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07 June 2009

Sunday Confessional: Like postsecret but with less angst and cut-up photos and christian guilt. I'll go first.

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I'm a dude and I wear a girdle. Not all the time, just sometimes, mostly when I'm wearing suits. I gained 15 pounds a while back and now all my expertly tailored jackets don't fit right. So until I get those pounds off, on goes the girdle. A man's gotta have clean lines, no?

post by: The Whelk at: 11:52 | 15 comments

With all my years on Plastic, Metafilter and here, I don't think I have any secrets left to tell, but if I think of one, I'll add it.

posted by Ardiril 07 June | 12:01

I tend to ask my husband to do things that I could easily do myself. I'm always asking him to put the kids to bed, answer the door, check on the dog, turn the alarm off, pass the remote, etc. If the phone rings I've been known to have one of my kids fetch the cordless. I holler from room to room and order my husband to turn the air up, preheat the oven, or to bring me a towel.

posted by LoriFLA 07 June | 12:49

I'm hopelessly smitten with young Ralph Nader; tall, lanky, and a seriously great face.

posted by birdie 07 June | 13:35

I feel guilty about hating my mother and how she will bend over backwards to please her husband one minute and will fuss at him the next. Plus, she tries to be the perfect little homemaker and I feel a bit guilty about it because I've been feeling a sense of pride in making my place all homey and cooking and all that.

posted by sperose 07 June | 14:31

Oh, damn. I was thinking of starting a confessional thread. Anyway, my confession:

I never looked at a manga till last week when I found a few in a $1 used bin at the bookstore, so I took a few home. Now I am hopelessly into Chobits. I only got volume 1 for a dollar, so I'll be stuck buying the rest for list price or snagging them off ebay. I've now watched the anime of the series, but I get the impression that the manga explains things a bit more completely. Who can afford to get into a manga series that runs 10 or 20 volumes at $10 a pop? Not me, anyway. I guess it's good that Chobits is only 8 volumes.

posted by DarkForest 07 June | 15:22

I'm irrationally mad at my favorite cousin for a well-meaning email she sent me about our hospitalized grandfather. I can't quite place why I am mad, other than maybe she doesn't know all the details I know about his condition and is acting like she does/making his prospects sound worse than they are.
But she was totally nice and I don't know why I got all huffy. I guess I'm just a little touchy about the subject.

posted by rmless2 07 June | 16:26

I've been inviting Mr. V over for weekends. We may be separated, we may have gone through one hell of a tornado the last few months. But he's really trying; he's very remorseful. Why the secrecy? Because family members just don't get it. I'm not ready for the eye-rolling and "Are you insane?!"s just yet. Besides, it's sort of nice dating again - I can send him home and get my house back to myself.

posted by redvixen 07 June | 16:35

One more because I just remembered it: I'm thinking about dating again. I'm not sure if I'm ready, but it's been several years and I'm finally in my own place and I think I might at least try to look at people on the internet. I don't think I'm quite ready for contact yet, though.

posted by sperose 07 June | 16:54

I get irrationally pissed when people make incorrect assumptions about my sexuality.

posted by Wolfdog 07 June | 17:01

I watch The Hills.

posted by amro 07 June | 17:07

I used to leave big farts in elevators for people I hated at work.

There was this trio of Star-Trek pantsed, clippity-clop horseshoe-wearing girls who were the Vortex of Gossip at Ye Old Insuraynce Ferme.

As we used to be in meetings together, I would get in the habit of storing up my flatulence for them as I got out on the floor below theirs afterwards.

I'd save it until my stomach would nearly melt, then right as I stepped off with the others from my group, I'd release a WWII-sized Fat Boy SBD for them to savor for the next few floors.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 07 June | 17:50

I'm weary of not speaking my native language for often days at a time.

It puts this extra level of stress on me constantly.

posted by gomichild 07 June | 18:49

There was this happenstance of opportunity and confluence today that caused me to check out a gentleman's ass. He was wearing Fossil Jeans. I don't feel guilt for checking out the ass, but although I know really nothing about the Fossil brand, it sort of bothers me that the ass in question was wearing Fossil. It feels like something I'm not supposed to like, and I don't know why.

posted by rainbaby 07 June | 23:40

Wait, less angst? I think I'll have to wait for the next confessional.

posted by notquitemaryann 08 June | 00:21

I get irrationally pissed when people make incorrect assumptions about my sexuality.

I don't think that's irrational.

posted by deborah 08 June | 13:04

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