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I certainly didn’t expect this to happen, but, well, I am a lezzy, and this is a personal blog, so semantically, anyway, this sort of makes sense:
I’ve been nominated for a Lezzy Award in the Personal Blog category.
So, what this basically means is that one of you (or several even!) likes my ditherings here well enough to think I deserve an accolade. I am deeply flattered. Thank you!
If any of the rest of y’all are inclined to nominate me too (nominations are being taken until February 22nd, at which point the top 5 blogs in each category with the most nominations will become Finalists), here’s how you do so:
1) Click on that pretty pink square right up there.
2) Click on that blue banner right at the top of that page that says “The 2009 Lezzy Awards – Nominate Your Favorite Blogs! – Click Here”
3) Copy/paste my URL in the “Personal” section (is it weird that my fingers kept accidentally typing “sextion”?) of the little pop-up box.
4) Lather, rinse, and repeat every day! If you feel so inclined.
5) Also don’t forget to nominate your favorite blogs in the other categories. Check out my blogroll for my favorite blogs if you’re lacking inspiration!
And I might just add that regardless of what happens, I’m touched that I was nominated in the first place, and that in itself is a gift. When I started writing here, it was just me and my thoughts. I never, ever imagined that I’d be getting several hundred page hits every day, or that I’d have people reading and commenting and sending me kind and thoughtful emails. People care, and that’s pretty fucking amazing. So thank you all so much.
And if you’ll excuse me, I have some real posts to draft. I’ll be back in the morning!
You ask for it, you get it. All of you who are not grammophiles, kindly ignore.
“Strap on” is a verb, as in, “I’m going to strap on this dildo.” In queer/kink lingo, the object (“this dildo”) is often left out because it’s implicit in context. (In other contexts, not so much: “I’m going to strap on my seatbelt.” Not that anyone actually says that.) But the phrase “strap on” has two components: strap (a verb), and on (a preposition). Together, they make a verbal phrase. A hyphen is not used because the verb will change form according to person and tense (“I strapped on yesterday,” “she loves strapping on” etc.). So as a verbal phrase, it’s “strap on,” two words, no hyphen.
As an adjectival phrase, it needs a hyphen. The rule is that when two or more consecutive words make sense only when understood together as modifying a noun that follows, those words (excluding the noun) need to be hyphenated. Think of, for example, the phrase “small business.” “I own a small business,” but “I belong to a small-business community.” The phrase “small-business” is an adjectival phrase that describes the word “community.” Another example, taking a verbal phrase, might be “follow up.” “I will follow up with you tomorrow,” but “we need to schedule a follow-up call.” The phrase “follow-up” describes what kind of call it will be.
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “but strap-on isn’t an adjective!!!!!!!” You’re right, sort of. It isn’t anymore. See above, where I said that the verbal phrase “strap on,” in a queer/kink context, has an implied object. Well, it’s sort of the same thing with the adjective version. “Strap-on” is a modifier to the same implied noun that was the implied object of the verbal phrase. So in the above example, it’s “dildo.” Make sense? (So, in line with these rules, “motherfucking” as an adjective really ought to be “mother-fucking,” and why it isn’t is something I’ll never understand. But I digress.)
Now, through lots of use, “strap-on” has acquired nominal function of its own (as has, for example “follow-up”: “let’s schedule a follow-up for next week”) and doesn’t even need a separate noun to modify. It speaks for itself. But grammatically speaking, it follows the rules of an adjectival phrase.
Okay, grammar lesson’s over. Questions? ;)
So, I kind of love this blog (she’s on my blogroll and I also occasionally share her posts in my reader–you should follow my shared items!). It’s got a little bit of everything I love, minus queer: cooking, organizing, styling, designing, fashioning. Plus a little bit more.
She does this thing every month where she pictorially introduces things she’s happy about that month. I think I’m going to take a page out of her book and do the same this month. Yay February! You’re a hard month to get excited about on your own, but when I look beyond your name, you’ve got a lot to offer.
So. Here are the things I’m happy about this month:
1) Starting my burlesque class on Wednesday.
2) Valentine’s Day! I know it’s cool to hate Valentine’s Day, but sorry, I love it.
3) Making lots of kale chips.
4) Getting a vibrator for mi’lady’s house. Haven’t chosen one yet — we’ll take a trip (well, not much of one, seeing as how I live two blocks away) to Good Vibes SF to pick one out!
5) I get a bonus this month! My firm apparently exceeded budget this year, and so all staff are getting a fat bonus on our next paycheck. This couldn’t have come at a better time: mi’lady’s birthday coming up in March, plus hmmm maybe some burlesque costuming and props? And maybe some shoes? Also, erm, savings, cough.
Happy February :) (And yes, I know February is such a short month that it’s almost over. I’m a bit behind on my life.)
This was fun! Figure it out:
Pick Your Artist: Tegan and Sara
Are you male or female: City Girl
Describe yourself: Want To Be Bad
How do you feel about yourself: Someday
Describe where you currently live: Downtown
If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Northshore
Your favorite form of transportation: The Ocean
Your best friend is: And Darling
What’s the weather like: Beauty
Favorite time of day: Dark Come Soon
If your life was a tv show, what would it be called: Living Room
What is life to you: Time Running
What is the best advice you have to give: This Is Everything
If you could change your name, what would it be: Arrow
Your favorite food is: Underwater
Thought for the Day: Monday Monday Monday
How I would like to die: Someday
My soul’s present condition: I Know I Know I Know
My motto: Welcome Home
Now YOU take YOUR favorite musician … GO!
Okay, I need y’all’s help. In the raging storms we’ve been having over here, my trusty umbrella is now … officially dead. It actually snapped in the wind.
Which means NEW UMBRELLA TIME! I’ve posted this poll on twitter too, but since not all of you are on twitter/follow my every move, and yet I URGENTLY NEED your opinions too, I decided to post the poll here as well.
I’ve whittled it down to three options, and these are they (click on the picture for the link to the web pages for these lovely specimen).
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
Exhibit C:
So, what do you say? A, B, or C?
I dreamt last night that I was at one of mi’lady’s shows and Sara was there of Tegan & Sara, and she was kind of shy and talked to me! At the bar! And then we became really good friends and we went camping together.
And now today I feel bereft, because she’s not really my friend and I want her to be!
So, I kinda don’t like the look of this website right now. But I also don’t really like any of the other Wordpress themes. The problem is, I’m not a web designer and I really don’t have much time right now to delve into the thicket of CSS and all that. (I don’t even know if CSS is what a re-design of this page would require.)
Does anyone have any clue how I might re-design here so that it’s more personalized? My OWN theme? Or knows of an easy crash course in Wordpress theme design? Or can direct me to someone who would know?
To the person who landed here from searching “men can’t resist boobs”:
I FEEL YOU. Neither can I.
Oh my god, SO BUSY!
Mi’lady’s family is in town, and between catching up on work from vacation and hanging out with her family, my time has been completely overtaken. I usually post from work (bad me…) so when it happens that I have to leave work at a particular time in order to make a dinner date with the Lady Fam, and I have too much work to do in that limited amount of time in the first place, then posting tends not to happen. I’m one of the rare freaks of nature that doesn’t really use my computer at home all that much.
Today’s no different, so I’m just saying a quick hello, and that in the next few days I have a post or two coming up on various things, such as: “passing” as straight/femme-ininity (I could go on and on about this); cock eroticism (fetishizing?) in non-butch/femme dyke sex (the kind mi’lady and I have, since neither of us identifies as one or the other). Maybe some more on Mexico, though that’s already fading away into the distant past. More waxing on anti-depressants. Reflections on communicating. More specific thoughts about “alphafemme” as my identity–I’ve gotten several emails about that, asking me to elaborate on it. I like getting emails from people, it’s lovely! So I will indulge them.
AND, some exciting stuff that I’ve been up to in my own life, non-sex or -relationship related. I’ve been getting busy, but along with that comes more of a sense of ownership over my own self.
Okay, I guess that all adds up to more than “a post or two.” More like a lot. So, all that should keep my blog fairly busy for the next coupla. I find that the more I write here, the more I have a sense of belonging in this Blogosphere, whatever/wherever that is. I think I like it here.
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