Good Mood!

Just a small update as I am actually in a good mood today. I biked my 10 km yesterday, and it occurs to me just now that not all the people reading this are located in Canada. Therefore...10 km = 6.21 miles. But that sounds way lamer than 10 so I'm gonna keep going by our measurement system thank you! Also lost another 2 lbs.. go me! Its finally starting to show a little bit, after just over a month of work. I still have a LONG way to go yet, but its nice to see some results.

I totally forget to share this yesterday too but after my rant about Pinterest I sat here on Feb 13th and made 26 little heart shaped valentines out of red and pink construction paper for my daughter to take to school for her class. We laid them all out on the kitchen table when they were done so the glue could dry before she wrote on them. (For the record she is 10 and easily could have made these herself, in fact she's always making shit out of everything in my house. God forbid I throw away a shoe box or egg carton. But, she has Aspergers and ADHD and get distracted easily, and she had homework to do. So I made them, because I'm nice like that.) Anyway while they were all laid out on the table there with my Pinterest rant fresh in my mind I thought to myself FUCK I should totally take a picture and post that shit on-line  I didn't though, because my phone was dying so the camera wouldn't work and I was far too lazy to go get my real camera, take a picture, put the memory card in my computer, upload the picture, then upload it to Facebook  See, and this is another part of my issue with these Pinterest mom's and their (so called) perfect fucking life. Parents don't actually have time for all that crap, or they are too lazy/tired. So when you are staging photos to show off how organic/home-made/crafty etc. your house and lifestyle are...are you not then taking away time you could be spending with your children? Which is not to say I don't take pictures of my kids, I do. When they are playing nicely and stuff I love to get the camera out and take pictures. I'm referring to this phenomenon of setting up an elaborate set and changing your child's outfit and everything just to get the perfect "candid" photo of how awesome your life is.

Wow that turned out to by longer than I thought it would, apparently even when I'm in a great mood I can still find time to rant. Doesn't that make you smile? It makes me smile, or possibly the prospect of shots later is what's making me smile. Who knows? See ya :)

Binge

So I spent the last 2 days binging on junk food because I was feeling crappy. Its kind of a vicious cycle that way, hmm. Anyway no more junk food. Drinking lots of water today, gonna go 10 km on my bike and make up for all that crap. Just in time for the weekend when I'm gonna drink my problems away! Hahaha I have awesome coping skills, FYI.

Anyway, I just saw this thing and was like wow, that pisses me off. And then I thought OH WAIT I have a blog now, score! I can rant to the world wide web instead of waiting for my best friend to call on her way home from work. So this thing that I saw, it was an article on MSN today, the Canadian version. And it was called Sexy styles for any shape, or something to that effect. Hang on, I'll go find a link. Aha, it was called Sexy Style at Any Size. here's the link: HERE. (My first hyper link, squee)

I'm pissed off about this article because you will notice if you actually click on my shiny new hyper link up there that while the article is supposedly fashion tips for every size every single model is slim. Is it too much to ask that when a magazine, website, catalogue et.al. is touting a line of clothes for plus sized women that we could actually see those clothes modelled on ...wait for it.. PLUS SIZED WOMEN??

All I could think while I was looking through that article was, those clothes will never look that good on me. Mostly, because I'm not a size 6. Which I'm not whining about it or whatever, I am working on making my body something that is acceptable to me. But still, in the mean time I want to look nice. Pretty, occasionally even sexy. Its bad enough that most of the "pretty" clothes aren't even made in bigger sizes, I mean there are whole stores in the mall that I can't shop in because an XL is a size 8. When there are clothes available in our size I would like to see some bigger girls modelling said clothes. Not only so I can get a realistic idea of what I might look like in that outfit, but come on, its just irritating. Its like the fashion industry will acknowledge that plus sized people exist but they won't go so far as to actually be seen with them.

I could go on about this all day, its really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to our twisted western culture of thinness. But its been done to death, and it'll just make me mad. The point of this blog is to rant until I feel better and so far mission accomplished! Until next time blog peeps. :)

Pinterest.. please explain.

So, here`s my first serious rant. This is the rant that inspired this blog actually. There`s a blog out there in the interwebs, called the Honest Toddler. In that blog the author constantly references Pinterest and the sub culture of staging fake photos to post so other people will be jealous. Now, people what the actual fuck? I`m only going to touch on the idea of parents doing this in order to shame other parents into feeling inferior. Because mom shaming is a thing that runs rampant all over the western world and it makes me super mad. But seriously, if everyone is faking these so called amazing pinterest photos then there's nothing to be jealous of right? That makes real sense right? I can`t be the only person who has figured this out. Are we as a culture to obsessed with making each other jealous that we are now making each other jealous of things that don`t exist? Like this bullshit, my baby is better than your baby because all of his clothes are home-made and recycled out of flour sacks. But actually once the camera is off your baby is back in their walmart clothes that we all buy because they are cheap and kids wreck shit. But I`m supposed to feel back because I don`t have any pictures of my children in recycled flour sack shirts so I make one and post a picture of it and so and so forth as infinitum  This is what we have been reduced to. Or people re pinning pictures of someone else's elaborate home-made birthday party and saying that its going to inspire them to do something just like that only BETTER for their child, but when birthday time comes its cake from a box and 7 dirty toddlers destroying your house. Do we really all live in this fantasy world inside pinterest that doesn`t actually even exist because the majority of people are bullshitting so they`ll feel good about their fake shit? Is there a reason we can`t all accept reality and start being happy with the way our lives really are? To be fair, I don`t actually pinterest this is just the general perception I have gathered so if you have an answer for me please, explain.

PS Please excuse the mental punctuation of this post, my keyboard has gone into Euro mode and I can`t figure out how to fix it. If you have an answer for that, it would also be welcome.

Welcome and so on

It has been said, in some circles that I should start a blog. So here I am, please don't expect any consistency, except maybe to rant about the news. Hence the title. I have a lot of opinions. And it has been said, as I said, that I should share them. So we'll see where that goes. Other background stuff, I'm a mom of two. Occasionally my children's antics may make there way into my blog. One of my children has Aspergers Syndrome but the "blog about my kid with ASD" has been done to death, so I'll try to stay away from that, unless I'm super frustrated in which case you should have that information for future reference. I'm getting ready to go to university this September, so expect to hear a lot about that. OH Also, I'm 27.. just putting that out there. I'm also in the midst of embarking on a weight loss journey, I'm pretty over weight and I feel pretty crappy about it a lot of the time, so far I've lost 15 lbs! Go me! There may be updates on that. I'm kind of a crazy person some times, anxiety and some pretty severe learned helplessness tends to stop me from doing things out of fear of rejection. So that's a thing. Scared yet? Mostly this will be ramblings, ventings of frustration, exclamations of joy and anything else that pops into my head. Anything else you need to know will hopefully become apparent with time. See ya.