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Nov. 30th, 2002 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katallisonYour TMI for the day: so far I've noted two distinct upsides to menopause (or perimenopause, or whatever the hell this is that I'm in). The first is, well, the obvious; and the second is that, if one lives in a cold house, in a cold climate, hot flashes are of the good, bringing, as they do, intervals at least during the day when one is actually warm. No downsides noted so far. I'll give things another cautious hopeful few weeks, and then, in an appropriately Crone-like spirit, on winter solstice I'll have a big bonfire of the tampons, in the back yard. (Which means, of course, I'll either have to shovel away some snow, or use the Weber grill, which somehow reduces the blah-blah-Gaia blah-blah-moon wanna-blessed-be aspect of the whole thing, but will also probably reduce my chances of setting the house on fire.)
In other news of no interest, the story has broken the 100,000-word mark. The finish line is beginning to shimmer into view; the remaining gaps are mapped out in my head, and words are slowly and laboriously being shoved into them. I do think I shall make my end-of-year deadline. Jeeezus and hallelujah.
In other news of no interest, the story has broken the 100,000-word mark. The finish line is beginning to shimmer into view; the remaining gaps are mapped out in my head, and words are slowly and laboriously being shoved into them. I do think I shall make my end-of-year deadline. Jeeezus and hallelujah.
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Date: 2002-11-30 06:08 pm (UTC)::snerk::
I know the feeling.
About ten years ago I was invited to a baby naming ceremony whereby we (all women) passed the little guy around in the sacred circle, calling his name, and then buried mommy's placenta and planted a tree over it. Seeing as how the baby was close to 4 months old at the time (the ceremony had to wait for the ground to thaw) I asked one of their housemates how exactly they'd kept the placenta that long. The answer came back that it had spent the winter in the freezer in a ziploc bag.
I opted for no ice in my Jack Daniels.
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Date: 2002-12-01 04:25 pm (UTC)I'm having flashbacks now to Santa Cruz in the late 70s, when I briefly hung with a sort of Deep-Feminist/quasi-Wiccan group that was big into (erk) *eating* the placenta. I think I have to go lie down now...
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Date: 2002-12-01 05:31 pm (UTC)Please tell me that you bailed before sampling. Lie to me if you have to...
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Date: 2002-12-02 07:57 am (UTC)Eeeuuuggghhhh. ::shaking self thoroughly, like a wet dog::
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Date: 2002-12-01 02:38 am (UTC)You don't know me, but I like your fic, so I read it, and then I read your blog. Thank you for the live journal mirror, it's really nice to have your posts just delivered to my door. :)
Good luck with the story!
Cheers,
Halimede
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Date: 2002-12-01 04:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-12-01 07:42 am (UTC)Adding to the TMI count this weekend.
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Date: 2002-12-01 04:30 pm (UTC)But hey, as highs go, hot flashes are free, legal, and nonfattening. ::shrugs:: Works for me!