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[lyssabard]

Hey guys, I know I have not kept up here, but I have some updates! Now, hopefully this won't bore the piss out of many of you, but lately, I've been working out as part of Getting My Health In Line/Ass In Gear/Unfucking My Life (as the awesome yuki_onna would say and so far, so good

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[elenbarathi]

LOL, Tal! Yes indeed, I'm a troublemaking, blade-wielding Torvaldslander Free Woman, and my poems and songs are still known in Gor - I won the Free Women's Nard-Kicking Contest at Winterfest in Vanir's Fjord, and was once Ubara of glorious Ar for almost two whole months, woo! Quaint, scenic Port Kar will always have my heart, though - ah, the tharlarion-haunted marshes of the Vosk delta in the autumn fogs....

I've even actually taught a little white-silk kajira to pole-dance - tell you what, I'd have taught her ever so much better if I'd seen Jenyne Butterfly''s videos, but this was many years ago.. The best Gorean dancer I know is Na'Tea of the Jewel of Gleaming Thassa - if you ever go there, tell her Mistress Jess sends love. ^^

So many people just don't get it about Gor. You have to have been there, I guess. You can take the Gorean out of Gor, but you'll never take Gor out of the Gorean, despite the preposterous absurdity of the entire premise.

Yay, hippie shop at the beach! Alas, the current fashions are MADE of Suck and Fail; the only decent clothes these days are in thrift stores and consignment shops. Good prices, too, but the downside is that one has to shop regularly to pick out the good pieces from the mountains of tacky crap. Shopping doesn't hold my interest, especially when I'm having to dress and undress every 3 items - it doesn't take long before I'm So Done With That, and thus too cranky to like anything I try on, because I just want my own clothes. Thus, I go to Goodwill to look for pants, and come home with six books instead: oh well!

It's not weird to like jello - I think most people like it, except when it's made with, like, grated carrots and canned peaches floating in it, and smothered in a fluffy cloud of hydrogenated oil and corn-syrup solids. I even like plain old packaged Jell-o, but the Knox is just as easy, and then there's no guilt at all.

Mmm, you like pudding; try the Dannon Oikos Greek key lime yogurt - ohmy, that's the stuff! I think it would make truly world-class parfait with Knudsen's pineapple-coconut juice gelatine, but I haven't tried it yet.

I make a lot of garlic-dill dip by the simple expedient of taking a big container of Mountain High plain yogurt, crushing up a bunch of garlic, and mixing it in with a lot of dried dill weed and a little salt. It makes a great dip for raw veggies, baked-potato topping, topping for tabouleh salad, or on tacos or burritos - another way to get better flavor and better nutrition at the same time.

I think that's the real key to losing weight and building muscle: it's got to feel better, got to taste better, than the alternative. Dancing is way more fun than sitting around; healthy food is far more delectable than junk food - pleasure in the moment, with the additional pleasure of doing one's Will in terms of long-range goals; what's not to like?

[lyssabard]

While I know some of Gor, I have not done Goreanesque scenes (though adapting elements of such seem wonderful to me. (Ideas of being the beloved/kept property, cared for and valued as the object, yes, please.) Just depends on my mood at the time. I'm open to a lot.) It's on my list to check out, for fun--the books, I mean. Other things are optional. ;)

I am so trying the Knox jello. Yogurt is...well..vile, sadly. Unless it's a dill and garlic based sauce, then it's awesome. :)

Oh, also at the head shop hippie store, I got THE BEST PATCHWORK BAG EVAR. EVAR. 10+ pockets of lovely color and patches and it's wonderful. I will use it until it falls apart into dust.

You know, we should meet sometime. :) laurelindel has a lot of good to say about you. :)

[elenbarathi]

I'd love to meet you, and I thank laurelindel for her kind words. :)

Really, what I'd love is if circumstances allowed me to make it to Walking the Threshholds some time, and then I could meet all y'all at once, when we could just kick back. That's not too likely in the near future, but maybe you'll be out to Seattle one of these days.

I look on Gor as more of a literary thing than a kink thing, though certainly the general air of high kinkiness is inescapable, and adds a lot of charm to the place. Realtime Goreans overlap with the SCA, martial arts and biker communities as well as the D/s folk, so not everybody's there for the same reasons. In a lot of ways, Gor healed my broken heart after my divorce

The books are a trip - I would say, read the first ten; after that, both the plots and the writing go right downhill. My favorites are Nomads, Assassins, Raiders and Marauders. More about my adventures in Gor here and here - LOL, what a wacky place.

Yay, patchwork bag! I just recently got one too, salvaged in the cleaning of my friend's mother's hoarder-house full of Stuff - it looks almost like one I had back in 8th grade, when hippie styles were still new. Would be so great if all those styles came back; they were a lot of fun.