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beetigerLovely weekend in Boston. Though it wasn't perhaps the smartest idea to try to combine "preschooler gets to see favorite aunt's cool new apartment" and "seventh anniversary celebration" into the same weekend of visiting, we did pretty well.
I gave platelets for the first time today. It took a long time on the machine --90 minutes for a single unit -- so I got to read all of Benjamin Nugent's "American Nerd". I eat a ton of dairy, so I didn't have any of the buzzing/weird taste issues some donors get. I feel more tired than I usually do from whole blood donation, and a wee bit overemotional, but otherwise okay. Including traveling, the whole production took over 3 hours, so it's rather a time investment. I'll probably go again next week, provided the fatigue is gone by tomorrow.
Although I'm overall still in a deacquisition mode, I seem to have acquired a variety of things in the last few days. I collected a skirt featuring every animal print in the world in a hippie-clothes-store in Cambridge (it's very me, and was on sale for $9.99), a faux-artifact in the form of a carved omega-shaped boomerang that is going to go on the wall in my workshop (it's for charity!), some perfume samples that aren't from BPAL (reviews in the next not-too-long), and a shirt from torsopants (peer pressure).
Two more of my son's stuffed animals got married this evening. He seems rather interested in pairing his menagerie off. Bizarre.
Another member of my family, my brother's wife this time, joined Facebook, and within a few weeks, asked me aboutlediva and polyamory. I've been vaguely trying to come out in a low-key way to my family for years, and somehow the method that seems to be working is entirely passive. They're just too curious not to ask when they see it in print, I guess.
I gave platelets for the first time today. It took a long time on the machine --90 minutes for a single unit -- so I got to read all of Benjamin Nugent's "American Nerd". I eat a ton of dairy, so I didn't have any of the buzzing/weird taste issues some donors get. I feel more tired than I usually do from whole blood donation, and a wee bit overemotional, but otherwise okay. Including traveling, the whole production took over 3 hours, so it's rather a time investment. I'll probably go again next week, provided the fatigue is gone by tomorrow.
Although I'm overall still in a deacquisition mode, I seem to have acquired a variety of things in the last few days. I collected a skirt featuring every animal print in the world in a hippie-clothes-store in Cambridge (it's very me, and was on sale for $9.99), a faux-artifact in the form of a carved omega-shaped boomerang that is going to go on the wall in my workshop (it's for charity!), some perfume samples that aren't from BPAL (reviews in the next not-too-long), and a shirt from torsopants (peer pressure).
Two more of my son's stuffed animals got married this evening. He seems rather interested in pairing his menagerie off. Bizarre.
Another member of my family, my brother's wife this time, joined Facebook, and within a few weeks, asked me about
lediva and polyamory. I've been vaguely trying to come out in a low-key way to my family for years, and somehow the method that seems to be working is entirely passive. They're just too curious not to ask when they see it in print, I guess.
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Date: 2008-07-29 12:57 am (UTC)Hmm
Date: 2008-07-29 01:34 am (UTC)"Ask me about LeDiva and polyamory."
Though I'm not really one to talk...for all I know, Jewel's family thinks I have a vulva. I leave the outing up to him, and he has the advantage of a closetable girlfriend.
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