| August 8th -- 11:59 pm CST (Los Angeles) |
[August 08 2009 / 10:08pm] |
Private. Sofia, Emma, and Deanna can see and reply.I love my husb boyfriend. Why do I always catch myself thinking of him as my husb Cal's sleeping now and I'm in my mom's living room listening to the radio while surfing the internet. A lot of our nights end that way, I think, even at home. Him passed out, and me zoned out. It's so odd how much more sleep he needs than me. He's out earlier and up later, dragging his feet when I wake him, too. We're different in a lot of ways, actually. From accents to sleeping habits. (And I'm not necessarily complaining, as I will not stop melting when his British accent comes out really strong and he calls me love and--okay, I have to stop or I'll really wnat sex and he has issues with sex in my mother's house, unfortunately.) But seriously, he and I are the prime example of opposites attract. He's loud, often a bit vulgar, a very masculine creature. He's rather insensitive and an enormous ass. He can be confrontational and his emotions are almost always entirely unchecked. I'm not necessarily "quiet," but I can be shy and I'm not him. I never, ever swear, and I'm pretty feminine and girly a lot of the time. I try to be sensitive and tactful, sometimes to a fault I will admit as it leads me to being somewhat of a doormat. I've even learned to school my emotions in almost every situation, except with him. Even when I'm with Dee or Sofi I Nevermind, they can read this. He can usually see right through me, so I don't really try around him anymore. Maybe that's a good sign. But are we really compatible? I often debate making him sign up for one of those dating sites with me to see if we'd be matched. Probably not, honestly.
I don't know why I'm thinking about this all. The radio show host was talking about opposites attract and how successful those (these?) types of relationships can be, and about whether finding a mate like you that you can relate to if a better idea. A lot of the callers and research is saying that apparently people are better off the more in common they have. I sure hope not. I don't actually have any fears or anything about us, but after everything that we've been through, it makes me wonder sometimes. Honestly, though, thinking about everything, it really just makes me start to wonder if maybe I do believe in fate after all... He would probably laugh at that kid of thinking, but who knows... Now the radio show is discussing chicken pox. Very random.
I think there's something up with Cal that he's not telling me about. He's been acting more...reserved for a few days. I don't know what it is, because he denies it when I brought it up and I don't want to press. It's probably nothing. I'm not going to worry about it. /Private.
I'm still in LA! Well, right outside in the suburbs. Cal and I are at my mom's. We arrived a few days ago. Cal's asleep and Mom just headed to bed, leaving a silent house. It can sometimes be creepy, but it leaves me to my own devices, which for tonight equal radio and internet.
Interesting questions for mothers parents. Or really, for anyone who wants to answer, but I'm especially interested in the opinions of people with children. It's sparked from the radio show I'm listening to. The host is discussing chicken pox.First question: Would you get your kids vaccinated knowing there was even the tiniest chance that they could develop autism because of it. Now, I was googling and doing some research and (beyond discovering it's the MMR vaccine and not the chicken pox vaccine) apparently the evidence appears entirely coincidental or flawed, and the CDC even stated "there is no evidence to support the connection" and that one of the main studies, "the Wakefield study," is fatally flawed including that it only studied twelve children. You could read more here, if you'd like.
Anyway, so just on the hypothetical sense, since the jury's still out, would you vaccinate your child knowing there was even a very rare chance they could develop autism?
Second question: So apparently there's a new trend (although the late-thirties or early-forties host's parents and peer's parents did it, so it doesn't sound so new) to take healthy children to "pox parties" to deliberately infect them. Apparently, one child catches the chicken pox, so the parents throw a big party where other parents bring over their healthy children and they make them all play together, eat together, and possibly sleep in the same bed together to try and infect them so they can catch it and get it out of their system early on. I'm a bit torn on it as to me it sounds both like a clever idea and totally insane at the same time. I'm not sure. But I wanted to know what everyone else thinks. Would you ever do take your child to a pox party? Or what would you do in regards to the whole chicken pox thing? Yes, these are the weird things I ponder when I'm the only one awake. Silent houses do these things to a person.
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