care and feeding of the sevoo

[sev]

I keep threatening to make a user's manual.

In addition to the enumeration of food sensitivies and a tutorial on how to tell when I've reached a point that I cannot function until I've eaten something, it could also include warnings like:

• Do not ask me if my commitment ceremony involves a change in legal status. My commitment ceremony is a social and religious celebration. Any contract we sign is between us and the state and is very likely none of your business. I strongly believe that the social and legal aspects of creating families should be decoupled. Entirely.
  
  
• Do not tell me plausible untruths. When your words and actions don't match, your little white lies make me think you've been...lying to me.
  
  
• Do not ask me if I've lost weight. For the record, it's highly unlikely that what you are perceiving is weight loss. I've been within a ten percent of the same weight for nearly a decade. What you may be perceiving is an increase in muscle. "You look thinner" will get you snarled at. "You look stronger" might get you a kiss.
  
  
• If you haven't seen me since I was twenty, it's acceptible to note that I'm looking quite "healthy". This is a polite way of saying that I no longer look like I need to be hospitalized for malnutrition, you can no longer count my ribs, and I actually have a belly.
  

(the "user manual" idea stolen years and years and years ago from, I believe, jenett, long before livejournal.)

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

"Do not ask me if my commitment ceremony involves a change in legal status. My commitment ceremony is a social and religious celebration. Any contract we sign is between us and the state and is very likely none of your business. I strongly believe that the social and legal aspects of creating families should be decoupled. Entirely."

Wow, I could have written that. We've said that about if/when we get married for a long time.

[firecat]

I strongly believe that the social and legal aspects of creating families should be decoupled. Entirely.

Hear, hear!

[jfarr.livejournal.com]

> I strongly believe that the social and legal aspects of creating families should be decoupled. Entirely.

While I agree with you, unfortunately they are not. Which is why I also believe it's a good idea to have the legal contracts in place if in fact raising a family is your intention, regardless of what social and/or spiritual agreements you have. Judges are not required to respect your wishes or ideals but they are required to respect the law.

[goldfish42.livejournal.com]

"you can no longer count my ribs, and I actually have a belly."

Bellies are SEXY! (Way sexier than obsessions about skinniness.)

[sev]

well, I certainly have one, these days.



(I don't think I've got one from ten years ago for comparison's sake, though.)