I want to be an alpaca
I’ve moved on from wanting to have an alpaca to wanting to be an alpaca.
Don’t they look happy? Wouldn’t you like to be a fuzzy adorable creature with legs about three times too long for your body and a neck about four times too long, and two little toes on each foot and an adorable fuzzy nose?
I think I’m just going to crawl into my closet, curl up in a fetal position, and surrender to a full-blown psychic fugue state. It’s been that kind of day.
22 Responses to “I want to be an alpaca”
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Lisa says:
Violet you seem so down! What can we do to help you feel better?
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Sis says:
You certainly do look cute. Kitchy kitchy. Scritch scritch.
But yes, what can we do?
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samanthasmom says:
I recently down-sized my car, and we now have no vehicle big enough to bring home a Christmas tree. My husband challenged me to solve this problem. (He was disappointed that I sold the lane yacht, but he wasn’t willing to drive it himself.) Do you know that you can order a Christmas tree online, and it will be delivered right to your door. And it’s absolutely gorgeous! If I hadn’t had this distraction today, I would probably want to be an alpaca, too. My disappointment at the cave-in over Favreau by the New Agenda, and knowing that the proof that our new President is as corrupt as the old one will finally come out after we elected him instead of before would have more impact if I hadn’t spent the day getting out all of the ornaments and lights for the tree.
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Violet says:
My disappointment at the cave-in over Favreau by the New Agenda
The New Agenda has caved in?
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Violet says:
I’m depressed by human insanity. I’ve been confronted with an unusual amount of it today. One case in particular is really disturbing, because someone I know appears to have gone completely batshit insane. Scary crazy.
And on top of that, I think one of the things that has driven her nuts is that she is being persecuted in real life by some Obamabots, including one formerly-feminist blogger (I say formerly feminist because now she’s just become a raving hater — but then she’s mentally unhinged herself.)
People are fucking nuts.
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Sis says:
Would it help to know Nikki Craft read your site today Vi, will be interested to hear how the guerilla actions go Lynnette, wishes you well.
For those who may not know, this is Nikki Craft:
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Sis says:
“after we elected him”
You didn’t. Did you?
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samanthasmom says:
I think that the New Agenda’s demanding that Favreau write a speech about why what he did was wrong is pathetic. In any company concerned with providing its workers with a safe work environment Favreau would already be in the unemployment line, or the company would be open to lawsuits. Did Obama’s “best speech evah on race” open a dialog about race in this country? Favreau probably wrote it. I’m still waiting. I had high expectations for the New Agenda, but not so much after their press release today. I wish I lived near DC so I could join Lynnette. Either we’re serious about fighting for what should already be ours, or we deserve to be called “silly” by guys like Carville. I don’t want an apology. I want it to stop, and it won’t until there are real consequences.
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Lisa says:
raising a glass to samanthasmom and nodding yes.
And Violet, sorry about your friend losing it. I admire your ability to carry on a blog like this. I have to step away occasionally to preserve my sanity, and I have so much respect for the people that can keep on fighting and stay out there 24/7. You, Hillary, Lynnette Long, Murphy, Madamab, Riverdaughter, Heidi Li, are my heroes. Hope that cheers you some.
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samanthasmom says:
No, I didn’t vote for Obama, but enough people, living, dead, or imaginary, did to make him our President elect. Nikki Craft is the woman I would have loved to be, but my dad was only willing to bail me out twice.
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Tim J. says:
Get a chinchilla. They’re from the same part of the world, even fuzzier, and fit easily in even a small apartment. I’ll admit that they lack the neck, but it’s a much easier goal to fulfill.
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Sis says:
It’s the eyes Tim. Just look at those eyes.
Ahh yes samanthasmom. The bail. I always wondered how that was managed.
They deliver trees? Some years we brought our tree home on a toboggan. Later years we carried it, one at the head, one at the end and a couple in the middle trotting down city streets from the Christmas tree lot. Once we tied it to the dog, but she didn’t know she been born of sled dogs, and yelped and whined and dragged it off into the other trees where she got the rope all tangled up and lay on her back whimpering. Once I fell into the tree well after we chopped it down, several times we flew it in because we lived above the tree line. We.Flew it in. Never a plastic tree though, and now, no tree. Just candles, some greens and real pine cones on the table. And if I’m able that day, a walk on a bush trail.
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samanthasmom says:
Our tree is beautiful, and now it’s fully decorated. My husband teases me in a completely loving way about how much I’m able to do online. but I don’t think he thought I’d be able to do this online. For the record I had the BFF who has a Passat station wagon waiting in the wings to take me tree shopping, but this was too easy, and the tree is the nicest tree we’ve ever had. I’ve never seen a tree this perfect for sale on a lot.
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slythwolf says:
I would love to be an alpaca. I would always be warm enough in the winter–except, you know what, I want to be a wild vicuna, off on the slopes of the Andes doin’ my thing.
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qaz says:
I think that the New Agenda’s demanding that Favreau write a speech about why what he did was wrong is pathetic.
yeah, he should be fired.
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Greenconsciousness says:
Sis
Killing trees for entertainment is bad luck –they try to burn your house down in retaliation. What if your family decorated an outdoor tree and hung lights and decorations inside without a tree? Or MADE a representation of a tree decorated that, cloth, ceramic, whatever agreeing to plant an evergreen in the spring? Bring in boughs and pine for the smell — drink hot cider play outside in the snow and sing when the lights are lit.
Violet
They kill alpacas — and sell their children away –being dependent is never a good thing.
Listen step back. An organizer should never never get attached to the objective — always remember that the objective is not the goal. The goal was never to get the speech writer fired — his lesson was an objective on the way to the goal which is raised consciousness, a raised consciousness that can be mobilized. Destroying a person is never the goal — the goal was to teach him and the broader community about sexism, which has been done successfully. It was to raise the profile of TNA which has been done. It was to increase membership which you should be working on right now. Social change is created by a series of actions design to prepare people to accept change and support it.
Never let the army be divided — go hug your friend and see her as an alpaca in your herd. Go watch Carvelle sputter on the CNN tape and know he is scared. Right now they are asking who the hell –where did THEY come from — be strong from recognizing you are going to win but in the way Hillary wins — like water wins. Don’t let their curse make you lose the advantage.
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Greenconsciousness says:
By the way sis I know that is what you do — I mean if Samantha’s mom did what you did but it is garbled. And Violet I was trying to tell you that regardless of what anyone says The New Agenda just had its’ first big victory.
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Shane says:
Did Obama’s “best speech evah on race” open a dialog about race in this country?
Of course not, but it was one of the many fake campaign narratives that got pushed as fact by the media. Like how Obama’s campaign was pure and good, or how Clinton won New Hampshire because she cried, or how Al Gore was a serial liar, and so on and so on. It doesn’t matter that none of these stories were actually the case, because they got reported as such and had real influence when it mattered most. There’s a very disturbing trend in political journalism where people believe that if they say something enough times (like any of the things I mention above), it really happened. They can apologise later if they must (see the justifications for the Iraq War for example), because the damage has already been done, and normally the apology gets buried anyway. I see it as a trend that developed under Dubya, and it shows no signs of slowing under Obama.
Speaking of which, I had kind of a depressing experience trying to talk about the whole cutout thing on another forum I post on. The responses I got were another presentation of how a lot of people simply don’t see why its a problem. They prefer to see it as a joke or ‘its OK because drunk women do stupid things too’ or even just an example of any excuse being used to attack Obama, because he’s clearly the real victim here. Its like the actual sexism and political implications involved are invisible to them. Kind of a summary of the last year, in a way….Not nice to think about.
For something nicer…I think I’d like to be a dugong/manatee. Peaceful life below the sea harming nobody… You could definitely do worse.
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Alwaysthinking says:
One of the most devastating things that can happen to a family, or a friend, is a true mental breakdown. It happened to our family many years ago and was the most devastating event any of us ever faced — and there was never any help. Pastors tried to be nice but were very ignorant about it. Friends, even some relatives, looked askance. It was horrible and painful. Still, over the years we have looked after our brother and after my mother died, he has been passed on to me and my husband to care for. We still find little help in the community or anywhere — the systems set up to help have been unfunded and privatized — meaning they do not help.
Not the topic of your post,Violet — I’m just saying it is an utterly devastating experience. So I wish you well. I love your alpacas for their soul-sharing qualities!
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Sis says:
Dear Always thinking.
I had a brother. I know you speak the truth. Courage, and love.
That is all.
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Alwaysthinking says:
Thank you, Sis, I think there are millions of us out here who are looking after our families to keep them from being on the streets. Sadly, that’s where so many of them are.
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simply wondered says:
so vi, you wanna be a dead ballet-dancing alpaca. a girl’s gotta dream, i guess.
might it be better if obama were a dead ballet-dancing alpaca (or is that a nasty thought to be thinking?) you know, the thing i like him least for is being the cause of your sadness. daft innit?(‘dugong – the alpaca of the oceans’ – that could work as a slogan)
