– Poor little car is almost dead. She needs love. But is it sane to spend money on a vehicle which cost less than $1500CDN? Should I not just give it a proper Viking burial by setting it on fire and rolling it into the lake? Will take her to Canadian Tire tonight to assess the damage, but given that she is making noises like her fan belt is made of sewn-together golf balls and her pick-up is altogether gone, to the point that I get excited when we move up to 10km/hr after pausing at a stop sign, I think the prognosis will be grim.
– Getting extensive waxing done tonight. Really extensive. Like, I’ll be popping a bunch o’ max strength Tylenol at 3pm in preparation. But seriously, my leg hair now rivals JVL’s in length, so it’s time to take some action.
– Have cold sore. Look repulsive. Hate face. Hate cold sores. Icky.
– My beloved birth control patch has apparently been declared outlaw due to “blood clotting issues”. The fuck? ALL birth control has danger of clotting! Why take mine away from me? I LOVE the patch. Do not want to take silly pills which I will forget, or get internal fixings. Damn! Still, this is disturbing…
“Ortho McNeil, makers of Ortho Evra, says women using the patch will be exposed to about 60 percent more estrogen [aside: no wonder I’ve had such bad PMS the last year!] than those using typical birth-control pills because hormones from patches get into the bloodstream and are removed from the body differently than those from pills. Thursday’s warning comes four months after reports that patch users die and suffer blood clots at a rate three times higher than women taking the pill. About a dozen women, most in their late teens and early 20s, died in 2004 from blood clots believed to be related to the birth-control patch, and dozens more survived strokes and other clot-related problems.”
Arrrgh! Finally, though, because I’ve been bitching about the patch news all weekend and failing to find anything that properly compared the risks associated with the patch to the risks associated with high-estrogen pills. If that’s a well-founded number, it’s kind of a scary one. How is this only coming out NOW after it’s already been in use for ages? Never mind, I know how. ARRRGH.
So… NuvaRing? IUD, hormonal or otherwise? I know you say you don’t want internal stuff, but if you can have something like 60% of your body surface waxed I really think you can handle an IUD insertion.
waily all round. your poor wee car is dying, and i think the viking burial is the only decent way to go, because it’ll cost a bundle to fix it and one less on the road can’t be a bad thing.
i’m not thinking about all the waxing.
and waily with the birth control. maybe just have jvl undergo a wee bit of surgery instead of messing about with pills and the like. I hear they can put little plugs in and everything these days. if you hold him down i’ll give it a go myself.
I know people who swear by NuvaRing. (Also, I think I’m the only non-gynecologist/family-doctor man in the world who can comfortably join a conversation about female birth control methods.) I don’t know if the ring suffers from the same this-might-kill-you problem as the patch, but it’s worth looking into.
Nope, sorry Paul, but you cannot lay claim to “only man ready to openly discuss birth control options”, since the previous poster on this journal entry, is a man, with whom I have discussed menstrual issues on more than one occasion. He not only posted earlier than yourself, but has also suggested the alternative snip-snip for the boyfriend option.
Still, thank you for your suggestions! I will look into this ring business when I see my doctor on Wednesday.
Smooches!
Nope, sorry Paul, but you cannot lay claim to “only man ready to openly discuss birth control options”
Curses! And here I thought I was such a uniquely modern guy. 😉
Fuck that!
eloquent answer. but no, wait. i don’t think you’re considering all the options. i mean, if we let professional do it, it can be reversed, no problems (well i mean there are problems but that’s mostly bruising), and then after a couple of days you can shag to your merry heart’s content. you win brownie points with womankind, and you don’t have to worry quite so much about their hormonal madness every month.
whereas if we let me do it, and I’m only offering because I’ve seen it done a couple times on the surgery channel and i figure it’s not that different from filleting a fish, there’s more than a chance you’ll end up as a harem guard, and have to borrow my meds to stay buff. cleaver on standby. 😉
go on, you know it’s not that big of a needle in the nether regions…
Some of us guys just have a good attitude towards menstruation.
I especially enjoy the ‘coureurs de bois’.
Ah, Kids in the Hall. You please me.