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Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Spike's Bitches 24: I'm Very Seldom Naughty.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Beverly - Jul 10, 2005 7:55:52 am PDT #9595 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Moya! Nice name, hee.

From Chez Bev, there is nothing to report. DH is reading, I'm playing on the internets, we're listening to a marathon of LotR soundtrack cds and drinking The Elephant coffee from Fresh Market. Nice Sunday.


Hil R. - Jul 10, 2005 8:07:22 am PDT #9596 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I've had a pretty good day so far. Did some reading, then went jogging. (Well, more like walking with a few bouts of jogging intersperced.) It's gorgeous out there today -- there were a ton of people out jogging or biking or with boats on the river.


SailAweigh - Jul 10, 2005 8:43:45 am PDT #9597 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

It's going to be another scorcher here, today. It got up to 88 yesterday, I'm not sure what today will be, 90-something I'll bet. Still, I got up 8ish and took a walk before breakfast. Since then I've done dishes, watched some Dark Angel and played on the internets. I'd kinda like to go to the movies, but I don't want to go back outside because my a/c condo is soo comfy.


beekaytee - Jul 10, 2005 10:01:27 am PDT #9598 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

Today started out with the bris for baby Ish.

Funny, he and I both cried much more over him getting clipped than we did over him getting born.

Seriously. He didn't really cry at all for the first 6 hours of his life. The snipping, however, seemed to be really painful.

But given the wine and the adrenaline pump, it didn't take long for him to snuffle himself back to sleep afterward.

After much Mazel Toving, I'm back home with the pooch-boy seriously considering a nap. Bartleby seems all in favor.


Volans - Jul 10, 2005 10:07:02 am PDT #9599 of 10001
move out and draw fire

Mazel Tov to the baby...poor thing. I was a wreck when they did Mal's circumcision, but he rallied quickly. Of course, I was partially a wreck with worry that they'd do it wrong, since the doctor's only been doing them for a year (previously, all expats who wanted that service hired the rabbi here), and the first thing he said to me was "We don't do this, because the Turks do this."

So I was just hoping he wouldn't take out a lifetime of nationalistic fervor on my baby.


beekaytee - Jul 10, 2005 10:11:28 am PDT #9600 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

Oh dog. I'd probably have fainted under those circumstances. Today all we had to contend with from the otherwise amiable Rabbi was his blaming the baby's crying on the mother eating oriental food. He was difinitely a throwback...and had a whole Shecky (sp) Greene thing going on with the patter and stopping the action at. every. step. so that I could take a picture. This has to have been the most posed medical procedure of all time.

On the other hand, he's been doing it for 20 years and comes from a long line of moils, so it was easy to have confidence in his skill, if not his politics.


beekaytee - Jul 10, 2005 10:14:33 am PDT #9601 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

Raquel, how long did it take for Mal to heal? There wasn't much blood or anything this morning, and Ish's umbilical stump healed pretty quickly but I'm just wondering how long it will take for him to heal since he'll be, ya know, wetting on the wound.


Fay - Jul 10, 2005 10:28:10 am PDT #9602 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Crumbs.

You all do this, don't you? The circumcision thing?

Huh.


Topic!Cindy - Jul 10, 2005 10:30:19 am PDT #9603 of 10001
What is even happening?

I seem to recall the boys circs took way less time to heal than their belly buttons did. Maybe a week, Beej. The urine doesn't seem to bother it. I'd think it would too, but it doesn't. I slathered them in Vaseline though, every time I changed them, and it provides a pretty effective barrier, I think.


Hil R. - Jul 10, 2005 10:34:11 am PDT #9604 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I'm pretty sure that a medical circumcision heals a bit differently than one done by a moyel, since the procedure itself is a bit different, usually.