Lazy Day

[kyra_ojosverdes]

I'm slowly unpacking more kitchen boxes today. I'm going to bake a bunch of bread, for thank-yous to the various wonderful guys at work: the ones who helped me move and the ones who've been so good to me during this new F.D. drama. (Sweet Jack-Mormon guy is getting a couple mini-loaves of challah, and hopefully he won't think I'm hitting on him.)

One call on the crisis line last night, about 1 a.m... nothing so far today.

I need to make a new userpic, me doing a "Rosie the Riveter" pose. :-p

Comments

[weedblossom.livejournal.com]

I would LOVE to see that Rosie post! Go Katrina!!

{{{{hugs}}}}

[smoonn.livejournal.com]

quetzalcoatal_9 and I took our hostage absurd_observer to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum yesterday. At the gift shop they were selling "Rosie the Riveter "We Can Do It" items. Posters. Cards. Dish towels? Aprons? WTF?????

We can do it, all right. We can do the housework. ;)

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

UGH. Have you ever seen the movie.. I *think* it's called The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter? It's fabulous. Interviews with women who did go into the machine shops and learn to use hot rivet guns... then were unemployed when the men came home and the women got sent back to their kitchens. (But what about the single and widowed women, who didn't have a man to earn the money?) It shows TV ads from during & after the war effort... the change in the "ideal woman" image is amazing. When the country need women in the factories, Ms. Ideal Woman was a totqlly butch dyke, with bulging biceps and an air that suggest she could out-swear a sailor. Afterward, you've got Mrs. 1950s pure-and-demure.

Give absurd_observer a hug from me, and tell him I miss him! And that he's SOOOOO taking me to Fred's when he gets back.

[smoonn.livejournal.com]

I have -- in a women's history class in college, and more recently, on the Independent Film Channel. The women they found for the interviews were fantastic. They made me feel like I was right there with them, building aircraft carriers and working in munitions factories. I'd love to make documentary films like that one.

Propaganda was far more blatant back then. Does that mean people were more naive then? Did they buy into the idea that women were working only because their men were away?

But I think I prefer that propanda to the subtler versions we see today. We're more capable these days of recognizing the hard sell and the blatant manipulation. But politicians and businesses are getting better at selling us -- and most of the time people don't even realize it.

[gryphonwing.livejournal.com]

So, rather than Rosie the Riveter, you're... Katrina the...

Um.

Something-er.

Sorry, I haven't slept and I'm wiped. :)

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

Katrina the Concrete-worker?

[gryphonwing.livejournal.com]

Er, not all that catchy...

I know! I know!

[smoonn.livejournal.com]

Katrina the Konquerer!

Eh? EH????

Re: I know! I know!

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

*cringe*

But it's got that "C to K conversion" thing that I so loathe... leave it as a C and I'll go for it. :-)

By the way... I WANT MY RENFROE BACK!!!!!!! I am in serious buddy-withdrawal here. It's bad, SmoonNy. It's real bad.

Dang...

[smoonn.livejournal.com]

No!

I mean, okay. You can have him back tomorrow, I guess. :)

Re: Dang...

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

THANK GOD!

Well, *I* won't get him back tomorrow, but having him back in Montana will help. ;-) I probably won't see or hear from him for a couple of days, while he makes his rounds with the folks having a larger claim on his time.

Re: I know! I know!

[smoonn.livejournal.com]

And yes, I understand. People are always trying to spell my name with an 'i,' which on the surface should be fine, but it does take me back to grade school days when all the girls with i's in their names were dotting them with cutesy little hearts.

My sister used to dot the i in her name with a circle. It had to be stopped, early. Amazingly, we still get along!