
Obviously considering it's my house and all, I would not pick colors if I didn't like them, but I must say I did an awesome job of picking these!! Hahaha. I really love how it's turning out.
We are researchers from University of California at San Diego and we are collecting some information for a study on how hormones affect emotions.
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And advice? And not like acne treatment advice... I have all the stuff, it's just a matter of time, I think. Until then, though, I don't want to feel so awful about myself all the time.
Thank you:)
Do you think there could be any connection between the sunburns and my sensitivity?
Thanks,
Anna
- Location:Master Chief's Helmet
- Mood:
groggy - Music:"Blurry" - Puddle of Mudd
I have no energy at all, in turn I have no sex drive to speak of. This is wreaking havoc on my life. At this point, I'm willing to depend on drugs.
I'm a 28 year old, working mother of a 15 month old. I eat very healthy, though I may not participate in conventional exercize as much as recommended. I have no time to do more than 20 mins a day on my elliptical/stepper. I've always had to exercize my bum off to stay at 5'6 150lbs. During my pregnancy I ate very healthily, but I slept all the time. So, I'm stuck at 5'6 200lbs (granted I'm pretty firm for 200, but it is still bad) in this vicious cycle of needing to exercize to improve my energy, but needing energy & time to exercize. I lay down beside my son around 8 to 8:30 and I fall asleep with him and sleep till 6:30-7. My husband tries to wake me up and I won't budge or, the next morning, I won't even remember him begging me to get up and spend time with him.
A little history: My mother, two brothers and I have always seemed to require 10-12 hours of sleep and if we were shorted we would have a bad week where we would crash out- dead to the world. We've all had tests ran, they can't detect anything wrong with our thyroid or iron levels. Sometimes the dr. will note that I can use more vitamin B, but says it the shortage shouldn't be effecting me this way. I've been going to a bariatric clinic for B12 shots, but I've been reluctant to start Phenmeterine (sp?) due to distrust of medication & cost. However, now I keep thinking maybe just a month of it would help me get out of this cycle??? Any advice is appreciated. I feel like a huge lump.
- Mood:
depressed
For the record, there are no mice here. I run a clean ship.
Due to packing and other preparations for my journey, the place looks like a bomb hit. Please, guys, wait until I am OUT of Los Angeles before leveling it, thank you very much. Needless to say, no more visitors to my disheveled abode - they would trip on the rubble and I would have a lawsuit on my hands (it's normal here).
This is as close to living like Robinson Crusoe as I have come since leaving NY.
Today I finished touching up the paint on my Ugly Subaru Station Wagon Kit. See - I don't want anyone to know that it is actually a Rolls-Royce, because it could get stolen, so I hide my fancy car under the station wagon body - it's pretty convincing, eh? I aged it myself by driving through the woods.
:D
UPDATE - 5:40am - the truth is that I am too busy cracking up laughing about something which is too bizarre to mention here. It is good to be so vigorously amused, but it is keeping me hopelessly awake. I'll give a hint - it has something to do with a book by Hiroyuki Nishigaki...
I shall reveal no more...
- Mood:hallucinating
i just hate eating alot, it sometimes makes me sick just thinking about how much i have to eat... but then i burn it off so i don't know what i am complaining about...
but tonight i have work at the strip club and i knwo its just going to HELL for my body... because I ONLY WORK DRUNK!
i'm nervous though... i dont' know why i've worked there for like 3 months...
but I HAVE to start getting my stomach flatter
everything is okay and nice to where i'm happier about it but i have a little itty bitty stomach pooch and its pissing me off...
my boyfriend is graduating from his officer sea school... he's an E5 (which is really good) and i want to go to his graduation, so his parents (whom i have never met) bought me a ticket to see him... so here is my time line...
May 13- May 28 I am in Hawaii
May 28- May 29 crossing the ocean, going to texas but i have a 9 HOUR LAYOVER!!!
May 29- June 29 I am in San Antonio getting ready for basic training
June 30 I'm going to San Diego to see him graduate, and we are driving back to texas
July 1-July 15 spending time with him
July 20-September BASIC TRAINING!!!
September 2008- August 2012 JAPAN, KOREA, AFRICA, and IRAQ!!!
lol i have NO TIME to get FAT.
and i know i am going to gain weight somewhere...
with my big fat huge poochy pooch. lol
I NEED TO GET RID OF IT!!!!
anyway, after 6 weeks of therapy with no improvement, i opted for the cortisone injection this morning. i know it is a steriod, but the site (the joint in my hand where it was shot) is SO terribly sore right now. she said after the bruise from the shot goes away it should feel much better. does anyone know anything about it? thanks ladies!
So, ladies - if you want to lose a small amount of weight and stay that way, what do you normally do? What do you eat to reduce cravings? I think I should cut down on sugary food, but it's so hard not to want it. I also have this problem where I'm compelled to take one or two bites out of whatever dessert my boyfriend's eating, which I initially thought was a good way to enjoy dessert without absorbing all the calories, but I guess those bites do accumulate.
Today, for the record, I have eaten:
1. Bowl of semi-skimmed milk and Special K.
2. Banana.
3. Viennese truffle worth 55 calories
4. Chicken tikka wrap.
4. Muller's Corner (vanilla choco balls) yoghurt - apparently worth 226 calories.
Obviously I shouldn't have eaten the truffle and yoghurt, or at least opted for a healthier alternative - but I'm thinking since I don't eat dinner at all (yep, that's it for today) and chose a healthy lunch, I should allow myself some indulgence. And the truffles were going out of date (ha). Thoughts?
Apologies if a similar question's been asked.
Some of you know that I have a tremendous interest in a crumbling Victorian mansion in the Hudson Valley, known as Wyndcliffe. It's the one in my LJ userpics and the ruin in the background picture on my journal page. I have collected a variety of artifacts from the place including 5 different wallpaper samples (which I will frame when I get back East), an old decorative candle, two samples of etched glass from the hemispherical windows, an encyclopedia from about 1900, some samples of its elaborate brickwork, a curtain, some foundation bricks, and an ornamental silver cigarette holder manufactured in Mexico. After innumerable hours of research into the place, and many late nights, I discovered this veritable Holy Grail of Wyndcliffe artifacts.
This chair is nearly seven feet tall and was designed by George Veitch, the Scottish architect who designed the mansion for Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones, its original resident, in 1853. It was part of a set of six that once stood in Wyndcliffe's entry hall, a room through which I have probably passed over a hundred times. It's a lot nicer than the tattered chair I used to have from there that I had to leave behind in a hidden location - I wonder if it is still there...
Anyway, I am currently in touch with the current owner of the chair who invited me to come check it out in NYC. A colleague of his has another chair from the set, and he believes the others may still be out there. An item like this retains its value forever, and is surprisingly inexpensive. The upholstery is original and in excellent condition. It is very likely that Edith Wharton (the niece of Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones), Henry and William James, and members of the Astor family have sat in these chairs. I would be telling a half-truth, however, if I left out that my embarrassing wish in collecting so many of these artifacts is that some ghostly, ethereal residue from bygone ages will somehow leach out of the objects and into my living quarters. It's a long shot, but I've had many of those. I have already experienced several inexplicable and sometimes frightening phenomena in that house, some of which were witnessed by others. I won't list them here, but ask if you are interested, even if only for the anachronistic amusement of listening to the ravings of a 21st-century man who believes in ghosts.
In 9 years of researching the mansion and 100+ visits, I have never seen a find like this. Short of digging around the mansion's basement with a metal detector and risking an arrest for trespassing (it was purchased by a very visionary person from NYC with the resources and formidable patience necessary to restore it) this is about the best artifact I could hope to find from that most mysterious of ruins. To a collector, it is just a dime-a-dozen Victorian chair. To me, it is a relic - I would be happy to have it just for its own sake. But if the new owner of the mansion is as hellbent on an accurate historic restoration as I have heard, then it will potentially be a relic for him too, and one that he might be willing to pay top dollar for someday to complete the set. It's a win-win situation. Interestingly, the new owner used to camp out in the ruin some years ago, as I did.
- Mood:Obvious from entry content.
Today I touched up the rust spots on my car and reattached a piece of trim on the outside that I had removed to do a repair but never got around to replacing.
I am trying to be more positive about my time here. True, it feels like an exile of sorts, but maybe that is a good thing. After all, this was a learning experience. I learned about what I need in my life, and what I can do without. I became more resilient, and more resourceful. I know that I would have enjoyed this year more if I had stayed on the East Coast, but I very likely would have gained none of the wisdom my trials here have afforded me.
So, maybe on the surface, coming to L.A. was a mistake, but I shudder to think of myself without the acquired insights I now possess.
- Mood:
pensive
- Mood:
anxious
Yay for the best little puppy in the whole wide world! ♥

He gets to go to Petsmart and get a new toy and some treaties for his burfday.
I love you, my Meaty Morton!
- Mood:
amused
this country wearies us. Put out to sea!
What if the waves and winds are black as ink,
our hearts are filled with light. You know our hearts!
Pour us your poison, let us be comforted!
Once we have burned our brains out, we can plunge
to Hell or Heaven - any abyss will do -
deep in the Unknown to find the new!
- Charles Baudelaire
- Mood:
amused
Live in the light of certain South
Cruel bindings
The servants have the power -
Dog men and their mean women
Pulling poor blankets over our sailors
I´m sick of dour faces
Staring at me from the T.V. Tower
I want roses in my garden bower; dig?
Royal babies, rubies
Must now replace aborted
Strangers in the mud
These mutants, blood meal
for the plant that´s plowed
They are waiting to take us into the severed garden
Do you know, how pale and wanton thrillful
Comes death in a strange hour
Unannounced, unplanned for
like a scaring, over-friendly guest you´ve brought to bed?
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings
Where we had shoulders, smooth as ravens claws
No more money, no more fancy dress
This other kingdom seems by far the best
Until it´s other jaw reveals incest
And loose obedience to a vegetable law
I will not go
I prefer a feast of friends
To the giant family
-Jim Morrison, An American Prayer
- Mood:
awake
you can't really buy hydroxycut anywhere, someplaces its hard to find. since i'm military i can just go run over at the GNC and get it there... here's a website though... it has a link to where you can buy it... don't forget to take EXTRA VITAMINS!!!
http://www.muscletech.com/products/hydro
but with me... well i've been losing ALOT of fat and gaining "pretty" muscles... they aren't like the guy on the website but i look pretty nice.. kinda like christina milian's (sp?) body! but i work about about a total of 21 hours a week. no breaks no nothing. i take a 5 hour energy shot and i good to go, even if i'm feeling sluggish.. they are 4 calories and they taste okay...
but i've kinda stopped "shedding" the weight like i used to. but i'm still losing weight.. i'm looking nice and feeling great... since i have so much self confidence i dont' really binge anymore... and i also don't feel hungry.
but we will see..
i'm sad though because i move from HAWAII to TEXAS on MAY 28!!! i'm going to miss HAWAII so much! thank goodness my parents live here, so i can always come home to visit! well we will see! but good going girls! i know that we can all do it!!!
sarah
The stripping stuff I got was basically the only one I saw that said it didn't have harsh fumes and require some serious ventilation. So it's not going to kill me (or the ferrets) even though it's cold and the windows are all closed, which is really nice.
I had to open the door at one point to get at certain parts, but I didn't want the kids running all around and eating paint stripper and just wreaking havoc basically, so I stuck them in the bathroom. They weren't thrilled about that, but oh well. When I went back to get them, Daisy was in the bathtub.

I don't really care for dark wood like this. Is it possible to stain it a much lighter color, like an oak, when it's so dark to begin with? Anyone know?

It reminds me of the mother I didn't get to make many memories with before she died. I miss her every day, and Mother's Day just makes it harder.
It's still a wonderful day though, in which I get to celebrate the woman who raised me like her daughter - my aunt Pat, my mother's sister.


For everything that is lost something wonderful is gained.
I love you both, and am thankful that I come from the same blood as you. Thank you for showing me what a woman should be.
Happy Mother's Day.
♥
