I hate to break it to you, oh impotent one, but you're not the big bad anymore, you're not even the kind of naughty.

Xander ,'Showtime'


Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Hil R. - Apr 28, 2008 4:52:57 pm PDT #6825 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I have a $50 Amazon gift certificate that I got for earning points on my credit card. I'm trying to decide how responsible I should be with it. There's very responsible: buy in bulk some food stuff I use a lot of. Very irresponsible: pretty hardcover edition of books I already own in paperback. Middle level of responsibility: Pyrex storage containers, or half the cost of a sewing machine.

I've already made a resolution not to buy any new books until I finish my to-be-read pile, so no books unless I need a textbook or something, which I currently don't. I could buy some cooking stuff -- I need a new frying pan, and I've been thinking about getting a cast-iron griddle, but oddly, my iron level is high, so I ought to hold off on that. (My blood tests have just been confusing my doctors lately. Vegetarian, no eggs, not much milk, and yet my iron and calcium levels are both too high.)


DavidS - Apr 28, 2008 5:24:04 pm PDT #6826 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Fay, unless there's female pattern baldness in your family I don't think you need to worry too much.

Hair does thin out as people get older. I think you're just used to it being So Thick that it's frightening that it's getting towards the median. But unless you have actual bald patches it's probably just normal attrition.


sj - Apr 28, 2008 5:25:59 pm PDT #6827 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Didn't a very similar conversation happen here recently?


meara - Apr 28, 2008 5:26:44 pm PDT #6828 of 10001

Aren't prenatal vitamins supposed to make your hair super?


Fay - Apr 28, 2008 5:34:50 pm PDT #6829 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Fay, unless there's female pattern baldness in your family I don't think you need to worry too much.

Hair does thin out as people get older. I think you're just used to it being So Thick that it's frightening that it's getting towards the median. But unless you have actual bald patches it's probably just normal attrition.

I have polycystic ovary syndrome, David, which is associated with, among other things, hair loss of variable severity. Six years ago I was used to it being Super thick. Now I've got used to it being worryingly unthick, but at least it's not been falling out any more.

But now, I'm moulting again. Noticably - other people have commented. Strands are coming out in my hands, as they were doing some six years ago.

My mother lost pretty much ALL her hair a while ago, and had to wear wigs 24/7, but after spending a year or so working with a GP who was also an alternative therapist, and who gave her prescriptions for cures based on Chinese remedies (because the hospitals were bloody useless), the hair eventually grew back. White, but it grew back. (She promptly dyed it red again.) I went to that same guy when my hair began to thin (dramatically - it's less than half the thickness it used to be, and this change occurred over the period of maybe a year) it stabilised, and even got a little thicker. I never got to actual bald patches, thank fuck, but I am certainly not so cocky as to assume that can't be on the cards. And since I'm back to moulting pretty dramatically again - only with less than half the hair I started off with, at this point - I'm understandably a little concerned.


Strix - Apr 28, 2008 5:40:23 pm PDT #6830 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

my teaching contract for next year has not been renewed. I get this news 1 week before surgery.

FUCK YOU, WORLD.


beth b - Apr 28, 2008 5:44:21 pm PDT #6831 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

uh...WTF? Erin?


Strix - Apr 28, 2008 5:46:55 pm PDT #6832 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Yeah, pretty much my reaction.

I am bitter like whoa.


meara - Apr 28, 2008 5:55:11 pm PDT #6833 of 10001

OMG, Erin. That sucks ASS. I am so so sorry. And with surgery! Would suck anyway, but DAMN!


beth b - Apr 28, 2008 6:06:39 pm PDT #6834 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

and for Fay, I'd add some vitamins - low carb might mean you are missing some essential vitamins. and you maybe more vulnerable to the missing vitamins because of the PCOS