A (somewhat belated) announcement of a short break

Everything is fine, just taking a short break from blogging to deal with life issues. I’m still job hunting, and on top of that, our landlord has given is a termination notice so we have to vacate our rental property. Finding funds to move (rent, bond, removalists) is a bit challenging but I keep telling myself it will turn out. Anyway, suffice to say that although I am keeping abreast of the fatosphere, I am not finding the mental energy to post on my own blog. I shall be back, though.

C’est Moi

To celebrate the new year and to represent a fresh start in a number of ways, I have updated my profile picture to show (gasp!) an actual human: me.

Fatadelic

Without a doubt, fat. Somewhat mad. With distinctive glasses. And wearing the infamous cat ears.

Whatever.

Merry Christmas

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!

We’re hosting Christmas at our place this year with 8 adults, 2 teens and 2 toddlers, so we’ve been very busy preparing. I have a Christmas tree for the first time in years. We’re having a cold Aussie feast complete with ham, chicken, turkey, prawns, oysters, baba ganoush, guacamole, cranberry couscous salad, roast beetroot salad, panetone with anglaise sauce, mince pies, fruit cake, pudding, white christmas and god knows what else. No doubt we will be subsisting on left overs for a month.

Anyway, now that I have internet again and have (er hem) some spare time, Fatadelic will resume on a regular basis in the new year with fresh vim, vigour and inspiration. See you in 2009!

No internet access

In case you have been wondering about the lack of posts recently, it’s because I have not had internet access (I’m logged in via an internet cafe right now). My wireless isp went bust and we have been waiting (nearly a month!!!) for Naked DSL to be installed. I’ve been going bonkers without email and blogs and all the rest. I can’t imagine how many Fatosphere posts I will have to catch up with when finally back online. Anyway… Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Diversity of opinion

Lindsay has a post up discussing the recent conflicts and power struggles in the fatosphere:

There is one thing that FA blogs have in common across the board: we believe that it is wrong to mistreat someone because they are fat. That’s it.

Diversity of opinion is a large part of what I value in the fatosphere. As I’ve said before:

Fat Acceptance is (clearly!) not monolithic. Nor should it be. We have a range of view points, a range of goals, and a range of ideas on how best to achieve those goals. That’s great. Every little raindrop counts.