RTT: More to Love & Sex Ed Bill

It's Tuesday!  So you know what that means right?  Beautiful Randomness! 

 

♥  I feel totally in love with a blog I found  yesterday, and I found it because it was featured on SITS.  It's called More To Love.  Basically, she draws these adorable illustrations of real looking women, and writes about body issues and loving yourself for who you are.  She talks about  how no one really cares about your pants size, how even Goddess' have cellulite, and many many other things.  As a girl who's struggled with weight and body issues, I highly recommend this read to anyone, and I feel inspired after having read it! 

© Elizabeth Patch 

 ☠ I am so very sick today.  What I thought were allergies yesterday, ended up being a head cold that was sneaking up on me today.  By the time I woke up this morning, I was miserable.  Please let this go away soon!

☺ Although I'm sick and "under construction" (my aunt-flo is in town, if ya know what I mean) my mood has dramatically improved from last weeks depressive madness.  I spent most of last week bawling, and curled up on the couch watching my comfort show (Grey's Anatomy) and feeling sorry for myself.  This week?  Well the sun is out and the PMS is gone, so I'm in much better spirits.  As long as the sickness and cramps don't kill me, I should be fine for a little while.

★ I made homemade Egg Rolls, Sweet & Sour Chicken, and Lettuce Wraps for dinner Sunday and then again last night.  They were so ridiculously good, that we enjoyed having them two days in a row!  I didn't take pictures (sad I know) but you can find the recipes and the original pictures over at Little Birdie Secrets!   They're seriously full of win, and I highly recommend them!

 Egg Roll Recipe

Sweet & Sour Chicken Recipe & Lettuce Wraps Recipe 

♂ The Sex Education Bill was voted down in the Utah Senate yesterday.  Here's the kicker, those bastards didn't even discuss it!  Senate Bill 54 would have modified the way sex education was taught in high schools, allowing the teachers to discuss healthy relationships, human development, and the proper uses of contraceptives; rather than Utah's "Abstinence Only" policy.   

This frustrates me because I've seen first hand (among many of my friends) that this doesn't work.  So many of my friends got pregnant in high school, because a continuous "Just don't do it!" mentality not only doesn't prevent anything, it pushes the defiant teenagers to do it.  I'm a firm believer that we should teach them that at that age they really are too young to be engaging in sexual acts, but if they do-hey here's how you use a condom so you don't have a baby or get herpes.  How hard is that?  

Basically, our conservative lawmakers didn't really discuss it, because it had the word contraceptives in it.  One lawmaker even admitted that!  They say it's the parent's job to discuss that with their children, which I agree with-except-they forget that a lot of parents aren't really doing their job.  For example; my friend's sister and brother-in-laws didn't teach their kids ANYTHING.  They're very neglectful parents (not being home for a week straight, alcoholic, etc. That's a story for a different day) and their oldest just began having sex.  When she discussed it with my friend (her aunt) and was asked if she was using protection, she said "Kind of... Sometimes at the end..." We were astounded!  My friend drove her to Planned Parenthood to get birth control, and the girl (age 19) said she would have never even known to do that.  She would have ended up with an child she couldn't take care of at her age (no job, living with the boyfriend's parents, etc.) and not only would it have changed her life, but it would have been a drain on our Welfare.  So isn't it smarter all around to teach kids that even though they probably shouldn't be doing it, how to be safe if it  happens?

Well, I'm going to end here because we're super busy at work today, and my head cold is killing me, so I've run out of random.  Head on over to Keely's and get your random on!

Let It Go; Let It Be; Let It In.

Dear Heart,

Dear Friend,

Dear Whoever Needs This,

Let it go. Those stories from your past follow you, they walk along behind you constantly whispering warnings in your listening ear.  Telling of lessons learned, and heartaches gained.  Be wary in listening.  Take it in, and let it go.  What has been, has been, and you cannot change it.  With that being the case, what is the point in regret?  Why let it ruin the beauty the future holds?

You're afraid, and you're shaking.  Can't quiet the voices in your head that tell you it might happen again... If you show your true self, will they turn in disgust and walk away?  Demons hiding deep within, if they're exposed will you lose the love you so long for?  You never know until you try, and if you don't, you will never have a chance at it.  Having it and losing it-well, that's better than never experiencing it at all, isn't it?  Even if you only have it for a little while, do you not want to taste it and savor it while it is there?  I promise you, you do.

Let go for the fear you carry, let go of the doubt, worry, and insecurity.  Just be.

Let it be.  Leave it lie there, don't poke it or scare it or try to force it to move.  You can't force things, you can't shape them into what they aren't supposed to be, and attempting to do so will only ruin their natural beauty.  If you take something with so much possibility and interfere, it may never reach full potential, and then what are you left with?  Let things be undefined and simplistic, which is how they are meant to be.  Don't complicate them with how you want them to be, and with your impatience.  Be patient.  Let it be what it is meant to be.

Let it in. Cease to block yourself off from the love those around you are offering. Open yourself up and absorb everything the world has to offer you.  It can be scary, yes, and opening yourself up to all of the good things also leaves you open and vulnerable to the negative things in life.  However, without the bad, how will you ever fully experience the good things life has to offer you?  If you never feel all the heartache and hurt, how do you know to enjoy the happiness when you have it?  How do you know not to take it for granted when life is wonderful?  It will all be worth it, every bit of bad will have been worth it when you find the happiness you've so been searching for.

You deserve to be happy, and you are the only one standing in the way of that.  Manifest your destiny, and be brave as you make your way through all of the obstacles that are between you and your objective.  These are so small compared to the greater gifts that await you at the end of your journey.  Wait for it, fight for it, and make it worth it.

Let it go; let it be, and let it in.

Sunday Citar: Writer's Friends

I love these guys, until the end of time!

Flaws and all! 

 

 Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them. - Catherine Drinker Bowen