Bits and Pieces, the revenge
20Apr2006 Filed under: Journalish• It sure is cool to meet people who are more interesting than I am.
• Tomorrow, I am waking up and going to NIA, and then Andreas and I are driving to the Oregon coast for the weekend. Doesn’t that sound nice?
• I love that Pioneer Square has a public space where your conversation is perfectly masked by the loud sound of water crashing over rocks. It’s awesome for confidential meetings.
• My book is due to to the publisher in two months. I am ahead of schedule. This is how I like to do things.
• Sometimes I think I’m slowly painting myself into a corner where the only option is to start my own business because my standards are so ridiculously picky that I can’t do anything else. (”I can’t work under these conditions, people — there are no flying monkeys! I HAD FLYING MONKEYS IN MY CONTRACT!“) I’m not sure if this is a good thing or the road to brain-crushing anxiety.
• I haven’t seen a single movie in the theater since I left Movies.com three months ago. Huh!
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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lala
April 20th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
Do you still wet the bed at night? Wear lime green pants? Do you burst into tears for no reason? Walk on your tippy toes? Do people make fun of you? Do you still suck your thumb? Still talk in baby-talk to get your way? Own more than one pair of cordoroys? Do you have Halitosis? Too much hair in your butt crack? Do you smoke crack? Do you say tomahto and not tomato? Think Gilligans Island is funny? Wear stupid slippers? Pajamas with cartoon characters or sports team logo’s on them? Still ask your Mommy for advice? Parents still supporting you? Do you borrow money from friends? Do you, bite your nails? Pick food out of your teeth with a piece of paper? Wear gold chains around your neck? Have horrible tattoos? A pug nose? Double chin? Too many freckles? Moles on your back? Does your eye twitch when you laugh? Can you only drink chocolate milk? Only sleep on your side? Still think cargo pants are cool? Have toe nail fungus? Hate mushrooms? Put A1 sauce on hamburgers? Afraid of the dark? Wear flip flops in the winter? Need your fingers to count to 10? Talk to the TV? Enjoy the smell of your own farts? Scratch your belly-button and then smell your fingers? Clean under your nails with a butter knife? Wear too much cologne? Have pimples on your butt cheeks or back? Scratch your balls in public? Are you Going bald? Have No money? Insecure about….. your car? Your intelligence? Your height? Your hairy back? Your penis size? Your teeth? Your skinny legs? Your love handles?
Ariel
April 20th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Ok, folks: that’s the WEIRDEST COMMENT SPAM EVER!!!!
Sara
April 20th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
You might be a…….??????? A WHAT? C’mon, comment spammer, what would we be?!?!?!?!?
Jayme
April 21st, 2006 at 5:22 am
Is there a *point* to that comment spam?
jo
April 21st, 2006 at 8:23 am
Hey Ariel this is a little late for the weight loss post but I was wondering if you knew about sparkpeople.com. I did WW online 3 years ago and had a lot of success with it but I was disappointed that I didn’t know how points corresponded to fat & calories & carbs & protein. Anyway, sparkpeople.com is totally free and tracks all of these and saves your favorites, just like WW online. I happen to like it more but it might not be right for you. Just thought I’d let you know in case you wanted to save some bucks.
jo
April 21st, 2006 at 8:26 am
Oh um I forgot to say that at the beginning, you plug in your weight, activity level, and goal weight, and they spit out a range of calories, fat, etc. for you. So you can eat at the low end of the range for max weight loss or at the top if you only want to lose like .5 lb a week. But this way, if you wanted to stay at the top of your calories range but the bottom of your fat range, you could do that, which WW doesn’t allow for. Okay, now I sound like spam. I didn’t mean to, I just never hear people talk about this site and it’s such a good alternative to WW.
yelahneb
April 21st, 2006 at 9:05 pm
not a corner, i would argue, but rather a ladder that you’re building as you’re climbing it. precarious, exhilirating, inspiring.