Archive for June, 2008
Tasty Creamers & Live To Be an Old Lady
Not only does coffee help women live longer in they drink it (antioxidants!)…
…but it can also be the highlight of your day, if you’re not getting laid, drinking booze, winning the lottery, or if it’s not pay day that is.
I present to you my latest weakness:
International Delight’s Marshmallow Mocha Creamer
This creamer is like, utterly and completely the BEST CREAMER ever invented. It turns my boring cup of java into an overflowing chocolate waterfall straight from Willy Wonka’s f’ed up mind.
- Tiff
PS. What’s makes marshmallows and mocha so “international?”
Comments (2)Sexy golfer from the US Open
The one good thing about being “forced” to watch the US Open with the fam over the weekend was discovering the uber-sexy golfer from Columbia: Camillo Villegas. He’s 26 and is from fucking Medellin (any “Entourage” watchers will be able to appreciate that reference). So how cool is that shit? Anyways, he placed 9th over the weekend.
He’s only two years younger than me. I could totally have his beautiful half Columbian, half Swedish babies.
Just look at him! Squee!
(They don’t call him “Spiderman” on the course for nothing)
His official USGA bio: http://www.usopen.com/en_US/bios/bio27770.html
PS. Wasn’t Tiger amazing in this tour or what? Holy crap was that guy on fire. Totally deserved to win in the playoff round today, even if Villegas is exponentially sexier. Go Woods!
- Tiff
Comments (1)Let’s Break Outta Rehab
Last night was one of those special nights that make you feel like Santa Claus.
My concert/musician conoisseur friend Allison, a 38 year old with mild Cerebral Palsy (she can push herself in a manual wheelchair), has literally been stuck in the hospital the last 3 months with these mysterious stomach abscesses that had to be surgically removed.
And since she’s been in bed for 3 months trying to heal, she’s not surprisingly gotten weaker. So now, unfortunately, she’s at a stage where she can’t transfer herself anymore from the floor back into her chair for example (in her studio condo she just has a mattress on the floor…yeah she’s emo like that). So now she’s found herself in the nationally renowned Courage Center: A residential rehab center with PT, OT, and everything else disability-related under the sun. I myself lived there 10 years ago from ‘97 - ‘98, then moved out into an on-campus dorm.
So long story short, Allison has been seriously jonesing for some “medication” that involves a stage, live music, and some sexy guitar players. And being that’s she’s finally better to leave the hospital for short spurts at a time, and being that she had two FREE (woo!) tickets to see Billy Bragg last night, I was needless to say a more than willing chaperone. So off I went at 5:30pm last night to cross town to pick her up in my hoopdee - my modified, with ramp, lowered-floor 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan - and there was Allison in a freakin’ powerchair (her first time ever in one). She wobbled very unsteadily up my ramp, but blessedly made it inside in one piece, and within 20 mins we were at the venue.
We got the stellar, rock-star esque “gimpy gimp” seats, right by to the stage; far left. And we got a great view of da man himself, Billy Bragg. As per his usual (so says Allison; she’s seen him 12 times), he was great. His set involved a lot of political talk regarding Obama, Gitmo Bay, and then he blabbed about Bob Dylan for awhile too. And after the set, we rushed her back to the rehab center before midnight.
It was a great night. Allison got her much needed concert-fix, I broke her outta rehab and felt like Super Woman, and we got to see a famous musician up-close. What more could two disabled gals ask for?
- Tiff
PS. Billy likes to drink tea during his set. So very adorably British.
PPS. Allison cannot under ANY circumstance keep her eyes open when a camera flashes. lol. Silly CP.
Comments (5)Podcast #16: Canada & Sexorz
Remember BA member Jo-Lynn? Well in this episode, I interview her about life in Canada (specifially re: their healthcare system and how well it works for women with disabilities).
And then I talk at length about the Free Press Conference I attended last weekend, not to metion that FOX News article I actually liked (shocker!):
“Can Disability Be Sexy? You Bet!” (craaaazy)
- Tiff
Comments (0)What To Say, When Disability Shit Is the Last Thing on Your Mind?
Lately my mind has been elsewhere. On concerts, politics, friend drama, getting costumes ready for CONvergence, the utter lack of decent men in my city, and well, red wine.
And that’s the whole point of today’s point really: To stress that even though this blog is penned by a woman with a SCI, it is not her whole life. In fact, it has been the farthest thing from my mind lately.
I blame Barack, the arrival of summer, Battlestar Galactica, and an abundance of social activities to attend. So….with that said, I’m sorry. I have no sage words on disability life as of late, but that’s just how the ball rolls sometimes.
It’s bound to change though. It’s just a matter of time before some AB idiot says something to me on the street that’s worth blogging about.
Until that time comes….
- Tiff
Comments (4)The Barack Family “Fist Bump”
Aren’t they like the cutest couple ever?!
Barack Rally Photographic Evidence
“I Back Barack!”
“Clinching the nomination” pics
- Tiff
PS. If you’re wondering why I’m wearing headphones, well, I had to bring my MP3 player to keep my sane during the 5 hour wait. Nothing like listening to Johnny Cash as you watch vendors trying to sell Obama tees to every passerby.
Comments (2)Barack Wins: Part I! (finally)
And I was there!
Highlights: Eating cheesy popcorn during the 5 hour wait to get in on the sidewalk outside, getting my chair sniffed for bombs by St. Paul police dogs, drooling over Michelle Obama’s fuschia dress, and screaming with everyone else when he announced himself the nominee (squee!).
Pics to come from long, wonderful experience, which I will forever call my, “Barack Clinches It Day!” It was an 11am - 11pm daylong escapade. I’m zonked.
- Tiff
Comments (1)Sex and The City: The Movie
Sooooo…it probably comes as no surprise that I’m a huge devotee of Sex & The City, so when “SITC: The Movie” come out last Friday (OMG squee!) I was needless to say elated beyond any helium balloon.
Saw the fashion frenzy, sex/relationship obsessed film on Saturday with a gf, dressed to the ‘9s, and utterly, completely fell in love.
Bottom line? The movie ain’t perfect. It may even stray away from it’s roots, but it’s poignant, real, and hysterical.
http://www.sexandthecitymovie.com/
I will miss these characters for the rest of my days.
- Tiff
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