The Stars and the Cookie Jar

So, it wouldn't be The Second Day of My Period(tm) without my getting blood on the far bathroom wall.
 *sighs*

But! I am not here to tell you about such mishaps. There are these things my wife uses, called Instead, and they're little pink diaphragms with a polyspun soft-plastic cup attached, basically. You use them instead of tampons, and I have been resistant to this idea for a long time, but I am out of tampons and I don't get paid until Wednesday (I'm out of money, too).

 And they're great.

They seem to disappear, as tampons claim to do but then don't. They hold your body temperature, so it never feels wet/cold/squishy in unpleasant ways. And since I have a great big huge scar from my perineum up into you don't want to know where, tampons have always been uncomfortable for me -- I don't have the muscle use to hold them painlessly in place, and whenever I move, the tampon just hurts because it scrapes because it's hitting something that it's not designed for -- and these Instead thingies aren't.

I can't feel a thing.

All that lovely information was leading up to one point: if you've had any kind of intravaginal reconstruction, or if you're uncomfortable mentally or physically with the insertion of things 'up there', you should try these.  The last statement was bolded just to highlight my use of the word 'intravaginal', but really. They make things so much less painful. There is one drawback, but no worse than an applicatorless tampon has: you can't get them 'up there' or 'out of there' without getting a little smeary. But I think the benefits outweigh that.

On a completely different note, the holiday party went off as expected, a little fun, a little lame, a lot loud and a lot stuffy. My Completely Silent Coworker gave us a ride home, and apparently hit it off with my wife and talked to her like, the whole time. Quelle surprise. :)

ETA: My wife says she was right, she told me so and she was right.