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18:36 / 21.01.05

'I don't like Monday 24 January'

from the link:
"By Monday, most people will have fallen off the wagon or abandoned the nicotine patches as they fail to keep New Year's resolutions."

19:06 / 21.01.05

When I saw this topic, I thought it was a place.

:S

~L

19:15 / 21.01.05

Well, it's no Potala.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:21 / 21.01.05

Funnily enough, I was talking about this this very evening with a friend. He said he'd made NY resolutions so he could kind of gain from the energy of so many people making theirs at the same time...
...I said I'd deliberately not made any, because there'd come a time (I didn't know there was a sepcific date) when everyone ditched their resolutions, and being weak-willed I'd use everyone else not keeping their promises to themselves as an excuse not to keep mine.

10:14 / 22.01.05

One of my best pals celebrates his birthday on the 24th of Jan. Should I tell him this, or keep it a secret?

15:23 / 22.01.05

I'm not sure. It's not me, is it? [Peers through the screen to see if he knows Cherie...] I think turning older ain't going to be too happy a day for me.

07:33 / 24.01.05

Happy birthday cube!

08:28 / 24.01.05

Yes.

Happy Birthday cube.

08:37 / 24.01.05

Hey, it does not have to be today. I just now looked at the link, and they have a formula, and everybody has to use that formula for themselves to get the "right" day.

So, for me, I will NOT try that formula (and maybe it would not work for me, because sinde last year I am finally debtfree, and I decided not to make any new year resolutions), and I have the ability to be miserable without using formulas

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When I am finished with breakfast, I´ll take a stroll to the nearby park and make some photos of the snowy landscape. It is the first time for maybe a year that we still have snow, normally it melts within hours, and will probably be gone this afternoon.

08:58 / 24.01.05

Have a good one cube...

09:04 / 24.01.05

Psychotherapists will tell you that February is generally an extremely depressed month. Is it because February is the only remaining "lunar" month, ruled by the female genius "Phoebe"? I would eat my own eyeballs before I'd suggest such a thing. But I am depressed. I wish these brainiacs would keep their Apollonian formulae away from my mood swings.

09:07 / 24.01.05

I have less of a problem with bad days and more of an issue with people who spend their time making up complicated formulae which I can't understand how to work out and which therefore makes me feel slightly dim.

10:37 / 24.01.05

Happy birthday cube, it may be the most depressing day of the year but at least Betty still loves you.

dancing with red shoes

10:46 / 24.01.05

I'm not depressed because I joined Barbelith today. And, I walked to work this morning, thereby honouring my decision to get fit so I can enjoy sex more and also not be overly diseased in 10 years time. I slipped over right on my bum on a large patch of icy pavement. I was walking fast too so I hit hard. I recall very clearly striding along humming a little happy tune in my head, and thinking "Gosh, that's a very shiny bit of pavement... I wonder what makes it so shi.. ahhhh!". Lucky it happened before I got fit because my bum is usually one of the first places to get skinny.

10:51 / 24.01.05

Why does getting fit equate with enjoying sex more? I have to say I have never, ever in my life had sex and when it's over thought, "Damn, I wish I was fitter, then I would have enjoyed that so much more."

11:02 / 24.01.05

don't know if this is what red shoes is getting at, but I have had various thoughts relating to the fitness/sex issue. Thought no 1 - if I was more supple (possible side effect of getting fit) I'd be able to do some of those interesting looking positions they go on about in women's magazines/how-to-be-better-at-sex tv programmes. Thought no 2 - if I lost weight (side effect of getting fit I suspect) I'd be able to do some of those interesting looking positions they go on about in women's magazines/how-to-be-better-at-sex tv programmes (at the moment the wheelbarrow or whatever its called really would be asking too much of my SO). Thought no 3 - if I got fit (aka stopped smoking) I'd be able to have very energetic sex, which at the moment can be challenging as I sometimes get out of breath. Thought no 4 - and this is the most embarrassing one to admit - if I got fit I'd probably feel better about my naked form and generally be more adventurous (this is embarressing to admit 'cos I'm a feminist and feminists are suppossed to be above all this in my book).

dancing with red shoes

11:13 / 24.01.05

Getting fit, for me, has everything to do with enjoying sex more. In fact, it's the best (perhaps only) reason there is! I just ended a short relationship, so we were still in the 'lots of sex' phase at the time. I'm nearly 39, and he was nearly 40, and neither of us were in the shape we used to be (and I have NEVER been particularly fit or sporty at all). And damn, the puffing and panting (not in a good way)! I'd like to be able to go on top for more than 2 minutes without running out of breath or my arms giving out! It's got nothing at all to do with being slim, I don't care about that. I just want the stamina and flexibility to enjoy myself, because I love sex! And I figured I'd start getting ready in anticipation of the next person I do it with.

I suppose there's something to be said for lying back and being pleasured, but I'd like a bit more choice for the next few years anyway. Not tryna be a body/fitness fascist or nothing.

11:19 / 24.01.05

Go and do Ashtanga yoga then. That way, you can get fit, seriously supple and strong all in one go. I can get my legs behind my ears. Ahem.

And also you learn to do ace things with your internal muscles.

Hell yeah, conversations about sex are perfect for making people feel happy on this inauspicious blue day. I'm smiling now.

dancing with red shoes

12:12 / 24.01.05

Oh, High Priestess, you truly are a High Priestess, with powers of knowing what to say. Unbenownst to you, I used to do Ashtanga Yoga, for about two years- only one class a week with no practice in between- see, I'm really not sporty or fit at all. I loved it, then I got lazy one night after work and didn't go. And didn't go back. I've since moved... it's been my intention .... blah blah... and I can't believe how my strength, suppleness, balance and fitness levels have dropped. But for now, walking to work is a start, before I find another yoga class to embarrass myself in. (Ashtanga Yoga actually FEELS LIKE sex sometimes, doncha think? Or was it just that my teacher was v. sexy?).

13:02 / 24.01.05

Well that may have helped I guess but mainly it's the yoga I think!

Go back, go back...These people teach Ashtanga...

13:31 / 24.01.05

Well, and don't forget there's a link between being in shape and having an increased libido.

It's only 10am and this day is so far proving to be anything but miserable... my work drought appears to be ending... X your fingers...

13:42 / 24.01.05

Why thankyou for all your treats. Especially Betty. I've not mentioned what today is to anyone at work so it's nice to have you kids be the first to say it.

15:49 / 24.01.05

The one thing that's upset me today is that, when I went to download my old CV so that I could update it and turn it into something more spiffy, it appears to have transmogrified into gibberish. So now I have to spend hours remembering what I liked about it (not to mention what I wrote in it!) and creating a new one. I don't have any hard copies of it, either.

I'm not depressed about it, just annoyed, Actually, rather surprisingly for me, I've not felt the teensiest bit depressed all day.

15:52 / 24.01.05

The one thing that's upset me today is that, when I went to download my old CV so that I could update it and turn it into something more spiffy, it appears to have transmogrified into gibberish. So now I have to spend hours remembering what I liked about it (not to mention what I wrote in it!) and creating a new one. I don't have any hard copies of it, either.

I'm not depressed about it, just annoyed, Actually, rather surprisingly for me, I've not felt the teensiest bit depressed all day.

15:54 / 24.01.05

The one thing that's upset me today is that, when I went to download my old CV so that I could update it and turn it into something more spiffy, it appears to have transmogrified into gibberish. So now I have to spend hours remembering what I liked about it (not to mention what I wrote in it!) and creating a new one. I don't have any hard copies of it, either.

I'm not depressed about it, just annoyed, Actually, rather surprisingly for me, I've not felt the teensiest bit depressed all day.

15:56 / 24.01.05

The one thing that's upset me today is that, when I went to download my old CV so that I could update it and turn it into something more spiffy, it appears to have transmogrified into gibberish. So now I have to spend hours remembering what I liked about it (not to mention what I wrote in it!) and creating a new one. I don't have any hard copies of it, either.

I'm not depressed about it, just annoyed, Actually, rather surprisingly for me, I've not felt the teensiest bit depressed all day.