Hey friends, I suspect most readers here receive my status updates on Facebook, but for those of you who don't do Facebook, or don't receive status updates, I just wanted to let you know of a sad event in my life, so you don't feel out of the loop or awkward if you don't know.

On March 24, my father shot himself. Sadly he died on the way to the hospital.

I'd like to say this came as a complete surprise to me, but that just wasn't the case: things had been very bad for him for some time, and it wasn't out of the realm of possibility that his life would have ended like this.

I flew out 2 days later to help arrange a funeral service and cremation. The trip went much better than I'd expected, although I depleted nearly all my savings set aside for a possible move back to the US. This was more important, however.

Currently I'm looking into grief counseling as I don't really feel like this has hit me quite yet.

But there you go, in case you missed anything.

It occurred to me yesterday while I was daydreaming about food that I miss and can't get in this culinary gulag that I'm going to gain quite a bit of weight my first month back in the US.

P.S. Please don't let Denmark's big "World's Best" restaurant ever fool you into taking a trip to what you might assume is a culinary or cultural hot spot. I do believe I've warned you far too many times for me to have any sympathy with your crushing disappointment.

So Stine from Electric Lady Lab asked me to also do some latex for their new video which was shot in Paris.

I made quite a bit--a black catsuit, a white one, matching gauntlets and spats, a black blouse and a white one, some leggings, and this is what she ended up using. I like how she combined it with layers for the cold. The jacket is leather and not mine.

Enjoy!

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Will also suit a woman, size 6-8.

Your Career Personality: Flexible, Good-Natured, and Energetic

Your Ideal Careers: Actor Dog walker Elementary school teacher Fashion designer Interior decorator Fundraiser Musician Personal shopper Veterinarian Wedding planner

Well, I'll be!

So I attempted the Master Cleanse, thinking it would be a great way to jumpstart my serious dieting plans, and also to rid my body of lots of shit and toxins. Sadly, I've been constipated since the first day of the actual cleanse, and since this is Day 4 and still no results, I'm going to give it up as it worries me that I won't poop for the next week.

Has anyone else experienced this during the Cleanse?

Ye Olde Piss Factory be resonating pretty strongly today for me here in Valby, Danmark.

I am so sad that we don't yet get Stephen Colbert here on DR2. Granted, John Stewart is an amazing addition to our line-up, but this man is genius!

Part 2 or 3 of the meme is to elaborate on what was said. Here's trav28's subjects:
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And now I am looking forward to everyone elses elaborations! </lj>

Funny sketch. Now why does it remind me of my husband, I wonder? ;-)

Thanks to the coolness of CNN and Facebook, I watched the Inauguration and ceremonies while chatting with friends who are far away. I was very foolish to worry that because I was at work that I couldn't catch any of it as history was being made, but of course I was quite able to thanks to my favorite addiction, the internet!

It got me to thinking about how really cool the past 20 years have been, and I marvel at how important computers are to me, and to everyone else. It feels really weird to watch a movie such as "Wall Street" and not see computers at every work station.

On a less savory note, I was also reminded of how fucking many obscene phone calls a lot of single women and gay men had to endure in the days before caller ID. The idea that a man would knowingly phone a stranger (or acquaintance, no less!) and verbally assault them in such a way is really beyond me in the first place, but thanks to caller ID, sick fucks now have to force themselves on their victims in chatrooms and not on the phone. Now that's progress I can use!

Circa 1987, the first Lemonheads video unearthed. I met the producer through her brother, who was in my therapy group, and ended up as the girlfriend in the video. What fun to see it again after all these years!

I feel so empty now that the election is over. It's surely a common phenomenon among those of us who feverishly scanned the political blogs and polling sites on a nearly hourly basis during the last weeks of the election, but damn, it's annoying and disorienting!

It seems so impossible that we won, yet we did. How on earth will the next stage feel?

Wish I could channel some of this loss of anything to do feeling into creating latex pieces, but alas, I seem permanently stalled and utterly doubtful over the whole enterprise. Need a jump start! How? Suggestions?

Saw this story on WTF Now, and am smitten.

http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=1873

Just a few of my favorite images from this wondrous week, from the Chicago Tribune and around the world as sane people celebrate this momentous event. That last one of Jesse Jackson brought me to tears, it's so lovely. What's equally lovely is just feasting my eyes on such a wide range of people from all ethnicities, nations, walks of life and economic statuses celebrating. It's so telling a contrast to Bushco's crowds after their election heists, isn't it?

It still hasn't sunk in somehow, and instead of rabidly poring over my favorite web sites for news as I've been doing this past month, I'm almost reluctant to read right now. Perhaps it's just a huge feeling of relief, and perhaps it's not only me who's having this reaction. Wow, just pinch me, like Michael Moore said!

And please, post your favorite photos and reactions.

What a wondrous thing to wake up to, a landslide victory for Barack Obama! I seriously feel like a long nightmare is over for me, and of course, for the rest of the world.

Right now I don't think it's even sunk in, because there have been so many disappointments before this historical moment, but it struck me how absolutely wonderful it is that we've elected a man who is so eloquent and intelligent. I was telling my husband how different the debates were this year. I mean, can you even believe that the monster occupying the White House for a couple more months was hooked up to a monitor and had his answers read to him during his second debate? It doesn't even seem real what we've lived through in the past 8 years, and now to even imagine that it could be over is simply overwhelming for me.

(The downside? Knowing that history is in the making in the country I left, and knowing I am somewhere I really would rather not be, is bittersweet, to say the least. How on earth will I be able to stand it now?)

Haha, I stumbled upon this at Slyx's LJ. What a funny blast from the past!