Go, meara!!! Love to make out in cars like teenagers. It's fun.

doctors just say they're using a smaller one so that the patient will relax.

I do know they come in different sizes. There is this one nurse at my doc's that ALWAYS puts out the largest speculum when I go in for my pap. My doc will sit down and take a look and before she even opens the speculum will say, "Oh, this is going to be way too big. You need a smaller one."

See, the nurse just assumes that because I'm a big woman, I have a big va-jay-jay. Ummmmm. no.

I actually had my pap on Tuesday. New nurse. And, as an interesting side note, a male nurse. He put out the right size from the get go and he's never even seen my va-jay-jay.

Oh, meara, that's kind of adorable.

When my PCP was pretty new (she was a resident), I asked her to do my PAP because, well, I liked and trusted her. I don't think she had done many, and she was clearly nervous. It was really kind of funny. But then she slipped while taking the speculum out, and OUCH. OMG. I thought I was going to die. She was so apologetic, and I was all, "Oh, it's fine" while my girly bits were screaming.

But, she's gotten much better. She just did my annual when I saw her on Wednesday, and she was like a pro. It was kind of funny because she was like, "This might be the last one of these I do."

I've begun with Death Notes ... see what peer pressure makes me do!

I think I posted something in my LJ (versus here) about my unabashed appreciation for Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, particularly when he's in the cave in the tank top.

And I may have mentioned how The Boy ain't too shabby in that regard, either. Now I have proof. t edit We don't live in a cave, though. t edit again Feel free to objectify my boyfriend. I do it all the time.

Randomly, Chloe the dalmatian loves wearing people clothes. No joke.

Oh, Steph that picture of Chloe is too funny!

So, I just sent my weekly blog entry to my dad to look at. He thinks I should switch "the boy" to "my special male friend." Usually he's quite insightful on these kinds of changes, but um, no. I'm gonna put my foot down on this one.

Nice guns, Steph's The Boy!!

He thinks I should switch "the boy" to "my special male friend."

I'm not sure why that's so wrong but it really, really is. I like to say "my gentleman friend" because "boyfriend" is way too strange and new to me.

Somebody was talking about the shock of the cold speculum yesterday? Steph, maybe? It reminded me of my grandmother talking about how her OB/GYN (who was her cousin by marriage actually) won her undying loyalty by putting his instruments on a heating pad set very low to gently warm them.

vw, you could go all formal and refer to him as your "young man"

I convinced dad that it's a generational thing. And I left it. As you can see here: [link]

Nice guns, Steph's The Boy!!

That's SO not even a good picture of his arms. He does a LOT of manual work in his job, and thus -- those are good arms to have.

vw, I know that when I refer to The Boy as "boy" around anyone but Buffistas (and kinky people, but that's a WHOLE different connotation), they think I'm belittling him (since, after all, he's 41 years old). Maybe that's what your dad thought. Or that you were emphasizing the fact that CBD is younger than you.

I always have to remember to amend "-friend" on the end so that people don't think I'm being demeaning.