4 Days to Caroline's 3rd Birthday Party and 6 to her Birthday

Peter tried to let me sleep in this morning. He really did but Caroline had other plans for me. She got up and wanted in to the bedroom. Peter cracked the door so she could see I was asleep and Millie the cat got in. So Millie, Caroline, and I shared the bed until I got up and came downstairs. It's OK. I feel much better than I did yesterday morning. I can put two thoughts together and they stay together rather than fleeing out of my head.

Caroline and I have Mommy and Me today. She has been participating since she was 6 months old. She was the first kid to walk in class much to the amazement of the other mothers. She has fun and is now playing better in the structured part of the time there.

Most of what I did yesterday was catch up to where I was before we left. There was a pile of mail to deal with along with the newspapers and packages. I sorted out all the stuff we got at the convention and the mall. Caroline played with her new doll that she made at Friends 2B made which is an offshoot of Build-a-Bear. She picked out the dress and shoes for the doll and the doll itself. She had a lot of fun making it except when they stuffed the doll and I think that was because it was so loud. She doesn't do well with loud.

The weather today is still warm but the rain we drove through to get home is now arriving on our doorstep. I have a few things I want to do before I have deluges to run through.

Once this party is over then I want to get back to my art. I have two gifts I think I want to try to make this year. We'll see if I can get to it and I have to start my Farpoint costumes and the prop I am doing for a group costume at LunaCon. Maybe I should enter the art show too. Or maybe I should flap my arms and fly to the moon.

Off to clean before driving to Mommy and Me.

I am grateful for the feeling I get when others recognize my work as art.

If you agree, repost it and let's change the perspective about this

a lot has been said about how to prevent rape.
women should learn self-defense. women should lock themselves in their houses after dark. women shouldn't have long hair and women shouldn't wear short skirts. women shouldn't leave drinks unattended. fuck, they shouldn't dare to get drunk at all.

instead of that bullshit, how about:

if a woman is drunk, don't rape her.
if a woman is walking alone at night, don't rape her.
if a women is drugged and unconscious, don't rape her.
if a woman is wearing a short skirt, don't rape her.
if a woman is jogging in a park at 5 am, don't rape her.
if a woman looks like your ex-girlfriend you're still hung up on, don't rape her.
if a woman is asleep in her bed, don't rape her.
if a woman is asleep in your bed, don't rape her.
if a woman is doing her laundry, don't rape her.
if a woman is in a coma, don't rape her.
if a woman changes her mind in the middle of or about a particular activity, don't rape her.
if a woman has repeatedly refused a certain activity, don't rape her.

if a woman is not yet a woman, but a child, don't rape her.
if your girlfriend or wife is not in the mood, don't rape her.
if your step-daughter is watching tv, don't rape her.
if you break into a house and find a woman there, don't rape her.
if your friend thinks it's okay to rape someone, tell him it's not, and that he's not your friend.

if your "friend" tells you he raped someone, report him to the police.
if your frat-brother or another guy at the party tells you there's an unconscious woman upstairs and it's your turn, don't rape her, call the police and tell the guy he's a rapist.

tell your sons, god-sons, nephews, grandsons, sons of friends it's not okay to rape someone.

don't tell your women friends how to be safe and avoid rape.
don't imply that she could have avoided it if she'd only done/not done x.
don't imply that it's in any way her fault.
don't let silence imply agreement when someone tells you he "got some" with the drunk girl.
don't perpetuate a culture that tells you that you have no control over or responsibility for your actions. You can, too, help yourself.