anonemouse

Awesome! Maybe they'll go bankrupt and go away, now.

Damn, I hope so, if it means that I can have your weight-loss success.

No, we haven't forgotten about 9/11. We just know that Saddam and Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.

Guinea pigs are cute, but I prefer cats. Although, the cats would probably prefer the guinea pigs! It's great that you get them from rescues, though. I'm a HUGE supporter of animal rescue groups. I think everyone should first go to either rescue groups or organizations such as the Humane Society before looking at breeders. You can find some amazing animals that people just toss away. I bought one of my cats from a local veterinarian (he'd been abandoned and I only had to pay for his first shots), but I've rescued the others. One showed up out of the blue at my dad's clinic, one was a feral that we trapped at my parents' house, and the other is one that someone had abandoned as a kitten at the city dump.

You should see the chihuahua that is my dad's clinic mascot (he's a vet). The worker who takes care of her is constantly making costumes for her. This Halloween, she was a tarantula. Last Halloween, she was a bumblebee. She's got tutus, coats, dresses. Even a WIG, for Pete's sake.

Especially when the person in question (typically an elderly person) wouldn't even be around anyway, most likely, if it were up to a so-called God. Between antibiotics and other advancements in health care, we've increased life expectancy. If it were up to a so-called God, we'd be dead at 35, probably.

Oh, I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a whiz at studying for the classes that I've taken myself. In most classes, I could get away with studying just a couple of hours before the exams and still make As and Bs on them. It's not hard when you are being tested on generalities and theories and crap. But specifics? That's another issue entirely. For most of this biology class, most of the students could probably get away with doing minimal studying. That wasn't the case with the section they were just tested over. They had to know the specifics of photosynthesis and respiration. All the little reactants, intermediates, and products and amounts of each, and all the steps in each reaction. Quite frankly, it was incredibly stupid of them to wait.

Since editing is hard, I'll continue my post here. Another thing about my Type A personality: Yep, I live in a pigsty, basically. Most of the time, anyway. I rarely clean, but when I do, I CLEAN. That's what drove me insane about my old roommate. She frequently cleaned, but she always half-assed it. Again, I believe that if you are going to do something, do it well or not at all.

Yep, that would be me, also. I frequently have problems with my classes because of it, in fact. If I feel that I can't pass a class, I don't even try. That's what made me fail my physics class, actually. And in terms of attendance, if I can't be there on time (or early, preferably), I don't go at all. I DESPISE it when people walk in late. I know it annoys me when people come in late, so I don't inflict my lateness on anyone else. I'm of the belief that if you are going to do something, do it well, even if you can't do it to the extent that you want to. Excuses bug the shit out of me, excuse my French. That's one of the things that kills me about my students. In certain situations, it doesn't matter how much you hate doing something or how much in inconveniences you, you've still got to do it, so you might as well do it with a smile on your face. I've flat-out told my students, "Quit the bitching and get on with it, because the more you bitch about it, the more you tempt me to make it even harder." I'm like Jachut, I guess. If you want to have a higher goal weight (in the overweight or obese categories), fine and dandy. Just don't pretend that it's somehow healthier than a lower goal weight.

Next time you have a craving for chocolate peanut butter stuff, try whey Gourmet Chocolate Peanut Butter protein mix. It actually tastes a little like Reece's cups. Well, to me anyway!

I had to chew that stuff until it was completely liquid before I could swallow it. And then I decided that one bite was more than enough for me.

Honestly, I think a lot of it is just that I'm not really that much of a snacker. Even before banding, I very rarely sat and ate potato chips or snack crackers, so it's hard to really get to where I want to eat that stuff now.

Has anyone talked to their doctor about this? Every summer, my family has basically a week-long reunion at a lake in Tennessee. One of the favorite activities is tubing behind a boat. Now, the way we do it, it's very rough. The whole intention is that the driver of the boat is trying to knock you off the tube, so he'll do just about anything within reason to do it (giant waves, sharp turns, knocking two tubes together, you get the picture). People have even gotten injured doing it. Why do we do it? It's a hell of a lot of fun. Now, obviously I wasn't able to participate this past summer, since I had just been banded for 3 weeks when the reunion rolled around, but I was wondering if it would be a good idea to do it next summer. When you come off the tube, you can land very hard, and there's a lot of bouncing on your stomach (I ride lying on my stomach). So, going back to tubing, starting next year, yea or nay?

Sadly, not really. The texture (oddly greasy) and aftertaste gets to me. Although, I think I'd eat a hundred of them before eating the bran stuff. That stuff literally tasted like saw dust. DRY sawdust, at that.

I live in Richmond, just south of Lexington.

Yep. I'm sure that even in the Victorian era, people from a generation or two back were completely shocked by the styles that were popular.

That's so great! A lot of the people here are incredible people that are really willing to help other people. For me, it's been WASaBubbleButt. We live across the country from each other (she's in Arizona and I'm in Kentucky), but she's been so helpful to me. We've shipped protein and other crap back and forth, and she's been such an inspiration. I'll probably make her blush when she reads this, LOL! :nervous

Yep, that's about it.

That's a relief. I think what I'm looking forward to more than actually being able to tube is being able to pull myself up on the tube from the Water. I haven't been able to do that for a few years.

Honestly, I doctor mine by avoiding it entirely. :guess The smell of it alone is enough to make me gag, literally.

He and his followers are basically the scum of the Earth, IMO. Utterly disgusting people that use their religious beliefs to excuse their bigotry. Christians, my fat white ass. Every single person that is raising their children in that church needs to be prosecuted for child abuse, child endangerment, something. It's not right.

Hey, I think moral society has improved, for the most part. It's no longer considered acceptable to call someone a "nigger" or a "faggot." It's no longer acceptable for a man to hit a woman or to rape his wife. It's no longer acceptable for a white person to tell a black person to go to the back of the bus. It's no longer acceptable to.... Well, I guess you get my point. See, I don't wish for us to be back in the old days, because I know what else happened in the old days. And today is a much better time, IMO. I think anyone who looks at society 50 or 100 years ago and calls it "moral" is just wearing blinders. Sure, people didn't talk as much about sex or drugs or whatever, but it still happened. Add that to everything else that was acceptable in society back then, and you get a society that was most definitely not moral. The most you could say for it is that it pretended to be moral.

To be honest, that's what I wonder every single time I see him. He flames just a tad too much for a straight guy, in my experience.

I can't watch the show because of him. He's just a tad too weird for me.

So far, I've tried the Parmesan Crisps, the bran stuff, and the Whey Gourmet chocolate.