Ivo on Thursday

Vintage Ivo - it's a pic from August 2005!

Back to the present, Ivo and I are sitting in the computer/play room - gearing up for our day.

The plan is to catch the garbage truck - anywhere from 11am -12:30pm - depending on weather and the volume of Taichung city crap. It's also recycling day - so it's a big one. Taiwan has a fairly strict garbage separation regiment - complete with heavy fines for infractions. It's a pain in the neck. And while I'm in favor of recycling, there are just tooooo many categories; plastic, metal, styrophoam, 2 kinds of paper, appliances, toys, wood. It's like you have to hand each separate piece of garbage to the attendent one by one... Food garbage is separately collected and fed to the nation's pigs. This didn't bother me so much when I was a vegetarian... but now it seems kinda gross. Also, some food waste like corn cob, isn't considered acceptable for the pigs. I don't know why - According to the movies, pigs can devour whole humans...

Anyway, it's August so garbage is grosser than usual. Everything is grosser in august!

After the big excitement of garbage - we're gonna go to Mitsukoshi to play and eat lunch before school. and most exciting, by the time we get home from work, Peter, from NB, alberta, halifax... will have arrived! Yay!

Yesterday, I was looking at a site, The Shape of a Mother, with a great message but... You know how it can be hard to put yr ideals/beliefs into practice/action? It's quite a bit more grim than the Dove ads that purport to show real women's bodies... Sure, right, very helpful... Well, the gap between pics on the mothers' bodies site and the dove ladies is huge and in this chasm I feel really nervous and anxious. I just had no idea skin could do what these mothers are showing... I find the pics and stories compelling but hardly empowering... Maybe these pics could be shown to girls to help them prioritize birth control...