2 Girls 2005.6.27

We've been working on increasing my cervical mucous and this has become my nightly cocktail. Surprisingly, green tea and grapefruit juice taste kind of good together.

Things I cannot do when we have a child

As dictated by M.

I may not call other drivers stupid idiots. I have to say things like "That person is acting inappropriately by cutting me off."

I may not use profanity. I plan to highlight the difference between well-placed profanity and obscenity into this expectation.

M. has declared that I will not be the one to talk to them about sex or we may have slutty children. Well, as long as they're safe and slutty...I think we have some time to negotiate this one.

I have to be nice to the other parents at the inevitable playgroup.

Confessional

I really need to read my comments more often.

Some answers to questions:

1. We are currently charting. We'll start trying to conceive in November. Check out my chart link on the right and you can see how I'm doing. M. is in charge of this crap...uh, I mean stuff...and I'm just the temp taker every 5 am.

2. I draw the comics. Unfortuneately I WAS also in school, which means I didn't draw them that often. The good news - I'm out of school. The bad news - I'm studying for my nursing boards. More good news - I have an idea for the next comic.

3. Yes, I AM taking my vitamins. And by golly, they f'in work. Who would have known.

Lastly, I'm honored that people are reading this. Thanks so much and keep checking back.

Pride

Pride has come and gone in Seattle. M. went to the parade and rally. I worked.

Every year we have the big Pride debate. It's stupid. What the fuck are we proud of anyway? Isn't being 'proud' a little on the defensive? Who wants to see a bunch of bars who managed to decorate a flatbed truck with crepe paper and found some half naked guys to dance to music blasting out of an ancient boom box?

Every year we go anyway. Sometimes we actually plan. Most years we wake up that morning and decide at the last minute to rush off to the parade because it's about to start. This happens so often it's become tradition to bitch about Pride then head to the parade and rally Sunday morning.

It's been ten years of Pride for us and things really have changed.

We have corporate sponsers now.

There are less bars.

There are less drag queens.

There are more families - synchronized strollers

And it's all about marriage - brides EVERYWHERE because most people don't want to be a groom.

I can't wait to have a family to take to Pride. No matter how much I bitch - and I promise that I bitch A LOT - it's always a very fun, happy and joyful event for us.