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I really don't know why there needs to be a whole month dedicated to breast cancer. My grandmother is (or was) a survivor from breast cancer, but there are a lot of other illnesses that do not have the same survival rate that breast cancer does that do not get the kind of attention. It really has gotten out of hand.
ETA: I forgot to add my AW. My ILs gave me a gc to one of my favorite places to shop. Plus this morning I received an email for a coupon for the same place. Yay for shopping!
Also, we kind of peer pressured one of my bosses into getting donuts this morning. I hope he gets back soon, I'm hungry!
One of my friends saw a heavy woman at the fair a couple of weeks ago. She was morbidly obese, riding a hoverround thing, and eating a cookie. Friend says loudly (where obese woman can hear her)" "Is she seriously eating a f'ing cookie!? That should be illegal!". I guess the woman kept going and didn't say anything.
I am horrified to think that one of my friends is such a cvnt. More horrified that I couldn't even think of the words to say to her while I was listening to her tell me the story. All I could muster at the time was "did you seriously say that to her? Wow..."
What if the woman had a condition or was taking a medication that caused her to gain weight? Are heavy people never allowed to have a food indulgence? Especially at the fair? Fvck. People are rude. Her being overweight had nothing to do with her.
THEN, to top it off, she says "it pisses me off even more because we are probably paying for her healthcare". AHHHHHHH. Once again, I was speechless.
Wow, I feel sorry for the woman who heard her say that.
Seriously. It makes me sick to my stomach.
That makes me sad, BoyMom.
And I go out of my way NOT to buy "pink ribbon" items.
FFFC: I really wish my boss would really screw somthing up so she could get canned like ASAP or just quit since no one has any respect for her and it shows.
AW: I went to a family friends yard sale last Saturday. I am not a yard sale person unless I know who you are and that your "crap" is worth my time looking at. Well I am glad I went; I scored 4 throw pillows in like new condition from Dillard's for $5 ea, a Pier 1 lamp for $5 AND a King size Ralph Lauren comforter with 2 pillow shams and 1 euro sham for $30 and it too was in like new condition; I know it was well over $200 brand new. I have been in the market for new bedding so now all I have to find are sheets and new pillows and I will have my new bedding.
H and I have been talking about a vow renewal for our 5-year [which is what we've been talking about when we decided to just have a JOP marry us]. He wants to do something fairly big here...I want to go to Hawaii and do something small and intimate. The flameful part: I'm almost positive his family won't come to Hawaii, and some of them made my wedding day a borderline nightmare. That's part of the reason why I'm pushing for Hawaii. The other part is that my mom has a lot of family out there, and my grandmother owns a catering business that could do the reception for pretty cheap...we'd pretty much have to get ourselves out there and find someone to "marry" us.
I've eaten my way through half of the 59oz. bag of Halloween candy. It's all chocolate, which is my weakness. I think I'm done until we go trick-or-treating.
OMG, Boymom. That is awful. And the fact that she bragged about it.. ugh. That makes me so sad.
FFFC: I've been holding a giant pity party for myself all week. I started getting sick a week ago, and I've been coughing up my lungs ever since. Today I even pulled a muscle in my back from coughing. And I got a cold sore on top of everything (thanks illness), so in addition to feeling like crap, I look like crap. Oh, and it hurts like no other. It's embarrassing as heII because it's my second week of work no less, and they've had to deal with me hacking and looking gross.
LOL, see? Pity party still.
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As an overweight person, yes, shaming me does bring to attention the fatness of my ass. I'm totally not aware of the size of my backside and welcome people commenting on it. (heavy sarcasm)
My FFFC: I think it's kind of funny that people think they know what it's like to have an unwanted pregnancy and terminate it, or to have a child and be mentally ill if they have never been in those situations. We can all speculate as to what we would or should do, but unless the situation has actually happened to you, how can you really know?
I had a feeling that was the case.
I totally agree. H and I were just discussing the ubiquity of breast cancer awareness and fundraising events last week. Harsh as it sounds, I think breast cancer awareness is overrated. It's been made into a "sexy" cause because it impacts the breasts, but there are far more fatal cancers out there that don't receive nearly the amoutn of attention and funding they should since breast cancer greatly overshadows them. Colon/rectal cancer just isn't as easy a cause to get behind and make t-shirts about, is it?
It was articulate enough for me to understand.
Or even prostate or testicular cancer shirts.
I would totally wear a flesh-toned shirt that said "SAVE THE BALLS"
"Hey, kids, feel your balls, so you don't get cancer. Feel your balls, squeeze your balls, tease your balls, please your balls."
I'm still sad he and Drew Barrymore didn't last. I had high hopes for those crazy kids.
For colon cancer: "Up yours, cancer!"
With slogans like these, McGillicuddy should totally get us hired at her ad agency.
I don't hate on breast cancer awareness, per se. Except the "on the counter" purse status thing or the "I'm two weeks and craving snickers" ultimate BS on FB. But I digress. I just hate that they have commercialized a disease. Instead of buying a pink kitchenaid mixer, donate your money directly to the cause. It will have a much bigger impact that way.
And I think "I
boobies" and "Save the tatas" shirts, etc. are kind of tacky.
If you get Marie Claire, read the article this month about the commodification of breast cancer. There are like 3-5 big charities (Komen, Johns Hopkins, etc.) that are doing some really great things with all of the money they've collected. BUT there are thousands of little charities who have preempted the pink ribbon just to sell crap AND give very little (if any) of their procedes to anything that has to actually do with breast cancer. For example, a group might promise that "a portion of the procedes will go to help women with breast cancer pay their bills" but it turns out that 99.9% of the money actually goes to salaries.
It just sucks that it's become so commercialized by many, many groups that are just using it to sell pink cookies/tshirts/shoes/ribbon wands but not actually doing anything to help. Because of this, we get "giving fatigue" and cancers which result in more deaths but which also have an easy check system (like colon/rectal cancer) get ignored by the public.
Umm, hate the FB statuses for breast cancer. Hate, hate, hate.
Honestly, I never even knew what the "I'm 4 weeks and craving Snickers" thing was in reference to (I remember the colored bra thing..?). I just knew it was for breast cancer and was annoying as fvck.
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I still kind of feel like a jerk for posting it, but I really couldn't help myself. I know those people, so I know they had a BLAST even if it wasn't typical. There was just such a 'wow' factor to it when I initially saw the pictures. I certainly don't feel like I'm above them or people who don't have 'typical' weddings. My wedding wasn't typical, and I've done some really redneck things in my life. It was just one of those things that I had to share. I will stop trying to justify myself, now.
Real classy, girls.