If you eat 5 large chocolate chip cookies then immediately go power walking for 30 minutes, you will get a stomach cramp.

I believe this has always been true. But not being able to eat cookies or walk for 30 minutes (never mind walk briskly) for so long, I had forgotten all about it.

Note to self: Walk first, eat cookies second.

I don't know how much I should talk about how much better I'm doing. It's partially because it sounds crazy and partially because it's so hard to explain. And there's also the trepidation that it might go away. But I found out what has been making me sick for 5 years and now I'm a heck of a lot better ( Read more... )

I guess I never posted this, but for anyone who doesn't know, we're planning on getting married in Iceland. We've been planning on getting married in Iceland since last January (before getting officially engaged in May), so it's been like almost a year of planning. On the upside, Iceland's economy recently collapsed, so everything is currently half ( Read more... )

Boyfriend, being a vegetarian now, bought himself a cookbook to be able to make more and different things. And he just made me some oatmeal. And it's aaawwwwwwweeeeesssooommme. Cooking boyfriend rulez!It's really really good.....

Taking a two second break. I'm pretty much losing my mind doing so much work. I've been working every minute of every day for weeks. The doc absolutely needs to be done and is slowly getting there. But since I'm past my deadline I'm not getting paid anymore so I picked up a paying gig to do on top of that. So I am working constantly. Last night I ( Read more... )

Matt & I got engaged on Sunday ( Read more... )

So I'm in love with this town called Wrightwood like an hour and a half north of here. It's a mile high and all pine trees, a town of only 3000 people. I'm obsessed with looking at real estate there and want to buy a house although that'd mean staying in California which in general is not my first choice. I fell in love after driving through it for ( Read more... )

Strange week. Thanksgiving was good though. It was Matt & I's first Thanksgiving alone and together. I was happy with just turkey and cranberry sauce but Matt produced a list of demands. So we made turkey, stuffing, sweet potato, carrots, green beans, cranberry sauce and biscuits (and pie!). We ended up eating kind of late, because we just got a ( Read more... )

I know there is a lot of complaining in general about culture these days and objectification of women and all that.

But can someone explain to me why a woman who can do this:

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Has to make her living doing this?

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The mudbath starts at about 2:45 by the way...

I've complained about this before, but alas, I'm going to complain about it again. People go on and on about dry heat. When I say people are insane for moving to Arizona because it's like (no hyperbole) 120 degrees there, people say 'but it's a dry heat'. My Dad's classic response to this is 'my oven is a dry heat, I don't want to stick my head in ( Read more... )