Posts by verveonica

The guy is an ass-jack, I agree.  Hug your precious boy, love your precious boy and let folks like me deal with him and his advertisers, you don't need the vitriole I can afford to allow well up in me. It's absolute **** and we both know it.

(my close friend has a son on the spectrum and be damned if I am not going to fight for him).

Caverlady,

That is exactly what happened to me.  I simultaneously had an ulcer and they assumed that the pain was all under the ulcer.  It wasn't.  They had to do an emergency surgery the hard way and clean my abdomen out.  I was hospitalized for 2 weeks.

I work for a super-large cosmetics company.  The catch on that one, is that I am one of two women in a department of 12 men, so it's not your usual fare for the office. 

Thank you very much Melkor for your quick reply and support.  I feel so good playing and afterwards, which is rare for a non-sports kind of chick like me.

Anyone in the greater Philadelphia area up for some tennis???

But, but, but, don't you need to be kinda evil in order to pursue the super-villain path?  I mean sure, I can be on occassion, usually following a carb binge, a little demented, but evil?  I am not so sure.  But, I am totally with you in digging the campy hair-do.  I am thinking I could due a rubenesque Amy Winehouse sloppy beehive and store weapons in it.  My weapons, I think, would be stale southern biscuits, and perhaps my own trained hive of bees.  I would need a nemesis though wouldn't I?

Signing in, Verveonica,  307lbs.

Thanks very much Claire!  Your simile of "like spinach" sure helped. 

Now I am off to find out all of the nutritional goodness in them!

I practice yoga both at home and in the most awesome studio.  Since I have started, I see my body being rebuilt, restructured.  I love it.

I do recommend some studio time with a professional instructor (someone with a several hundred hour teaching certification) so that they can work on your alignment.  Proper alignment within the various asanas makes the world of difference and realistically can prevent injury and intensify a practice. 

That is totally awesome!

Yay You!

I am sorta, maybe, kinda proud of myself.  My boss brought in a sack'o'bagels...and not just regular bagels, Panera-type bagels as well as the cream cheese to go with them.

I did NOT eat them.  Instead, I skulked back to my little bit 'o cube heaven and noshed on a banana, conserving calories for Employee Appreciation Week lunch, a Philly Cheesesteak, minus the cheese.

For reasons unknown to me, I will retain anywhere in the 7-10lbs range of water just before and during my cycle.

It sucks, but it does go away. 

Hi there Ashalee,

I understand how you feel, in the past...I had that nagging little bump in my stomach telling me that something was wrong.  To chime in after so many, if you feel something is wrong, it is. I will be brunt: he is lying to you.

There is no room in your relationship for him to even walk past a brothel (not that I don't respect the women within).

You deserve more. Respect yourself more. You deserve to know that your sexual (and thus overall) health is secure and you are not exposed to any risk.  Moreso, you need to know that your partner is true, and what you have, this partnership is real, and worth working toward.  With one lying, I dont believe it is true.

Please Ashalee, for your own sake, investigate, but do not believe the lies.

In political terms it is definately rhetoric.  Nothing more than a tool of rubric in which to emotionally inflame a populace. Quite frankly I am tired of its use in the grander political forum (among other venues) and the hypocrisy that always accompanies it.

Realistically, however it is the notion that the stronger and more cohesive a family unit is, the better.  To agree with hgreilrehtaeh, family first, including the sacrifices necessary and strategically.

In my personal life, I approach this from a strictly humanist approach. I don't consider family values a strictly man/woman nuclear family necessity.  A family can be as simple as two people or as broad as a community of hundreds who love, care and strive to remain cohesive and strong.