It’s midnight, do you know where your children are?
My 13-yr-old and 2 of the other (I think) 5 members of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Hat celebrated midnight by performing some odd, arcane, teen-girl ritual on my (very dark) second-floor balcony, involving a pair of candles and a bowl of gummy worms. Since Anxiety is a very trust-worthy girl, I feel this is a perfect “don’t ask, don’t tell” issue.
All I want to know is, why does it seem that my daughters are having way more fun as teenagers than I ever did?! (Well, they do have a really cool mom… *grin*)
In other news, my primary partner Geoffrey inflicted this utterly hilarious (but oh-so-wrong!) video on me. So of course I had to pass along the pain. Note: this is NOT how polyamorous relationships work. Unless you’re a total dumbass …not that I, of course, have ever dated a polyamorous total dumbass. (Well, not recently.) Oh, the video is R-rated, no nudity but definintely what they call “adult situations.”
Geoffrey also sent me a link to a blog that consists entirely of a woman detailing all the dysfunctional relationships in her life, in all their slimy glory. Wow, what a concept. I can (sort of… theoretically… almost) see the appeal in that, or at least the cathartic value of getting it all out. However, they have a nifty thing called a “blank book” — available in all styles & colors — where a person can vent all their miseries, and analyze the dysfunctions, and learn from their mistakes. You can even show it to your friends, and request their views & advice! But putting all the details of the mistakes of your past, and your former sick relationships, online just strikes me as a masturbatory, martyr-ish pity party. (Which is why I don’t do it anymore… Diary-X totally crapping out & losing all my years of journal entries was a blessing in disguise. Much better to focus on what I’m doing right, than what my friends & lovers are supposedly doing wrong!)
June 29th, 2006 at 6:21 am
LOL… Catharsism aside, there’s such a thing as just too much information, which is why whenever there was just WAAAY too much for me to deal with (and I couldn’t trust the ex not to nose his way into said blank book) I just locked my diary entries so that no one would have to deal with it. It was simple, helped me, and no one else had to listen to me whine - unless they wanted to. *chuckle* ~M
June 29th, 2006 at 9:51 am
Gods… the video was painfully funny. “Lifestyles of the clueless and careless,” as it were.
In a weird sort of way, I’m a very lucky guy: I don’t have a lot of dysfunctional relationships in my past (or present!), unless you count my relationship to my extended blood relatives.
June 29th, 2006 at 11:53 am
That video was so funny, wrong but funny.
Yeah I don’t think I would feel right bitching about any past dysfunctional relationtionships online either.
I too am lucky to not have that many in the past as well.
June 29th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
My blog’s warped enough, but doesn’t contain details about my past. Yeah, I was sexually adventurous. Am happy to have the last notch on my belt, Jerry’s notch. Am going to go savor the video on this delightfully sultry day in PDX. Yes, I ordered a thunderstorm, but no lightening strikes on our dearly beloved forests.
July 1st, 2006 at 10:28 pm
I too thought the video was wrong but funny.
My partner only thought “wrong”