Hello Shiny Friends!
I hope and trust you have all recovered from your first GingerSnaap, LIVE experience. It might be helpful for you to find a good PSYCHOtherapist if you have not recovered. Feel free to send the bill to my parents since they are responsible for creating this hot mess.
Anyway, I am presently, in this present moment, presenting this post to you while sitting at the YMCA waiting for the Flesh Eaters to get out of the pool. We’ve been here since 4, Mountain Man got here at 5:30 and we are having some good ole fashioned family bonding-the kind of bonding that involves underwater wedgies, illegal head dunking,premeditated drowning, Marco-I-am-Not-Looking-For-You-Polo, frisbee hits to the eyes, and bathing suit malfunctions when the 7 year old pulls down your swim skirt. Sigh.
What, are we the fucking Brady Bunch or something?
The two things I want to share with you regarding our pool day at the Young Mens Christian Association are as follows:
1) I had a ‘good’ conversation tonite with Mountain Man about all of this Chick-Fil-A stuff. When he got to the pool, I was reading a refreshing article that some of my Pastor friends had posted on Facebook that basically spelled out how ‘The Church Body’ really fucked things up yesterday.(Can I get an AMEN?) I was relieved to hear people I know and respect from ‘church’ speak out against the hate being directed towards the gay and lesbian community and how Jesus would NEVER do something like that. I summarized the article for MM and, as I sat there spewing my guts out over it, I started to cry, in the middle of all that YMCA madness-ME-fucking crying! Geeeeez. What I was most upset about were the numerous FaceBook ‘Friends’ I have who were gloating over their participation in the Chick-Fil-A ‘appreciation day’ on Wednesday. I felt overwhelmingly disappointed that some people I go to church with would do something like that. I realize I sound naïve, and I guess I am, but it still shocks me. I do not attend a church that bashes gay people nor preaches discrimination against them, or anyone for that matter. No. Not ever.
Friends, I follow a higher power that says “Love One Another” and “Love Your Neighbor As Yourself”,and every person who went to a Chick-Fil-A yesterday did the exact opposite of that. Sigh. Ginger sad. Ginger hates to cry. Ginger feels angry.
I really don’t have anymore to say about the subject, however , I will say that I am in the process of re-evaluating some friendships right now. The End.
2) Mountain Man always carries around one of those metal/re-usable water bottles with him where ever he goes- his is bright Orange. He, of course, brought it to the YMCA with him after going home and changing out of work clothes into swim clothes. Duh. What did you think he would change into when going to the pool, a chastity belt? Don’t answer that,please.
My Flesh Eaters already had their own water bottles, but they ran out of the precious, sparkling, filtered necter to drink and they were “Firsty”. Now, Ginger knows, that when visiting the YMCA, MM’s Orange water bottle will have some kind of Adult Beverage in it and not the usual non-YMCA water for when he is at work. Unfortunatley, the Flesh Eaters don’t know that the Orange water bottle turns from a G-rated Orange water bottle into an R-rated Orange water bottle after 5p.m., Monday through Friday. Oops.
So Goobers, my 12 year old daughter, gets out da pool and sees the Orange water bottle, picks up the Orange bottle, opens the Orange water bottle and takes a huge fucking chug out da Orange water bottle.
Oops, again.
She then proceeded to make this face like someone would who just ate a fresh dog turd wrapped in cow placenta. And THEN she projectile spewed the foreign substance all over the damn place. PARTY FOUL-no more beer for her!! Poor kid. In defense of her amatuer beer chugging antics, I will say that MM doesn’t drink ‘normal or lite beer’ with names you can pronounce. No, he likes obscure, weird shit that was grown in the belly of a whale during ovulation, filtered through a devils ashtray,left to ferment in a sewage discharge plant for 18 months and then bottled in a brothel bathroom.
That shit tastes nasty. And now Goobers has informed me that she is no longer speaking to her father because of what he did to her.
I think that was the most brilliant thing he has ever done! Lucky bastard.
I sometimes wonder if we really are fit to have children. 241-kids, anyone?
That’s all for now, folks-have a Shiny evening!
*Please ignore any and all spelling errors because I am typing this on a teeny tiny Blackberry keyboard and the fucking Spell Check is being a bitch to me. And I can’t see so good*
What the heck? I sat here watching the words for fifteen minutes. They never moved.
Maybe you need some drugs to help you with that?
I was sickened by some of the religious people on my FB too, gloating about going out of their damn way to eat a fucking chicken sandwich because “it’s a sin and the Bible says so.” Um…what about all the other stuff in the Bible, gonna just ignore that I suppose.
I sat there word dueling with some of them who didn’t like my post when I realized it was completely pointless because they wanted to argue irrelevant points and, get this, they…THEY felt attacked like I and others were trying to change their ignorant minds and tell them they couldn’t believe whatever they wanted. (sigh) I’ll shut up now but I feel ya.
No need to shut up, Lilly- vent away!
I like that you felt me…
(I am so immature) (Gawd!)
Don’t re-evaluate your friendships, shouldn’t we try and bring them over to our way of thinking much like many of those people do to us.
They just need our help and guidance, love and support, and a great night out down the gay bar fuelled by tequila shots. (They’d have to lose some of that chicken sandwich weight first to avoid some cursory glances)
Yes! Why didn’t I think about that?? It’s been far too long since we’ve had a great nite out down at the gay bar! Shit!!
I will reIevaluate the friendships AFTER I take them out dancing, is that ok?
Ha!
Sure, that should bring them round to a sensible way of thinking.
Proud of you for your friendship evaluation. Some of these people are either harboring latent homophobia looking for an outlet, or are easily led like sheep by their backwards peers. Not so proud of yr hubs. Can’t refrain from drinking for one evening? At a YMCA? Not as bad as my wife once getting high at our daughter’s 10th birthday party, but not great, either.
Proud of me? Shuckss…
I don’t disagree with your 2nd point and I will leave it at that.
Want some pie?
Sure! Frozen chocolate ice cream calorie pie with calorie sauce, topped with whipped calories!
Oh, sorry- we are fresh out of that! Hows about some Rhubarb Pie?
Calories!
I thought the orange-water-bottle-foul was funny. Seriously. Funny. Of course, we Canadians don’t put our sacred necter of the gods in water bottles, but that’s just us crazy Cannucks! On another note…we don’t have Chick-a fil-a or whatever the fuck that is so…get rid of that will ‘ya? It’s kinda bringin’ down your rep…just sayin’…
I will say this about Chick-Fil-A, I am going to miss eating their damned Waffle Fries. They were so good. Sigh. And ? They are overpriced, so, good riddence!
A concealed Adult Beverage is called a “Road Pop” or a “Road Soda”.
Ooohh…good to know. Road pop..hmmm….
Road soda! Is it called that at the movies, as well? Or at–say–one’s children’s theatrical performances?
And p.s., how do you write regularly in the middle of mayhem like that? I am SO envious.
It’s simple, all you need to do is ignore the children.
hahahaha! Genius!
Yes! Of course!
Great take on the Chick-fil-A stuff. Meanwhile, the people are your friends, but now you just know more about them.
Thanks, and yes, true,I know more about them and I will be keeping my distance, I think.
Thank God Skyline is still cool, Frank!!
And I know the feeling … and always props to Skyline!
LOL @ Mountain Man. He knows how to go to the YMCA with style.
Redneck style, that is…. ;o)
Hey, can you do me a huge favor and ask MM if he can get me a case of that obscure, weird shit grown in the belly of a whale during ovulation, filtered through a devils ashtray, left to ferment in a sewage discharge plant for 18 months and then bottled in a brothel bathroom? I’ll pay for shipping. Gracias!
I think the people who went out and ate chicken with a side of hate sauce the other day will look back on that stupid act and feel like idiots. Kind of like how dumb racist people from the ’50s and ’60s regret acting like morons when black people were trying to get a drink from the damn drinking fountain or ride on the same bus. Wouldn’t it be so much easier if we could just kick people in the shins for their stupidity?
Oh, BTW, I was really surprised to see your boy Beck with pants on when he was driving that Olympic boat.
The problem with kicking other people in the shins for their stupidity is that they would then turn around and kick ME in the shins for my own acts of stupidity!
When in the presence of the Queen, one must wear pants, Eric! Duh!! I was more worried his hair would catch on fire from all the hair product in it and being so close to that torch!
thanks for the story about Goober. It’s not often I laugh while wearing the horrified face.
Poor Goober-girl was horrified as well. And she will tell everyone she sees about what happened. EVERYONE! Ha!
All I can say about the whole Chic-Fil-A thing is A.) The initial comments did not surprise me as I’d kind of suspected some intolerance based on other things I’d already heard. B.) I’ve been boycotting them for awhile C.) I completely disagree with his viewpoint, but I am glad that we live in America where he can say what he wants and I can show him how I feel by not supporting his business
The Goober girl story is HI-larious!
If you don’t mind me asking- why have you been boycotting them? Is it bc if this particular issue? (You really don’t need to answer that if you’re not comfortable doing so!)
Goobers- I wonder if this will deter her from ever drinking alcohol later on in life?