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stoney321
First, I'm the guest blogger today over at TerribleMinds, which is totally cool. Word of warning, though, the post is all about my love of cuss words. (I was assigned that topic, lol.) Translation: NSFW.Second, I really could use some sleeping in time as my son didn't go to bed until 5:30am, complaining about itchy feet. Yeah, so I was raised in a house of girls, and we were fairly prissy, so I didn't realize my son was carrying FILTH AND PESTILENCE on his body in the form of athlete's foot. BOYS ARE GROSS. Your locker rooms are a cesspool, evidently, and as such have infected my pristine child (lol) with disease.
I am now armed with rubber gloves, Lysol to spray the bathtub and floor down (and to have him do after each shower) new insoles for his shoes and some tough-actin' Tinactin. Next up is to drag him to Target or the Walmarts to get some shower shoes. BOYS ARE NASTY. I keep getting the heebie jeebies every time I think about it. BLECH. I know, I know, it's pretty dang common, and it's not like he has lice (glah - I would burn my house down) but groooooooss. Boys: bringing filth home from the time they learn how to walk.
(It's weird that I have this reaction as my dream - my dream!!! - was to be a parasitologist. I still love reading up on that topic, it's just that this is in my HOUSE not a lab or out in the field.)
It's going to be 70 degrees today. o_0 It'll drop to the upper 40s next week, because weather here is kooky like that. (I will be watching Jersey Shore later this morning, OH MY GOD I DON'T WANT IT TO BE OVER. *cries* Ahahaha.)
[ETA] I just got a phone call from my sister, the one who has non-verbal autism. She said [in her way] that she is excited to come be with me and the kids for the week. She also said, "I love you, Laura." Like, all four words. I'm grinning from ear to ear, and there might be some tears involved, but I won't admit anything. <3 :) <3
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Date: 2010-01-22 03:16 pm (UTC)It's been all sunny and warm and bright this week. It's a lovely change.
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Date: 2010-01-22 03:23 pm (UTC)Hasn't it been nice? It's supposed to get wicked windy later, so I want to get out before then.
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Date: 2010-01-22 03:23 pm (UTC)You fuckin know what I mean.
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Date: 2010-01-22 03:24 pm (UTC)I totally fuckin' get what you're sayin'.
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Date: 2010-01-22 03:44 pm (UTC)If the tinactin doesn't work, try lotrimin (stronger) or lamisil (strongest). I once had to go on oral lamisil for six weeks. OMG. sorry, just here for the over sharing. :P
though, here it says tinactin is best! hm, will have to try that next time.
http://www.galttech.com/research/health/athletes-foot-cure-treatment.php
probably flipflops are better than over the foot shower shoes... whatever keeps the foot up off the floor, yet dries quickly. :)
best wishes!
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Date: 2010-01-22 03:47 pm (UTC)Oh, "shower shoes" here means those thin little flip flops, not to sock-style swim thingies, so we're good on that. :D
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Date: 2010-01-22 03:50 pm (UTC)*sneaks away covering tracks with foot powder*
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Date: 2010-01-22 04:08 pm (UTC)*sprays this post*
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Date: 2010-01-22 03:50 pm (UTC)As to the rest of it. . . shudder.
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Date: 2010-01-22 04:09 pm (UTC)And you left just in time!!! BOYS ARE SO GRODY. But then, you deal with soft serve... ;) (And check out my ETA. <3)
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Date: 2010-01-22 04:31 pm (UTC)Soft serve. Heh. I'll never be able to eat a chocolate cone again.
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Date: 2010-01-22 04:34 pm (UTC)ME, NEITHER. Thanks, Maddie. (I still love her, though.)
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Date: 2010-01-22 04:10 pm (UTC)I'll check your guest blog as soon as J falls asleep!
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Date: 2010-01-22 04:21 pm (UTC)Woot!
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Date: 2010-01-22 04:11 pm (UTC)The article rocked. It was smart and funny, just like you! This made me grin and nod my head in agreement: I like it when people can slip in some clever or just truly sick words into something. Everything is so PC, so calculated in the media these days, it’s just delightful to find some truly rank shit out there.
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Date: 2010-01-22 04:22 pm (UTC)And hahaha, thank you for the complement on the redonk that is my love of swearing, hee!
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Date: 2010-01-22 04:34 pm (UTC)Ahem. That is, I'm sure with preventative measures everything will be fine.
Gross!
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Date: 2010-01-22 04:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-22 04:43 pm (UTC)Apparently it doesn't survive long/at all on clean carpet, so you're probably safe from everybody getting it 'cause he's been barefoot all over or something.... But, yeah, boys/locker rooms/ick. Though the school or wherever should be using fungi-killing cleaning stuff and all the boys should have shower shoes...i wonder if they know the locker room is contaminated?
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Date: 2010-01-22 04:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-22 05:02 pm (UTC)*shudder*
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Date: 2010-01-22 06:14 pm (UTC)It was not my favorite part of motherhood, but has lately been overtaken in the Not My Favorite Thing sweepstakes by not knowing if he's actually living here or with his girlfriend (we have broadband; so far that's the overwheening consideration).
Julia, the girl'sa Buffy fan, though, and an ex member of FFA, so it could be worse...
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Date: 2010-01-22 06:24 pm (UTC)I have sprayed down the boy, disinfected him and his bed clothes and am wondering if I can teach him to walk on his hands...
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Date: 2010-01-23 06:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-22 06:35 pm (UTC)Girls have long hair. They bring home lice. Even from fancy private schools. And when they are six and have them you have to sit them in the bath and douse them with
Boys are smelly, but lice are worse.
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Date: 2010-01-22 06:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-22 07:22 pm (UTC)The girl kept bringing home lice when she was in kindergarten. The first time, I fareeked!! Got the cats professionally groomed, bagged all her toys and gassed 'em, fumigated the house and of course, poisoned the kid. 4 weeks later, she has it again. Rinse, repeat,... And then, 4 weeks later,.... I was pissed!!! And not only pissed, but a poor single parent, and food stamps don't pay for Rid,.... So I called the school to see what was going on. And got a snotty comment about my dirty kid!!! I fucking lost it, went off on the lady, filled her in on what I was doing, then asked her who the girl was seated next to. I got a quiet, "..., Oh,.... Uh,.... insertkid'snamehere,... She's out with lice too,..." YA THINK??!!???!!!! Turns out Jax's kindergarten partner was an immigrant from a third world continent who couldn't speak English, and Jax was the top student (in kindergarten? What, she knew more colors?) so they had been paired together. I asked that they be separated as I couldn't afford to poison my child every 4 weeks.
Jax also started blow drying her hair, and putting mousse in it.
No more lice!!
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Date: 2010-01-22 10:01 pm (UTC)I think the insistence of a lot of public schools on a shared coat cubby was a big part of the lice epidemic. I've never associated lice with race, though; is it a lack-of-funds-for-treatment/cultural acceptability thing?? I'm asking because my family is mixed black/Hispanic/N.Am. so the only one of us who mostly avoided lice was my sister with the extra thick and kinky hair, but we got rid of them just fine. It was just whenever someone's school had an outbreak, we all had hair down to the middle of our backs, so someone was bringing the suckers home and infesting the rest of us. I mostly noticed that the girls with straight non-greasy hair got a lot of lice, but that could have to do with hair products making an inhospitable environment, or smothering.
Also! One time during lice screenings me and four other girls were sitting at the "quarantine" table waiting for our parents, and my mom called us "The Lice Girls." It was the '90s. She thought it was hilarious. I was scandalized, but it's a lot funnier now than then.
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Date: 2010-01-22 10:27 pm (UTC)*bursts into tears*
OF COURSE SHE LOVES YOU. <33333
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Date: 2010-01-24 03:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-23 12:14 am (UTC)I'll have to remember to make sure they have flip-flops for the gym once they get to the age where they have to shower.
Your sister is a sweetie. <3
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Date: 2010-01-24 03:11 pm (UTC)She is - she's drawing a picture of Pinocchio on the computer that is ridiculously amazing. On MS PAINT. I'll save it and share, she has been drawing this well since she was 3.
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Date: 2010-01-23 12:45 am (UTC)and BLEAH BLEAH BLEAH BOYS. Oh my god. I remember my brevet-brothers getting the full gamut of disgusting, smelly, warty ailments through their teen years. It was a revelation. In the Stephen King sense.
<3
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Date: 2010-01-24 03:12 pm (UTC)She is having lots of fun bossing the dog around, lol. "SIT." Giggle. "SIIIIIIT." Giggle.
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Date: 2010-01-23 02:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-23 09:50 am (UTC)aww
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Date: 2010-01-24 03:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-23 08:23 pm (UTC)Try clear iodine on the foot fungus if it doesn't go away. I lived in some gross student housing that found its way onto my feet & applying clear iodine post showering for several months worked like a charm. (And moving to a cleaner place sans roommates.)
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Date: 2010-01-24 03:13 pm (UTC)Oooh, that's some good advice I've not tried, than you!
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Date: 2010-01-23 11:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-24 03:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-24 03:57 pm (UTC)boys *are* gross. and stinky.