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clevermanka) wrote2007-05-15 09:48 am
clevermanka) wrote2007-05-15 09:48 am
Hodgepodge
Various things:
Found on Cute Overload, Vacuum Your Cat. How much lithium do they give this cat? The owners say she's deaf, which probably helps. Unlike that horrible "cat spa" video (which honestly I couldn't watch all the way through), this is not kitty torture.
Fast-5 is going well! I'm pretty pleased with how I feel during the day, and I'm not binging at night. I only got headaches the first day. Now I need to up the exercise level. Tomorrow marks one week on the plan.
While we're on the subject of food, I recently commented in someone's LJ (locked post) about how the current American food system screws over low income people (in addition to screwing them over a million other ways). Basically, it comes down to: Carbs are cheap. When you've got $1.50 in your change purse, and you and your kids are hungry, those 10 for $1 Ramen noodles look like a good investment. When you do have a few extra bucks, you might spring for a package of the overly processed, nitrate-laden, water-added but cheap Buddig lunch meats. The system lets down middle income folks, too. Because even if you can afford quality food, you don't know what to do with it. We don't teach people how to plan meals, cook, or determine good nutrition anymore. I mean, do home-ec teachers still exist anywhere? Thanks, No Child Left Behind! You're doing a great job! Thumbs up (your ass). The whole thing is such a cruel cycle. Poor people can't afford good food, and don't have time to exercise. Fat parents raise fat children who don't know any better and eventually--through exposure and social conditioning--develop a preference for the crap food, thus spinning down the toilet of high blood pressure, obesity, and bad teeth. Gah! It makes me so angry!
*calming sigh* *again*
One of the recent MFA grads is taking me out to dinner tonight, and then I am going to run about collecting the hardware to (hopefully) finish my corset by the weekend. Thanks a million,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
verminiusrex and aurora_celeste for coming through for me on the hardware, and solan_t for helping with the construction.
Found on Cute Overload, Vacuum Your Cat. How much lithium do they give this cat? The owners say she's deaf, which probably helps. Unlike that horrible "cat spa" video (which honestly I couldn't watch all the way through), this is not kitty torture.
Fast-5 is going well! I'm pretty pleased with how I feel during the day, and I'm not binging at night. I only got headaches the first day. Now I need to up the exercise level. Tomorrow marks one week on the plan.
While we're on the subject of food, I recently commented in someone's LJ (locked post) about how the current American food system screws over low income people (in addition to screwing them over a million other ways). Basically, it comes down to: Carbs are cheap. When you've got $1.50 in your change purse, and you and your kids are hungry, those 10 for $1 Ramen noodles look like a good investment. When you do have a few extra bucks, you might spring for a package of the overly processed, nitrate-laden, water-added but cheap Buddig lunch meats. The system lets down middle income folks, too. Because even if you can afford quality food, you don't know what to do with it. We don't teach people how to plan meals, cook, or determine good nutrition anymore. I mean, do home-ec teachers still exist anywhere? Thanks, No Child Left Behind! You're doing a great job! Thumbs up (your ass). The whole thing is such a cruel cycle. Poor people can't afford good food, and don't have time to exercise. Fat parents raise fat children who don't know any better and eventually--through exposure and social conditioning--develop a preference for the crap food, thus spinning down the toilet of high blood pressure, obesity, and bad teeth. Gah! It makes me so angry!
*calming sigh* *again*
One of the recent MFA grads is taking me out to dinner tonight, and then I am going to run about collecting the hardware to (hopefully) finish my corset by the weekend. Thanks a million,
verminiusrex and aurora_celeste for coming through for me on the hardware, and solan_t for helping with the construction.