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Comment on pocket full of candy by Shana

Shana — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:57:22 +0000

I do not ever want to break up with candy. I am the Rhianna to Hershey’s Chris Brown. And coconut M&M’s? OMG, they complete me.

Comment on tattoos and lies by Clickity Click! | The Karina Chronicles

Clickity Click! | The Karina Chronicles — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:07:30 +0000

[...] A tattoo of lies. [...]

Comment on pocket full of candy by Amanda

Amanda — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:13:38 +0000

There’s no reason you can’t have a pocket full of ponies.

http://www.breyerhorses.com/show_stoppers

The ponies, they will fit in your pocket. Lots of them. Like, at least 7. And with a pocket that contains no less than seven ponies, you will rule.

Comment on the whole weight loss surgery–type journey by Freda

Freda — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:32:01 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I had WLS almost 2 years ago, I’ve lost the weight I needed to cure my two co-morbidities. Feel great, love being a size 12. It took almost 2 years from when I wanted surgery til when it was done. In that time I did a lot of work on my eating. Changed a lot of bad habits. Most people rush to the get the surgery not knowing that your head needs to be fixed as well as your digestive organs. Surgeons are not known for understanding much outside the operating room. Insurers – government funding is focused on the surgery – not the education that is needed to make the surgery a success.
Don’t blame yourself for the weight gain- with the RNY – bypass- the bypassed part starts to work again after 18 months. Not your fault.

Losing weight did not bring a man into my life, make my bills disappear or cure my insecurities. It has made my body easier to move and while I still don’t like to exercise, it is easier to do stuff and thus I do more than I did before.

Comment on pocket full of candy by Kiki

Kiki — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:57:16 +0000

Love. You will fill your pockets with love.

Every time you reach for something and feel emptiness, you can know that that space is actually full of my love for you.

When Gollum asks you what has it got in its pocketses, the correct answer to that riddle can always be, “LOVE, MOTHERFUCKER!” And thus you shall triumph.

Comment on pocket full of candy by gin

gin — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:39:23 +0000

Jen, I think that’s ‘the glorious Bounty of bad chocolate’, or is that just the UK? Oh, I do too like sweeties, and am never without their companionship and support. Jelly Babies are good people.

Comment on travel the world and the seven seas by jen larsen

jen larsen — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:07:38 +0000

Patrick, I think that’s exactly what it is, and you’re right that the fear takes over everything. It’s so, so hard to overcome, especially when you feel like you’ve tried and failed before. The lucky thing is that we can keep trying for a long time yet, because we are brave and tough and it’s never too late.

Jennnette, I hope you’re working on that.

Comment on travel the world and the seven seas by Jennette

Jennette — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:17:16 +0000

Someday with teleportation all your dreams will be possible.

Comment on travel the world and the seven seas by Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:40:55 +0000

This sounds so much like anxiety/panic disorder, and I’ve been there. I spent a full hour crying on the floor in a bathroom in a mall in Portland, Oregon, because I was somewhere strange and I couldn’t get home quickly and everything looked exactly the same as it did at home, but it wasn’t home, it was somewhere Foreign, and I don’t like Foreign places that don’t have everything I need right at my fingertips like Home does.

I take the panic a step further, in that I work myself up to wanting to move to a place, then when I get there, I instantly regret it, and instead of making due, I manage to get more and more panicked as the days go by, eventually putting myself into debt and career jeopardy and breaking all sorts of social rules by running back home, where I have to rebuild my whole life from the shell I left when I decided to move.

I only managed to get past this once, when I went away to college, fled back home during my freshman year, then decided to try life as a resident student the next year. I felt the same fear, let it get very bad indeed in my head, and then it subsided. I learned at 18 years old that fear wouldn’t kill me, but somehow forgot it in the passing years.

Right now, with all the great places I could live and all the fantastic people scattered everywhere, I want to get past that fear again, but fear is really powerful.

Comment on on the intersection between self-worth and personal grooming by Jean

Jean — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:26:56 +0000

I am exactly right there with you. We’ve got a tiny bit of money at the moment, enough so that I’m starting to have reasons to leave the house again, which is gradually forcing me to stop wallowing in my own filth and comb my hair once in a while, but who knows how long that will last?

Yay, freelancing, indeed.