Mom: “Repeat after me: I am a beautiful Nubian princess.”
3 yo Me: “I am a beautiful Nubian princess.”
Mom: “I have beautiful dark brown skin.”
3 yo Me: “I have beautiful dark brown skin.”
Here’s mine: Last night, I got cozy in bed and right before drifting off I remembered I needed to put in my mouth guard. Got up to clean it then thought, might as well use the bathroom while I’m here. Used it, washed my hands, then cleaned the guard. Oh shit, I forgot to dry the clothes. So now I’m walking to go dry my clothes with my wet hands and mouth guard. Oh there’s paper towels. I dry my hands, dry the mouth guard and lay it on the paper towels. Go to start the dryer. Awww look how cute my dogs are in their crates. Maybe they want me to adjust the crate covers real fast. You guys are so cute. We’re all so cute. Speaking of cute, what am I going to wear tomorrow? Oh the dryer! Go to start the dryer again. Shit wait lemme wash my hands first cause I just touched all the dog stuff. Oh man first lemme refill their water bowl. Go to fill their water bowl. Speaking of bowl, I just did a lot of work, where’s my bowl?! Hit the bowl. There that’ll help me sleep. It’s time for bed again. Shit the laundry! Wait still gotta wash my hands. Oh the dogs water bowl! I put the water bowl down, now I gotta wash my hands again. Now Go start the laundry!!!! Start the laundry now it’s time for bed. Finally I make it to bed. Wake up in the morning, head hurts from teeth grinding all night.
I forgot the fucking mouth guard.
TLDR: If you had to experience it to understand, how did you grow from it?
(I hate that I have to specify I’m talking to us in our community but here we are. Let’s press pause on the “I’m not black but…” responses for just a bit, respectfully.)
I tried so hard to fight against what my mom was trying to teach me. Call it naïveté, call it stupidity, or call it survival, I tried to not see things the way they were. Even til this day i still get reminders every time I get too comfortable. My mom tried to talk to young me til she was blue in the face, and I tried to ignore red flags for so long, I just don’t think there was anything she could’ve said to me to make me get it. But I sure remember the first time I got it and it changed me so much.
20 years later I run DEI programs working with Black teen girls, and one young lady hit her mom with a, “well that’s just not my experience,” after her mom and I were talking to her about “the Talk.” Her mom and I are both millennials and the look we exchanged really broke my heart, that kinda doomsday look of like, we’re both gonna hurt for her when she feels it for the first time. Not to mention the heartbreak for us both in our minds hearing our teenage selves saying the same shit and knowing that disappointment inevitably follows.
One thing I struggle with still loving attitude era is the hindsight you get after learning the behind the scenes stuff & some of the storylines were all basically true. Vince blurred the lines of kayfabe so much his art really became less of an imitation of his life and more just his actual life.
Mr. Mcmahon’s treatment of women (Trish, Torie) you just knew that was real especially when he open mouthed kissed them on tv as “Mr. McMahon.” (It reminds me of Tarantino writing himself molesting Salma Hayeks feet in From Dusk Til Dawn. )Then having Linda and his kids be apart of that storyline knowing he was really doing that behind the scenes is so foul.
Other kayfabe moments that we later find out are true:
-Shane feeling unappreciated was so heavy in the storylines and then to hear him say exactly that on the documentary… makes it hard to watch him take those life threatening bumps for daddy.
-Putting everyone’s worst characteristics on TV: Austin being borderline abusive to Debra when he went heel, Hawks addiction, Lita Matt and Edge storyline to name a few.
-HHH & Stephanie’s entire relationship
-destroying WCW & ECW then completely belittling the talents
TLDR: I can separate Vince from Mr McMahon enough to still enjoy the show, but there’s still a part of me that wants to know what’s real and what’s not? Do you have an example of an attitude era storyline that turned out to be true??
Hi everyone, I’ve inherited two 10 y.o. intact labradoodles. They have their cycle twice a year for about 3 weeks (one is currently on her period & she and I are both very miserable about it).
Someone on Reddit recently gave me scary advice saying intact senior dogs can basically spontaneously die from some random disease som I’m considering spaying. A local vet is offering free spays and I’d like to take advantage of it but my vet is cautious about doing the procedure at this age ESPECIALLY bc we will be moving states 13 hours away in 2.5 months which isn’t that long after their expected recovery date and will likely cause them stress. She’s left it ultimately up to me giving me pros and cons that honestly feel too balanced to make a decision. So I’m looking for advice from dog owners who’ve spayed their senior pets, or animal medical staff that may have any insight.
- What changes did you notice, if any in your dogs behavior?
- How long was recovery process and how’d they fare through it?
- was it worth it?
Btw, they’ve recently had bloodwork done that came back normal across the boards and the vet will take blood again to ensure their levels are fine before surgery.
I would love some documentary recommendations that are somewhat light hearted/quirky, with jaw dropping moments as the documentary goes on. I just saw someone else comment “the jinx meets chimp crazy.” That’s EXACTLY what I’m looking for. Hit me with your best doc!
I’ll love you even more if you can include a doc from one of the following platforms: netflix, hulu, disney+, hbo, prime, peacock, apple)