Happy Friday everyone!!  So Walmart wouldn’t let me return my fruit of the looms….read on…..

So for the past couple of weeks I had mentioned to my husband that I REALLY needed to buy new menstrual panties.  So as you can imagine, these are the “special” panties that one wears when they are on their menstrual cycle.  You know the heavy duty bloomers that keep everything in and everyone else at a nice distance.

So I got paid yesterday and was quite excited to go and buy myself some socks and underwear.

There were so many choices, there was this package that said body tones, 6 briefs, high waist.  Well the high waist did it for me instantly.  I wanted panties that would at least cover my whole ass and keep in my gut (bloatedness) because lets face it, your stomach doesn’t feel very good when you are bleeding out for 6+ days. 

So I went to the lady working in that section and asked if I could open the package to see how high they were.  She looked at me like I had five heads and said no.  Now I know what some of you are thinking, 1. why did I ask, 2. why didn’t I just open it when I was out of her sight, 3. who cares Lynn.

I excepted that I couldn’t open it and figured well I will open them when I get home and if I have any problems I will go back when I was finished work today.

Getting home, I opened the package and I and started laughing………these panties were the true definition of BLOOMERS!!  They were the biggest bloomers I’d ever seen.  I am a medium and I couldn’t resist.  So I put them up to my body (I was fully clothed) and these BLOOMERS were from my crotch to my nipples!!!! 

Now on me, I am short waisted so they were at least three - four inches higher, so they were closer to my boobs.

 I am completely serious!  As comfortable as I want to try to make myself for my period, those were definitely not going to help.

When I was done work today I took the package back to Walmart along with the receipt I grabbed another style, same kind, went to the cash and asked her if I could exchange the package because I picked up the wrong style.   One again, people, I had five heads, “We don’t exchange or return panties.”  With a confused look I said, “well, they were just the wrong style, they weren’t tried on or anything.”  She responds, “Lady do you realize how unsanatary that is, I don’t know if you wore them.”  I was so annoyed and I knew what the outcome was going to be…..that I had wasted money on a product that I didn’t even wear……because the lady from the day before wouldn’t let me open the package to see how long they were. 

God this so wasn’t my fault.  So with the cashier rolling her eyes at me I walked away!!  I just want to yell at her…….if you think that I wore them, then smell the crotch!!!

 Like I understand the concept on sanitation……but it was the wrong style!!That’s all.  Let me know what you think?  I’m not a sketchy looking person.  Do you know anyone that tries on panties and then returns them? 

Anyway, if you see a package of BLOOMERS on Kijiji, it’s just me trying to sell them!!  Joke!! 

I hope you all have a great weekend!!  Congrats to all the Olympians!!

Especially Canada!!  Go Canada Go!!

So it is a rampant new habit that young people, mostly young women are doing called sexting, which is taking a picture of themselves nude and sending it around from their cell phone to young gentlemen (I use that word loosely) to try to coerce the young men into liking her with the possibility of having oral or sexual intercourse.  My question is sexting, really, how is that even cool?

Traditionally, our age range, would have engaged in phone sex which is talking smut on the phone, well we thought that this concept was awkward and strange, but sending nude pictures around for the world to see, seems to me a bit brazen.  Really once she presses send, it is a free for all, you don’t know who is going to have access to that picture.

My next question is why do all these young people need access to all of this technology?  Why do young people need cell phones?  When I was younger I didn’t have a cell phone and my parents knew where I was every waking minute.  In my generation parents spoke to one another, where there was a role model around to watch what we were in to and what we were doing.  It would be easy for me to verbally bash these parents that are not instilling any morals or self restraint.  But I won’t go there right now.  Young boys are experimental, they are creatures with wondering minds. 

So then what is going on with our girls?  When did sexting become cool?  Where are these girls at in their mind, to be able to get naked for a BOY that they don’t even know?  Who is taking these pictures of them?

Why don’t any of these girls have any self confidence?  Because in my mind any young woman that is taking a nude picture of themselves to gain respect and attention of a hormonal boy, is ridiculous.

Now it’s the parents turn… WHERE ARE YOU?  Why aren’t you monitoring the actions of your children?  Your sons are soliciting young girls and your daughter is becoming a prostitute in training.  All because they are missing and craving, your attention!  So, WHERE ARE YOU?  Too busy, with work and everything else that is going on with your life.  Well, your daughter is about to send a nude picture to the phone world, and I am sure that every boy in the school is going to see it.  Is that want you want for them.   Is that what you envisioned for them when they grew up.  But whatever right, you bought them everything they need to keep their impressionable minds busy.  Have you talked to them about safe sex yet?  Oh, wait, your child isn’t sexually active.  Well, let me give you a rude awakening, young people are starting to have sex at the age of 12.  A handful are sexually active children are starting to have sex at the age of 9.  THAT IS CRAZY!  But hey you can get a hold of them because you bought them a cell phone.  Right?

We the parents are the root of the problem.  Young people are blaming home life, they have no respect for their parents because they are not actively involved in their children’s lives, divorces are giving them the excuse that if their parents don’t have respect for love and a marriage then why should they have respect for any woman.  In their eyes a woman is an object, a disposable object.

“Take heed and beware of covetousness, for a man’s life consists not in the abundance of things that he possess’.”  Luke 12:15-16

Meaning, it is not what you are buying your children that should matter in your life it should be the time you’re putting in.  It is our responsibility to mold our children not with Wii games, but with love and morals.  It is our avocation to protect them, to provide them with standards and principle’s which do not come naturally to them.

So when it becomes your time to buy your young person a cell phone, remember the dangers that you could be putting them in. 

Do you know someone that participates in sexting?  What do you think of the ever growing subject?  Do you think that this is a dangerous way to show love?  Sexting, how is that even cool?

Have you ever been so disappointed with everything that is going on in your life that you just don’t know what to do with yourself?  Then the disappointment ends up flustering into so many different emotions, that you don’t know whether you are coming or going?

Well, I am having one of those days.  One of those days that you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.  Then frustration ends up being anger and anger feels like exhaustion.  And then all that you want to do is sleep.  But you can’t seem to allow your feelings get the best of you because no matter how bad your day gets you are still a parent.  As women we always put our feelings aside, to cater to everyone else.   From the minute we wake in the morning to the moment we go to bed.  Our job is never done.

Today seemed to be an awful day for me, there was nothing that I could do or say to eliminate the heavy heart that I had.  It is incredible what stress can do to a person.  Eat your insides, don’t get me wrong I am sure that I am not the most stressed person out there, but in comparison, today was mine.

Today, just happens to be one of those days that I wish, (no I’m not suicidal) that I would rather just not wake up!!  I am so disappointed in people that I know.  Close friends, that on days like today, they absolutely shouldn’t be put in a category of friendship! 

Why do we hurt each other?  We do you hurt me?  These very questions spin in my head, they burden my heart, they weigh down my spirit.

My mind is so heavy, I feel paralized.  I want to hurt you back by lashing out with my tongue.  I want you to hurt as much as I do.  As much as you have hurt me.

Do you know someone that has hurt you?  Have you ever had similar emotions as what I am feeling?  What do you do to keep yourself sane?