It’s the day after Christmas. This is also a time when family violence increases. People are together more, amid the additional stresses of holiday spending and often alcohol. Don’t allow it in your life, or in the lives of your loved ones. Domestic violence is NOT acceptable, even at Christmas.
Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) if you need help or shelter.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. Yet, some people argue passionately about everything. They enjoy testing the strength of another’s convictions, or else they have a mood disorder. Perhaps they are simply bullies. Or it’s PMS.
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) has a wide variety of symptoms, including mood swings, tender breasts, food cravings, fatigue, irritability and depression. An estimated 3 of every 4 menstruating women experience some form of premenstrual syndrome.
Quotation from MayoClinic.com, Premenstrual Syndrome
[FYI: Don't argue the fact that 3 out of 4 is almost 75%.]
Saturday is Halloween. Despite the giant spiders and scary pumpkins I leave on the porch to scare them away, children still come looking for cookies and candy. They think their little plastic masks and bedsheets will protect them. Heh heh.
Lisa, vampires are make believe, like elves, gremlins and eskimos.
Quotation from Homer Simpson
ENVELOPE, n. The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the husk of a remittance; the bed-gown of a love-letter.
Quotation from Ambrose Bierce
Do you feel like trying something dangerous “until it scares me?” Whether it’s roller coasters, mountain climbing or walking alone at night, we believe we can debark, return from the path we have taken and turn the key to our homes, safe and magically invulnerable. We think “It won’t happen to me.”
It is no more common for vampires to be psychopaths or killers than it is for any random person on the street. However, a prolonged, or very involved, relationship with a vampire can put a severe strain on the emotional and psychic energy systems of an ordinary person.
Quotation from Inanna Arthen, Real Vampires (EarthSpirit.com)
I love creative, inventive people, especially those who know bigger isn’t always better.
Parents: Beware of Vodka-Soaked Tampons (HubPages.com) Please don’t do this.
How to Make a Thanksgiving Turkey Out of Tampons (Tampon Crafts) Also learn how to make a Tampon Toupee, a Tampon Blowgun and other useful things.
Yesterday was Friday the 13th. I cut my finger. A knife-slip sliced saucily through a tendon. The emergency room gave me six stitches. I’m minus a cup or two of blood. If I wasn’t superstitious (paraskavedekatriaphobiatic) before, I am now.
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
Quotation from William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Jack the Giant Killer is my least favorite fairy tale. Jack climbed up the beanstalk and he stole gold coins from the Giant. He went back a second time and stole a hen that laid golden eggs. Lastly, greedy Jack stole a talking harp that cried out to the Giant for help. And for that, Jack is considered a HERO??? Jack probably grew up to be CEO at a major investment bank.
What about the poor Giant?
Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum!
I smell the blood of an Englishmun.
Be he ‘live, or be he dead,
I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.
~Quotation from the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk
It’s rumored he became a hedge fund manager.
I hate when I pick at a loose piece of skin and it bleeds.
Even worse is when someone asks what happened.
I tell them I didn’t hydrate enough.
A Study on Student Repetitive Skin-Picking (Psychiatry Online)
Article Plucking Hell by Polly Vernon (Observer Guardian)
“In states of perplexity men will rub their chins with their hand,
or tug at the lobes of their ears, or rub their foreheads or cheeks
or back of the neck. Women have very different gestures in such
states. They will either put a finger on their lower front teeth
with the mouth slightly open or pose a finger under the chin.”
Quotation from Ashley Montagu, Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin
“When man
enters woman,
like the surf biting the shore,
again and again,
and the woman opens her mouth in pleasure
and her teeth gleam
like the alphabet…”
Poem by Anne Sexton, When Man Enters Woman
I wonder if Anne Sexton chewed her lip… I bet she did.
I don’t mind
wearing glasses.
I can always
take them off
and go naked.
Power Dressing: Socks that Smell like Flowers (Irish Independent)
The first Saturday of every May is World Naked Gardening Day (wngd.org)
Taste your blood, if you dare, but beware:
Blood sugar is not a measure of how sweet you are.
The Contribution of Albucasis in Venesection (History of Islamic Medicine) (pdf)
The use of the medicinal leech in reconstructive plastic surgery (Journal of Plastic Surgery) (Warning: Graphic Images)
“In case you failed to notice,
in case you failed to see,
this is my heart, bleeding before you,
this is me down on my knees.”
Song Lyric by Jewel, Foolish Games
Never destroy the imagination of another,
for in doing so, you destroy your own.
Women and Gendercide (Christian Science Monitor)
Case Study: “Honour” Killings and Blood Feuds (Gendercide Watch)
“The Whore Lived Like a German” (Der Spiegel)
A Detroit Family Kept a Painful Secret (The Detroit News)
“A wife is property that one acquires by contract,
she is transferable, because possession of her requires title;
in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man’s appendage;
consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.”
Quotation from Honoré De Balzac, Meditation Number XII, Canel
“About the alleged condition of the property.
Does it have to be intact?”
Quotation from Margaret Forster, Georgy Girl