So today seems like the perfect day to open up the blog and see what’s going on in the hearts and minds of our readers.
This will be an open forum to post whatever you like as long as you remain respectful and stay within the rules of the blog. I’m sure I’ll have something to post later but I’m going to let one of you get the ball rolling.
Angry Gray Rainbows 
You know what popped into my head earlier today?
I love cookies with frosting on them.
Love them.
That is all.
YUM-MO!!!!
TROLLS!
Who needs ’em? What purpose do they serve? They expend so much energy putting others down and showing their own bigotry and prejudice that it’s just got to be draining for them. The hatred they spew and the lack of acceptance for any ideas, opinions or lifestyles other than their own shows how shallow, narrow minded and unaccepting they are.
I always heard that when someone has a problem with you and they are that verbal about it, it usually means the issue is with THEM and something they don’t like about THEMSELVES. I agree!
Yeah, I wasted far too much energy on this little outburst but I feel better having typed it out! 🙂
The psychology of trolls in general is multifarious and complex.
Some of them want help they can’t ask directly for. They’ve probably been trying for a while and getting more and more angry, feeling that they are being deliberately ignored somehow.
Unfortunately as you say, they cannot absorb the help they want. Which is often why they’re in need of help in the first place.
Catch-22.
wriggles,
very interesting response. Never thought about it in that light.
As someone who doesn’t have a blog of her own, I appreciate open threads!
I’ve been starting a list of people whose gravestones should read “Sent the WRONG MESSAGE by living a full and long life despite being F-A-T”. I’m including people who lived at least to age 70. Let me know if you happen to think of more!
Luciano Pavarotti 72
Ella Fitzgerald 79
Winston Churchill 91
Benjamin Franklin 84
Queen Victoria 82
Thurgood Marshall 85
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 87
Orson Welles 70
Dom DeLuise 76
Mae West 87
Marlon Brando 80
Jackie Gleason 71
Great list! Unfortunately my mind is drawing a blank at the moment or I would add to it.
Here are a couple more, Trabb’s Boy:
John Adams 89
William Howard Taft 72
Henri Matisse 84
Hermione Baddeley 79
Angela Baddeley 71
Margaret Rutherford 80
Beverley Sills 79
I’d also like to note that incredible singers and awesome large ladies Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Horne are still very much alive and kicking at similar ages.
It’s time for me to get a hair cut! OMG! I hate it when it gets long enough to slide down in my collar. I have thin blonde hair that slides out of the curling iron, slides off curlers and is generally flat and lifeless most of the time.
I would love to be able to wear long hair but I really don’t think it flatters me in the least and it’s like the longer it gets, the stringier it looks. I can take it for so long and then it’s time to get it whacked off.
My hair appointment is at 5:00. I don’t go to a fancy schmancy “stylist”, just a plain old beautician who probably hasn’t been to any hair classes for years. I’ve been going to her for years and she knows my hair. I’m always willing to try something new because I figure, it’ll grow back.
One time last year she talked me into getting a cut that is longish in the front and on top but short in the back. It works for me. It’s low maintenance and it’s nice to work out in. That’s what I’m going to go for this time. My hair grows so fast that by April, it’ll be back down in my collar and I’ll be griping again.
But as for today, I’m happy to be going to get a hair cut!:)
Thank you so much for posting this. I’ve been missing this thread and lurking in the background through all the family drama of late.
… in other news…
Speaking of haircuts, I got a great little cut yesterday. I still have massive amounts of hair, but I got my layers cleaned up and my split ends are gone. Whooo hooooo! I really gotta get haircuts more often… they feel so good and I’m sure my hair would thank me for it. I tend to wait too long for them.
Soon, I want to write a post about what’s been up with me lately FA and IE – wise. There’s been a lot of small steps and it’s been lovely. It’s so much easier to write a post when there’s some big, dramatic AH HAH moment… lately my ah hah’s are far more small and subtle… which makes for more difficult post writing, but I think it’s about time I write it up. Heh. Body acceptance is awesome stuff and I’ve certain grown a lot in the past several months. Tee heee…
Umm… let’s see… I read all of the published Sookie Stackhouse books… normally I don’t like that kinda super-easy reading… but man… those books suck you in so nicely! I wish I didn’t have to wait until May for the next one. Ah well… in the mean time, I’m reading “2666” by Roberto Bolano and loving it. Hopefully I can fill the months between now and May with good books… 😉
I love Sookie!!!! I’ve read a couple of them and need to catch up on the others.
Hey AGR!
I have a question about how intuitive eating is working for you. I’ve found that I could really listen to myself and figure out what my body wanted while I was in grad school. Then I got a job and started working crazy hours just trying to keep up. That was about 2.5 years ago. Ever since then, I have not been able to stay in touch with myself enough to actually hear my body (I know it sounds weird). I have been experimenting with ways to stay in touch with myself despite the work, but haven’t found a workable solution yet (except quit my job, which doesn’t seem like a great idea right now). How do you find the time/energy/presence of mind to eat intuitively?
Um, can open threads be questions? 🙂
jackie
Of course you can ask questions! 😀
I wonder if the crazy hours is a factor in your struggles with intuitive living right now. Intuitive living (eating, etc) is about living in a gentle, loving and self-caring way. Working at a job that pushes you too far past your limits is the opposite of that. From my own experience, I’ve found that I can’t simply just eat intuitive and then have the rest of my life be very forced and stressful and unintuitive. For my eating to be intuitive, it is important for me (dunno if it’s this way for everyone else… but I’m guessing it could be…) that I live intuitively in regards to my job, my relationships, my housework and anything else I can think of. Make sense?
Bringing IE into our lives really is a journey of figuring out what you need to make intuitive living possible for you. For example, I seem to require anti-depressants… but not everyone is going to. Some people may thrive with working a lot of hours… some people won’t. Some people may need to live in the country or in a quiet place… some won’t.
On the other hand, I think that self-acceptance is crucial… acceptance of our limitations and strengths… acceptance of our bodies and their signals… acceptance of our needs, etc. Where are you at with self-acceptance? How accepting are you of yourself right now? Do you see areas for improvement that you could focus on? Do you see areas where you’re already really strong in acceptance that you can build on?
Thanks AGR–everything you say makes sense, but I feel a bit stuck on what to do. I appreciate your sharing your own experience!