This just in: I'm not pregnant!
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tarotgalWatched the L Word while working out tonight. Guh! Shane in that vest, striped shirt, & tie? Please count me among the millions who would go gay for her. *wibble*
I finally mailed out the bookbox for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
help_haiti today. Tuesday I mailed out an audio bookbox for a ring I'm on and the two clerks at the post office laughed when I said to send it media mail.
Clerk: All you ever send is books!
Me: But this time I also have a postcard! *produces postcard*
Other clerk: Ah, so an extra few cents out of you this time
*paid*
Me: I also have a package waiting for me
*Other clerk goes to get it, feels contents through soft-sided envelope*
Me: Yeah. It's books
*everyone laughs*
The Accio Books kickoff broadcast is this Saturday. I might get to listen to a few minutes of it before having to go to a DADA meetup where we will listen to OTHER Harry Potter things online (oh, the irony, not being able to listen to HP online because I have to go watch other HP things online with friends).
There's a Neville/Charlie story in me that is EATING MY SOUL. It's going to be big and long and INSISTS that I write it. I can't get it out of my head all day. I've stopped listening to audio books in the car and work so I can just go over passages in my head. But when I get home and finish my work for the night, half the time I'm too tired to make a really good progress on it. Bah! I could get SO much done if I didn't have to work a real job LOL
Speaking of real jobs, my boss and coworker and I were talking about having kids today (boss has 3 sons, co-worker is trying to get pregnant). Suddenly we went from washing dishes to having kids in the conversation and when I said I would like kids but don't want to be pregnant, they jumped on me. It was all in fun, but went on for, like, 20 minutes of me insisting that I did NOT want to get pregnant and them saying that will all change in a few years. Look, if it's never changed in all the time it's been alive, I doubt it will change in the next few. Of course, I couldn't exactly go into the main reasons I don't want to give birth to kids because the personal details aren't really ones I like to discuss out loud. The top two reasons being: 1- v-ing and 2- passing on all the lovely health problems my family has to a new generation. Granted my family has a relatively good track record with cancer *touch wood* but Mom did have endometrial cancer and a second cousin of hers had a daughter who had breast cancer. But more importantly there's the heart disease that, like, EVERYONE on my dad's side has, the Diabetes and high blood pressure on both sides, and the osteoporosis of course and the amazing joys of ulcerative colitis that I constantly worry I have inherited from my mom because I keep displaying mild versions of symptoms she had when she was my age, before it took complete hold and I'm so terrified that I don't want to even go to the doctor about it. It's nothing. I'm sure it's nothing. I'm just constantly paranoid that my current issues are more than that and I don't want a kid to have to live with that kind of paranoia. Much better to adopt and have NO idea what freaky, unpredictable health problems might crop up. Like my sister. We never would have gotten to enjoy the fun of two bouts of malaria and the excitement that is debilitating vertigo if my parents hadn't adopted my sister. LOL Anyway. It's a moot point because I'm not exactly in a time and place where I can either get pregnant or adopt. That's what really cracks me up. I'm currently single and don't own my own place and certainly don't have enough money for the adoption process. I find it freakin hilarious that my boss has given up on me finding a guy and has skipped ahead to the me pregnant part. She swears that in 5 years I will have a baby in my belly. I shake my head and laugh, especially when asked how I would react if it were immaculate conception. You know, if God came and make me pregnant overnight, okay, I might get the message. But unless that happens, I'm sticking with the multiple birth control methods and the very strong desire to NEVER BE PREGNANT! LMAO
On an unrelated note, I did a really great job today on http://www.livestrong.com/myplate/
Sugars are still my downfall and I suspect I will never be able to make it a day on fewer than 32g of sugar. I have a sweet tooth. It's pretty much the only thing I ever want/crave.
Yeah, that's me going full circle. That's how I roll.
I finally mailed out the bookbox for
help_haiti today. Tuesday I mailed out an audio bookbox for a ring I'm on and the two clerks at the post office laughed when I said to send it media mail.Clerk: All you ever send is books!
Me: But this time I also have a postcard! *produces postcard*
Other clerk: Ah, so an extra few cents out of you this time
*paid*
Me: I also have a package waiting for me
*Other clerk goes to get it, feels contents through soft-sided envelope*
Me: Yeah. It's books
*everyone laughs*
The Accio Books kickoff broadcast is this Saturday. I might get to listen to a few minutes of it before having to go to a DADA meetup where we will listen to OTHER Harry Potter things online (oh, the irony, not being able to listen to HP online because I have to go watch other HP things online with friends).
There's a Neville/Charlie story in me that is EATING MY SOUL. It's going to be big and long and INSISTS that I write it. I can't get it out of my head all day. I've stopped listening to audio books in the car and work so I can just go over passages in my head. But when I get home and finish my work for the night, half the time I'm too tired to make a really good progress on it. Bah! I could get SO much done if I didn't have to work a real job LOL
Speaking of real jobs, my boss and coworker and I were talking about having kids today (boss has 3 sons, co-worker is trying to get pregnant). Suddenly we went from washing dishes to having kids in the conversation and when I said I would like kids but don't want to be pregnant, they jumped on me. It was all in fun, but went on for, like, 20 minutes of me insisting that I did NOT want to get pregnant and them saying that will all change in a few years. Look, if it's never changed in all the time it's been alive, I doubt it will change in the next few. Of course, I couldn't exactly go into the main reasons I don't want to give birth to kids because the personal details aren't really ones I like to discuss out loud. The top two reasons being: 1- v-ing and 2- passing on all the lovely health problems my family has to a new generation. Granted my family has a relatively good track record with cancer *touch wood* but Mom did have endometrial cancer and a second cousin of hers had a daughter who had breast cancer. But more importantly there's the heart disease that, like, EVERYONE on my dad's side has, the Diabetes and high blood pressure on both sides, and the osteoporosis of course and the amazing joys of ulcerative colitis that I constantly worry I have inherited from my mom because I keep displaying mild versions of symptoms she had when she was my age, before it took complete hold and I'm so terrified that I don't want to even go to the doctor about it. It's nothing. I'm sure it's nothing. I'm just constantly paranoid that my current issues are more than that and I don't want a kid to have to live with that kind of paranoia. Much better to adopt and have NO idea what freaky, unpredictable health problems might crop up. Like my sister. We never would have gotten to enjoy the fun of two bouts of malaria and the excitement that is debilitating vertigo if my parents hadn't adopted my sister. LOL Anyway. It's a moot point because I'm not exactly in a time and place where I can either get pregnant or adopt. That's what really cracks me up. I'm currently single and don't own my own place and certainly don't have enough money for the adoption process. I find it freakin hilarious that my boss has given up on me finding a guy and has skipped ahead to the me pregnant part. She swears that in 5 years I will have a baby in my belly. I shake my head and laugh, especially when asked how I would react if it were immaculate conception. You know, if God came and make me pregnant overnight, okay, I might get the message. But unless that happens, I'm sticking with the multiple birth control methods and the very strong desire to NEVER BE PREGNANT! LMAO
On an unrelated note, I did a really great job today on http://www.livestrong.com/myplate/
Sugars are still my downfall and I suspect I will never be able to make it a day on fewer than 32g of sugar. I have a sweet tooth. It's pretty much the only thing I ever want/crave.
Yeah, that's me going full circle. That's how I roll.
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Date: 2010-02-26 09:47 am (UTC)Oh, and WORD on the v-ing. Both myself during pregnancy, and cleaning up after the children. I've only recently gotten better at handling my cat's messes, and she's only done it less than 10 times in the 7 years I've had her. Plus, I have a very strong suspicion that I'd end up with gestational diabetes, and no, not going there if I can help it.
I really can't stand that condescending 'You'll change your mind later' garbage that gets spouted out so often. Umm, not unless something changes really dramatically. I'm 30 years old, pretty happily single, and my cat is all the child I've ever wanted. If/when I get married, I want to be able to travel and have fun together, not be rushing to beat the biological clock. I like children (sometimes), but I don't find them the most adorable thing ever, I'm not usually all that comfortable around them, don't enjoy babysitting, and I don't particularly see them fitting into any sort of lifestyle that I'd enjoy. I'd better off as the Aunt that visits occasionally and spoils them rotten from time to time, I think.
Btw, I need to pimp this to you like whoa! Virtual Torchwood Series 3, new episodes every Friday here: www.livejournal.com/community/tw_itallchanges
It's put together by a huge group of some of the best writers and most creative people in the fandom, and it feels SO real. What makes it so great is that it flows logically from Series 2, and incorporates all the radio plays, and takes that canon to a logical progression that doesn't ignore a large chunk of plot points and character development that went before. Also, the episodes aren't filled with anywhere near the number of plot holes. *G* Plus, there are tons of awesome extras leading up to, and following episodes: Captain's Blogs, pages of Ianto's diary, chat logs, notes and photos from Gwen, teasers for upcoming episodes, etc. I haven't been this excited about any fandom material in any fandom since RTD ripped my heart out last July. Easily the best virtual series I've read in any fandom.
*edited to fix URL*