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Oh my word, I nearly forgot about the Christmas Cards! I just sent my email with the new address. I hope I got in on-time! It’s been a busy year!
Congrats! Darn, I didn’t get a chance to enter. I recently changed my email address for my Windstone account, but it seems the raffle email went to the old one! Anyone know how to fix it?
Oooooh noes! Got so busy with the holidays, and getting ready for the little girl dancing in my womb, that I completely forgot to ask about Melody’s Christmas cards! Nuuuuuuuuuu!
There is always a risk with any surgery, but it’s the one we always take to make a life better than it was, though I wonder if the surgeon knew what they were doing. I’d almost recommend seeing someone else for the other kitties, but it can be hard to find a good vet, and I won’t pretend to know them. She was a beautiful kitty and I’m sure she loved the life she got.
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It’s always so hard to let go of the precious fuzzies, but he lived a good long life in dog years. I’m sure it was a happy one.
My apologies if someone has mentioned this already, but the layout to view pages of ‘The Veligent’ is a little awkward. Getting to the most recent page means clicking ‘Next’ several times. Is there a way to include the old drop down list as well, or to add ‘First’ and ‘Last’ buttons? I kind of miss having the preview of the latest page, even though I know it’s not updating right now. There are those of us that do check on a regular basis in hope of seeing the next story begin.
WARNING, REALLY LONG WHINE THAT IS MAYBE PG-13
I hate my weight, and I get incredibly aggravated by the thinner people who talk like it’s so easy to fix.
My immediate disclaimer is that I am not obese. I’m definitely overweight according to my BMI though. I’ve never been a person who cared that much about how I look, but I do remember the FEEL of being thinner and it didn’t involve so much of me jiggling. By nature, I do not actually gain weight very quickly, but this means I do not lose it easily either. The only reason I even ended up this heavy is…. wait for it….. hormonal birth control. I know there is a lot of debate regarding that issue, but I know my body.
I have tried the hormones a total of three times in my lifetime. The first two were for health reasons, and the third was after I got married. Each time it was the lowest does available. Each time I gave them the 3-4month adjustment window, but was rewarded with depression and 10 pounds of weight gain. The first couple of times I hadn’t even hit 25 yet, so I couldn’t tell if it was the hormones or just me getting my ‘womanly curves.’ The third time was after a long period of very steady weight, with even a bit of loss right before I went on it. Once I regained my loss AND the extra ten pounds I knew what was up.
I am now at least 30 pounds overweight with no way to fix my situation. I work in a lab, which means standing or sitting, but not a lot of walking. It takes me an hour to drive home, after which I will need to get groceries or fix dinner, and then help my hubby wind down as he tends to not sleep well without relaxing properly. Unless I were to abandon everything and everyone I care about to spend every spare waking moment in the gym I am out of luck.
I don’t over eat. I enjoy higher protein, lower carb diets, and I don’t like a ton of sweets (one square of dark chocolate is enough). I don’t drink soda except on rare occasions (hate anything sweetened with fructose), and I drink tons of water. I try to got out walking during the work day to keep my metabolism up, but it is impossible for me to reach the 10,000 recommended steps a day because of how my job works and my lack of time outside of it. I remain trapped in a body that feels heavier that it should be, and I’m pissed that the doctors I was supposed to be able to trust led me down this path.
To anyone considering any internal form of birth control I highly recommend the book ‘Taking Charge of Your Fertility.’ It’s old, but it does work if followed exactly. They make apps for this type of tracking method now too. I beg you, be educated about this and don’t end up like me.
Wooo pokemon go thread! Team Mystic, and only level 14 still for me. I do a lot of standing in the lab, but not a lot of walking, so egg hatching only happens if I specifically go for a walk. There are only two pokestops near work, and I have to go during lunch since they are a couple blocks away. Problem is, a lot of good pokemons show up at work, so I end up running out of pokeballs.
My pokeball problem is only remedied if I take the time to go walking for about an hour near my apartment. There are 5 (6?) pokestops in approximately a half circle with less than a block radius, but none can be reach from my apartment, so I have make myself go outside, which of course is the whole point! I just sometimes forget.
My first of my tiny Windstone collection was my brown male dragon that someone was selling at an SCA War (Great Western I believe). It’s kind of like a renaissance faire except everyone takes historical accuracy way more seriously and there are tons of classes to take on old traditional crafts. One of the vendors was selling him and I haggled him down to $25! Some of his gold paint was fading, and there was a chipped scale on his tail. There’s a bit of head frill with a hairline crack from where it was glued back on at some point as well, plus his felt is missing. A little decoart calligraphy pen did the trick in putting the gold bits back and covering the chipped scale.
His name is Dusty Kopperski because he had so much dust sitting on him over the years that I had to take a wet paint brush to him to get it out of all the crevices! There is still a little bit stuck between his toes that will never quite go away, but it’s not very noticable at all. He’s a handsome fellow as far as I’m concerned! I am constantly entering raffles here in hopes of getting him a loverly mate!
