I have managed to make dinner. I think maybe I'll go back to sleep now.

Steph is wise, I just wish I realized this sooner.

So now I know...and knowing is half the battle!

SLNRLBF keeps reminding me of all the ways I'm doing great and that everyone really likes me at work and I'm good at what I do.

Anyway I'm planning to have a nice weekend. Mostly of cleaning up the house, I've let things get away from me while I was stressed.

I am SO PROUD of you askye. You did exactly what you needed to do, and you got a great response. That is HUGE. Go you. Relax! Have a good weekend! And when you go back to work you can make specific, definite progress.

Steph, I am like you with the cavalier attitude about exposed boobage. I'm a lot more shy about someone seeing my belly than my boobs.

*sigh* I remember a time when it was rare to be in a group where no one had seen me naked. Good times.

Yeah. Weird. I sometimes forget that everyone I know now has not seen me naked.

Had them used to apply glitter to my face?

Please tell me there's video of this.

Vortex, I'm glad you said something about the "getting wet"; I tried, but I couldn't write anything I could post.

salad shooter

Kristin, that's horrible! God.

askye, good for you; and Steph said what I wanted to, but better.

askye, everyone else has already said some great things about how you handled this. I'm just going to say they are right, and that I'm glad you'll be able to really relax. Also, yay SLNRLBF, for reminding her of how great she's doing.

I don't like blood oranges. Too sweet.

Much dental~ma for Squeak, so that he can soon be reunited with Sophie.

Nora, I'm glad the pain has backed down a bit.

There are so many wise women and men here who are so generous with their encouragement to me and to others - I just don't know where to begin to say thank you. And not just thank you for all the support you give me, but also for the lovely things you say to people that I care about.

I know she's 14, but really? Joking about liking Nazis?

ChiKat, my high school physics teacher used to joke that his role model was Ghengis Khan because Shaka Zulu wasn't ruthless enough.

Then again, maybe he wasn't joking.

But yeah, kid needs to be called on it.

Teppy is wise.

Steph, I am like you with the cavalier attitude about exposed boobage. I'm a lot more shy about someone seeing my belly than my boobs.

Oh fuck yeah, me too.

*sigh* I remember a time when it was rare to be in a group where no one had seen me naked. Good times.

Yeah. Weird. I sometimes forget that everyone I know now has not seen me naked.

The Boy is excessively cavalier about being naked around people, to the point where, when we were on vacation at the beach with his family, when he came up on the back porch from the beach -- there was an outdoor shower in a wooden enclosure out on the porch, to get sand off -- he actually started to just drop trou (well, grabbed the waistband of his swimsuit in preparation for yanking them downward) before he (fortunately) remembered that THIS WAS HIS FAMILY.

And they are not that kind of a family.

askye, I'm so proud of you. and I cry all the time for things like that . Next time you need help it will be easier to ask.

and yes, the girl needed to be called out. Some jokes are always out of line. and if it isn't a joke...bigger problems

Every so often I feel like I'm breaking some rule by being naked around Emeline after a shower or what have you. Like I honestly feel like someone is going to come into my home and take her. It's very disheartening the naughtiness we put on nakedness as a society. I think if there were more nakedness there would be less body image demons. Like, I wonder how body consciousness in the Mediterranean (where, I've been told nakedness is not so taboo) compares to that in US (where naked = naughty)?

I am also sure that this conversation has been had before? In some incarnation?