Misc. Chat Thread - Jan. 2015
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Welcome Tara! This is such a great group -- I think you're going to like it a lot!
@MissHoliday -- My dog, who is medium sized, takes up 3/4 of the bed. No kidding. And if I shove him over, he growls at me. Good thing I love him so damn much. 0 -
MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »I woke up this morning squashed into this awkward position in the middle of the bed while my 8-lb cat slept peacefully in my spot with amble room. How do such things always happen?
This is why I don't allow any pets in our bedrooms! Our two cats and 60lb dog would take up all the room in our king sized bed.
I'm such a slug today. It was a snow day for my preschooler so I went out and bought mirrors for my home gym, came home and ate sushi for lunch. Took a nap on the couch (with the dog!). After shoveling some snow I am now enjoying some hot chocolate. Whatever. I'm going to enjoy today since I couldn't get any work done.0 -
@Sumiblue - see my latest status update. I'm right there with you! 0
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ages and ages ago i had this friend who was a wiccan priestess and registered gun-owner and fellow single parent. she was the most cheerfully sex-friendly person i've ever known, and i can remember at least one conversation with her that was full of the most gleefully graphic details i've ever sat through - not pornographic or anything but explicit as heck. 'omg lily, i got to have sex! and do you know what he did? he took his ... and he ... and then ...' and so forth.
well. i'm not going to say it's a matter that troubles me much, but i could tell it was a big deal for her. and she was so thrilled about the whole thing she just had to tell someone all about it, so i would have felt mean if i've tried to stop her. let's just say, i just deked out of work early and rode down a main strip i usually avoid, and i marched into the first 'wellness centre' that i came to and demanded a 'proper' massage. i got this little lacquered woman with hair much more perfect than mine, who did me an actual, real, hardcore deep-tissue massage with no prisoners taken and no discussions. i feel like my friend, it was such a revelation to me.
i've always hesitated to pay for massage, because most of the time i seem to get kinds of people who believe you can cure pissed-off attitudinal muscles by waving incense at them and talking in a hushed tone over the sound of zarking harp/bell music. this woman did what i've always wanted somebody to do. she just rolled up her sleeves and beat the crap out of them. i bought a block of five sessions right on the spot, once she was finished with me.0 -
@Canadian -- First, I'm so glad. I think you really are going to find it will work wonders.
Second, I wasn't sure where this was going after the first paragraph and then the introduction of he massage "wellness center" in the second.
(I think I need to start going to church or something. Mind is all in the gutter lately.)0 -
MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »I woke up this morning squashed into this awkward position in the middle of the bed while my 8-lb cat slept peacefully in my spot with amble room. How do such things always happen?
The things we let slide because they are so darn cute and snuggly! lol. I'll often wake up with my male cat by my head (I'm *his* hooman, he needs to make sure I keep breathing and all! lol) and the female by my feet (or in between, or anywhere that is riiight up against me so much so that I kick her or roll over on top of her. They will also take turns every night climbing on my lap while I'm sitting watching tv shows or whatnot. They're good company ^^
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AbsoluteTara79 wrote: »Hi everyone! I'm Tara - from Minnesota, 35yo, with about 20lbs to lose. I've been using MFP off/on for a year - with more commitment starting last month. I just starting lurking into the community recently. The main forums seem a little interesting at times.
Anyway, my littlest just turned a year (motivator to finally get my butt in shape) and I joined a gym for the first time since having kids. I decided to start a SL 5x5. Even in my prior gym-going days I avoided free weights so a lot of this is new to me and I'm looking forward to a group that I can count on for questions/advice.
Welcome to the group! Hopefully you like it here If you have any question at all don,t be afraid to ask! And here's to your lifting (and life) success! Cheers! (well I'll be damned they removed the drinking emote 
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(I think I need to start going to church or something. Mind is all in the gutter lately.)
well, uh. my uproarious friend was having a certain amount of trouble finding suitable people to fool around with . . . we strategized a lot about that problem and actually church was one of her principal places to fish for chances.
update on the massage thing. it was a traditional chinese type of place, accupressure and acupuncture and qi gong and so forth . . . and she wanted to 'cup' me. so i let her; i mean why not. sceptical person is sceptic about all that negative-energy talk, but she sure as heck knew what muscles to look for and what to do about them. and i kind of enjoyed the weird feeling of it if nothing else.
except i just pulled up my shirt and turned my back to the mirror just now and aaackk!! i'm covered with giant round purple splotches. looks like i went nine rounds with the giant squid from jules verne.
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canadianlbs wrote: »we strategized a lot about that problem and actually church was one of her principal places to fish for chances.
ps. she had some impeccable logic or other for it, but i was too busy laughing myself into a syncope to remember what they were now.
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often wake up with my male cat by my head (I'm *his* hooman, he needs to make sure I keep breathing and all! lol)
ohhh, our little russian used to do that. i kind of see it as her only flaw that she was never one of those cave-cats who like to get right INTO your bed and go to sleep right up next to your skin. and as an adult i turn out unable to tolerate anything dragging on my bedding from outside it.
but if i slept during the daytime she did used to set up about 2 inches away from my face, on my pillow. i could kid myself that it was caretaking, but it wasn't. she was watching my every facial twitch waiting for the magic moment when i would feed her her daily allowance of [disgusting] wet food. times when i wasn't working and was at home during the day, she'd begin that vigil at around 1pm.
i miss her, in fact i guess i just miss having a cat. there's just nothing quite like the feel of a lap full of cat.
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I miss having kitties, but my hubby is so allergic and it makes his asthma really hard to deal with, so when my last kitty died we didn't get a new one.
My cat Velcro was so strange, he went blind when he was about five and it was kind of interesting to see him navigate his way around the house. He would miss place himself every once in a while so you had to carry him to his food dish or he would just walk around randomly making this sad, lost kitty noise.
I miss my kitty....
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canadianlbs wrote: »ohhh, our little russian used to do that. i kind of see it as her only flaw that she was never one of those cave-cats who like to get right INTO your bed and go to sleep right up next to your skin.
Huck does this. He goes in head first, so I get to snuggle with his butt.
He's got an adorable butt, thankfully. And it's sweet to have him rest his little head on my legs, and he warms me up when it's cold. 0 -
So I went skating yesterday. It was a nice way to get some activity in but more than that it was so nice to spend some time just with my son. I think it was probably the first time since my daughter was born that I left Amelia with someone and just spent a couple of hours with him. Definitely something I need to do more of.0
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Feeling a little anxious about this coming week. It's time to get into a real routine, which means library in the mornings, and then either class, workouts, or other appointments in the afternoons. I'm only sitting in on classes, not taking for credit since I've finished my coursework requirements, so my only real job this semester is writing my thesis. I'm not great at self-directed study, so it's going to be really important to get myself into a good routine -- which means out of the house. So, next week is kind of a dry run since the semester doesn't officially start until the 20th.
I'm trying to think about it as an experiment for these first three weeks or so. That way I don't have to think of any part of the schedule as permanent, but I do have to give it enough of a chance to see what works and what doesn't. I'm hoping this will trick my brain a bit and keep me from feeling overwhelmed.
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I think I just accepted a friend request from a Beach Body coach (or has similar intentions).
All of her status updates so far are advice that come across as very authoritative, even though her profile appears to be brand new and she has no forum posts. Curious to see how this goes -- I don't think she's going to like me much.
I give it a week.0 -
I think I just accepted a friend request from a Beach Body coach (or has similar intentions).
All of her status updates so far are advice that come across as very authoritative, even though her profile appears to be brand new and she has no forum posts. Curious to see how this goes -- I don't think she's going to like me much.
I give it a week.
is it awful of me to be checking to make sure i've got lots of popcorn stockedpiled?
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canadianlbs wrote: »I think I just accepted a friend request from a Beach Body coach (or has similar intentions).
All of her status updates so far are advice that come across as very authoritative, even though her profile appears to be brand new and she has no forum posts. Curious to see how this goes -- I don't think she's going to like me much.
I give it a week.
is it awful of me to be checking to make sure i've got lots of popcorn stockedpiled?
I'd be disappointed if you did anything else.
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40 minutes later....
Earlier today, she posted something about keeping a journal about foregoing food you shouldn't have (chips, soda, etc.) so you could look back and be proud of all the bad foods you didn't eat.
I replied that any food is fine as long as it fits your macros and calories goals, and that I try not to vilify food.
She says she wasn't vilifying food.
And then she deleted me!
BAHAHAHAHAHA!
C.
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whoa. twitchy much?
sigh. i always try to steer clear of people who give me the vibe that their one central mission in life is to dole out advice. i never seem to get along well with them.0 -
canadianlbs wrote: »whoa. twitchy much?
sigh. i always try to steer clear of people who give me the vibe that their one central mission in life is to dole out advice. i never seem to get along well with them.
I feel the same way, but since I couldn't see her posts until after I accepted, it couldn't be helped. And I was going to at least give her the benefit of the doubt (and a week) rather than deleting her immediately. I wouldn't want you to think I was twitchy.
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I wouldn't want you to think I was twitchy.
not you, silly. it kind of sounds probable she was preaching to a very different kind of choir. . . and also if she's a 'coach' the whole thing was probably some kind of career/networking/client-fishing move.
so, basically, she cold-called you and then decided you're not worth the time investment
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Feeling a little anxious about this coming week. It's time to get into a real routine
i hate the feeling that grows on me in the week running up to a new contract. doesn't matter how much i might want the contract or like the look of the site or need the money, i just hate having to develop/apply new routines. it's a form of 'unknown' that i really don't deal too well with, so there's always anxiety in it somewhere.
plus, introvert. i think it's really about that more than anything concrete like fear that i'm going to screw up. inside my own head is where i'm most comfortable. being out there in the not-me real world . . . i can DO it, but it's not my natural temperamental habitat. it came to me at some point a while back that a certain amount of that anxiety/reluctance i always feel about change is nothing more than me knowing i'm going to lose huge chunks of my private quiet time. it's like setting out into the desert and knowing you probably won't die but you're going to be very very thirsty a lot of the time. and you won't know when or for how long because it's new turf so you don't know yet where the water points are.Wish me luck!
i do.
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I'm also feeling anxious about the coming weeks.I've procrastinated starting a huge project and now I need to be working on it. I have an outline for myself of what to do when for every day this week but the universe has other ideas. School was canceled again today. My 3 yr old is home so no work for me. And my husband will be out of town Thurs-Friday. Did I also mention that he gets to go to London twice between January and March? Ugh. Anyway, I wish you all luck with your endeavors.0
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MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »I woke up this morning squashed into this awkward position in the middle of the bed while my 8-lb cat slept peacefully in my spot with amble room. How do such things always happen?
This is why I don't allow any pets in our bedrooms! Our two cats and 60lb dog would take up all the room in our king sized bed.
I'm such a slug today. It was a snow day for my preschooler so I went out and bought mirrors for my home gym, came home and ate sushi for lunch. Took a nap on the couch (with the dog!). After shoveling some snow I am now enjoying some hot chocolate. Whatever. I'm going to enjoy today since I couldn't get any work done.
I would miss them though. Plus they'd beat on the door
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I think I just accepted a friend request from a Beach Body coach (or has similar intentions).
All of her status updates so far are advice that come across as very authoritative, even though her profile appears to be brand new and she has no forum posts. Curious to see how this goes -- I don't think she's going to like me much.
I give it a week.
Stay tuned for sweaty shakeology selfish and pseudoscience! I'm jealous. I love those crazy people.0 -
@MissHolidayGolightly, our pets wait outside our door for any sign of wakefulness. If we roll over in bed or sneeze, like I did this morning, the whining starts. Not just the dog, either. Our cats have the most annoying plaintive cry. When we open the door they are all there, including our 3 yr old. I haven't slept past 6:30 in sooo long!0
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i'm slowly collecting the feeling i don't really like this job much. this morning i kind of nailed down the real thing that feels like it's missing. the other people on this team are all pleasant enough (well, two of the other three are) . . . but they don't have any personality. to they're pleasant and all of that, but . . .
that's it. i'm slowly developing a long-term case of personality deficiency through my workplace.0 -
@MissHolidayGolightly, our pets wait outside our door for any sign of wakefulness. If we roll over in bed or sneeze, like I did this morning, the whining starts. Not just the dog, either. Our cats have the most annoying plaintive cry. When we open the door they are all there, including our 3 yr old. I haven't slept past 6:30 in sooo long!
I know how you feel. If I disturb my one cat, she thinks its time to eat. My husband has an alarm for 6 to feed them so they don't badger us. The kicker is, they don't even eat that much. Take a few bites then they're off running around. I guess they just like the routine, jerks.
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canadianlbs wrote: »i'm slowly collecting the feeling i don't really like this job much. this morning i kind of nailed down the real thing that feels like it's missing. the other people on this team are all pleasant enough (well, two of the other three are) . . . but they don't have any personality. to they're pleasant and all of that, but . . .
that's it. i'm slowly developing a long-term case of personality deficiency through my workplace.
I'm stealing the term Personality Deficiency (PD). That's gold.
There are so many factors that make work enjoyable, even from one day to the next. Personal stuff, other peoples' personal stuff, personalities (or lack thereof), the specific project, the weather... Some days I'm like, "This is cool, I enjoy this," and then others I'm like, "Is this srsly adulthood?"0 -
canadianlbs wrote: »i'm slowly developing a long-term case of personality deficiency through my workplace.
Not possible. Just not.
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man, this developer's just so much hard work. i spent a whole day in the office with him today because the two others were out, and i feel bludgeoned.
THREE HOURS we spent on a nitpicky little thing he just wouldn't let go, where as far as i could tell it didn't even matter in any functional sense any more whether i agreed with him or not, and where i'd already said i would throw the decision across to his side, and where i kept saying i'd just been commenting in an advisory capacity and no longer cared, where i progressed to saying i no longer wanted to spend time on it, and where he himself couldn't come up with a good reason for him to keep harping on it . . . and yet he still harped.
i'm good with devs and stubborn people and big wrestling matches. i'm not saying that to brag since it takes a big bite out of me, but usually i can eventually feel like a good clean fight was had on both sides and eventually some form of respect comes of it. this guy doesn't even have enough personality that i can declare him an *kitten* and adjust to those terms. he's just cognitive abuse on two legs.
maybe something good will come of it. because usually i manage to use fairly generic language in conducting these things, but with this guy i found myself saying stuff that doesn't usually come into my head. like 'what i don't want is to keep getting hauled into a room every week or ten days, and made to listen to you telling me for another two or three hours why you disagree, because i know why you disagree.' and 'listen, i know you guys wanted me to do this in addition to what i came here to do, and i'll do it, but only up to a point. because if you make it too hard for me, then i've always got the option of saying use cases aren't my domain and confining myself to what i'm really supposed to be doing in here.'0
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