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I do have 4 or 5 pepperoni pizzas in the freezer so when I can’t do more than stick one in the oven I can still eat.
I tend to not think so much about healthy food, as you know, actually eating.
This might be why I am fat. But I still care more that I eat at least once a day as caring about wht it is.
Also, doctors ? Are you ok ?
dhag85, thank you. Thank you so much. I love her like a sister and this means so much to me.
As you might have been able to tell from the poorly worded gofundme campaign, she is NOT comfortable with this sort of thing. It takes a certain type of strength to admit that you need help and to reach out. Receiving help from strangers is simultaneously embarrassing and uplifting. It sucks that you have to do it but the reminder that people, even total strangers can be kind is just awesome. (in the “fills you with a sense of awe” and “sense of awwww!” type of ways.)
She’s been so strong for so long and she never loses hope, compassion or her delightfully biting,sarcastic sense of humor. If she had time to comment here, things might even be funnier than they are now. If that’s even possible.
I totally understand that. And it’s definitely more important to actually eat something than to always eat healthy. I’m a classic over-eater, so I guess my problem is more straight forward. I just need to eat less, which is hard because food tastes GOOD. :p
As for doctors, I made a post about my health situation earlier in this thread. It’s sucky, but not an emergency.
@mayimoktoo
I like to donate to these sorts of things because I want to help, but also because I want to strongly encourage people to ask for help when it’s needed. You’re an awesome friend for helping her spread the word. 🙂
I would do a FB share but sadly I have no, whatchamacallit, friends.
I’m gonna go play Resident Evil 6! 🙂 The game sort of sucks, but I still like it.
dhag85,
I actually snort/laughed out loud with empathy. My three days of pummeling friends on FB has resulted in four whole donations. Still, it’s such a significant percentage of my interwebs friends that I count it a victory. 🙂
Block quote worked!!! I win!
It’s alright. It’s better than five, at least. : P
I don’t like the blah soundtrack though, so I use the XBox’s wonderful feature to play music while I play it.
Nothing will ever beat the time I was facing a horde of zombies and “Who Let the Dogs Out?” started playing.
Yay for cooking, Gilshalos!
Not much of a movie buff, outside a few that I know way too well… so sorry for not following that. I know how it is to be bored and not have energy and being like “Hi Internet! TALK TO ME, PLEASE”
Holy crap. It’s hailing outside. In California.
Well, that’s pretty common in NorCal, but I’m in the lower part of NorCal (in the Sacramento Valley).
And there’s been lots of thunder too. D:
@PI
Nah, I actually liked RE5 better than this. I do enjoy the parallell storylines thing, but RE6 just has too much movie and too little game for my taste. There are so many sections in this game where you walk a few steps, then watch a video clip, then press hit one button, then watch a video clip, then kill one zombie, then watch a video clip, etc. I agree with some of the reviews I read, in that I think it’s a fun ride and a worthy final part in what I view as the trilogy of RE4-6. Many explosions! Just wish there were more other things instead of some of the explosions.
I’m having a bit of a Resident Evil revival right now. I played Revelations on my 3DS last year, and followed up with Resident Evil 5 this year in January. Went a bit overboard with the completion of RE5 and couldn’t stop until I had S-ranked every chapter on every difficulty level. The satisfaction when it’s all done! The chapter that ends with the Wesker fight where you just avoid him for like 7 minutes, and then the Jill fight where you have to rip the device off her chest and you can’t shoot her or she’ll die.. could be one of the most frustrating things I’ve ever done. On the highest difficulty any hit from Wesker or Jill basically kills you instantly, and if you die more than 2 times in the chapter you can’t get the S-rank. And the chapter takes something like 30 minutes to play if I recall correctly. It was horrible.
Anyway, I really liked Revelations, but was very sad to see that Revelations 2 in the Windows version is completely unplayable. Wasted money. :/
Just defeated Deborah in the Ada campaign. 🙂 I deserve a break.
@NickNameNick wow. Hang in there 🙂
@Hambeast – my BIL’s ex is also one of those women the MRA’s think we’re all like. I empathize with you. People like that make things hard for everyone, step and extended family included. Hope your stepson is ok. BIL’s daughter moved in with him and my sister, and it’s been going extremely well for all of them… I wish the same for you guys.
@dhag85 – very gentle hugs, and I hope you find relief soon. Is your arthritis the autoimmune kind, ie: RA?
I’ve been watching a playthrough of RA6, and… it just isn’t appealing to me at all. Busband and I were really excited when it came out, but meh, will skip it unless it starts looking better. The playthrough I’m watching isn’t that far in, but some of the mechanics seem buggy and annoying.
I just beat the Tomb Raider reboot though – what an awesome game! And Lara Croft is actually wearing proper pants! Can’t wait for the next one, supposed to be out at the end of the year.
On games and soundtracks: I played Hotline Miami 2 recently. Holy shit. *Holy shit.* (Examples of said soundtrack easily found on the Youtubes.)
I’m in the final stretch of my master’s program! Seriously can’t believe it. My gown and hood came in… it still almost seems like they must belong to someone else.
Also just got offered a summer position at the local Americorps VISTA site, so I’m pretty excited about that. The stipend is famously low, but hey, after ten years of the SAHM thing, making a whole 900 bucks a month sounds… not as bad as perhaps it should, lol Sounds like I’ll be tutoring high school kids in the summer school program, but I don’t think they’ve nailed down assignments just yet.
anyway, yay! now to buckle down and finish strong in my program.
Our older son’s psychiatrist has prescribed a new anti-psychotic, which he has promised to take. Several weeks of non-medication have been increasingly difficult. Now we are waiting for Medicare to approve it. We’re looking forward to the voices going away, or at least being muted.
Meanwhile, my husband (the baker/pastry chef) has been advised to lose weight. Around forty pounds, in fact. He is not best pleased by this news.
And our younger son is actually doing okay. It’s strange for me to not be most concerned about him, but he’s been almost like a real live boy lately.
And me, I’m just keeping on. Every time I look in the mirror, it reminds me of all the friends of mine who never got to be this old.
Robert: hugs your way, if you’d like them. Also, good luck to your hubby: that’s a real challenge, and he’ll probably need a bit of support.
I’m glad your youngest is doing okay, and hope your older kiddos meds work well and help him feel okay. Best of symptom relief without the awful side-effects that he hates?
Ceebarks: Congratulations! I haven’t stated grad school, but I remember getting to that point in my undergrad… It was both stressful and awesome. Also, tutoring highschool kids can be loads of fun, so good luck with that!
Hey guys, I just saw an article that made me throw up in my mouth a little, but I think it’s important, so I’d like to share it with all of you. It’s disgusting that this happened in my home state.
TRIGGER WARNING FOR RAPE AND PEDOPHILIA. (If you’d still like to help, skip to the first link below and sign the petition.)
TL;DR first: A judge lessened a child rapist’s sentence to fifteen years below the minimum sentence because he believed it would be “cruel and unusual” to the rapist, because a doctor said that the rapist suffered “a great deal of family disruption and abuse, making him an insecure, socially withdrawn, timid, and extremely immature young man with limited self-esteem”, and because he said he was really sorry for raping that little girl and would face the punishment.
That’s all you need to know if you want to avoid the worst bits.
There is a petition going around to get the State of California Commission on Judicial Performance to look into what reason the judge would have to say such a thing.
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Okay, now the longer and more horrifying version: A three-year-old girl wandered into her family member’s garage while he was playing video games, and he became aroused and sodomized her.
I’d read some of the articles linked on the petition. This judge is terrifying if he thinks some of the things he said are an okay way to “defend” doing this to a three-year-old girl.
Apparently, this isn’t the first time this particular judge has given a lighter sentence to a rapist [From the change.org petition I linked above]:
I’m okay with a judge taking into account a perpetrator’s intellectual, psychiatric or emotional limitations when setting a sentence. That’s standard procedure for everything from shoplifting to murder.
I’m NOT okay with trivialising the seriousness of the offence and eliminating its impact on a victim to justify a lesser sentence. This was a 3 year old girl. I can’t imagine how this judge thinks that an adult man sodomising such a small child, boy or girl, isn’t a violent, serious injury by definition.
@Tracy
It’s actually psoriatic arthritis, which is why my useless doctors were baffled for 6 years when nothing showed up in the bloodwork. My skin problems aren’t very bad or noticeable, but they’re getting worse now too.
Wow! The balcony is sunny and perfectly comfortable temperature. And it’s only early April. 🙂
Burnt my dinner. 🙁 Fuck it, I’m having those potato chips now.
Good news. Medicare has approved the oral medication, and I should be picking it up this afternoon. The official word is that they want his psychiatrist to monitor his reaction to that before they’ll approve the injectable form. My husband is grateful for the work I put into this; he’s great at a lot of things, but dealing with huge government agencies drives him to distraction. I’m the Bureaucrat Whisperer by comparison. That’s probably how I lasted so long at the VA.
Joining in the chorus of disgust at the judge’s ruling in that case. I have no words for how vile it is. Somehow, I would have assumed that sexual violence against a toddler was one of those things that nobody in authority would have defended. So much for THAT illusion. Almost as revolting as the man who was given a suspended sentence and put on probation for molesting his own daughter – because the judge believed that he would not fare well in prison.
I need to get out of the house. A walk in the sunshine will do me good.