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It’s official, I can’t function without Michael
Michael is sick, so I took my dad with me to BJs for our bi weekly shopping. I made sure Dad had his BJs card (we got one for DH, one for Dad) and off we went. We shopped for the usual haour/hour and a half. We’re checking out. Oh FUCK! My card is in the car. I run to the car, with a sinking feeling that my bag is on the back of one of the dining chairs. Um, yup. I call dad from outside, ask him to charge it and I’ll transfer the money back to him. I cannot fucking believe I’ve left my bag home. Well, I can, I usually leave it in the damn car. And Michael is usually with me. You know, with his man wallet in his back pocket. I just load up the cart and keep track of what we’ve spent. On the bright side, I saved 35.50 in BJs coupons on stuff we do in fact actually eat.
Read MoreAGE OF AUTISM: Denis Leary on Autism.
Denis Leary on Autism.
It might be time to add a new category to our lineup. Denis Leary knows the power of the autism community. That’s why he’s using us to sell books. Can we have a giant, “Whatever.” for Mr. Leary?
“There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can’t compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don’t give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you – yer kid is NOT autistic. He’s just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.”
New York Post Gossip section.
PS My apologies if you’re offended by the graphic. It seemed fitting.
So yah. You’re an asshole. I just have one thing to say really. My autistic child tested at just shy of *genius* on his IQ testing (part of the testing that was done during his diagnosis). G-E-N-I-U-S. And my kids not lazy either. Me? I’m lazy. I spend more time and energy figuring out how not to do things than just doing them in the first place. I’ll own my laziness. Most autistic kids? Not so lazy. Not so stupid.
I’m not buying his book. I’m not telling you to buy his book. I’m not even looking the damn thing up. I’m also not buying Jenny McCarthy’s books either, so there you go.
Read MoreShutUpSitDown – politics of body hair
First of all, before you read my diatribe, go read this one:
http://shutupsitdown.blogspot.com/2008/04/politics-of-body-hair.html
Back? Hello there! I agree with much of what was said, but perhaps not for the reasons… Mostly they revolve around my own preferences and how I don’t feel they are societally driven.
I shave my legs maybe 4 times a year, but I shave my vulva every 6 or 8 weeks vs. my armpits… whenever I wear a sleeveless top and the hair is too long for my taste, and I have my brows waxed every three weeks.
The hair on my legs doesn’t grow that fast, and when it is there, it’s pretty silky and virtually invisible unless you are up close and personal. I’ve been shaving/trimming my vulva since the hair started growing. I just don’t like it. I find I am much more sexually sensitive without a ton of hair, thought to be honest, at the longest I’ve let it go I didn’t have the “natural bush” that bush loving men want to see. I shaved my arms for years. I just don’t like body hair. Is it a societally charged disdain? I have no idea. I don’t think it is… in my life I’ve seen both ends of the pendulum – natural, hairy, but beautiful women and fully shorn, equally beautiful women.
Why do I have my eyebrows waxed? Don’t laugh. I had natural brows till 97ish and my friend attacked them with some tweezers. Thus became a low affair with the stylized brows of the 40’s and 50’s. Totally socially driven. As the years have gone by, they’ve gotten less arched, less drawn on. They follow the natural arch, I mostly clean up the straggly ones on the outside. Many of the current “hot” actresses, actors too!, are going au natural on the brows.
I feel like too much of a hypocrite saying I am natural. My usual saying is “mostly natural, slightly modified.” I dye my hair. I have tattoos. I have piercings (indeed, I have big chunks of cartilage outright removed). I shave, pluck and wax. I straighten (not so much anymore). I do a lot that isn’t strictly natural.
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I stretched my helix this morning. I am complaining here b/c DH will just tell me it’s my own fault. I will just tell me that too.
My plug kept falling out, so I thought, hm, maybe the 2 will drop right in? Yah, prolly needed like a 3. So then I remember I saw some tapers in one of our jewelry boxes and thought one looked about a 2. So I checked. BINGO!
So I try to shove it in. Shove is a strong word. I gently pushed to see if it would drop in on it’s own, as the plug did not. No go.
I go in the bathroom, ask for some lube that isn’t the provon soap and DH hands me… lube. Astroglide to the rescue! So I lube up my ear. I line up the taper. In she goes! There she stops.
But it’s sooo close!
So I push. and push and push and push.
It never burned. It didn’t feel like a rip. It never bled. But it hurt. It was *right there*
I let go of the taper for a minute to get myself ready to just shove it in. Get a bigger hammer, right?
It falls out. Too much lube maybe?
I have a genius idea of trying to slide the eyelet in because, well, my ear fucking hurts by now. It slides right in. Yay!
Have I mentioned my ear hurts?
I have a non-swollen-but-slightly-painful-to-the-touch-can’t-sleep-on-it right ear. But it matches my left ear :-)
Yes, it’s my own damn fault. I did not damage the ear, it’s not torn or ripped or bleeding. I didn’t damage that cartilage b/c it was already gone. It just didn’t want to be stretched that last 1/32 of an inch. Stupid ear. That’ll show it who’s boss.
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