If I hadn't gained so much weight, I'd still be wearing clothes I thrifted in HS and college.

How you know I'm a native Southern Californian: It's 50F out and I've put on an Icebreaker superfine merino wool top to brave the cold.

November is a mixed month for me, Thanksgiving in particular, but the good outweighs the bad. My sister was born on Thanksgiving (during dinner, no less), and many years later, my grandfather went to the hospital for the last time before he died. [er, that's my sister's birth being the good and my grandfather's death being the bad. just to be clear!]

On the good side, there's also my birthday and my dad's.

I have realised I totally play favourites when I post pictures to the provocateuse tumblr, and then get irrationally chapped if no one likes or reposts one of my faves. Aishwarya Rai should be reblogged dammit.

I lost my mind temporarily last night and cut my own hair. I've done this from time to time, but this time did not go so well.

I think I can fix it. But let's hope.

Tom Scola! Tom Scola! incoming text.

Waits on edge of seat...

Husband called from the plane, they're about to take off. We might actually catch a break here.

I'm so sorry to hear about your losses, brenda and Hec.

AS I didn't say it before, I'm so sorry, David and Brenda. I hope the rest of the holiday season is kinder to you both.

I did not know that Palin has a new book (and now I can't un-know).

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It's called "America by Heart"

"If Democrats are driving the country toward socialism at a hundred miles per hour, while the Republicans are driving at only fifty, commonsense constitutional conservatives want to turn the car around," Palin wrote in the book's conclusion, titled "Commonsense Constitutional Conservatism."

The threat of socialism, check.

"We want to get back to the basics that have made this country great -- the fundamental values of family, faith, and flag that I have talked about in this book," she continued.

Meaningless platitudes, check. Subtle implication that atheists don't belong in America, check. Alliteration, bonus.

It offers no detailed policies or proposals and instead provides the personal perspective of the GOP vice presidential candidate in 2008 on religion, patriotism, family and what ails America.

Avoids any actual policy, check.

"We have a president, perhaps for the first time since the founding of our republic, who expresses his belief that America is not the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known," her book said. "Now I know that sounds a little overblown to many educated liberals, a little jingoistic. But so many of us do believe America is an exceptional force for good."

Obama is anti-American, check.

"There's no other way to describe a governing philosophy that won't trust individual Americans to control their own health care, plan for their own retirement, or even spend their own money," Palin wrote.

Remember how prosperous the elderly were before the government fucked it up with social security? Why should poor people get health care when I feel just fine?

Does anything think she isn't running in 2012?