clevermanka (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
clevermanka) wrote2014-11-11 08:58 am
clevermanka) wrote2014-11-11 08:58 am
Very specialized
Although I watched Pokemon when it was on the air in the mid-90s (laugh all you want, that show was great and had moments of pure, fucking brilliance which is a hell of a lot more than I can say for most product-driven kids programming), I was never in the fandom. Man oh man am I tempted to get this tee shirt, though. Bulbasaur was not my favorite, but who fucking cares. That shirt is a riot. They have shirts for all the different types, but Grass Specialized Trainer has to be one of the funniest if not the funniest (unintentional?) drug-reference innuendos I've seen on a tee shirt.
These are the best argument I have ever seen for mega-stretched earlobes. Fucking GORGEOUS.
I stayed home from work yesterday thanks to menstrual stuff. I woke up feeling actually mostly okay but just UGH exhausted and mentally unable to deal with work. By late morning the cramps had started and I was all "okay well then, excellent work on listening to your body." The only reason I'm at work today is it's Veteran's Day and if I work Veteran's Day I get twelve (12!) hours of holiday comp time to take whenever I want within the next year. I'll suffer at my desk for a day and a half of free vacation, yes.
Saturday I picked up my side of beef from Steve's Meat Market in DeSoto. For non-locals, let me first set the scene of DeSoto. It's a small-town dot on the map between Lawrence and Kansas City. Right off the highway that connects the two, and pretty much there's nothing notable about it except don't ever speed on that stretch of road because 1) small-town cops, and 2) that stretch of highway is bracketed by two big hills so it's speed trap perfection. Typical Midwestern small town. Or so you think.
I got to Steve's at 7:50am Saturday, which is ten minutes before they open. The parking lot was full and the signs were on, though, which...okay. I went in to pay and noticed there was a huge group of non-butcher-types hanging out in the back freezer/prep area. I asked (half-jokingly) if there was some sort of lesson going on. Turns out there's a local farmer who brings (live) livestock every Saturday morning for people who want to pick out their animals and take home freshly (and halal- or kosher-approved) butchered meats. NICE. Gets better, though. While I was waiting in my car for the guys to get my order together I saw a man walking through the parking lot carrying by one horn, a freshly-cut black goat head. The eyes were still slightly open, the tongue was hanging out, and there was a smooth slip of red flesh hanging from the neck. IT WAS FUCKING AMAZING. Five minutes later his female companion followed him to their truck with a bag of entrails.
Apparently the entire ethnic population of the Kansas City/Topeka area comes to DeSoto on Saturday morning to get their meat. The Steve's employee said people start lining up at 5:30am. How cool is that? One, there's a local business and a farmer interested in serving the immigrant community, two, there's enough of an immigrant community to support it, and three, it happens every week just twenty minutes east of me.
My other fantastic Saturday accidental experience: We were supposed to see Interstellar with a friend for his birthday, but it was sold out by the time we got there. Since we'd driven to KC for the movie, we decided to see something instead and picked Big Hero 6. You guys. YOU GUYS. This movie was so much better than the previews, which who the hell produced those boring previews? It's not just a movie about a kid who builds a robot. It's not actually about that at all. It's a superhero origin story with a diverse, multi-racial cast that boasts a bi-racial main character. Really, really good movie. It was released two days after the ten-year anniversary of The Incredibles and I can't think that was accidental. It is such a perfect successor to that film. See it. Ignore the cute but lackluster preview. See the movie. See it in the theater if you can, too, because the animation is gorgeous.
Then Sunday![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mckitterick and I went clothes-shopping to get things I can't find at the thrifts: leggings, jeans, thermals, etc. Y'all I am so excited about his winter wardrobe. I've finally sold him on the idea of wearing skirts (okay, kilts) most of the time, and he looks really good in them. But...winter. So I spent a lot of time searching the web for men's leggings and running tights and had no luck finding stuff we both agreed on and thought looked comfortable. And then I realized, why the hell am I looking for men's tights for him? So we picked up a few pairs of XL women's heavy jersey tights which I then took in about four inches at the waist and voila the guy has tights to wear under his kilts this winter.
AND THEN ALSO I got to help pick out clothes for one of our guy friends who has decided he wants to start dressing nicer. He's not on board with skirts (which is fine--not everyone is), but I explained to him the basics of pairing and layers (neutral colors, texture, overwash jeans are your friends) and he found a few things he liked enough to start with. He also gave me the green light to shop for him when I go to thrift stores. Whee! Good times.
Today's Tumblr collection is Tuesday, November 11: Sherlock Dolls. For those of you not in the know, Big Chief Studios released dolls based on the BBC Sherlock Holmes and John Watson earlier this year. You can imagine the shenanigans people got up to with those. Click at your peril.
These are the best argument I have ever seen for mega-stretched earlobes. Fucking GORGEOUS.
I stayed home from work yesterday thanks to menstrual stuff. I woke up feeling actually mostly okay but just UGH exhausted and mentally unable to deal with work. By late morning the cramps had started and I was all "okay well then, excellent work on listening to your body." The only reason I'm at work today is it's Veteran's Day and if I work Veteran's Day I get twelve (12!) hours of holiday comp time to take whenever I want within the next year. I'll suffer at my desk for a day and a half of free vacation, yes.
Saturday I picked up my side of beef from Steve's Meat Market in DeSoto. For non-locals, let me first set the scene of DeSoto. It's a small-town dot on the map between Lawrence and Kansas City. Right off the highway that connects the two, and pretty much there's nothing notable about it except don't ever speed on that stretch of road because 1) small-town cops, and 2) that stretch of highway is bracketed by two big hills so it's speed trap perfection. Typical Midwestern small town. Or so you think.
I got to Steve's at 7:50am Saturday, which is ten minutes before they open. The parking lot was full and the signs were on, though, which...okay. I went in to pay and noticed there was a huge group of non-butcher-types hanging out in the back freezer/prep area. I asked (half-jokingly) if there was some sort of lesson going on. Turns out there's a local farmer who brings (live) livestock every Saturday morning for people who want to pick out their animals and take home freshly (and halal- or kosher-approved) butchered meats. NICE. Gets better, though. While I was waiting in my car for the guys to get my order together I saw a man walking through the parking lot carrying by one horn, a freshly-cut black goat head. The eyes were still slightly open, the tongue was hanging out, and there was a smooth slip of red flesh hanging from the neck. IT WAS FUCKING AMAZING. Five minutes later his female companion followed him to their truck with a bag of entrails.
Apparently the entire ethnic population of the Kansas City/Topeka area comes to DeSoto on Saturday morning to get their meat. The Steve's employee said people start lining up at 5:30am. How cool is that? One, there's a local business and a farmer interested in serving the immigrant community, two, there's enough of an immigrant community to support it, and three, it happens every week just twenty minutes east of me.
My other fantastic Saturday accidental experience: We were supposed to see Interstellar with a friend for his birthday, but it was sold out by the time we got there. Since we'd driven to KC for the movie, we decided to see something instead and picked Big Hero 6. You guys. YOU GUYS. This movie was so much better than the previews, which who the hell produced those boring previews? It's not just a movie about a kid who builds a robot. It's not actually about that at all. It's a superhero origin story with a diverse, multi-racial cast that boasts a bi-racial main character. Really, really good movie. It was released two days after the ten-year anniversary of The Incredibles and I can't think that was accidental. It is such a perfect successor to that film. See it. Ignore the cute but lackluster preview. See the movie. See it in the theater if you can, too, because the animation is gorgeous.
Then Sunday
mckitterick and I went clothes-shopping to get things I can't find at the thrifts: leggings, jeans, thermals, etc. Y'all I am so excited about his winter wardrobe. I've finally sold him on the idea of wearing skirts (okay, kilts) most of the time, and he looks really good in them. But...winter. So I spent a lot of time searching the web for men's leggings and running tights and had no luck finding stuff we both agreed on and thought looked comfortable. And then I realized, why the hell am I looking for men's tights for him? So we picked up a few pairs of XL women's heavy jersey tights which I then took in about four inches at the waist and voila the guy has tights to wear under his kilts this winter. AND THEN ALSO I got to help pick out clothes for one of our guy friends who has decided he wants to start dressing nicer. He's not on board with skirts (which is fine--not everyone is), but I explained to him the basics of pairing and layers (neutral colors, texture, overwash jeans are your friends) and he found a few things he liked enough to start with. He also gave me the green light to shop for him when I go to thrift stores. Whee! Good times.
Today's Tumblr collection is Tuesday, November 11: Sherlock Dolls. For those of you not in the know, Big Chief Studios released dolls based on the BBC Sherlock Holmes and John Watson earlier this year. You can imagine the shenanigans people got up to with those. Click at your peril.
no subject
no subject
no subject
Also, I hear Big Hero 6 beat Interstellar at the box office overall, so apparently others overlooked the trailer as well.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
Big Hero 6
Re: Big Hero 6
no subject
**Jet and I had talked about going to see Interstellar. And then [i guess] we talked about going to see Big Hero 6 instead. and I bought tickets to big hero 6 on sunday and then later sunday night wrote that we were going to interstellar at 1:10 on the big white board calender. And printed out the confirmation page on Monday, and went to the ticket booth and had our tickets printed out, and then actually tried to walk into the theater showing interstellar when Jet said "what are you doing? we're here to see big hero 6" and i was totally shocked. And dismayed! I totally had in my head that we were seeing interstellar like we originally talked about. And I was dismayed and angry because we were at the recliner/order food at your seat theater and I didn't want to waste that on big hero 6, which i didn't want to see thanks to crappy trailers, and that i could just see in XD with my $3 refillable bucket of popcorn and not whole recliner *lunch*. I actually almost even said let's leave, that's how disappointed I was!
So glad that's what we saw. It was a GREAT recliner/lunch movie.
(and I'm just ignoring the mystery of how my brain bought tickets for one movie intentionally -- i mean, jet knew the time and movie -- and yet totally convinced itself that we were seeing a different movie entirely.)
no subject
no subject
I have zero style, but I like to read about how others make their own.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
There was a butcher like that in the tiny south Georgia town where I went to college; he did all the slaughtering for Eid al-Adha and any other times we needed halal meat for a big group. There are some frankly horrifying pictures of some of the adult guys playing pretend with a goat's head.
no subject
Comfy ankle boots that lace up, not slip on. The tighter fit of lacing will keep them from pulling half off your feet when you're crawling around. I suggest a soft upper to allow you good foot flexibility for floor work. Stiff boots are not your friend in this situation. Next, a pair of sturdy leggings. Athleta has some amazing leggings that wear like iron, but $$$. I picked up a pair of stretch corduroy leggings at J.C. Penny's this weekend for $22 (on sale). I wear the thinnest type of Cuddl Duds thermals under them to provide an extra layer of warmth and a bit of smoothing. Chunky socks that come up a few inches above the top of your boot (up to as high as mid-shin) will help your silhouette avoid too much narrowing at the ankle. Depending on the temperature, start with a plain, smooth soft thermal layer on top. I swear by Cuddl Duds brand--they don't ride up or make too much static. If it's warm enough to skip that layer, go with a colored long sleeved tee shirt that hits you about mid-hip, or at least a couple inches below the waistband of your leggings. Texture is your friend here, so look for waffle-knit stuff, or tees with a slightly slubbed fabric (texture isn't crucial, though, I wear a lot of plain cotton color tees). Over that goes some sort of cardigan or easily-removable sweater (for when you get warm from running around with kiddos). It's nice to find something that's long (to help cover the top of your ass), but still allows a bit of the colored tee to peek out the bottom. Finally, a scarf. Those fake pashmina things are soft, washable, and amazing. I have, like, a dozen of them. You can also add a lightweight knit cap to really top things off (heh). So there's a nice, neutral, inoffensive combo that is comfortable and also casually professional.
This, btw, is pretty much exactly what I'm wearing today except I've got on knee-high boots because I don't plan to be crawling around on the floor. I've got on (not including underlayers):
Knee high black boots
Dark brown corduroy leggings
Camouflage thermal
Black military-style double-breasted cardigan
Dark brown faux-pashmina scarf
Have fun! I wish I could go shopping with you!
no subject
And yes, Cuddl Duds are amaaaazing, I have a pair I wear as pyjamas and cycling underwear, and they are lifesavers in the winter.
no subject
The best daily fashion for those of us with Real Lives is sensible and easy to put together. Once you've got the hang of it, it'll be a snap.
One thing I forgot to mention is it helps to buy colors in similar hues. My solid color tees, scarves, and socks (which provide pretty much all the color in my wardrobe) are various earth-tones. Even the purples and oranges are subdued. If you're more inclined toward brights, collect the same things in jewel tones. I wear my burnt orange tee with eggplant tights, but if you like brights, a lime green sweater looks great with royal blue tights. Then for my bottoms and sweaters I stick with neutrals: black, gray, brown, and tan almost exclusively (well, and dark overwash denims).
Lots of fashion advisors suggest colored bottoms for variety, but I've tried it and I'm just not comfortable in them. I'm betting, based on what I know of your personality, you feel the same about wandering around with a colorful bottom half.
If I had time and money to do it, I would roadtrip all over the US to visit my internet buddies and go thrifting with them. That would be amazing. And really, it's not that unrealistic of a vacation goal. Hm.....
no subject
If you find yourself near Lexington, KY in the next six months, you should definitely come crash with me and go thrifting. :D
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
Some of my lady running friends have been singing the praises of fleece lined tights since last winter. They seem to be on sale a lot at discount clothing places (Marshall's, Ross, Kohl's) if that's another option. For socks, Sock Dreams Diamond Rib Knee Highs are *sings* the best!. Comfy feet, lots of stretch for big calves, and they stay up and right under the knees. I have them. Justin has them for wearing with his kilt. We love them.
I put a deposit down for a fresh turkey for Thanksgiving from a local farm that's 15 minutes from my house (I'm at the edge of the city and they are what's left of a bigger farm that has managed to prosper though now in dense suburbs). I'm picking it up the Monday before T-day. As I sent in the payment I thought about how I had just signed some turkey's death warrant, but we're going to have a turkey no matter where it's from so this is the better way to go about it.
no subject
Thanks for the tip on the socks! Sock Dreams has great stuff. I'll see if I can get
As I sent in the payment I thought about how I had just signed some turkey's death warrant
That image probably shouldn't have amused me as much as it did.
no subject
no subject
no subject