User:	mandy6488
	Date:	2009-12-30 23:54
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This is the last time I will eat Wendys' for a long time.. this is the last time I will cry driving home from anywhere for a long time.


I deserve better. I will have better. No more of this.

	User:	mistresscolleen
	Date:	2009-12-29 22:11
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I just got home from dog sitting for my ex's mom. My friend Connie :)

When Connie got home, she said had a fight with him and he says he disowns them... if i gave a damn about my ex id slap him... he works FOR HIS PARENTS! lol

	User:	im_not_real
	Date:	2009-12-29 00:42
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I'm surprised so many of my former LJ friends have canceled and closed their journals.

I don't view this as a trend, it's my freaking life, ya know? I've got nearly a decade of memories on here.

Speaking of, I need to look into backing up the past 9 years.

I like full paragraphs though. Texting and the newer social networking sites are totally sucking the fun out of written online communication. Everything has to be so concise and to the point. There's no space for long rambling eccentric rants.....borrrrrrrrrrrrrring!

back to the Rosanne block on nick-at-nite.

	User:	streetsounds
	Date:	2009-12-27 11:21
	Subject:	Breasts and Thighs and Hearts.
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Starting, as usual, with Jake, this soothing song drifted to the top of my conscious mind.

	User:	mikachubelle
	Date:	2009-12-26 18:57
	Subject:	I know I'm late with this and all but...
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Merry Christmas!

We had one of the most calm and entertaining holidays we have had in a few years. Everyone was chilled out and there was to much food and tons of laughter! Hope they can continue to be like that and hope everyone else had a happy christmas too!

	User:	mistresscolleen
	Date:	2009-12-25 23:22
	Subject:	hungover hangover
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Eating eggs the morning after provides energy like any other food, which is the primary benefit. But eggs do also contain large amounts of cysteine, the substance that breaks down the hangover-causing toxin acetaldehyde in the liver's easily depleted glutathione. Therefore, eggs can potentially help mop up the left-over toxins.

	User:	mistresscolleen
	Date:	2009-12-25 21:47
	Subject:	mmm dinner !
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For dinner tonight i made bucatini rigati with sauteed onions and pan cooked scallops MMM! and washin it down with some cherry Bawls

	User:	mistresscolleen
	Date:	2009-12-24 13:38
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I just cant get squee over christmas.

	User:	im_not_real
	Date:	2009-12-24 01:21
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You know,

All of the mac vs pc propaganda created by apple's ad campaign does have a ton of merrit when I really think about it.

PCs aren't very user friendly, they don't follow common sense. It's not that hard when you do some research and figure it out, but the whole reason the I.T. field has so many people employed is because people have a hard time navigating the interface of the windows based PC in general.

Put it this way, the problem i've had in working in the I.T. field is the extreme amount of cockiness/shitty people skills/ condescending attitudes my former co-workers had. Part of the reason could be because i'm on their level and i'm expected to know this stuff, but i've seen them treat end users (some of you guys, the general public) the same way.

Apple tries to help out the regular everyday computer user. They try and make things easier. That part I like. But the luxury brand they label themselves with is a big turn off.

Most people just want to download music and movies, web browse, check email and dick around with photos and video. The cost of a mac over a pc is simply too much for a large swath of the population. Now if that's apple's intention and target market, that's fine.

But if they really wanted to get ahead, they could stop overpricing their product and truly cut into the microsoft monopoly by offering something for the rest of us who don't have 1,000 - 3,000 dollars to blow on a computer. Something besides the mac mini.

end rant :)

	User:	mistresscolleen
	Date:	2009-12-23 18:57
	Subject:	opinions please
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what is your opinion of people who tuck tshirts into gym pants ?(not the gathered ankle sweat pants of yore)

	User:	im_not_real
	Date:	2009-12-23 02:53
	Subject:	insomnia a.d.d. theater.
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I know that we really don't know what happens when we die.

fear of death is the driving engine behind all religion.

It's such a fun debate though, there's so many points of view to have on it.

Maybe I should study world religions.

this thread's interesting:

http://www.sportbikes.net/forums/politics-religion/426101-why-do-christians-ignore-reality-3.html

i'll have to keep reading up on it later. This guy had a good clarification:" Why single out Christians? Why not title the post "Why do ALL religions ignore reality" reality = aka what the author of the post deems as reality. such a good headline! good forum skills, stranger.

	User:	leiju
	Date:	2009-12-22 13:15
	Subject:	two sides of a coin
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It's strange to feel so split up between two places...

I don't want to leave my cosy little room, my little Cambridge cave, my little space filled with my self and my own little mess...
Yet in a few weeks I'll be sad to leave my gorgeous apartment in Luxembourg, sad to leave all that space and the warmth that pours in through the ample windows...

My Heart is happy in both places and always sad to leave both.
Never before have I felt so at home in two places, and so lovingly torn between the different selves both feed within me.

	User:	streetsounds
	Date:	2009-12-21 16:09
	Subject:	The late great Jake Thackray.
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I have been listening to Jake quite a lot over the last few days, musing as to how a song written for an inner-city Leeds school nativity play ended up being covered by a (good) Elvis impersonator living in Alabama. There are no decent Jake renditions online so I won't do a compare and contrast. He used to write songs and perform to order on TV programs. Loads of his stuff was never recorded in a studio. He just sang to the audience and camera, and the BBC kept, or released, the recording as they saw fit. Here is an example.

	User:	bunglespice
	Date:	2009-12-19 23:43
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Oh, yes...chapter five will be written.
Good luck finding it!

	User:	im_not_real
	Date:	2009-12-19 16:34
	Subject:	the starvation mode myth
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Anyone feel like debating the ridiclious amounts of mis-information about "starvation mode" that's out there on the web?

The truth about starvation mode

http://fattyfightsback.blogspot.com/2009/03/mtyhbusters-starvation-mode.html

Sometimes I drop my caloric intake to below 1000 calories a day, not always on purpose, I just don't get around to eating. I usually don't do this for too long, no more than 2-3 days at a time, then I usually force myself to feast on something. (i'm talking about caloric intake here, not nutritional value which I def need to work on)

Some people warn me about "oh no, your body will go into starvation mode if you do that!" then when I read the message boards out there, I see why they think that. It's everywhere, at least the wrong interpretation of it is.

usually, about a week or so after these light eating days my weight will have droped by 2 lbs or so, someitmes 3. I then resume my normal eating habits and *gasp* i don't gain back all the weight I lost. At least not until I enter pig out mode and start woofing down cheese-steaks and chicken wings again.

The debate is, supposedly your body goes into "starvation mode" after only a few days and you'll gain all your weight back because your body's operating at a much slower metabolic rate.

This urban legend was spawned by the following study:

"It started with the famous Minnesota starvation study. Some normal-weighted men agreed to live on a compound where their exercise and diet was strictly controlled. For portions of the study, they were on a "starvation diet" which is defined as 50% of the calories your body needs to function."

this study went on for months and months, it takes quite a long time for your body to fall into this survival mode, or a much more fitting name "famine response"

In the worst case scenario, after 6 months your body's metabolism can slow by as much as 40% if you were to eat less than 50% of your required calories per day.... so if you were to resume your caloric intake as it were before you reduced it for those 6 months, then yes you'd have significant weight gain. In that situation you'd have to slowly eat more and more until your body got back up to speed. But, that study does say weight loss didn't stop until they reached 5 or 6% body fat, because even though their metabolic rate had slowed it still didn't off-set the calorie deficit.

But the short-term, one or two day fasting sessions aren't as something to be concerened about as people make it out to be. If you're only doing a reduced intake for a few weeks, it does slow your metabolism down but not by 40%...maybe 10-20% tops. Still not enough to offset your deficit.

And besides, think about our history as a species. We didn't always eat 3 meals a day, every day. There were times when we had to hunt in the wilderness and load up on food at once, then go days before we ate again. I'm not saying that's what we should be doing, but I am saying our bodies can handle it without any severe long term effects.

Although for people who aren't severely overweight like me, who just are just on the cusp of the idea weight/moderately overwweight border, fasting or not eating for a few days does affect your muscle mass greatly. On a heavier person, their body pulls from their excess surplus of fat cells for energy, on smaller people, the muscle and lean tissue does tend to go faster.

But if you're not an athlete or on a weightlifting team..meh. big whoop!

Now that i've wasted 30 mins of my Saturday defending supposedly risky weight loss techniques, i'll finsih up by saying that cutting your caloric intake by a modest amount over the long term along with excersise period is still the best method. This rant was just to defuse the allged "starvation mode" your body SUDDENLY goes into after just 48 hours, which I know from personal experience just isn't true.

The problem with excersiing when you're on a tight food budget is it really does kick up your appatite a notch. I prefer to remain on the lower calorie intake/slightly lower metabolic rate method until things look up. Or the "tightning your belt" idiom which has been literally true for me this year.

	User:	mistresscolleen
	Date:	2009-12-17 06:22
	Subject:	its 622 am i almost laughed outloud
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