Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.

'Objects In Space'


Natter 39 and Holding  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Scrappy - Oct 14, 2005 7:34:59 am PDT #6173 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I have a massage set up for tomorrow morning. I am so happy.

I have a massage set up for next Saturday. One of my best friends is having her 40th birthday at the Lush Spa (owned by Adam Carolla's wife and Jimmy Kimmell's ex-wife). She booked the whole place and is catering a dinner. We have to pay for our own massages and whatnot, but get a reduced rate. She said it was actually less expensive to do this than to book a restaurant--and so much fun!

ETA: Is anyone watching The Adam Carolla Project? I'm liking it way more than I thought I would.


§ ita § - Oct 14, 2005 7:37:11 am PDT #6174 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oh, that's pretty sweet, Robin. Mass massage outings are fun. I think the communal limpness enhances the whole thing.

Unrelatedly, I just got sent an e-mail with the "car door remotes work over the phone" thing. And a "hey, one of you guys try this and tell me if it works!"

Shouldn't you try it yourself before sending the e-mail out? I mean, if your google finger is broken?


Jesse - Oct 14, 2005 7:40:53 am PDT #6175 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ooh, Robin, that sounds fab.

People do make me crazy with the food. I have a friend who is constantly "trying" to lose weight, except honestly? NSM. She does like two days of some unrealistic plan and then eats a whole pizza.


Calli - Oct 14, 2005 7:41:57 am PDT #6176 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

and asked me "How much fat is in Coke?"
Me: "Ummm....none."
Her: "Oh, good! Because I didn't really want to stop drinking it!"

Another person destined to eat a package of low-fat cookies a night and wonder why the pounds don't come off.


Jesse - Oct 14, 2005 7:42:53 am PDT #6177 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Actually, I think everyone should just be referred to fitday. I learned a TON just tracking what I was eating.


Allyson - Oct 14, 2005 7:47:10 am PDT #6178 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Actually, I think everyone should just be referred to fitday. I learned a TON just tracking what I was eating.

So true. But I found myself going, "OMIGOD! I DID NOT EAT ENOUGH PROTEIN! I MUST EAT A CAN OF TUNA BEFORE MY MUSCLES WITHER AND DIE!"

Because, as I've stated before, I am a fool.


Nutty - Oct 14, 2005 7:51:00 am PDT #6179 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Because, as I've stated before, I am a fool.

Or, you might possibly be my mother.

When it comes to food -- or any personal habits, really, self-flagellation is so much more decorous than the flagellation of others.


Volans - Oct 14, 2005 7:51:44 am PDT #6180 of 10002
move out and draw fire

Well, you know, where's the challenge in the "Eat Better and Exercise" plan?

My work-wife (okay, work-'sband) would go through these phases where he'd skip breakfast to lose weight. So he'd be pissy until he carbo-loaded at noon. Whenever I tried to explain the basic principles he be all "No, that can't be. Just not eating should do it, so I'm skipping breakfast!"

Of course, I seem to be having a problem with the eating-right-and-exercising thing at the moment myself.


Calli - Oct 14, 2005 7:53:30 am PDT #6181 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I seem to be having a problem with the eating-right-and-exercising thing at the moment myself.

Me, too. I'm thinking cutting out the half-pint of whipping cream that I put in my morning quart of coffee will help fairly dramatically, though.


Nicklas - Oct 14, 2005 7:57:57 am PDT #6182 of 10002
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."

the half-pint of whipping cream that I put in my morning quart of coffee

Iiiiik! You kill the coffee!