Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Still Here...New Look...New Topics


Just want to say that I'm still here...still knitting...and still caught up in life.
I'd like to try and take the blog in a new direction, which will still include my knitting but lead into some other areas that interest me.
For those of you still out there, thanks for sticking with me {and I know it's been over a year since I posted}, and keeping track on Ravelry.
Hope you all enjoy the new and improved Cactusneedles!




Girl Power vs. Caveman

A tiny chicken!



So...the other night I had a meeting of a volunteer sporting organization. In this meeting, one of the fellow board members (who has said snarky things about girls in the past), said something about a player that was uncalled for. The discussion revolved around a certain player and how he wouldn't select her to a team because she was a"girly-girl" and "a pretty girl".
I'm sorry, but that really annoyed me. As a mother of a girl, who also plays this particular sport, I was appalled and offended that he would say this and that no one else at this meeting spoke up about it.
My response to him was that it was not appropriate for him to say that and as a parent to a girl, and all the others there also have girls (except him by the way), I was insulted that he would say that just because a girl was pretty, she couldn't play tough.

Really?
Maybe I should make him a tiny caveman from the MochiMochi book of tiny mochimochi (which might I add I've become super-duper addicted to).