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Anti-Bullying Day

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Premier Gordon Campbell, in proclaiming Feb. 25 Anti-Bullying Day, said “all across British Columbia, parents, teachers and students and community members are taking a stand against bullying and saying that no one should ever be made to feel intimidated, afraid or discriminated against.”

Source: The Province

I have to admit, I didn’t see any pink shirts on my (short) trip to work this morning, but I’m hoping and praying that there are many people out there taking up this cause across BC.

Like many young gay men, I was bullied as a teenager. Not a lot, and certainly not as badly as many kids are bullied. I was never physically injured, nor was I overly emotionally affected by it.

In junior high school, just coming of age and living in a new city, this one kid who lived in my neighborhood decided that I was gay (how he knew) and decided to pick on me. Naming names – Kevin McNabb. I’ll never forget him. He teased me with the usual taunts and verbal jabs, calling me all the usual names and generally making life miserable whenever he saw me.

Obviously I’ve gotten past it. I can’t say it was easy and it didn’t make accepting my homosexuality any easier but in the end I think it made me a bit stronger. I had to stand up for myself and learn that words, while harmful, didn’t mean much coming from small people like Kevin.

Kevin if you’re out there, I hope you’ve grown up in the last 25 years, but I doubt you have. I also hope that you didn’t torture too many others along the way.

It’s been 1 week…

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Stealing from the Barenaked Ladies I am.

So I’ve had my Invisalign braces for 6 days, not a week. But I’ve really gotten used to it. I’m much better and putting them on, and importantly taking them out. My “out time” tends to be a little long sometimes – I need to compress my eating schedule.

Despite the doctor saying I can eat with them in, and I have tried, I don’t think it’s a good idea. It’s messy and uncomfortable. I’ll still to the hassles of taking them out.

I have noticed that in just this first week, flossing is different. The spacing is changed! Kewl. it’s working.

Wednesday I got to have the attachment replaced and expect that having that one back will make it hard to take these things on and off again. Sigh.

Braces – 24 hours later

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Today I lost 2 of the “attachments” for my braces. 1 important, 1 not. Apparently it’s not all that uncommon. Sometimes the glue doesn’t hold but more often, the shear force (shearing force?) of removing the trays plays havoc on them. Some people lose attachments every time they change trays. I hope that doesn’t happen.

Otherwise today wasn’t bad. Misadventures in eating, learning how to remove the trays without breaking a nail. My boss even told me I was “more gay” today. I told her to stop teasing me about my newly acquired lisp or I’d sue her for harassment just to be able to pay for my braces. And to get her to stop. It worked.

I have to make this quick…

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Chris will be home shortly, and I have to clean up, but had to post this first.

A few months ago, we replaced the padding in our Ikea Poang chair. See, Rumble had decided it was his, and we were OK with that. but then it got to be such a mess, nobody wanted to sit in it. He had chewed it, chewed his paws, tracked mud etc. and generally made it his. So we finally just replaced it and since then he hasn’t been allowed on it.

However, we conceded he could use the stool on occasion. He’s pretty much ignored it until the last few days when scenes like this have become common.

For the faint of heart, I apologize for the angle. I, ahem, cleaned up the photo before posting. Charmin’s got nothing on a good clone brush.