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[theatokos]

Tina Beattie's God's Mother, Eve's Advocate is rocking my world.

Bank of America is taking us for everything we're worth and making understanding the problem so difficult to discern that I doubt I am smart enough to complete my advanced degree. How do they make stuff so complicated and so hard to find the answers?

Thanks to Chiv, I have found a cheap furniture place that will deliver to Lampeter. OH THANK YOU JESUS. I cannot live out of a suitcase for another week. I cannot. Three months is it!

I love having an office. I think we're getting internet at home next week.

Today at 3pm the family we like and know here is coming over for a play date. They have a 3 year old and a 17 month old. Both are great kids. I have realized that I pay attention to the kids to see if I'll like the parents. At least at this age, where so much of the kid is still formed by the parents. Bennett sooooo needs more playdates. We still have no answers to our child care quandry.

Lastly, tonight I am attempting to make nachos. I found Doritos with no flavor. I know, it's disgusting, but a world without Mexican food is not one I want to live in. Gotta make do with what's at hand!

Comments

[miss-malloreee.livejournal.com]

I find it odd to judge the parents based on their kids, Anna is absolutely nothing like me & if you sized me up by her behavior you'd think I was an awful parent. Of course, she is teething right now.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

Well, seeing parents interact with their kids tells me a lot about them. It's only something I've recently learned about myself - that I do that. I do indeed judge/choose friends based on how they treat others, and parents interacting with their kids is just another form of that, and one that's especially close to my heart these days.

[chiv.livejournal.com]

I hope they deliver. I don't know anyone who's tried, at least in Lampeter.
One other place you could try is the Co-Op (http://www.coopbedshop.co.uk/products/search.asp?keyword=wardrobe) although they look to be a touch more expensive and it's still 'flat-pack'.

I'll keep suggestions coming, as and when I remember them.
Amazon.co.uk (http://www.Amazon.co.uk) may even have something

[hrafntinna.livejournal.com]

We are living on homemade burritos, and I'm making everything but the tortillas from scratch. If you want a salsa recipe, sing out.

Now, back to reading about Siberia.

[seaivy.livejournal.com]

Read the description of the book on Amazon.
What are you finding so "rocking"?
I'm curious about your studies.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, that description of the book is horrid! Wow, that gives it an entirely different, and to my mind skewed, spin. Well, the woman is brilliant. She is fiercely feminist - that description would suggest that she is towing the Catholic party line, which she is not. She IS Catholic and writes from that location, but she challenges traditional Marian thinking from both the neo-othorodx AND some of the more common veins of feminist thinking. Challenging the latter is important, because there is no homogeneous feminist thought, espcially not in theology. There are several branches and she is exploring a way to look at the female body in the context of Marian theology.

It's hard academic reading, but parts of it are amazing.

[seaivy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this reply.
I found that Amazon UK summary both pretentious and confusing. So I googled Ms Beattie. I found a paper she had delivered at Sarum. I was very impressed. I had studied both art history and theology. I found her paper fascinating and recalling things I hadn't thought of in years.

I hope you write more about your studies.