toilet talk

Warning to Mom and Dad: You may feel disgusted with your daughter after reading this...

Starting with the small stuff:

~Washing machines and dryers in other countries suck. 

~Also Mom and Dad, expect a package request soon. Turkey hasn't caught onto the whole green thing as America has yet. Organic tampons this way please.... 

~I thought my eyebrows were hopeless. Now after 11 years of eyebrow maintenance they have finally found their shape!

~Something is very satisfying about a great salon and a great cut, but it surely doesn't fit into the equation of saving money. Tonight, with the help of a tiny make-up mirror, the hair in the back of my head has suffered.... greatly. 

~Brooke/Casey where are you? By the time I realized a 6 year old was popping something on my back.... I was so excited I couldn't stop her. 

~Only the young, old and sick get bathed by someone's hands other than their own. (a love doesn't count...) It's so personal. Like kissing with your eyes open. But in Turkey, I rejoice to be sudsed up, soaped, scrubbed and scrubbed hard. I like to think of it as the smallest offering of peace between peoples. Go on, put the guns away, let a naked Jewish woman, naked Muslim woman and some PertPlus do the dirty work.... 

~And while it may fly for a love to bath you, it is never fly for them to wipe your ass. The young, old or sick are the only exceptions. Yesterday I wondered how many hundreds of times I have said, "DOWNWARD DOG" (indicatinggetonallfourswithyourlittlebehindintheair/myface)... 

~Sometimes connections are necessary for things to click. I explained to the girls that is it perfectly normal to have some hair "down there." In fact, every little boy and girl will have it when they grow up. Even teenagers have it! "Even Hannah Montana?!" "Yes honey, even Hannah Montana." I explained that every person can do as they please with it, and some choose to remove it. They took it a step further, and soon I found myself in a position I never would have imagined... Being consulted on the pubic hair status of 

Troy and Gabriella from High School Musical. "Well sweetie, you know, they grow it for sure, but I'm not really sure what they do with it..." - ummmm....