Sunday already?

[cleolinda]

Caffeine withdrawal headache: Persistent. Four Advil (taken two at a time) seem to have knocked it out.

Declutteration: Threw out an old, mostly-empty bottle of vitamins, two pens that didn't work, and a broken desk clock.

Effort to be awesome: Set up a massive to-do list, then watched Prince Caspian this afternoon. This doesn't sound particularly awesome, except that I have a bad habit of getting DVDs and then just letting them lie around unwatched, no matter how desperately I wanted them in the first place. (Which is how you can tell I wanted The Dark Knight really, really bad, because I watched it almost immediately.) However, any effort to correct a bad habit will hereafter be considered sufficient to fulfill a minimum requirement of awesome.

Also, I'm trying to eat better. To most people, this means eating healthier, but generally for me, this means eating more (not that these two things are mutually exclusive). Which is going to sound odd, because I'm not underweight--my problem is the opposite. But I'm really lazy about actually thinking of something to eat and then cooking it (the effort of preparing food and chewing it, the horror!), so I tend to go from breakfast to dinner without eating much or anything, which means that my metabolism is shot, I'm sluggish all day, and I feel like crap. So we've got a big pan of chicken baking in the oven so we can nom off it all week, and hopefully I'll bother to actually eat, which will give me energy, which will make me get off my ass.

(Also, homemade spaghetti sauce is simmering downstairs, there's a roast in the crockpot, and a pound cake came out of the oven this morning. The Jones house is full of all kinds of nice smells today.)

Quick linkspam:

Veteran actor Pat Hingle dies at 84. Aw! He was an excellent Commissioner Gordon.

Top 10 Most Anticipated Movie Scores of 2009.

"Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross": In response to the Coraline Box items on eBay (I'd link you, but the auction's down now), Neil Gaiman is saying that they're not real. I'm not sure if that's better or worse.

New Horror/Reality Series "13 The Fear is Real." That's right, this headline doesn't even deserve a verb.

Comments

[lacrimaeveneris.livejournal.com]

Good luck on the eating! I've noticed a difference in my family- we have food all prepped in the fridge, and it means we eat better and more consistently! I wish you the best!

[gaminette.livejournal.com]

Speaking of linkspams and deaths, Jett Travolta (http://news.google.com/?ncl=1286492545&hl=en&topic=h) died - not sure when. Maybe this is old news? O_o

Um. Happy New Year!

ETA: har har. Yeah. Old news. Sorry about that. Hi.

[amberdulen.livejournal.com]

Re: 13 the Fear is Real: I was going to say, "Oh man, I should be on that" but then I realized I'm not the Final Girl, I'm the smart one who gets bumped off right at the end, and I wouldn't win anyway.

But it would be a lot of fun to watch with this (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SortingAlgorithmOfMortality) in hand.

[krazycat.livejournal.com]

I have a bad habit of getting DVDs and then just letting them lie around unwatched, no matter how desperately I wanted them in the first place.

That's me, too. Couple that with a recent obsessive habit of buying DVDs, and then picture how many I currently have with the plastic still on.

[baku-chan.livejournal.com]

Re: 13 the Fear is Real:
Are all reality show contestants super models now? I mean sure they throw in the random "freak" (cue mohawk, tats and piercings) but most of them are overwhelmingly plastic-y good-looking. What happened to here are a group of normal, everyday people in an extraordinary situation? Is it just me or does anyone else notice this?

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

Prince Caspian! I want to own that movie. Sadly, so far I've only borrowed it. It is made of win though. *snugsclose*

I WANT VotDT. NAO. *eyes Disney* BE VEWY VEWY CAREFUL.

*coughs* On another note, I could use doing the same thing towards food. I could really use eating more. :/

[moogleybacon.livejournal.com]

heee! Love your icon. :) Matchbox Twenty lyrics ftw~

[jettcat.livejournal.com]

I hear you, I quit smoking for New Years and I just want to go buy a pack and say screw it!

[m4mitchell.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Nicotine cravings peak at the 72 hour point, so if you're on day 4, they're only going to get milder and less frequent as time goes by.

(mostly reformed ex-smoker here. :D )

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

I do the same thing in regards to DVDS. I have a stack of about 20 DVDs that I have bought over the last couple of years, movies I really wanted and somehow never watched. But I will...someday!

[shlupquack.livejournal.com]

I'm also on a decluttering spree. Many an inkless pen is now in the trash.

Yay for non-spring cleaning!

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

I want one of the Coraline boxes. I need to sort out how to get one.

I've yet to see the Dark Knight. I don't know if I ever will. I am sure it is excellent.

Eating well can take a little work, but it is so very worth it. I am pretty good about eating well. I stick to a very specific eating guideline. Loads of fish, salad and chicken. I refuse to give up pasta, though.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm working on chicken and salad at the moment--I could probably stand to add fish. Giving up pasta is right out, though. : )

[riari.livejournal.com]

Good luck on the Mountain Dew not-drinking! I went off of sodas for a year. Only had sprite or a rootbeer every so often and tea. Then Dr. Pepper came out with their diet cherry vanilla dr. pepper. *shakes head*

Now I'm back drinking sodas again. But I try not to have more than two cans a day of diet coke. I'll probably get back down to a can a day soon, but right now it isn't looking well.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm allowing myself treats (I like frozen Cokes at the movie theater)--it's the habit I'm really trying to break.

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

Getting myself to eat is difficult, mainly because I have no desire to eat. Nothing sounds good, ever. If something does, I quickly run out for the supplies and make it before the whim passes. Damn Topamax.

[celticwitch99.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't dare. Topamax is how I lost 40 lbs. a few years ago.

Of course, it is also responsible for putting me in the hospital twice with kidney stones, so...not sure on the trade-off vaue there.

[fading-october.livejournal.com]

I have a habit of buying dvds and letting them fester on my shelf as well. I still haven't watched "One Hour Photo" and I've owned that since it came out. I probably can't even tell you what it's about. I bought the Lion, the Witch, the Wardrobe when that first came out and just watched it a few weeks ago.

I worked at a thrift store once, which meant instant packratilization. I think I'll take a gander at that unclutter website.

Prince Caspian spoilers

[diddakoi.livejournal.com]

I saw Prince Caspian last weekend, and loved it! Susan was so badass in that. I'm a sucker for chick warriors, particularly with bows. It makes me sad she won't be in the next one. (And also what happens in the seventh book... but I won't elaborate.)

Re: Prince Caspian spoilers

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

I loved Edmund especially in it. Because if you aren't looking for him, you don't notice him, but he's doing some important stuff out there. Like be hot do his best to keep Peter from being an idiot. *wisenod*

BUT SUSAN WAS KICKASS TOO. And yeah, I've never gone along with that. It doesn't make any sense to me that someone who spent around 22 years in Narnia could pass it off as a children's game. I mean, really. It always annoys me.

[sneaky-minx.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong that my first thought at seeing Pat Hingle's passing was "How did he get outlived by Michael Gough?"

[lily-handmaiden.livejournal.com]

I do the same thing with DVDs. I watched my Princess Bride DVD for the first time after owning it for about a year, and discovered it didn't work. By then I didn't have any idea where I'd gotten it anymore, much less a receipt. I ended up going to the nearest Wal-Mart, buying another one, switching the broken DVD into the new case, returning it that way so that the bar code would scan correctly and everything, and keeping the new DVD. I felt clever.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

You should read "Health at Every Size" because there's a chapter on intuitive eating that might help you! I actually started eating intuitive ages before I found out that it was an academically researched way of eating ...

If you're anything like me, then your lack of interest in food is part ADHD hyperfocusing on something else, and part because you don't know what you're actually hungry for. Now I'm on medication that forces me to eat regularly or my blood sugar tanks, and it's kind of an effort to make, but over-all I feel a lot better.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

I'm not the only one who has wrapped DVDs sitting around that I really, really wanted? Thank god.

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

Heh, I only took Night of the Lepus out of the plastic last night, and it was a Christmas gift from 2007.

For the record, my friends and I found it to be one of the best bad movies ever. We acknowledge, though, that much of the love comes from the fact that it was filmed in and around Tucson and Ajo, and nearly every exterior shot was a place we recognized.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh my God--all I remember from that is, specifically, the giant bunny stampede, but that is all you have to remember. Magnificent.

[thelovely2.livejournal.com]

An effort to eat more? Well, good luck, but I just can't understand that. You gave a very reasonable, understandable explanation, and yet I fail to understand. I spend at least 20 hours of my day trying to eat LESS.

Well, good luck anyway :)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, that's part of it--when I don't eat regularly, I go without eating for hours and hours and then I binge on anything I can lay my hands on at night. Whereas if you eat two or three times reasonably throughout the day, you end up eating less (or better) over all.

[maisontv.livejournal.com]

My weight has been going up lately due to new depression meds. When I start a new medication it makes me nauseous and all I can stomach are bland things like potatoes, usually in the form of fries. I had lost 10 lbs this quarter, but I gained most of it back when I switched from Paxil to Celexa. Now I'm switching to Cymbalta, so I probably can look forward to even more weight gain. :(

When I'm on a regular eating schedule, I like to keep little healthy snacks (like clementines and raw green beans) around the house for me to constantly munch on, instead of not eating and then eating one big fattening snack because I'm so hungry.

[moogleybacon.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I have the same problem with the eating thing. I'll be starving, but if it just seems like too much effort to actually get up and prepare food of some kind--even just like pouring a bowl of cereal--I'll just be like "screw it". And then I have a slight problem of going to two weeks without eating anything 'cause food sounds like the grossest thing in the world, and then two weeks of eating everything I can get a hold of because who knows I might die tomorrow and never eat again.

And yet, weight machines still say I'm slightly overweight due to my mixture of fat and muscle. P:

But, good luck on the cleaning-thing. I have a cleaning spree to go on when I go back to my dorm room. There are currently various papers lying all over the place due to finals studying, and I now know I can get rid of them 'cause I switched my major. >.> This will take quite a bit of effort.

[edda.livejournal.com]

I have a bad habit of getting DVDs and then just letting them lie around unwatched, no matter how desperately I wanted them in the first place.

Also, I'm trying to eat better.

We continue to be spiritual twins.

[kellyrfineman.livejournal.com]

Thought you might like this post about the new Dr. Who comparing him to Edward Cullen (title of post is "Ohai", but it should totally be "I Can Haz Tardis?" (http://community.livejournal.com/ihasatardis/1727773.html))

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

"…there's a roast in the crockpot…"

I totally misread that as “there's a ROACH in the crockpot” and was ready to say GET IT OUT! GET IT OUT!

Roast is good :D EAT! (I need to do the same thing. We should nudge each other :))

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I nearly called it roast beast again (and probably should have). Actually, if someone cooks for me (or we get food somewhere), I don't have so much of a problem eating. I am that lazy.