I stopped drinking that stuff years ago. :) It's pretty easy really. You just have to decide not to.
I drink a LOT of tea and coffee though!
…I could give those up, but then I'd have to eat… I'm too lazy to eat. -_-
it's easier to do this when you live on your own/buy your own groceries. i still occasionally get a sprite whenever i go out to eat. but i try to get tea or other non carbonated drinks. ———–
ran a personal best of 34:14 for my four miles. i was still kindof upset, because i ran the first mile slightly faster than i wanted to pace, and the second mile was a full minute slower than i wanted to pace, so i had to spend the next 2 miles playing catchup. which isnt fun.
So i've been trying to cut soda out of my diet which…hasn't been going so well. I switched to coke cherry zero but i highly doubt the zero calorie thing really means it's better, doesn't taste bad though.
Completely cutting soda out of your diet REALLY helps. It's just incredibly hard. I used to be able to drink a 2-liter a day, easy.
As soon as you quit, you'll start wanting one, worse, and worse, and eventually, you may give in. The last time I had one was Monday, but that's because there was nothing else (it was diet, too).
But it helps you to have more energy, and to lose weight. Believe me.
All I drink now is, coffee, tea, and water (milk too)
I noticed that I can't drink soda with artificial sweeteners. If I drink soda with sugar (one of mid-priced "something cola" brands, there's no way I'm paying for coke if a can of it costs as much as 2L bottle of this cheap stuff) and happen to empty a 2L bottle in one day, I'll just pee it out, no problem… If I drink the "fake sugar" stuff, I feel pain in my side.
Just in case, I cut down on soda entirely. I live on tea and water + occasional tomato or apple juice (and even more occasional this aronia/strawberry/apple juice mix that they sometimes have at the supermarket).
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Living location… I live in a city of roughly 125k people and well… it's not that hard to get a flat or a house… if you can afford one. I can't… maybe if I get to the point where I sell few hundred books a month then I could save up some money or perhaps I could do a sort of a trade-off. My brother takes his wife's parents to this flat, while I get their small two room flat couple of blocks away. But they won't agree unless I have steady income, and I usually don't.
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speaking of books… I started to notice that my writing starts to drift away from the original plot. This is kinda worrisome, as so far sticking to the short point-by-point outline served me quite well and at this point I can feel my sense of goal (specific ending I had in mind) is somewhat wavering. I'll probably have to stop, reread what I wrote, reread my notes and draft a new list of events.
ozone: It seems to me like you're dismissing the possibility that I might have an actual problem because of my age. You know almost nothing of my situation, but since "all teens hate their parents" you are trying to tell me that my mother is just like any other and I should just cool off. I appreciate you trying to help, in your way, but it feels pretty shitty not to be taken seriously about an issue like that.
I stopped drinking that stuff years ago. :) It's pretty easy really. You just have to decide not to.
it's easier to do this when you live on your own/buy your own groceries.
Exactly, my family suck this stuff up so fast there's a box of coke, dr. pepper and cherry coke zero in the fridge beckoning me. It's like trying to quit smoking in a house full of people blowing cigarette smoke everywhere.
I did quit a few years back for a few months, started up again when there was nothing left in the fridge to drink but coke (i hate faucet water)
So today I was going over what it was like to be fat and my eating habits, and I remembered a whole host of little recipes I used to have that make me gag at the thought today, So I dedicate this thread to horrible fatfuck recipes, and I'll kick it off with a drink I used to consume regularly before I wised up and lost 80lbs, I called it the PB&J milkshake.
I'd wait til a tub of peanut butter was half gone, pic related, one of the big ones, top it up to 3/4 full with jelly, and then fill the rest with milk, a lot of stirring and shaking later I would carry the jar around the house and drink it.
lawd knows how many calories that was. Lawd knows. I can't be the only one who did shit like that, post yours.
My mom and I now have the stomach flu. I felt fine this morning. Up until about…6th hour, then I started feeling sick. My mom apparently came home early. Ugh. I don't feel like doing anything right now. But I have to memorize a whole page and a half of words for my 5th hour Performing Arts class (it's like Drama).
And I want to get the last page done for this part of the chapter. ;-;
I wish it were that easy for me to lose weight as just cutting pop out. My metabolism is so slow that 1500 calories a day is probably too much for my system to actually use all of it. I always try to cut back on what I eat, but 9 times out of 10 I have to eat on the run because of how tight my schedule ends up being so I always end up eating crap. It probably doesn't help that I live in a family of people with extremely fast metabolisms who are serious foodies. As Skullbie said, it's like trying to quit smoking when the whole house is lighting up.
I finally found myself some space to work. Granted, it's out in the back shed so I have to share the little space with a bunch of junk, and it has no cooling or power, but it's a space to work in! :D I can improve the power situation and probably find a way to do something cheap about the cooling issue, so I'm just stoked to have a private place to disappear to and work on things. This whole "living in a spare bedroom/storage room with nowhere to work" was seriously fraying my nerves. I rely on art to keep me de-stressed and calm.
Only 24 pages today. (I write today even though it's 6am and I have yet to go to bed but whatever).
Is that bad? Nope, pretty good actually. Still above the 20 pages I set up as my schedule (11 days x 20 pages = 220 pages, so I'm 54 pages ahead of that), but I noticed that my "list of events" that I use for scene progression started to be incompatible with what I was writing… so I did a new one, that includes all changes made to the story on the fly. With the revised plotline, I should still be able to fit below 600 pages.
I noticed big difference in the speed of my writing before and AFTER I did the new list. It appears I can write fastest when I have a clear goal (read the next point on the list) but the story is open for interpretation.
It's fucking hot. And the fucking BNP are suddenly using WWII imagery on their stupid pamphlets, because apparently we were on Hitler's side during that war.
Oh right, I forgot. The BNP aren't Nazi's at all. No, they just have the same ideals entirely by coincidence.
It's fucking hot. And the fucking BNP are suddenly using WWII imagery on their stupid pamphlets, because apparently we were on Hitler's side during that war.
Oh right, I forgot. The BNP aren't Nazi's at all. No, they just have the same ideals entirely by coincidence.
Good to know it's not just me who thinks this entire fucking BNP campaign is ridiculous.
*googles BNP* *first words that come up are 'far-right' and 'whites-only'
Alrighty then.
So my cat is now on this 20$ bag cat food called innova, the ingredients look super healthy and at least now her hairball puking won't stain my carpet. She likes it though, gotta mix in bit by bit with her old food so she doesn't get the runs.
It's fucking hot. And the fucking BNP are suddenly using WWII imagery on their stupid pamphlets, because apparently we were on Hitler's side during that war.
Oh right, I forgot. The BNP aren't Nazi's at all. No, they just have the same ideals entirely by coincidence.
Good to know it's not just me who thinks this entire fucking BNP campaign is ridiculous.
Holy crap, I just looked that up. Wtf. EVERYONE should think that's ridiculous, and horrible. I don't even know what to say.
Holy crap, I just looked that up. Wtf. EVERYONE should think that's ridiculous, and horrible. I don't even know what to say.
They target kids as well, good old nationalist ideologies imprinted on their maleable minds. That's exactly what Britain needs! There's such a huge history of this in this country too. Shame is that some people DON'T think it's horrible and there's a serious risk of the BNP getting enough votes in the European elections to make life horrible for an sawful lot of people. BAH!
My mom and I now have the stomach flu. I felt fine this morning. Up until about…6th hour, then I started feeling sick. My mom apparently came home early. Ugh. I don't feel like doing anything right now. But I have to memorize a whole page and a half of words for my 5th hour Performing Arts class (it's like Drama).
And I want to get the last page done for this part of the chapter. ;-;
(Sorry to fill up this page with my rants, but…)
HAHA! I overcame being sick! I just flipped it off, and went for a run!
Ironic part is, you know, usually when your sick (or just got done being sick) you have really crappy workouts for a while. I just got done running, not even 3 hours after feeling a little better, and I had a great run. I could've gone for longer. But I didn't want to over-do it.
And, I've decided just to tell my teacher that I gave it an honest effort, and that I could only remember a paragraph. I'm getting an awesome grade in that class anyway.
lately, I've been entertaining the notion of doing an fantasy/scifi porno comic…. a light-hearted one that never takes itself seriously. sorta like XXXenophoile, but more focus on spoofing fantasy/scifi with the occisonal anime spoof too thrown in.
oh, and a whole lot of sex scenes. what do you guys think?
lately, I've been entertaining the notion of doing an fantasy/scifi porno comic…. a light-hearted one that never takes itself seriously. sorta like XXXenophoile, but more focus on spoofing fantasy/scifi with the occisonal anime spoof too thrown in.
oh, and a whole lot of sex scenes. what do you guys think?
Perfect example: Flesh Gordon. Exploitation films are good too, like the classic Invasion of the Bee Girls.
Hippie; in an abusive situation it can help to find a happy place whre you can calm down and take yourself outside of the situation. Also realize you are not alone. (That is what Ozone was trying to say, he was not intentionally belittling your situation) Try finding a support group. There are coping mechanisms for abuse when you can't escape the situation, the "happy place" being one. Never blame yourself and pick up some effective communication skills like "I" statements and doing everything in your power not to get drawn into the game. Change the dynamic of the encounter. Disarm your mother by recognizing your buttons and nto letting them get pushed by simply expressing your feelings. If she continues just walk away saying simply "I feel *blank* and it's very hard for me to talk to you right now. I need some time to think about what you are saying."
Well that's so easy for you to say, bravo and she won't let me do that… Just stick to your guns and work at it and work at it and work at it. You can change the dynamic and how it effects you. You are what is important here. Take care of you first. You can do this. It's not easy; it is very hard, but you can do this. Survive first, take care of yourself. Once you are capable of escaping the situation permanently; do so.
All this works. I've seen it work. I've used up boxes of tissues while listening to these stories and trying to help what little I can.
We decided that between my bother's last baseball game and the award cermony, mom and I would go shopping. (Something that we have been meaning to do for a week). So we are on our way. First, there is a train stopped on tracks that was blocking the intersection that mom and I needed to turn on. Traffic was murder because of it. Luckily, the train moved in a couple of minutes of us waiting.
Then we go to two stores and buy a few things. Couldn't really find what I wanted in the same clothing store that my boyfriend buys all my birthday and christmas gifts.
We go the Penny's and barely make it within the Doorbuster sale. I finally got the stuff I have been needing for months. (And then some…sales…whacha going to do) All on mom's dime.
So now we have an hour to the ceremony. We get in the car ready to drive home, get a bite the eat, and on the baseball field. When we pull out we here a whumpfh, pft, pft, pft. We get out of the car and the right front tire is entirely off the rim and flater than a pancake. (We still don't know how that happened, it was doing fine all morning.)
Well, guess what? Mom doesn't know how to change a flat. (She also left her guide for changing flats at home.) So she calls dad and gets yelled at. She finally finds the storage compartment for the spare in the jack…
There is no crank or lug wrench for the jack. Takes dad an hour to get there…
Mom and I zip off to the ceremony. And then dad calls and says that roadside assistance arrived, but they didn't have a wrench for the lugs either….it was just a long day.
I am sick of listening to the fucking dog bark for hours every time someone walks within a mile of the house. I'm just about ready to kill the little shit.
I am sick of listening to the fucking dog bark for hours every time someone walks within a mile of the house. I'm just about ready to kill the little shit.
It's like my cat. He meows as loud as he can outside my bedroom door just because he wants to come in at TWO IN THE FUCKING MORNING.
So if I want to get into someone's bedroom at night I just have to meow loud under the doors?
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33 pages yesterday, finished on 307 pages. 67 pages (so basically three days) ahead of schedule. If I'm counting right and none of the scenes shrinks or expands, I'm looking at 530-540 pages total.
If nothing goes wrong, I'll be done writing in 2 weeks or less. Then I'm hoping a week will suffice to do all the necessary character designs…
Oh yeah, 300+ pages, this is officially my longest script ever :D Now, I just have to FINISH it to make it my longest finished script :) *makes a happy dance for page 300 anyway*
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