The other day, someone I'd only met for the second time ever (and who'd just found out I was pregnant) wanted to touch my tummy. No bloody way. He wasn't my doctor or my midwife so I really don't see what right he had to to feel my bump. I leaped away, just out of his reach, and chided him in (I hope) a jokey manner.
I wasn't quite so quick this morning when my gym trainer came by to see how the mum-to-be was doing. She was lightning fast, this one, and wouldn't have gotten away with it if she weren't a middle-aged woman.
Hey, it's my stomach, people. You wouldn't dare do it if I weren't expecting, would you?
At the pool I often see women bring their young sons into the women's changing room. This is fair enough if they're aged four or younger I suppose. But I wonder whether any men have been game enough to take their young daughters with them to the men's changing room? Somehow it sounds a lot more threatening, eh?
I've found that the library in town has put it's collection of Buffy and Angel novels all together. This is great, because they're written by various people so this makes them so much easier to find. Thank you, ** Library. After next Wednesday I will be totally free of library school concerns (at least until I'm ready to go back), so my free time will soon be filled with Buffyverse tales.
I've only tried four Buffy/Angel titles so far, but I've noticed that some writers sure are better at writing them than others. Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder go to the top of the class, Scott and Denise Ciencin will require another workshop on how to write an interesting story.
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I've tried reading a few Buffy novels but I found them too...try-hardy (for lack of a better word). Maybe I read the bad ones. Any titles you can recommend? I'll check my local library for them.
Well I quite liked Immortal, by Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder. I thought the authors did reasonably well in recreating the vocabulary I loved so much in the TV series. And the story was good too.
The pool near here has family rooms for parents with kids to use privately which I think is a great idea. It is hard for fathers with young girls. I've had guys (stangers) ask me to escort their daughters to the toilet at shopping centres and places like that.
And I know when my son got older enough to realise the difference between the men's and women's bathrooms he refused to use the women's but, to me, was still too young to go in the men's toilets. The shopping centre near me actually had a big sign saying homosexual activity was banned in the men's toilets which WASN'T reassuring! Lots of times I'd just take him to the handicapped toilets.
I always thought the touching of the pregnant bump was little odd too.
Have you decided to use a midwife?
Kathrynoh: Yeah its funny isn't it,how men's spaces seem more dodgy than womens'. Having a separate pool for families sounds like a great idea.
Tara: in NZ, if you're pregnant you pretty much have to have a midwife, unless you can afford to have an obstetrician look after you. The idea is that your midwife (whose services are Govt-paid) takes over all of your matters directly related to the pregnancy and you only see your doctor for other things.
Hey Violet:
Did you see this!?!?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3188646a10,00.html
Whaddayou reckon?!!? Don't know if you'd want to wear the same t-shirt for the next x number of months tho'...
8-)
Desiree: well that's crass commercialism for ya - but I've nothing against a scheme which makes money without hurting anyone though. Perhaps I could sell tummy touches for ten bucks a pop. Do you think that would work?
Weeeel, you know me, I'd rather talk to your belly (baby) than touch it. But happy to pay for the privilege if that helps to add $$$ to the baby fund!
And anyway, if you slap someone with an invoice for touching your belly, it might make them stop?!?
The lady in the article was on the radio this morning. She's planning on setting up a business to do the same for other women. The conditions of the auction were that she would wear the t-shirt supplied by the winning bidder every time she went out of the house, would talk about the business whenever someone referred to her bump and hand out business cards, and would do one event for them. For $250 that's pretty cheap advertising.
Later... 8-)
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