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It's two in the morning and I'm sitting on my couch. It's nearly 30 degrees in my apartment but somehow the bedroom still felt cold. Tails is sleeping, finally. He is exhausted but keeps making small kicked-dog noises. I couldn't listen any more and came out to the living room, leaving Mama Cat...

My sisters and I have called it shark week since we watched "Jaws" as teenagers. During the scene where the girl is swimming with her legs danging, one of my sisters said "Hope she's not on her period" and we thought it was the funniest thing ever. Teenagers, you know? Since then, it was always...

Thanks, Magdlyn, you're a sweetheart! I'm still sad about Bagheera, but I think next Thursday I will go down to the shelter and see if I can find that spark in another cat's eyes that lets me know they are mine. As much as I go into getting a new pet with lots of research, planning and...

I just had a very disagreeable discussion with the supervisor of the science department I work with. I was sick on Friday, so obviously begged off going to the super fancy dinner to avoid infecting people. Apparently this was not acceptable behaviour. She got on my case about fulfilling the...

Hey! Nice to see someone else in a triad on here: it doesn't seem to be very common in the polyverse. There are definitely challenges to a triad configuration, but there are definite benefits, too :) Hope to see you around.

polygone, you may want to dedicate some introspective time to considering where you stand on personal responsibility for your choices and actions. It sounds to me like you are handing off a lot of that responsibility to other people. You may also want to think hard on the issue of sexual...

I, too, felt like my boundaries had been crossed and, almost worse, that I had been an accomplice (albeit unknowing) to someone else's boundaries being violated. I think it does get better. The initial shock and hurt gets better with time and perspective... at least, it did in my case. I had...

A couple years ago, I had a short relationship with a man I thought was pretty damn wonderful. A few months into the relationship, I received an email from his fiance who had snooped on his Facebook and found out we were seeing each other. The email was quite...er, terrifying, actually. She was...

Our behaviours are choices, and should not be excused by "but my parents", "but culture", or even "but my wife". I was raised in a highly restrictive atmosphere- familial, social, and cultural- until my early twenties. I choose to be different than the way I was raised. If you are aware of your...

I, too, grew up in a highly restrictive Christian household with all that entails. I also struggled with trust, especially with men, especially in sexual relationships. I've also dealt with anxieties, depression, and other issues. I did find that a sex therapist was helpful for my basic terror...

I hope you didn't actually say that to her: that sounds to me like it would be a pretty hurtful thing to say. Just because her sex is not your idea of good sex, doesn't mean her sex is wrong. It's just hers, like yours is yours. Some people would prefer a vanilla ice cream cone, some people...

Wednesday I woke up feeling kind of blah. Just tired and kind of vaguely nauseous. Nothing too bad. Yesterday I woke up with a raging strep infection. AGAIN. This is my fourth strep throat incident in about a year. The one before this was brutal: the walk-in clinic doctor I went to see took an...

Not really a quote, but I read this today and it spoke to me: When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron...

I know! I still get angry when I think about it. I think Jaeger might believe- just a little bit- in a harmful double standard that men can't be sexually harassed by women. I mean, if you look at a lot of comedies- take "Horrible Bosses" for example- the idea of a man being harassed by a...

A "V" is a relationship where one person (called a "hinge") has two lovers, but the two lovers are not romantically entangled (the hinge is the point of the V, the lovers make up the arms). If those two lovers also have a romantic relationship, it becomes a triad: in effect, it finishes the...

I have a pre-existing "anything that lives in water" allergy, so no fish unfortunately! Which is sad, because I used to love fish. The bison I sourced was at the farmer's market, which is straight from the farm and is $17/lb of ground. Ouch! Still, the ground stuff stretches pretty far and it...

Yes, this! Add to the list: - Excellent communication - Realistic expectations: it's not always Super Hawt Sex (sometimes it's a total debacle!) - Extra large surface area to fit all the parts - A surprising amount of lube to keep those parts running smoothly - A good sense of humour (to laugh...

GalaGirl, sometimes I want to take your advice and carry it around in my pocket. Like, maybe on flash cards. "I'm sorry you struggle" "Forgiveness is forgiveness." "Pick the option that stinks LESS"...

Be forewarned: this entire post is going to be about food. Deal with it. This new food-restricted diet is killing me. This is so hard! Its day 4 and I want coffee so bad I had to put my machine deep in the cold storage so I wouldn't make any. I'm cranky and irritable. I want bread. Oooh, do I...

Jaeger gave Tails and I a mindbogglingly obnoxious singing congratulations card the first time we slept together. Not sure if that counts or not :P The sentiment was appreciated, but the card was promptly put out of it's misery in a "freak" milk accident. I would give Jaeger and Tails something...