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Dear * Insert Favourite column name here* – The Settle Down Selections

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I am a 34 y old female (In this day and age I should say cis heterosexual female). I normally love listening  podcasts, reading and swimming but I met a man and he seems to take up all my time. I think of him often and I hate people that randomly sing but I’ve found my self listening to hours of music and sending him songs I think he may like. 

Dear *favourite column* when he start to sing I join in (something I usually find very annoying) and the other day I was horrified that I not only recorded but proceeded to send him a voice note of me singing TO HIM! 😩

Please help. I’m not sure what’s happened to me. I’ve even started apologizing when I’m wrong, I’m never wrong but something about him makes me reconsider. 

Could this be what they call love?

With love from hater of musicals and all things too cute and mushy 

Life

Best 90s Cartoons from a 30 something year old

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What’s your favorite cartoon?

I rarely watch cartoons now and these are in no particular order but back in my day it was:

  • The Flintstones – “Yaba dada doooooo” – I love the outfits and often wondered is this how things were in the stone ages? Of course I was wrong 😂
  • The Jetsons – I wondered if this would be life after the Y2K but it seems no flying cars or floating houses only the promise of Amazon Prime floating deliveries, FaceTime and a very hot planet 🙃 being made hotter by self indulgent trips to space
  • Rugrats – I utterly and the thoroughly loved this show, not only was it inclusive it was just wholesome. Angelica was a perfect little antagonist while Chuckie was just sooo Chuckie, o the twins “You can’t handle the button Phillip”, the parents were great too and they didn’t mess up the movies. The theme song is perfect and will always remind me of my childhood or pre-teen hood days
  • Power Puff Girls – Bubbles was my fav
  • Let’s not forget the ever sarcastic Daria Morgendoff – 🎶La la la la la, Excuse me, la la la, Excuse me, la la la, you’re standing in my way …. 🎶 – This may be top 5 😅
  • The Wild Thornberrys – They were just weird and cute and I would say the start of “different” characters/families/cartoons?
  • Pinky and the Brain – They had big dreams and wanted to “try to take over the world” that is my instagram bio to this day
  • Dexter’s Lab – “Ooo what does this button do?”. Being an older sibling is always hard. I didn’t have a secret lab but I did have a secret *cough cough* you’ll never know 😏
  • As Told by Ginger – As a girl that always kept a diary and had a desire for “popularity” but still generally had fun at school with my small group of friends, I think Ginger spoke to me and for me
  • The Adam’s Family – Morticia and Gomez’s love for her
  • Angela Anaconda – “Angela Angela save me” – Nanette always had cute outfits
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy – The hustle spirit just to get jaw breakers really inspired me as someone with a sweet tooth)
  • Tellytubies – It was just sooo calming and Lala was my fav. “Oh ooooooo”.

and that’s all Folks 😘

Black Politics, Life, Policy Watch

WORLD AIDS DAY

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Just a few things to consider from WHO:

Current landscape

“HIV remains a major global public health issue, having claimed 40.4 million [32.9–51.3 million] lives so far with ongoing transmission in all countries globally; with some countries reporting increasing trends in new infections when previously on the decline.”

“In 2022, 630 000 [480 000–880 000] people died from HIV-related causes and 1.3 million [1.0–1.7 million] people acquired HIV.”

Prevention

Reduce the risk of HIV infection by:

  • using a male or female condom during sex
  • being tested for HIV and sexually transmitted infections
  • having a voluntary medical male circumcision
  • using harm reduction services for people who inject and use drugs

Treatment

There is no cure for HIV infection. It is treated with antiretroviral drugs, which stop the virus from replicating in the body.

Current antiretroviral therapy (ART) does not cure HIV infection but allows a person’s immune system to get stronger. This helps them to fight other infections.

Currently, ART must be taken every day for the rest of a person’s life.

ART lowers the amount of the virus in a person’s body. This stops symptoms and allows people to live a full and healthy life. People living with HIV who are taking ART and who have no evidence of virus in the blood will not spread the virus to their sexual partners.

Pregnant women with HIV should have access to and take ART as soon as possible. This protects the health of the mother and will help prevent HIV from passing to the fetus before birth, or to the baby through breast milk.

Antiretroviral drugs given to people without HIV can prevent the disease.

When given before possible exposures to HIV it is called pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and when given after an exposure it is called post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). People can use PrEP or PEP when the risk of contracting HIV is high; people should seek advice from a clinician when thinking about using PrEP or PEP.

Last Thoughts

“It is the big disease with the little name, the sickness that no one dies of, the disease whose real name is unspoken, the sickness that speaks its presence through the pink redness of lips, the slipperiness of hair, through the whites of the eyes whiter than nature intended.” Petina Gappah

End Stigma.

Life

Me

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What have you been working on?

I’ve been working on being a better person. That has included accepting the bad, the good and the in-between.

It’s also just meant accepting that the vision I have of some perfect future me may never actualize and the existing version is just fine.

I’m considering what relationships still serve me, wondering why I hold on to the ones that do not. Wondering if I give people chances out of compassion or out of fear that I may need that grace in the future.

Fear has showed itself a lot in my quest to be better, I never thought there was anything I couldn’t do but I think as you get older life shows you that there is much to fear.

So I guess I’ve been working on the fear that this may be as good as it gets and acknowledging no accepting that’s ok?