While Duke actually wasn't interested in going to a local club (he says the girls just look unclean) if there were a "classier joint" he would probably have gone. I never knew a strip club could ever be classy...
]]>While Duke actually wasn't interested in going to a local club (he says the girls just look unclean) if there were a "classier joint" he would probably have gone. I never knew a strip club could ever be classy...
Now don't mistake me for some prude. I have been to strip clubs, mainly when I got out-voted by a mostly male group of friends. Despite the borderline offensive objectification on parade before me (from the men, not the women) I've never had a bad time. I could never tell who had it worse; the women using their bodies, or the men who threw money at them.
Or maybe it was me?
After all, I have used diet pills to supplement my work outs mostly because it generates better results and an added boost of adrenaline but sometimes because I want to have a better body. I'm not doing it for my health, so why am I doing it? Quite simply because I want to be attractive. There are no other real benefits. I'm a serial monogamist so it's not to attract partners. I'm a professional blogger, so my appearance does not hinder my job. So why?
As much as I protest about makeup, too many hair products and over-priced purses and clothes, I do objectify myself. A good amount of my confidence is that I do consider myself attractive and I want to remain that way. Then, what I lack in the looks department, I make up for in other ways such as money and personality. So, if I really didn't care about my appearance why am I taking diet pills and why do I bother weighing myself?
Heck, unlike the strippers, I'm not getting paid for any of this effort!
]]>She also doesn't believe in Evolution. The Bible was written by men, not God, and when you stop questioning the claims of man then you have devolved yourself into a lemming.
I love that her policies are in favor of smaller government - just small enough to fit in our bedrooms. When she says she's a outside the Washington Elite, she means that she knows nothing about what goes on in Washington. She can't even think of a Supreme Court ruling other than Roe v. Wade that she disagrees with. I'm sorry, is there any cognitive activity going on in there, Mrs Palin? How about the ruling on symbolic speech such as flag burning? I figured that would be kind of a big deal to her conservative leanings, right?
The first woman in the white house should be strong, she should be intelligent, she should be more than just a pretty piece of eye candy. Most importantly, the VP should at least have some knowledge of Landmark Supreme Court Rulings. It's not about how she's a Washington Outsider, it's not because she's a hockey mom...
It's because there's nothing between her ears.
I want the first woman in the White House to be competent and capable of relying on something other than their looks. When she speaks, she must command respect! Not a pat on the head that you would give a school girl when she gets an answer right and that gosh darn folksy stuff is no substitute for education and intelligence. (Originally Posted Here)
]]>I read many women's blogs all in various types of relationships; some just blossoming, some satisfying, some not, some happily married, some unhappily married, some divorced.
It seems that the real difference in the relationship boils down to this; those happy in their relationships feel like they are enhanced by their situation, those unhappy feel like they are losing a part of themselves... and they'll miss what they have lost.
]]>I read many women's blogs all in various types of relationships; some just blossoming, some satisfying, some not, some happily married, some unhappily married, some divorced.
It seems that the real difference in the relationship boils down to this; those happy in their relationships feel like they are enhanced by their situation, those unhappy feel like they are losing a part of themselves... and they'll miss what they have lost.
When I first began talking openly about my Divorce, a wise woman told me that once all the money has figured itself out, once you've moved on and stopped ruminating over and over again, you get back that part of you that you lost and sometimes you'll find parts you had forgotten about.
I've rediscovered art. I've rediscovered my independence. I've rediscovered my slightly abrasive attitude.
You know what? I think I love it.
What have you lost and found at the end of a relationship?
]]>It is quite common knowledge around my circle at college, my work colleagues and others that I am going through a divorce. In the back of my mind, when someone asks me if I am "seeing someone" all I can think of is that I am 21 years old, and divorced... 21 years old and divorced... 21 years old and divorced...
]]>It is quite common knowledge around my circle at college, my work colleagues and others that I am going through a divorce. In the back of my mind, when someone asks me if I am "seeing someone" all I can think of is that I am 21 years old, and divorced... 21 years old and divorced... 21 years old and divorced...
Jesus, what the hell am I doing? I'm 21 years old and DIVORCED!
This stigma might be in my head, but sometimes I think people are taken aback and look at me differently. I think the knowledge of my divorce turns me into some relational failure. While some people commend me because I got married on an impulse to a man I was terribly in love with, I still squirm.
"You lived with your heart" they tell me "with passion!"
They're right. I lived with passion, like a temperamental artiste! Where the hell was my head during all of that?
The other day I had made a joke about how if I was not married by 40, I would just have a civil union with my best friend, Laelene. I mean, might as well, right? She's the only constance that my life has had (outside of family).
My friend, Cowboy, shot back "So does it count, if one of you has already been married?"
Har-har-har!
I laughed. No, really, I laughed and made some flippant remark. But inside, I was crumbling. I know he wasn't being mean, and as far as I know, there were no hidden daggers in that remark, but it still cut me to the quick. Maybe, instead of saying I'm divorced, I'll say that I'm just single?
Or would that be a lie?