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Katie went to Vintage Vinyl (local new/used music store) yesterday to trade in some CDs and DVDs so she could hopefully get enough money to buy the new Utada Hikaru CD. She asked me if there was anything I wanted in case she had enough money left over to get it. I discovered that Lacuna Coil just released a new album last month, and Katie did end up with enough money to get the CD for me. I've listened to it four times since last night, and I have to say it fucking rocks! Love it.

My oldest sis and her family were in the area this weekend so all the family (except for my oldest brother and his son, who are in North Carolina) went to The Old Spaghetti Factory in St. Louis. Yummy food. We were a little bummed because due to our rather large group of 10 we were relegated to an upstairs seating area where it appeared they put all the big groups, and it didn't quite have the same ambiance as sitting downstairs. The ambiance was pretty much the main reason we went there. We could have had similar food for similar prices at Olive Garden and wouldn't have had to drive as far. Oh well, it was still fun. The kids were all pretty well behaved, and we all got to chat and visit. I was sitting next to my youngest niece, Anna, who is two. They brought out our spumoni, but they didn't bring us new spoons. Anna had used her spoon for her mac and cheese, so I wiped it off with a napkin and handed it to her. She immediately said 'Thank you!' without prompting. I was so surprised because usually with kids that young, they always have to be prompted by mom and dad to use please and thank you.

Worked at the Hut for five and a half hours today. Shipment day. Blargh. Then I mowed the front lawn when I got home. I think I can sufficiently count putting shipment away and mowing the lawn as my exercise for the day. You try lugging 20 to 40 pound boxes of frozen dough around and then using a push mower on a horribly uneven lawn and tell me you didn't get some exercise. :p

*pokes Imp* Tori's new album, Abnormally Attracted To Sin, which is due to release on Tuesday can be heard in its entirety, streaming on her MySpace page.

Did Obama do anything today or within the past couple days that might upset a conservative? My sister and her husband are quite conservative. They were Dubya supporters 'til the end, and, god help 'em, they voted for Huckabee in the Republican primary. Her husband listens to Rush Limbaugh. O_O She's posted status messages on Facebook in the past that were anti-Obama, and the conservative "let's skew stats!" type e-mails haven't stopped just because Dubya's not in the White House anymore.

The reason I ask what Obama's been up to is because of her most recent status message on Facebook.

. . . can't handle much more of this. (And one of her friends commented, "I agree! Now what are we going to do about it?" Blah.)

As far as I know, there's nothing in her personal life that would warrant a comment like that. She seemed fine the other day when she asked me if I could do lunch this Saturday when they're back in Illinois for Easter.

The thing is, with Vermont and Iowa and Washington D.C., it makes me wonder what she's talking about. She's never been cryptic about her anti-Obama comments, but considering I came out to her at Christmas, I could see her making a cryptic comment in response to all the progress made in LGBT rights recently to spare my feelings. Problem is that her cryptic is just suspicious and not that cryptic at all. Or maybe I'm reading to much into it and it does have to do with Obama.

I've known for years that she's conservative and Republican. She and her husband had their soon-to-be teenage son spouting pro-Dubya crap when he was five. It just hurts my heart to think that she would really be this dismayed about giving LGBT folks equal rights. She's my sister and I love her. I don't even know if she realizes that not wanting same-sex marriage laws to pass means she doesn't want me to have equal rights to her. Her 20th wedding anniversary is coming up, and I wonder if she would attend my wedding, if I were to have one. (I probably won't considering the polyamory situation, which I'm fine with. But I still want the right to marry whether I do it or not.)

It's not all that surprising. Just disappointing and disheartening.

Finished Death's Daughter, the first solo noveling venture by my favorite celeb, Amber Benson. It was pretty good and fun. You can read my full review on Amazon. I gave it 4 stars. Impalicious, I think you would like it. BTW, if any of you do read it, post a review on Amazon when you're done. Amber said once she gets 85 reviews on Amazon, she'll videotape herself doing the Macarena and post it on Youtube. :op

( Book List 2009: 50 Books In 1 Year )

Not a lot going on here, which is why I haven't updated much. Helped my brother get a washer and dryer through Freecycle so he doesn't have to come over here to do his laundry anymore. I'm really hoping to get a call from Interface tomorrow for a 2nd interview. Fingers crossed. There was also a job I sent my resume out for on Friday. It was to be the secretary to the principal of an elementary school and I'd kind of like that one, too. If not those, then something. I'm nearing the one year anniversary of losing my legal secretary job. It's time for me to get hired, dammit.

Back when Facebook started up I was still kind of against social networking sites. I still griped about how crappy MySpace looked, and if I remember correctly Facebook was only for students back when it started. Because I remember getting invited by someone and then not signing up because it required me to have a valid school e-mail address, which I didn't have because I was no longer in school. So now I'm on Facebook, I play the little games. I have people I actually know in real life connected to this thing. And yesterday, I added family.

My sister, Lisa, sent me an e-mail to my main e-mail address, the address that I wasn't using on Facebook. She wanted me to sign up for Facebook because she had, and come to find out our sister, Laura, and her husband, Bob, have had Facebooks for a little while. Considering I came out to the last of my family at Christmas, there are only two things they don't know as far as Katie is concerned--the fact that Katie is trans and the fact that Katie is poly and in a second relationship. My profile says that I'm in an open relationship with Katie. So if they know what it means to have an open relationship, that one's out of the bag. Then if they choose to add Katie as a friend and she adds them back, they could possibly discover the other factor. I briefly considered creating a second Facebook account that would be family only, but then I decided that I just didn't care. If they found out, they found out. It's their problem if they can't deal. So I changed my e-mail address on my Facebook account and added them.

I added Lisa and Laura and Bob. Then I had a message this morning saying that my oldest brother, Eddie, wanted to add me on Facebook. So apparently Lisa got him to start one.

Then I got home from work tonight and checked my e-mail. There was a notice that someone had added me on Facebook. It's Bob's mom. That's right. My sister's mother-in-law requested to add me on Facebook. I rarely have contact with this woman. Pretty much just holidays and sometimes not even then. She's nice enough. However, if I've ever mentioned how conservative Laura and Bob are, Bob's mom is ten times more conservative. I'm just bemused by this development. I honestly don't give two shits what this woman thinks if she reads that I'm in an open relationship with a woman. Like I said, I have very limited contact with her. My brain just did a double-take when I saw her name attached to that Facebook friend request. It's possible she already knows. I don't know what Bob tells his mom. His parents aren't horribly talkative people, so it's sometimes hard to gauge how close Bob really is to them.

Gosh. I'm just really amused by this. I would love to be a fly on the wall if she ever looks at my Prop. 8 Protest photo album. Hoo boy! I should make an album for Pridefest, too. I think I'll do that right now. *evil grin*