I have been checking out the competition. No its not really competition because a good writer, even a competent writer can find herself with lots of readers. I love to peek into peoples lives! Got to say I just discovered Pasta queen what an awesome smartass.. I have spent the last two days reading her new blog and old one.
I don’t like small talk though I am creepy and will say something totally off the wall or embarrassing about myself. Not breaking the ice, shattering it into a billion pieces. I think friendship is like dating, you know if there is possible chemistry, deep down and its fun to test people.
Well I have been perusing many blogs. I feel left out. Eating is not an issue for me. I tried weight watcher’s to support my grandmother and Harmony. In the two days I counted points I naturally eat whatever my body needs and at my perfect amount of points. I like to move, I love to exercise, dance, fight. Thats not an issue either unless my hip is acting up. My issue is a self esteem that suffers multiple personalities. One day I am storming around like Bette Davis with the bitch face of doom or a sweet smiling Disney princess..

I want to stay in the house for two weeks and catch up on my reading, can’t bear to shower much and public appearances curdle my blood. I think some of its tied to hormones, miscarriages I have had and not properly “mourned” or dealt with.. and past abuses I am still working through.
I developed my smart ass mouth as far back as I can remember. I was never teased for my weight, I didn’t actually have a weight problem. Only step freaks said so actually. I was teased once in awhile for spacing out on what I wore the day before. I have the mind of a mad scientist and my nose was usually in a Stephen king novel, or a classic, anything. So I would wear GASP! the same jeans or a sweater two days in a row. Not because we were dirt poor. Because I didn’t give a shit, still don’t. Fashion can be fun but never been one to even notice a trend.
After I moved in with mother, she had a weird crowd of artsy, musical, nerdy people. My smart ass fit in well and I spent my time when I wasn’t reading, hanging out with the older teens, playing trivia on BBS’ (bulletin board systems) the VERY early 90s interwebs. Then I had to go to psycho’s and was banned from the interwebs unless I got on it at grandma’s. Apparently if you are a teen girl you were destined to meet a pedophile or show off your body. Thinking back, I think it was less protective and more trying to wash all freethinking and thought crimes from my brain. Did not work.
I remember before I got sick at 18 and then again at 23, I was always jumping up and down happy. Nothing really perturbed me.. I would boldly go to any audition, wear anything. I refuse to say life wore me down. I am not mentally ill.. just.. set me back a bit. As detailed in my earlier motley posting of diary pages. I can finally look in the mirror without revulsion at my face which has been so despised by parents, teachers once.. even a “mentor”
One time psycho showed one of my very younger sisters a picture of me as an 8 yr old. Yes I had a fat head I was horribly abused and the cortisol showed in my chipmunk face. Not my body. He told her it was proof I was a witch. he also told her I have always been huge and never slender, that I lied about it.. um hello I have yearbooks? How hes not committed to a booby hatch yet I find a miracle. It got to me because I triumphed over ALL of my past, fought my way to get the life I have and then to have someone use that knowing what I had been through and gotten past. It just makes me fucking sick to think about.
I want to list the bullshit things that have been spoken over me. I am still incredulous over how long it took me to realize they were lies.. catty bitchy hateful lies.. from both genders. I had someone get me over my mirror phobia and camera issues, then when I got thin again too fast for her taste she went after my eyes, lips, jaw, nose.. etc. Anything to guarantee my strongholds and self loathing would come back because I had so much respect for her. It did come back, for several years those words bounced around in my head.. until she screamed at me in the middle of her salon showing what a shrew she truly is.. then I got a clue.
A few came from the skunkface and psycho and I always knew she was full of shit. It didn’t bother me as much. This is just a handful of them.. if you have heard them from anyone, anywhere. Know they are full of shit too.
Your back is too broad.Of course it is, have you seen my rack?
Your boobs are too big, they are too showy. Thats because my back is too broad silly. Of course the same woman said this. like seriously. I didn’t say like in high school or omg. I say them now.
Your eyes are too small, you have the smallest eyes I have ever seen. The person who said this to me had saucer sized eyes that bulged out so maybe to her everyone should look like a Kewpie doll.
You have the widest jaw I have ever seen on a woman. Uh thanks?
Your legs are too long, they make you lanky. This one didn’t hurt me I was proud of being a giant to mean people.
You have a chin like Jay Leno’s… no really I don’t I even traced my shadow on paper to make sure. This was said by someone with no chin, so maybe my chin intimidated them?
Your feet are like waterskies. Yes they are long, thin, At five nine I would tip over if they were a size six.
Your nose is too small, too flat. Too pointy etc.
Your lips are too fat have you had collagen? alternatively too small. Make up your damn mind! I do hold them tight in some pictures or I look duck faced.
Your butt is too round for your ethnicity. um really? bite me ya racist freak.
You’re belly is too swollen to be from being sick, you must secretly eat scads of mcdonald’s. That was from a doctor when I was 23. Actually it was swollen because I had a tumor the size of god.. no really a small watermelon.
Bad doc go to the corner, while I ponder your punishment awhile.
This is actually a photo with terrible exposure where I was chewing on my glasses my husband took. Heres another.

Earlier I had 2 cookies (sinful! dastardly, outrageous!) from subway and a cold cut trio loaded with veggies. The only interesting thing is the minute sugar hits my bloodstream I go nuts. Coked out chattering jumping up and down.. I will tackle your ass nuts. I rammed my sister to tackle her playfully pouring iced water all over her bra. She almost threw it back in my face. I am a proper hillbilly born to intelligent cultured people in the city. Birth parents not stepparents, they weren’t that bright between the two of them.
I like beer, bonfires, fighting.. this is made worse with sugar or alcohol. I really don’t need alcohol because a Reese’ cup does the same thing to me. Before I knew my biological psycho was nuts, he used to call me Ellie Mae, scornfully. I was also compared to Anna Nicole when I was sick, during her tv years.. because hes a snob. I’m not. I would rather be Ellie Mae than a product of a poser/poseur. Meaning of my rambling.. I’m ADHD, could you tell?
Point is, a lot of people can be bad.. or stupid or both. Don’t be a silly sponge and soak it up because you have no faith rooted in yourself. Nobody is ever going to give you a valid enough reason to love yourself. You just have to say fuckoff I love me.. and will continue in this relationship happily, committed my whole life. Some people marry themselves. I wouldn’t go that far.
So much time is wasted, if you sponge it up, dwell on it.. fear because of it. Just decide you are going to love yourself. If you can pick a sandwich, a paint color, a lipstick, a mate. You can pick yourself. I tell this to so many people, watching it dawn dramatically, clouds part, sun rays glimmer, a joyful halo appears. Then you know they are free, they can fight back, they can become a success again or for the first time ever. Its amazing.
PS waltzing with cats, lizards.. even sticky babies excellent exercise. So is capturing them and keeping them caged for photo ops.
