bad, good, bad

[metaphortunate]

Blehhhh. I have so much crap, oh my god, so many things. And all the things I own need to be cleaned or folded or restocked or wiped or sorted or hung up or mailed or filled out or run through the wash or Lord, thrown away, or sharpened or mended or mostly just moved from one place to another. They all need to be moved from one place to another. The sweaters need to be moved to the shelf in the closet so that the tights and long underwear and pyjamas can be moved to the sweater drawer so that the summer clothes can be moved to the pyjama drawer so that the electronics can be moved to the summer clothes drawer. The books need to be rearranged on the shelves. The shoes need to be moved to the shoe rack. Why can't anything be in the place that it needs to end up in? Why must it all be somewhere else?

I dreamed the other night that Mr. E and I moved to a new house and we were fighting because I wanted to throw away at least half of everything we owned. I woke up and it still kind of seems like a good idea. Imagine all the space we'd have. ♥_____♥

In reality what Mr. E and I have been fighting over for weeks on end is what to feed the baby. :(

The baby did eat though! Yesterday! He deliberately opened up his little mouth and moved his little head forward and ingested some prunes! He's done it twice! I think he likes pureed prunes! And FURTHERMORE, today he deliberately opened his mouth and took in some chile verde! He immediately spat it back out again, but that's okay - if he gets the idea that you put food IN your face before you decide whether or not you like it, that would be a huge step forward!

In other news, the Republican war on women....I can't even deal. Just wondering which state legislature is gonna be the first to pass a law requiring a woman to carry around a dead fetus in a jar for three days before she can get an abortion. Or birth control pills.

Comments

[sara]

Hee hee hee -- my daughter's first real solids were when she reached over and grabbed the daycare lady's burrito. Oh, I'd tried spoon foods and all that, and mostly we just made a mess, and then one day she just reached out and snarf, that was it, we were doing Big People Food.

[metaphortunate]

Hee! Oh, the mess, it is a glorious and adorable mess. Baths before bedtime for everyone!

I do think it's good for him to get to touch and smell and experience food even if he's not ready to actually get outside it in quantity yet.

[firecat]

requiring a woman to carry around a dead fetus in a jar

Never, because we'd all paste the faces of the legislators on the jars.

[tam_nonlinear]

I got into a debate with a male acquaitence who is a bit of an MRA, on the topic of child support. He was, of course, 'only arguing theory', but surprisingly, the point at which I wanted to smack him was not when he argued that men shouldn't have to support kids they didn't want, but when he kept using as evidence 'Because women are free to choose!'. As someone who wears an orange vest and escorts clinic patients past the anti-abortion protesters, and as, yanno, someone who reads the fucking news, that was the part that struck me as painfully uninformed and unrealistic.

[metaphortunate]

And of course it's only theory to him.

[kalmn]

i fed annb's kid a fortune cookie. because he'd crawled over to it under the consuite table, and it just didn't occur to me that a kid who could get a fortune cookie out of the wrapper by mouthing it (i did at least make sure he didn't eat the wrapper) would have parents who weren't feeding him fortune cookies yet.

if you feel telling mr. e horrifying stories about other people would be useful, go for it. just don't point me out at marscon until after i snorgle the junebug.

[laurashapiro]

Oh god, drowning in stuff. I hate that feeling. As a purger living with a packrat, it comes up for me fairly often. I for one encourage you to throw away recycle or donate at least half of everything you own! It feels good!

Hooray for babies who eat food! :D

I am ignoring the Republicans to the degree possible. I can't believe we're still having these conversations. What did our mothers fight for?

[metaphortunate]

I don't know, but it's heartbreaking.

Not throwing stuff away, though. Throwing stuff away feels GREAT. Even better when I donate it!

[wild_irises]

I realized yesterday that I would not be surprised if someone seriously proposed taking the vote away from women.

[metaphortunate]

Yeah, I have a bet going with Mr. E that an American elected legislator will put forth that bill in my lifetime.

Not that I think it'll go anywhere; I expect the Republicans to step up voter ID laws & voter harassment instead, as it is less politically dangerous & more speedily effective.

[veejane]

About six years ago, when the anti-gay thing was all legislative hoopla (partly in response to my state making it gleeful judicial hoopla, and wedding registry hoopla, and all the other hoopla one might hope for), I say, about six years ago, in the midst of the Official Anti-Gay, I remarked to myself that it was just like a later Doris Day movie. You know, the kind where she talks demurely on the phone with Rock Hudson and always has her hair "done" and is always in pastel colors. And these movies were made in like 1968, and bear absolutely no relationship to reality, and they were this desperate last gasp of an order that couldn't comprehend its own imminent death, and that kind of movie absolutely disappeared after that for about eight years, and reappeared as gay camp.

So like. Pretend that there will be dead fetus in a jar glitter kicklines circa 2020. (Or hope for same!!)

[metaphortunate]

Hoping!

[lovepeaceohana]

Hee, babies eating! We were feeding Lulu "real" food long before we were apparently supposed to, offering him bits of whatever we were eating at something like four months - in our defense, we were doing it because he seemed interested in it! He loved soup broth at that age, of practically any kind. And hey, prunes are pretty healthy, right?

I don't even know what's up with the Republicans. Every time I see another headline (Texas, I'm looking at you) I wind up making the O_O face. I have been making that face a lot lately. I am worried it is going to get stuck like that, just like my parents always warned me.

[metaphortunate]

I think if the baby's interested, it's a good time!