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cleolinda ([personal profile] cleolinda) wrote2009-01-04 06:04 pm

Sunday already?

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.


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[identity profile] lacrimaeveneris.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] gaminette.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[identity profile] amberdulen.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] krazycat.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] baku-chan.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
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?
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[identity profile] be-themoon.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
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. :/

[identity profile] jettcat.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
I hear you, I quit smoking for New Years and I just want to go buy a pack and say screw it!

[identity profile] schmoo999.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] shlupquack.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
I'm also on a decluttering spree. Many an inkless pen is now in the trash.

Yay for non-spring cleaning!

[identity profile] maudelynn.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] riari.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] word-herder.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] fading-october.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] diddakoi.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
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.)

[identity profile] sneaky-minx.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
Is it wrong that my first thought at seeing Pat Hingle's passing was "How did he get outlived by Michael Gough?"

[identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
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. : )

[identity profile] lily-handmaiden.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] maudelynn.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
yeah. I have been following the food recs in this book

http://www.amazon.com/Perricone-Prescription-Nicholas/dp/0060188790

it really has helped me eat better. Everyone says my skin glows, yada yada... i just have to be careful because I DO get underweight sometimes.

BTW, I am a big commenter, i comment A LOT :)
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Re: Prince Caspian spoilers

[identity profile] be-themoon.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] redcoast.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Hee. You know, like we didn't sit there on sparklefield for half the afternoon as it was. ; )

[identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm allowing myself treats (I like frozen Cokes at the movie theater)--it's the habit I'm really trying to break.

[identity profile] maudelynn.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
oh, you guys just make me giggle in there. I am trying to do research for something I am writing, so I get very sucked into the interwebs. I even bought a neo so I could write without distraction. Nope.
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[identity profile] holdouttrout.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not the only one who has wrapped DVDs sitting around that I really, really wanted? Thank god.

Re: Prince Caspian spoilers

[identity profile] diddakoi.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Ya, Edmund's good in that too! Completely redeems himself from the last film.

Also liked the little Susan/Caspian romance. :) (Even though he's hella old.) I can't remember if that was in the book or not.

I KNOW. And Susan was always my favorite, too.

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