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Straylight
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Posted: 28 October 2008 10:33 pm |
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I think pink shots are gross, and I just don't do those. I mean I know that men like to look at those shots and I understand the market for it, but some other chick can have that job, not me!! I don't mind doing artistic nude stuff or political nude stuff or even silly nude stuff, but pink shots are basically where I draw the line.
I need to go check out that song... hold on...
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Straylight
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Posted: 28 October 2008 10:35 pm |
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awww, i love that song. It was actually something I have had and just didn't know who did it or what it was called.
nice!
it's beautiful actually. i really like it
it makes me feel full of hope
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sizzle
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Posted: 28 October 2008 10:45 pm |
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Oh man, we're onto 6th page lovin'. Yeah, it's actually in the movie Vanilla Sky (I really enjoyed that movie except the whole Kurt Russell/interview part)
I like that you call them pink shots. Did you coin that or is it an industry standard?
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Straylight
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Posted: 28 October 2008 10:49 pm |
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no i didn't make up pink shots, that's an industry standard, lol. When my friend was giving birth, she filmed it, but she said
no pink shots! okay nobody needs to see it crowning!
she's hilarious!
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sizzle
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Posted: 28 October 2008 11:00 pm |
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Yeah, no pink shots is agreed. What was the occasion for the photoshoot? Just being awesome? Was that the only picture? You look great by the way.
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StuckSara
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Posted: 28 October 2008 11:02 pm |
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Was this the cop you saw?
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StuckSara
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Posted: 28 October 2008 11:03 pm |
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| Awe, man it didn't show... how do you post a picture?
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StuckSara
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Posted: 28 October 2008 11:06 pm |
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She's freakin scary!!!
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sizzle
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Posted: 28 October 2008 11:07 pm |
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Scary how?
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StuckSara
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Posted: 28 October 2008 11:10 pm |
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| Don't know, ask straylight, she's the one that was so scared.
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sizzle
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Posted: 28 October 2008 11:10 pm |
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I'll take a cop like that anytime.
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StuckSara
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Posted: 28 October 2008 11:15 pm |
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| Hahaha, yeah, I've been arrested by worse!
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Straylight
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Posted: 28 October 2008 11:43 pm |
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no, but who is that cop? Is it YOU Sara?
I definitely wasn't picturing a cute sexy female cop, I was picturing a really crazy big male cop.
You know my mother was murdered by a crazy cop who was going around killing chicks and cutting their female parts and organs out. so.... I guess I have an inherent fear of cops.
!!!!!
Dale Anderson was his name.
In Illinois. 1986.
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Straylight
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Posted: 28 October 2008 11:46 pm |
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And Sara, have you really been arrested? For what?
I mean technically, even getting pulled over is considered an arrest, because your freedom is restricted and you have to pull over and listen to the cop, you're not free to go on your way.
But I have only been arrested once, like hauled into the station one time and they never formally charged anyone, just hassled us. We were all young, like 18 - 20 and we had no idea what our rights were. The cops said that we constituted a gang because we were all dressed similar in jeans and polo shirts. It was totally bogus. I wish I'd had a better handle on the law then and I would have stood up for myself and all my friends. They made us all come into the station and questioned us about our political beliefs. Then they let us go.
What a load. At least I got to keep my uterus though
that's a plus...
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Straylight
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Posted: 28 October 2008 11:51 pm |
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Sizzle: I just like taking pictures and being creative in that way. I have another shoot coming up this Saturday, but it is not paid, it is to help the photographer build her portfolio. She is very cool--she has a website: hintonbeauty.com
I have never been to a female photographer before, but I like her work. She is a hair and make-up artist too.
I kind of want to do some Blade Runner type pictures.
Thank you for the compliment too. That handcuff picture is a bit dated, let me see if I can post something more recent of what I look like:
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StuckSara
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Posted: 28 October 2008 11:54 pm |
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Yeah, having a uterus always brightens my day.
Haha, that constitutes a gang? Then all sorority girls should get arrested... they dress the exact same!
I was arrested for some things when I was a minor. 2 MIPs, once for a fake I.D., twice for driving on a suspended license... the first time I didn't know it was suspended (it was for a late fee on a speeding ticket I forgot to pay) and the second time I was trying to help out the cops who asked me for help while investigating some bushes... stupid. The last time was for a probation violation (I wasn't allowed to be drinking and it was a friend of mine's bday and I got caught). It was pretty much just a bad streak. Anyway though, I'm completely off of probation Dec. 5th, and I'm allowed to drink now.
I ended up knowing a lot of the cops around here (not good). That's where those pictures came from, it was my Halloween costume last year. The cops that night were pretty cool though, they let me arrest them and I even squirted one of them with my squirt gun!
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Straylight
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Posted: 28 October 2008 11:59 pm |
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awww, well I am glad you are getting off probation soon. I had a few friends that got MIPs. They suck (the MIPs, not my friends).
yeah, those cops that night were just in the mood to be jerks, so they picked on us and hassled us. I mean, lots of people dress similar, including businessmen, sorority girls, people in church choirs, etc. They were just being a-holes and we were too uninformed to stand up for ourselves!
you look really great! You can book me anytime girl! Maybe we could spend some time in the evidence locker, what do you think?
But mostly I would want to be arrested by this guy:
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t313/RawSenses/officerBarbrady.gif
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Posted: 29 October 2008 12:03 am |
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Look at how tan you are Stray. Getting a lot of that L.A. sun eh?
P.S. Yeah, and Sarah is looking good in that cop outfit! Scary??.....to quote Stray "Sheeeeit".
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Straylight
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Posted: 29 October 2008 12:23 am |
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I am Costa Rican but I also help it along a lot by laying out. I like to be tan as possible. I like to feel like I am on vacation all the time, and I like to remind people of being on vacation when they look at me, you know?
it's sheeeyit negro, that's all you had to say
gotta love jules winnfield!
and the wolf
you ARE a character, that is not to say that you HAVE character.
oh this one
DAAAAAMN!!! MS. PARKER'S FINER THAN A MOTHERF.CKER!!!
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StuckSara
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Posted: 29 October 2008 12:38 am |
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Thanks guys  . I'm only about 5 lbs away that I was when that picture was taken... I'm really excited to get back!
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Straylight
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Posted: 29 October 2008 05:25 am |
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| sara: that's awesome! 5 pounds is nothing!
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Posted: 29 October 2008 05:55 am |
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Just got back from work, had a REALLY late homestudy interview that was pretty far away, so I got back at nine. Luckily I don't have to be in the office until 1:45 tomorrow, so that's cool. God, I have the munchies like crazy, I don't know why. I'm not even about to bleed or anything. I could probably have some chips... yeah and still be safe. Maybe some chips AND a glass of wine.
I had better make sure I study at least a little bit for my test before I drink the wine though. So let me go do that for a little while anway...
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Straylight
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Posted: 29 October 2008 06:28 am |
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Okay, so I studied for a bit, I don't know, 15 - 20 minutes. That's better than skipping studying, which was what I wanted to do (the big test is on 11/14/08!)
So, this is what I had to eat today:
-egg fried with butter
-strawberries, peanut butter, and dark chocolate almonds
-whey protein shake
-beet chips
-white wine
-raw almonds
-2 fearless franks with hot mustard and tapatio
calories: probably around 1600 or so. Something like that!
Whew! Now I am going to watch adult swim and really enjoy my couch! My blue-eyed jew consort asked if I wanted to hang out tonigt, but man I am so wiped out, I totally don't want to!
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Straylight
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Posted: 29 October 2008 04:41 pm |
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Well the scale this morning did not bear the greatest of news, but I am cool with it. It said total weight was 150.6 with a body fat percentage of 32.7%, which means a fat mass of 49.25 pounds. Of course, I would liked to see other numbers, but this is pretty normal for the scale on a Wednesday.
I have noticed that the shape of my back is getting more defined, which is great. I am starting to have like more of a dip right above my as.s, which is nice, makes for a cool looking curve.
Had really cool dreams last night. My ethereal consort was in one of them and it made me happy to wake up thinking of him. Awwww, he is such a beautiful man. Dang, it gives my stomach little butterflies thinking of him. incidentally, and this may be TMI but oh well, my diary is full of TMI, the ethereal consort is the first man who ever, shall we say, showed me the mountaintop in the bedroom. Not the first guy who ever CLIMBED the mountain, mind you, that is another consort, but the first one who ever actually reached the peak of the mountain. So he always has a special place in my heart (and in other places, lol!)
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Posted: 29 October 2008 07:26 pm |
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All right, well I went for another run this morning, and it felt really good! I run a little farther every time, and that makes me feel really happy! Now I can get down the corner and run to the NEXT corner after that. When I first started, I could barely get halfway down my block that my place is on!
I can also do 13 of those frog squats now. Wow! Do they burn! They are really hard!
I also walked my laundry down to the laundromat, so that was probably about 3/4 of a mile there and back, pretty cool, also carrying a fairly heavy load. Some dude stopped to talk to me and ask me for my phone number while I was carrying the laundry and I was thinking
man
if you were REALLY cool you'd offer to help carry this thing!
but oh well
can't win em all!
But that's cool, more calories burned for me.
I am also starting to see definition in my arms, which is nice. I can't wait until I have REALLY defined arms, that will be awesome! I am thinking of doing more push-ups too to strengthen my chest muscles, I think those are good for making the breasts sit as high as possible as well. And I like to keep the girls riding high, you know? lol
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StuckSara
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Posted: 29 October 2008 08:07 pm |
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| I tried those frog squats and they do really burn! More than regular squats too!
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Straylight
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Posted: 29 October 2008 08:55 pm |
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yeah--they are AWESOME! I love them, and I can't wait to see more definition in my legs. WOO HOO!
I just got in from sunbathing. I really love the book I am reading
The Science Of Mind
it is amazing.
So, I have to get ready to go to work now. I will post later in the evening!
Calories are REALLY low today, I just haven't been that hungry, but that's okay because they have been higher the last few days (1500- 1800) and plus I usully get hungry later in the day. I am NOT going shopping until I have eaten everything in the house! See how long I can stretch it for. I am excited. This is the 7th day so far. I am proud of myself!
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Posted: 30 October 2008 02:22 am |
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| ha ha, I do that too...wait till my house is completely empty! Then I wonder why my grocery bill is crazy high.
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Posted: 30 October 2008 05:49 am |
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I have to start budgeting my groceries too  . I'm going to try to keep my food bill (including coffees) to under $20/week. Not easy to do with healthy foods!!! But I just checked my account today and I only have 1800 for the rest of the sememster  !
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Straylight
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Posted: 30 October 2008 06:30 am |
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I am pretty sure I will have to go on Friday for groceries. I am down to a handful of almonds, 3 eggs, two handfuls of chocolate almonds, one fearless frank, about 1/10 bag of beet chips, a 1/2 block of cheese, and one thing of green tea. Oh yeah ,and one more glass of wine. So yeah, tomorrow will be time to go to the store. Oh wait WAIT! I do have a bunch of peanut butter and honey left. Maybe I could go until Saturday. Hmmmmm....
We shall see!
As for today, I ate the following:
-some raw almonds
-a small portion of chicken breast
-handful of black almonds
-peanut butter and honey
-handful of beet chips
calories probably around 1200...
I might drink a glass of wine and then that will up it to about 1300 (because it's probably only 3.5 ounces of wine)
I did have a good day today. Got in some good studying for my test, saw my kids, had a VERY interesting spiritual discussion with one of my girls, had a good conversation with one of my foster fathers, and also got some candy bracelets from my friend, like 6 of them which was very cool, and I was informed that these bracelets are still cool, which is hilarious to me because they were all the rage in like 1995! So that's frickin' hilarious!
And I got to meet this cool chick from corporate today, and I think she liked me, I made her laugh and made her say
far out
which is cool
i love to hear people say older #%@&! like far out and groovy
it's so cute!
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Straylight
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Posted: 30 October 2008 02:36 pm |
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Okay, i don't know what happened to what I just posted. But anyway--
The scale this morning said I had a total weight of 149.4 (a drop of 1.2 pounds since yesterday's weigh-in) with a body fat percentage of 31.8%, (a drop of .9% since yesterday), making me carrying around 47.51 pounds of fat (a 1,7 drop since yesterday!)
So that is great! My goal by Sunday is to have my fat pounds be less than 46.51. I know I can do it! I hardly have ANYTHING left to eat today, so it should be pretty easy to stay within a good calorie range!
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Posted: 30 October 2008 03:30 pm |
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I just went to go take out the recycling, and my neighbor was out there getting into his car for work. My neighbor is a crazy mofo--handsome enough dude, actually REALLY handsome really if you like the built, long-haired latino type in glasses, which I do
but anyway
he is totally married with children that are like in their upper teens and so of course I would not consider making him one of my consorts
but when i first moved in
the bastard asked me to be his girl and he offered me a ring, and I was like
aren't you MARRIED dude?
and our complex is SMALL! It's only six units and EVERYONE there is related by blood or marriage except for me and my neighbors across the way, otherwise it's like 3 generations of Salvadorans up in here, and I can't believe he would think we could have an affair and get away with it. I mean, could you get any stupider?
Anyway, I rejected his offer and the stupid ring and then he let it go after that and has since just been friendly to an appropriate level, but whenever I see him, I still can't help thinking
what a dumbas.s!!!!
anyway, on another note, I was just listening to this song on the radio, and the dude sampled in it was talking about negative G-force causing redouts instead of blackouts because of the amount of blood going to the head. That sounded interesting. I need to research it, or if anyone knows anything about that, drop some knowledge!
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Posted: 31 October 2008 03:11 pm |
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| Glad to hear that those goofy squats are a hit with you. I am up to doing 2 sets of 15. At first I could barely do 8 and the next day I could hardly walk! I just put some Metallica on my mp3 player to work out to and let me tell you....it actually works! I had that elliptical moving faster than ever! Got my heart rate up to 170 it did! Have a great day!
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Straylight
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Posted: 31 October 2008 04:20 pm |
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yeah, music REALLY helps with the workouts, you can put so much more into it, it seems. I love it!
I showed my coworker those frog sqauts and she was all over them. Gotta love the acid burn! lol
A long and very tedious day yesterday. My job is trying to make me see ALL of my clients on the same day to get out of having to pay me more mileage, but it's just not going to work. My foster parents don't like me being at the house until 8pm, that cuts into their family time/homework time/dinner, etc. So I am just going to have to tell me work that I am sorry about the mileage, but I will have to split my visits into two days. As of December 1st, they will be saving a bunch on mileage anyway because they are making Redlands my home office, so... they can put up with an extra $240 this month in order for me to provide optimal services. Besides, who wants to see an exhausted counselor that already had to work 10 hours before you even see them? That's not fair to my clients OR me!
It was a good day food-wise. I kept up a decent deficit and this is what I ate:
-green tea (I need to buy more today, I am totally out. I will have chai this morning, but then I need my green tea!)
-egg fried in butter
-beet chips
-Fearless Frank with melted cheddar cheese
-melted cheddar cheese with cinnamon
-black almonds
probably around 1500 calories.
The scale this morning showed another blessed drop, saying my total weight was 149.8 and my body fat percentage was 31.6%, which means I am carrying around 47.34 pounds of fat, which is a .17 pound drop in fat since yesterday.
I also got a date for Sunday set up with my top advisor consort, which is really cool because we will get to go swimming, which I really like AND I will get to show off my new and improved body which I am super happy with right now. And I also had a nice, long conversation with my etheral consort except I totally fell asleep during it because I was exhuasted from my 13-hour workday with 3 hour travel time in there. Whew! It was funny too because I was talking and then I just wasn't talking and then I just woke up like 5 hours later and of course the phone was just off. I don't know when I fell asleep or what, but
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I am going to get my hair re-blonded today which will be cool and tomorrow I am going for that photo shoot which should also be way cool! I have the day off work, so that is cool.
Also, I got a placement in my North Hollywood home yesterday, so that is awesome! I am so glad! A teen girl with a baby (well, a toddler, not a baby so much anymore).
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Posted: 31 October 2008 07:06 pm |
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I can't wait to see the photos from your shoot. So, your going blond for them? That should be cool. I like the pic on here with you in blond hair.
Anyway, that's to bad about work and them trying to cut corners. Geezz, price of gas is going down and all. You would think that would help some. I just hate when programs make cuts, cause it the clients that end up suffering for it. I know through the daycare, whenever some program gets cut, my parents and kids allows suffer from it. It's sad cause some of them really need the services offered.
Ok, well no school today and the kids are bouncing off the walls. So, we are off to the park.... talk to ya later
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Posted: 31 October 2008 07:19 pm |
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You know what I actually had to cancel that photo shoot because I thought more and more about it, and the person doing the shoot is the (very much grown at 27 years old) daughter of one of my foster parents. At the time that we discussed doing the photo shoot, I was not working int he foster home. But in the interim, that foster home got a placement, and now I feel weird about keeping the appointment. Although the woman is grown and does not reside in the same home as the foster parents nor even in the same city or county, I just can't help but feel that if my new placement there were to find out, it might make her feel weird, and I want to keep my working relationship with my girl pure (she is 15). I just don't want to do anything that would make her feel strange. You know? So, I called and left a message for the photographer and she called back and said she totally understood and said maybe in the future we could work together. But yeah, I just felt too weird about it. And plus, she was going to do them for me for free because she considers me a friend, but she considers me a friend because of my job and the work I have done with her parents, so, you see it's all convoluted and I don't feel right about it. So oh well! I am sure another photo shoot opportunity will come up. I should just update my profile on OMP, actually, that's where I get a lot of offers from, sometimes paid too!
Yeah, my work is going to have to deal with paying that mileage. I am not going to inconvenience my foster parents by coming all late to their home just because Corporate is trying to save a buck. They can make a cut somewhere else, like take one less $200 business lunch a month (which they TOTALLY do, by the way). It actually disgusts me how the big guys at the top spend money like water on totally frivolous #%@&! and then try to say there's no money so they make actual line workers who are actually seeing clients and doing important work cut corners on THEIR jobs. It's all bassackwards, and it really is honestly completely disgusting to me. Especially when you're talking about cutting corners with an already marginalized group of people that you are supposed to be helping and sometimes are their only source of aid and support.
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Posted: 31 October 2008 10:11 pm |
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I know what you mean about the appointment, it's almost like mixing business with pleasure kind of thing.
I try real hard not to be good friends outside of daycare with the parents of my children. It cause to many problems, from who said what, to why aren't they paying, etc. I only have one parent from the daycare that I do things with, and I have watch all three of her kids and have known her for about nine years. So, I know her well enough, to know none of that is going to go on.
Plus, with a photo shot, I would imagine you would want to express yourself, and that could be hard if you have to be on best behavior with this girl. lol, knowing that she looks up to you and knows your foster parents and all. Yeah! I would of skip it to.
Oh well, maybe you can get some done another time. Who knows, maybe sometime you will date a consort that is a photographer. Those would be some interesting pictures, I am sure... 
Yep! totally agree with you on the job. Stick to your guns, make them pay until you are moved to your new home office.
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Posted: 1 November 2008 02:44 am |
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well, just to clarify, the person doing the photo shoot is the actual biological daughter of the foster parents who is married and lives on her own (she's 27). The foster child is the one I work with and she's 15. So I wouldn't want the 15-year-old foster daughter feeling weird that I was hanging out with her extended foster family if that makes sense, outside of a social work context... The 15-year-old would not be present at the shoot or have anything to do with it.
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Posted: 1 November 2008 02:49 am |
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Whew! I went to get my hair re-blonded, and it looks great! Can't wait for my consort to get here!
I DID screw up a little bit today though... after all my talk about being so good during the week, I took a really long walk (to and from the hair salon instead of driving there) of about 5.2 miles and I went for a long time without eating.
Then, I stopped at a chicken cafe and got some chicken but it came with pita bread, and I ate the pita bread and THEN I had a fun-sized snickers!
Oops!
Oh well! If I stop now I will still have some of my dignity and I will also have retained a calorie deficit, not a very big one, but one none the less. So my goal is not to eat anything else tonight! Hopefully the scale will still be kind to me tomorrow and show some lower numbers.
But right now, my stomach is full, full, full! And I am feeling a little sheepish, but oh well! You can't go back! That food was good though! #%@&! good!
So, this is what I had to eat today
-raw almonds
-peanut butter and honey
-fun-size snickers
-roasted chicken with salsa
-1.25 pieces of pita bread
Calories: probably about 1865. WHOA NELLY!
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Posted: 1 November 2008 04:05 am |
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And my hair just needed reblonding, it wasn't for the shoot.
I have a Halloween party to go to tomorrow and my blue-eyed jew consort should be here any minute and i need to take a freaking shower!
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Posted: 1 November 2008 02:50 pm |
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Don't you hate it when you rack up that many calories and hardly eat that much. It's funny some days my food list are huge, but everything on them is low calorie. Then other day the list is really small with items that have alot of calories.
Anyway, don't feel bad about the snickers, I had two fun size ones last night and two milk dud things.  I think thats pretty good since it's TTOM and all.
Yeah, I should do something with my hair, I am getting really tired of wearing it up in a pony tail everyday. Maybe I will get it trimmed and have hubby highlight it. Making it blond would be fun, but my hair always turns orange when I do that.
Anyway, have fun with your consort, talk to ya later
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Posted: 1 November 2008 05:44 pm |
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hey girl. Hope you had fun last night. To answer your question I used to work in the ITIN department which is basically giving immigrants a number to use in place of a social security number! I don't have ANNNNNNYTHING to do with any taxes other than that.
Sounds like you are doing well on your diet though. I see your weight going down.
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Posted: 1 November 2008 06:50 pm |
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I DID have fun last night. My consort fell asleep really early though, and then I was just awake, awake, awake! That was mainly because he had wine and I didn't, as I had already put enough calories into my body for the day!
My friend had texted me like 4 times last night and called twice, and I got it all this morning. (I usually have my phone on silent, and I check it maybe once or twice a day, I don't like it to interrupt my immediate experience). But anyway, I guess he had gotten mugged on the way home from work at like 1am last night. Two white bro-hammy type (big truck, Volcom, beer-swilling guys). All he had on him was his dinner, but they took that. He was scared and disappointed, as he stated that it happened right in front of a bar with a lot of people drinking outside and nobody went to help him, so he lost his dinner. :( Poor guy! I asked him if he filed a police report, and he said no, what were the police going to do? I could see his point. After all, this happened in Long Beach and the police have bigger fish to fry than some white dudes stealing some Mexican dude's dinner. Pobrecito!
The scale this morning said that I weighed 149.8 (again) with a body fat percentage that I can't now remember, but I already ran the calculations, and I am carrying out 47.49 pounds of fat today. That's actually a bit MORE fat than yesterday. I think I mostly blame that stupid pita bread and those darn fun-size snickers. Well, I mean I don't blame THEM--I blame myself for eating them!
My big mistake yesterday was to let too many hours go in between my meals and then I was just ravenous and exercised poor judgement and impulse control. I ate some peanut butter and honey at about 11am and then I didn't eat until 6:15pm! That was because I walked to the hair salon and then it took a long time to get my hair done, and then I walked home (5.2 miles round trip). I meant to bring a bag of almonds with me so that I could snack on them, but I forgot. Then lo and behold, I stuff myself silly at 6:15 because I let about 7 hours go by in between meals! I should have eaten at least twice in the interim. I am glad I learned that lesson. I won't be doing that again. I will always have some healthy snack on-hand when I leave the house so I don't get stuck like that again.
I am really hoping to be able to go below 46.5 pounds of fat by tomorrow. I am going to try really hard today to keep it low-calorie, like hopefully in the triple digits. I am going to a Halloween party tonight, and will probably have like 3 glasses of wine, which is about 375 calories. So, after my breakfast of raw almonds and raisins that I am eating right now, I have about 400 calories to play with until I leave for the party. Sheesh! It will be tough, but it will be worth it! I know I can do it!
I already walked like 1.5 miles this morning, around the block and then to the store to pick up some green tea, which I ran out of, so that's pretty good! And I don't know exactly what time it is since I don't clockwatch on the weekends, but I know it's not superearly, so I think I will be good if I just eat something small every 2 hours until I leave for the party at like 6. I might try having an additional cup of green tea as well.
On a very interesting note, yesterday on the way home from the hair salon, I was walking, of course, and a largish man with glasses and a mop of curly hair who was sitting smoking a cigarette outside a building gave me a compliment, telling me I looked beautiful. I smiled and said thank you, and then decided to stop because I saw that the cigarette he was smoking was hand-rolled, which is pretty much the only kind of cigarettes I will smoke, and I figured I could get one from him, so I asked him if he could roll me one. He looked very happy and said of course, and he extended his hand for me to shake, which I did. On his hand was a bracelet, like a hospital bracelet, and I glanced up at the building I had stopped in front of (as I had not been paying attention), and it was a psychiatric faciility. I let that register for a minute and felt sort of weird for a second but then I thought
what, are you too good to chat and share a smoke with a mental patient? What, do you think he's going to attack you here on the street?
And then I just went with it, and other patients came over to see who he was talking to, and some of them had strange-ish looks in their eyes like they were afraid or uncertain, but all of them smiled back when I smiled. A staff member came out, a handsome light-skinned black dude, but he sort of hung back, didn't interfere and he was friendly. I think he just wanted to make sure nothing happened. But nothing did, I had a nice chat with the man who had originally complimented me and another big white guy with a goofy smile and blue eyes came by and joined the conversation. I could tell they were a little "off" so to speak, but the conversation made basic sense, and nobody did anything scarey. We talked about books and authors. At one point, the dude with glasses asked me if I was his aunt, which I thought was funny. I probably stayed and talked with them for about five minutes or so and then continued on my home. It was an interesting experience, and one I would not have had if I had driven instead of walked to the salon. And it really made me think about people and how we are so afraid of certain groups of people or treat people differently because they are, say, a prostitute, or a mental patient, or delayed, or whatever... because I won't lie to you, when I saw that hospital band and looked up and saw that it was a psych facility my stomach did a little flip-flop and I considered leaving. But I thought--why? Why leave? And me being a social worker and everything, I am the proverbial champion of the underdog, and I really do believe that the messed-up way we treat entire groups of people contributes to their marginalization in a big way. I mean, it's bad enough to have some mental problems, but then when everyone treats you like a leper because you have mental problems, that can only create MORE mental problems! And the same with anything--there's some sociological term for it, I want to say it's called labeling theory, but I am not sure, but basically the phenomenon that people will become whatever labels we give them.
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WannabeLoser
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Thats actually very interesting that you told us that story. That is one of the things that I am studying in school right now. I am studying to be a rehabilitation counselor for people with disabilities but most people think of PHYSICAL disabilities when they hear "disabled". There is a lot of prejudice against mental disabilities...(actually all disabilities if we are being honest), but they are people too...they just might not be "wired" quite the same as us. I suppose the ones you really gotta be afraid of are the ones who are serial killers....eh but hopefully your gut instinct will let you know.
Cool stuff man....cool stuff.
Also...a halloween party tonight?
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Posted: 1 November 2008 09:53 pm |
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Tamale: So glad to hear from you again! I missed ya! Is your husband still in the US or is he back in Iraq? Post some pics of the wedding!
Also, I am sure that these psych patients were pretty low-level as far as dangerousness goes or else they would not be allowed out of the facility like that, and plus the facility was located right on a busy street, so they would have to only serve low-level patients there or they could not have the building located there, probably. I know out in San Bernardino, there is a place called Patton, which IS for the criminally insane serial-killer types and that place is located way out of the way and it's completely locked down, the patients are definitely not allowed contact with the outside world because they pose too big of a risk, and most of them there have committed some sort of very violent crime (murder, rape, etc).
Yes, my friend is throwing a Halloween party in Orange County tonight. I am not going to dress up, but I plan on having a lot of serious fun!
I am doing good on my calories too, so far. I am now enjoying another bowl of raisins and almonds (180 calories), so today so far I have only have 310 calories, and I also decided I would drink vodka at the party instead of wine, because it's lower calorie.
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Posted: 1 November 2008 10:11 pm |
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I forgot to take my colon cleanse pills last night, so oops! I started up again this morning. Didn't have any really good releases, but that is OK. Had a sort of puny one about a half-hour ago, but oh well, I am sure a big one is in the mail, lol!
Also, when I got back from putting gas in the car, my little neighor Matthew (he's five) was outside on his porch reading a book on anatomy. I hung out with him for a little bit and talked about the body and how it works. I showed him how to feel his pulse in his carotid artery and he thouhgt that was cool. I also showed him the veins in my arms and he found some of his own veins, which he also thought was very exciting.
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Posted: 2 November 2008 03:39 pm |
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Hey, how long is your cleanse suppose to last. I thought about doing something like that, but I think I would have to quit the fiber thing that I do, cause it would be to much on my body. But, thought the cleanse would help me get rid of the stomach roll thing, I got going on.
Anyway, was just curious, when you get done you'll have to tell us what results you got from it.
Also, just got to say, I think it's great that you take time out of your day, to talk to people. So, many people now a days are to into their own little world to even say hi, let alone stop and talk. I guess that's why I live in a small town, lol. Last edited on 3 November 2008 08:46 am by
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Straylight
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Posted: 2 November 2008 04:18 pm |
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My colon cleanse lasts until the capsules are gone. Then, I have heard you do a bottle of capsules every 2 months to keep things going. So once I am done with this bottle, I will wait 2 months (from the time I actually finish) and then start another cleanse. They say you can take 3 - 5 pills twice a day (so that means 6 - 10 pills daily), and I go at the lowest dosage just because I want everything to be gentle. I am not exactly sure when I started, but I want to say probably about a month ago.
It's hard to say too what the colon cleanse has done because I have changed so many other variables about my lifestyle as well in the last 5 weeks that I couldn't say what is due to what, you know what I mean? I mean, I exercise a lot more than I used to, I eat much more healthy than I used to, and I drink green tea regularly and I never used to do that, so all of those things, along with the colon cleanse probably work together to give me the good results I have been getting.
Oh yeah, AND I got back into a serious meditation schedule after being way lazy about it, and I think that makes a big difference too.
I mean, I can tell you that I have lost a lot of weight (9 pounds in 5 weeks), I have a much more positive outlook, I have a lot more energy, etc. but who knows how much of that is due to the colon cleanse?
I would say go ahead and give the colon cleanse a try and see if gets rid of that stomach roll thing. I have heard that oftentimes people's intestines are full of impacted cr.ap and this can cause the stomach to poke out, so give it a try. I mean, it's always good to clean yourself out anyway, so you might as well do it. I ordered ACOG colon cleanse capsules, and I think it cost me about 30 bucks.
The first two weeks I had a few emergencies, shall we say, but it was still manageable. And for at least the last two weeks, no emergencies at all, everything's just been real gentle and normal, so that's good.
On another note, ladies and gentlemen, the scale this morning said I weighed 147.6 pounds with a body fat percentage of 31.3% meaning that I am carrying around 46.2 pounds of fat. This is my lowest weight and fat weight since starting my new program, and I am VERY happy. That is 9 pounds lost in about 5 weeks, and 3.8 of that was fat (the rest probably water). And you can't lose fat without losing water because water is in all of our tissues. So, I am very, very, very pleased. And this program is definitely sustainable and not only does it make me improve my body but I have felt my whole outlook and attitude improve as well.
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Posted: 2 November 2008 04:20 pm |
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| 9 lbs in 5 weeks is awesome. Congrats on your weight loss!! You are doing so well keep it up. Have you decided on what you think is going to be your final goal (as far as weight, clothing size, etc)
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Posted: 2 November 2008 06:49 pm |
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I want to say somewhere between 120 - 135 and a size somewhere between 5 and 7, probably.
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