What a long, strange trip it's been...

This officially marks 8PP's 200th post!  It's crazy to think of all the varied, bizarre topics that have been covered in this blog.

Like...identifying a gay toddler...

...and anthropomorphized cartoon tumors.

In March, I covered disgusting things people do with their placenta...

...But in April, I switched it up with an appeal to my fellow Christians to stop acting like jerks in front of nonbelievers.

I became obsessed with couponing last month and started blogging more openly about mine and my husband's difficulties conceiving a second child.

And at some point this month, I just got really sarcastic.

So thanks for sticking with me this past half a year or so, and reading my rambling rants on everything from politics to bad doctors to why IT IS SERIOUSLY PERFECTLY FINE IF MY SON WANTS HIS TOENAILS PAINTED.

And if you feel like celebrating, may I recommend a hilarious t-shirt, or maybe mug, from the 8PP Store?  All proceeds go to a good cause, namely, paying off my ridiculous stack of medical bills.

As always, thanks for reading.

Childbirth is beautiful. Afterbirth is not.

8PP just reached its 100th post, and I haven't enjoyed writing anything disgusting or controversial in a while, so I figured I'd celebrate with a topic that is both...

The current trend of utilizing your baby's placenta.

I understand that the placenta is a miraculous organ that nourishes and sustains your little angel all throughout your pregnancy.  That doesn't change the fact that placenta is absolutely disgusting.  It's a bloody mass of meat and vessels that was once one of your internal organs.

One of the few things I remember from the drugged haze of my son's birth is being horrified by the placenta.  There is no scary movie monster or alien more disgusting than placenta.  And this is coming from a woman who made a cartoon monster out of her dermoid tumor.

So, needless to say, I'm really creeped out by all the ways childbearing women are saving and putting their placentas to use.

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