• 15:33 I ESTIMATE! #

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• 16:58 AND IT IS FIXED! #

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Hi. My name is Maralee but you can call me Mare :)

10 quick questions:
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1. What is your current weight? 276 went down from a 318 from June.

2. How much are you wanting to lose and by when? 20 by Christmas and another 100 eventually.

3. How long have you been overweight? My whole life.

4. What kind of methods of weight loss have you tried? none until now. I'm only just starting to diet and exercise.

5. What has worked as far as diets for you? None, Just trying right now. I've never tried dieting, this would be my first time.

6. How old are you? 22

8. What are you hoping to get out of this community? Support mostly and to get encouragement.

10. What is your Livejournal name? mare457

• 14:04 Lunch is the best when Pesto Pasta awaits you. #
• 14:32 It makes me smile when I get days off that I've requested and when other people don't. Why am I mean? #
• 10:07 Requested the wrong days off from work. NOMNOMNOM. #
• 10:56 You drink too much and you shouldn't stay out so late! #

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screw everything.
I went to the dentist today. I did NOT get my surgery. They couldn't get a vein. I now have to go to a "real" (read: not discounted/indegent care) oral surgeon, and pay what I would make in 8 YEARS of SSDI... and I can't get loans (not that anyone can) to pay for it...
They did however, weigh me, to figure out how much anesthesia to give me... I weighed.
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I hate everything. Including my body. Great.

"SYLVIA" (2003) Review

Here is my REVIEW of the 2003 biopic about Sylvia Plath and her relationship with Ted Hughes. The movie starred Gwenyth Paltrow and Daniel Craig.

• 20:05 I have concluded that politicians are, for the most part, bigoted and retarded. #

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We've already seen the original, most of us have probably seen the Family Guy parody but up until now you've probably never seen the LITERAL version of the A-Ha classic "Take On Me"



( Video is below the cut )

I'm trying again after returning from vacation and getting back into my work/classes routine. Story of my life, right?

10 quick questions:
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1. What is your current weight? 344.6, highest was 352.2
2. How much are you wanting to lose and by when? I want to get down to 150 in the next two years. I'd have to lose two pounds a week, which might be doable if I can stay focused.
3. How long have you been overweight? since I was 2
4. What kind of methods of weight loss have you tried? atkins, weight watchers, calorie counting, and going to the gym twice a day
5. What has worked as far as diets for you? weight watchers and living at the gym. i got down to 290 in like 4 months when I first started out in 2006.
6. How old are you? 26
7. Have any good recipes? grilled cheese on sourdough with brummel and brown yogurt butter and light cheese. Not really a difficult recipe, but I could live off these.
8. What are you hoping to get out of this community? I would really like to find someone who is also going to journal their food intake, exercise, etc. I am going to try to do that everyday. Support and motivation are nice also. If anyone wants to kick my butt into gear... that's also welcome.
9. Do you want to add something? nothing really... i am just super tired of being fat. i really want to know what it feels like to be normal, and not think everyone is judging me based on my weight.
10. What is your Livejournal name? my weight loss journal is under iwannabecute , my personal journal is kristiniskickin . i love new friends! btw- iwannabecute is friends only so comment here or on the friends only post to be added!

• 18:32 Seriously need to match the teal heels. Target, here I come! #

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Work today was much better. I brought in a CD from the Faire (since I opened) and BLASTED it this morning. I was running around shouting out the ridiculous lyrics and trying to get everyone into it. I was acting completely crazy and I enjoyed it a lot. My manager called me sick a few times, my DM asked if I was drunk, and I made my tailor laugh really hard. All I had to say to him later in the day was "polar bear." and he'd crack up. Then my DM asked me to burn the CD for him XD
I enjoyed showing off my new collection of Hindi words to my Indian friend. He's awesome.
I was going to write more, but whatever. Good day. Tomorrow I don't have to go to Antioch (Hooray!) so I'll be helping get Nicole's maze set up. Wheeeeeeee!


Ooooh I forgot to update about the Faire... It was amazing; it rained for an hour and a half (I stood in it and reveled, now I have this great cough), people were slipping in mud, we feasted on artichoke everything, the NC-17 stage was on fire (These groups were fucking hilarious with their dirty songs and improv), I bought a feather thing, Sy bought a pretty feather necklace, Liz bought a feather thing (Ours were connected for show and it was perfect xD), Moonie and Broon were hysterical as always... Ran into Sara and family. Awkward, but cool. It felt almost like the old days, traipsing around the Faire with her. We got Moonie's new CD whcich is the one I played at work; it's the best ever. I might say more later 'cause my brain is shutting down now. G'night!

I just read Batman #680 and it's not looking good for the guy. I think all the fanboy rumors about him dying in #681 are looking to be true. There is a crazy-ass, long, crazy-ass thread about it over at CBR: http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=240173

On another note, Four Eyes #1 from Image looks pretty good. It certainly impressed me to the point where I wondered who would be directing the movie version. In the back they mention Todd McFarlane is coming back to Spawn in issue #185. Woooo.

I had a wonderful dream this morning. I had transferred to the Steven's Creek Men's Wearhouse and was staying with an Asian couple with a really sweet little kid who I got along with well. I had to sleep on a couch in the living room with a bunch of other people who were "Renters," but I didn't really mind, even when they took my blanket when I left the room. I chatted with the kid, tried to get another blanket, then gave up and went out back. The backyard was actually lovely rock pools and intensely green peaks and epic waterfalls. I climbed around, splashed in the water, and ended up soaking in a pool. It was a bright twilight of sorts and the view was amazing. I was so high up, I clung to a peak that jutted out of the pool and peered over what seemed to be a cliff with a waterfall, but then the persepective changed and I wasn't afraid. The waterfall wasn't pulling me, and even if it did I was not going to fall to my death. It was actually more like a step now. I continued to cling to the peak and took in the beauty with a sigh.
Then I slid down the waterfall-step and began trekking along rocky waterways and such until I realized it was ten and I was an hour late for work. I didn't panic because apparently the store was very very close. I made my way there and all was well....

I can actually see some similarities between the dream and my life. Weird, huh? I think it was about a transfer restoring some much-needed chill-ness to my life. It would be better, I think. I actually met a nice kid who I helped tie a tie and just generally learn about dressing up. Dan made him cry earlier so Jengyuen and I had to work hard to please Michael and his son. It worked out alright, the customers were happy.. The Asian place with the Renters would be a kind of hope for the future of traveling and teaching English. Something not entirely pleasant, but I wouldn't mind because I'd be doing what I wanted. The trek reminded me of walking with Liz and Neva in Big Sur. And all the rockiness with the pools reminded me of Lara Croft xD

This morning's dream was great. Too bad today sucked so hardcore.

( Dumb work bullshit that you don't even have to read, it just makes me feel better to write it out. )
I'm going to go take a shower because I smell. I went to the Faire yesterday which deserves its own happy post. Maybe after I shower.

Been slacking a bit on the updates, I've been staying at 222-224 been slacking a bit on the diet and not excersizing.. I need to get back on track... especially with the going to the State Fair this weekend... ugh!!!

I'm just not focused on my diet damn it!


I hope everyone else is doing better than I am..

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Been slacking a bit on the updates, I've been staying at 222-224 been slacking a bit on the diet and not excersizing.. I need to get back on track... especially with the going to the State Fair this weekend... ugh!!!

I'm just not focused on my diet damn it!


I hope everyone else is doing better than I am..

:/

• 19:31 Beer, beer, glorious beer! #
• 20:11 Soon, Zac will be here and all will be well. #

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I think I'm going to start drawing comics again when I get my new computer. I'm $200 away from purchasing it. Winter is coming however and heating costs are such a pain when you burn fossil fuels. There isn't much you can do but switch from heating oil to natural gas. A process that requires $10/ft lines ran, a new furnace, water heater, stove, etc. It's not a route I will be taking.

In the spring I am converting the 350 sq ft workshop into a cottage with a composting toilet, wind generator, solar panels, wood stove, LED light bulbs and a water well with a hand pump. I'll have a wifi antenna on the windmill tower to mooch internet. It will be off the grid so to speak and my winter residence while the large, drafty 110 year old house will be my summer place.

Estimated savings look to be in the range of $4000-5000 a year. Rental of the main house on the property would make it possible to work 20 hours a week and still have money to put into savings, live for free, and give me time to ride my motorcycle around all the Great Lakes, which is something I'd like to do sometime in the near future. If I didn't have the mortgage, I wouldn't need to work at all.

Someone sent me this, I don't know who did it:

So yesterday my dad called with some bad news. I was expecting to hear about grandpa.. We all know that he may not hold out much longer. Imagine my surprise whe he tells me my aunt isn't doing so well. She's had breast cancer and had a double mastectomy a few years back. They said they got it all, but I guess it's back. This really sucks, but it sucks worse for my dad. Crazy asshole though he is, his family is dropping like flies and I feel really bad for him.
So I'm going for a checkup on the 13th. I do not want to have cancer, but if I do I'm catching it as early as I can. FUCK GENETICS.

"I'd like to share a film with you that I think is, on the whole, highly underrated. "Too clever by half," as a friend of mine put it. That film is Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.

But before I discuss the movie directly, let me unpack the idiom. Many people seem to feel that if something is "too" clever, "too" smart, it's an affront to their common sense, an assault upon their salt-of-the-earth dignity. I don't know if this belief carries across cultural boundaries, but it seems endemic enough in the states that it even determines the results of elections. The Republican party has made this issue a corner-stone of their assault upon the "liberal elite," a fact well recognized and explored by Sorkin's own "too clever by half" drama, The West Wing.

I'm not entirely sure when being witty became a negative, frankly I don't care. Maybe this just makes me another member of the "liberal elite." But if you're not offended by self-aware satire and snarkiness, you'll likely find Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang one of the most entertaining, funny movies you've seen."

(Read review on TLAblog)