I want to thank everyone for the insightful, thoughtful and very personal responses that were shared to my comment yesterday evening. Reading through that thread again this morning I'm deeply touched, and once again so happy to be part of a group of people who are so sharing of their knowledge and experience. Thankyou very, very much 🥹
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What I found fascinating was the amount of ladies on here that didn't necessarily fit into the mould of girly girl shit. My people. Girl power.
Same ♥️💪🏻
I saw that too. We have a nice little corner of the internet here, all a little bit weird but full of support.
Warm and fuzzy. So good.
Same!
I feel like these days there's more peer pressure to fit into a mould younger and younger and to like and have opinions about things that they might not necessarily have thought about yet.
It's good to validate mini peelers feelings but remember she's very young and her feelings may change as time goes on. Hug her and tell her you love her no matter what and she can come to you no matter what.
Ps. You're the listener. Don't ask too many questions.
I can't comment from a parent perspective, but have a friend who is proud to claim what they call a'full set' a cis child, a trans one, and an enby. From knowing many people with interesting gender stories the earlier the better, ultimately it's not about you. Hugs.
I've locked in an open mic for mid august. I'm putting this here if anyone has time and wants to have a listen:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nT-cmxanzX7XijjmRZjHbNsBuL4AtOUu/view?usp=drivesdk
Sunday night practice with some mistakes and some fucking around for 1 song.
Broke a front tooth :(
It's mostly made of composite material which means hopefully they'll be able to rebuild it which has been the case in the past.
Not a great look though, makes me feel a bit self conscious.
Edit: in better news, I feel like a gazillion bucks after getting as much as sleep as I've had in over a year.
Wooooooooooooooo!!!!
Edit 2: add another 2 hours of sleep. Man that PT sesh yesterday must have destroyed me in a good way.
Oh bugger.
I remember as a kid I fell off a skateboard and faceplanted and lost a bit of a front tooth. All the kids at school laughed at me :(
Surprisingly whatever the dentist did the composite stuff is still there 25 yrs on.
This calls for a rave choon
I've got a half front tooth as well, I hadn't realised it was so trendy! Mine's been there 31 years now, I guess the front tooth doesn't get much wear to damage it.
Night all ❤️
Night Gibson
Following the discussion yesterday on gendered toys, I just remembered how I used to play schools. The school had its own name and leadership structure. I had a relative who used to sew toys out of felt and sell them, and so I was given quite a few of those. I managed to make a class full of toys and each of them had an exercise book to do their work in that I would mark. I even did school photos with my shitty tablet at the time. The 'naughty' kids would be sent under my bed for a time out sort of thing.
I have a lot of great memories watching my daughter and her dad playing school with all her toys.
One very memorable one was when the dog would walk through the classroom roughing up the students. My daughter announces "kids this is Toby. Our new special needs student. Say hello". Me leaving the room to giggle.
My husband's watching Jurassic Park and whenever I see dinosaurs it reminds me of YL's very intelligent mad loving dinosaur friend. So his fixation is of course dinosaurs and that's how he would start a conversation with you (diagnosed autistic later on).
One day he said something like some sort of dinosaur fact to a teacher and the moll replied "Dinosaurs aren't real you know".
10 years on and we still laugh about it. At the teacher of course.
What is wrong with that teacher?
Religious nut.
Oh dear
That teacher needs their degree cancelled. Shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a classroom.
Jalapeño sautéed in bacon fat. These will be mixed in the cornbread batter.
I mis-timed the dog walk badly and we both ended up quite soggy. Mr Woof got the wet dog zoomies, hurtling up and down the hallway using Miss Meow as a hurdle.
Edit: Actually, the timing could have been worse. It's absolutely bucketing down now.
"Treats or too early?"
Edit: had 2 x 3 hour chunks of sleep and I feel amazing. I'd forgotten what feeling OK getting up was like.
tonight I am cooking a large cottage pie, which I hope will last a few days
Family lunch was nice. Just nan and opa, dad, uncle, and my aunt and her partner. It was super nice a chill.
Very pleased to hear Opa lose his shit over the ICE raids in the USA.
up early, had coffee, had another allergic reaction to the milk, strong lip tingling and I could feel throat irritation and I coughed a bit , went back to sleep later
it's time to start black coffee 🥺
30/50
35/50 because the latter half had some real easy ones. So proud of that ad campaign! And having been here when it took off!
Finally managed to get the cat window beds to stick. They are being ignored.
Nonstop napping. Getting up only to tend to Melbcat or do something essential.
I had the sleeping habits of a bat but now they’re the habits of a sloth.
my finds at the beach today
a very old piece of iridescent glass, a pink murex, a top shell, a frilled venus shell and a vertebrate of I don't know what
So I did some closer looking at the glass and some reading.
It's dark olive glass made with iron slag, it's a shard from a mouth blown bottle and it's very thick, the glass has bubbles in it, the iridescence is from being in a being in a dump for 150 years and it was washed out in the recent storms. In America this kind of glass is called Pirate Glass. 🏴☠️🍾
and the vertebrate is a shark vertebrate . Cool. 🦈
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Some bao buns with pickled vegetables and hot sauce please chef. And a nice cup of elephant's milk to go with.