Vortexia's Secret

i really think i'm ready to try a life swap. not wife swap... whatever, i don't care about that. but trying on another life for a couple days. one where work isn't absolute insanity. ok, i need to be fair so things don't get worse just to spite me. the morning stuff was fine. i learned how to do more of the necessary paperwork and computer input. wheee. and i worked on a paper again. then for some reason i started learning the nitty gritty about male and female development during puberty. did any of you know that guys, like girls, have a first excretion that is supposed to be a big "milestone"? girls have their first period, which is obviously kind of a big deal and a huge pain in the ass all rolled into one. but guys have a first ejaculation. i guess because i never bothered to ask adolescent boys if they'd ejaculated yet i didn't think it was comparable. i figured the first time they masturbated it would happen, but this almost made it sound like the firearm just randomly going off at some point between the ages of 12 and 16. i still don't quite understand the comparison because something kind of sets it off, while the period just picks a time that's convenient for it (and not for you).

anyway, that's a huge tangent. so i had half of a decent day. in the afternoon, though, i heard the trouble coming from a mile away. oh, it was bad. i temporarily had to play babysitter, and was told later that i looked ABSOLUTELY miserable. i didn't mean to, but at the same time i did want to let my colleagues know that i was not condoning the huge disruption in our building. i can't go into further detail about it, but at any rate it was a nutzo kind of afternoon.

i did get my shopping done after work because i was determined to have food in the house. and the chaos was not going to stop me, even though i was at work an extra hour today. when i came home it was interesting. for some reason my blinds were open. now the maintenance guy did come in to fix a problem in my storage closet, BUT why open the blinds? i'm confused. i mean, i don't think that anything was wrong or that it was done for any bad reason, but i just don't understand why. it did make my apartment sticky from the setting sun heat, and it did show an empty apartment to anyone who walked by. not great, but not major for part of one day. so whatever. oh, and i also uncovered more mystery to my apartment manager. when i first met her, i thought she was really young for the job... like my age and very money (dresses expensive, acts expensive, and is pretty). then i discovered that she had over 5 years of experience, so i was thinking late 20s and either good aging or good makeup. well, then i saw her (guessing 7ish) year old son. so i'm thinking maybe no college and same age range, or older. judging by her interesting writing with little to no punctuation and hooked-on-phonics style spelling, i'm guessing no college. so today coming back from the store, i see her arranging babysitting and heading out with a guy. husband? boyfriend? hard sell on a townhome? it's hard to know. i got the impression that she was single and this was a boyfriend. and as soon as her babysitter turned her back, the manager leaped into the boy, grabbed his face, squealed "hi baby!!!" and planted a very lengthy one on him. so i'm guessing he doesn't live with her and she just missed him for the past 7 hours of the day. i mean, you can still be excited to see them, but this sounded like the desperation of living with a rowdy young child and needed a night away to feel pretty again. anyway, this is all random crappy blah. wish i could have something better or more interesting to tell.

oh, i can tell you that i was pretty surprised by the "norm" for some aspects of puberty. they must have studied children much different than the ones i know. like most girls' boobs have stopped growing by 14-16. wooooow. i am so behind that learning curve... my girls are still growing, and i am so ok with that. most girls i know were not fully developed by the time they got their driver's license. sure there were a few, but many were more like me with spurts through college and beyond. and guys should have all their body hair by around that age too (16ish). probably half the guys i knew or more were still at the peach fuzz or darkening peach fuzz phase at that point. i don't know, maybe it's all stuff that others notice changing more than you when you're going through it. like it's too gradual for you to realize when it's happening to you.

ok, really going now. hugs and kisses!