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Readingallnight

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  1. Oh, when a man gets a vasectomy, the woman KNOWS about it. His friends know about it, everybody in the WORLD knows he's sacrificed his sacks for a babe. When they give up the very ESSENCE of their manhood, they have made the ultimate decision, and the woman will know. And damn sure better be grateful. *LOL* Mine wouldn't STFU about it for a week, including the moaning, the complaining, the constant bag of frozen peas on his crotch, etc. (Maybe just my experience - YMMV) Mine got a no-scalpel vasectomy about 15 years ago. That took 10 minutes and a couple shots of novocaine. His instructions were lay down for 12-24 hours with frozen peas on the area. He put put quite a fuss for the first 4 hours until he realized he'd left his fantasy football draft notes on his desk at work, then was up and out the door, drove there and back, and sat at the kitchen table to do the actual draft for a couple more hours, then went to bed. Total time resting on the couch with ice pack - about 4. Total time up/driving before bed - about 6. The next day he was wandering around the house for a while then remembered the doctor said 24 hours but by then it was past 24 hours and my sympathy was gone. He had no swelling or bruising and there was no scar at all. It is possible a guy could get one done and not physically show any symptoms, but keeping quiet about it? I doubt it. I said last week I hoped Lisa would have an abortion but figured it would never happen. They couldn't even say the word! Like the supreme court had their bedroom bugged and would burst in if the said it out loud. We are adults here. Say abortion when you have a conversation about it. Use your words about it and your feelings. They could have done that and decided to have one and still had the miscarriage happen exactly like it did. Massive sell out of the entire story line. Made it completely pointless and missed a huge opportunity to talk about an important subject. We get an entire episode of Lily needing condoms for her first time and sending her mom to get them and we can't get the word 'abortion' spoken out loud?
  2. I’m relieved Lisa is pregnant because I was sure that was where Nya’s story was heading. If the writers have any balls and any sense of what is going on in the country these days they will have Lisa have an abortion. The pregnancy doesn’t appear planned, she and her husband a seem to have adjusted their careers around school age children, and health risks increase as you get older. But I’m also not sure I’d trust the writers with a weighty, topical story line like this.
  3. Nya did at least one round of IVF, maybe 2, and her husband was pushing for more. She was reluctant because she said it was so hard on her body and thought the two of them were perfect as they were and didn’t need children to be happy. She wanted kids enough to at least try IVF, which is no small commitment, and if they went that route she must have had no success getting pregnant with assistance.
  4. I think forgiveness has become a fetish, at least in the US, and especially for women. Women who are sexually abused are encouraged to forgive, early and publicly, even if the abuser has not shown any remorse, and any time the abuser shows the smallest token of remorse with the barest of apologies the pressure to forgive gets even greater. Women who are brave enough to come forward with stories of abuse are almost always asked if they've forgiven the abuser. And there is great pressure to forgive and you hear all the time you can't heal until you forgive. Maybe that's true but it seems like society has decided that women get abused, forgiveness = healing, so they forgive their abusers, so society forgives the abusers and puts them right back into the position they were in before the abuse. We are all supposed to move on, not worry about the abuse being repeated, and repercussions are not needed. They were forgiven! It's over! Nothing to see here, move on, and if you are still angry that's your problem, not the abuser's problem. Anger is YOUR failing.
  5. Do you think it was a joke? I don't know, someone said "OK now let's hear from (guy's name) in his Theranos shirt" and he didn't react or explain at all. The emails are flying about it though! It's a slow Monday.
  6. Don't know about his resume, but someone on one of my calls today was wearing a Theranos t-shirt. I choked on my coffee when I saw it.
  7. A friend was hiring for a position recently, late 2021, and interviewed someone who previously worked at Theranos. It was listed on his resume. The job candidate worked in project management so in a normal company he would have had updates from the technical teams, but he described his experience there as 'atypical'. My friend said they guy was really vague about it and clearly didn't want to talk about it so he didn't press for more details, but he really wanted to take him out for a beer and say 'tell me EVERYTHING!'
  8. I have a feeling Peggy's storyline will be exactly what her father said - the guy she fell for was actually married, and seduced Peggy thinking he would get her father's store and money eventually. They ran off and eloped, by the time her dad found them she was already pregnant. He paid off or threatened Peggy's husband to tell the truth, that he was already married, which annulled the marriage. That's why she couldn't keep the baby because she would actually be an unmarried mother which was unthinkable. It's a not uncommon story line, unwed mother wants to keep her baby and is told the baby died while she's out of it from childbirth and the baby is spirited off to an adoptive family or orphanage to be adopted. Her mother won't condemn her father because she knows the truth, and Peggy's father doubles down on trying to control her life since her last decision went so wrong.
  9. Just saw on the HBO site it was renewed for a second season!
  10. I noticed last week when Miranda and Carrie were leaving lunch, before Carrie bought the brownies (blondies) they walked past a place and Miranda said something about the store that used to be there was gone. Carrie said no it's still there we passed it a while ago, and Miranda shrugged it off. As I watched this episode as Miranda babbled and yelled in the stairwell with Che I decided, in my mind at least, Miranda has some sort of organic brain disease. That's why she's loud and shrill and can't shut up and acts so strangely and why her personality has changed so drastically. I know that's a huge jump from misplacing one store in a throw away line but I need to rationalize her cruelty to Steve in some way!
  11. I almost quit watching after the 'what happens when we die' dueling monologues. And I said if they start into them again I'm turning it off. Thought they were gearing up to it in the next episode when Erin filed the missing persons report with the sheriff and he asked what she and Riley were talking about the last time she saw him. I had my finger on the stop button, but it felt like Monty Python and the Holy Grail when the dad has his son locked in a tower and every time he tries to tell his story in song the dad yells 'no singing!'. Then of course right at the end Erin starts into it again but it's so close to the end no point in stopping. The whole end and all the really poorly thought out choices just left my daughter and I laughing as they played out. Pruitt meets his daughter splashing gasoline in the church and the look on her face as he talks at her then admits he his her dad - funny. When they catch the sheriff splashing gasoline at the rec hall and someone says should have done the inside and then Erin comes out oblivious to the crowd at first as she is splashing her fuel about - funny. Pruitt admitting he did this whole thing to get back with his lover? Everyone suddenly realizing the sun was coming and they were screwed? Hilarious. I did appreciate what seemed to be a nod to the original Nosferatu, when the vampire looks up at the sky as dawn approaches but she pulls him back to her neck so she can slit his wings. Very similar to the end scene in the old 1920s movie, a woman keep him feeding on her until the sun comes up and he dies. For all their curious lack of vampire knowledge she seemed to have seen that movie.
  12. When Erin went to the sheriff to report Riley missing and the sheriff asked what they had been talking about the last time they were together I thought dear god, don't make me sit through the whole "what happens when you die" speech again. I guessed Riley was going to immolate in the sun and then worried through the whole episode if the boat is fireproof, and if Erin has a life jacket.
  13. Ripped from the headlines https://www.yahoo.com/news/alpha-house-boys-accused-having-163303303.html AHS does love their killer Santas.
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