It’s been a long week. Chad, for the month of July, is on a 5-day-a-week schedule. I realize it’s to up productivity at his job, but he was working a 3 on, 3 off schedule. There are pros and cons with each. He works an hour away and on the 3 on, 3 off schedule he was working 12-13 hours plus an hour of travel both ways. Then again, he was also off for 3 days in a row, really giving him time to wind down and enjoy his time off. It was easier to plan trips, errands and appointments. I do like having him home for dinner, because on the 5-day-schedule he’s working regular 8-hour days. It motivates me to fix a good dinner every night.
My hormones are evening out, and with them so are my moods. I’ve got a post coming up about that and how it’s affecting my will to exercise and my desire to eat better. I’ve also got a post coming up about another thing that has helped with my moods. I was pretty productive this week. I got the itch to write and I managed to get a bunch of posts written up and scheduled. I have plenty of time to work on reviews now and I still have great ideas for posts, though most of them have the same message.
I’d be lying if I said my moods remained calm all week. The whole victim-blaming fiasco was quite nerve grating. If people would stop being offended by everything on the internet for two seconds, they might actually be able to have a useful and meaningful conversation. Enthusiastic consent should certainly be what we look for when we want to be intimate with someone, but we need to be mindful that human beings are flawed. They make mistakes. They can not read minds. It can be easy, when you’re caught up in the moment, to mistake someone’s body language and actions for consent, particularly with the absence of a firm ‘No’. We need to be just as clear about the sex we want as we are about the sex we don’t want. We’re capable of speaking and we need to use our words. It’s called communication. Say what you mean, mean what you say and say what you need to say! This weeks Song for Sunday is John Mayer’s “Say What You Need to Say”.
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