no boys allowed in the room!!!!

Lisa Frank lives in Tucson – I was talking to someone yesterday who grew up here & spent her childhood thinking Lisa Frank was just a Tucson phenomenon. "She taught me that you can paint without using any black," she said. I had spent the previous night looking at a Goya book and thought – no black, how awful! I know they're not even at all the same kind of art. I didn't even like Lisa Frank as a little girl; I was just the right age that eventually SOMEONE gave you a bunch of Lisa Frank swag, and you had to put all those goddamn stickers on SOMETHING.

What's going on re: this thread? "My feminist whatever" stuff just makes me so sad, mad, etc., I quit even thinking about it, or reading, even though it is very important to me. But it still comes up like some Whac-A-Mole game. I had a dangerous near-miss with a strange man recently, and I don't really want to discuss it, but it made me so mad, like apoplectic, "this would not happen to a guy." I feel like the police can't/won't help you on this stuff. I got it all out by cleaning my house VERY QUICKLY; it made me feel Mormon. Everything loops back on itself.

I'm sorry abbs.

We support u. Many <3s

It's hard when you are too aware of how profound the rifts in the world are. You can't fix them but you can make them recede a little, all that dancing over the abyss stuff.

But man, the micro-aggressions will really get you.

more <3 to you from me too, Crabbits

It's hard when you are too aware of how profound the rifts in the world are

yes!! and this (plus my one good but occasional lunch companion at work) = the only place I can find anyone else who even seems to SEE them and not go "nobody else has ever mentioned noticing any of these so-called rifts, you are just whining, did you ever stop to think how whining makes YOU the rift" etc forever and boy does it drive me mad. but, dance, recede, that is a thing to work on I guess.

that "man who wakes up with temporary amnesia after surgery and tells someone he thinks is a complete stranger that she's hot but in actuality it's his wife" viral video on facebook yesterday is sooooo fake.

yeah definitely. but i really really really wanted to believe it

rescreening this thread. god, gbx posted on it like 50 times, how annoying

let's talk about how great the dirty dancing soundtrack is.

omg I have been listening to "hungry eyes" like 10x in a row for like five days straight.

my sister and i were talking about how when we were little we thought all the songs on that were from the same era, somehow

ha i had it as a kid and dragged my mom and my friend and her mom to the dirty dancing TOUR that summer
i'm neither proud nor ashamed of this, it just was something that happened

it would be hard to choose between la bamba sdtk and dirty dancing sdtk

i love DD soundtrack so much

I WANT TO KNOOOOOHOOOOOOOW
WHERE ARE YOU TOOOONIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

la bamba soundtrack omg yes

though that reminds me of literally crying in my bed for a week after I saw the movie (i was really bummed that Lou Diamond Philips died lol) so it's still tinged with a little bit of bummertown usa

<3 ldp

rip

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m47k9yYAkB1qawc47o1_500.gif

brother bob was my favorite
<3 <3 <3

I haaaaaaaaaaaaaated Dirty Dancing when it first came out. My best friend made me watch it with her like ten times and every time was like torture. This makes me want to reconsider, however:

http://www.xojane.com/entertainment/dirty-dancing-is-a-subversive-masterpiece-and-here-are-four-reasons-why

It's entirely possible I hated the movie due to being a curmudgeonly, contrary child and not on the actual merits.

who wouldn't want to crawl around on the floor with and/or do the lift with and/or invade the dance space of patrick swayze?! he was such a hunk.

I only have seen Dirty Dancing a few times, and I haven't seen it as an adult, EVER.

Saw it a few months ago and it still catapults me back to being in high school again, feelings and all. My best friend and I skipped out of school for an entire day just so we could watch the film over and over. That was the secret soundtrack of my 20's.

Watched La Bamba a few months ago as well and yeah, brother Bob...totally! how did I miss that as a teen? Ha!

Oh, and I completely blame that cassette for having a huge influence on guys I dated and slept with because I thought they sort of looked like Patrick Swayze. I'd always have it playing while getting ready to go out.

the sister's talent show rehearsal is worth the entire movie imo

^^YES, it is THE best

A movie starring Jerry Orbach and Kelly Bishop set in the Catskills in the 60s sounds like something I would looooooove but I never was a Dirty Dancing fan.

jennifer grey makes jerry orbach CRY

we are talking cinematic gold here

did yall hear that the topless feminist group we discussed WAYYYY upthread turned out to be run by a dude?

no boys allowed in the room!!!!

i got my thyroid checked today thanks to this thread and the advice of homoII and others. i'm waiting on my labs to come back. i'm concerned though because after hearing about all my symptoms the doctor was like "is there a history of lupus in your family?"

:/

that link is to where we talked about the FEMEN group, sorry if that was unclear

They thought my grandmother had lupus too but it turned out to be thyroid.

I went to get a well woman check finally after all the talk about periods. Mine have been weird this year. Since I was 2,5 until I got pregnant, I was an always reliable 28 days. Post pregnancy...got my period four weeks after delivery despite breastfeeding. My periods then went from 28 to 36 days and have been on a steady decline, now at 27 days. My big question for my gyn was if pregnancy made me pre-menopausal if not menopausal.

What did the doc say?

My periods had been on a steady decline prior to getting pregnant (at 40, like you iirc) so I'm wondering what I'm in for.

since I've been on thyroid meds and eating an autoimmune diet, my hair shedding has drastically reduced to like... normalish. For my entire adulthood I've always lost GOBS of hair a day, sometimes it gets up to frightening levels. So this is really a relief.

yeah i've been essentially balding for like 3 years, so im really looking forward to quelling that if possible

also, this doc told me that they were going to email my results?! i find that really weird. they had me sign a thing saying that it was ok to do so. is that normal? tbh i haven't seen a GP since the dawn of the information age

The practice where my OB is has some kind of secure hospital-specific email communication system. I get lab results that way, but they also call and tell me if something is abnormal since they are really just sending me raw data. My doc sent me a message last week that I replied to and she was so happy to know that the whole thing actually worked. She said I was the only person who had ever replied to any messages.

Roxy, do you know what labs they're doing?

im not 100% certain but i went in there specifically to be tested for thyroid stuff. i know theyre doing several tests related to that. and som kind of lupus panel

*some.

i know there was specific stuff i should have asked for, but i figured if nothing comes up with these then i'll go hard on 'em

Hair loss is a pretty classic symptom on hypothyroidism

i have an appt to get bloodwork done too
i think it's in a couple of weeks
kinda scared about it, but i guess it's better to get it taken care of than not to

Roxy, if you want to talk about your results with me once they come back, you can chat me on facebook

I also have suffered from hair loss/thinning since I was 19, so I know allllllllllllll about that.

i totally will. thank you!!

what exactly is the treatment/cure for thyroid problems?

i dont know if i posted about this here but i just found out that one of my sisters was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. she said they gave her medication for it, but that the medication made her feel like she was having a heart attack all the time. very much in the style of my family, she never went back to the doc and just stopped taking the meds. :/ i won't do that

You have to start slow on a low dose and gradually go up. No wonder she felt bad! It probably made her hyperthyroid. I'm only on 32mg of nature thyroid and I have no side effects except now I don't feel like taking naps as often

She really should take the meds. Long term hypothyroid leads to really nasty, sometimes fatal complications

I was supposed to go get my thyroid checked almost a year ago, after my sister's huge health breakdown (thyroid was one of many problems) but I never did bc I hate doctors. I really should bc having energy to do stuff is a totally alien concept to me, has been for most of my life, but the last year has been a downhill slide. It's causing a side effect of building anxiety bc I feel like my days are slipping by and I'm getting v little done, even at the most basic level

it makes me wonder how much hair loss is normal?

i wish i knew bc i am reaching a near crisis point over here