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Fat Shaming

31 Sunday Aug 2014

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I have no misconceptions about my body. From the minute I wake up to the minute I go to sleep, I know I am fat. Even if I forget, after a few minutes I am reminded. Every activity, every sit, every time I move; I know I am fat.

However, some of you have some misconceptions.

1) I am fat because I have a hormone disorder. Could I eat healthier? Yes. Could I be more active? Yes. But will it make it be thin? No. I am on medication and it will be a long journey until I am healthy but diet and exercise unfortunately are not my cure.

2) Being fat does not mean that I don’t care about my worth or self. Maybe there is some psychological evidence the contrary but being fat does not mean I am unintelligent or messy or whatever personality trait you want to assign me. Sure, it makes me insecure but it doesn’t mean that I can’t be a functioning adult.

3) I am not Fat Katie. I have blue eyes. I have facial piercings. When referring to me, please do not use fat as a description. Unless I am missing or found dead, my weight shouldn’t be a part of your descriptions. There are many other traits that you can use to describe me. Don’t use a negative one just because it is the easiest you can see.

4) I have been discriminated against quite a bit in my life. Whether its been race or gender, there will always be someone to keep you down. For me, the past 8 years that I have been overweight have been the most tumultuous. Fat women are demonized. We are the lowest of the low. We get zero credit. The things I hear about fat women are horrible. That we are kinkier in bed because be have to make up for being hideous. The we are *insert compliment* for a fat person. Even men who want to date us are called “chubby chasers”. I have been called a “fat bitch” so many times it is crazy.

You don’t have to find me attractive. You don’t have to tell me I am beautiful. What you can do is respect me regardless of my physical appearance.

Thank you.

5 things I hate about work

01 Tuesday Jul 2014

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I complain about work to anyone who will listen. I try not to do it publicly or on social media but sometimes I can’t resist. However, this is not a rant about my work specifically, this is about work in general. Things that I have experienced at more than one workplace or things that just piss me off in general.

5) Overly Peppy Morning People

I classify myself as a morning person. I have more motivation and energy in the morning and am generally more pleasant in the beginning of the day but that doesn’t mean I want to share it with you. My first real job was at Starbucks and I had to greet people starting at 5:30 am. Most people are in a rush or on their way to work so you can be polite and pleasant without being obnoxious. But then you have the customers I called the cheerleaders. The type of people who speak 3 or 4 decibels higher than everyone else and pronounce “Hi” with 2 syllables. The type of people I would purposely give decaf to. What these people don’t understand is that at 5:30 am, it sounds like you are yelling at me. At my current workplace, I do not work in customer service and yet I still manage to bump into overly peppy people. Even old men at work act like they are pooping out Lucky Charms for breakfast. If the time starts with a single digit, assume I do not want to talk to you.

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Taken

29 Sunday Dec 2013

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As much as I would like to say this entry is about Liam Neeson, unfortunately it is about how my phone/wallet was stolen last week. Not even how–I am really not even sure how it happened–more like how I felt,

I was at the bowling alley with my family and somewhere between the shoe counter and our lanes, my phone was gone. My phone has a wallet attached so my driver license, debit and credit cards were also taken. It could have easily fallen out of my pocket but when I called Verizon, the signal had already been turned off and no one at the bowling alley turned anything in. So even if I did drop it, someone swooped it up.

I am surprised I am handling it so well but I am taking it as a right of passage. I feel like at some point most people have some  incident like this happen, whether it is a car break in or identity theft. I feel like I was just biding my time until it happened to me. That being said, it still sucks. It is such a pain in the ass. In California, you have to physically go into the DMV to get a replacement license. Because it was stolen, I have to mail/fax a claim to the insurance (I don’t have a printer or a fax) so I have to wait until I can get access. If it sounds like I am complaining, I am. This is a crappy thing to have to deal with. I have no way to pay for anything since I had to close all my accounts and have to wait a few business days before things can get back up and running. I can drive but at my own risk since I have no ID. I can’t buy booze and cough syrup, which was going to be my main way of coping this weekend. (To clarify I am sick and not using cough syrup as a recreational drug) While this hasn’t been the worst thing to happen and it definitely could have been worse, it still was an amazing inconvenience considering I was the “victim”.

Oh and life lesson from my mom, never keep all your credit cards and debit cards in one place.

Birthdays

05 Thursday Sep 2013

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Yesterday was exactly one month before my birthday. Does anyone else start acting like a major bitch around their birthday? I do. It is not even that I am getting older (25 is still pretty young) but I feel like there is a lot of anticipation for, well, nothing. It reminds me of a christmas gift I got when i was about 16. When my sister moved out of her dorm and into her own apartment she gave me my first tv. It was the kind that had a built-in VHS! I thought it was the coolest thing ever but looking back I do see that it was already old by the time I got it and had a scratch on the screen…but who cared right? I had my own t.v. and didn’t have to bother anyone with the obsessive amount of Law and Order I used to watch. Less than a few months after I got it my mom and sister were beside themselves with “how amazing” my christmas gift was going to be. I swear I heard my sister say “I wish I was getting one of these.” I am not really sure what I thought it was going to be but I could not have been farther from reality.

Christmas day came and there was a big box with my name on it. In my family we always start with stockings, do the little gifts and then save the biggest (whether in size or monetary value) for last. I was so excited and I could not wait to tear it open.

Disclaimer: I threw a fit.

I can not explain to you the disappointment I felt in that moment. I didn’t want a T.V. and I didn’t need a T.V. I thought I was getting the best gift I had ever gotten and I got something I already had. I cried, begged for a receipt and I’m pretty sure hurt both my mom and sister’s feelings. The worst thing is that I still never came around to that T.V. and I still get a little pissed about it. I know it sounds really ungrateful but I didn’t understand why I needed something when I had one that I did not want to get rid of. Two years ago for Christmas I got a new T.V.and it was a relief! I was so happy, I just about broke the old one but I kept it around for if I ever needed it..

So that’s how I view my birthday. There is a huge box waiting for me but when I open it, I already have it. Besides the gifts, there is nothing to really celebrate and it makes me cranky. I feel like so many people put an emphasis on it being special that it is hard to settle with it being just a normal day. At least on federal recognized holidays there are other people to share nothing with. My birthday skipped the weekend because of leap year a couple of years ago so it feels like my birthday always falls on the weekday and well, I just don’t like it.

So here’s to being cranky.