Interrupted
My Life Thus Far
It Left Me Wondering
After procrastinating and scrolling Facebook for an hour, I think I'm ready to buckle down and write. Facebook has become more and more of a distraction in my life lately. I realize it, but I don't feel particularly inclined to change anything about that. I still get everything done that I need to. It's become pretty popular to shun the use of electronics and time spent on social media, but I think I have a decent balance between my love of my family (and spending time with them), my love of the outdoors and being alone in nature, and my enjoyment of a good internet battle over palm oil, Oreos, atheism, and everything else people feel so deeply passionate about. And by people, I mean my fellow vegans in the groups I follow. Most of the time it's entertaining. Oftentimes it's a source of stress and makes me second-guess how healthy it is to let cyber wars get to me.
Anyhow, I had a great day mostly spent not on Facebook. Snookums and spent it together, which is rare these days. Between his work and school schedules, I don't get to see him as often as I'd like, and when I do see him he's doing homework or sleeping. I'm not complaining, though. In the 13 years we've been together I have never seen him as driven and dedicated to reaching a goal as he has been the past year. More so in the past 6 months even. I'm very proud of him.
I've been wanting to see Straight Outta Compton for awhile, so we went to the Galaxy Theater in Gig Harbor (because its super nice, and we wanted to go to some of the stores in the same shopping area). It was a surprisingly good movie. I wasn't expecting it not to be good, but I also wasn't expecting to be moved by it. Perhaps I'm just hormonal, but I almost cried when Dr. Dre's brother was killed and when Easy E died of AIDS. It left me wondering what happened to the other rappers. Like, where are they now. How has their careers/lives panned out. I haven't kept up with NWA, but I grew up listening to their music and I remember the controversy around them and rap in general.
Most of the rest of the day we just hung out with the kids and animals. I tried getting Zephyr to like Sebastian, our hedgehog. It took awhile, but I got Zephyr to let Sebastian cuddle on his side. I feel like Sebastian needs a friend, but we don't really want another hedgehog, and since Zephyr is so friendly, I figured he's the best candidate. Sebastian liked Zephyr's fur, and Zephyr didn't seem to mind Sebastian snuggling down into it. Then Sebastian wandered off and Zephyr got up and left. End of the cute moment. I'll try to get them to hang out together more often.
So it would seem I've developed another minor health thing. Nothing serious (I'm fairly certain), but something I should probably get checked out just to be on the safe side... for the past few months, every time Snookums and I have sex, I bleed. It varies in intensity, but it's been everything from full-on bleeding to just a little red on the tissue after I pee. I don't feel any kind of pain, really. It doesn't matter if Snookums is gentle or rough, it's always there. Once it was so heavy, I was sure my period had started, but by morning it was gone (and my period started almost a week later). Everything I've researched online assures me it's totally normal, and I didn't think it wasn't. I would just like to know what's causing it. I'm not on any kind of birth control. I haven't been for at least 10 years, I'm always well-lubricated, I'm not going through menopause, I tested negative for cervical cancer last year, no STD's. So, that really just leaves vaginal abrasions, cervical polyps, escaped endometrial tissue from my uterus (perhaps due to the D&C's I had last year), vaginal damage from the procedures. But that seems unlikely since I had the procedures last year and the bleeding is a relatively new development. I guess it's close enough to a year for me to go in for an exam... but I don't want to. I'd rather ignore it. But I know from experience that the stuff I try to ignore is the same stuff that always comes back to bit me in the ass.
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