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Random Thoughts for the Weekend
Posted under Everyday ramble by Recovering Straight GirlIt’s Friday, always a bittersweet day. Cool because HG and I get some alone time as the girls go their dad’s house. Not cool, because it begins my work week at my glamorous waitressing job; yuck. Friday is always our date night and tonight we have a movie planned, (Running With Scissors,) and probably some dinner, I would assume.
Our week is soooo busy with the girls and their endless activities and obligations, we often have dinner out once or twice a week. This week, however, I managed to actually plan ahead and cooked every meal.
Every single one.
Made every breakfast, packed every lunch, prepared every dinner (by scratch, nothing boxed, bottled, or canned…)
Yeah me.
Tonight, we WILL be going out, because hell, I deserve it.
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New Jersey.
It looks as though New Jersey is going to be more progressive than Oregon with the recent ruling that legislatures have six months to grant gay couples equal rights.
New Jersey.
Home of Tony Soprano, New Jersey,
is going to give gay couples equal rights, but tree hugging Oregonians voted to disallow gay marriage and define marriage between one man and one woman.
It seems like a ripple in the time/space continuum, doncha think?
New Jersey.
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On Wednesday, I taught my twelve year old daughter to shave her legs.
She was TERRIFIED of cutting herself, so I did the entire first leg for her. She started getting the hang of it after a little while and had about six-thousand questions all about leg-shaving for HG and I all evening long. (That child can TALK.)
I wanted to take a picture, but she would not let me. She said, “No. You’ll put it on your blog.”
I would have.
Now don’t be all up in my business saying that she’s too young, I don’t want to hear it. It’s her body, and if she feels self-concious of her legs and wants to shave, who the hell am I to say no?  Disclaimer: I do draw the line on tatoos and weird body piercings, for now…
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HG and I voted today. Here in Oregon, we may not allow two people who love each other to get married, but we do vote by mail, (eliminates the issue of voting machines,) yeah us.
Luckily we received a VERY informative voters guide from VoteEquality, A Project from Basic Rights Oregon.
Anyone who’s not sure about who to vote for, and cares about equal rights, should most definitely check this out. Running for the Oregon Supreme Court is, Virginia Linder, who will be the first openly gay woman on the high court, yeah her!
Hopefully she will help out with that pesky little discrimination thing.
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I played soccer yesterday with DD#2’s team, (it was the parent/kid game.) I usually try to sit those things out, because A. I’m not athletic, and B. I don’t like to breathe hard or sweat unless it’s for a good cause, (hmm, hmm.)
I actually managed to kick the ball once or twice and then pulled a very assertive move foul that resulted in tripping one of the Dad’s on the other team. Too bad it wasn’t XH, who was also there, but still fun nonetheless.
Interestingly enough, XH and I were actually playing on the same team.
First time THAT’S happened in a long time…
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And that, my blogging friends from the Internet, is it.
Oh.
Two last things:
1. Those of you who have Blogger. I can’t comment. Would like to, can’t cuz Blogger is a Whore.
2. Kristine, Syd, somebody. Will you please help me to change my template? Or actually, I’ll send you my password, you can do it for me. Just pick something, I trust you. I’m just sick of my plain Jane template and I can’t figure out for the life of me how to do it. I’ve tried, believe me, don’t give me steps, at this point I just need someone to do it FOR me.
Whining over, have a great weekend!
Don’t feel bad about the shaving the legs too young thing. My daughter is 9, and has some pretty hairy ones. We’ve Naired those bitches for over a year. She lets up in the winter, but summer comes and it’s “Mom we need to Nair my legs tonight”
Hope you two have a great date night!
I was eleven when I started shaving my legs and I have a feeling Dink should have started last week (she’s a hairy little three year old).
Go figure on Joisey being progressive. Of course, I had to hear my parents gripe on it. “Their Congress will balk and put a stop to it.” Lovely.
Blogger totally sucks. ’nuff said on that one.
12 is too young! And piss on anyone who thinks other wise!
I have a ten year old who is getting breast and hips, Im sure I will be teaching her to shave her legs soon!
Have a great time out with HG, enjoy yourself’s.
I started shaving when I was about 12. I cut a huge slice in my leg right above my foot. Still have a scar. Fun times!
Yeah, Blogger is TOTALLY sucking for leaving comments. I HATE IT. *grump*
Have a lovely night with HG!
We completed and mailed our votes in yesterday. I don’t see why everyone everywhere doesn’t do it this way!
That shaving legs deal is big grown-up stuff…way cool. My mom showed me at 13 and my legs looked like red confetti had been thrown all over them for about the first year! Hope DD fares better.
Have a great weekend….I think it’s going to be a sunny and beautiful one.
I meant to say ISNT too young
Dam typo’s 
12 isn’t too young at all! I hope she doesn’t end up with the scars I have on both shins though! Sliced those babies open the first year I shaved and kept doing it cause the damn scabs didn’t heal before the next time I thought I had to slaughter my legs! 30+ years later, the scars are still noticeable! Oy!
I started shaving when I was 12 too. Cut the shit out of my shin and still have a 4 inch scar to show for it.
I figure when a kid asks to shave her legs and is self-conscious about it, then she’s ready. I think I was probably about the same age, too, now that I think of it.
Wow! That is so impressive about the cooking every meal last week! I envy that and wish I could do it. AND with kids…I don’t know how you managed it, but I bet it felt really nice. How was the movie? I’ve heard it’s supposed to be great!
Please. I don’t think 12 is too young. You’re so cool. My mom made me start with an electric razor. Those things SUCK.
I need to go early vote.
12 for shaving isn’t too young, in my opinion, either. I was 11 and had been shaving underarms before then.
I’m not sure why commenting on Blogger isn’t possible, but I have anonymous comments enabled and word verification off since I haven’t gotten badly spammed in a great long while, so maybe that’s why I don’t get it.
I also started at 12 with a crappy electric razor. I just ’sneak shaved’ in the bathtub. LOL…I was hairy and very self consious too, good for you!
Playing on the same team…had to laugh at the irony of that LMAO!
Well, I hope you at least made awesome tips at your glamorous waitressing job, because you deserve it. Hope you had fun time with HG, too
You taught your daughter how to shave? my gawd how times have changed! I had to figure out on my own when I needed to use anti-perspirant and how to shave. Mom teach me? No f’way, dude.
oh, well….life goes on. I hope after 11/7 it gets better, but I’m not holding my breath.
best wishes to you, HG and the DDs
*hugs*
lil sis
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