Jen on the Edge

27 years ago today, Pete and I went on our first date. In honor of that occasion, I am sharing a post I originally wrote two years ago.

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On Friday, February 5, 1988, a college boy and college girl went out on their first date.

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A partial list of miscellaneous items I saw yesterday while on a five mile walk that took me on sidewalks in town and a paved trail along the river, plus cutting through one parking lot:

…an underwire, obviously ripped from a bra in a fit of pique and flung to the ground, as well as possibly stomped on for good measure

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Ladies, I was going to write a post about how Gwyneth wants us all to steam clean our “uterus et al”, but then the Royalist, of all people, said it so much better than I could.

Bear in mind, GP is the same woman who swears by colonics, fasts, and juice cleanses, which says to me that she regularly terrorizes her body in a variety of horrifying ways. It’s actually possible that her shit don’t stink.

Instead, read this — Your Vagina is Not Cussing: Good, Simply Vulvovaginal Hygiene Tips — and learn from it. I would say that all these tips are common sense, but since there are women out there using loofahs on their lady gardens (ouch), then perhaps common sense is not as common as one would hope.

Feel free to share more advice and helpful links with the crowd.

A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across one of those fun internet things that I cannot believe took me so long to hear about. It turns out that there are all sorts of hilarious memes associated with the Bayeux Tapestry.

Here are some of my favorites:

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I had all sorts of plans for a great post (or maybe even two) for you this week, but all of that has fallen by the wayside for reasons I’ll share shortly.

Instead, let’s do a quick recap of the last weekend.

On Saturday, we took advantage of super cheap airfares to fly to Boston. It was the weekend between semesters, so the girls had a couple of extra days off.

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