Category: Random
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Strong or Skinny?
I technically left xanga, I guess, but I’m still obsessed with reading featured blogs. Like this one yesterday. Basically, the author says that skinniness isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, because with skinniness comes weakness. It’s much better to be strong, she says. And I applaud her all the way. Weakness is no fun.…
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New Friends and Old Friends
When I moved to Redmond, and then to Colorado, all I could think was, “must get better…must get better…must beat my sickness…” But of course in the back of my mind there questions like… “You’re really going to leave your home…forever?” “What about your friends?” “Your family?” “Everything you know and feel comfortable with?” But…
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Right now I feel incredibly strong and also embarrassingly weak. Strong because, though I spent both Friday and Saturday hanging out with friends and such, till sort-of late, and the week before that goofing off with my crazy siblings, I was still fine and dandy this morning to go to Church. Week because I tried…
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Films and Flat Tires
Answering questions on video for a book trailer sounded good until I actually had to do it. Then came the great task of trying to find a place in the house that had good lighting. I mean, I didn’t want to look any paler than I already was, or have the dark circles under my…
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The problem with “Healthy eating”
I’ll admit it. For most of my life I really didn’t care if I was eating healthy or not. Simply because no matter what I ate I was always bone skinny. So I constantly snacked on Doritos and Orios and chocolate chips and cookies and whatever else I could quickly grab out of the pantry…
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I have the magic solution for everyone who has trouble waking up in the morning.
I’ve always had trouble in this area. Most alarm clocks give a paltry “beep beep…beep beep” that barely wakes you up enough to hit the snooze button. There was one point in my life when I used a radio alarm clock, but it wasn’t long until that didn’t work at all. I simply had American…
