{"id":45,"date":"2002-07-03T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-03T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=45"},"modified":"2002-07-03T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-03T12:12:00","slug":"before-and-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-07\/45-before-and-after","title":{"rendered":"Before and After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Timing is everything in life,&#8221; they say. So here I am, faced with a bit of a dilemma, and wondering about the timing of it all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before and After&#8221; is a powerful theme in my life; it totally fascinates me.<\/p>\n<p>For years I&#8217;ve wanted to do a photo series on &#8220;Motherhood: Before and After&#8221;. <!--more Read the rest--> I even have a friend who is\/was a &#8220;very pregnant teenager.&#8221; <i>(Don&#8217;t look at <b>ME<\/b>; I had nothing to do with <b>that<\/b>, though lord knows I would have been willing given the opportunity!)<\/i> I was negotiating to have her model for me, but we just couldn&#8217;t get the timing right. I was also trying to convince her to have the baby on <b>my<\/b> birthday&#8230; so I would have another &#8220;Birthday Twin&#8221;&#8230; but she doesn&#8217;t have that much control over that! <i>hehehehe<\/i> I&#8217;m going to talk to my friend Jamie, since she&#8217;s also about to pop, but isn&#8217;t due for a month or so. She&#8217;s modelled for me in the distant past.<\/p>\n<p>Another friend got her tongue pierced. It would have been nice to experience the &#8220;Before and After&#8221; aspects of that: kissing, oral sex, and so on. Sadly, we were not &#8220;that close&#8221; prior to her piercing (and then she went totally psycho on me so we&#8217;ll never even get to the &#8220;After&#8221;!).<\/p>\n<p>And now, I&#8217;m trying to decide what to do with my beard. Whenever I&#8217;m feel the need for a change in my life, I usually change my facial hair. I either grow it or get rid of it, depending on what state it is in at the time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had this beard for about two years now. It&#8217;s the <b>longest<\/b> I&#8217;ve ever had a beard! I started growing it when my previous contract was coming to a close after 39 months. But I&#8217;ve grown tired of it.<\/p>\n<p>I waited until the warmer weather hit because I didn&#8217;t want to shave it off in the middle of winter and freeze my face; I did that once before. Then I waited until after C8, because I wanted the goatee for my &#8220;Hello, My Name is SATAN&#8221; look.<\/p>\n<p>So now my dilemma is whether to go ahead and shave it off, or find someone who wants to share the thigh-tickling experience of &#8220;Before and After&#8221; with me!  Unfortunately, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any willing participants around at the moment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Timing is everything in life,&#8221; they say. So here I am, faced with a bit of a dilemma, and wondering about the timing of it all. &#8220;Before and After&#8221; is a powerful theme in my life; it totally fascinates me. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-07\/45-before-and-after\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}