Dena (yay) and Palin (ugh)

Well today would have been Dena's wedding day. But she called it off, I think nobody really wants to celebrate anything without you. We got through Christmas okay but there was a little gray cloud over it at all times.

But, I know how much you loved celebrations and presents and parties and especially having all of us together with you. So I am going to try to encourage everyone to try to get back into the swing of things this year.

Dena decided to be spontaneous and come out to visit me! She'll be here in a week. We probably won't sing Tore Up From the Floor Up like a certain other cousin of mine and I used to do. But we will probably drive around a lot, eat a lot, and just be happy to hang out. She needs a change of scenery badly. She needs to not be so sad. I will do whatever it takes to make that happen!!

So the other thing I wanted to tell you is that our favorite idiot, Palin, WILL NOT GO AWAY!! I thought Speidi was bad, trying to milk fame for all its worth, but this one sets the standard!! She will not shut up and it's truly amusing. There is a video of her blabbing about all the ways the world treated her wrong (yeah, okay) and I just want to tell you all the ways she's a moron.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-95wkCMeUkk

1. "Wahhh people won't stop talking about my family, and I DID have that baby!!" Okay, listen idiot. That rumor came up and quickly died. A few conspiracy theorists believed it but anyone who spent 30 seconds on a reputable news site knew it was nothing but a salacious rumor. Get the f over it.

2. "Wahhh people believe anonymous bloggers. What about the facts?!" Uhh, hey hag, I don't hear you bitching about the "facts" about Obama's birthplace, history with terrorism, and other nonsensical garbage. Guess that doesn't bug you so much huh? This woman is the absolute PICTURE of hypocrisy.

3. "Wahhhh someone forced me to go back to Katie Couric!" Right, make sure you point the finger at everyone else. The huge fuckups certainly weren't yours.

4. "MEOW" to Katie Couric. You are not the center of the universe either, idiot.

5. I need to clarify this for the LAST TIME. Katie Couric was not asking you "what do you read in wild, faraway, Alaska?" She was asking you, "what news sources do you read?" WHY your pea brain can't discern the difference between these questions is beyond me. You are a MORON.

6. "Wahhhh don't attack my kids. But yes, of course I'd go on SNL. I get to have my makeup did and be on TV over and over!"

7. "Wahhhh I'm not rich like the Kennedys!" Yeah but you ain't poor either and you're out of your mind if you think people want to elect rich blueblood candidates over upper middle class candidates. It's not about money, it's about your utter lack of experience, intellect, and grace. You are a whiny little bitch.

8. "I'll be back." GOD HELP US ALL.

9. "Look at my awesome record." Hey idiot, we all did. It's shameful. It's wasteful. It's pathetic. GET THE HINT: go away.

Well anyway sweetheart, I need to share this info with you because you totally get it. DAMN I wish I could hear your responses, I know they would be priceless. It makes me angry that you are gone, but so much garbage lives on. Well, I can only believe you are in a peaceful place and just laughing at all the stupidity that goes on here on earth. I love you little girl.

Oh dear.

Oh my goodness. That's my first reaction.

My second is, are you F***ING KIDDING ME??

I am talking, of course, about Speidi. They showed up wearing Palin t-shirts and toting Budweiser and a RIFLE! I know you feel the same way about Speidi that I do because a) we thought alike on about a billion things, and b) I read it in your notes from the hospital.

As if they couldn't get more repugnant, now they are pretending to be rednecks and campaigning for Palin. Projectile vomit! At least it's a match made in heaven.

Pylones - Designer gift boutique: original items and the latest trends

Pylones - Designer gift boutique: original items and the latest trends

Oh my. Little tweezers that look like people! I would have bought four of them for Christmas this year. Maybe I'll still buy one.

Vegas ain't the same

Wow, I had a fun time in Las Vegas this past weekend, and fully avoided getting into any blowouts about politics! (Although when I got home, Brian and I had a meltdown fight because - brace yourself - he doesn't think Palin is a disaster. He actually likes the freak! My God.)

Anyway I thought of you pretty much as soon as I got to town because on a bright and shiny billboard by the airport I saw this.



Ahhh such sweet memories. I'm gonna hang on to them for a while...

Thankful

Honey I miss you so much sometimes I just start crying out of the clear blue.

There is nothing - NOTHING - good about your being gone. But I am thankful that you don't have to SUFFER through the shit that is going on right now.

The Republicans are asses, as we both know, but girl, in your lifetime there was NEVER a travesty like this. The Vice Presidential candidate is the absolute nastiest piece of shit I have ever had to endure.

She is unskilled, inexperienced, hardcore anti-choice (are you serious?!?!), anti-gay (really??!!), and a full-blown smarmy bitch. Now you know as well as I do that women and women's rights are tremendously important to me and I don't use the word "bitch" lightly. I try to avoid it... unless there's nothing else I can say.

Honey you would not have been able to handle this. You hated Bush... I was kind of on the fence. Yeah, I know, I'm supposed to hate the guy. But for all his stupid mistakes, he was still sort of charming. Dumb, goofy, and cute. She is not charming. She is not cute.

Think about the bitchiest, most manipulative hag you know -- maybe someone like the person who runs the high school cafeteria mother's volunteers group. On a huge power trip, for what? Small minded, thoughtless, selfish. Looks down their nose at everyone. Completely and utterly intolerant of anyone who isn't white, Christian, straight, married by age 25, parents by 28, and wealthy. FUCK HER!!!!

I have always stayed as far out of politics as I could because I just don't like causing rifts between me and my friends. But this has pushed me so far over the edge. I am going to volunteer, hardcore, to get anyone else elected. Thankfully Obama is a good choice, he's a level-headed, decent human being (at least it seems so).

I'm actually in tears again... missing you and thinking about how miserable this world will be if this fucking backward trash takes a position of power.

Shoes and Corey Lynn Calter

Oh my goodness. I am in trouble but I'm so happy about it!!

I spent $400 at the Corey Lynn Calter sample sale today -- but it easily would have cost $1500 in the stores! So cute. I will probably look fat in most of the things I bought but it's the thrill of the hunt that matters.



And get this. Marc Jacobs shoes at DSW marked down from $400 to $90 (above)!! And Steve Madden bright blue patent leather for $10! Yes, $10! I know you're proud. :-)

For Lola

Or Betty, or Kimchee, although I don't see them being too happy about it. How could I not think of you when I saw this?!?! I came really close to buying it but thought, well, I don't really see your mom wrestling with the dogs trying to get this on...