant "crazy" as in "unbelievably cool."

That actually IS what I meant!

This will probably not go on forever. Or maybe it will, but I kind of doubt it. But that we can talk about it all is pretty amazing.

 

[midwestyankee]

That actually IS what I meant!

This will probably not go on forever. Or maybe it will, but I kind of doubt it. But that we can talk about it all is pretty amazing.

Cool. Enjoy your glass of red.

 

[Netzach]

Ughhh. Grumpy McGrumperson came home today. Man!

Coffee at the new up the street coffee place while my overgrown PMS'sing teenage girlboy plays counterstrike in his CLOSED room.

Damn!

 

[midwestyankee]

Still reeling from a day of no decaf beverages of any kind. After a weekend spent defending the home front against an onslaught of water and then removing half of Lake Michigan from my basement, there was no time to replenish the decaf coffee. And at the lunch spot we chose today, I ordered the straight-up regular strength Diet Coke. So I'm still buzzing and twitching to an internal atomic clock gone Strangelove mad.

If you see me posting idly in game threads in The Playground at 4 am tomorrow morning, you'll know why. D'oh!

 

[Netzach]

Still reeling from a day of no decaf beverages of any kind. After a weekend spent defending the home front against an onslaught of water and then removing half of Lake Michigan from my basement, there was no time to replenish the decaf coffee. And at the lunch spot we chose today, I ordered the straight-up regular strength Diet Coke. So I'm still buzzing and twitching to an internal atomic clock gone Strangelove mad.

If you see me posting idly in game threads in The Playground at 4 am tomorrow morning, you'll know why. D'oh!

Oh that blows, the water thing. We did that earlier this summer, accompanied by popcorn sized hail.

Maybe I secretly AM ADHD because I can still sleep on a dark roast.

 

[midwestyankee]

Oh that blows, the water thing. We did that earlier this summer, accompanied by popcorn sized hail.

Maybe I secretly AM ADHD because I can still sleep on a dark roast.

I used to be a 20 to 30 servings of caffeine per day person and then went cold turkey about five or six years ago. Now, when I take in more than a partial serving in the early morning I find it hard to sleep for a day or two. Why I sometimes let myself lapse as I did today (I could have gone to the store before making coffee; could have had water with lunch) is a bit of a mystery. Perhaps there's still an inner rebel trying once in a while to assert himself and screw with my new rules.

I'd give my right nut (of course, that's the one that doesn't work as well) to be able to sleep on a dark roast.

 

[LilyBart]

Still reeling from a day of no decaf beverages of any kind. After a weekend spent defending the home front against an onslaught of water and then removing half of Lake Michigan from my basement, there was no time to replenish the decaf coffee. And at the lunch spot we chose today, I ordered the straight-up regular strength Diet Coke. So I'm still buzzing and twitching to an internal atomic clock gone Strangelove mad.

If you see me posting idly in game threads in The Playground at 4 am tomorrow morning, you'll know why. D'oh!

So sorry to hear about the water...and the caffeine.

But, speaking of idly posting to game threads, I am wondering why you have not immediately guessed the What am I riddle I posted yesterday.

I passed on caffeine, today. FWIW.

~LB

 

[midwestyankee]

So sorry to hear about the water...and the caffeine.

But, speaking of idly posting to game threads, I am wondering why you have not immediately guessed the What am I riddle I posted yesterday.

I passed on caffeine, today. FWIW.

~LB

Just wandered over there.

 

[LilyBart]

Time for a bump, I think.

Soooo, I didn't win the Powerball last night which means I have to go to work tomorrow.

This is making me feel the need to reach for a Bud Light. Or two.

~LB

 

[LilyBart]

Wait! There's hope for me. I ran across an article in the September issue of Gourmet Magazine tonight about http://www.beerforchicks.com/ which I thought was pretty cool.

I would like to know, however, exactly what "mouthfeet" means in relation to beer tasting. It doesn't sound especially appetizing. Well, it could...but not when I think of beer, anyway. I'm probably emphasizing my beer-ignorance right now. Just don't make fun of me; consider it an opportunity for enlightenment, please.

I would also like to know why I am incapable of adding a snazzy hotlink to my posts. I swear I've done it before. Grrr....

~LB

Rethinking the Bud Light for tonight and wondering if I can find Moonlight Brewing Company Reality Czeck anywhere locally....

 

[midwestyankee]

Time for a bump, I think.

Soooo, I didn't win the Powerball last night which means I have to go to work tomorrow.

This is making me feel the need to reach for a Bud Light. Or two.

~LB

Put down the Bud Light and no one gets hurt. Including - and especially - yourself. [/kidnap voice]

 

[midwestyankee]

Wait! There's hope for me. I ran across an article in the September issue of Gourmet Magazine tonight about http://www.beerforchicks.com/ which I thought was pretty cool.

I would like to know, however, exactly what "mouthfeet" means in relation to beer tasting. It doesn't sound especially appetizing. Well, it could...but not when I think of beer, anyway. I'm probably emphasizing my beer-ignorance right now. Just don't make fun of me; consider it an opportunity for enlightenment, please.

I would also like to know why I am incapable of adding a snazzy hotlink to my posts. I swear I've done it before. Grrr....

~LB

Rethinking the Bud Light for tonight and wondering if I can find Moonlight Brewing Company Reality Czeck anywhere locally....

I'm not at all sure what "mouthfeet" is supposed to be either, though I clearly recall my mouth feeling as if hundreds of rats had trampled across my tongue overnight - all due to some minor excesses with beer. Is that what you meant?