So I owe this to Jerz from last week

Well, Merry Christmas everyone!

I hope everyone had a good morning and got all kinds of wonderful things. I know I did. My entire kit for culinary school is almost put together just from this morning!

Things have been pretty quiet here. I've been working with my dad and getting ready to move, which is going to happen sometime in February or March.
Today we're continuing our family tradition of going to see a movie together. We started it ages ago, when Lord of the Rings was coming out, and now it's a thing. We're going to see True Grit, which looks interesting if only because Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and Jeff Bridges all look like twins in the previews.

Merry Christmas! I hope you all have a wonderful day with family and get to eat delicious food and be happy.

Big Decisions

So.
I know I scared people with my culinary school declaration.

Unfortunately, it's true.

I'm moving to Seattle, sometime in the next few months, to start culinary school in April.

I love you all very much and I'm going to try to visit Rochester before I leave, but I'm honestly not sure I'll be able to.


In other news, because I'm going to Seattle and I'm kind of sick of flying, I think I'm going to take the train across the country!
Does that sound awesome or what?

Jersey and I have a deal

And that deal is that I will post every time he does for the next month.

So, posting.

Things are quiet here. It's Maine, after all.
I'm working on my application to the Art Institutes, and I have a phone interview tomorrow, so we'll see. Maybe I'll be in school again soon! Of course, I'm applying to Seattle or Raleigh-Durham....
SORRY GUYS

I'm also working on a design for my first tattoo! Now that I don't have to worry about it, I think I'm definitely going to get one. I've got some sketches goings, most of them art nouveau inspired. It's an interesting experience and definitely letting me get creative, which is really nice.

So, I'm gonna go reply to about a million messages and go to sleep.

No being mad about me possibly being far away. I miss you all terribly and I will continue to do so.

Take some time out to relax this week. Just 10 minutes or something, no computer, just relaxing and not worrying about things. Try it!

Who has two thumbs and needs to post more often?





This chick.

Working on it guys.

Sex and Feminism

So there have been a lot of posts floating around lately touching on the concept of feminism and sex. Here's one, here's another, and here's yet another.
Now, most of you know me fairly well. I've had my share of guys and I've also had my share of feminism, so I feel like I can reliably comment on both here.

Feminism, although seen by some as a collection of crazy man hating lesbians, is really just a movement of people out for equality. As one man said on Jezebel, it's all about egalitarianism. It's not that women specifically should earn more, it's that every single person should earn the same for the same work. It's that everyone should gain pleasure from sex, and everyone should have the same rights. Gay, trans, male, female, whatever. It doesn't matter. In the end, we all love whomever we love and it really shouldn't affect anyone else.

So... feminism and sex.
They do exist together. Not all feminists abstain, and they aren't all lesbians either, so don't think this is going to be some diatribe on how sex is all about objectifying women.

Sex really should be all about pleasure. (Unless you're trying to make babies. More power to you if that's the case, but it's not what I focus on. Babies are stressful.) This means that both parties, be they men, women, or other, should gain approximately equal amounts of enjoyment from whatever they choose to do together. However, I know male/female relationships best, because that is my cup of tea. Adapt as needed.

Feminism is not saying that the woman always has to get off, even if the man doesn't.
It is also not saying that the woman can't choose a BDSM/S&M relationship if that is what works for her.
It is not choosing a position in which the female has control

Feminism is consenting partners having a good time together.
It is women having a good time, hopefully above the national average.
It is women, and men, going just that one step further to see what might happen.
It is women enjoying sex if they want to without being called sluts. (Although I will admit it's slightly different when you're friends call you a slag, but in the same text say they are proud and jealous.)

Enjoying sex is not an inherently anti-feminist prerogative. You can be a sex-worker and still be a feminist. You can enjoy domination and still be a feminist. You can also wait for marriage and still be a feminist.

The entire point is that it is up to you to choose what you want to do.

Making Birthday Cakes

So yeah, I made a birthday cake.

And the birthday girl (that's her at the end) was really happy.

Although, she is only two, and I think she was just excited because A) 'cheese' is her new favorite word and she shrieks a little every time her dad says it and B) she got chocolate cake and C) it's her unbirthday party.

To top it all off, here is a very tired me leaving the house this morning after working on this cake for two days.



Worth it.

Even worth the 1am panic last night when I dropped one of the eyes and had to redo it and make sure (somehow) that it would dry in time for the party this afternoon.
Ask Jersey about my AIM freak out sometime.

It is approximately 2:05.

I just finished putting the writing on the cake I made (and designed!) for a friend's daughter's birthday.

I have re-piped the eyes, since I managed to drop them and shatter them.

I feel like hell and I'm going to sleep now.

Tomorrow there will be a better post with pictures showing the process of making this cake and such.