tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:44:36 +0000BrainfoodSweetLOLzSadSourSoapboxSunnyOn the RoadSillySquidgyLoveliesDear DiaryIn the 'HoodSnarkyGlowing TubeBlog for Choice DaySeethingKittens with mittens can play all day long. Kittens who have lost their mittens are sad and must stay inside. Kittens like me eat snark for breakfast. Which kind are you?http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)Blogger347125blogspot/kittenswithmittenshttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-7900795253727802733Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:56:00 +00002011-09-11T10:56:06.007-04:00Hey all! Kittens With Mittens is up and running and full of news posts! If you were a subscriber to KWM at this location, you'll need to go to the bottom of the new blog, find the subscribe button, and follow the instructions. I apologize for this extra step for getting updates, but there doesn't seem to be a way to move your subscription to the blogger page to the wordpress one... You can http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-to-update-your-subscriptionsrss.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-62915937577065650Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:52:00 +00002011-09-07T21:52:24.599-04:00(This is a retry for y'all that got an error message as subscribers) After 5+ years on blogger, I've decided to switch to wordpress for the relaunch of Kittens With Mittens. Mostly cause it's a more flexible platform... and cause I'm shaking off the old and putting on the new :) www.kittenswithmittens.com remains the address, it's really just the innards that are changing. Hope to see http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2011/09/jumping-google-ship_07.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-3327038055631616259Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:21:00 +00002011-07-15T17:25:11.536-04:00Well, folks, 2011 is most definitely upon us and, yet, there is still no new Kittens With Mittens. As I know many of you are waiting with bated breath and I most certainly don't want you to suffocate, I'm here to make an important (to me) announcement: Kittens With Mittens is currently gestating and will be born in about a month, cute and sweet and ready to meow and purr and take over your http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2011/07/for-really-realz.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-1145849480335204611Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:09:00 +00002010-12-17T20:21:15.152-05:00Well, everyone, the times they are a'changin'. Kittens With Mittens is relaunching in the New Year with an updated look to share the same old snark with you. In the meantime, hold onto your mittens and mind the mess... Oh and if you are jonesin' for some of the old content, head on over to the new "archive" site, Squidgy Kitty's Memory Box. See you soon, kitty kats!http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2010/12/kittens-at-play-here-please-excuse-mess.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-1476549197021664421Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:44:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.148-04:00Hello friends and family and lurkers!This site is essentially serving as an archive site to www.kittenswithmittens.come, which has be relaunched with new content and focus and snark.  I didn't want to throw out the kitten with the bathwater, so the speak, thus, this site.  So, poke around.  Relive your memories of being bored the first time.  Wallow in our lost friendship.  Most importantly, get http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-day-new-kitten.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-2742672148564709640Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:33:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.158-04:00SunnySweetLoveliesSadSillyDear DiaryWell, it's been five years since "the day it all changed," the day I witnessed my Grandma die suddenly.  Every year at this time,  I'm a wreck.  Okay, let's be honest, for the first several years after, I was a wreck!  And each June 1st, I would mark this day by crying at home, becoming a blob of emotional wreckage, and sometimes writing a post about how much it affected me, about how shitty posthttp://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2010/06/5-years-to-grief.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-4644504822939770890Thu, 13 May 2010 14:46:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.166-04:00SweetLoveliesSadDear DiaryI woke up in a funk today.  It took me a while to realize why I was feeling sad when nothing sad had happened to me--turns out that today is the six-year anniversary of the passing of a dear friend, Cathy Fleming.  It's crazy because I actually spent today's therapy session talking about how lucky I've been to have amazing friends like her, who are so diverse in their beliefs and perspectives andhttp://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2010/05/forgetting-to-remember.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-2788031336303996737Tue, 11 May 2010 20:43:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.174-04:00Okay, I haven't posted anything since January...  Wowza.  What in the heck has happened to me, you might ask?!  Normally, I'm rantin' ready.  In fact, I had a life-changing moment and I haven't really been to put it in writing yet... I mean, I've certainly verbalized it.  Non-stop.  To anybody who'll listen and join my pity party.  But writing requires a whole other level of energy I just don't http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-still-here-i-promise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-4755175770186552279Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:03:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.181-04:00SoapboxBlog for Choice DayToday marks the 37th anniversy of the Supreme Court ruling on Roe V. Wade, which finally allowed safe and legal access to a reproductive choice long practiced in back alleys, with dangerous medical complications. I'm not going to get into the myriad of reasons why I think women have a basic medical right to access safe and legal abortions, other than to say, My Body, My Choice. Oh and also, http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-for-choice-day-it-meaning-that.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-6289257645641659241Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:36:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.188-04:00So, as you all know, I've started a new blog project to chronicle my give back: Ten Thousand Minutes. I'm trying really hard to keep that blog up-to-date and that might mean that I post less here (like that's even possible!). The two blogs are totally different--this one is more of a political, social platform and the other is more of a diary. It would be nice if writing in one made me want tohttp://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-happenin-here.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-5120611333434006657Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:08:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.194-04:00BrainfoodSnarkySeethingSoapboxSourGlowing TubeThousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people, died yesterday in Haiti due to an earthquake. Thousands more will die because of lack of water, medical attention, and other basic services. The world, including the US, is answering the call for help. As we should, because it's the right thing to do. But what do conservative "Christian" pundits go and do? That's right, they spew off ignoranthttp://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2010/01/surprise-surprise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-9002948004753498594Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:18:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.203-04:00SunnyLoveliesDear DiaryIn the 'HoodFriends, for those that are curious and want to see how my resolution turns out, I've created a new blog. I'll continue to update my "opinion" pieces here, but will spend time chronicling what I do to give back over at Ten Thousand Minutes.So, please, go check it out!http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2010/01/10000-minutes-project.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-3953398551329075498Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:27:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.209-04:00SunnyLoveliesDear DiarySquidgyIt's officially 2010 and I am officially relieved. 2009 wasn't my best year, nor was it my finest moment. Although I had a lot of good things in my life last year, like our house, good times with friends, a brand-new nephew, travel, great work opportunities, I feel like I was living in anxiety quicksand for most of it. I conquered a lot of anxiety behaviors this year and gained a lot of really http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2010/01/minutes-to-come.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-7174185167787746466Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:26:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.217-04:00Here is the beginning of my post. And here is the rest of it.http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2010/01/review-of-lifetime.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-4719276000877693236Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:58:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.223-04:00BrainfoodSoapboxGlowing TubeJust in case anyone was curious (and since this is the MOVIE THAT WILL CHANGE ALL MOVIES), I would like to say that I have very mixed feelings about Avatar. [SPOILER WARNING] While I thought it was beautiful and "entertaining," I also thought its paradigm was horribly colonialist and, one could argue based on the rampant stereotypes of our indigenous persons, racist--seriously, horse-shaped http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2009/12/dances-with-blue-aliens.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-1695761520319483102Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:46:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.230-04:00LOLzBrainfoodSadSnarkySoapboxSourGlowing Tube"Well, see, I got 15 emails that said it was true, which makes it more true than just one email saying it isn't true, you know?"http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2009/12/face-palm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-1401340040665683735Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:38:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.237-04:00SquidgySo... I just wasn't happy with snarky_kittens. What did I do? I obsessed and brainstormed and everything I wanted was taken (elizabethbitch, for example, or kittenface). I don't want something with numbers at the end. I want to be THE FIRST. THE ONLY. THE SELF ABSORBED. So, it came to me in a flash, here I am being squidgy (my word for anxious or weird or ocd-ing), so squidgykitty. The http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2009/12/identity-crisis-part-ii.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-8226224010705910789Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:48:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.243-04:00SquidgySo... I just spent the last hour changing my online handle.  That was WAY more complicated than it should be.  I've been motorhomejesus for about three years now and really want something more tied to this here lil' blog, you know, in case I decided to do something bigger with it.  Like post regularly.  Also, I don't want anyone to confuse me for being a Jesus-fan OR of being disrespectful of http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2009/12/identity-crisis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-9222167562595802228Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:00:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.250-04:00SunnyBrainfoodSweetLoveliesOn the RoadGlowing TubeHere are a couple of great videos passed to me by awesome, thoughtful, feminist friends. The first one, which is a bit long, but sooo worth it, is about the danger of "the single story" in narrowing our narratives about other people and places. The other is about how changing the way that women and girls are treated in this world will help change humanity for the better.http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2009/11/midweek-feminist-brainfood.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-5441267602920417263Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:44:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.257-04:00LOLzBrainfoodSnarkyGlowing TubeIf only the people that this is a satire of could get what's satirical about it, this country would be a lot better off.The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe 11/3 Projectwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisishttp://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2009/11/113-project.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-7233900636793170794Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:37:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.264-04:00BrainfoodSnarkySillySourGlowing TubeForever ago, I wrote a little piece on the Duggar family, you know the ones with a mazillion* "J"-named children? Well, it seems as if one of their children has now had a child.  And do you know what occurred to me, in a moment of pure, adrenaline-rush fright?  That if this family has a mazillion children, and their children do the same, the Duggars will exponentially grow in size.  http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2009/10/to-infinity-and-beyond.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-1593921558381653590Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:25:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.271-04:00SunnySadDear DiaryIn the 'HoodAbout a month ago I wrote a post about how I was dealing with the house rehab and unpacking and decorating.  I talked about how I was doing all my cognitive-behavioral therapy stuff and trying to "change my language" about the situation and that it was working... Well, since then I've had major coping skill FAIL.  I mean F-A-I-L.  Like, crying at work, screaming at the boy, giving up and hiding http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2009/10/barrel-gone-dry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-3724728007962650919Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:02:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.279-04:00BrainfoodSnarkySoapboxAwesome piece about how to really prevent sexual assault! Via Femin-Ally.  Hat tip to Sara! Kat reposted a nice piece about true rape prevention, which reminded me of this little list I whipped up a few months ago. As I just did a college RA training yesterday, re-reading this made me laugh. I mean seriously, the "tips" they give potential victims are so condescending. http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-not-to-rape-someone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-1852915514491579268Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:07:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.287-04:00BrainfoodSadOn the RoadSnarkySillySeethingSoapboxIn the 'HoodSourGlowing TubeI honestly don't think that I need to say anything about this video. I really think that the individuals in it speak for their ignorance just fine without me chirping in. Rebutting their claims that "fascism, socialism, and communism are all the same thing" is pointless...besides, I've already tried it before. Just watch and be appalled--as the boy said, "I really hope that this represents the http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2009/09/judging-book-by-its-cover.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110561.post-599813016337196480Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:56:00 +00002011-09-07T20:42:54.295-04:00These two voicemails make me soooooo thankful for the boy. Wow. People like this not only help other run-of-the-mill men look insanely awesome, but also provide hours of endless entertainment.Via Melodymaker's Posterous:August 17, 2009The reason some girls stay single - very funny!This guy is a "class" act! READ BELOW BEFORE LISTENINGThe story is this: a girl was out with friends having drinks http://kittenswithmittens.blogspot.com/2009/09/thanking-partner-stork-right-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Squidgy Kitty)1