I found this song when my friend Katie was in end-stage chronic rejection of her transplanted lungs.
Music Monday: December 6th, 2021
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December 2021 archive
Yesterday was baby burrito’s actual due date!
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The OB that I had for that pregnancy kept “insisting” that it was December 2nd in spite of the fact that I have thirty-day cycles and Monster’s femur length proved that it was December 4th, but I don’t exactly trust the person who couldn’t bother to screen me for domestic violence for shit. He was actually surprised when he asked about the father of my child at my first postpartum appointment and I responded, “He’s in jail right now,” because he was literally sitting in jail as that appointment was taking place. Needless to say, I found myself another OB when I found out that I was pregnant with Bub, and I would have kept him as my OB/GYN were it not for the fact that if I do get pregnant again (and decide to keep it, because “threat to maternal life” still qualifies me for an abortion under Texas laws such that they are), the doctor that I see for my Depo-Provera shots is skilled in high-risk prenatal care and… yeah, I would definitely need that, heh.
Hims tiny and sassy like his mommy is.
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Hims also had no cavities and cooperated more for the dentist than he has in years! Yay Bub!
This is the best look in the history of best looks.
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He also let me cut some of the hair beside his ears. He’s been skittish about that for awhile, though.
It’s not like I’m going to stop this any time soon.
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For several years, I’ve kept my online life almost completely separate from my real life.
And the “almost” is a technicality that I’m about to get to regarding who I have friended on Facebook.
On Facebook, I have a variety of filters that I use depending on people’s interests, but the filters are also set up in such a way that I can easily separate those that I have friended on it who I know in real life and those who I know over the Internet. For instance, I don’t have any friends in real life who would be interested in a fandom, or fandoms, and feel that it’s better to exclude them from posts that I make related to the fandoms that I am part of. If I want to post something that I’d be far more comfortable with real-life friends of mine reading, I filter them into the post and my Internet friends out of it. This works as well as it does because I post next to nothing public. The only things that I post that are public are non-profit fundraisers such as the annual birthday one and Giving Tuesday stuff, which you don’t appear to have a choice in… I mean, not unless that has changed between now and a few days ago when I posted a non-profit fundraiser for Claire’s Place. If it has, please let me know. As for my Twitter, it’s relegated to people that I know (and would like to follow) online since I don’t appear to have that many real-life friends who even use the site. Last time I checked, I didn’t have any. All of them were on Facebook. However, having a place where I can discuss fandom with people that are on that same level has been nice — I also went a step further and made it so that it’s not searchable by anyone who does know me in real life just to continue to keep the two apart.
On Facebook, my friends’ list (and number of mutual friends, I want to say) is not visible to anyone but me.
Of course, none of this is against the people that I know in real life… but like I’ve said, the things that I have in common with them are different from the things that I have in common with Internet friends. A lot different.