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Pure and Simple. 2008-04-04 16:11:58 I sign up for inspirational daily emails—from several different sources. And I read a blog about zen living.
Believe me, I need all of this.
This week, two different quotes from two different sources made their way to me. Significant, n’est-ce pas? They both touched upon the theme of simplicity.
“I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, [...] Read more:Simple
Things I Love Thursday. 2008-04-03 11:36:37 Things I dig this week:
* Dinner with my dad, who was in town earlier this week! Hamburgers . . . yum.
* Sunshine. There hasn’t really been any this week :(. But I still love it and can’t wait for it to return.
* Plans for the future, like going back to school.
* Anime, especially The Wallflower. [...] Read more:Thursday
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Smart. 2008-04-02 21:41:04 [A Contented Skull by Chiho Aoshima]
Today a colleague told me that I’m one of the smartest people she knows.
To which I responded dryly, “Thanks, but you probably need to get out more.”
I was just teasing, because I was very, very flattered and yet oddly shy about the compliment.
Honestly, it kind of made my day.
The thing [...] Read more:Smart
Fat and Friendships. 2008-04-08 09:52:39 Yesterday I confessed to an old friend that I’m afraid of the change that dramatic weight loss can bring to a friendship’s dynamics. She good-naturedly assuaged my fears, but I still couldn’t stop thinking: Will her personality do a 180 when she’s a “skinny bitch” this time next year? Will she have the time to [...]
I Hate Weight Watchers: Capitulation. 2008-04-07 09:38:54 I must reluctantly report to my fellow comrades . . . that I surrendered and signed up for WeightWatchers
yet again this weekend, despite all my intentions to the contrary a mere three days ago. I didn’t want to tell you, because it makes me sound so fickle! Please be kind.
Saturday started out filled [...] Read more:Capitulation
Your Healthy Little Secret. 2008-04-09 10:01:38 Many sources tout the value of sharing your weight-loss journey with others. From every corner, we hear that your friends and family can be your biggest cheerleaders (not to mention your personal motivation), applauding you as you make healthier choices at the grocery store and restaurant, patting you on the back when you get out [...]
In the Closet. 2008-04-10 09:06:14 I have this fantasy of turning a small closet in our spare bedroom into GoGo’s Fantasy Funhouse Closet
. It would not contain high-end designer pieces. Although Karl Lagerfeld is a batshit-crazy misanthrope who I kind of love, despite myself.
It would probably, in fact, not house anything even remotely in good taste. Or anything I could [...]
Bubbles. 2008-04-12 13:20:34 Sony’s foam city shoot in Miami transformed the streets . . .
Airy magic . . .
I still love bubbles. In college, during the summers in Houston when I was dead broke, I would sit on the front steps and blow bubbles and my hands would get all sticky as I watched them glint and slowly [...] Read more:Bubbles
Too Much Information. 2008-04-11 11:51:43 Here’s a lesser-known Duran Duran tune for you from the early 90s:
Destroyed by MTV
I hate to bite the hand that feeds me
So much information
The pressure’s on the screen
To sell you things that you don’t need
It’s too much information for me
Some of the lyrics are quaint, referring to a time MTV was actually a cultural [...]
Props. 2008-04-14 10:02:04 Today I’d like to give big props to a few of the weight-loss and fitness success stories that prop me up when I’m feeling discouraged, like I was this past week.
Lady Shanny was one of my very first buddies here online, and she’s achieved amazing success in the time I’ve “known” her: Since September of [...]
When I Was Interrupted. 2008-04-16 10:02:59 [self-portrait]
Did I ever tell you about the time I checked into Hotel Crazy? No? Well, there’s no time like the present, and it helps that I care less and less every day what other people think of me.
Let me preface this by saying I’m still kind of nuts (obvs). (Also, I’m not one who usually [...]
I Am Off-Topic. 2008-04-17 15:16:49 So it’s not too good, inside me, lately. It hasn’t been good on a consistent basis for more than a day or two here and there in a while. I dislike saying this because my family is among my readers, and I hate making people worry about me because like a cat I always land [...]
This Weekend’s Agenda. 2008-04-18 12:45:20 Tonight:
I was going to watch Dr. Who on the SciFi Channel while eating ice cream. The episode I want to see involves an evil diet pill company and cute aliens made of lard exploding out of fat people’s stomachs. Which may not go well with eating ice cream. At any rate, it turns out that [...] Read more:Weekend
Wanted. 2008-04-20 20:53:16 Is there an endless supply of ourselves? If a photograph can steal your soul, can a blog about your innermost heart give it away, too? Is there anything left for you, afterwards? And have you really helped anyway by sharing your story, or are you just spreading the pain around? I haven’t deleted the posts [...]
Of Course I’m Awesome and Good. 2008-04-18 11:37:01 Of course I am.
I am not a bad person. I am not a burden to my boyfriend. I am not going to be sad every day for the rest of my life. I will not hate myself for having trouble working lately. I will not call myself lazy. I am good. I am awesome. This [...]
Chameleon GoGo: Trying to Build a Life, Not a Lifestyle. 2008-04-22 12:15:07 At Half of Me, I read a post in which Jennette writes about the things that have stayed the same in her life and personality, regardless of her dramatic weight-loss, and how she derives a certain empowerment from that. I found myself feeling a bit wistful after reading this, wishing I had a similar self-knowledge. [...] Read more:Build
Sharp! 2008-04-23 09:55:17 Today I look sharp. I’m wearing a brand-new blouse and carrying a brand-new purse, and I’m all made up. I wish I had a camera with me. I may not be thin, but I look put-together, and my skin and hair look great (new Alba shampoo and conditioner!), and all together it makes me feel [...]
You Call Yourself a Runner? 2008-04-24 15:18:32 Do you have to beat the qualifying time for the Boston Marathon to consider yourself a runner? When can you say you officially meet the requirements?
In 2001, I ran 26.2 miles in Chicago at about a 12-mile-per-hour pace. I had trained six long months in New York City for that day in early October.
And still, [...] Read more:Yourself
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Spiritual. 2008-04-25 14:40:34 That word. Ugh! It has the tainted mark upon it that I associate with the phrase “healthy lifestyle.” A certain trying-to-have-the-best-of-both-words smarminess. Like, I’m on a diet but see I’m not really, ’cause it’s a lifestyle. Or, look how deep I am, I’m kind of religious but not in a creepy, specific way because that’s [...]
Starting the Climb. 2008-04-30 09:35:34 Apologies for being away from the blog for a few days. I wasn’t feeling centered enough to write, if you know what I mean. I had a doctor (psychiatrist) appointment yesterday that I was mega-anxious about, and I was feeling too tense to do anything other than write about being tense, which I felt would [...] Read more:Climb
Checking In. 2008-05-05 13:29:58 This is just a fairly brief post to let you guys know that I’m alive and kicking. I’m riding out a couple of medication side-effects and I won’t pretend things are all suddenly hunky-dory, but I am hanging in there and for the time being have decided to continue working full-time. At any rate, I [...]
You Can’t Keep a Good Lunatic Down! 2008-05-16 18:58:17 It’s me, I’m still a l i v e. Still! Things haven’t gotten magically easier or better on the mental-health front; the medicine didn’t fix me up all perfect and happy. But I am okay right at this moment and I’m alive and I have had two very productive days in a row at work, [...]
The One-Legged Tow-Truck Operator. 2008-05-31 09:24:30 I spent the bulk of my evening last night in the company of a one-legged tow-truck driver named Jesse, his wife, and their shih-tzu, “Pee Wee.” This was the fitting culmination of a decidedly shit-hit-the-fantastic week. Sometimes the only appropriate response is to snort loudly and write the whole thing off.
Both MC’s and my car [...] Read more:Truck
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Champers. 2008-06-02 10:03:06 Meet Champers (\ˈsham-pərz\).
Champers is my new, champagne-colored bicycle. I haven’t owned a bicycle in over a dozen years, but I’ll be picking her up from the bike shop after work this evening and I’m totally stoked. I totally owe props to Anne at Body of Work for inspiring me to check out Electra’s Townie [...]
Doing It for Someone Else? 2008-06-04 14:00:53 This is a hypothetical scenario, but one that’s been going through my mind a lot recently:
Let’s say that objectively you’re very overweight or perhaps obese (based on BMI or some other medical criteria, and not on extreme celebrity standards), and you’re in a loving long-term relationship of some kind, whether it’s marriage or another version [...]
Disco Francais. 2008-06-03 14:41:34 Back to the weight-loss thing: I haven’t been true to my personal style in ages due to not finding (or, perhaps, not daring to wear?) clothes in my size that fit into my concept of what is fun to wear. Here’s a little outfit I whipped up on Polyvore that reflects a casual going-out ensemble [...] Read more:Francais
Ketchup. 2008-06-19 14:19:28 Catch up, more like! Heh.
Hi comrades,
I hate being away from the blog so much like I have been lately. Someone near and dear to me was in a very perilous situation, and the details were just too private to write about openly here. Certain boundaries need to be respected, you know? Lest you worry too [...] Read more:Ketchup
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