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I just realized that I’m fiilled with anger. Anger and hatred. Two very bad things to be filled with. I’m just… bitter, and I spend a lot of time just kind of stewing in these negative emotions. I sit around, scared at what bad thing is going to happen next. And I’ve become overly cautious and panicky. I’m scared to even walk to the library anymore.

What’s bugging me is that I’ve been saying, about people, “I hate _________.” I don’t like to talk, think, speak like that, and I’ve said it about three people over the past week or so. I don’t like it. One bit.

This week, I plan to go to Gentle Wind and see about getting my car smudged, or smudging it myself. I swear, I fill up with tons of negative energy at the thought of getting in the car, and while I am IN the car. Then I’m in an awful, hate-filled, angry funk for hours and hours. I’m broke as hell, but I’m gonna stay that way unless some adjustments are made. There’s bad energy in there and I want it out.

Although apparently, someone graffitied the dumpsters. I’ve decided to park my car closer to the front of the building until winter comes back.

I’ve been reading this book called Ultrametabolism. It’s supposed to be this way of reprogramming your body to get a higher metabolism, instead of the sluggish ones Americans tend to have. The author says that the way we do things—eating less and exercising more—is actually causing us to get fatter because we throw ourselves into starvation mode. So, we may lose weight, but it’s a combination of fat and muscle. When we go out of the whole “diet,” we gain it back all as fat, which is harder to lose. The cycle continues until we’re overweight with no way out. In addition, when you’re starving, ANYTHING your body gets in—it’s going to hold on to it like crazy. Another reason why gaining weight is so easy and losing it is so hard.

So this book says that just about everything we eat is WRONG. Breads, pastas, anything processed. We should be trying to eat things that our bodies use and metabolize, rather than sugars and empty carbs that simply get stored as fat. Okay, good idea, I thought. But then I started reading, and man. The stuff that’s the best for us all of course, is the most expensive stuff, and most hard-to-find stuff. Yes, I agree that an organic apple in its raw form is the best thing for my body, but at this point, I can’t really afford it, ya know? Another reason is that I simply don’t like things like nuts, bananas, onions, etc. I’m addicted to all the “bad” stuff, and I’ll need lots of money and patience with myself to be able to detox and start this plan.

I’ve managed to lose five pounds over the past week due to stress and loss of appetite. I’d like to keep them off, thank you very much. So I know I’m going to have to make some changes once the money situation turns around. The fact that I’ve been craving veggies should say something. I really want to eat better, not just for the sake of being thin, but because I just do. I don’t know if I can do this Ultrametabolism plan, though. Phase I is pretty much cutting out EVERYTHING except certain fruits and vegetables, lots of beans, and skinless chicken and turkey. It’s to detox, of course, but still. Dang. Three weeks of no bread, not even whole wheat? In fact, whole wheat anything is not allowed. Nothing dairy (hello, osteoporosis risk much?) Actually, just about anything you or I would normally eat is not allowed.

I don’t want to do anything drastic. I just want to start eating better. More veggies. Less pasta (I mean, maybe I can go down to spaghetti once a week instead of 2–3 times a week). Fewer processed meats and other foods. I don’t think I’m doing any detox or anything like that (although I’ve been kind of tempted to try the thing that makes you poop out a five-foot-long log, just to see what it’s like). I am going to try to get back on the Coenzyme Q10, though. I LOVED that stuff when I was on it several years ago.

I’m ready to be better, guys. I’m tired of walking around in this grey haze, see-sawing between feeling pathetic and numb.

Plus, my Harry Potter action figure will put a hex on me if I don’t stop moping.

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Ronniology

Q. What is your salad dressing of choice?
A. Catalina.

Q. What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
A: McDonald’s.

Q. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
A: Morrone’s Italian Villa.

Q. On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant?
A. 15–20%.

Q. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick from?
A. Spaghetti.

Q. What are your pizza toppings of choice?
A. I like pepperoni the best, but I also enjoy meat-loaded pizzas. I enjoy Pizza Slut’s Meat-Lover’s pizza.

Q. What do you like to put on your toast?
A. Jam or strawberry preserves. Butter or margarine if I remember, but I usually don’t.

Q. What is your favorite type of gum?
A. Orbit.

Q. Number of contacts in your cell phone?
A. 125, I think. Not that I even talk to most of those people anymore. I should delete them.

Q. Number of contacts in your email address book?
A: No idea.

Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A. On my work computer, there a photo I took of crab apple blossoms. On my desktop, a fractal, and also a fractal on my laptop.

Q. How many televisions are in your house?
A. Three, believe it or not. One is a 13 inch I’ve had since high school (and is stuffed into a closet), one is a Sponge Bob TV my mom got Aidan for Christmas, and there’s the 25 inch that I use all the time.

BIOLOGY

Q. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
A. Right-handed.

Q. Do you like your smile?
A. I do! 🙂

Q. What’s your best feature?
A. My butt, my eyes, my smile.

Q. Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
A. Teeth.

Q. Which of your five senses do you think is neatest?
A: Touch.

Q. When was the last time you had a cavity?
A. Seven years ago. Coincidentally, that was the last time I went to the dentist. I really should get on that.

Q. What is the heaviest item you lifted last?
A. Aidan.

Q. Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
A. Not that I know of.

BULL[CRAP]OLOGY

Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
A. I don’t think so. Maybe. I don’t know.

Q. Is love for real?
A. Yes.

Q. If you could change your first name, what would you change it to?
A. I don’t think I’d change it.

Q. What color do you think looks best on you?
A. Pink.

Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake?
A. Yes.

Q. Have you ever saved someone’s life?
A: I doubt it.

Q. Has someone ever saved yours?
A. Yes.

DAREOLOGY

Q. Would you walk naked for a half mile down a public street for $100,000?
A. Yes.

Q. Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100?
A. Yes.

Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000?
A. Probably not. I use that finger to type.

Q. Would you never blog again for $50,000?
A. No.

Q. Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000?
A. Yes.

Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
A. No.

Q. Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000?
A. No.

Q. Would you give up watching television for a year for $25,000?
A. Absolutely, I would.

DUMBOLOGY

Q: What is in your left pocket?
A: Nothing.

Q: Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie?
A: I liked it okay.

Q: Do you have hardwood or carpet in your house?
A: Carpet.

Q: Do you sit or stand in the shower?
A: Stand.

Q: Could you live with roommates?
A: Depends on who they are.

Q: How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
A: About five or six.

Q: Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
A: October 2005.

Q: What do you want to be when you grow up?
A: A best-selling author.

LASTOLOGY

Q: Friend you talked to?
A: Star.

Q: Last person you called?
A. Can’t remember.

Q: Person you hugged?
A: Aidan. 🙂

FAVORITOLOGY

Q: Number?
A: 19.

Q: Color?
A: Pink.

Q: Season?
A: Spring.

CURRENTOLOGY

Q: Missing someone?
A: Always.

Q: Mood?
A: “moofy”

Q: Listening to?
A: Celine Dion.

Q: Watching?
A: Nothing.

Q: Worrying about?
A: Money.

RANDOMOLOGY

Q: What can you not wait to do?
A: Start saving money. Sell a book. Move to Chicago. Party in a limo in San Francisco with Rosa on Friday. Take Adam to the Ohio State Fair. Make more money.

Q: What’s the last movie you saw?
A: I watched Charlie’s Angels last night.

Q: Do you smile often?
A: I don’t know! Do I?

Q: Are you a friendly person?
A: Yes.

Q: Now that the surveys done what are you going to do?
A: Go to a meeting.

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100 Truths

100 truths

1. real name ? Ronica
2. nickname ? Ronni
3. single or taken ? taken
4. zodiac sign ? sagittarius
5. male or female ? female
6. elementary ? Corlett and Benjamin Franklin
7. middle ? Whitney Young Intermediate (they weren’t called “middle schools” yet)
8. high ? John Adams High School
9. eye color ? hazel
10. hair color ? golden something or other
11. hair: long or short ? I wish it was long
12. do you think of yourself as attractive ? sometimes
13. do others find you attractive ? a few people
14. are you athletic ? no
15. are you a health freak ? no
16. height ? 5’1″
17. do you have a crush on someone ? yes
18. do you like yourself ? sometimes
19. piercings you’ve had ? ears, belly button
20. tattoos ? none
21. righty or lefty ? righty

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