One last time and I will quit, I promise.

Paul designed it, I sent it to be made into a shirt, lo, that you might go and vote upon it and comment about it's awesomeness so that someday you could clad yourself in it's magnificence.

Go. Vote. Comment. Last time I ask, I promise!

http://6dollarshirts.com/submit_a_design.php?view=submis...sion&id=1282105914</div></h6>

What the hell. I could use a writing prompt, and no reason to make it start on a specific day, right?

Day 01 – Introduce yourself
Day 02 – Your first love, in great detail
Day 03 – Your parents, in great detail
Day 04 – What you ate today, in great detail
Day 05 – Your definition of love, in great detail
Day 06 – Your day, in great detail
Day 07 – Your best friend, in great detail
Day 08 – A moment, in great detail
Day 09 – Your beliefs, in great detail
Day 10 – What you wore today, in great detail
Day 11 – Your siblings, in great detail
Day 12 – What’s in your bag, in great detail
Day 13 – This week, in great detail
Day 14 – What you wore today, in great detail
Day 15 – Your dreams, in great detail
Day 16 – Your first kiss, in great detail
Day 17 – Your favorite memory, in great detail
Day 18 – Your favorite birthday, in great detail
Day 19 – Something you regret, in great detail
Day 20 – This month, in great detail
Day 21 – Another moment, in great detail
Day 22 – Something that upsets you, in great detail
Day 23 – Something that makes you feel better, in great detail
Day 24 – Something that makes you cry, in great detail
Day 25 – A first, in great detail
Day 26 – Your fears, in great detail
Day 27 – Your favorite place, in great detail
Day 28 – Something that you miss, in great detail
Day 29 – Your aspirations, in great detail
Day 30 – One last moment, in great detail

Thanks to Alba_Ancora for the list. See? make that 6 people...

Now let's start tomorrow. And some of these may have to be catch-ups, as we may be on the road next week...

Paul Maitland is a prince of a guy.

I put out a call for artists and he knocked out a design for me, did all the alterations to it and did it all for a smile and thanks and the fact that I know awesome people whom he knows as well.

So, I have said design up at $6 T-shirts and am hoping to win their submission process. it could net me enough money to throw my birthday party this year- which would be pretty impressive considering I have been unemployed for most of the year.

Also it would give me the opportunity to have t-shirts for the party this year, which would be pretty awesome in my book. because I definitely ain't got the moolah to print shirts.

So, without further ado, I ask you, kind folks- go to $6 T-shirts. Create a login and vote for my shirt, and help me win!

http://6dollarshirts.com/submit_a_design.php?view=submission&id=1282105914

If I win then we'll have t-shirts AND a great Halloween party!

If not, just a great Halloween party...

Recently Pinky Shear (of the Pinky Shear Dress Company) made us a collection of pin-up dresses, custom tailored them to us and asked if we'd be kind enough to model them for her to drum her up some business. Which of course we said yes, because the dresses are awesome.

Find some light cotton fabric that you like and she can make any variety of pin-up style dress that you like, lined and lightly boned for structure, high quality and accented with whatever color sets off the pattern the best. From personal experience I can vouch that these dresses are fantastic to wear throughout the summer, as they breathe great and are easy on and off, they show off your figure fantastically whether you are slim and in shape or trying to hide some extra pounds *cough*. And everyone will compliment you on just how fabulous you look. What more can you ask?

Oh yeah... and she does alterations for free once you have bought a dress, not only to custom fit it to you, but also if you gain or lose weight she will adjust the dress at no additional cost. Find that guarantee elsewhere, I dare ya.

All of this for $75 per dress. You would pay that going to a pin-up site online, and they wouldn't customize it for you nor guarantee their work. We bought our fabric off of a clearance table at Hancock one day, and for the $1 a yard that we paid I think we got some serious steals.

So here are the dresses that we had made- take a look! ( BEYOND THE LAND OF THE CUT!!! )

He does rise, I am told...

There are some gals who have expressed an interest in participating in the Bunny Hutch with us on Thursday night this year at Dragon*Con.

And for the rest of you it is something to consider.



Last year's Hutch was a blast, and so this year I have posted all of the information that you should need on my site. So go check it out and of it sounds good then we'll seeya there!

http://www.sabrinapandora.com/bunny-hutch-2010

Hippity hop...

Hey all! I have a few requests and such to make today.

And there's a few pictures, so while previously I put it behind a cut, this time I am polluting your f-list with it so that you folks who never look behind a cut will see it and perhaps I will get a bit more response.

We need either a dressmaker's dummy or a mannequin to finish off our guest bedroom (preferably a mannequin, but beggars and choosers and all that). Anyone out there got something for us?

We have a cabinet in our living room that has outlived its usefulness and needs to go. marrus talked us into it over brunch. It is a pricey ($500) piece that we originally got a nice deal on, but now we'd like to get rid of it. Plus we need-a da money. So, we'd be willing to part with it for $250 if anyone is interested, before we hike up the price and put it up on Craigslist.



The dimensions are 63 inches tall, 47 inches wide, and 17.5 inches deep. The finish is a medium wood color, and it has internal glass shelves that can be moved to a variety of positions. There are drawers at the midsection on both sides that pull out, and the display space is basically divided into 4 quadrants, each with a glass shelf (though the shelves can be removed or doubled up as desired). Wendie ran halogen lights to each sector of it that can be removed if you would rather not, but we are including them in the deal, already wired up.

Beyond that, we also have Wendie's old desk. In moving our office upstairs we needed something a bit smaller, so we we got her something different and painted it white to match the room. So her old black corner unit needs to sell. It is also in great shape and the dimensions are Width: 34 5/8 "Depth: 34 5/8 "Height: 81 1/8 ". It originally retailed for $400, and we're asking $250 before we put it up on CL. Here's the link to the original on Ikea's site (this version shows a wood finish, whereas ours is the brown-black):

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10059151

And here's some pics of ours, which I need to hit with some furniture polish after it being in the garage. The 2 upper shelves are moveable to accomodate, it has a sliding keyboard tray and corkboard siding inside the upper doors. Observe:



And last but not least, courtesy of Spinerette, reverse cowgirl FTW!



Here's to the weekend. Be nice if there was a payday in there somewhere, but after 2 more weeks of working with the movie guys, this week they told Wendie "Uh, we're outta money so not only can we not get you more money for the first two weeks we also can't pay you at all for the last 2 weeks that you just worked for us".

That sound you hear is the grinding of my teeth as I work to continue saying "You go do it if you are enjoying it, honey!"

As broke as we are, with her spending all this time on this project and money for gas up to freaking Buford every day (They won't even buy her a tank of gas while she is the fetchit vehicle for supplies...!) I am having a lot of trouble being the supportive wife at this point. Restraining my desire to have a very Sugarbaker moment with this lad is giving me an ulcer. I am giving her a chance to express to these fine fellows that they need to rectify this situation before I step in and start making things messy by calling people on the carpet, going over people's heads and inviting detailed accounting of money trails and that sort of thing.

Mess not with the witch, for she can be quite a bitch.

But we had delightful company in from out of town throughout this weekend, our home projects are about finished for now and we have wonderful friends and cute little dogs, even if our bank balance won't buy groceries at this point.

I am still in the process of building my website- it lacks picture galleries and I have not yet begun posting videos there. But I have been posting editorials and blog posts there. So I am posting up the link here. The introductory post is always up top, but my writings appear below that initial posts. I know i should put them in the blog section and eventually i will, but for now i am leaving them on the front page.

Take a look, and offer suggestions if you have them top make, and read what I've had to say of late. I think my inner voice is finding something to say again, and I am sharing it more and more with my own site. Take a gander.

Oh, and click on an advertiser or something if the mood strikes you!

http://www.sabrinapandora.com/

Hey all! I have a few requests and such to make today. And there's a few pictures, so it is behind the cut.

( CLICK IT!!!! )

Girl Genius Always great, M-W-F
Least I Could Do Always great, 7 times a week at this point I think.
Looking For Group 3 times a week and entertasining on their worst days.
Gutters So-so effort from the same guys, very hit or miss, like twice a week.
Menage a 3 Brilliant, funny and sexy. T-Th- Sat
Something Positive Mean-spirited and occasionally hilarious, usually daily.
PVP Sometimes you get the laugh, sometimes you think "I could be a webcartoonist- and turn in strips more than sporadically!"
Girls With Slingshots Sitcom fun that usually gets you there, 5 times a week.
Wapsi Square Weird mythology, interesting art and occasionally fun character interaction. So so but worth a stop in for 5 seconds 5 times weekly.
Sinfest Always genius, even on his worst days. 6 days a week.
The Devil's Panties Entertaining, and I support anyone willing to live in my neighborhood & drive a car with tentacles painted on it. 5 X a week.
Schlock Mercenary The occasional laugh makes up for wading through the rest. And I like his movie reviews!
Air Force Blues Updated 5 times a week, a fun guy who is bringing great morale to the USAF in the spirit of Beetle Bailey.
Dominic Deegan, Oracle for Hire 5 times a week on a sporadic schedule, usually interesting, sometimes a little slow.
Brat-Halla Once a week, your dose of the Norse gods as insufferable children, always good for a laugh.
Atland A saga worth waiting once a week for, even when it takes 2 months to get a laugh.
Eerie Cuties From the creator of Menage a 3, hilarious and well-drawn. Monday and Wednesdays.
Exiern Updates very erratically, but usually pretty funny and well-drawn. Needs support, go buy something.
I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle Amateur goofy fun, but I have a soft spot for 60's TV references. Updates gawd knows when.
Penny Arcade More miss than hit, probably funnier if you obsessively play video games... I think. Updates... I dunno.
Spinerette Well drawn manga style tale of an amateur superheroine and her trials and travails. Good fun, updates usually T-Th.
Atomic Laundromat Dry humor, updates M-W-F.
Oglaf Absolutely brilliant NSFW strip that updates every Sunday. Read 'em all and you will thanks me.

http://www.leftycartoons.com/such-an-easy-mistake-to-make/

*snort*

I haven't encountered too many radical feminists lately with this perspective, but it's still funny.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1106766

Yup. Three days to teach (especially children) how to answer "gay" activist misinformation and fight the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda.

Shit, we have an agenda? I oitally missed that memo.

Oh, wait... struggling to gain the same rights and freedom from persecution that everyone else enjoys, right. THAT agenda.

The conservative leader feels that defending biblical truths and the natural family is not "hate"...

Hm. Hatred can be wrapped in so very many packages. I wonder how he would react to an anti-christian rally, wherein a group attempted to teach how to answer "christian" activist misinformation and fight the American-christian-evangelical agenda?

Yup. I wonder.

I often complain of the reactions of the general public in dealing with me. After all, it gets old, and ignoring it does not make it any better, it just means that you only notice it when it is thrust in your face to the level that you cannot ignore it.

And that happens more often than you might imagine. Well, unless you listen to me bitch, in which case you might have an idea of just how often it crops up.

Yes, I know, I chose to pursue this life. Yes, I know i would not face this discrimination had I chosen to just stay in the closet and deny who I am. Yes, I do consider it insulting when people point these things out but still I smile and try to be patient with them and explain my perspective to them.

But today isn't about me. Today is about one Erin Vaught and her wonderful experiences at BALL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL in Indiana. Her story can be found HERE.

Which inspired me to write the following to said hospital.

Snickers, stares, muttered insults and outright insulting questions, followed by a refusal of care? Nice to know that the medical community, in theory one of the most enlightened groups when it comes to the transgendered condition, will instead demonstrate some of the worst behavior.

I hope that she sues, and I hope that she wins. Not just your institution, oh no... but each and every staffer along the way who felt that Erin's life needed their personal judgment and professional derision. I somehow doubt it will teach any lessons, but as a transwoman who knows this discrimination all too well, I would dearly love to see justice done for a change.

Would it be somehow more acceptable to you if instead of asking "is IT a he, a she or a he-she" that the question were if she were a nigger or a kike? Perhaps a faggot? Maybe just a whore? Perhaps so many of the groups who have faced such discrimination in the past have forgotten just what it feels like to encounter such hatred in the modern day when we have become so enlightened and intolerant of such slurs. But here we see that such ignorance is alive and well... it has just moved to a different target.

Must humanity continue into the 21st century so desperately casting about for someone to hate and deride? Have we truly not evolved sufficiently as a society to accept those who are different, who do no harm but to live their lives and seek the same rights and happiness as everyone else?

Apparently not at Ball Memorial Hospital, where if you are transgendered, instead of care for your ailments and succor for your ills, you may instead expect derision, insults and ultimately a rejection of the sanctity of your life... demonstrating that at BMH, all life is sacred- except yours.

If you share my outrage, then I urge you to write to these people. Or their parent company. Yes, I doubt it will change anything. And it certainly won't help Erin get over the condition that she entered the hospital for in the first place.

But what if it was one of your loved one who was treated like that because they were white? Or because they were male? Or because they were blonde haired? Or because they were human? How would it make you feel to hear them referred to as an object, something other than a person, and abused until eventually they were refused care? Perhaps that will give you some perspective on how this makes me feel, and how the discrimination that we face can feel.

So I urge you, readers, if you share the outrage that I feel today over this issue, please take the time to make it known to these people. If you don't want to interrupt your social site browsing to write a letter, they even have a Facebook page where you can make your feelings known HERE.

And for those of you interested in the issue of gay marriage, here's something that you might want to see:

http://freedomtomarry.org/page/m/4d893862/2717ccb4/4f80bfae/2e14d23c/409268258/VEsC/

And for the record, if any of you have something smartassed to say to me about this, I'm stating up front that I really would not care to hear it. If that were my wife possibly dying because she was coughing up a lung, literally, and that was the treatment we recieved I would not have any sense of humor about it whatsoever. And that is a very real possibility in our world today. So if the urge to say something smarmy comes to mind and you think you are being cute, I really wouldn't if I were you.

Mine Hansel has the runs. He has left a trail of poop in his wake in the house twice today. I can't be mad at him... he is trying to hold it in, just failing. And I have to remember at his current age he is the equivalent of what, 5 years old at this point?

Poor little booger. I am making him and his sister sleep in their crate tonight just in case he has an accident. And she is there with him because 1) if he has the runs it is very probable she does as well, and 2) I cannot see isolating him and essentially punishing him for something that is not his fault, and 3) I am a big believer in 'succeed or fail as a pack', so when one of them does something, they both do it. Just as when I punish one of them they both get time out, when I reward one I reward both, etc.

Hopefully whatever evil has posessed his little digestion tract will have worked its way clear by morning, because sure as the sunrise when Wendie lets him back in tomorrow morning from their first constitutional, he's gonna run straight into the bedroom and hop on the bed with me.

Here's hoping his butt is dry before he parks it on my chest.

Now ph33r teh cutene55!



No, wait, not that one. Thom would never eat a puppy, of course. But she does look like that's what she is terrified of, doesn't she?

Here is teh cuteness...



They add 'synchronized sleeping' to the dog trials and I got me some champions here.

This guy.

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=108423

Wow.

I've encountered stupid people, and I have encountered short-sighted people. I've encountered people who will not listen to reason, and I have encountered people who would cut their noses off to spite their own faces. I have encountered rabidly anti-gay, anti-trans , just plain old homophobic people. But this one takes the cake.

That's right, be agressive in your assault on any belief other than your own. That's what this country was founded on, and that'll succeed in today's world. Good plan there, champ.

Why not tell your followers they'll catch teh gay from using a toilet seat after a tranny? It'll give them an excuse. Assuming the burning of another religion's holy book doesn't get them killed or something. I wonder how they would see it on the other foot, if the muslims were advertising that their followers should burn a bible a day? "Go to the hotel rooms, Children of Allah, and gather together the books found in the nightstands and reduce them to ash, only to watch them spontaneously regenerate!"

Oh yeah. They'd try to legislate them out of town. Church and state only being seperate when they see equal rights legislation coming about.

These people make me sick.

My one consolation? If they are right, and God is in His heaven and watching them, then he is shaking his head sadly at them for being such intolerant pricks, and when they finally do go to meet their maker, they have an unpleasant surprise or two waiting for them...

Dogs bathed. Lawn mowed. Cleaned up and refreshed, now to make dinner.

I think I qualify for Legendary Creature status after this. Jeebus... lawn nearly killed me.

The red paint of the foyer continues to be a royal pain in the ass, as peeling up the painter's tape apparently led to enormous peels in the paint on the walls. If only it had been noticed before huge sections of painted wall were left sans paint. I fear this project may never get done.

More toys and parts on ebay this week. I need to mail out the last batch and get the next crop ready. here's hoping some junk sells- I need to continue to generate cash.

Costumes, costumes, need to work on my costumes. Anyone have a whole lot of star spangled fabric handy?

Ugh. Amazon needs food badly. More later.

Longhorn Steakhouse jerked me around about giving me a job. They'll never get a dime from me.

The Boy Scouts hate teh gays, despite their breeding ground mentality. They can suck it.

The Salvation Army has said some most unkind things. They too can burn in hell.

Encounters with some webcartoonists have left me willing to read their daily posts but unwilling to support their products.

Dragon*Con ain't getting any more of my money until they straighten up and start running it like a business that generates millions of dollars every year instead of a fun clubhouse that we're all pitching in to help out.

SCC can similarly burn in hell, as they seem to exist solely to exploit the crossdresser crowd and make everyone feel lovey dovey while bilking the community and achieving nothing.

Huh. This list, apparently, can go on for a while. I am a one-trick pony of hate, as Rotknee once remarked...

Hung out last night with tempest_omouthy and her hubby. Had a great time, and yet another couple we'd like to spend time and hang out with was introduced to our happy home.

She's surprisingly funny and shows me what it is like to hang out with someone who never stops- like looking in a mirror that way. He's quiet and content. It's a good mix I think. Need to introduce her to iddy_biddy1 I'm thinking... they might be seperatred at birth.

Who is up for movies on Sunday? I got $1 popcorn and coke coupons or AMC...

Just fucking... wow.

Wendie has spent the past two weeks working construction, creating unconventional woodworking for a project, lending her expertise in drywall, painting, carpentry, the whole nine yards. On a good day she's been putting in 10 hour days, some upwards of 14 hours. She's burned $150 in gas alone driving back and forth, as well as being the fetchit vehicle for all of the trips to Home Depot for all of their building supplies. Said supplies which have cost thousands at this point.

Today she got paid. $300 for two weeks work.

She didn't argue. She didn't fight. She didn't stand up for herself at all. She says it is an interesting project and she is enjoying helping out.

I'm furious. The lowest common laborer makes more than that, forget about the person directing the construction. For two weeks now she's had late nights and early mornings, and I haven't seen much of her at all while she devoted herself to this. And this is the thanks she gets. Hell, after the gas I think she's lucky to be making 2 bucks an hour for this.

I hate to see her taken advantage of like this. But there is nothing I can do but vent, as she will still go back, making that mopey face and saying "Well, it's still something".

At least they buy her lunch. Yeah. At least that.

I've a list to keep me busy today. It is odd, but somehow lists keep me focused and make me far more productive.

I would like to go to the movies tonight.... I'd love to go to the Starlight and do some drive-in action, as the Sorcerer's Apprentice is playing there on a double bill with Toy Story 3. The catch is that they are very late- I mean, it is a drive-in, and you hafta wait for the sun to go down, which takes some time in the summer. But still. A lot of it will depend on whether Wendie has to work tomorrow, which she likely does.

The house is in a holding pattern, but I have plans to proceed, and the energy to make it happen is coming along now. Finish the foyer, do the upstairs hallway and then the living room is the last big hurdle before our bedroom.

I need to do another ebay blitz again, but I haven't had the energy for it. I think Monday might be the next push on all of that. Try to get the rest of my spare parts and figs sold- the last run through was rather profitable, and I need to recoup some of what I spent to fill in my collection. At current after ebay fees and shipping I am still down by around $400... but I think I can make that back with the next batch of auctions, at which point I will have done a huge amount of filling in the collection I am currently working on (DC Universe Classics collection) and made it pay for itself.

I wish I was excited about D*Con, but somehow I just can't find it in myself to be any more excited about it than going to a dance party here in town. I won't wait in line for hours to get Stan Lee's autograph, and just hanging out and playing dress-up and partying is somehow losing its appeal as the years roll on. Maybe it is because I no longer look quite as good in said costumes or maybe I am just jaded by years of having done it, but between the hotels being so fed up with having D*Con in them, my own issues with the convention and the joy of dealing with that many thousand more fucktards in a weekend who aren't there for the con in addition to those who are is just doing a number on my desire to be there. Combined with still looking for work.

There's one... friends moving in from out of state find work immediately. friends lose their jobs and find work almost immediately, and I have been looking for months. It isn't that I am not happy for their successes, but it does make me feel that much more depressed that I cannot seem to find anything. I had a phone interview last week that I knew I blew before I even got off the phone. Sucktastic. Feh.

Well, here's hoping something gives soon. And in the meanwhile, I have framing to do, and then some boxing and consolidating as the push for the next phase of renovation continues. here's to ya, folks. Good day to one and all.

And here's some cuteness to see you through the day. Because at least being home I get to spend time with the puppies.



Hansel und Gretel continue to grow out of everything. I have to buy them a new crate this week, as they are too big for the second crate we've bought them. But they are sooo cuuuute!