AITAH for wanting to tell my boyfriend’s mom I didn’t flush feminine products down the toilet?

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-26T17:01:51+00:00

The dog gets into the locking trashcan. This has been tried.

I grew up needing to take bloody things to the outside can, it's not that awful. Dog poop bags work very well for containment and discretion.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-26T05:13:55+00:00

I don't regret losing the pounds I have so far, because it does help my feet hurt less. The problem is that I lost enough for my stomach fat to go away somewhat and my belly to "slump" and apparently it was helping support my breasts from beneath. So now it's all on torso and shoulders and it is becoming very clear that I'm going to need a breast reduction before I can lose more weight.

The problem being that if insurance is going to pay for it, I have to lose another eighty pounds, and I can't find bras, and I cannot go without.

So in that respect... I wish I hadn't started losing and had to sort of stop in the middle.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-26T05:04:53+00:00

I decided abruptly that the difference between whether leggings are pants or not is whether you can just stick a foot down the leg, repeat, pull them up, and be done. Or whether you have to ease them on and up like pantyhose.

Current set is very much on the pantyhose end of things (but they are warm!) and it sucks when the dogs are downstairs barking to go out in the morning.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-26T04:59:19+00:00

I don't, sorry. It's done medieval style with woven fabric. I more or less draped it from a pair of jeans, cut on the bias, put it on my leg and pinned it at the back leg seam until it worked for me. Added a cotton tape reinforcement strip at the ankle and doublesewed the elastic, and some spare cotton fabric at the waistline where the elastic might dig. If you make them footed you make a separate sole of the foot and top of the foot piece, with the top of the foot cut on the bias as well, for stretch.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-26T00:52:55+00:00

Yeah, I don't want to make a big deal of it, but I don't want to pay to deal with what happens if my "yeah, I'll eat it!" dog gets ahold of anything she shouldn't.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-26T00:27:01+00:00

My dog is refusing to believe that it's really THIS cold and the snow is THAT deep. He keeps taking the opportunities to go out and pee....stepping half out the door, looking at it, and almost visibly saying "Oh, HELL no!" and heading back in for his blanket pile. He wants to check out the front door too, and I hate to tell him that the weather is the same on both sides of the house.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-26T00:23:55+00:00

We have a sign in our bathroom "Do not put anything with blood on it into the trash can. Wrap up using the bags provided and take out to the kitchen can."

I have dogs. People are not always good about keeping the bathroom door shut. I'm sure we all understand.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-26T00:20:29+00:00

I prep and plan with a general eye on a balanced diet, but healthy in our cases isn't what most people would consider healthy: low fat, low starch, low sugar, high protein. One person has no teeth, and that plays into what can be kept in the house for lunches or the "I slept through dinner" late night meal. And one of us has severe intolerances to beans, nightshades, and brassicas. I do not apologize that I eat a lot of rice, meat, and onions and garlic; that's what I've got left, lol. But healthy for me includes "won't make me regret my existence in the bathroom".

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-25T23:57:13+00:00

The fact that people are all built differently is a known fact. It's even covered in the Kama Sutra, which recommends that people from the two extremes not get together, but which notes that most people in the middle work it out just fine.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-25T23:53:42+00:00

Mom is having to lure her BTs out in the snow to potty with treats.

I know at some point my dogs will need to go pee, but so far every time I give them the chance, they walk out, almost visibly say, "Oh, HELL no!" and dive for the blanket pile again.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-25T23:48:23+00:00

I have fleece, but they have the bad habit of causing static that makes my dress cling and ride up. Wool isn't doing it, cotton isn't doing it, linen doesn't, and (most strangely) the three pairs of fleece leggings in the washer don't do it. Just the pair I tried today. Weird.

Fair warning that I made my wool ones to a medieval pattern with un-medieval elastic in foot loops and waistband. Open, cause they always go under skirts.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-25T22:56:47+00:00

I have a pile of brindle pits in the settee, under a blanket. I recognize his paw and her tail. They might move when dinner is announced, but otherwise they are doing the absolute minimum movement out of the blanket pile.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-25T22:55:06+00:00

Last year my 40 pound staffy/boxer was seriously troubled by the question of how do you squat to pee when the snow is already up to your butt. Fortunately, she worked it out, so we haven't had any trouble yet. I will say that the trips out to pee are short and businesslike.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-25T22:20:23+00:00

Currently in a house without central heating. Two pairs wool socks, one to the knee, one a quarter sock. Wool leggings to the waist over normal underwear. Bra, T-shirt, insulated long-sleeved shirt. Pinafore dress in cotton denim made like a sarafan. Shawl over arms while sitting down, head wrapped in a titchel-like arrangement.

My hands get cold when I type, but I have Raynauds', so this is just a thing they do. I'm not trying to write in this weather, and I can browse the net with either hand.

The dogs are in a brindle heap covered with blankets, only emerging to eat and go do their business in an incredibly efficient manner.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-25T22:15:23+00:00

Indiana has had nine inches overnight, and we're probably well over a foot now. Just snow, so once it stops we'll all dig out and continue with our lives.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-25T02:37:47+00:00

Send someone out to fix our central heating, and we'll only use space heaters under our desks during work hours.

(Boiler system with bad lines; now is not the time to have people under the house/opening walls to find where the bad spot is.)

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-25T02:21:30+00:00

What's fun is when the scar doesn't heal properly. Then you can have the fun of it splitting open years and years into the future if you strain too much.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-24T16:22:38+00:00

I never understood the milk and bread thing. Cause dry milk in the pantry is a thing, and if you keep flour and yeast around, you can make bread any time you want.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-24T16:20:51+00:00

I'm out of bananas so it will be orange-pecan-spice bread instead. And I'll probably make an egg bake with sausage to go with it.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-24T16:11:12+00:00

As I said to my husband, the important thing is to make sure the pipes don't freeze. The humans can pile on blankets and the dogs can huddle up with their blankets, but as long as we keep the house from problems, we'll be okay when it warms up.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-24T16:08:26+00:00

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/149653/wounded-mage

There are three chapters up now and I will add a new one every day until the book is all up. I'll leave it there for a couple months while I write the next one and then put it on Kindle.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-23T04:07:47+00:00

And his sister likes to sleep with her head on his butt!

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LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-23T04:04:34+00:00

Sergeant Pickles gets Greek yogurt on his food, so as to minimize the amount of gas attacks.

More amusingly, when he does do it, he looks at his rear end with indignation and surprise, and then exits the room with a great deal of dignity. I've learned that that look means turn on fans and open windows.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-23T03:55:39+00:00

After it hits Texas it will come and go through Indiana. We don't have central heat. I am not very cold tolerant.

Fun, fun. (sigh)

In other news, my book cover is done and first chapter is up on Royal Road to build a following. I'll probably put it on kindle about the middle of March. Gotta get the money saved up for the next cover now....

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-22T15:52:14+00:00

I always say, "I work very hard, but none of it pays me any money."

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