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9 years ago @ The Toast - Go On, Get Out Of Here · 0 replies · +49 points

I'm making my best sad puppy face at the screen FYI

9 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 2 replies · +19 points

Thank you. Lets fight the good fight and laugh with each other while doing it.

9 years ago @ The Toast - A note on The Toast · 0 replies · +25 points

Yes. Crying at my desk in my all-male workplace.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Things Lucy Maud Montg... · 1 reply · +11 points

I read a great biography on LMM, The Gift of Wings by Mary Henley Rubio, that went through her life. It made me appreciate the creepier aspects of her work, particularly in the Pat of Silver Bush books, which everyone likes to put down.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Things Lucy Maud Montg... · 1 reply · +22 points

The way I got around this was convincing my mother to let me volunteer at our local history living history museum, where we got wear petticoats, embroider things, "attend" school in a one room school house, but still get to use a normal bathroom. It was magical.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Things Lucy Maud Montg... · 0 replies · +17 points

That I and my friends will dreamily quote Tennyson, Blake, and Virgil at the drop of a hat....

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Pitch Meeting for ... · 0 replies · +18 points

Ghostwriter, which was only on during Sunday mornings when I was usually at church, unless I was sick, gave me a love of writing with a good pen.

Those kids always had really nice pens.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Friday Open Thread! · 1 reply · +4 points

I've been enjoying The History Chicks, The Longest Shortest Time (for those with children or are children inclined), and The Message

9 years ago @ The Toast - Friday Open Thread! · 0 replies · +18 points

Solidarity my friend! I am not pregnant, we are not even trying, but people are already coming at us with all the things we should and should not do:

1. You MUST have more than one child
2. You MUST co sleep and do ALL attachment parenting things ALL the time
3. No refined sugars ever, otherwise obesity
4. If you don't breastfeed your baby you are monster and should be burned at the stake.

And these lovely tidbits are always followed up with "But why aren't you guys trying yet? What are you so worried about.

Do what is best for you and your body and your child. You are GROWING A HUMAN, you call the shots. I am working on the strength to be able to resist this. Some background: I am a sexual assault survivor who also suffered from an eating disorder for 10+ years. It took me a long time to be able to reclaim my body as being none of other people's business. Pregnancy scares the willies out of me because suddenly people seem to think they can talk about/dictate/touch your body like it is their own. It is not. It is still your body. And it is still none of anyone else's business.

Rant Over.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 3 replies · +7 points

The lobster bisque at Saegreifinn (The Sea Baron) in Reykjavik is amazing. The place is small and crowded but it is so worth it. Also, if you go to the Blue Lagoon and eat there, get the butter and bread. They brown the butter, churn it back into butter, and salt it with volcanic salt. Best. Butter. Ever.

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