My sister's coming up for the weekend. We're going to build my niece a worktable, fix my screen door, and paint my laundry room. I'm declaring Silence on all talk about diets, food, exercise, my health (it's fine), how fat I am, how fat she feels (she weighs 117 lbs), and what I should/shouldn't be doing to lose weight. The more she talks and tries to encourage me, the more I want to curl up on the couch with ice cream forever. She started trying to help me lose weight when I was 17 (130 pounds at 5'7"), and she's been doing it ever since. I love my sister. But her diet advice has included "just starve yourself!" and "chew it and then spit it out!" and it's not good. Somehow I have to impress upon her that she has to stop talking at me about my weight.

I'm curious though, do you put yourself down in front of Em? Because I know I was pretty insulting to my mom when I was growing up, thinking she wasn't pretty, but if I look back on it it was because she was so often telling me how ugly she was. I was a kid, and I believed her.

sj, I try *really* hard not to. I learned when I was pregnant that kids get their body images from how their mom treats herself. Having had the BIDs for a very, very long time, I decided I was breaking that cycle and wasn't going to do it. I do say stuff, occasionally, but for the most part, I don't.

I am also allergic to adhesive. I've found a few fabric and high-tech bandages that haven't bothered me, but some of those seem to be turning on me. When you have drains after surgery, you have to wear some kind of bandaid over the hole they were in until they heal. Mine healed fine, but I had ulcerating bandaid-shaped sores around them. Very few people think the bandaid is the worst part of having a drain.

I'm now radioactive. The instructions say stay away from small children, but don't say anything about small pets. I'll find out Tuesday whether all this crap is doing me any good. Monday I get to take the truck to the Progressive claims center.

I just got a job offer!!!! *runs naked through fields while hooting "YEAAHHH!"*

Nexcare Tegaderm from 3M

omnis, that sounds fantastic and I'm gonna try it!

Yay Lilty!!!

*runs naked through fields while hooting "YEAAHHH!"*

That must be some job. Congrats!

I'm now radioactive.

Ginger glows in the dark!

Aims, "beautiful woman" may not mean to her what it means to you. Kids get weird ideas about what words mean sometimes. It may mean "celebrity" in her head or something. Or maybe "my mom" is simply in a different category from all other female humans. Anyway, don't take it to heart.

Congrats, Lilty!

So, you come back to B.org and immediately get a job. Coincidence? I think not.

Yay for Lilty!! Congrats!!!

Aims, you are GORGEOUS! Joe is a lucky man. And if your BID tell you otherwise, tell them to bugger off, or the Empress will throw them in the dungeun!

I'm now radioactive.