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Nov. 19th, 2006 06:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_siobhanToday is hang-around-house in jammies day.
Yes, I actually bought pajamas. I haven't owned pajamas since I was six. But our house is uninsulated and therefore cold at night, and my ususal full-time human furnace is off galavanting around England somewhere and hopefully having many pints poured down him. So as of a few days ago I now own pajamas. They are red-and-pink plaid. And have a pink bow on them. Shut up. They're warm.
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I like magazines that talk about things like proper form while lifting weights, how to make routines more challenging, how to use the new equipment that keeps popping up in the gym like shiny metal-and-plastic mushrooms. I don't want to read about any more fucking diets or Top Ten Ways To Burn Calories While Having Sex. I am tired of the constant assumtion that women only work out in order to lose weight.
Is there even such an animal as a magazine or website or resource that does the former and leaves out the latter? Anywhere?
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I keep seeing commercials for a DVD set of some TV show called Nip/Tuck. I have never seen the show. And the DVD cover creeps me out so fucking badly, I probably never will.
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When I was walking home yesterday I got panhandled by a guy in what appeared to be a home-made leatherface mask. Made out of old brown paper bags from the look of it.
Just before the bridge that I cross under to get to my house, I passed a guy who was doing that long-legged stride favoured by those who are used to doing most of their getting around by walking. He looked like a traveller, wearing slightly dusty clothes and with an enourmous knapsack strapped to his back, the top of it piled high with a sleeping bag and foam sleeping pad. And on top of the whole thing perched a plump white cat, looking lazily around at the scenery as they went.
You know, they have frou-frou art galleries all over this neighbourhood and I almost never bother to go inside them. I think the really interesting stuff is usually on the outside.
Yes, I actually bought pajamas. I haven't owned pajamas since I was six. But our house is uninsulated and therefore cold at night, and my ususal full-time human furnace is off galavanting around England somewhere and hopefully having many pints poured down him. So as of a few days ago I now own pajamas. They are red-and-pink plaid. And have a pink bow on them. Shut up. They're warm.
I like magazines that talk about things like proper form while lifting weights, how to make routines more challenging, how to use the new equipment that keeps popping up in the gym like shiny metal-and-plastic mushrooms. I don't want to read about any more fucking diets or Top Ten Ways To Burn Calories While Having Sex. I am tired of the constant assumtion that women only work out in order to lose weight.
Is there even such an animal as a magazine or website or resource that does the former and leaves out the latter? Anywhere?
I keep seeing commercials for a DVD set of some TV show called Nip/Tuck. I have never seen the show. And the DVD cover creeps me out so fucking badly, I probably never will.
When I was walking home yesterday I got panhandled by a guy in what appeared to be a home-made leatherface mask. Made out of old brown paper bags from the look of it.
Just before the bridge that I cross under to get to my house, I passed a guy who was doing that long-legged stride favoured by those who are used to doing most of their getting around by walking. He looked like a traveller, wearing slightly dusty clothes and with an enourmous knapsack strapped to his back, the top of it piled high with a sleeping bag and foam sleeping pad. And on top of the whole thing perched a plump white cat, looking lazily around at the scenery as they went.
You know, they have frou-frou art galleries all over this neighbourhood and I almost never bother to go inside them. I think the really interesting stuff is usually on the outside.
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Date: 2006-11-19 11:09 pm (UTC)I also ran across this (http://www.defrancostraining.com/articles/articles.htm) recently, which led me to a few other places.
But for print, I have no idea. :)
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Date: 2006-11-19 11:57 pm (UTC)Are they flannelette?
I keep seeing commercials for a DVD set of some TV show called Nip/Tuck. I have never seen the show. And the DVD cover creeps me out so fucking badly, I probably never will.
I don't think you'll be missing much - unless you like Julian McMahon.
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Date: 2006-11-20 02:13 am (UTC)Yup.
Waaaaarrrmmm.
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Date: 2006-11-20 03:51 am (UTC)non-sissy weight training for women
Date: 2006-11-19 11:59 pm (UTC)Bonus: she's in the GTA, and once a month hosts Sunday weight lifting-and-related training sessions. When I'm moved, and better, you bet your bippy I'll be heading out to that.
Meanwhile, I still have to find a decent, non-frou frou gym in the east end...
Re: non-sissy weight training for women
Date: 2006-11-20 12:16 am (UTC)Recommendation thirded.
Re: non-sissy weight training for women
Date: 2006-11-20 12:51 am (UTC)I love this woman.
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Date: 2006-11-20 01:32 am (UTC)(of course, i'm a hobbling cripple, so that cuts down on my working out, but i love her.)
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Date: 2006-11-20 01:44 pm (UTC)Slight amendment: I'm in Guelph for one more week before Teh Big Move back to the city.
Re: non-sissy weight training for women
Date: 2006-11-20 02:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-20 01:49 am (UTC)i would LOVE to know how and why 90% of men are like this
some nights i feel like i've falled asleep inside my oven
also...NIP/TUCK is fan-freaking-tastic.
i have the love for it.
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Date: 2006-11-20 02:06 am (UTC)also...NIP/TUCK is fan-freaking-tastic.
i have the love for it.
Leslie, you are lovely wonderful woman, but I know all about your taste in television. Let us only say that when I look at the long list of reasons I admire you, it ain't on there.
And the DVD cover looks like a half-finished autopsy.
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Date: 2006-11-20 02:39 am (UTC):)
it may look a LITTLE like that...but the hot doctors make up for it!
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Date: 2006-11-20 04:14 am (UTC)The prosecution rests, your honour.
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Date: 2006-11-20 02:48 pm (UTC)WHY DON'T YOU PUT SOME SPERM ON YOUR FACE?
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Date: 2006-11-20 06:42 am (UTC)I kick out *metric tons* of heat in the winter... but I'm virtually always chilly. I've always blamed both my slender size and furnace like qualities on my high metabolism. IIRC Axel is also a member of the crazy high metabolism club. My guess is that's the culprit.
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Date: 2006-11-20 06:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-20 11:26 am (UTC)i'm told it's because of the way our reproductive organs are constructed, and their temperature requirements. women keep theirs inside, and they need to stay nice and warm. so as soon as it's cold our bodies start to reduce circulation to our extremities. men's are on the outside, and need to be not too cold or too warm, so their bodies do not reduce the circulation to their outsides quite so much for fear of killing their sperm with cold.
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Date: 2006-11-20 07:18 am (UTC)