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Originally published at Laota's Gallery Free Downloads and Pagan Poetry. Please leave any comments there. So far, we’ve been dealing with more than the usual family trauma. Faith and i were invited to spend the week at our mother’s fiancee’s house. Mom’s been crazy and difficult, as usual, and unofficial adopted roommate/bottomless pit M hasn’t helped. My mother treats him like a convict, but at least — and I hate to say this, but — at least it’s taken the heat off us for a while. But mom’s boyfriend, we’ll call him K, is so lovely. I don’t agree with him on politics or religion, and that doesn’t really seem to matter, which is strange. He’s so nice that I keep expecting his skin to peel off and for a monster to come out to attack us. But mostly because I’m used to me and my sister getting treated bad by the people my mom brings around.
K’s place is cool. it’s a palace compared to where we live, but it’s not a mansion or anything. It’s a real, damn ordinary house, with two stories and everything. It’s the location that’s special, it’s right next to a private lake. We’ve been here for the last four days almost, and a little while ago, three deer wandered through the backyard like a little grazing party. I tried to take a picture of them, but the light was terrible, so I’ll post my picture(s) if they come out alright. Have a nasty headache again, even though I got sleep. Oh, well, maybe I just have a disease. Bye!
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Originally published at Laota's Gallery Free Downloads and Pagan Poetry. Please leave any comments there. I know it’s late, I totally forgot to blog about my birthday, or Faith’s, or what’s been going on. My mom finally introduced us to her new fiancee. I was expecting him to be some kind of a maniac like the other people she’s brought home, but he seems so kind! Way right-wing and Christian, but still sweet! Of course, if he is cool, Mom’s mind games and gold-digging ways will surely drive him away. Oh well, he helped fix our dryer, so for however long that lasts, I’ll enjoy it. Still, he’s so nice, I’m waiting for something really bad to happen. Like us being smashed up by a swarm of anvils. They took our roomate away for the weekend so me and Faith are gonna have a holiday tomorrow with Turkish Delight. There’s a new camera, so hopefully, we’ll have more pics. Oh, and my book will most definitely be broken up into little airport-novel-sized chunks. Kissy th’ Face!
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Originally published at Laota's Gallery Free Downloads and Pagan Poetry. Please leave any comments there. Life’s still getting one over on me, but my cold is getting better, and whatever waking hours aren’t spent cooking for and cleaning up after the idiot border, I’m going through my thread-bare wardrobe for ’30s-looking clothes. Can’t wait until my hair’s long enough for pin curls! Also, I’ve been so busy lately, I haven’t even started writing this year’s Solstice carol! Don’t even know what song I’ll use. I’ve also confirmed by decision to publish the Memoirs in several little books, as the size of the novel is happily out of hand. My little joy cup is full and sloshy! And for one more also, the Future Sailors Tour DVD is almost here! Ow, chicka-chicka!
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Originally published at Laota's Gallery Free Downloads and Pagan Poetry. Please leave any comments there. Sorry I’ve been gone, I’ve caught a head cold from my sister, who caught it from our disgusting roommate, so on top of everything else, I’ve been dealing with that. So a belated Happy Birthday to me, I guess. But there’s actual neat news, so yay! One is that I finished my library book! It’s been a long time since I’ve gotten to even go to the library, so that’s a good. Faith and I managed to scrape together the dollar for another card for me, so more good.
A while back, I was talking to a friend who’s sick and, like me, can’t got to the hospital. Part of the fallout is that she rarely ever gets her period. When she got it a little while ago and wasn’t prepared, I was talking about splitting a thing of pads with her, (we’re both poor, ya see) but she said one of the things that she really hates about using that stuff is having it stare back at everyone from the trash can. We are both very Japanese about being considerate of strangers and not making anyone handle our germs and view our grossities. My friend said she wanted to save up and get zip-lock bags for it, but I thought that might be wasteful, so we talked about a little covered trash can just for that, like the ones most ladies’ rooms have, but it looks like we might not have to. I saw a product called Scensibles on the Tampax site — they’re these antimicobial, biodegradable bags for disposing of tampons and pads. After finding out about them, I looked up some other brands, including a zip-lock kind, like my friend talked about, but Scensibles looked the best.
 They’re cheap, scented, and they inhibit the growth of odor-causing bacteria, but I found out that their weren’t initially created for home use. Ann Germanow, the chick who founded the company, wanted to solve the problem of unhealthy, unsitely bathrooms due to the fact that you can’t flush pads and tampons. Folks weren’t just grossed out from the sites and smells, they were exposed to blood-borne pathogens and bacteria, especially the workers who cleaned the bathrooms. Also, some people are apparently still flushing tampons and pads. It scandalizes the pluming and causes pollution, so that’s gotta stop. The Scensibles system works with bags, dispensers, liner bags and receptacles.
I filled out the contact form and they sent me free baggies! Yay! I like free! I haven’t had the chance to use them yet, so we’ll see later how they do. If I like them, I’m buying more when I can afford it. Right now every penny is going to food for the roommate, but Scensibles are like, 3.50, so it might not take long.
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