From there to here

jessicavalenti: Actual ad from Playtex trying to sell...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:39:57 -0500

jessicavalenti:

Actual ad from Playtex trying to sell “feminine hygiene” products.

faggotlife: wow Amazing

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:50:27 -0500

faggotlife:

wow

Amazing

animalstalkinginallcaps: GOD, DON’T YOU THINK IT’S TIME YOU...

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:06:21 -0400

animalstalkinginallcaps:

GOD, DON’T YOU THINK IT’S TIME YOU ADDRESSED YOUR CREATIONS DIRECTLY? UPDATED YOUR LAWS AND COMMANDMENTS AND CLEARED UP ANY MISINTERPRETATIONS? THINGS ARE PRETTY BAD DOWN HERE.

I was going to, but I can’t get verified on Twitter because I forgot My old hotmail password.

CAN’T YOU JUST SHOW UP IN THE SKY OR SOMETHING? BIG PYROTECHNICS DISPLAY, AMPLIFIED VOICE, ETC?

That doesn’t mean anything anymore. I just went to go see hologram Tupac on tour. It’s the same thing.

SHIT, YOU’RE RIGHT. WE’VE GOT TO GET YOU VERIFIED.

That’s what I’ve been saying.

animalstalkinginallcaps: BRAAAAAAAAAAAAINS! MMMMMM....

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:13:24 -0400

animalstalkinginallcaps:

BRAAAAAAAAAAAAINS!

MMMMMM. BRAAAAAAAIIIINNNS.

BRUUUHHHNNNNNNNZ!

I ACTUALLY JUST KIND OF WANT SOME PLANKTON.

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PLAAAAAAAAANKTON!

YUHHHHHH. PLANNNNNNKTONNNN.

PLNKTNNNNNN.

animalstalkinginallcaps: HELLO, AND WELCOME TO PLANNED...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:28:57 -0400

animalstalkinginallcaps:

HELLO, AND WELCOME TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD, YOU SLUTTY SLUT. WHAT’S THE PROBLEM TODAY? YOU WANT A SLUTTY MAMMOGRAM TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT YOU’VE GOT SLUTTY BREAST CANCER? JUST KIDDING, OF COURSE. YOU’RE HERE FOR AN ABORTION BECAUSE NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES IT’S MATHEMATICALLY PROVEN THAT LESS THAN FIVE PERCENT OF OUR TOTAL PROCEDURES ARE ABORTION, EVERYONE STILL BELIEVES THAT ALL WE DO IS GET RID OF YOU AND YOUR ARMY OF HIPPIE BOYFRIENDS’ SLUTTY MISTAKES, YOU BIG OLD SLUT, YOU.

SLUTEVER, AM I RIGHT? TAKE A SEAT OVER THERE AND WE’LL SEND SOMEONE OUT TO DO A PROVOCATIVE SEX DANCE BEFORE WE GIVE YOU SOME NUDIE MAGS AND NIPPLE TASSELS. I HOPE YOU DON’T HAVE ANY LEGITIMATE HEALTH ISSUES BECAUSE THAT WOULD RUIN OUR NONSTOP SLUT PARTY.

NEXT, PLEASE.

animalstalkinginallcaps: SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE … I DON’T KNOW...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:35:50 -0500

animalstalkinginallcaps:

SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE … I DON’T KNOW … LIKE I’VE BEEN LOCKED UP TIGHT, FOR A CENTURY OF LONELY NIGHTS, WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO RELEASE ME.

IT’S ALMOST LIKE MY BODY’S SAYING “LET’S GO” BUT MY HEART’S SAYING “NO.”

November comes around

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:37:27 -0500

This time last year, was the worst month of my life. I am not being dramatic here, and I’m not looking to elaborate much either. November in my life, has a tendency to be hard. We are on a crash course for winter and the days are getting shorter, I barely see sunlight and I tend to be overworked in this season.

Right now, for instance, I should be working on the three chapters of math homework I have, or out enjoying the fall day, or better yet at the gym. Really though, I should be at work, where I was scheduled to be, but then not. There goes 9 hours .. times however much I make and there goes about one hundred pre taxed dollars down the drain.. that could have paid for my insurance.. instead, some other days pay will go towards that. Insurance is not cheap.

So today I am finding myself wanting to binge on food that is really set aside for dinners this week and I am wanting to do nothing.. but really I should think of how to be creative.. use this sad energy I have to make something… perhaps a mixed cd or two..

I’m seeking alternative moods to sadness.. and at the same time I have never really been able to sit in that sadness and figure out why I am sad to being with.. or whats got me down.. it makes me uncomfortable. I don’t like being uncomfortable.

Heres to sitting in it thought…

Avoidence

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:22:48 -0400

Have you ever had a bad break up, but you’re still trying to be friends with them? Or that person you broke up with is everywhere you are because you are in the same social circles and so its really really awkward? This is how I feel about food right now. Its like I’m the one who broke up with food, and so its coming back at me in these ways by like dating my friends.

At work, I can smell the fresh bread from subway when it comes out of the oven, and it smells delicious! But you know what smells even more delicious? The fresh batch of cookies they’ve also baked… or the fried chicken that the deli counter has just pulled out of the fryers. And immidiately I am hungry! I want nothing more than to go over to the counter and buy some popcorn chicken that I know I won’t even like and cram it down my throat.

But I don’t… and instead of a broken heart (well my heat breaks a little at the thought of not being able to eat cookies all the time) my stomach sunddenly becomes angry at me for breaking up with the “wrong” kinds of foods. Its like when you introduce your friends to a new girlfriend and NO one likes her but is afraid to tell you.. instead they’re just rude to her. …The thing is, this is not the type of break up that I can immediately go to being friends with, because knowing me, I will probably hook up with it a bunch before I decide I am really over it.

(I really just want ice cream.. and some more ice cream.. that is what I want. I indulged last night in a half a klondike ice cream bar.. and it was so worth the extra time on the treadmill today.)

But all in all these new dietary changes are okay, because I have lost five pounds so far and I have been able to do more and more every day.. I don’t go to bed feeling starved and the foods that I am choosing for myself these days still taste great! I am sure my stomach (like my friends and the new girlfriend) will eventually learn to love this new dietary choice.. and perhaps some day I can learn to appreciate my ex food group in a way that won’t make me always wish “what if”

Werk it.. HARDER!

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:28:05 -0400

Yesterday I weighed myself after a week of working out at the gym for about an hour every day. I hadn’t really lost any weight and that really discouraged me for a little bit. Corine reminded me though, that it doesn’t work like that. Eventually I will start to loose the weight but right now, my body is adjusting from the couch to the treadmill and from lifting potato chip bags to lifting weights.

Then I realized she was right. If I want to be successful at this then I must put my best effort forth and stay focused in the now and not the future. I honestly get really tired when I think of the word “gym” because I don’t particularly like going to it, especially in the early morning hours but I know that once I go I will feel a ton better.

Yesterday I ran on the treadmill for half of my 1.5 miles. It felt terrible in that “I’m thinking of every doughnut I’ve ever ate and its weighing me down!” kind of way, but mentally, the fact that I could run for at least a quarter mile without stopping and huffing was pure gold.

So far in my journey though, I have walked or run about 30 minutes every day, sometimes only 20 (If I’m being honest here) and I have done three days of lifting weights. My trainer has showed me chest so far, this afternoon he is going to show me my triceps and possibly leg work outs.

This week I am going to focus on increasing my cardio by 10 minutes and then also working towards all of the muscle groups, so I know which weights I should lift and when.

Also today I am trading in my pos grand prix for an older Jeep Cherokee, which has better traction in the winter.. they don’t plow roads around here and I have to travel for work so this vehicle will work out best for me.

Its all about CHANGE people!!!

Motivation

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:08:42 -0400

So this question keeps popping up in my head, “how are you going to motivate yourself”. I realize this is a 90% mental thing. The sound of the 6 am alarm clock versus the 8:30 am alarm clock is so vividly different, and everything inside of me just wants to roll back over and wait for the later one.

In my head I hear myself saying “oh I will just go after work.” and as the day progresses and work becomes so exhausting in itself other thoughts start to rush through my head. Like, ” oh man, all of my professors assigned rediculously long assignments in a two day block and I only have one night to finish them… the gym will have to wait.” But then I only guilt myself because I know in the end, the idea that three papers (which I can easily bang out in a matter of a few hours) which are due tomorrow are sitting there waiting for me, will just prove to be too much stress, and therefore homework will win.

But in spirit of giving it everything I have, I am going to do it all. I will come home to have dinner with my sweet heart, wrap up my homework and then head to the gym for an evening work out. As an added bonus, I will take the dog for an extra long walk, that is, if she will actually walk and not stop and sniff, and try and attack all of the other neighborhood dogs. (Sometimes all the restraining her on our walks, feels like enough exercise for me and another person.)

This reminds me, I found out my gym offers zumba on Monday and Wednesday nights. It starts ten minutes after I get out of work, which is fantastic because I work right next door to my gym and even if I am late I can always join in …

Today’s mini goal is to make positive lunch decisions. There is a subway at work so it shouldn’t be too hard.. and they do salads as an option versus sandwiches so I should be okay. I am still trying to learn how to really read labels and know what is good for me and what is not good for me. I will be honest I have no idea how to read food labels except for to check if it has nuts in it or not.

Today will be a great day!

The intersection of being fat.

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:42:49 -0400

I would love to say with 100% honesty that I give everything I have to loosing weight and maintaining a healthy life style. I would also love to say that I am okay with being overweight. The truth is, neither is true. I do not love my body, I do not love my curvy-ness, and I don’t give much effort to loosing weight.

Let me start over and say that without a doubt I love food. Food is my ultimate weakness, and while most over-eaters can say without a doubt that they eat to fill voids, I can say without a doubt that I just love food. I always have, ever since I can remember. I love sweet things, and good hardy things. I especially have a weakness for things that make my body feel terrible, like ice cream. Ice cream is my kryptonite!

The hardest thing for me to do, is pass by the frozen section at the grocery store without giving a second glance over to the apartment of Ben and Jerry and while I am at it I might as well visit Bryers and chat it up, let them convince me which ones I should invite over to my place for a little r&r. While my efforts to release the cravings I have for ice cream have very much improved lately at the grocery store, it easily shifts to the perfectly delicious shakes that steak and shake (conveniently located just down the road) makes…. they send us coupons every week.

I have always struggled with my weight, and it has never been as much of a problem as it is now. I have always hated when doctors always attribute everything to my weight. None of it ever made any sense to me that everything I have wrong with me (and there is a lot!) could have anything whatsoever to do with my weight. With the fourty pounds I have put on over the last year, I think I am starting to see how it is sincerely affecting me.

This past spring I had everything lined up to finally get something I have been wanting for years. I had the money all saved up and was ready to go. The only thing standing in the way was a note from my physician giving me the go ahead. After some blood work and a thorough physical, it came back that my cholesterol was too high and I am 100 lbs over weight. So he refused to sign the letter for me. Until I can bring my cholesterol down at least 10 points and show that I am loosing at least some weight, he won’t write the letter.

Now I am unsure if another doctor would. I know there are guys that are bigger than me, and probably in worse shape than me who have had the procedure and so finding another doctor to sign might not be any problem. But perhaps my doctor is right. Perhaps I could be on a terrible down spiral.

But here in these last few weeks, I know that there’s nothing I want more than to be healthy. I would love nothing more than to know when I go to bed at night, I won’t wake up coughing something disgusting because of the things I put into my body that I really know shouldn’t be going into my body. And I would love to know that maybe some day I can have more control over food.

So I am about to take an extreme challenge. Not an impossible challenge, but for me this could be the most radical decision I have made.. (maybe not ever)..

I am giving myself 150 days (5 months) to not only bring my cholesterol down, but to also loose at least 80 lbs. I need to really focus on loosing the forty that I’ve gained over the last year, and then continuing to work past that for the additional forty.

In my adult life I have never really seen what its like to be below 200 lbs, and at only 5’3 I know that I really should be below that if I want to be at a healthier weight. I have signed up to do some personal training sessions, 30 sessions for $200, and my sweetheart brought me home a “yoga for beginners” dvd that I definitely plan on using, plus I got a $12 a month membership to the field house here in town, with access to a pool, indoor track and gym as well as indoor fields.

I give up on myself a lot. I don’t push myself nearly enough and I never give myself the support I need.

So here I go. I am giving this everything I have.

Cover King

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:34:00 -0400

So anyone who knows me, knows I have deep love for cover songs and also I have a soft spot for bad pop music… prime examples of great covers, Ryan Adams “Wonderwall” and Obadiah Parker “Hey Ya” … thus I think I may dedicate this “blog” to posting new covers I have discovered….

First up, this video is Bianca Giselle, covering Demi Lavatos “Sky Scraper” which I came across one day watching other covers… I had never actually heard the song before this cover.. i really really love it.. enjoy.

Princess

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:04:41 -0400

Princess

Fall is creeping in… this is no New England...

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:55:54 -0400

Fall is creeping in… this is no New England granted…

Berry’s… Sometimes I wish I were still in Nevada.

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:47:46 -0400

Berry’s… Sometimes I wish I were still in Nevada.

Getting used to this

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:06:29 -0400

I am still trying to figure out how to upload a user picture on here…