I think my new favorite thing is young men who keep a stash of feminine hygiene products on hand in case a female friend has a need.

What's surprising is how many women don't keep such a stash, myself included, and why? It's not like we don't know we're going to need them again, possibly unexpectedly. In my own defense, mine was always super regular so I was rarely surprised, but I could've kept an emergency stash anyway, for other girls if not for myself. Yet it's only recently that it's come to my mind as something anyone should do. That emergency scramble was just something that happened. I think training people not to talk about a thing trains them not to think about it too. I think a lot of young women don't even know how to recognize the signs in their bodies that can tell them the sharks are approaching.

But yeah, absolutely. Good on those young men. I have hope for the world because the younger generation seems mostly compassionate and aware.

I feel like it always happens the one time you're not prepared though. I can have a stash in my bag for three weeks, and the one day I'm not carrying the bag is the day...

The red heating stove or the white space heater?

Sorry, didn't see this last night - red upright heater (see FB for pics)

I went back to sleep until 9 AM today! I was so tired that Mom took ltc out, and I didn't even hear them leave. The tree sex is kicking my ass.

Until a few years ago my period was highly erratic. I would have one a month and then nothing for 3 months. And then maybe 3 in a year but nothing I could track. AND maybe I'd get really hungry and moody and cry all the time for aweek before. Or I'd want all the sex and all the food. And other times I woudn't feel any different. Sometmes I'd get cramps before but mostly after it had already started.

I would wear a pad every day for a week thinking my period was going to start and then stop because that was stupid. And a couple weeks later it would start. Sometimes it would just be a little bit and other times I could feel it.

Or I'd use up all my emergency supplies because goign to the store was to stressful and then have to make a mad dash.

My periods have become erratic Manic Pixie Dream Sharks. I'll get a one-day period once a week for a few weeks, then nothing for a month, then surprise! we're back! Oh, you want menopause? Not yet, honey! You sure you don't want a baby? We'll give you a little more time to decide!

I get little drive-by periods every few months, so I don't get to claim menopause just yet. I remember when menopause was referred to in anxious whispers as The Change. Now most every woman I know is waving an impatient finger over her abdomen and saying "Enough already, wrap it up."

I have gotten pictures of every cat! Now onto mementos.

Just saw Guy Furry on the red stove making pizza, hooray!

Frosty was my last cat to get - I ended up using the sashimi and setting out the blue silk pillow and the igloo pyramid thing. Another theory I've seen on the interwebz is that Frosty's low power level (40, IIRC) means that she can't kick cats with a higher power level off her favorite things. SO occasionally I would kick non-Frosty cats off so she felt welcome. (you double tap the item in the Goody screen to clear it, the tap it again to replace it).

You'll lose some fish that way, but if that's not an immediate problem, it's something to consider.

Note: whatever I did might be total coincidence, and the power level thing is just a theory on Reddit, so I make no claim of accuracy! But that's what I did, and she came by relatively quickly. FINALLY.

Yeah, I'm definitely thinking "can I just be done now?" about my periods.

There are also stories going around Tumblr about young men being absolutely terrified in the presence of unused, wrapped tampons, such that young women are begining to advise each other to carry tampons to brandish like a weapon, when being harassed or assaulted. Given the misogyny that is the source of both terror of feminine hygiene products and of some harassment and violence, I can see it could be an effective distraction in at least some cases.