hello, angel, tell me where are you

[nematoddity]

Sick all day. Lovely. Sadly, I'd love to say I'm hallucinating as well, but alas, no, apparently Squidbillies is actually a real show. My brain hurts.

Also? Note the icon. Don't worry--it'll make sense when you hit the pictures. How'ver, I think I'm getting better at this PhotoShop thing. :)

What the hell??? This is just...warped. Really

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AGH!

[owlkeeper]

Too late! I've already started going back through the entires for Oh My Gods! Luckily I'd read some when I first moved to CC, but I'm having to play catch-up and it's making my head hurt. *_x

Re: AGH!

[nematoddity]

Yeah, I may dive back in m'self, damn it. :) It's addictive.

That and reading the backlog from last month of Pearls Before Swine--following the adventures of the alligators and their "zeeba neighbors", that's just too funny, too. :)

[sphynxcatvp]

Um...yea.... I must have forgotten to tell you, so you might want to add in, or post an addendum in another post... that K17/RV-K17 stuff comes from the movie Reign in Darkness - info is up at IMDB or the Reign in Darkness website - and that's why I was so thrilled I'd finally found it to watch. Yes, there's a sequel in the works (Reign in Darkness: Retribution), but I don't know if it's completed yet. I'll scrounge that one up too whenever it's available. I'm a completist for the ones I like.

[nematoddity]

No, see, this I know, because this you told me. But the first link you sent me, the one I linked, those idiots in that forum are discussing it as if it were a real virus, that people walking around IRL can acquire. That caused my brain to seize.

Fiction: fine. Discussing fiction in a 'what-if' setting: fine. Applying fictional precepts to your life as handy hangers for concepts: fine, as long as you don't take it overboard and forget you chose these terms to use.

Discussing fictional concepts as if they're real and can actually happen, and believe such fictional concepts are real and can occur: SO NOT FINE.

Re: Love the pics!!!!

[nematoddity]

This kinda terrifies me, actually. Twelve years of various diets and various different things--including Atkins and the Zone, and the cabbage-soup diet, all three of which are RIDICULOUSLY expensive--and zero weight loss

Re: Love the pics!!!!

[sphynxcatvp]

YeeeeeHAAAAAA!

Something that works! Even better than Topamax brain, hehehe. :) I know that's always a good feeling for me, fitting into something I haven't been able to in a while.

I know I periodically go through "hungry phases" (a/k/a eat-the-kitchen, without the weed) and "zero appetite phases" - like right now, today I've had my vitamins, a bowl of cereal and some pastry/meat thing and I've been otherwise set all day. It's weird, I don't know why it happens, but I just go with it for now...

Re: Love the pics!!!!

[nematoddity]

Oh, sure, but that kind of thing comes and goes. I know through most of high school I had days where I didn't eat--I just didn't feel like it, I didn't feel like it was anything dangerous, I always started eating the next day and I never got dehydrated, so where's the harm?

And when I was first on Topamax, I began eating EVERYTHING...and for me, eating EVERYTHING is eating more than twice a day. (I'm very bad--no correlation between hunger and energy states, for the most part, though I'm getting better at body connection.)

(The memory stuph hasn't gone away. Argh.)

[mutaytedjoe]

Pics yay! My nails are not at weak as they were when I first went veggie (oooh, 16 years ago. . . ), but they never really got strong. . . if you solve that problem, lemme know. I take a vegan flax seed supplement, and I think that helps a bit. . . with something.

Later

[nematoddity]

Yeah, see, here's the problem...I had weak, brittle nails that would peel away in layers before I went vegetarian--so now I have nails that peel back when I look at them, lift away down to the nailbed, and are highly ridged. That, I'm worried over.

I still have ridges, but they're not as deep or distinct since I stopped on the "rice soup, that's good, that's cheap, that'll work until I do the research" run for three months solid. :) (Yes, I know, I KNOW...I got better.)

So far, Quorn still tastes funny, but Quorn and mushrooms--and Quorn is mainly mushroom protein--seem to help my system a lot. Yves makes a good grain/soy ground meat substitute that I've been able to throw into a lot of things. I recently went out to the garage and pulled in a bunch of the Morningstar sausage patties, because I haven't been going out and getting them, and what the hell, if that's all that's stopping me

[mutaytedjoe]

I take flax seed for my joints, actually. And isn't "Quorn" a band? Oh wait, that's "Korn." Nevermind.

[nematoddity]

:)

Yeah, I don't think any Quorn products have hit Spokane area yet. They're from the UK--I think--and they were started by a firm who researched various kinds of alternative protein sources and came up with mycoprotein--fungus--as the most easily absorbed form of protein by the body. They make a TON of stuph in bright orange and yellow boxes, and most of it is almost but not entirely, completely not the taste of chicken. As I said to poppycat once, it's how chicken would taste if it were formed out of something completely unrelated to chicken, by someone who'd never had any.

Actually, their "chicken"-flavored products taste weirdly like textured popcorn. :)

Yeah, flax seems to be good for the joints. I upped my glucosamine intake after I went off the Topamax and the joint pain and headaches came back with a vengeance, and that's taken the edge off. I may need to add in more pure flax oil, see if that helps further. :)