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I dig toilets. I dig them so much that in boxes and photo albums around my house, I have photos of toilets I’ve visited all across the world.
I dig toilet humor. To live in this house, you pretty much have to laugh while you’re cleaning up the “toilet type” messes made by children (and animals) every single day.
I can’t say I dig TW’s toilet issues, they make me sad, but I’ve gotten use to them. So use to them that I only say “what are you doing” a few times a day, as she gets up from her spot on the bed next to me, over and over again. The illness formerly known as Ulcerative Colitis but now renamed Crohn’s means that toilets are an even more important part of my life than ever before.
When TW disappears in a store, I don’t immediately think she’s wandered off to impulse shop in private (though she sometimes still does this), instead I assume she’s headed to the restroom and I’ll find her again eventually.
On car trips, I use to live by my father’s rule of only stopping if the dog needed to use the bathroom (and since I try to never travel with the dogs) we rarely stopped. Now, I barely sigh when we stop at rest stops all over the US, even if we’ve just stopped at a gas station 20 minutes ago.
I dig toilets and I understand toilets. I have absolutely no issue with toilets, I don’t even really mind cleaning them though I prefer not to ever enter the bathroom that the children use and TW cleans ours (it’s the least she can do since she uses it the most and since I do all of the freaking laundry, right).
TW and I have even hashed out our toilet paper problem. The over/under question has caused us to have some serious discussions over the last four years. Recently TW put her foot down and decided it would go “over” the top. Which is fine, I prefer it that way. But what was good was finally getting a “decree” because I would often try to be nice (since she uses so much TP) and put it under for her. She, being marshmallowy, would put it over for me. So, neither of us was ever really happy about it. In the dark, it’s tough to know which way to pull when there’s no consistency.
So why am I blogging about toilets? Since I dig them and have no serious toilet issues? Well I do, actually, have a toilet issue. And, I thought TW and I had that sussed before I ever moved to Florida. I thought we resolved that and she understood just how strongly I felt about this one issue. It does, after all, effect my hairbrush and I have SERIOUS hairbrush issues.
I do not want my hairbrush anywhere near toilet water. Ever. And if it comes in contact with said water, or you even think it MIGHT have come in contact, then the brush goes into the trash. Not back on the counter. Not in the dishwasher. Not in a pot of boiling water and not in the basket on the toilet tank lid.
We resolved this. In SC. Didn’t we?
She is the one who still talks about my ex who sold a car with my hairbrush still in it. (A story I am often sorry I told her because of how often she mentions this)
She is the one who drove 7 hours, not leaving her house til 11pm, with three children simply to bring me back the hairbrush I had left at her house earlier that day.
She is the one who scoured the internet, grocery stores, drugstores, Super K, Super Wal-mart and Super Targets all over the country, not to mention every rest stop in the southeast in search of the special pink Goodys hairbrush I prefer.
If she knows all of this, and she obviously does, then why did I find her talking about cleaning toilets with a pumice stone last night on her blog. When said pumice stone was IN THE BASKET WITH MY HAIRBRUSH?????? My hairbrush that is only in there because she was using it because her hair was way long and she actually had to brush it before going to work. My hairbrush that I really don’t like anyone using. MY hairbrush. WAS in the basket. WITH. THE. PUMICE. STONE.
What the…
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I have tons of things to do and no time to do them so let’s see if this list thing helps…
1) Delete spam from 4 junk mail boxes.
2) Write the HP phone conference report.
3) Write a mini review of a new health site.
4) Start the weekly report.
5) WLC phone conference.
6) Mod meeting (canceled)
7) LAUNDRY
8) Find a cord for RJ’s MP3 player so we can put some decent music on this thing. (why can’t there be a STANDARD cord for MP3 players and digital cameras???? In the last 5 years we’ve had 4 MP3 players, a hand scanner, a Mini Disc player and 7 digital cameras and we do not have the cord to fit this particular MP3 player! GEEZ)
9) Blog about toilets.
10) Write the Brilliant Women entry.
11) Help Michelle with geometry (and chemistry too).
12) Return long overdue library books.
13) Blog phone call.
An update at 6pm… ha, of course I still didn’t blog about a “real topic” and I still didn’t write the Brilliant Women entry and those library books are still overdue – though they are in the bag, by the door and ready to go out when we leave at 7:20ish to see Hamlet. I got other stuff not on that list done today, so it was a pretty productive day. And of course, I will be doing laundry until my dying day and even then I’ll probably come back as a laundry worker or something in my next life.
One last update, ha! Toilet blog post is up and I feel better. Thanks for listening and of course supporting my outrage!
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I’m a pretty lucky person. I’ve won more than my fair shair of raffles and door prizes over the years. But, the luck I’m talking about today is lube luck.
Every year at the GLBT PRIDE festival, the PRIDE committee raffles off baskets of ID Lube, (sometimes they raffle other stuff too), and they have a 50/50 raffle. For the last four years, I’ve been shut out of the winnings just once. And two of those four years, I won two prizes.
Last night, I won the 50/50 raffle (and dropped the winnings into the PRIDE committee donations fishbowl, which is what I did two years ago as well). I also won the medium sized basket of lube. (I won a similar basket three years ago, along with tickets to the ballet) It’s a lot of lube considering we still have more than half of the lube left from that first winning night (most of what’s missing was given away lol). I wonder if some relief organization is in need of lube? Hmmm, I might have to make some calls and find out.
TW wants to know why I don’t play the lottery. Duh, obviously straight girls like my sister win the lottery and gay girls like me win lube. It would be a waste of my money to try and break the rules of luck.
Besides the lube and the 50/50 luck last night, I had a bit more luck show itself. My 19 year old son was wondering around the PRIDE festival wearing an “I love my lesbian mom” button. And when my 15 year old heard about it, she ran off to buy one to wear, too.
Yes, I’m a very lucky woman. Lube and kids who love their lesbian mom. It doesn’t get any better than that, does it?
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In the beginning, when we were still disovering similar interests and different ideas in each other, TW and I found ourselves in the midst of what I like to call a poetry dance. The "music" we were dancing to was the poetry of Audre Lorde. On a message board, in a community of women, there were few who recognized Lorde’s words and even fewer who understood what Lorde’s words meant to us. Typical and disappointing. Finding TW in that place and finding that she not only knew of Audre Lorde but appreciated her was neither typical or disappointing. It was pretty darn amazing.
I’ve mentioned my birthday gifts on the other blog; iRiver and clean sweep but now I’m going to tell you about the best gift of all! (I know, how could it get better than that?)
TW adopted Audre Lorde for me! It’s true, she did! You can go right to this Audre Lorde page of the Poets.org site and look way down there on the right. My name is there (along with some other obvoiusly cool woman in NYC).
A lot of time has passed since then and we’ve shared a lot of poetry since then but Audre Lorde will always be special to us both. For who she was, what she said and the poetry dance the two of us shared.
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I woke up this morning with a stuffy head and achey sinuses. I know you needed to know this, didn’t you? It’s not really an uncommon thing for me but this morning I was dreading the day ahead (3 back to back phone calls) and doing some whining about it all while driving TW to work. TW’s response was “I’m sorry, but maybe you can take a shower.” Huh? is what I thought but I just figured it was some weird TW train of thought and I was totally not into going there at the time.
Fast forward 10 hours…
We’re home, the work day is officially over but I’m on the laptop in bed trying to catch up on my boards after 3 1/2 hours straight of phone calls. Wondering how I’m going to catch up. Wondering if Michelle did any school work, besides the Spanish oral exam (I know she took because the phone rang at the start of phone call number two and it was Sra. Johnson) and the blogging she did today. Wondering why I can’t take those special red pills of death like normal people because my sinuses are still yukky. While I was doing all of that wondering and trying to work and laughing at a coworker on AIM when what I really wanted to do was scream, the UPS truck showed up. I went out and grabbed the boxes and brought them into the bedroom. “I believe these are RJ’s birthday gifts.”
TW got up and opened the boxes and started to laugh…
“Didn’t you say you got your present yesterday and liked it?”
“Yes, I said that.”
“Well what exactly did you get?”
“What do you mean, what did I get? You’re the one who ordered it!?!” (At this point I’m thinking TW is totally nuts and trying to drive me nuts so maybe she can dump me in a long term care facility, steal my kids and move in with that new barrista she has a crush on…or maybe the gay guy at work that needs her help so badly)
“I got those little travel speakers for the iRiver, duh!”
TW laughs again, “That isn’t yours, that is RJ’s! This is yours!”
“Well no wonder this morning you looked at me like I was an idiot when I said you could take a shower!”
No wonder is right, lol. Man, when did my life get so complicated?
Now about these little SudaCare Shower Soother tablets… I saw them advertised on the TLC channel when we were in Charleston doing our Clean Sweep/Trading Spaces/Property Ladder/What not to Wear marathon and commented on them quite a bit. We even searched the commmissary and the BX on the Air Base for them with no luck. This is the sort of thing TW does… you comment on something, you half heartedly look for it because it’s interesting and before you know it, you’ve got a carton of them. Luckily, I only got one box this time… at least I think it’s only one box…
The instructions say “For best results, place directly under water stream and face the tablet.” Well we have a tiny shower. In order to do both of those, I’d have to stand directly against one of the end walls and then I’m not under the dog gone shower stream which is totally unacceptable for me. If I’m taking a shower, I expect to get wet for goodness sakes.
Luckily though, we do have a small shower so that part about facing the tablet wasn’t really necessary. The thing was pretty much right under me and while it did give off a lot of that mentholy eucalyptusy vapor it didn’t give off so much that it burned the ummm sensitive areas (just a little tip here, do not get Vicks Vapor Rub in those areas… it’s not pleasant and it does nothing for congestion or sinuses… learn from previous accidents, that’s why we have those little accidents, to save you folks pain and discomfort!).
Anyway, back to the shower… as I said, it does give off a lot of that mentholy eucalyptusy vapor and my sinuses did feel a bit better BUT the scent reminded me of when I was a kid and my dad use to bath the dogs in MY bathtub with some special mentholy smelling medicated shampoo. So, it smelled like wet dog in the shower. I don’t know if that means I smelled like a wet dog or if the tablet itself smells like wet dog. Either way, it bugged me and I’m not sure I can actually bring myself to shower with those tablets again. Can you blame me?
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Once upon a time (5 years ago), in a land that no longer exists (women.com), I had the pleasure (not) of moderating a message board called “Coming Out”. What a joke that was. Looked good on paper, I suppose, but whoever decided a “Coming Out” board would be a good idea in an only marginally lesbian/bi friendly women’s community didn’t ask any real lesbians.
It was rare for anyone to use that board to tell their coming out story. It was rare for anyone to ask for advice about coming out. And when people did post their stories or ask for advice, it was like talking to an empty room. Nobody (except me) was really listening. And, to put it bluntly, I’m not all that “Coming Out Friendly”. I tend to advise on the side of caution, especially when listening to a 16 year old girl who lives with homophobic parents or a married woman of 35 who THINKS she has a great husband who will understand. These are not the best living conditions in which to decide to “Come Out”.
I also am not hugely fond of making “Coming Out” a huge production. Why make people you care about feel any more uncomfortable than they need to feel right off the bat? You’re about to spring some pretty rough information on people, why not keep it low key in the beginning? What’s the real benefit to you to make a production? I understand not wanting to lie or pretend. I understand the whole “If they don’t support me then I don’t need them” feeling. I understand the need to be really loud in order to hide your own fear and discomfort at such a pronouncement. But really folks, low key has always worked pretty well for me. There’s time later for celebration and NOISE.
Regardless of how you came out, regardless of how you might still come out, celebrate the day. Regardless of how you have reacted to a coming out or how you might react to a coming out, celebrate the day. It isn’t easy, no matter how it’s done.
There are some interesting coming out stories on the HRC National Coming Out Day site. Check those out and don’t miss Tom – he has interesting advice to share.
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