Suzy's Cornbread Recipe

This is really just for my own personal record keeping. But feel free to enjoy!

Ingredients

* 1 cup all-purpose flour (or skip and use 2 cups cornmeal)
* 1 cup yellow cornmeal
* 2/3 cup white sugar
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1 or 2 eggs (optional)
* 1 cup milk (or water)
* 1/3 cup vegetable oil

Mix dry ingredients first, then add wet ingredients, stir until mixed and bubbly.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Use a non-stick cake pan, or grease it up with vegetable oil. (Or a 12 cup muffin tin.)

Bake for approx. 22 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean. For muffins the time is approx. 15 minutes.

Remove from oven (wear hot mitts!) and let cool for half an hour before consuming.

Thought Provoking Images

Corinthians 14:34-35

Just a reminder: The Bible was written by men, not "god".

Evidently if you're going to follow Christianity you need to cherry pick which rules actually make sense.

Kudos to the Bra Burning Feminists of Old!

Where would we be without the bra burners?

Originally it all started when a story by Lindsay van Gelder in the New York Post carried a headline "Bra Burners and Miss America". It drew an analogy between the feminist protest and Vietnam War protesters who burned their draft cards. In fact, there was no bra burning, nor did anyone take off her bra.

The phrase became headline material and was quickly associated with women who chose to go braless. Feminism and "bra-burning" then became linked in popular culture and Germaine Greer became a symbol for bra burning.

The first actual public bra-burning is documented, at a feminist rally in Lower Sproul Plaza in Berkeley, CA on June 2nd 1970, where a 38-C bra was ceremonially burned in a wastebasket with a fire extinguisher handy. Other events also occurred, but it wasn't as popular as people think.

So eventually they did start burning bras as a form of protest, but it was sort of a weird scenario where the phenomenon was talked about first and then later actually done.

Unfortunately anti-feminists have used "bra burning" and "braless" stereotypes as a way of attempting to trivialize the feminist movement.

"Bras are a ludicrous invention, but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression." - Germaine Greer.

Wall Street, why are the slaveowners usually men?

Notice that they're all men?

It is an interesting bit of history that slavery has usually been controlled by greedy men.

Video Game Women

Sadly the male-dominated video game industry has no interest in making more realistic clothing for female characters.

The joys of waxing...

Yes, YES, I got it working!!!!

Today I finally got my new domain name working for my blog. (It took me 5 days!)

My advice for other people who get stuck with a stupid Google Apps account they didn't want and are trying to get their domain name working:

Follow these steps to make sure that you don`t have any Mapping for your domain name settings.

Login to Google Apps
Click Settings
Click Sites on the left side
Click Web Address Mapping
Delete any Mapping

Then sign into your blog select your custom domain for existing domain and then enter www.yourdomainname.com and then enter the captcha. If your settings on eNom are correct then everything should work properly.

And they did. Huzzah!

I hate Google Apps

So I tried to register a domain name for this blog and I got an error message.

So then I backed up, tried to redo the process and it said it couldn't do it because the domain name was being used and that I needed to login via Google Apps.

So then it said I needed a Google Apps account.

So I signed up for a Google Apps account and it automatically gave me a business account. Which I didn't want, so I removed it.

So then it automatically gave me an Educational account... which I apparently didn't qualify for so now my Google Apps account is in limbo.

I also changed the settings for my blog, checked the settings on Enom, and everything on the Blogger and Enom side of things is hunky dory and perfectly fine.

The problem is that Google Apps and Blogspot apparently both use the same server settings: ghs.google.com and the same IP addresses.

So Enom is operating correctly and going to the right place, but Google Apps is usurping the domain name and sending it in that direction instead of to Blogspot where I want it to be.

*serious freaking headache here*

So... how do I fix this? The Enom support guy says I everything done correctly on my side, the Blogspot website is likewise fine... but Google Apps is dug in like a tick. When I was going to the domain name it was auto-redirecting to a Google Apps page... (Right now it doesn't go anywhere, it just says it doesn't exist.)

The Enom guy also said I may need to wait 24-48 hours for things to start working... but at this point its already pretty obvious the whole attempt was botched because of Google errors.

Now I am thinking maybe I should start over and get a different domain name. And wait a year for the one I wanted to expire.

Kathrine Switzer - Historic Icon

It was a historic moment for female athletes.

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer entered and completed the Boston Marathon in 1967, five years before women were officially allowed to compete in it. She was the first woman to run the Boston marathon and was registered in the race. (The first unregistered person was Bobbi Gibb in 1966.) She registered, collected her numbers, put them on and started the race.

After realizing that a woman had somehow registered and was running, race organizer Jock Semple chased after Switzer shouting: "Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers."

Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon and she was able to outpace Semple. The photograph above was taken during the incident and made world headlines.

Her finishing time of approximately 4 hours and 20 minutes.

Kathrine later won the 1974 NYC marathon (women's category) with a time of 3:07:29.

Her personal best time for the marathon distance is 2:51:37, at Boston in 1975, where she took 2nd place.

She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2011 for creating a social revolution by empowering women around the world through running.

In 1997 Kathrine wrote Running and Walking for Women over 40. She released her memoir, Marathon Woman in April 2007 on the 40th anniversary of her first running the Boston Marathon.

Hello World!

Hello World!

This is my new blog.

I am starting it in an effort to promote my writing career.

Tada!