Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jul 28, 2010, 8:28 am
  I'm moving my blog to Wordpress. It's taken me some time to take the plunge, I know. I've discussed it endlessly and that's kind of where it began and ended. But now I've gone and done it. I have a new name and exactly one short post up, and that's it. It reminds me ...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jul 23, 2010, 7:53 am
  Not a great baby shower gift?   I'm helping my sister-in-law plan a baby shower for my other SIL and we've decided to have one giveaway. We don't want to do any of the traditional shower games and are searching for a unique way to give out prizes. Anyone? I've not be...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jul 19, 2010, 7:14 am
  (pic) We had a hellacious storm in the wee hours of the morning. It was wicked enough that, even in my almost awake but too tired to open my eyes state, I started to worry. I worried that the electric was going to go out. Or maybe a tree would come down on the house. And the car. I fret...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jul 15, 2010, 8:04 am
   (pic)   Yesterday was our first Foster Care class. It was the First Aid/CPR certification and it was almost exactly as I remembered it. Except now, CPR is 30 compressions to 2 rescue breaths and I hope to hell the ambulance gets here quick because I don't know how long I ca...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jul 14, 2010, 8:11 am
The winner of the Vessel Mug is: Natalie @ HopeSpringsEternal A huge congrats to you!  Thank you to everyone else who entered - we shall do it again sometime. ***** The Wiener of the day is:                  ...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jul 14, 2010, 8:11 am
The winner of the Vessel Mug is: Natalie @ HopeSpringsEternal A huge congrats to you!  Thank you to everyone else who entered - we shall do it again sometime. ***** The Weiner of the day is:                  ...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jul 8, 2010, 9:35 am
I'm feeling virtually virginal because this is my first Giveaway! I am celebrating my 150th post today and before I make you jump through 41 hoops, I'd like to say a few tens of words. Thank you for hanging with me for the past 10ish months while I've been learning all there is to know ...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jul 6, 2010, 9:37 am
  Rainbow Family I can't believe the weekend is over. For us it was a long one....the extra day being Monday and already I can't stand myself because now I'll be screwed up all week. I can already hear myself "What's today?" "Is it Friday?" "Feels like Wednesday"...and all tha...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 24, 2010, 7:46 am
Okay, maybe not all over the world--Do they have Braunschweiger in any place other than Germany and the US?--but most definitely all over the deli's I visit in Pennsylvania. It happened again, yesterday afternoon. Every single time I stop at a deli and place my order, it's the same old same...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 23, 2010, 6:33 am
Galit @ Minnesota Mamaleh wrote an interesting post last week that discussed the much debated topic of being "spiritual but not religious" and I started to write a comment, but it turned into two pages of my opinion and thought I'd just post my own response here. You know, where my two cents cou...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 22, 2010, 10:31 am
And it frustrates the hell out of me. I had really thought that once my kids reached adulthood, it would be all fun and games. WooHoo! Party time. Worry? Out the window. Stress? Right behind the worry. As if. Not that I'd thought I'd stop caring the very instant they were all eligible to...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 21, 2010, 7:29 am
Just like the days-of-the-week panties I had as a kid, I think I'll title every post this week in a way that includes the actual day. (e.g. yesterday's- Yo, It's Sunday) My originality slays me, too. Speaking of those panties, I recall that I would sometimes wear Wednesday on Fridays; I...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 20, 2010, 1:30 pm
We went out and did the Daddy thing this morning. First taking hubs, brother-in-law and step-dad-in-law out to breakfast at a restaurant called the Country Table. Sweet, little, out of the way place where their claim to fame is the mile-high pie. We figured 8 a.m. was a wee early for that, so we set...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 18, 2010, 6:30 pm
Thank you Erica for posting this list yesterday on yer blog! Inspiration abounds. I'm going to answer the same 10 questions that she did, and next week if she posts more, I'll play copy-cat and do it again. Take that, NaBloPoMo! And here we go: It’s 2AM and you are not home. You are...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 18, 2010, 6:57 am
My fiction tastes funny. Not funny- haha, but funny like you better check the date on the carton. I started 90in90 last week and today's post is...will be #9. Admittedly, I was excited to start the project because I love trying new things. But now I'm making like an author and coming up blan...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 16, 2010, 9:30 pm
  Must be the City Cousins   I feel like I can't relax or go outside to enjoy a little peace. It's only been a full week since the the little duck-killing bastards have been out of school and I already can't stand them. I'm just waiting for an excuse, any reason that is...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 15, 2010, 7:54 am
     {pic} On a counter top somewhere in time at a yet to be disclosed location, I'm pretty sure there's a one-way ticket waiting for me. Destination: Alzheimer's -- known to the locals as Shitsville. (Round-trip purchase unnecessary) Just maybe if I walk slow enough...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 14, 2010, 5:55 pm
  I've mentioned before that I'm a celebrator of small things, right? Well today is a writing milestone for me because I'm halfway through NaBloPoMo and I'm not showing signs of letting up. At all. I've not posted one haiku or plain old picture all month. A Pink Gin for th...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 14, 2010, 6:40 am
  Guilty Much?   Do you remember in February when I wrote a post about my guilty conscience because I had skipped work to stay home with my husband when he had injured his back? No? Well he did, and I did. Ever since then I've been getting visited, by people in droves, via searches...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 12, 2010, 9:11 am
Don't you hear a song once in a while, that was playing on your parents radio when you were a kid, and feel hugged? I do. This song represents how I'm feeling today, so I'm sharing. Plus, I finally have a day off! And? So does Scotty. Right now my house is still asleep, so I'll run ...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 11, 2010, 9:03 pm
I am in love with window boxes. I have yet to install any because since we painted our house the color of Tiffany, we've been planning on getting siding. Like yesterday. Here's the only pic I have of the house:   This was taken for a winter post, but you can see the shed and the bac...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 11, 2010, 7:09 am
Awhile back I wrote a post bitching about the ASPCA and that particular Sarah McLachlan commercial. I will forever envision dogs and cats sitting in rotting motels, howling their hearts out, when I hear 'Angel'. Gah. It's not the ASPCA this time, but the Humane Society, that's pissi...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 10, 2010, 7:54 am
I really want to know. Salt calls it the 'G' word and I've read on forums where people discuss their mutual hate for giveaways. What gives? Is it all the hoops you have to jump through? The following and tweeting and all that jazz? To me, it isn't a hardship. If I like the item, or...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 9, 2010, 8:21 am
Are there owls in Namibia? I can't really say for sure since I don't live there and didn't dive into the encyclopedia to find out. Honestly, I just liked the title. AND, since my post is directly related to an owl and Namibia, it's fitting. The Owl:    I am sort of in lo...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 7, 2010, 6:04 am
I'm posting pictures today of our visit to Florida a few years ago. Scotty and I were there for a week and stayed in a beach front Motel in a room that opened up right on the non-oily, pre-disaster, sandy shores of the Gulf of Mexico. I'd call it a vacation, but it seems so wrong since we we...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 6, 2010, 10:26 am
While at work the other day, I discovered a really effective security device that would deter even the bravest of brave burglars.   *These*      You might be asking yourself "How could a pair of big ass tennis shoes, bought used no less, deter criminal trespass?" Let's d...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 6, 2010, 8:23 am
That's what the headline read in the goCrawfordCounty.com 6/04/10 print edition: 'Holy Muttrimony' comes to Bark Park Are you kidding me? is what I thought. I can't believe this shit! is what I said, while reading the "wedding" announcement: When the wedding music begins at 1:30 p...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 5, 2010, 6:29 am
Let me first start off by saying that today's post is being brought to you courtesy of Tabletopics. Again. The lifesavers of all NaBloPoMo lifesavers. Today's conversation starter is: "What special family pets do you remember?"  I came home from school one day with a shiner on my eye....
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 4, 2010, 6:13 am
My parents had their BFF's, Jim and Joe, in from out of town last weekend. They're my favoritest gay uncles; Full of snark, wit and the Lord. Plus? They bring the most decadent pastries from Oakmont Bakery when they visit. Yep, that's 8,200 sq. ft of icing and donuts- Bedazzled cakes as...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 2, 2010, 8:11 pm
As you may already know, I'm giving NaBloPoMo another shot this month and to encourage me when I feel so unpostable, I picked up the most interesting of games to help me with mine. Technically, it's not a 'game' but rather a family conversation kit thing called: Tabletopics. Mine is ...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 1, 2010, 5:21 pm
I just found out a couple of days ago that babies are allowed to smoke in Indonesia and apparently they possess the power of super strength. Uh-huh, so much strength that a mother has come forward and asked for help from the public to get her toddler to quit smoking. Here's me:     ...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Jun 1, 2010, 6:04 am
This daisy looks nothing like the ones depicted on my favorite coffee mug, but it makes me just as happy.  I have a full set of green stoneware cups that are part of my regular dish set and yet I seek out my crazy daisy cup most mornings. No reason other than it is: Large, Colorful and oddly ma...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - May 31, 2010, 10:04 am
As fate would have it, I have given birth to three children. I figure it's fate because all the planning and dreams in the world do not make pregnancy and birth a destiny. Not at all. My experience was fantastically simple;  of course, not everyone's is. I just finished reading "She Lo...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - May 29, 2010, 6:02 am
I know summer is coming when I have the irresistable urge to strip off my shoes and socks and let it all hang out. Skinny dipping for feet.   Can you dig it? This past week I've been doing a smidge of gardening, in my bare feet. I love when the weather gets warm and I tiptoe through the ...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - May 26, 2010, 7:16 am
As fate would have it, I have given birth to three children. I figure it's fate because all the planning and dreams in the world do not make pregnancy and birth a destiny. Not at all. My experience was fantastically simple;  of course, not everyone's is. I just finished reading "She Lo...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - May 24, 2010, 6:51 am
  That's what I'm dishing about today, over at The Joys of my Splintered Life in Smalltown. Seriously, The Mother effer of all Swears. I think if little Ralphie would've said it, the most beloved Christmas Story of all time would have abruptly ended at 39.7 minutes. There isn't...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - May 22, 2010, 8:27 am
I find that, of all of my deceased relatives, I think of her most often.   June Blossom is the name of my Grandmother. She was born during the Depression on the 1st of June. The story goes that my Greatest of Great Grandmas, Freida, didn't have a name for her baby girl until she looked th...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - May 20, 2010, 6:54 am
'The Chrysalis turned Butterfly - Family is not about "Blood" I started this entry for RQ having replied to her reconciliation post.  I was married for decades but did not consider US a "family".  To me, a family is comprised of children and accompanying parent(s).  Part of that ...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - May 14, 2010, 8:59 am
Continued from here. ________________ Just the sight of my mom back then made me go rigid. Strike one against anyone who could pass for her from 20 feet away. Hell, I didn't even have to see her for me to tense up. Her voice on the phone made me hold my breath. And it didn't even matter if...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - May 7, 2010, 6:11 am
At the consignment shop I work at, there's a client who comes in on the semi-regular. She is probably in her mid 60's and is somewhat of a difficult woman.  The type where, a half of an hour before she arrives, you pull out the kid gloves and inspect them in military fashion before you ...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - May 4, 2010, 6:58 am
     ...makes my Ass tired. _________________   (It's my first (maybe last) Wordless Wednesday-I did my best) (also) (When you use parentheses, it's like you aren't being wordy)  
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - May 2, 2010, 4:45 pm
Before we get any further, try to say "A Pink Week" three times fast.   Hard, isn't it? I remember as a kid we'd do the Woodchuck and Shelly Seashells twists. Oh, and the Dew Drop. I think it helped to improve something or another. Much like video games, of the later greater generatio...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - May 1, 2010, 7:41 pm
  I went to see the new Nightmare on Elm Street, with my SIL Valerie, the first day it came out.   We had been talking about it for weeks and on more than one occasion we'd sing 'One...two...Freddy's coming for you...' (in the slow creepy way we'd remembered it) o...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Apr 30, 2010, 6:49 am
My family consists of a born again, evangelical, praise the Lord, Christian sister, her 4 etc. Christian children and their 9 Christian offspring.  They pray for me, their lesbian sister/aunt knowing that even if I don't burn in hell, I still won't go to sit at the right hand of God.&n...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Apr 28, 2010, 6:33 am
Today's guest post comes from The Snarkster, the author of Snide Commentary. She is a theatre girl, so I put the title of my post in a song from a musical (one of my faves).  If you know the song I'm referring to, please tell me. It's a little game where if you get the correct answe...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Apr 26, 2010, 8:02 am
  (Can you tell that I just watched my Buttercup version of 'The Princess Bride'? Well, I did. TV really sucked this weekend and I had to pull out the heavy artillery.) I am so pleased to introduce you to a new journal within, on Raised Queer. It's called Family Defined and it can...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Apr 23, 2010, 7:11 am
I'm a little perplexed, to say the least. I've watched this and can't understand why the powers that be, at Fox & ABC, have their knickers in a bunch.   Here's the skinny on the story: Lane Bryant, the world's largest plus-size womens' retailer, submitted this commerc...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Apr 21, 2010, 6:37 am
Did you ever have one of those times when your house was a mess and you swore if anyone showed up unexpectedly, that you'd pretend you weren't home? That's about where I'm at. Save for the Publishers Clearing House van, I'm not home. The benefit dinner for my SIL was this past S...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Apr 13, 2010, 8:30 pm
Just as I promised, today's post comes from the depths of MikeWJ's cerebral hemi. He resides at Too Many Mornings and is a most generous writer. I love the title of his blog because mornings happen to be the best part of the day for me. I love the peace and quiet and mostly the coffee; dark ...
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Christine W. posted an article on Raised Queer - Apr 13, 2010, 4:38 am
   I had a most excellent day yesterday, while out soliciting for donations for the dinner.  I didn't get turned down once. Well okay, actually I did.  A really busy floral shop owner, initially refused me; saying that she doesn't donate because she receives too many req...
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