Crossovers

Yeah, I totally made that myself. How, you ask? mckitterick bought me an ancient old copy of the original Photoshop CS to replace my lost one. XOXO

Speaking of making gifs, how do I create shadowed text, like in this gif? I'm sure there's some obvious command I'm missing. But no matter how obvious, I'm still missing it. Help.

Just for grnvixen, another Avengers gif:

And, um, take this one as a bonus round.

Preach it, Scarlett. And that top middle picture? Is the most adorable thing ever.

And now, SRS BZNS: I was feeling really down last night, what with all the stupid body issues. Ms. Johansson's wise words not withstanding, I'm still frustrated, angered, and depressed by my body being so resilient to improvement. And I am, after all, a vain creature. I want to look good in my clothes (and out of them). I want to look good in my bellydance costumes. Blah blah blah nothing new here. But I thought I would try to get a better feel as to where this excess mass is coming from. This morning, I weighed myself: 159.4, and my waist was still at 32" (up twelve pounds and four inches from October 2011, which is right before things started to go to hell for me physically). Taking into consideration that I have put on some muscle since I started CrossFit (I can do military-style pushups again, and my legs are definitely more solid), let's say that's only eight pounds of fat gained. Does eight pounds of fat equal four inches of increased waist measurement on a 5'7" woman? Erm. Unlikely.

Thing is, I'm not sure I feel better about knowing that most of this isn't fat. Because if it was fat, then I might feel like it was more my fault--more under my control. I can change and control my eating habits. I've been doing that since I was twelve (for better or worse). But I have absolutely no control and very little influence over the inflammation issues. I feel helpless and thwarted. It's not a good feeling.

I'm hopeful that resuming regular acupuncture treatments will help somewhat. Kiva's on vacation, so my next appointment isn't until July 5. It'll have been three weeks between appointments. But honestly, I've seen a marked decrease in effectiveness of the acupuncture since November--when things really went south for me, health-wise. And sweet jesus, the results of the food allergy test can't come back soon enough for me. But what if they don't show anything new? Or what if they show I'm allergic to, oh, I don't know--pork and chicken?

So...yeah. I'm at a loss.



Oh, and also? I can't connect to any of the servers or my work email, and our IT support guy hasn't returned my call yet. YOU GUYS WHAT WHAT WHAT.