Ginger Zaetl

edwardspoonhands:

karenhallion:

topherchris:

So, this argument. “Kids do best with a mom and dad!”

My dad abandoned me as a kid and then I had a shitty stepdad. That really sucks, but it happens, and it has nothing to do with gay people getting married.

Kids do best with love and support. Adults do best when they’re not being assholes.

(pic via Buzzfeed)

“Kids do best with love and support. Adults do best when they’re not being assholes.”
Repeating that, because of reasons.

SING IT WITH ME NOW!

KIDS DO BEST…WITH LOVE AND SUPPORT

ADULTS DO BEST…WHEN THEY’RE NOT BEING ASSHOLES

Kids do best with LOVE and SUPPORT

Adults do best when they’re not being assholes.

(Source: wilwheaton)

ehmeegee:

Let me preface this by saying people are entitled to their opinions.  I came into the YouTube universe knowing that 1. I was very very new at it and there would be a learning curve, and 2. People are rude on the Internet, and I have to steel myself against their negativity and basically realize that haters gonna hate.  Fine. Done. 

What I do have a problem with are comments like these: not because they are focused on or directly for me, but because they are about women everywhere.  I make it my objective to be a role model for young people (especially women) to feel as though science can be an accessible field that they have the ability to be successful in — something based entirely off of their talent and intellect, and not focused at all on their gender or looks.  These comments insinuate that the viewers are only listening because I’m a woman on a science channel, not because the content is interesting, and whatever is coming out of my mouth is second only in importance to the objectified body that’s saying it.  I don’t care that people don’t like my clothes — I care that young women will see these comments and feel as though they can’t be ‘good at science’ or smart or revered or respected unless they look attractive, or play up their sex appeal.  As if we have to appeal to the male demographic by being sexy, or risk being unheard.  

I’m not going to go away or be deterred, and I’m not going to change my clothes or dress sexier to get more viewership.  I am, however, without a doubt going to spend every fiber of my being celebrating young women and men in encouraging them to follow what drives them, motivate them to research what they are passionate about, and support them in making the world a better place… one un-sexy cardigan at a time. 

My husband & I played Ticket to Ride: Europe om NYE. Our regular game friends had other plans. This was the first time Husband Man won.

Our awesome game table was made by my brother-in-law. It’s his first build of any type of furniture. It was also a giant surprise for my husband. We love it.

superpunch2:

Baby musk ox.

So freaking cute!

(Source: 4gifs, via thefrogman)

What a year 2012 has been. I started a new type of job with my employer, it was a pretty steep learning curve. It was a great change of pace from my last position, it was a good move on my part.

We moved into a townhouse, hopefully to never live in an apartment style place ever again. It’s quieter here, Husband Man can walk to work & my commute has been halved.

We went to Mexico in May for my brothers wedding, that was hotter than the last excursion to Mexico. I would have had a better time if a rogue wave hadn’t taken out my back. It was still good to do nothing but laze in the pool for a few days.

My sister got married at the beginning of August in a sooner than expected wedding. One of the many great things about this was, they used the same JP as me and our brother. That was a first for the JP, marrying all the kids.

Later in August we put together a surprise 60th birthday party for mom. It was really great to see those relatives & family friends.

Husband Man and I, along with the brother-in-law, drove from Edmonton to Seattle. I was completely blown away by the traffic in Seattle. It took us over 2 hours to travel about 30 km. Used to “big city” rush hour traffic, this caught us all off guard. My ass hasn’t been the same since thing trip. That’s roughly 2600km we put on over that long weekend. I had a great time at PAX, was in awe at a lot of the cosplay and the game demos.

October brought along my 33rd birthday. Husband Man surprised me with a bay leaf green 5 quart kitchen aid mixer. I love it, and it came in quite handy when making goodies for Christmas.

One of the things I took to doing this year was put the majority of my cold beverages in a big tall cup that has a lid & straw; I’ve dubbed this my sippy cup. This has saved numerous spills as I’m clumsy & not always away of my surroundings.

I’m looking forward to 2013, we’re planning on buying a house. Hopefully my sister or sister-in-law will pop out a kid that I can spoil. It’d be lovely to get a new car too, though Beastie is still in fine shape.

wilwheaton:

People of both sexes and all ages play video games and watch movies in every country in the world.

Only in America do we have an epidemic of gun violence and repeated mass murder.

The problem isn’t video games and movies, guys.

"On March 13, 1995, in the small Scottish town of Dunblane, a forty-three-year-old man, Thomas Hamilton walked into a primary school with four handguns and opened fire, methodically killing sixteen children and one adult teacher before killing himself. The unprecedented massacre of children led, within two years, to legislation that imposed a total ban on the private ownership of handguns in the United Kingdom. Today, no one in the United Kingdom can privately own a handgun or a semiautomatic weapon. There was not much hand wringing or heated debate over this legislation. It was discussed, and enacted, with overwhelming public support, in response to the mood of national shame and grief over the killings."

The New Yorker: “Guns and the limits of shame” (via lauraolin)

I remember. Mostly, the people in the UK felt that not having things like this happen was a good thing. I wish these massacres would persuade the American voting public of the same thing.

(The UK had 14 Firearm-related murders last year; the US, with a population only 5 times that of the UK, had 9,369. Per this website.)

[Joe here, adding this:] What Neil doesn’t mention is that homicide is just one number. In 2008, the UK only had 68 gun deaths total… that includes suicide and accident. It was around 30,000 in the US. That is quite a pile of dead folk. Something like 400 for every 1 in the UK.

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wilwheaton:

bonniegrrl:

These two need to do a film together! Or TV show! Or web series! Calendar!

I am shipping this so hard right now.

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