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In the rush of getting out of the house yesterday morning, I forgot to take my meds until after we got home from the movie (late in the afternoon). Today I feel extra down, extra fragile, extra volatile. I took D on a short adventure to try and do one of the food challenges only to be slightly disappointed that Seven Eleven didn't have any sugar-free Slurpee flavors today. A friend stopped to visit and told us he was doing better than he had been, and then shared some big life-news, the type that even though it doesn't affect me personally still feels like an avalanche. And he's happy, so it's not like I'm going to try and tell him that I think it's a bad idea. I want to be happy for him but I feel like it's all going to be a trainwreck. He's also asked us not to tell anyone else and mentioned that he didn't think he'd be able to hide it from his young daughter for much longer. Not that I'm a parent or anything, but I felt compelled to give him some advice about helping his daughter not let the cat out of the bag. It was from an article I'd read, saying that keeping secrets can be damaging for children, so he should tell her it was a surprise and not a secret. Surprises have more positive connotations, and imply that there will be an appropriate time to share information. Secrets never have an expiration date.
In the wake of hearing this news and pretending to be happy by saying all the things one says on hearing that particular type of thing, I got snippy with D who repeated something I'd literally just said as if he'd come up with the idea himself. As a very quiet woman who deals with this a lot I kind of exploded at him. How does one say "I just said that!" politely? And I felt he was dismissive of how irksome it is to me, and then he said something that made me realize just how much of a white male privilege bubble he lives in (because again, he was verbally somewhat dismissive of hardships people who are not white nor men experience). And it's not like he's a douchey bro, he's just completely, blissfully unaware.
Day 9:
In packing up our old place, I had winnowed out many things and items of clothing to get rid of. For clothes I was keeping, I put into clear plastic bags with pieces of paper with KEEP written in black Sharpie showing in the bottom. There are many bags, all over the bedroom and office and the thought of unpacking them makes me quail at the sheer amount of them to go through. It's a lot easier when I open one up because it's a certain time of day and I've realized I still have to go find something to get rid of. That way it's not unpacking, unpacking just happens while I'm looking for at least one thing to let go of.
Red lace surplice LB top, too big. Far too much cleavage exposure, to the point where my bra was showing when I tried it on.
Next was the olive green military-styled vest, too big. I really wanted it to still fit, because it's really cute (and what if I get fat again dragged itself through my mind while I looked at it. Cute things are hard to find in larger sizes.
The electric green slip was easy to let go of. It's a full coverage long slip/nightie from a clothing exchange. Bright neon green is one of my colors. It'll always attract my eye But if the purpose of a slip is to make sheer fabrics more opaque or to provide a non-clingy base for clothes to lay on the body, a bright green slip isn't going to do it quietly.
Last was another emo grenade, something from the Great Greg Stuff Giveaway: a lime green women's shirt that had to have been stock from when he ran a retail store called Vibe Alive. The art screened on it is very obviously by John K (the Ren and Stimpy guy). I barely fit into it at my lowest weight. Ok, it didn't really "barely fit", I just squashed myself into it and looked like an overfilled sausage. But I got a lot of "hey, cool shirt" comments from both friends and strangers, so Greg-memory plus social affirmation (by which I mean not feeling invisible) has made it hard to get rid of. But it doesn't fit. It never fit. I'm never going to be the person who wears that shirt without mentally feeling self-conscious and physically feeling constricted.
In the wake of hearing this news and pretending to be happy by saying all the things one says on hearing that particular type of thing, I got snippy with D who repeated something I'd literally just said as if he'd come up with the idea himself. As a very quiet woman who deals with this a lot I kind of exploded at him. How does one say "I just said that!" politely? And I felt he was dismissive of how irksome it is to me, and then he said something that made me realize just how much of a white male privilege bubble he lives in (because again, he was verbally somewhat dismissive of hardships people who are not white nor men experience). And it's not like he's a douchey bro, he's just completely, blissfully unaware.
Day 9:
In packing up our old place, I had winnowed out many things and items of clothing to get rid of. For clothes I was keeping, I put into clear plastic bags with pieces of paper with KEEP written in black Sharpie showing in the bottom. There are many bags, all over the bedroom and office and the thought of unpacking them makes me quail at the sheer amount of them to go through. It's a lot easier when I open one up because it's a certain time of day and I've realized I still have to go find something to get rid of. That way it's not unpacking, unpacking just happens while I'm looking for at least one thing to let go of.
Red lace surplice LB top, too big. Far too much cleavage exposure, to the point where my bra was showing when I tried it on.
Next was the olive green military-styled vest, too big. I really wanted it to still fit, because it's really cute (and what if I get fat again dragged itself through my mind while I looked at it. Cute things are hard to find in larger sizes.
The electric green slip was easy to let go of. It's a full coverage long slip/nightie from a clothing exchange. Bright neon green is one of my colors. It'll always attract my eye But if the purpose of a slip is to make sheer fabrics more opaque or to provide a non-clingy base for clothes to lay on the body, a bright green slip isn't going to do it quietly.
Last was another emo grenade, something from the Great Greg Stuff Giveaway: a lime green women's shirt that had to have been stock from when he ran a retail store called Vibe Alive. The art screened on it is very obviously by John K (the Ren and Stimpy guy). I barely fit into it at my lowest weight. Ok, it didn't really "barely fit", I just squashed myself into it and looked like an overfilled sausage. But I got a lot of "hey, cool shirt" comments from both friends and strangers, so Greg-memory plus social affirmation (by which I mean not feeling invisible) has made it hard to get rid of. But it doesn't fit. It never fit. I'm never going to be the person who wears that shirt without mentally feeling self-conscious and physically feeling constricted.
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