June 28, 2005
Pet Consumer Alert
I don't know how many of you this affects, but it pissed me off
ROYAL, so I thought I'd share.
A certain large, national pet chain (one that thinks you're sMart if you shop there) will shortly cease to carry Iams and Eukanuba products for dogs and cats. According to the regional operations manager, who we actually spoke with yesterday in the store, they are switching to Science Diet products exclusively.
While this is fine for their business, and Science Diet is a fine product, the makers of Science Diet DO NOT make a large variety of prescription dog foods. Until last week, the sMart store was the ONLY place I could pick up Eukanuba K/O Kangaroo and Oat allergy formula dog food. Now, they no longer stock it. Arrgh. How the bloody f*ck am I supposed to feed my dog without her getting sick, huh?
Oh well, here's hoping the food will be available SOMEWHERE in LA without having to buy it from a vet....
Anyway, I realize that I may be the only reader of this blog who feeds her dog a prescription food, but nonetheless, some of you may purchase regular Iams/Eukanuba products there, so I wanted to pass along the heads up.
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According to Froogle, there are a few places that may carry it. Some of those are *sMart* (shop smart! shop Smart), but there are enough that are not, that you should be able to find something.
edit: your blog won't let me link to google!
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Even editing the link slightly, removing the http, adding spaces between local. and google. didn't work.... so just try local.google, type in the dog food of your choice, and the city where you'll be living....
Posted by: Bill at June 28, 2005 09:25 AM (y2i9F)
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The Eukanuba site allows you to search your zip code for places to buy their products (in the Products menu, see 'where to buy'). You might have to call to see if they have that specific formula in the location you want but hopefully that will keep you from running all over looking for it.
Could see if a vet recommends a different allergy formula from a more available company too...
Posted by: Princess Cat at June 28, 2005 01:40 PM (qha9N)
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I'll check with my Sis. She buys her dog food from some place on-line. Her dogs also require special foods. I'll get back with you in a day or two.
Posted by: vw bug at June 28, 2005 02:17 PM (/8HxP)
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Petco.
Posted by: Margi at June 28, 2005 03:01 PM (nwEQH)
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No one here carries the food I feed my cat, so I have it shipped from Epetpals.com. They're reputable, and I've been a customer for years. They're great at trying to get specific products for you. They had a real store here, but it went out of business. So they ship from their Aptos store. Even with the shipping, it's cheaper for me to buy the litter I use from them, than to pay the rip off prices of our local chain store.
Posted by: Ith at June 28, 2005 03:22 PM (/Kiii)
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If you run out of options, let me know. Iams sponsors my cat club's show every year. I can go through our contacts there if all else fails.
Posted by: Omnibus Driver at June 28, 2005 03:35 PM (6VG2d)
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I hope this helps you out a bit.
http://www.petrx.com/index.asp?PageAction=Custom&ID=1
Posted by: Cliff at June 28, 2005 10:00 PM (aCv//)
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I've fixed the problem with linking to Google. It was in our Blacklist, probably because a spammer included a link to Google just to be annoying.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 29, 2005 05:53 AM (+S1Ft)
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My parents used to feed their dog prescription dog food before it died. They ended up having to get theirs from a vet.
Posted by: Contagion at June 29, 2005 08:54 AM (Q5WxB)
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My son's canine is allergic to corn and soy; corn is a primary ingredient in most dry dogfoods. There are a few brands out there which don't make her itch and all are of course expensive. Fortunately we live on the poor side of town, where groceries sell chicken necks and such so a sack of dry food lasts a long time.
Posted by: triticale at June 30, 2005 07:04 AM (xfgdj)
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Working in the pet supply business I might be able to offer some advice. Yeah, a lot of dog foods are full of corn. Corn is junk for dogs. They can't process corn. It does nothing for them and just ends up in your back yard. And...becuase it goes right through them they're hungry twice as fast so you go through more food. (Their intent probably) Eukanuba is one of the worst for being full of corn. Recommended foods for dogs with allergies...Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance -Duck and Potato. #1 allergy food we sell. Nutro also makes an allergy food. Science Diet prescription stuff is OK but their "regular" food is also full of corn. Nature's Recipe is another food with no corn and no "chicken by-product" which translates into beaks, feet and left over bits they couldn't use for anything else.
Good luck.
Posted by: Koolaid at July 01, 2005 02:25 PM (nwEQH)
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Not true. Petsmart will continue carrying Iams, Eukanuba and a host of other brands. Can you imagine one of those big stores filled with nothing but one brand? Not likely.
Posted by: PetVet at July 02, 2005 11:11 AM (/GhEH)
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My dogs eat normal food. The cats? Not so much. Two of them suffer from urinary tract problems, which usually necessitates prescription food. I did discover that one type of IAMS cat food works just as well. Bummer that PetsTUPID has made this decision.
I have no problem with Science Diet, but I'm not willing to switch from a food that I know works. Fortunately, I have options when it comes to places to purchase pet food.
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June 26, 2005
Apologies in advance
It's no secret we're moving. Here's the schedule:
Today: go to my office, clean out my desk, remove my toys and posters (picture to follow so you understand), print out what I hope is the final version of my thesis so I can take it in to the Grad school tomorrow to get it measured (DON'T ASK). Feed my friend's cat. Keep packing. Call in Dog's prescription
Monday: take dissertation to be measured. Make any changes, clarify requirements for printing (# copies, etc.). print on fancy paper. Turn in dissertation and all the paperwork to the grad school. Photocopy grades for Jennie, campus mail them to her. Keep Packing. Get rental application for new house from FAX machine (yay!), fill out application, return to sender, otherwise call her and figure out another way to get it... Keep Packing. Take bookcases, desk, garden/patio stuff to friend's house. Feed friend's cat. Go to costco, ask about transferring prescriptions to CA. Pick up dog's pills. Put in MY prescriptions. Keep packing. DH needs to call JSC and Moving company. Call to get cable/phone/power/water off or switched. Put change of address cards in mail.
Tuesday: dog to groomer. Keep Packing. Go to work. Finish up there. Say goodbye. Come home. Keep packing. Movers come tomorrow. Keep packing. Keep dumping. Pick up my pills. Feed Cat.
Wednesday: Movers take my furniture. Mom and Dad to Hotel. Load Car. Get rid of extra crap. Clean house. We go to friend's house. maybe sleep. Feed Cat.
Thursday: Mom and Dad to airport. Friend returns. Meet with current landlord to return keys and pick up a check.
Friday: Hitting the road with dog for parts unknown. Blogging will be light to non-existent.
Back on the 7th. For those of you I emailed, I will be checking, just not blogging
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Have fun! Hope to hear from you soon!
Posted by: vw bug at June 26, 2005 09:17 PM (/8HxP)
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Good luck, and have fun on the road trip!
one small request though.... if you have the time, can you set a prewritten blog statement to appear once per day, detailing anything? Maybe just where you expect to be that day. I found it fun when I did that on my vacation last May, and if nothing else, the possible unmoderated comments could be interesting.
Posted by: Bill at June 27, 2005 12:10 AM (Nn6GS)
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Don't over do it on the move! Try not to let small problems overwhelm you. Everytime I've had to move there is always a plethora of small problems that on their own are nothing, but add up to being really annoying.
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Posted by: Jay at June 27, 2005 10:22 AM (f01cJ)
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Good luck with everything! I can't believe you're feeding a friend's cat in the middle of all this!
Posted by: Marie at June 27, 2005 11:05 AM (cRiTs)
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Have a safe and fun trip!
Posted by: Ith at June 27, 2005 06:04 PM (/Kiii)
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Have a safe and fun trip!
See you in Cali!
Flap
Posted by: Flap at June 28, 2005 12:05 AM (xU5yG)
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I'm tired just reading this.
Good luck! Be safe!
Posted by: Bou at June 28, 2005 02:24 PM (J9A1R)
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June 23, 2005
Blogging = Birth Control?
Every time my life intervenes and I take 24 hours away from the blogs,
somebody else turns up pregnant!
Either I've got to read everyday, or y'all are just gonna have to quit making babies. My poor little fingers are gonna be worn down to nubs making booties and blankets!
Especially with three coming the same week
Seriously, though, congratulations to my (sort of) blogparents on their impending second parenthood and to Sadie on becoming a big sister!
Yay!!
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So that's what it is. I knew the computers in my life were taking time away from my person to person interactions. Guess I need to post more in order for it to be a more accurate reason.
Posted by: Bill at June 23, 2005 11:11 PM (Nn6GS)
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Heh. I hear it's a freakin' pandemic. Hopefully, you'll either get some reinforcements or things will slow down!
xoxo
M
Posted by: Margi at June 23, 2005 11:42 PM (nwEQH)
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Thank you!
Posted by: Deb at June 24, 2005 11:17 AM (f01cJ)
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I wonder what posts made everyone soooo amorous?
Posted by: ArmyWifeToddlerMom at June 24, 2005 11:22 AM (CY45G)
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You have to stay blogging. No more pregnancies for me!!
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June 21, 2005
Question for the Masses
Ok, so as you well know, we're moving. Destination somewhere in the LA area. Probably Pasadena. Our stuff won't arrive until August, so we have some leeway with timing etc.
We're planning on ending up in Fresno, until the stuff arrives, but between here and there is a toss-up. We've decided to take advantage of the trip across the country and do a little sight-seeing.....
Vote for your favorite option, or suggest another:
1) The 40. Simple, straight, from here to CA via TN, AK,OK, TX, NM, and AZ. Includes stop at Grand Canyon
2) North! NC to WV, across the midwest, and up into the Dakotas, maybe Montana, and then south via Yellowstone....
3) Something in between, similar to our trip out here 5 years ago (which included Denver, Kansas, Springfield, MO and etc.)
4) South! Down to Jacksonville and across on the 10 to CA. May include Northward detour to Killeen for visit with in-laws....
5) ???
What do y'all think? Anybody along any of the routes? Any different ideas? Places to avoid?
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COME DOWN TO MIAMI!!
J/K, I know that's way out of the way.
Have you been to Grand Canyon or Yellowstone? I would choose the route never traveled, to experience something new.
Posted by: Amanda at June 21, 2005 01:35 PM (ay+rD)
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I've been to the GC, He's been to Yellowstone....
We did go to Miami 2 years ago.... There's no way I'm driving there from here again
Posted by: caltechgirl at June 21, 2005 01:54 PM (UNuTU)
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I've been many of the routes

I'm going to have to say Yellowstone, even though it'll be jammed. But it's so beautiful. I've been twice and can't wait to go back.
10 we didn't like so much
40 we've done a few times and there's New Mexico which is a favourite of mine. Last time, we took a detour to Santa Fe and loved it. And the cinder cone park and pueblos (I'll have to look up the name) near Flagstaff is great.
70 we did once. It was nice
80 was a favourite of ours. And the one we'll take next time we do the cross country thing.
Posted by: Ith at June 21, 2005 01:58 PM (/Kiii)
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A bit of advice:
Don't try this in the early, morning sickness prone, especially hormonal stages of pregnancy.
I'm not sure whether I would pick Jellystone or Grand Canyon if I had to choose one. But I'd love to go a northern tier route someday.
Posted by: Jay at June 21, 2005 02:32 PM (f01cJ)
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Oh, yeah. We had such big plans for our big adventure, and they all went down the...uh, never mind. LOL! Of course, we were also on a tight schedule between winter storms, which didn't help. Y'all picked a nice time of year to do this.
I'd go whichever way is farthest from anywhere you stand a chance of going again anytime soon. For me, that would be the northern route.
And Kansas is bad but Texas is worse. Heh.
If you want to avoid anything really mountain-like 10 is good. When I was going out to Norfolk in January from Fresno I went (IIRC) 5-10-20-30-40 and that worked pretty well.
What sort of scenery you're interested in is important, too.
I am so jealous.
Posted by: Deb at June 21, 2005 03:55 PM (f01cJ)
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Well, if you follow route #2, you know the beautiful northeast corner of Iowa is only 35 miles off of Interstate 90, if you exit where I90 passes La Crosse, WI... (hint hint)
Posted by: Paul Burgess at June 21, 2005 04:24 PM (7EVyU)
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I would say make the effort to got I-70 through Colorado once you are west of Denver it is fantastic, then take it to the I-15 and hit the great Utah Parks like Canyonlands, Arches, Bryce Canyon and Zion. (I enjoyed Bryce and Zion far more than the Grand Canyon) But all four are wll worth the Trip.
I worked with a guy from Fresno once, ironically he was only there on weekends and worked in Camarillo during the week because the job prospects weren't as lucrative.
Posted by: the Pirate at June 21, 2005 05:37 PM (SksyN)
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If you're not pushed for time, stay off the Interstates and drive the back roads. (Recondo 32 and I came all the way back from Tacoma to Savannah that way.) DEFINITELY head north and see South Dakota and Montana. DO NOT miss Glacier National Park.
Just my two cents worth.
Posted by: Acidman at June 21, 2005 05:44 PM (rz1Lc)
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WOW! Thanks for all the input. We have done the I-70 thing MANY times between CA and Denver, because darling hubby was born there and his family is still there. That's how we started the trek out here.
Don't worry Deb. No morning sickness to worry about. And we got sedatives for the dog's carsickness.
We did back roads between 70 and 40 in Missouri and Arkansas. That was so beautiful.
Posted by: caltechgirl at June 21, 2005 08:08 PM (eV5t9)
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I-40 to I-35 in Arkansas was quite nice too along the Western Side.
Posted by: the Pirate at June 21, 2005 08:12 PM (zXRuj)
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There is so much in Florida/Alabama area you can do if you make it this way: Bellingrath Gardens, caverns, Naval Air Museum in Pensacola, old Forts. If you make it further south (not Miami!), there is Universal Studios (more fun for adults), Sea World, Cypress Gardens.
Depends on what you like. AAA is great for helping out. Even though I treck to Pensacola every year, I found AAA had some cool stuff I didn't know about in Florida along our route.
Just make sure you give yourself enough time in each place to enjoy it. ok? Not like one trip I did where we only had 1/2 day for each thing. UGH. Never again.
Posted by: vw bug at June 21, 2005 08:46 PM (0lNzW)
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I took 20 out here! Take a look at it!
Posted by: Sissy at June 21, 2005 08:53 PM (uXS+O)
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OOH, something I know a decent deal about.
My suggestion, and this is because I haven't done it before, drive out I-70 out to Moab Utah (Arches National Park), then down to National Bridges National Monument, around to Page AZ. Then decide if you want to hit up the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, or go to Lake Powell. ( You might also want to hit up Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, and Four Corners while you're in the neighborhood)
After that, hit up Zion National Park, and spend a night in Mesquite Nevada.
My follow up suggestion, take my favorite route from Vegas to Mammoth Mountain. From Vegas, go up US 95 towards Reno. Wave at the aliens on the nuclear test site. Make a left at Lyda Junction and take Nevada State Route 266 west towards Fish Lake Valley. Enter California (road becomes CA16

. Stay on 168 towards Big Pine. You'll be able to do a cut off towards the Bristlecone Pine forest, the oldest trees in North America, if not the world. This will take you over Westguard Pass, where the road becomes quite narrow for a short distance. Make a right in Big Pine, and head north on US 395
Then head North up to Yosemite, and take a left towards Tioga Pass (CA 120). After Yosemite, you're home free to Fresno.
Just be warned, there aren't many gas stations on this route. It's easily drivable, if you know your milage, and distance between fuel stops.
Posted by: Bill at June 21, 2005 09:01 PM (Nn6GS)
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I have to second the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola as worth a stop if you go that way. Very cool if you have any interest in that sort of thing. I've been six or seven times.

Glad to hear the dog's got meds. Carsick is awful.
Posted by: Deb at June 21, 2005 10:10 PM (f01cJ)
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We are headed out on our road trip tomorrow. Planned stops in a whirlwind circuitous route, Grand Canyon, Monterey, Crater Lake, Yellowstone, Mount Rushmore.
If fundage holds out... if not... well I hope the people at rest stops are generous.
Posted by: Jon at June 22, 2005 10:20 AM (9tzOa)
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So... photoblogging from the road?
Posted by: Jay at June 22, 2005 09:35 PM (f01cJ)
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We plan to add photos, these first two days have been a whirlwind... Kids have been good... Journals are on the blog. Tomorrow night, maybe photos... if not the day after fer sure. Tomorrow is the Grand Canyon.
Heh... or were you asking CalTechGirl? lol!
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June 20, 2005
New Blogger Showcase....
Will magically appear in this space later today... Did I mention work sucks?
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Yeah, but you're a doctor now, so that's all that matters, right?! ;-)
Seriously, not that much longer and it'll be over.
Posted by: Bou at June 20, 2005 10:22 PM (z7nbM)
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Hey...check out my unheard of blog..lol..I have 3 readers and counting...
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June 17, 2005
How did I miss THIS one???
I have really been out of it.
First, Katie Mango comes back for like a week and I miss it.
Margi takes digital photography to a new level, and I'm 2 days behind,
and now this, again, 2 days late...
GayPatriot is Back!! Yay! Even the Patriot Pooches are happy. If you haven't dropped by in a while, go say hello and get caught up. Oh yeah, and welcome to the BFL, too, Bruce. It's nice to have you back!
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June 13, 2005
For those who are interested
Class seems to be going well. I like my students, for the most part, and they seem interested. I try to keep the class going with lots of clinically relevant tidbits, so they understand that it's not just colored lines on a diagram, and they make the connection between brain on paper and brain in head.
Would y'all like me to post some of those interesting bits from time to time?
Anyway, copier notwithstanding, the test went pretty well. If it was my own class (alone and long-term) I would be really happy with the way it came out. Because I'm only teaching it this semester, I need to fit it in with how the other tests given by the other TA came out. My spread skewed a little lower: 10 A's, 14 B's, 10 C's, 2 D's. Hers had more A's and B's, fewer C's. So I think I'm going to give them the opportunity to get some of those points back by making corrections. Probably 1/3 of the points they missed.... That could be a whole letter grade for the lowest folks.
Today's lecture is on neurodevelopment (Yay!) and this week's paper is about the famous case of patient HM, as I will discuss memory tomorrow.
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I'd love interesting bits.
Posted by: Deb at June 13, 2005 10:31 AM (8n5zS)
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I'd love to hear the tidbits. I enjoy collecting odd trivia
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June 08, 2005
Stuck in Lodi again
WhyTF would anyone want to live in LODI???? I mean COME ON. What a hole.
I suppose it doesn't surprise me that terrorists would pick an out of the way sh*thole for laying low while they plot to kill the rest of us.
As you can imagine, several Bear Flaggers are all over this one...
CA Mafia picked up the story first
Not Dale Gribble has a pretty good round up of reactions including this from California Conservatives
Well, I guess these two guys aren't stuck there, although they sure as hell weren't walking out of town....
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June 06, 2005
I think they're on to something
Junebugg,
Pammy, and
Deb are on to something.
It's not what's on the outside that makes a woman sexy. It's what's on the inside.
I'm no model. Hell, I could probably be two of them given the current size for models, but that doesn't mean I can't look and feel sexy.
My husband seems to agree.
So why do we do this to ourselves? Current research suggests that thin isn't all it's cracked up to be, and that what we call "moderately overweight" is more healthy. Doesn't that mean we should rethink what we call fat? Until the advent of TV our idea of "fat" was radically different than it is today....
What do you think?
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I'm with you there

As long as we can agree on no thin bashing. I can't help it that I'm thin, but my father's sisters sure made my life hell for being so. We had to live with them and my grandmother when I was in my late teens and they hated my mum, and they despised me, and they made sure I knew it. That's the short, non-TMI version

I rarely talk about it because it still can make me all queasy inside.
Posted by: Ith at June 07, 2005 01:02 AM (DCF12)
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Definitely no thin bashing. My mom has always been skinny as a rail. On the otherhand... I'm what most people would consider 'pleasantly plump'. I like it. I'm comfortable with it. I have never been nor will ever be a model. Then again, I do think you can be too overweight. Particularly as you get older.
Posted by: vw bug at June 07, 2005 07:44 AM (5b1PM)
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I agree. There's a difference between healthy and unhealthy, and frankly, that's different for every person. My body is healthy at a weight that would be associated with heart disease and limited mobility for a lot of people, but before my RA, I played sports and hiked.
Posted by: caltechgirl at June 07, 2005 08:52 AM (5VQpT)
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Honey, you know what I say... As long as the Dr. says that you are ok, and that YOU feel ok, I love you all the same. I love you very much, that is all I have to say.
Posted by: Grand Mott Trojan at June 07, 2005 09:48 AM (eV5t9)
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I'd say it shows the level of one's thinking, deep vs. shallow. The more you spend time considering what are the best attributes in a mate (I, being male) it becomes more and more clear that physical attraction, while necessary, ranks far below all the character attributes.
(Geez, after reading that it sounds so clinical. Do I always sound like that? Argh.)
Posted by: Paladin at June 07, 2005 10:00 AM (Rfqkp)
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A lot of my struggle is loving myself even though I have a medical problem that everyone assumes is caused by my weight (I'm not so certain that it is). So I go straight up a wall when I get "it's ok to be fat if you're healthy." :-( Overly touchy, I know, but hey, that's me this morning.
Ith, never thin bashing. Never.
Paladin, my husband *is* physically attracted to me, it's not something he compromised on because he likes my personality, though being attracted to a whole person and not just a physical attribute or two is no doubt part of it.
Good Lord, I sound cranky today. Yikes. Sorry about that.
Posted by: Deb at June 07, 2005 10:51 AM (8n5zS)
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And there's a difference between overweight and morbidly obese. People who can't even really walk because they weigh so much and they have to use a scooter. And when you have a dear friend nearing that point, a friend you want to be around when you're little old ladies together, it puts weight into a great deal of perspective.
Posted by: Ith at June 07, 2005 11:34 AM (8CL1r)
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A slippery slope no doubt. It seems to me though that given the state of obesity in America, the last thing we need to is give Americans a reason to be "moderately overweight".
Posted by: ap at June 07, 2005 01:47 PM (u5Cu4)
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Well, that's why any generic metric of weight=health is going to go wrong. Better measures are pulse, BP, cholestrol, blood sugar, etc. which actually measure whether someone has healthy heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas, etc.
If we reset the metric to what it was 40 or 50 years ago, far fewer people would be considered obese.
Posted by: caltechgirl at June 07, 2005 02:28 PM (5VQpT)
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My mother has always been one of those types of women who couldn't gain an ounce of weight no matter what she ate.
I, on the other hand, can LOOK at a Twinkie™ and I may as well have rubbed it on my hips.
Not really. . .I was always relatively thin -- until I hit 35-40. Now, I have what I prefer to refer to as a "Rubenesque" figure.
When I was depressed and miserable -- I was thin. (Depression for me = no eating.) When I'm happy, I don't miss too many meals.
And I'm ecstatically happy with my life, my darling husband, and my boys.
Hence, I have probably about 20-30 too many pounds on my frame.
My husband doesn't seem to be turned off by it (thank GAWD) so. . .I will exercise it off or I won't. I talk a lot about feeling uncomfortable at how I look but the truth is: I've NEVER liked how I look. It's just recently that I've ceased to give a shit about what other people think about me. If those that are near and dear to me think I'm okay -- then I'm okay.
xoxo
Posted by: Margi at June 07, 2005 03:26 PM (nwEQH)
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Right. These things don't necessarily correspond with weight, nor are they necessarily caused by weight even if they exist in an overweight person. Sometimes losing weight can help. Sometimes it doesn't. *shrug*
Posted by: Deb at June 07, 2005 03:28 PM (8n5zS)
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Margi, I also don't eat when I'm depressed or stressed. Everyone thinks I'm odd. Well, yeah, but you know what I mean!
Posted by: Ith at June 07, 2005 03:43 PM (8CL1r)
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Ith, if that makes me odd, then I say I'm in good company, eh? ;o)
Posted by: Margi at June 07, 2005 07:24 PM (nwEQH)
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Ever since I saw the photo of the "Cosmo" cover girl from the back during a photo shoot, with a cheap piece of cardboard, cut all crooked with scotch tape on some of the edges, stuck into her poofy over-styled hair, holding the hair WAY out to the sides so it looked all full and lush and thick FROM THE FRONT ANGLE where the photo was being taken from, I've disabused myself of the notion that anything the media serves me about how women out there look is "real." Instead, I now believe what I see at the mall: and I just see regular sort of women there. Some a little chunky or plumpish, some kinda skinny, some obese, and everything in between. Nobody, and I mean nobody, has friggin' cardboard taped to their hair.
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June 03, 2005
What's your favorite....
Swear word?
I usually use asterisks around here to deter pRon spambots, but to hell with it for this post.
My favorite words in the extended for those of you who can't get swear words at work.....
more...
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I am all over this.
Mother Fucker
Fuck
What The Fuck
Shitass
Jackass
Jerkoff
Posted by: ArmyWifeToddlerMom at June 03, 2005 11:48 PM (rmbUc)
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Ah, but can you sing while swearing:
Fuck, fuck, fuck, / Mother, mother fuck, / Mother, mother fuck, fuck / Mother fuck, mother fuck, / Noich noich noich, / 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, /
Ok, not the greatest bit of writing of all time, but it is highly amusing.
Posted by: Bill at June 03, 2005 11:59 PM (mM+iA)
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Mine is "my, aren't we a ray of fucking sunshine?" n OK, that's not a word, I know.
Posted by: Xrlq at June 04, 2005 12:23 AM (4/bIn)
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My currrent swear word of choice can't even be mentioned here. Suffice it to say that a) it's infinitely worse than "bitch", and b) my bosses' construction potty-mouths have formed my ever-malleable and impressionable construction engineer mind.
But for general NERS consumption, I submit the following fuck-variations: Fuckwad, Fuckrod, Fuckstick, Fucklord, Fucktard, Fucknut, Fuckhole. See? aren't those better variations than the trite and tired Fuckhead and Fuckface?
Posted by: Jihad Jimmy, Minister of War Crimes and Chief Defender of the Faith at June 04, 2005 09:08 AM (YGaCS)
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Yeah, what you said; and see previous post.
Posted by: Mr. Kurtz at June 04, 2005 11:28 AM (LkOEz)
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I tend to say "Son of a bitch" a lot. Fuck is a good general purpose word, but so is shit. I don't really have a favorite, I tend to pepper my language with all of them.
Posted by: Contagion at June 06, 2005 12:33 PM (Q5WxB)
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I just can't fuckin' believe you couldn't fucking leave a fucking comment on my site.
I mean, fuck.
Heheh.
Posted by: zombyboy at June 06, 2005 07:16 PM (1yNBe)
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Hey CTG

Most excellent elaboration...Heheh.
Posted by: Rae at June 07, 2005 09:10 AM (4YdLE)
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Alas, I also admit to having a certain affinity for the use of the word fuck. It's just such a pliable little word.
Fucking motherfukers.
Fucking assholes.
Fucking pricks.
Fuckheads.
Fucks.
Of course, nothing beats the deliciousness of the cursing in Spanglish:
Fucking comemierdas. (Koh-meh-mee-ir-dahs) Fucking shiteaters.
Or
Comefuckingmierdas Shitfuckingeaters.
Posted by: Val Prieto at June 07, 2005 12:22 PM (k8zC3)
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