Happy Anniversary!

Happy Anniversary, serpentseye and calialleykat! Have a wonderful, wonderful weekend; I'm so glad you're both in my life!

In other news, ow!

On the positive side, I finally got my meds, after three weeks of hearing nothing and being out of almost everything. On the negative side, seems to be just in time, since I'm definitely flaring. *grrrr* Good thing this weekend is likely to be very calm and quiet. The hot tub will be my friend. *nodnod* Also, really wish my backordered wrist braces would get here. I only have problems with my hands when I'm flaring, and the doc doesn't think it's actual carpal tunnel, although the symptoms are similar. I'm happy about that, at least. I'd rather have fibro symptoms (which are non-degenerative). Today's a bad joint day all 'round, though. Knees, hips, shoulders, elbows, wrists, back. Nothing's happy. I did push myself pretty hard physically this week, so it's not entirely unexpected, and at least I have my tramadol again, and it's Friday, so nothing "end of the world" about any of it.

And I have Zombieland waiting for me at home! Yay!

G's off to a Rainbow event this coming week, and my sister-in-law tasharowan will be coming to stay for a week, about which I'm really excited!

I'm feeling a bit behind on practical elements of life, and hopefully I can devote some energy to those this weekend. I'd also like to get us listed as active on couchsurfing again, now that we're getting the downstairs back sorted out and visitor-ready. And being active on couchsurfing is good for me; it keeps me motivated on housework and house projects, and creates "deadlines" by which time things must be cleaned and tidied. Helps with my procrastination tendencies.

Today, though, even after taking a stim pill I could happily curl up under my desk and go straight back to sleep.

On the Haiti adoption fiasco

Heron and Teaotter pulled together some good info about how this particular case fits in with larger issues in international adoption -- the main article referenced is The Lie We Love

And it's not like we don't have similar, although less blatantly egregious behavior going on in the US

And, as long as I'm clearing things up, let's talk about the relationship between adoption rates and abortion rates. Basically, there isn't one. What's happened in recent years, in terms of adoption "shortages" (this only applies to healthy infants, not older kids or those with special needs) as stigma against single motherhood has decreased, is that the easy access to infants has decreased because single women are no longer pressured so intensely to hide their pregnancy and hand over the baby as the only route to "respectable" life.

Special bonus: a hotline even major pro-choice organizations thought was a trustworthy place to refer women who wanted to continue their pregnancy is referring them to CPCs instead (complete with all the pressure and factually inaccurate "info" provided by such organizations)

[Moya/Exhibitionism] Thoughts on boundaries and intimacy...

My little note to myself about what I wanted to write says "Shared sexual energy (telling stories, talking about turn-ons) vs im-sex and I and You language"
( ramblings )