My Own Thoughts

This article says that you and I hurt in our brains the same place that someone else getting hurt does. That is, if we see someone getting hurt, our brains feel the same thing we would feel if we were getting hurt. I knew there was a reason I didn't like to hear about eye [...]

Okay, I'm still on a rant from 3 entries ago. Remember? The one where the guy said you and I read on a fourth grade level? Where he said we couldn't name the last five books we've read? I have read twenty-eight books in the last four days. All mushy gushy romance novels. I liked [...]

Physique Transformation is an online database/help/diet plan thing. (That's specific, isn't it?) For 8 bucks a month, they'll give you a plan for eating and grade your eating, so you know whether you are doing well or not. Because I had been on BFL for a while (10 mths) with fairly low calories (1200-1500), I [...]

Was reading an anti-war blog this morning. A very negative, inaccurate blog. I try to read alternative views, to keep my vision clear. This one said that you and I are stupid. Well, if you are an American he said you are stupid. He said I am an “uneducated clod”. He said my neighbors were. [...]

Last night I was mad at my husband. I don't remember why. I try to forget or I get mad again. It was bedtime for me and I was washing my face thinking, What's the point of being mad? No matter how mad I am tonight, I'll get over it by tomorrow morning. So I [...]

I get to have my popcorn again. It is about 3:30 and I have two turkey sandwiches and a protein pudding left for today to eat. Apparently I have been very hungry, because the rest of my food feels like it has disappeared without my eating much. I worked on day 3 menu and managed [...]

I don't know if it's true, but this CNN article says that while low carb and high protein helps you lose weight, people who ate 55% or more of their calories in carbohydrates were more successful at keeping the weight off. Maybe because carbs are bulky and make you feel full. I don't know. Interesting [...]

My youngest came in my folks' house yesterday crying. “Grampa fired me!” He and his brother had been working in the yard with Grampa. Dad said that M hadn't been doing anything. M said he was trying. On the way home I explained to both of them some personal prejudices Grampa and I have. That [...]

I've come up with a new way to deal with the toys, etc, left in the house after I've told the kids to pick them up. I put them in a pile in my room. They have to pay a dollar to get them back. So far my youngest has spent four dollars to get [...]

Okay. I survived day one on the fat burning. It wasn't that hard, once I figured out a low A. I don't have problems with willpower. (Although now I worry about having that problem, since I said it.) But normally I try to figure out what I am going to do and do it. Hell [...]

My junior high students and I were discussing tattoos the week before spring break. I told them what the process of removing a tattoo is like. (My sister had hers removed 3 years ago.) They asked me why she had it removed. I said because it had her cheating ex-husband's name on it. “Well, don't [...]

I have finally hit fatburning on Physique Transformation. In the seven weeks of conditioning I have gained 8 lbs of muscle and lost 2 lbs of fat total. (I had lost 4 lbs of fat, but I gained 2 back this last week.) Now I am supposed to be losing up to 2 lbs a [...]

Boing boing carries a clip of a personal account of the Asian pneumonia which is horrifying. If you are like most people and don't think of pneumonia as serious, this will freak you out. Only atypical pneumonia cases are being allowed in ICU. Ambulances are being re-routed not because the hospital is full but because [...]

I am trying to write a novel. I love the story. I love the character. But after nine months of whenever the mood hits me writing, I had 32,000 words. This week I added another 7,000. So now I am up to 39,000. Of course, the book is going to take about 150,000. With that [...]

You've heard of the Dark Ages? Did you know that they were Dark because there was a long period in which an outbreak of plagues happened? In 426 there was a plague in Rome, probably smallpox. In 444 in England there was a plague, probably of smallpox. Throughout the next 100 to 300 years major [...]

Did you know that not all libraries are free? Benjamin Franklin proposed and helped start the first fee-less library in the United States. But when we lived in Austin, we couldn't check books out of the library without paying a $50/year fee. That was because, though our address was in Austin, we didn't live in [...]

Dixie Chicks. The Houston Chronicle today talked about Maines Friday response to her earlier remarks in London. Many radio stations got calls from listeners asking them to pull the Dixie Chicks' music. Several put up web polls. Their listeners were 75% for pulling the songs. Stations are supposed to pay attention to their listeners. So, [...]

Ah Hah! Here is the scientific reason why the smell of my husband's sweat does not gross me out, even though the smell of my own sweat does. Men's perspiration is a stress reducer for women.

These sixty-two pictures of soldiers were pointed out on a blog I read today. I think it is amazing that the pictures are all from this week. Monday through Thursday. They show some of the problems the soldiers are having to deal with now, like losing sleep to sandstorms, having battalion level meetings outside in [...]

The life expectancy rates really mess up my love life. When I was younger, the life expectancy difference between men and women was 3 years. I didn't want to be a widow, so I figured one way of getting the numbers on my side would be to marry someone three years younger. Did that. Now, [...]