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QotD: I Never Should Have Asked...

nobody@vox.com(Runnergirl) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:33:08 +0100

What question do you wish you'd never asked.
Submitted by cha0tic.

Je ne regrette rien.

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QotD: I Never Should Have Asked...

nobody@vox.com(cha0tic) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:09:11 +0100

What question do you wish you'd never asked.
Submitted by cha0tic.

There's probably many more than just one question I wish I'd never asked:
"Would you like to come back to mine for a coffee or something?"
"Should we go for a quick pint after work?"
"Do you want to go sliding on the ice?"

They'll do to be going on with.

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Guess who's...

nobody@vox.com(cha0tic) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:58:10 +0100

...responsible for QotD today?

Brick bats and scorn in the comments please :)

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Finally...

nobody@vox.com(Runnergirl) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:26:50 +0100

Got connected to the internet and the work network etc. from home. Hurrah. It's taken 17months for me to figure it out...

It does, however, mean that I have to sit on the stairs. Hmm.

I am currently downloading the databases to my hard drive, at which point, I should then be able to resume my position at the kitchen table.

I am preparing for my appraisal on Friday. Boss wants us to really spend a lot of time on it, as they will be scrutinised by HR more than usual (looming restructure announcement), and I suspect that we could all be under threat of headcount cuts. Unfortunately I am finding it hard to do a good sell job on my achievements to date this year, because none of the things that have gone down really well are really aligned to my objectives. And I am off-track on most of my objectives, mainly due to things out of my control, but that doesn't go down terribly well with the powers that be.

So, now I am feeling pretty shit about what I have achieved this year and dreading my appraisal - that's a great frame of mind to be in to go in and sell yourself and ensure that you keep your job, right?

In other news, the cleaners we arranged to come today and do a big clean couldn't make it after all. But now I've done the tidying away, I reckon I can clean the house myself - I'll tackle it over the next few days in the evenings. Although I have a birthday cake to bake on Friday night, and then ice on Saturday morning. And we're out on Saturday and Sunday as well. Pants.

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"And you only have two weeks to live, fatty."

nobody@vox.com(CupCate) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:34:58 +0100

This is actually me.

Today I had to venture down to our local family clinic because, for some reason, the medical practice I go to believes that you shouldn't be able to refill your birth control prescription like any other prescription.

If you have arthritis and need pain killers, you can refill your prescription by email.

If you need heart medication or anti depressants you can do the same.

But by god, if you just want to fuck for fun and not get pregnant - you must be punished!! No matter how long you've been on the pill or on the same prescription, the only way you can get a refill is by going down to the family clinic and waiting...and waiting...and waiting...and waiting...

It's not as bad as going to a Planned Parenthood where you could end up being there for 4 hours- but you still have to wait a long time. But worst than the waiting, you have to put up with the other people who go to these clinics.

The trashy teenagers who need to travel in packs to get their pills. The nasty couples who are all over each other who want you to know just how badly they need that bag of free condoms, and the teenage mothers who, yet again, need to bring a posse with them to wait. It's just depressing.

I actually had a woman in there last time yelling at the staff that they didn't give her enough free condoms in her bag,

"Hello!! Can you fill this bag up! I tell ya! You people really skimp on these and never give me enough. It's your fault I have 8 kids!!!!"

I swear to god.

So today, I go. I wait. I wait. I get called into a room.

I step on an ancient looking scale, fully clothed and with my shoes on.

I go sit in a room where the lady pulls up a screen on a computer and says, "So last time you were on this....OK, six more months...OK."

She takes my blood pressure and says that it's good. And then she looks at me and says,

"Your weight is over the top. You should try to lose the weight any way you can."

And then I couldn't speak. I quietly took my prescription and zombied my way out of the clinic.

MY WEIGHT IS OVER THE TOP!?!?!!

Had I been living in a world where when I thought I was a bit heavier and a bit curivier than I had ever been before when I was actually dangerously over weight and unhealthy?!

Are the UK size 12 jeans I wear actually plus sized jeans and I just didn't notice?

Perhaps it was somebody else going to the gym at least twice a week since April.

Maybe it's some other girl that's been eating fucking vegetable soup and god damn Special K snack bars every day for the past two weeks.

Maybe that girl doing push-ups each morning and sit-ups before she goes to bed is just a figment of my unhealthy, lard-filled, fatty McFat-fat imagination.

WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN?!?!?!

How unbelievably, retardedly irresponsible of her!

Do you want to know how much information she had on me?

My weight. What birth control medication I've been on. My blood pressure.

THAT IS ALL.

She didn't have my chart, she didn't know how tall I was, my BMI, what my diet was like, if I exercise at all, ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING.

She didn't know if I had an eating disorder or not!What if I was bulimic and she just flippantly said that my weight was "over the top" and that I should "lose it anyway I can".

How about binging and purging, does that sound like a good idea to you, you fucking idiot!!!!????

I'm sorry, but from what I've learned about body image and health, WEIGHT doesn't not equal HEALTH.

You DO NOT tell a young woman that she has a weight problem without knowing ANYTHING about her! Especialy if you're a fucking NURSE.

So, FUCK YOU nurse lady.

I don't have a god damn weight problem. I'm curvy. I weigh more that other girls my height because I have a different body type than they do. (OK and I like to eat pizza.)

I've been trying really hard to eat better lately. I've been trying to lose weight before I go back to California in September. I exercise. I take vitamins every single day. I drink a lot of water. And I don't drink as much as I used to, and I've really cut back on junk food.

I am healthy. So, if being curvy and healthy makes me fat, than you can kiss my fat ass, lady.

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Oddity

nobody@vox.com(Snaggletooth) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:34:35 +0100

Past futures are always fun. Silver jumpsuits for goalposts. Isn't it? Wasn't it? Marvellous! Where's my jetpack?

But this, on the other hand, is just odd.

Hose it! Oh yeah!

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It just goes to show...

nobody@vox.com(Runnergirl) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:38:33 +0100

A few weeks back, just before we went away, I took my car to the garage to get the kinks knocked into it mended. I was given a hire car in replacement....

Anyway, whilst driving the aforementioned hire car, I received a car parking fine, even though I'd put a polite notice in the window explaining that I usually had a permit for my usual car etc... (I'm sure you all remember).

The short of it is that I challenged the fine, and heard back last week that they were dropping it and closing the case.

That's all 3 of the parking fines I've ever received challenged and then dropped.

My advice - if you get a parking ticket and you have a good reason not to pay it, always challenge it, because you might just have it dropped.

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Melvin

nobody@vox.com(Snaggletooth) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:27:22 +0100

Oh dear... still slacking on the names. Especially the girly ones.

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QotD: Gold Medal Winner

nobody@vox.com(Runnergirl) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:49:03 +0100

In honor of the upcoming Olympics, what could you win a gold medal in?
Submitted by TheFiercestCalm.

Obsessing about Food/Diet/Exercise/Having Kids/Running my own business...

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Foggy head

nobody@vox.com(Runnergirl) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:42:06 +0100

Well, I'm back at work. I have an appraisal to prepare for, and a meeting in an hour with the Trading Director that I had forgotten about.

I've come off the Lemsips - am trying to work out how I feel without them. The answer is not great. I can't seem to regulate my body temperature, although at least the sheets weren't drenched last night, it's not pleasant.

I've spent the past 3 days lying on the sofa watching a combination of property programmes and weight loss programmes (X-Weighted from Canada, The Biggest Loser Couples from the US, and Downsize Me from New Zealand). I have come to the conclusion that I need to invest in a personal trainer. There's a guy from the gym who I've seen working with other people. I need someone to push me hard, and I need to start working out at least 5 times a week.

I want to get this weight loss done. Hopefully by early next year.

Given the laying on the sofa etc. I haven't managed to get to the gym as planned, and although I lost my appetite, I still managed to eat way more than I should have done.

Anyway - I need a Lemsip, I can't concentrate.

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