Category: fluff
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Coffee with Cream
Back when Seattle was In and Happening, Time (or maybe Newsweek, but I remember it as Time) did a “Seattle package” including a cartoon from Lynda Barry. The cartoon began with a friend, incredulous, asking how Barry could have sold her house in Seattle to move to Chicago. Barry’s explanation points out that it’s dark half the year and damp always. “There’s a reason they drink…
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I Liked This
Two-thirds of people surveyed said they would rather look good than feel good. I hope you’re not one of them. The ironic fact of the matter is that if you put the emphasis on looking good in the coming week — creating favorable impressions, acting dishonest in order to curry favor, wearing uncomfortable but attractive clothes — you will end up feeling sub-par and looking mediocre. On…
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Friday Plans
I have tickets to see Jonathan Coulton tonight! :) Most of his stuff is fun or satiric or both, but I do have a special fondness for this bouncy tune. Heck, it’s in my “walking” playlist on my iPod. Lyrics are here. This song was inspired by an issue of PopSci magazine on “The Future of The Body”. What are your plans for the weekend?
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Thankful Thursday
[a not-always-weekly exercise in gratitude] 1) Shared laughter and delight. 2) A friend dropping off Seanan McGuire’s new book, A Local Habitation. 3) I’m continuing to go for short walks every day, supplemented with leg lifts and extra stairs. It’s not getting easier fast, but it’s not getting harder, either. 4) Amazon had chocolate-covered cashewson sale. They’re expensive enough I don’t get them often, but they’re a fun…
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Confession
I am dependent on food.* I truly believe that I need food to continue living.** Further, despite weighing 401lbs (yes, I own a scale) I eat every day. Even multiple times a day.*** Oh: and I think eating food when I’m hungry is a healthy and normal thing. Bwah! Clearly I am the destroyer of worlds! *Yes, I’m making fun of MeMe Roth‘s statement that “we’re behaviorally…
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Musical Interlude: The Girl That’s Never Been
This is just a song I really enjoy. “No-one’s sane behind their mask.” Vixy & Tony mostly perform in the Seattle area, but also travel to various Scifi cons. This song’s lyrics are here.
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Happy President’s Day!
As American holidays go, President’s Day isn’t as frequently observed as, oh, Thanksgiving. But I do get the day off, and I am definitely enjoying the 3-day weekend. Whether you’re at home or work, I thought something to laugh about might be good. So here is Tom Smith singing his song “Spoiler Alert” (lyrics). (Tom is an independent artist who sells his albums online :)
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Friday Fluff
Okay, y’all, this week has been depressing. First Michelle Obama wants to make fat kids thin through the magic of exercise. Then the media asserts that deaths from alcoholic liver disease are due to childhood obesity and talks about diet and exercise for kids as if it’s never been done before and all of this reminds me of how every diet I’ve been on eventually resulted…
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Barefoot Contessa
I came a bit late to the Barefoot Contessa party, but watching The Food Network meant it had to happen sooner or later. Ina Garten was a White House policy analyst before buying a specialty food store and caterer called Barefoot Contessa. Eventually she sold the store and turned to writing cookbooks and magazine columns before eventually turning up on the Food Network. I didn’t know all that…
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Thankful Thursday
1) Walking is much better; been leaving the cane in the car most of the time. 2) Fun evening exploring Microsoft’s private “mall” one afternoon with a friend. 3) Getting better at prioritizing and being gentle with myself. 4) My office seems much warmer since I got back from vacation. It’s nice not to HAVE to bundle up in multiple layers every day! If this keeps…
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Oh, Michelle
Michelle at Fat Nutritionist wrote a terrific post today skewering the typical “Holiday Eating” articles. She also, fatally, mentioned both Maggie May* and Michelle. So of course this popped into my brain**: Like many songs, it has a story behind it. Unlike many songs, I actually have heard the story behind this one at a concert. Seanan McGuire (singer/songwriter/blonde) was chatting with Michelle Dockrey (also…
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Drink Coffee, Avoid Diabetes?
This was one headline I was grateful to read this morning. For one thing, the laugh was very welcome! Coffee, Tea Might Stave Off Diabetes More Evidence Coffee, Tea Could Prevent Diabetes From the abstract, this looks to be a review-lots-of-observational-studies study, looking at correlations. The general result? People who drink more coffee, decaf coffee, or tea* had “an inverse relationship” with people who get diabetes. Naturally,…
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What would you put into a Fitness for Life class?
Everyone’s talking about Lincoln college requiring students with a BMI of 30 or larger to take a “Fitness for Life” class. What I’m wondering is, what would you like to see in such a class? Not what is usually in such classes, or what Lincoln is including — what would rock your socks to see? Here’s some ideas: Topics: Fitness isn’t necessarily thinness Why fitness is useful…
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Fun: Two Lumps: Fat & Furry
The left leg (which has traditionally been the “good” leg) has decided to give me pain and occasionally not want to work. I’m not thrilled with this. I am exercising carefully and taking ibuprofen and trying to not freak out. In the interest of not freaking out, I’m reading They Still Suspect Nothing: Two Lumps Year Four which came in the mail today. (It’s the 4th year of…
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Who reads a 400lb lady’s blog, anyway?
I’ve talked about how most fat people aren’t my size, but I know from comments and emails that many of you are my size. So, in the interest of fun, comes this: I’ve also seen some speculation about how many folks Read fat acceptance blogs, and Are trying to lose weight. So why not see what people say if I ask? (This doesn’t mean I’m going…
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Symptoms of Fat People
“symptoms of fat people” showed up today in the table of items people searched on* that led them to my site. So: what are “symptoms of fat people”? I always thought it was weight vs height. Or visible padding. What else? Breathing hard? Physical weakness? Diabetes? An obsession with what other people think of them and what they eat? Dieting? Lack of exercise? Lots of…
Living ~400lbs 