Well, Four days of going to the gym, and one hard night of drinking, and I've lost a total of 4 pounds! (Don't ask me if it's safe to lose that much in four days, but I did it.)
It's not healthy in theory, but as long as you're actually eating enough calories to maintain your bodily systems so you don't go into cardiac arrest or something, I wouldn't worry.
Well, Four days of going to the gym, and one hard night of drinking, and I've lost a total of 4 pounds! (Don't ask me if it's safe to lose that much in four days, but I did it.)
Yay, getting in shape.
Weighing yourself isn't an exact indicator of how much you've actually lost, since your weight will fluctuate quite a lot anyway. Personally I'd expect my weight to fluctuate by two to three pounds over the course of a day (though I also do strength training and consume a higher than average number of calories per day). You probably don't want to be weighing more often than once a week, and when you do it should be in the morning after using the bathroom and before having breakfast. As long as the numbers are trending downwards on average, it's all ok even if you have a week where you've "gained" weight. If you can see a difference that's a lot more important that what the scales say.
Also, diet - I'm not saying "go on a diet" because that's a totally idiotic notion, but you do need to take a look at what and how often you're eating. You can go to the gym as often as you like but if your eating habits are crap you're not likely to see the results you want.
So Facebook finally becomes useful to me. I locked up my eldritch pride and stored it in another dimension and called out to my acquaintances in said social network for assistance in locating a company that takes interns. Surprise surprise - the first person to respond was one of my video-game-loving friends, who pointed me to the company he worked for. Possible position: Game Programmer.
Facebook, this very interaction has redeemed you of years of being home to many many hilarious-yet-destructive-to-faith-in-humanity failbook screenshots.
Now of course, this will only stay as a rave if and only if my application is approved, both by the company and that of my university. I am crossing my non-Euclidean pseudopods in a rare human expression of 'hope'.
I'm waiting for the day when @Synbios and @Xenomorph get a syndicated talk show and no one can understand why because no one has any idea what they're talking about yet it still manages to reach #1 on the ratings and sticks around for like 10 years and then gets brought back when they're both old and crotchety to relive the glory days.
I don't know why I always insist on spelling Synbios - Synobis...
(Mhaldor's Next Top Model): Melodie says, "Get rekt scrubbbbb."
(Mhaldor's Next Top Model): You say, "Scrubbbssss."
(Mhaldor's Next Top Model): Trey says, "Austere was hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride, apparently."
@Antonius I actually started a "diet". Watching what I'm eating, taking in a certain amount of calories, just over enough to run my bodily systems on a hard day(2100-2400, depending on what I'm doing during each day). I've been trying to keep up on it, to be sure that I'm doing things safely and smart. Otherwise, all that work will be for naught. Though, today going to the gym again, and my body is beginning the screaming ouchie phase of going. May take a day off tomorrow, let my body recoup.
I'm waiting for the day when @Synbios and @Xenomorph get a syndicated talk show and no one can understand why because no one has any idea what they're talking about yet it still manages to reach #1 on the ratings and sticks around for like 10 years and then gets brought back when they're both old and crotchety to relive the glory days.
I don't know why I always insist on spelling Synbios - Synobis...
My mother is moving across the country, and called me in to help her get the house ready to sell/get her stuff ready for the move. I started on my childhood bedroom (which has become one of her storage rooms in the 7 years since I moved out) early on Thursday, and just finished up tonight. Let's just say that Goodwill and I are best buds now.
Not thinking about the fact that this is a 2 story, 4 bedroom house with a 2.5 car garage.... and that nothing has been done besides this room.... *clings to the rave*
I hate moving, and I've only had to move from like a single room to a two-bedroom apartment, and from that to yet another two-bedroom apartment, so I can't imagine what you have to do. Good luck.
As for my rave, my brother has been depressed while in Melbourne recently due to a combination of factors: feeling lonely, can't find work, stressed out from school etc. I got him to call me today, and we spent about an hour and a half talking, and ended it with him smiling again and hopefully feeling better about things. He means the world to me and I hate that I can't be there for him, but I am happy that at the very least, maybe I made him feel a little less alone for a while.
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I hate moving, and I've only had to move from like a single room to a two-bedroom apartment, and from that to yet another two-bedroom apartment, so I can't imagine what you have to do. Good luck.
As for my rave, my brother has been depressed while in Melbourne recently due to a combination of factors: feeling lonely, can't find work, stressed out from school etc. I got him to call me today, and we spent about an hour and a half talking, and ended it with him smiling again and hopefully feeling better about things. He means the world to me and I hate that I can't be there for him, but I am happy that at the very least, maybe I made him feel a little less alone for a while.
Melbourne gets a bit like that really. It's such a huge city with so many people in it, but you do feel like you're alone. I had that feeling when I was down there for a year, but I kinda liked it. My own little bubble. Hope all goes well for your brother and tell him to go hang out with new people in places he likes to frequent. Melbournians are a talkative, intellectual bunch if you know where to look. Just ask @Tvistor
"Faded away like the stars in the morning, Losing their light in the glorious sun, Thus would we pass from this earth and its toiling, Only remembered for what we have done."
I went to get food at Panera yesterday and the guy at the counter stopped me before I walked away and asked if I was the same "insert my name here" that TA'd his bio anthro class in winter.
He proceeded to tell me that I was a really awesome TA and a combination of me and the professor (who I adore) who taught it made what he thought was going to be a hell hole of a gen. ed. class really enjoyable and actually made him want to learn about it and want to study.
The good feels man, the good feels.
Apparently he also thought I knew so much and assumed I was a grad student. I guess I picked the right field? This is me justifying all this money I'm spending because I feel like I done chose good, I done chose good.
My real rave is about raves itself - I think people underestimate how awesome it is to just hear sometimes that your efforts are actually appreciated and noticed, it totally made my day and I have mad respect for people who actually realize this and tell people it.
(Mhaldor's Next Top Model): Melodie says, "Get rekt scrubbbbb."
(Mhaldor's Next Top Model): You say, "Scrubbbssss."
(Mhaldor's Next Top Model): Trey says, "Austere was hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride, apparently."
My mom and I are preparing for a yard sale, to be held either this weekend or next weekend. Try as we might, we just can't keep all of my dad's and grandma's stuff between us. This morning, I went over there for a bit, and we began the arduous process of sorting things out again...and I came home with three very awesome things:
A giant half-shell with an interior completely coated in mother-of-pearl
A cast-iron match holder in the shape of a fly
A vintage silver crucifix that belonged to my grandmother.
I only managed to snap a picture of the latter before my phone died, but I'm the most excited about it. My grandma was a devout Catholic, and she had this crucifix for decades. It hung on her wall, above her bed, for as long as my mom and I can remember. I'm not at all religious - I'm the very definition of agnostic - but the crucifix is a fabulous reminder of my grandma, and I'm glad to have it.
...It's also a little creepy, and I've hung it from the only nail in my apartment. In my hall closet. Surprise Jesus is guarding my shopping totes.
My avatar is an image created by this very talented gentleman, of whose work I am extremely jealous. It was not originally a picture of Amunet, but it certainly looks a great deal like how I envision her!
Kinda want a crucifix with a ridiculously buff Jesus on it now...
My avatar is an image created by this very talented gentleman, of whose work I am extremely jealous. It was not originally a picture of Amunet, but it certainly looks a great deal like how I envision her!
Was happily working away when a female jumping spider walked across my monitor at work. She was following my mouse around, and as I moved it, she would turn around, and if i moved it underneath her she jumped away. It was hilarious. Eventually i just made her spin around really fast until she fell off the screen. She spent another 20 minutes jumping between my monitors. Was amazing.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important
More vintage loot from Grandma's things. I have a hand-carved, wooden Madonna and a hand-carved, wooden, head of some dude who looks kind of like Mark Harmon in a sombrero, both from Brazil circa 1950, coming next week after we've had them appraised and cleaned up, but this fabulous costume necklace came home with me today, along with the badass lap desk on which it is pictured, and a 1944 (I think; they're a bit hard to date without the dust jacket or a copyright date) Bobbsey Twins book. It's in fairly rough condition, but it still has that intoxicating old book smell. Nothing is better than a book that has been well-loved.
My avatar is an image created by this very talented gentleman, of whose work I am extremely jealous. It was not originally a picture of Amunet, but it certainly looks a great deal like how I envision her!
Never been a fan of foot creams because I hate slimy feet. I've just found a foot cream that feels like slimy heaven and smells of minty goodness, and my feet would be sighing in pleasure if they were capable.
Also, I want to see @Dunn and @Jarrod have an avatar stare off. Pug verses kitty is an overdose of adorableness.
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Also, diet - I'm not saying "go on a diet" because that's a totally idiotic notion, but you do need to take a look at what and how often you're eating. You can go to the gym as often as you like but if your eating habits are crap you're not likely to see the results you want.
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Losing their light in the glorious sun,
Thus would we pass from this earth and its toiling,
Only remembered for what we have done."
- A giant half-shell with an interior completely coated in mother-of-pearl
- A cast-iron match holder in the shape of a fly
- A vintage silver crucifix that belonged to my grandmother.
I only managed to snap a picture of the latter before my phone died, but I'm the most excited about it. My grandma was a devout Catholic, and she had this crucifix for decades. It hung on her wall, above her bed, for as long as my mom and I can remember. I'm not at all religious - I'm the very definition of agnostic - but the crucifix is a fabulous reminder of my grandma, and I'm glad to have it.<a href='http://client.achaea.com?eid=ach809620794'><imgsrc='http://www.achaea.com/banner/chryenth.jpg' /></a>
Was happily working away when a female jumping spider walked across my monitor at work. She was following my mouse around, and as I moved it, she would turn around, and if i moved it underneath her she jumped away. It was hilarious. Eventually i just made her spin around really fast until she fell off the screen. She spent another 20 minutes jumping between my monitors. Was amazing.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important
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Also, I want to see @Dunn and @Jarrod have an avatar stare off. Pug verses kitty is an overdose of adorableness.