Sunday, May 04, 2008

• a weighty issue (ha ha.)

  
  so it's my brother michael's 7th birthday... so we have the stepgrandparents, stepuncle, aunt and one of my cousins over...
  now... for fun, i like to make conversations as awkward as possible.
  
  so me, my mom, and my aunt were sitting at the counter eating chips and salsa and they were talking about how disgustingly skinny my cousin brad is (he was outside, never fear.)
  
  so my aunt said, "yeah he's got to wear derek's old pants which were 27 inches... but he has to take them in like 4 inches... he has to have like a 23 inch waist!"
  and i decided to chime in with, "wow! he'd be the envy of all the girls at my school!"
  
  and of course, neither of them got it.. if you did, you get a cookie.
  
  so... they tried to decipher it... and eventually i just explained that they all want to be that skinny.
  
  and my aunt goes off on a tangent about how they're starving their bodies, etc. and i tuned her out until she said,
  "yeah, it's good to be a little plump." (ah yes, so you're living the dream then, auntie dearest??)
  and i said, "yeah that's my philosophy!" and patted my stomach.
  she had no idea what to say so she kind of just half smiled..
  
  the problem for her being that she was skinny at my age... and i got my mother's voluptuous genes...
  we all know i'm not "skinny" and i never will be.
  but i do like to talk about body things sometimes.. like if one of my slimmer friends is talking about having pants issues, i will say, guaranteed "i have no sympathy for you"
  in a joking way, because i'm fine with myself. i'll usually also explain my pants issues. that my hips are really big and my legs are really skinny.. so i need to buy bigger pants to fit my hips but they get baggy on my legs (one of the reasons i like wearing skirts so much).. and blah. it's frustrating. but what's more frustrating is that skinny people can complain about these things, but if i do, no one knows what to say.
  which makes me wonder if they think i'm fat. haha. or not the "ideal" or something.
  or maybe they just don't know what to say because i used to have body issues...
  i've been the fat kid (in like elementary school) and i've been the girl who doesn't eat (8th grade-sophomoreish year... more from depression than wanting to be thin, though i did get made fun of a lot in 7th grade, which might have been part of it.) and now i've just settled into being curvy. i like being curvy. i also like hearing skinny bitches complain that they don't have any boobs. haha on them. well, that's what you get when you don't eat anything.
  though i guess if you don't have a decent looking face or a good personality, you almost have to be skinny or you have no chance of reproducing... (like that one girl who was commenting on my blog about how she doesn't like fat people cause she's all skinny and whatnot... )
  so says natural selection.
  
  anyway, this wasn't even meant to be a rant. oops.

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