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[altarflame]

The other day Aaron was sitting in his booster in the van next to me after hip hop, eating some Wendy's chili. He had on his fingerless gloves with his flame converse on the dash board and his mohawk. Tawanna came over to the van to talk with me about competing in NYC and what all, and she glanced over at him and said "Look at him makin chili look cool". Pretty much :p

Earlier I chatted online with a RL friend who was saying I might like this infomercial hair stuff called "Wen". We both went to the website to look at it and laughed hysterically; it says that for someone with my hair type and length, I should use 32-40 pumps worth. Daily would be best. In the FAQ someone asked, "It seems like I'm using an awful lot of this product...can I use too much?" and the answer is "NO! With Wen, the more the better!!" The Amazon reviews are full of buyer-beware cautions against their automatic shipping and how hard it is to get them to unsubscribe you, and the founder's picture makes him look like one greasy haired motherfucker. Honestly, what do you think 32-40 daily pumps of cleansing conditioner would be like in this hot humidity where I live? Melting down my back?

LATER tonight I chatted at length with a strictly online friend about Catholicism and faith and it was just what I needed. This computer business has been really good for me, today.

I keep getting in these really foul moods because, 1. I am not emotionally eating whatever I like, and 2. I am burning fat so quickly that I am probably filled with weird newly-released toxins. I'm waiting for the morphine overdose when all the IV drugs from the past decade are released from my thighs. You'd think I could make myself happier just thinking that it's fat melting away that is causing the moodiness, but, no dice there.

This week I am:
-reading Jane Austen (for the first time)
-listening to Bach's Cello Suites as performed by Yo-Yo Ma (!)
-eating a lot of organic spring mix
-wading through submission guidelines to small press zines, literary magazines, and so on with tediously slow but consistent progress
-really stressed about money
-in love all over again with cloisonne beads
-insanely tired
-cuddling with Elise to excess
-extremely distressed on behalf of our friend Shaun
-suspicious my cat could be pregnant, or have something wrong with her
-glad that Ananda is suddenly so affectionate, but baffled by her general melodrama
-reading out loud even more than usual, I think I'm getting hoarse
-eager to be ALONE

Additionally, if you are interested: Grant recently posted a ditl entry (photos documenting his, and thus our, entire day) and then tonight he also put up a silly 18 second year old video of me. And according to formspring, some people out there want me on video. I like that I can tell I have lost some weight since it was taken. He's at theneolistickid and the ditl specifically is here.

Comments

[chadwah.livejournal.com]

I have been absolutely crazy about Jane Austen lately. I can't wait until my daughter's old enough for me to read Pride & Prejudice to her (she's 11 mo. right now).

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

I have P&P, S&S and Emma here from the library right now, all new to me. I'm about 6 chapters into the first right now.

You might like reading the real Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to her sooner than she'd dig Jane Austen - it has a few pictures, depending on the volume you buy, and is slightly more geared to kids, but retains that old british literature feeling that you are probably keen on.

[chadwah.livejournal.com]

I've only read P&P and the beginning of Persuasion (it's a much slower beginning, you can really tell it wasn't quite finished up), but I've also been reading P&P & Zombies (it's actually pretty good), Stephanie Barron's Jane Austen mystery series (again, surprisingly pretty good), and Becoming Jane Austen (denser than I anticipated, in a good way).

Yeah -- P&P is a ways off. I do actually have the Annotated Alice, but right now we're sticking with library books and board books -- lots of Patricia Polacco and Jan Brett. Just realized you might have thought I meant 11 yo? (she's turning one year old in May) She's still in the phase of eating books as well, but at least she likes them!

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

and you can make dresses with her

[aranel.livejournal.com]

I went to that Wen site--is it just me, or do many of the before pictures look nicer than the afters?

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

TOTALLY! So ridiculous.

[pagangoat.livejournal.com]

I'm really interested in the ETL diet, I have a really hard time losing weight due to PCOS and other health issues. when I looked it up online, it said no animal products...do you follow that, or do you still eat seafood? I am still nursing my 19 month old daughter (partly for comfort, due to an extremely low supply)and I don't want to lose what little milk I have. I basically am interested in whether you follow the diet to the letter, or modify it due to nursing? Do you cut out fats completely, or can you still use a little olive oil for cooking?
(long time lurker delurking for your expert advise)
:)

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

I definitely don't think I'm an expert :P I haven't even read the whole book! But I add in lean meat a few times a week. Like I had two pieces of turkey bacon off the George Forman today and some baked scallops a couple of days ago and will probably eat no-skin white meat chicken day after tomorrow. I don't use any oil.

Keep in mind there is a 6 week plan for rapid weight loss and then there is a "maintenance plan" for forever, that has somewhat more lenient standards (such as like a teaspoon of oil per day and things like that). Maybe that would be for you?

[pagangoat.livejournal.com]

I am a pescetarian(was vegan for a long time)so no meat doesn't bother me, but seafood is a staple for my family of fishermen. I don't think I could do no oil for very long, so I might do a modified version. I don't have the book, nor can I afford to buy it, so I'm just going by what I've read online.
Thanks for replying:)