I haven’t even been putting in links to my Psychology Today posts
The top one is probably my best! This is my newest

Though Susan G Komen retracted its very political and very wrong decision this blogger will be sending money to Planned Parenthood. I think I have a story in the archives somewhere about being eighteen and needing to find out if I was pregnant or not. If not I will hopefully write it this weekend

Planned Parenthood was there as it was there for exams and questions I didn’t want to ask my mother. I do wish Planned Parenthood offered mammograms as many insurance companies still don’t cover them and so many people are without any health insurance. You shouldn’t have to risk bankruptcy if you get sick before 2014. My insurance covers so little it scares me yet is almost $500 a month–older and pre-existing conditions.

This is an incredible and incredibly flawed country that panders to the right. This week we showed the power of Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. It was amazing to look at my Facebook wall and see almost all statuses in support of Planned Parenthood.

My newest and favorite post for Psychology Today

Here it is

Apologize even when not neccessary

I have about 36 newly found but not met nieces and nephews. I call the one I know, as she’s from the family I have known all my life, 37. After I spoke to bio half-bro I was so freaked out from learning about the size of the family and that he not only hunts but makes his own gun powder and uses a bow and arrow I ran into her room.

Fortunately 37 is very mature. She looks just like the Deschanel sisters, Zoey and Emily but for some unknown reason my brother-in-law doesn’t want to know what 37 will look like when she’s in her 30′s and pregnant.

For those of you who have read Courting since its inception year, 37, then a little kid, will be going to college next year. Being one of us she likes to make life hard for herself and refused to apply to one school early admission but is applying to schools all over the North East. Because of me she’s a legacy to one of them! Unfortunately it’s not NYU which I left after one year. Kind of wish I had stayed so it could have been grandfather, daughter, and niece at the same school.

I don’t generally write about her as I have this grossly outmoded belief in privacy. I can talk about me but nobody else in depth. I can talk about the dead but that’s funny–generally they have living significant others, siblings and/or parents who somehow figure into every story. That does limit personal blogging a lot.

Oh Thanksgiving dinner was great as were the other ten days. I went to a new store in Huntington that only sells many types of olive oil and balsamic vinegar. I could taste them all but stopped after fig and vanilla balsamic as I was so overwhelmed!

My latest Psychology Today post

I wish my parents, those people who raised me, were here to tell me how much they approve of my finding new family. It would have been easier had they still been alive.

I just wrote a post that was so bad even copious editing couldn’t save it. There will be a new post later this week or next week. But Psychology Today comes first as people actually read that!

My sinus infection is impeding my productivity and making me hate mommy bloggers and mommy’s who love to test my knowledge of NLD on Facebook groups. As I don’t want to hate mommy’s and actually like them I think it best for me to stay away until the antibiotics kick in!

I need sun. I will be the first person (in many years) to die of “it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and her body was screaming ‘sun, sun, sun come out. I need you.”

And if you’re a mommy who likes to test me and then basically say “I was just playing,” I wish you well because you need all the good karma you can get.

See my newest post at Psychology Today! It’s the fifteenth and probably the best. Or not.
As Courting, not I, is doing the thinking it wanted truly stupid pictures of my garden! And the weird (to me) growths are rose hips. Live and always learn!

wild rose bush with weird growths

Sunday night I went to bed about 12:30. I felt something that felt very much like crushed glass pounding into my leg (yes I know that feeling firsthand.) I moved my arm to my leg and felt the same sensation on my arm. I looked down and ran out of bed.

It was too late to call anybody so I emailed Bone. At the time I was in denial that it was a spider because yuck. Thought about sending him pictures of the bites but my general sense of decorum won this round. I wanted somebody to know about the bite and the date to be on record. OK bugs make me hysterical. I stayed up as long as possible but knew I would have to face a bed sooner or later. I slept in the guest room.

Obviously I was still alive in the morning but the bites looked worse. I walked into the bedroom and the spider was still on the bed. I felt sick. Not too sick to declare war. Only lady bugs are acceptable. I also have lizards and snakes–hopefully not poisonous ones in my irregular sized plot that used to be gross weeds with some grass trying and failing to grow. Now it’s three levels of wood decks. I accept bugs outside. They’re not allowed inside and should know that.

I didn’t have any bug spray as I have an exterminator and no need for spray usually so I took Lysol Clean Up and sprayed the spider for at least two minutes until it finally died. I didn’t care if I ruined the bedding and mattress. This was war. Did I tell you I love my mattress?

I took the bedding and not just washed it but put it through a bleach and then a sanitary cycle. Apparently in war cleanliness counts more than anything.

Eldon, contractor, handyman and househusband came over. Yes I knew I had three more days before the venom could spread. Or did I know this? I had taken a Benadryl so was kinda out of it. And the rain. After months of no rain it wouldn’t stop and I couldn’t stay awake from general malaise I suffer from in temperatures under 80something with high humidity. I need heat and humidity to feel human.

Eldon made a lot of fun of me. Fortunately I had both neosporin and benadryl Gel and used them both probably canceling out each other’s effectiveness.

It’s been almost a week and you can’t see the bites or the swelling anymore. But each night before I go to bed I check my bed for spiders. A girl can’t be too careful.

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I don’t do ads on Courting. I change the password often and need the password every day to enter my blog. Don’t get this. The ads link back to WebMD via smart link. I don’t make a cent and have no idea what to do to stop this. I use the latest versions of Askimet and Bad Behavior. It’s not that I wouldn’t make money from the blog if the right opportunity presented itself; it’s the idea that this can be done. Courting isn’t even popular anymore and hasn’t been for years! I just personally love it
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