#letterstomyparasite

[lilroost]

a quote from Jenny Slate you need to know about

…you really are constantly drawing and re-drawing picture of who you want to be… Yeah! that’s true. but you have to be limber to do that which means completely in rejection of the phrase ‘bent out of shape’, that every shape that you’ll be bent into, whether you do it to yourself or you’re blown by the wind or someone comes in there and fuckin’ breaks you in half for a sec, is still you. and that you are meant to change and stretch. no version of yourself is permanent. No. good or bad. Yeah. No version of myself is permanent; but sometimes, the bad parts are… umm... trying to fool me into thinking they’re permanent. 

[lilroost]

Conversations with Kind Family “in the know”:

“Are you feeling better today?” (at a 5ft+ distance to ensure safety from my vomit-radius)

What I think: “Relative to my face stuck in the toilet, heaving my insides or…?”

Words I actually choke out after a 3 second, no teeth smile: “Yeah, it has been ok!”

[lilroost]

(not so) Definitive List of Vomit-Inducing Stimuli*

·     Trying to swallow a probiotic horse pill

·     Brushing my teeth

·     My husband’s hot hummus breath

·     Watching a particularly fast-moving facebook ad

·     Smelling Thai food

·     Thinking about Thai food

·     Seeing Thai food in the fridge

·     Opening the fridge door

·     Most activities related to the fridge

·     Sitting up too fast

·     Standing up before 10:30am

·     Running to the toilet when I inevitably have to pee every 2.5 hours

*the truest sorrow of pregnancy comes with the realization that this list is never definitive and that the universe is constantly searching for ways to transform things I love into the enemy