gratitude project

I'm due for five things for which to be grateful, aren't I? Seriously bad about keeping up daily with these. Here we go:

I'm grateful I live in a time and a place where I can say what I think without being expected to defer to a man or someone of a higher caste or class. I've often wondered how I would have fared had I been born a hundred years earlier than I was, and have concluded life would've been either miserable or a LOT of work figuring out how to support myself. Speech bless America!

I'm grateful it's summertime and the veggies are plentiful at work from co-workers' gardens. All those cucumbers and tomatoes that I will miss this winter ... I love each of you. Preferably with a little Italian dressing. :-)

I'm grateful that not everybody you disagree with online wants to fight with you about it and sometimes just walks away, even if it is with a grumbly comment. (Fanboys either don't get nearly as butthurt a lot of times as fangirls, or they don't show it - I think they're just sort of puzzled when a woman shows up liking their stuff and able to discuss/disagree in their language. Seriously, guys, we're not all Penny - some of us are bigger sci-fi geeks than you. The penis is not a fantenna. *G*)

I'm grateful I still have a job, considering there were people fired last week for the simple reason management needs to not spend as much money on labor. This is really sad because I considered my job the closest thing there is to security in my line of work, which isn't terribly secure to begin with. YIKES.

I'm grateful my car is still running. Not that this is really an imminent problem, but I'm just happy when any car I have does what it's supposed to with a minimum of cost. Really, guys.

icon meme for laurenmitchell

I'm not posting any formal rules - if you want to me to pick out six of your icons so you can tell me about them, comment to that effect. For my part, these are the six Lauren wanted to know about, complete with tiny tales:


Made by spacemonkeyluvn, this icon appealed to me mostly because metalkatt and I have written a long RD fanfic that involves Lister and Rimmer and Ace and the theme just seemed to fit (as anyone brave enough to wade through the story once it's posted will see *G*).


Oh, Will Turner - you're from an old fandom, but still a brightly-burning love. :-D As most of my f-list is aware, Will's my favorite character from the POTC series - I liked this icon made by araestel for the visual composition (look at that throat!) but also the whole "opened eyes" thing and how the character grew up and became more worldly during the course of the series.


Made by innerbrat, it's a capture of the bunnified Will Turner from the Starz cartoony version of "Curse of the Black Pearl." It's adorable!


XENA! She was the new-generation Wonder Woman. (And Wonder Woman was my smegging HERO when I was a small girl; I even had the Underoos. I keep waiting for the damn movie that's supposed to get made, and wondering if I should just trying writing it myself already.)


This was from a community I used to be in, where we got in a discussion one day about the expectations put on women to marry and have children, and either I or someone else - I don't remember which - made the joke that we were in the Uppity Whores Academy because we didn't want kids. So it's the icon I go to when I make a comment that's not "nice" or "ladylike." (To be honest by those standards, I should use it more often, HAHA.)


The lemon is the best thing ever invented. You can eat lemon, squeeze it on food, flavor drinks with it, even wear it as a fragrance. My grandma (the good one) gave me a little vial of Avon lemon perfume when I was a kid, and I held onto it for years, never using it so I wouldn't lose any of it. Once I was an adult, I spent YEARS trying to track down lemon scents and soaps and such - lemon is ubiquitous in cosmetics now, but just 15 years ago there was almost NOTHING. I'd like to think my repeated complaints to Bath & Body Works is what led them to add it! :-)