Insert Whine Here

[mrissa]

I'm not interested in my own whining today, so if you are, please think of something suitably nasal and related to my book, female biology, markgritter's work scheduling woes, and possibly body image, and we'll call it good.

(Does anyone else have bad body image days? When you recognize that it's the same body as it was yesterday but somehow it just doesn't add up as well? And you feel like you're tripping all over your own feet even though you're not?)

I just got two pairs of Jeans That Fit in the mail. That should make up for my brain only reluctantly producing syntactically correct pieces of English, shouldn't it? Yes. Of course it should. (Seriously, I found myself typing all the words that went in one particular not-particularly-difficult sentence, "Edward took a glass from the dark-haired apprentice," and then rearranging them until they made the thing they were supposed to in English. This probably qualifies as a Bad Brain Day.)

Comments

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

I have bad body image days, too. They're usually related to female biology days.

[palinade.livejournal.com]

I have days when I wish I didn't have to deal with the body at all. Not that I'd like being a head-in-a-jar, but there are some days when I wish my body was just functional, like a coffee maker or tea kettle. Nothing special, no need to dress it up. Just make it do what it does and move on.

[palinade.livejournal.com]

Thank you. He's quite the ladies' man already (he really charms the moms. Not so interested in the other toddlers, though). I am preparing myself for the kindergarden "romances." *G*

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Every once in a while I wake up and I'm driving a rental body. I hate it, I can't figure out where the levers and buttons are or how to use the windshield wiper, and just *forget* being able to parallel park.

I only really get that when I'm fluey, but it's horrible. My sympathies.

["You mean my eyelids are on manual ?" ]

[pameladean]

Oh, yeah, I have those body-image days. They don't always coincide with extra clumsiness, but often they do. I figure there's some parallel-universe leakage going on somewhere.

Pamela

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Rental body: YES. Where you know you can drive it safely to the hotel, but it takes a good deal more attention than it should.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Is parallel-Pamela clumsier, or is it just that you're getting leakage of where things are in the parallel universe? Hmm. This could be an excuse: in this universe, I'm absolutely sure I set that book a good three inches further onto the desk and thus could not have knocked it off again just by walking past.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

See, that's where my physics class came in handy. I've decided that knees, elbows, and hips have variable specific gravity. So you can be walking through a doorway with *miles* to spare, and then suddenly slam a part of your body into the door frame with no advance warning, as their specific gravity drops below the specific gravity of the doorway.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Yes, while I've been feeling a *lot* better about myself lately, I still should not look at myself in the mirror before a shower, as that was just a bad, bad idea and depressed me for the rest of the day. (what small bit of depressed that hadn't already been filled by the visit of the cute skinny young blonde girlfriend of the cook, I mean. ) I've decided that I just *really* need to get more active and do more physical things, even if it's just sit ups before bed. *anything* so that someday I may actually be okay about the idea that someone will see me naked, instead of saying, "well, I may not have anyone to play with, but at least I don't have to let anyone see me without clothing on." (Clothing is our friend. *muchly* our friend.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm. Well, we get cold without it, so in that sense, sure, clothing is our friend.

Buuuut....

Nekkid always fits, and you never have to go shopping for it.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Must. Not. Deploy. Physicist-brain!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

"Cramptacular" and "sexy" go so poorly together, is the thing.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

Ohmyyes. Although in my particular case, it seems to be "premenstrual" and "sexy". At any rate, it's not much fun. I hope you're feeling more like a Mrissa sooner rather than later.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Unlike all the cool kids, I don't have good or bad body image days. I like my body and how it works and I always have. Not that there aren't things that I wouldn't change, given the chance, but it's all OK the way it is.

K.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

You are not allowed to spoil my perfectly lovely theory with any sort of logic and reason, missy!

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Alas, until nekkid comes with underwire support, I must choose clothing.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I probably shouldn't tell this story on a non-locked post, but markgritter was contemplating my current difficulty in buying bras and suddenly wondered aloud what a future pregnancy might do in the way of new difficulties in that regard. I told him he would be required to walk around just behind me with his arms around, carrying my boobs for me.

It was in the fine print of the marriage contract, I feel sure.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

God gave us these bodies because he has better ones at home.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

...and wants to keep the good ones for Herself? And wants us to really, really appreciate them when we get there? And didn't want us to get them dirty? And...? I don't know; I seem to be missing the causality in this piece of theology.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

So am I. :-)

It's from a Klieban cartoon. I always thought it was hilarious.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

::giggle::

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

There'll be pie in the sky when you die.

K.

Bra shopping

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Best fitters, best customer service: Nordstrom.

Broadest selection of undergarments, including some you've never seen before: Macy's.

Best advice for bra care, because they are soooo expensive, and cheap bras aren't worth what you pay for them unless you actually don't need a bra all the time: hand wash, air dry. You'll get years of wear out of them, and yes you do too have time.

K. [HTH]