Observations from Journals (and Blahgs) I Have Randomly Plowed Through and No Baby Yet
For the record:
a.) I am not a prude. I can be prudish at times. b.) Please use some common sense and know if you are a person who reads here regularly I am not talking about you. c.) If you read something that offends your senses and sends you into an outrage then maybe I am talking to you and you need to take a long hard look at yourself. You can only grow when you face your short comings and actively choose to make a change in yourself for the better. d.) There are some seriously sick people in this world who have no idea they are sick.Random Posts I have Started Over The Past 6 Months but never moved from Draft to Publish: 1. Blahgers who like to tell journalists how and when to post and make up rules so that if you do not follow their rules they won't "evah come back." Goodbye. Please don't come back. I don't like threats or being made to feel as if I am your hostage. 2. Anonynmous commenters have no balls, love to dish shit but are not adult enough to pick up the spoon and eat their fair share in return. 3. Women who see nothing wrong with letting their small children witness the birth of their new siblings. No child should have to witness the spread eagled, knees around your ears, grewsome display of childbirth. It is no damn petting zoo. It can be very traumatizing. I hope all of your little boys do not grow up with Frued's complex issues with his mother. 4. Yes, all children are curious about any given subject on any given day but there is this thing called age appropriate answers by parents to children with questions about their genitals, sex and where babies come from. At the age of 3 - 10 there is a thing as TMI!!!! These children do not need to know about orgasms, masturbation, nor how good it would feel to let someone else rub their private bits. Where is this world going? Why do people think it is amusing that a child know far more than he should? 5. Online journals are the same as someone's home. If you are invited in to have a look (as journals are public it is an invite to look-see) you really should use your manners and not be mean to people, argue with other commenters or dishout random assvice. It is one thing to know the journalist and know you are welcome to speak your mind. It is another to pull a terrorists strike and leave your drivel and hate spread across someone else's door. 6. Blahgers who refer to their children with derogatory nicknames or those names that lend an air of evil. I find that the tone being used is often the more offensive. How can a parent think it is continually funny to disrespect, degrade and humilate the innocence of their child, their own living breathing flesh and blood, with their own written words? 7. You don't know if you are a good mother? You garner sympathy from readers by exposing the mess in your head? You sicken me to the very pit of my stomach. It has been my experience if you do not know you are a good mother (a mother that has done her very best to give her children a loving, moral and solid foundation to grown upon) you probably are not a good mother. I will not blow smoke up your ass to make you feel good. Get your shit together and do right by your children. It is too late to think that once they are in this world that maybe you should not have had them. Grow up and grow a pair. 8. Your husband doesn't give in to your demands all the time? You withhold sex and physical loving to get what you want. F*ck you, sister. Your husband is an adult. He is not your slave, your handmaid, your plaything or any number of other adjectives such as doormat, lapdog and punching bag. To withhold physical intimacy as a leverage to get him to do something he doesn't want to do is the most disgusting, pathetic, childish tactic known to mankind. You should so be ashamed but you won't be because people like you have no shame. 9. That goes for you men bashers as well. It is one thing to say things in a comedic light, as all of us women are prone to doing at times, but it is another to continually bash men and leave them lower than dog shit on a curb every single day. 10. Any or all of these can be directed pointedly at men. It is not just women who are screwed up. 11. When visiting a journal or blahg and finding yourself offended, repeatedly, click the X and never go back. It is just that simple. 12. I really don't care if you don't agree with my point of view. When you pay for my webspace, as I do, I do not use a free service, you can censor me and my words. 13. I do not discuss politics and religion in open forums. I find it leads to more arguements than educated discussions. Southern women are raised to know that it is rude and vulgar to discuss either, including money, in mixed company. I am a southern woman. I won't be provoked. Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is a sign of strength not weakness. 14. No I am not in a bad mood this morning. I am just cleaning house and putting to rest all of the pieces and parts labled "draft". Sometimes some things just need to be said. Let this be another 14 things about me you probably didn't know.
Are you saying that I should give in to Josh's CONSTANT demands for sex??
I rarely post to your site, but I read every day. Thank you for taking on this subject! I read blogs to escape, not to get a computerized version of television. (Whis is why I read you. Your organization in the kitchen and with restoring your house give me assurance that I can do it, too!)
When I feel slightly overwhelmed with...whatever, I pull up your blog and read older entries. Your site is like a warm blanket to me. Thank you for being here. You are equal parts Staff Sgt. and Sous Chef. Thank you for your gift of peace. The mere fact that you PAY to do this astounds me!
Mary, as much as he might want me to reply with a 'yes', I cannot. One should never demand sex. One should be lavished with sex/intimacy/physicality/loving. It is all in the initial approach as to the positive outcome. After all these years he should have learned that already. Besides, that's what happens when you spend 25 years being witty, funny, sexy, etc, etc, etc, inticing and luring him into your naughty clutches. :-)
Right on. You are much more brave than I am. I hope someone, somewhere down the line reads this and gets the message. I doubt it though. The type of people you are describing rarely recognize themselves and are happier being ignorant. Thanks for standing up to them.
~K!
It's me isn't it?! I just know it's me.
I WAS seriously sick out that cab window, but I DID know it.
And DirtMonkey IS usually in need of a bath (and we do constantly wash him but he's magically grubby again in about fifteen minutes.) so it's more descriptive than derogatory. We love our monkeys even when dirty, honest!
I think I need you to have that baby today to win the guessing game. Can you plug your nose and mouth and blow really hard and see if that does it? Thanks!
To know you is to love you. Yeah, go ahead and have the baby today, since my date was wrong (although I originally thought Feb 3rd and you bit my head off, lol). Your comments made me cheer YOU GIVE 'EM HELL ANGIE. Some people make me wish stupid was a crime so their dumbasses would be arrested.
BTW, you will have the baby at 4:41 or 10:24pm.
I enjoyed your post today. I can always count on you to say it as it is.
I feel when commenting on peoples sites if you cant be nice dont say anything at all. I always hated when my mother said that but I follow it and you know what I think that is a good quality more people should have.
I totally agree with the siblings in the birthing room. When did our society allow children to view adult events before their time.
Hope baby boy arrives soon! I cant wait to hear all about him!
During your "For the record" portion- I was sure you were talking to me. I know the whole foot injury thing was gross. Sometimes I just get carried away with my own giggles ;-) But then I went on to read the rest and said "whew"...and then "Oh shit. Here she goes. She's mad now."...and then "Amen Sister!".
Here lies example # 3,871 of why I love visting you.
xo
Amen, sista!
Thank God I noticed at the top that you said "If you come here regularly and comment, I am not talking about you." Because I was all, Oh do I do that? Uh oh, I might do that one, etc. Ha ha!
I love it when you speak your mind. So many bloggers are afraid of offending someone (even me sometimes). It gets old after a while, y'know? Say what you mean and mean what you say!
I was just sure you were having that baby today! Oh well. You've still got a few hours left to go into labor and deliver before Sunday...
Whoa...testify!
ooooh,
bravo to 3, 7 and 8.
Seven is the exact reason I will not read some people's blogs.
hope your water breaks!
Look out, folks. Angie's got the barbs out. But with nothing but good for you in mind.
8 pm - doing the dishes- had a feeling you were in labor- are you?
If you are you don't have to answer ;-)
Momma K and I are on the same wave length!! Except I woke up this morning thinking about you...Wishing quick delivery if you are!!
AND for the aforementioned list of starts..finish them please!! You're my hero, you go girl ;0)
AMEN, Angie! I agreee with most of what you say, especially #'s 5-6-7. I have done #11 too.
I hope your water breaks today!
I couldn't agree with you more :)
"It is no damn petting zoo." You've outdone yourself in this post, Angie. You go, girl. Hopefully to the hospital. I have money riding on the next 5 hours. Wishing you all the best.
Good luck with the birth!
And just for the record, childbirth doesn't have to be spreadeagled, knees behind the ears, gruesome or traumatic. My eldest two were present at my third child's birth, and it was a beautiful, natural, family event.
I wonder if you could change your view from "no child should have to witness that", to "for me it doesn't feel right, but I ackowledge that everyone is different and hopefully those parents have thought long and hard and come to their own decisions on what's right for them."
(PS. Giving birth on your back with your legs behind your ears is not an efficient way to do it, actually. It's less traumatic and easier to be upright).
Well, that baby boy (or girl) is getting one headstrong and brilliant momma.
Is he/she here yet?
I keep checking every day to see if there is any baby news, I can't imagine how ready you are! As to rest, sad that a lot of has to be said at all, makes you wonder what those people are teaching the next generation of parents.
As many times as I am showing up on your stat counter checking for baby news I figure I should leave a comment every 57th or something. Sound good?
Love from your blonde stalker ;-)