batalina Member

I'm 29 and vegan for 6 years, always looking for new vegan buddies, especially with open diaries because it helps inspire me and give me new ideas!

when in doubt, i'll go for the smallest package of relatively plain nuts i can find!

i have a really negative view of these products after a friend started selling them. Her instagram feed went from fun pictures of her life to just promotional pictures of the products. we didn't talk that much online, but she started sending me a bunch of messages about specials they're doing. like, ok, i thought i had a…

the point is that time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

pagan/wiccan thingy, here. mainly focus on egyptian deities, but every so often one from another pantheon attracts my attention.

in re: does making mistakes make you not-vegan, to me, a lot of it is in the intent. if you eat something you reasonably think is vegan and find out later that it wasn't, that's just a learning experience, and i don't think that makes you less vegan. i recently ate cheese in a taco bell burrito because they gave me a…

mine's open, i'm a junk-food vegan (hoping to be a non-junk-food vegan once i get myself back under control, i'm currently coming off a recent long crazy-eating spree)

when i saw pictures from my sister-in-law's baby shower, and i looked for myself in them, and couldn't find myself... because i didn't recognize myself as being that fat. but i was that fat. i had a similar thing happen more recently, but in reverse : i went to the county fair with my family, and my dad took a bunch of…

it's something i'd like to get into, but i just don't know where to start. i had a corset from timeless trends (but i got too small for it and gave it away), but it didn't seem like a "serious" corset , i'd just wear it when i was being fancy. it was not incredibly expensive -- that's a lot of it, for me, i don't have the…

i am told by a friend who works at trader joe's that their whole wheat pasta has won awards and stuff. i've had it and it IS really good, so i definitely reccomend it. i also like the whole wheat pasta from target's house brand, market pantry... as weird as that sounds. but yeah, basically it's just more nutritious.…

i've still got the fat girl mentality. the fact that certain clothes don't fit the way they would if i'd never been big is part of it, i think -- i'm not fat anymore, but i still have trouble wearing not-fat clothes... so that must still mean i'm fat, right? (can't a sista get a pair of jeans that comes up to her waist???)…

my ANKLE! after i got my ankle tattoo (which is a unicorn... you should have seen the looks i got when i walked into the shop and asked for a unicorn on my ankle...), i felt TERRIBLE for having ever judged someone who "just" had an ankle tattoo. oh god, it hurt. i think it was worse than my elbow and worse than my fleshy,…

am i, as a rock-n-roller, under some obligation to like popular music? most of what i listen to is not current. i am very into classic rock. most of the rest of what i listen to is current but not incredibly mainstream. i'm ok with that. i am secure in my ability to function as a part of society without clinging to what's…

same here -- if it's not a single-serve unit or package, i am probably weighing it before it goes in my face!

i do not know, but i am posting so that i may lurk in this thread, as i have wondered the same

i can see from your missing of my point that i'd be in way over my head if i tried to explain it to you. ETA: this response was to your last post before you edited it.

if someone got plastic surgery to look exactly like you, wouldn't you be a little weirded out?

i describe myself as a "compulsive diarist"; i always seem to be writing in my journal. i write in cursive almost exclusively, and i write with fountain pens. i used to print with cheap ballpoints, but i press very hard with those pens, and i began to get the most terrible hand and arm strain, so i switched to fountain…

i think the weirdest thing i ever binged on was earth balance (vegan butter) and nutritional yeast. i had a fork, and i'd get little bits of the earth balance on it, and then i'd dip it in the nutritional yeast to coat it, and then i'd eat it. repeatedly.

once when i ws a kid, my aunt and uncle gave my family a gift basket that included a jar of nutella. i ate the whole thing. with a spoon. ever since, the smell has turned my stomach a little :sick:

if i were you, i would just be very careful not to get my face in the water. a couple of weeks after i got a monroe piercing last year, i went to a friend's pool party, and intended to try my very best not to get my face in the water... but other guests soon began splashing and pushing peoples' heads under, so the piercing…

i had this same problem this evening, and i'm a new runner so i can't speak from experience, but i am going to get a hat soon, with a brim -- apparently, there are special running hats? -- and hope that helps. wearing, like, a baseball cap helps if you just happen to be outside when it's raining, so i figure something…

my now-husband, then-boyfriend and i went to the mall because he wanted to try to get me a certain style of bracelet he'd been talking about getting for me. i forget how he arranged this, but he got me to stop tagging along with him and start looking around at other stores by myself. so i did, and a little bit later, we…

mine's one of Arthur Rackham's illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, because i'm obsessed with the Alice books. i use that illustration in a lot of different places -- it's the wallpaper on my phone, my icon on some other forums, stuff like that. i like that particular illustration because it's from near the…

i've got a few... the batwings (july 2004) were my first tattoo, and the moon-lady (november 2006) was my fourth. batwings and moon-lady by ash-k, on Flickr crappy webcam picture, but the eyes of horus on the fronts of my shoulders were my second tattoo. May 2005. eyes of horus tattoo by ash-k, on Flickr my third tattoo,…

i haven't had a panic attack in a long time, but i have OCD and, if nothing else, when i'm working out my brain doesn't seem to get stuck in the little obsessive-y ruts than can lead me into full-blown anxiety... it's half-an-hour or however-long that i'm free from it, it seems.

i will have to try that leg-lifting move! thank you so much!

i have the "flab apron" too... it's only gotten worse as i've lost weight, because now the skin just hangs :sad: mine's hereditary, too.

and for short-waisted people like me, the level of the navel IS JUST BELOW the ribcage!

i, too, have the double-belly... i'm short-waisted and have an hourglass shape, for what it's worth. never had kids, just gained a lot of weight very fast as a pre-teen because of some medication i was on. i kind of like the segmented middle-body look... if you look at pictures of, say, Bettie Page, you'll see that if she…