Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.

Mal ,'The Message'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

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.


sarameg - May 20, 2009 5:35:33 pm PDT #20468 of 30000

Why does this and the years biggest fundraiser have to be on the same day?

I bought a house when my professional and extracurricular life were hitting peak stress. I lost 10 lbs in the week before closing, and now that work is going insane, it seems to be starting to drop again. I get it.

Interesting to learn that stress=weightloss for me.


Juliebird - May 20, 2009 5:41:43 pm PDT #20469 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Interesting to learn that stress=weightloss for me.

I envy you. I think I'm the only person who gains weight with a virus. And food is my comfort zone. Depression and stress equals copious amounts of bread and pasta.


sarameg - May 20, 2009 5:44:33 pm PDT #20470 of 30000

I suspect depression lead to the gain. Minute I was challenged again and felt like I was doing something, started shrinking. Eating changed a little, but it can't account for 40 lbs now. And certainly not those 10 lbs in a week.

Of course, I'm the freak who smokes less under stress. So.


Beverly - May 20, 2009 6:03:55 pm PDT #20471 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I'm the only person who gains weight with a virus.

Possibly not. Stress gastric uck, and I'm holding steady. My weight is a medical conundrum, it's self-supporting. If I went on a year-long water fast tomorrow, I'd weigh the same in a year, I'm convinced. Of course, I dropped 20+ pounds during both pregnancies, so that's an indicator of weird, right there. Ah well. Lettuce and green beans and chicken, ahoy.

I feel like I should be sad at all the life-dismantling, but I'm really not. What's more troubling is porting it all into the new space. Which...I might just like to leave pretty empty.

Not that that will ever happen, because like Pigpen's dirt cloud, I attract things. They follow me home, they take up residence--without permission!


Burrell - May 20, 2009 6:04:39 pm PDT #20472 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

stress = weight loss for me as well. Of course, that's been counteracted by age = weight gain. Oh well.


Burrell - May 20, 2009 6:07:39 pm PDT #20473 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

like Pigpen's dirt cloud, I attract things.

me too, Bev. I was noting earlier today that I love a messier, busier aesthetic. All around me I see these clean, modern homes with NOTHING in the rooms. Maybe a couch, an end table, and two magazines. That's it. And I boggle at how they do it.


beth b - May 20, 2009 6:29:34 pm PDT #20474 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Ha. Dh loves the very clean aesthetic. I just laugh and say , where would we put our stuff?


§ ita § - May 20, 2009 6:33:24 pm PDT #20475 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I keep thinking that all it'd take is a bigger place. And no money to fill it up.


Burrell - May 20, 2009 7:12:22 pm PDT #20476 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

From what I can see, it requires a lot of storage space and excellent organizational skills. I think msbelle and Allyson could pull it off easily. Me NSM.


Kat - May 20, 2009 7:27:18 pm PDT #20477 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I had shabu shabu for dinner!! LOVE. A friend was watching N so we could go to the hospital and see G (seriously) and she said, "go have dinner. somewhere where you can't take Noah." HA! boiling water? raw meat and veg you cook at your table? PERFECT.

G was mad today (they needed a urine sample, and I know how they get those.... I'd be mad too), but off her vent for most of the day, like normal. And the care facility had brought her food and her vent from there (which they've never done before). Neat?