Remember, when someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown, but it only takes four muscles to extend your arm and smack the asshole in the head.
Confliction
Stacey, per your request, this is a warning that you don’t want to read on.
The rest of the entry is below the fold.
Broken
Did you hear it? About 6:30 this morning? Sort of a muffled tearing?
That was me. My heart broke.
My baby boy, Logan, broke it into a thousand pieces.
I was doing my morning romp around the computer when he came in with some shoes that are on the “no use” shelf. Too small for Joseph, but too big for Logan.
“Joseph told me I could wear these.”
“Not yet, they’re still too big for you.”
“But he SAID I could!”
“I know and you can but not til your foot gets bigger”
Much wailing and then the thump of landing on his butt, crying big fat tears. I thought it was the standard ‘can’t have what I want’ crying.
“You really really CAN wear these when you get a little bigger, Logie, but right now, they’d make you trip.”
“Nooooooo! They make me FASSSSTTTTTTTTTEEEEERRRRRRR!”
More crying ensues, and I sit down next to him. This is just too disproportionate to the problem at hand.
“Did someone tell you you were slow?”
“Yesh”
“Who?”
“Daniel.”
And that’s when my heart broke. Because he was tearing apart his closet because obviously new shoes would make him faster, of course. He’s 4.
I told him that for a 4 year old he was really fast. And that he’d get even faster when he got older. And that he was faster than me and I’m a grownup.
Then I told him Daniel was mean.
Does that make me a bad mother?
Chinese Herb Usage
Okay… So the doctor told me a couple things… The gynecologist that is. She wants me on a certain amount of calcium, which I now am (through antacid instead of through a calcium supplement, strangely enough. My supplement didn’t have enough. Odd.), Iron, multi-vitamin, and fish oil. I think I’m cool on the fish oil tablets, and on the calcium. I have to look up exactly how much iron I need o be taking. There isn’t any iron in my regular multivitamin, and I’m not sure exactly how much I should taking. Anyone know?
Anyway… I’ve been looking into some more holistic approaches… I suppose I should qualify that. More holistic approaches in my ongoing day to day kind of maintenance. I find I’m not very holistic in times of crises.
My point is this. Has anyone ever used Chinese Herbs and Alternative Remedies? Click the link for a store example – although I find it strange that it’s caucasian people on the front advertising Chinese herbs. Um. anyway. I’ve “heard” good things, but then again, not from real people who have experienced the usage. Always friend of a friend type stuff. What’s your experience with the usage? Work? Too well? Not at all? Can a layman (like myself) carefully experiment? Let me know, trusty innernets…
WWWDW
Today’s question comes from Mr. Fabulous: Is it okay to keep secrets from your spouse?
Huh. I guess it depends really on what you’re talking about. There are yays and nays on this one.
For example, surprises are secrets, but those are okay. Gifts, birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, parties, or that “just something special.” Those are okay. They’re meant to surprise and delight.
Another example, which I don’t feel are so much secrets as privacy (Graphic Ahead Warning – below the fold):
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