Yesterday I was having vicious cramps, so I drew a hot bath and lounged in the tub while I read Just Desserts, by Sue Welfare and ate a marshmallow-filled, milk chocolate heart. At one point I rolled onto my stomach and propped myself up on my elbows to read, and I could feel my breasts gently buoyed in the water underneath me.

It was awesome.

Last night, on the way home from dinner at Mokolodi, we were stopped at the light just before the circle at Game City. Matt looked up to the left and read aloud, "Game", and I followed suit, scanning the large sign and reading through the names of the stores ( Read more... )

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The last bit of Belgian, dark chocolate ice cream is melting in the container, sitting on the tiles to my right. Dead Sexy, by Kathy Lette, is sitting on the black desk to my left. (Honestly, if that book can be published, then there's no reason why I can't have a story published, too.) Its been a quiet day, once you discount the rib-rattling, toe- ( Read more... )

According to www.180degreehealth.com, I have the physiology of someone who's starving.

Yes, starving.

Let's tick off some symptoms that I share with Ancel Keys' subjects from his Human Starvation experiment:

1) Low body temperature - my basal (waking) temperature is always lower than what is healthy and normal for the human body. I've known this for ( Read more... )

1) Cell phone is pay-as-you-go; my carrier is Mascom, and I wait for the end-of-the-month special deals for airtime ( Read more... )

is a miracle ( Read more... )

This picture irritates me the more I look at it:


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Its not like our house is dirty (the maid came yesterday) - its just accessible to bugs, lol. Almost every room has vents to the outside, with no (or torn) screens in them and - since its summer - our windows (which are also screenless) are open almost every day, all day long ( Read more... )

I started my period yesterday, and I finished reading The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant, today. I cried a couple times, especially towards the very end of the book. It was such a release! I cried as much for Dinah and her family as I did for myself. I cried that the story ended. I cried because I wasn't sure how much of the story was true or not...

I ( Read more... )