Go to this website and enter the name of your favorite website. It's gorgeous! Above is this site, in visual form.

Apprently, Calvin Klein just secretly trademarked the term Technosexual. It supposedly means "a person with a strong aesthetic sense for fashion and a love of technology". I guess I should be expecting a phone call from Cal soon about the spokesmodel gig. Lol. Yeah, nothing comes between me and my mac PowerBook G4. (The Lullabots in Iowa - Jeff, me, Matt, Ted, and Raven.)

Poor, poor little Nika. Much like her mom, she looks like she might be graceful. She's tall and thin, could make a great ballerina.... but, alas. In addition to getting those physical attributes, she also inherited, without a doubt, her mother's clumniness. She recently had a very traumatic fall out of about a half a story that ended in her splayed face first on the ground. While she looked like she may have broken multiple bones, she managed to only pull her groin muscle which left her limping around for weeks. I, on the other hand, was not quite that lucky. While trying to show off on the trampoline yesterday (I'm still in my 20's! I can do that, right?) I miscalculated the length of my gangly limbs. I smacked my foot down on the metal edge of the trampoline so hard that I managed to break my toe. Lovely.... That makes the sixth bone I have broken since I turned 21!! Excuse me, I need to go take pop a calcium pill and apologize to my daughter for the legacy I am giving her.

I have had the good fortune to meet/talk to Gloria Steinem twice. Both times I have asked her about rectifying feminism and fashion, which are my two biggies. Good advice, both times. She looks so tiny compared to me! I could put her in a headlock and rub her delicate head for good luck, if I wasn't so dumbfounded to be face to face with this amazing woman. I literally get tears in my eyes when I think about her and what she's done. And anyone that knows me knows that I am mostly outwardly emotionless, so that's a pretty big deal. The irony of this is that the situtation that involved me getting to meet Ms. Steinem was one in which I had to kiss the ass of one of the most demeaning, awful women I have ever had deal with. (A former boss, who bullied me into quitting my unfulfilling job and thus become much happier.... maybe I should send her a thank you note. Amazing how these things work.) I never remember to suck it in or give good face angle in pictures. My friend Amber always looks wickedly gorgeous. I know you're thinking that I shouldn't care what I look like when in the presence of such a feminist icon, but you know you'd worry about the same thing.

You gotta share when you see a great flick, and Akeelah and the Bee is one, without a doubt. Grab a kid (or don't) and head out to support this totally charming movie! Not sappy, not hokey, just adorable. And there was a quote that was featured in the movie, which I have heard before, and totally dig on. It's by Maryanne Williamson, and Nelson Mandela famously quoted it in his inaugural speech in 1994. "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." As I heard this quote again, I was thinking about how I'm not really afraid of other people or outside situations. (This is not to say that I am not scared in the face of real danger.) But if you really want to scare me, put me in quiet room by myself with nothing to do, no way to communicate, and nothing to look at, for a totally unspecified period of time. *Nightmares*