Tag: Menopause
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If We Could Control Our Destiny, I Wouldn’t Have Had Such A Bad Week
It has been a difficult week and it’s still only Wednesday. Suicide prevention message on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Kurt survived his first set of exams but I feel as though I have been put through a shredder and lived the anxiety HE should have been experiencing –…
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Fed Up Of The Menopausal, Middle-Aged Woman Stereotype?
I had a moment of clarity this week, about the whole middle-aged woman stereotype. Because there are a lot of angry, tired and unfulfilled women out there in my age group, and society likes to blame their mood changes on menopause, peri-menopause and middle age. But I think there’s a bit more to it than that.…
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Letter Of Resignation To The Women’s Menstruation Club.
Photo courtesy of urszulakk at http://www.flicker.com For the attention of the Director, The Women’s Menstruation Club Dear Sir/Madam, It is with no regret that I wish to inform you of my resignation from The Women’s Menstruation Club. As you are no doubt aware, I have been an active member of the club for the past…
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Shortening The Life Cycle of The Mosquito
Ochlerotatus notoscriptus, Tasmania, Australia (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m aware that my recent rants pertaining to rain and floods may have been deemed a little negative by some of my readers who are probably enjoying the drop in temperature, so I thought that I’d tell you in this post about one of the positives of the…
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10 Reasons Why Menopause Isn’t For Pussies
Menopause is ‘ a special time in a woman’s life when they can’t have babies anymore. They get hormonal, mean, rude, short-tempered, angry, and awkward. Bad time for teenagers to live with their moms. She was mean because she was going through menopause‘. Urban Dictionary YAY!! It’s World Menopause Day. An excuse to celebrate irrationality, mood swings and…
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10 Reasons Why Menopause Isn’t For Pussies
A special time in a woman’s life when they can’t have babies anymore. They get hormonal, mean, rude, short-tempered, angry, and awkward. Bad time for teenagers to live with their moms. She was mean because she was going through menopause. This week I was going to bring you a vacuous post entitled ‘the physical significance…
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Too Much Junk In The Trunk
It’s killing me to admit it, but I’ve now got too much ‘junk in my trunk’ to wear surf fashion. My unwilling bodily metamorphosis into middle age is cramping my enjoyment of retail therapy in a big way. I’ve lost the ability to recognise what looks good on this new bulkier frame that my hormones…
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