First of I would like to thank those of you who have contacted me with Birthday wishes and Well wishes fro Stephanie this means so much to me! Stephanie seems to adjusting fine but because of her learning disorders it is a bit hard for her to comprehend. She asked if she would die from her thyroid and we told her no, but she still need to take her medication, then she asked if the medication would make her die, we said no, then she said she was fine with it. When we told her how the medication would help her with things like, more energy, less moodiness, and possible weight loss of some of the weight she gained she responded with "I'm Going To Be Skinny" we said you may lose a little weight, and she responded again with "I'm Going To Be Skinny"! So we told her if she takes her medicine, continues to eat well and exercise she would indeed be very healthy and she said "I'm Going To Be Skinny"...........
ROTFLMBO!! I guess when your a tween the only thing that matters is being skinny never mind being healthy who wants that? Kids they are so cute!! On another note I recently had a conversation with Stephanie about the changes that will happening with her body, explaining how the egg is released
yada yada ........... asked her if she had any questions and she said she had one " Can we sit when we have our periods?" I looked at her puzzled and asked Why? She responded with " WON"T IT BREAK MY EGGS"..........ROTFLMBO!!..........Hehehe! I then explained that we were not like chickens and our eggs were inside of us! Out of the mouths of babes.....Priceless!
Here is a funny story I found about a man getting a Brazilian wax in light of last Friday's waxing story.
Brazilian bikini waxTHE MISSIONI was picking lint from my collar when my editor called with a dangerous mission: to get a Brazilian bikini wax and report back to you, the reader. Apparently, men are ripping hair from the shyest parts of their body, and no one knows why. They needed someone on the inside.
I arrived at the day spa without a reconnaissance. Lauren the hostess guided me through the cutting and curling and dyeing to a waiting room. Scratch that. Any room so fancy should technically be called a foyer. The chandelier tinkled to the sounds of Beethoven, and cinnamon candles warmed the room. I sat on a couch with entirely too many pillows and tried not to touch anything. Lauren hurried away to do hostess things.
Odd place for a man condemned to wax.
Men are not cut out for hair removal. A man can eat nails, drive a Harley, become a Navy Seal, and still snivel before a pair of tweezers (or as I like to call them, Devil's Chopsticks). It is baffling that women endure this pain -- repeatedly -- for any cause, including their own salvation.
Lauren circled back for me and soon I lay in the waxing chamber, where everything was fresh and folded and blindingly white. Was I in for surgery or hair removal? As instructed, I removed my clothes and assumed the position. It was like lying on a chiropractor's table, only face up with legs spread in gynecologic uncertainty and, on second thought, nothing like the chiropractor at all.
A cheery voice interrupted my willies: "You muss be the lucky man."
And in she walked, a stout Argentine woman whom you liked instantly even if she was about to rain terror on your
netherparts. Her name was Blanca, but she answered to anything that sounded like cries for mercy. Blanca was an older woman, better for the wear, and had an accent straight out of Evita. Her voice soothed like a lullaby, but you sensed that she could beat you silly if she had to.
For some reason, it only now occurred to me that Blanca would see me naked. I felt like we should get to know each other, have a drink or something, but she went right to work like a mother changing a diaper. She had seen every size, shape, and color, and mine did not bear mention. So it goes.
Blanca showed me the instruments of destruction: liquid wax, cloth strips, and a box of Kleenex (for my eyes). Her arms were brawny as if from subduing previous customers. I asked Blanca what made a wax Brazilian. Despite my hopes, it had nothing to do with live samba dancers.
"The Brazilian es when everything goes, even where the sun no shine. The French, however, es when you leave a
leetle strip..." She demonstrated.
I asked her if we could start with a colder, more conservative country, say, Poland.
Blanca laughed as she dipped her rag in hot -- extremely hot -- wax. She laid the strip on my skin and, coaxing me in tender tones,
rrrripped the hair from Mr. Giggles.
It is hard to describe the pain that attended. Normally we are present to a range of sights and sounds, grounded for the most part in reality. The moment Blanca took back her strip of cloth, my awareness of Other came to a searing standstill, and nothing existed outside the sting between my legs. Somewhere in the distance a dog barked.
I yelped in some new language and had a mini-seizure.
"Es okay, beautiful, see." Blanca showed me a strip of fur that belonged somewhere else.
So it went, strip after strip, my torso arched backward like one demented Slinky. Blanca assured me that "es almost over," then
rrrripped again. I looked to her the way one does a flight attendant in turbulence: her smile was all I had.
"Beautiful, es almost over," she said, and I, in my fever, believed her. We were almost done for 30 minutes.
Tears welled up, but I sucked them back in with my eyeballs. Women wax all the time, right? I thought about my wife. Maybe she would take me for ice cream afterward.
With every pass, the wax got hotter. I asked Blanca if the heat would max out at some non-scalding temperature.
"Hot wax es better," she said. "It grabs the hair from underneath."
Her perfectionism was killing me.
"Es almost over."
Blanca told me to close my eyes and relax, but every time I got to my happy place, she ripped it out of me. It's a little-known fact that the man who coined "mind over matter" died of a Brazilian bikini wax. I've endured tattoos, carpentry stabbings, and a bee sting that made my lips look like Meg Ryan's, and none of it could have prepared me.
Finally, mercifully, we reached the end -- the real end. Blanca had clear-cut Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, leaving no shrub
unfelled.
She wiped her hands and said brightly, "See, I told you
eet was almost over."
I looked down at my new friend, a turkey made hairless, waddle and all. Blanca told me to let it air out for a while, be naked if possible. Good thing I work at home; that could have been awkward for everyone.
"Thank you for trust me," she said. "Will you do
eet again?"
"Perhaps if I encounter some issues with my memory down the line." I tipped Blanca not for the wax but for the psychotherapy.
AFTERMATH
It has been a week, and I'm still not myself. I've acquired a facial tic and other hints of post-traumatic stress disorder. The draft in my basement won't go away. I feel less manly, Samson without his pubic hair. I've stopped showering at the gym, and it may be years before I can eat Brazilian nuts.
My hair is returning slowly, in patches, like Earth after nuclear winter. Blanca said that if I wax often enough, the hair will stop growing altogether, but then what will we do for fun? My compulsion to scratch is severe -- greater, in fact, than my need to be accepted by other people in the restaurant.
As nice as it was to clean Richard and the twins, I have decided that my private parts will remain private. Some say that waxing improves sex, but I don't think I'm good enough at it to tell the difference. I did find this, however: shavers and
waxers don't mix. My wife is a shaver, and I, bless my editor, am a
waxer. Now when we make love, it feels like grating glass down there, which, of course, is not enough to keep me away.
Blanca sees musclemen, swimmers, and guys who like to roam the beach showing off their circumcision, but still it is mostly women. They are the only ones tough enough to return. Blanca would like to have more male clients, but something tells me I didn't help her cause.
Still, I will always recall fondly this woman who knows me better than do most of my ex-girlfriends. Even now, as I scratch and scratch, her accent echoes in my mind: "Es almost over, es almost over...
Labels: Ramblings and Musings
I've had plenty of embarrassing moments but the one I remember clearly - because my husband will not let me live it down - is bringing home guacamole mix for my husband. I thought you just needed to add water to it - it turns out you need avocados too! No I didn't read the directions...
What can I say - I don't cook!
I also embarrass my kids all the time by saying BRAS in the mall too loud and holding hands with my 11 yo boy!