Depression is an issue we are all not supposed to talk about. It's taboo. We're supposed to keep it inside and fight it quietly with medication and not tell people because *gasp!* they might think us somehow less of a person ( Read more... )

Ready for random lists? It's a random lists kind of night.

Things I am craving:

-donuts
-pizza
-soda
-tacos from Acapulco
-sister hugs
-Chinese food

Things I am doing right now:-Watching The West Wing. (Bartlet for President ( Read more... )

A lot of people have been giving the latest Hobbit film, Battle of Five Armies, a bad review.
I'll admit. It was not as good as the first two. Not by a long shot. But overall, I liked it.
Here are my thoughts.

[spoilers abound, dear readers]-5 armies? Men, orcs, dwarves, elves. Who was the fifth one? Smaug? Did I miss something? (the answer is probably really obvious. like " ( Read more... )

This week's little victory is: meal planning ( Read more... )

Yaaaaay ( Read more... )

I spent a lovely long weekend with my sister. For Christmas, she gave me “paleo basics”, all the basic ingredients one needs to begin down the paleo cooking path. I’ve complained a lot over the years about being fat, about not eating right, about all sorts of health things, and a very large part of why that is (aside from genetics and laziness) is ( Read more... )

  I'm considering making a wordpress. There is nothing wrong with LJ, really, except I've had this since high school, and most of my RL friends blog on wordpress. Plus there's the nifty "subscribe to email" feature which lets my words of wisdom be delivered to your inbox post haste. Maybe I'll do two ( Read more... )

I was eavesdropping around the table at my company lunch at Green Mill this afternoon (hellooooo, delicious pizza), and someone mentioned that soon, the cacao bean will become no more. By the year 2020, we may not have chocolate. Ditto tomatoes from South America.

Is this true? According to The Atlantic, it's true, and we may as well all take off ( Read more... )

Things are looking up ( Read more... )

i'm feeling a bit sad today ( Read more... )