So, yeah. Today was a REALLY horrible food day ( Read more... )

So I've made the decision to go very low-carb. I've been doing a LOT of reading lately, from all sides I can find, and it seems like the best way to go.The evidence that low-carb is good for you is mounting, and the evidence that low-fat/high-carb is good for you is severely lacking. I've ordered a book by Gary Taubes that is supposed to be an all- ( Read more... )

So our finances have exploded recently. December and August catch us short all the time.  I'm 28 years old and for the first time in YEARS I thought about turning to my parents or Jay's, just for enough money to get groceries without having to use the credit cards.  Jay's mom, however, is deep in the middle of a severe anxiety disorder -- she's ( Read more... )

You know, I skimmed over my goals again today, and realized that #10, the one I just threw in there to have a round number, should have been #1 -- for month and year. Why is treating myself with respect an afterthought? These past two weeks I've done absolutely nothing of value. And while I was exhausted after dealing with directing the play, ( Read more... )

Weight as of 1/1/09 - 190
Finances: Abominable (I had to transfer savings so we could make it to the next paycheck)

My goals for this year are going to be focusing on my health -- physical and mental. In my mental health, I need to work on getting things done and my finances. If my finances were in better shape, and I had very little left to the last ( Read more... )

I used to believe (especially in my more depressed moments) that the gods were laughing at us. While many of my classmates had rocketed on to high-powered careers (I have a world-famous tenor, policitcal speech-writer, and a NASA engineer out of my graduating class -- and those are only the ones I KNOW about), have been living on their own for ( Read more... )

I lost 40 pounds earlier this year. Granted, it was due to disease and not any hard work, discipline, or exercise on my part -- but it made me really happy. For the first time in my life, I shopped for clothes based on how GOOD they looked on me, not just on what didn't make me look like a cow ( Read more... )

It's been a long, long time since I posted anything here, and the reason for that is that there's a lot going on. But there's very little of it that really needs to be gotten into. I was more thinking about Thanksgiving. To me and J, it's a whirlwind holiday of food. His parents, my parents, and my friend. 3 places -- usually means 2 full dinners, ( Read more... )

"Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow."

I've always felt the lack of a religious support system. Now, anyone who knows me knows I'm not a fan of organized religion at ALL, but something about a community of like-minded has always drawn me. I love my dad, but I've always been a little cynical about his ability to believe whatever suits him to belong to a religious culture. When he taught ( Read more... )