6X

When I was a little girl, my family members teased me when I told them my clothing size was "sick-sex," meaning 6X. I remember being so frustrated because I felt like I was saying it the same way as they were, and even MORE frustrated because when I would ask what made it so funny, my mum would intervene and say, "I'll tell you when you are older."

Are you freaking kidding me? This was too much for my little body. Seriously, just thinking about it now, I can literally FEEL that frustration again. "When your older" would not come for a long, long, long time; and surely when I got there, I would forget the majority of the things you promised to explain. So I'm thinking this is where my need to make lists comes from. I bet I make 3-4 lists a day--written out-- on paper. I carry a mini journal in my purse just incase I need to write up a list of some sort. Today I'm making a list I would have made when I was little, had I been able to write.

1. Ask mum what is so funny about 6X.
2. Ask mum what sperm is.
3. Ask mum about the "candies" that Vivian offers Edward in Pretty Woman.
4. Ask mum why I am not allowed to BE Vivian when I play pretend.
5. Ask mum the bazillions of questions I have about the movie Grease.
6. Ask mum why Chris and Austin Davis called me horney when I ate my popcicle.
7. Ask mum what horney means.
8. Ask mum why it's so cool to tie cherry stems with your tongue.
9. Ask mum what rape is.
10.Ask mum why I can't run around half naked anymore.
11.Ask mum what it means to get to first second and third base. (side note. I think I knew their tainted meaning before I knew their true meaning.) 12. Ask mum what the big kokopelli joke is.

13. Ask mum why I have to begin sleeping in my own bed now that she is married.

14. Ask mum why her bedroom door is locked EVERY Sunday afternoon.15. Ask mum what's so funny about Poppyseed muffins and green M&M's.16. Ask mum to explain the humor behind the joke she tells everyone about her husbands' big hands and feet.17. Ask mum to explain why she and dad imploded the Sands in Vegas.18. Ask mum why Stefano on Days of our Lives can say "bastard", but I can't.19. Ask mum what "boobs" means.20. Ask mum what "fart" means.

Now that I've grown up, those questions all seem silly.... or awkward. Now all I really want to know is this!!!
6x? 6X? Excuse me? What does the X mean? Mum, was I fat? Are you freaking kidding me?

(I should probably delete some of these.... but I am not going to.. until my mum makes me.)