Facts and Figures
After re-reading my 1,195 word long metaphorical post I realize I managed to avoid talking facts and figures. I'm so terribly bad at doing that.
Josh saw my post and was like, "It takes you that long to say, 'hey guys, I'm not going to blog for a month, see you later?'.
I have no defense. No matter how short I write a post in my mind it always takes on a completely different form when I write it. But yes, facts and figures (yet again my muse is trying to deviate from responsibility).
I'm not going forever. My current plan is only to run away for the month of March. Rachel thinks I'm crazy to try this cold-turkey, but it's the only way I think it will work. I find that if I allow myself little threads to hold I end up just hauling back the whole blanket.
I'm not going off writing (Rach H. rest assured). I bought a new journal last month and all those lovely white pages beg to be filled. Strangely, however, there seems to be a deffirence between blogging and journaling pen and ink style. Mentally it's less consuming. With a lot of prayer I'm still trying to figure out how to make blogging like that.
On a really earthy practical level, there's also another reason why I need time out. On Monday night I made tea (dinner) like I commited myself to doing and it just felt so good to have been able to it and still have strength to go for a walk afterwards. I had to sit on a stool while I cut up the meat and veges and while I was doing most of the cooking, but I still managed to get through it. This is just such a big step for me. I haven’t really cooked anything like a whole meal for seven people in two years.
To keep the momentum of good things like this coming I realize I need to concentrate more effort on my health than I have been the last few months.
I need to work specifically on my sleep routine and my meals. I’ve been eating ok, but I know my dietitian, Jo, wants me to work on getting some new foods into my diet and I always lose a bit of strength trying to do that. I’ve just been skimping a bit too much with my meals lately, eating too many of the "get me through" ideas.
Too boot my sleeping routine is wacked. I’m going to bed at two in the morning and getting up at twelve. I've kind of been putting up with at the moment because I hate having to stop and have three or four terrible days where I can't do anything to try and fix it up. I dread how half way through I could have one big allergic reaction that will just muck it all up again.
But I have to try. Now that I'm less consumed with being sick, it's been nice to get out of it for a while, but I need to stop ignoring it. My body is such a disobedient child it never gets far unless I push and prod it.
Having said all that I'll still be online. Well, e-mails mostly. Write me! I love e-mails and I do reply. Cross my heart and hope to die.
252 Comments:
Ah well, though your posts will be missed, I'm glad that you've been definite about it, with a specific time frame in mind. I would agree - from various experiences - that being too loose about giving up a habit just doesn't work often.
Hope that the sleeping routine and diet works out as well.
Aye, I concur. Awaiting the bloggage continuation eagerly
By the way, I've seemingly been unable to contact you via e-mail...I'm not entirely sure I have the right address. If you could either say here or send me an e-mail (fathercory@metnal(REMOVE).com) with the correct one, that'd be turbo, 'cause the Starbucks story's a-waitin' ^_^
Well... If my computer cooperates you will be getting emails from me.
I admire you so much Lyd, you are an amazing you woman.
Andrew: Aye...for myself I know I need to make definite 'rules'.
Cory: E-mail receive a O.K. Shall reply soon.
Elyse: *hugs* You're a darl. Thank you.
6 comments. Got tired of seeing "Comments (5)" XD
LOL And here I thought I was going to get a real comment...
To (7) it is. What a relief.
What, that wasn't a real comment? You...you...girl!
Girl? But...but...sir. I was only...um...yes...ah, nevermind.
(I can't think of a decent comeback...)
hey! Just stopping by....
Ooh, I'll miss your post, but I hope that you your health & strength continue to improve.
Don't worry...my comebacks of late have left a lot to be desired...like pancakes.
Heidi: hi!
Deborah: Thanks so much.
Cory: haha yeah....
By the way, would you call the purple on your blog purple or lavender?
Oh Lydia! Even though I just wrote you that really long email, I forgot to tell you something and didn't remember until I came on here again! I changed the colors on my computer so that they wouldn't hurt my eyes, then played around with the settings some more, and came out with a lot of almost black backgrounds with gray words and purple and redish purple headings. And the desktop picture is of a purple flower....anyway, I was wondering why I liked it so much. It took me two days before I realized it's mostly the same colors as your site...with a purple flower and everything! It made me laugh....and now I'm reminded of you and pray for you every time I get on my computer! =D A copycat is a compliment....right? =P
I wish I had a purple computer
Lol. Lyd stops blogging, but the comments keep coming I like it.
I wouldn't like a purple computer, I think...it'd get too noticable after the first day, and start annoying me a bit...and then after a week I'd just ignore it.
lol this is fun.
Cory, I call it lavender. Why do you ask?
Heidi, you're such a darl. According to my interior decorating book, purple is a soothing colour that invokes feelings of confidence. Maybe this is why we like it so much?
Andrew: haha....purple can not be ignored. I still see my blog and looooove the colour.
No particular reason...Purple is an awesome color, though.
As is lavender...
I would call the blog's colour purple as well.
Hmm...I would like to able to put some sort of arguement behind that, but I can't, unless I say that it's 'too purple' for lavender....darn.
Don't worry. There's always next century.
It's lavender...
purple...
As is probably very obivous things are a bit different with the comments. I kept getting annoyed at how Haloscan was eating my old comments so I've switched to Blogger. Eseentially it's all the same...if you sign up to blogger you even get to use cool little display pictures.
And...
Just to be a stubborn mull-headed donkey, my blog highlights are lavender. So there.
Ah yes, cool little picture things. I need to upload one.
Ah, better.
Oooh, I'm tempted to upload a little picture thing....but that would actually mean that I tell some people the link to my dead blog (dead in the sense that it was never really alive).....hmm, I might. We'll see.
Lyd: Talking about donkeys, I've just been studying a whole book on donkeys, called "Senior Modern History" PACE 4. It's rather interesting, but I am so glad I did not have to serve in the army, particularly the British army, during World War 1!!!!!
I'd better not get too involved in this colour discussion. Lyd, you probably know why. Regardless, lavender and purple are both nice colours. I think I prefer lavender though.
I know why :shifty_eyes:
Thirty comments. This is a record for my blog :D
I once had sixty something...
Oooh that settles it then.
Peoples you have to take it past the sixty mark!
I resign.
Sixty.....hmm......I'm willing to sit here and continue this comment conversation, will that do it?.....heck, we've got all of March, I reckon we can so make it past sixty :)
Not if I don't comment!
...dangit.
Haha, nice.
*sits*
*eats*
*watches*
*sits*
*stirs*
*leaves*
HIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!
*sits down happily and prepares to coment again*
*sits*
*chills with lizard*
*leaves*
Heidi! I got your message...and I'm going to e-mail.
I have no picture.
<_<
>_>
I blame Cory. (for no reason)
*realises he has shown up late, and sits*
*ponders getting a picture*
Hmm....I may get one sometime tonight, when I'm bored, and am happy with the amount of work I've got done.
I have a pictoor!
And now I do as well :)
No prizes for guessing who I am. Lol.
Depenz.
mechanical...I ment mechanical.
All this trying to learn the endlessly impossible forms of spanish verbs has scrambled all the wires in my brain. XD
Yes, Lydia, you called?
Mechical :) Interesting sound, such a pity I can't say on here how I'm imagining it to be pronounced at the moment...
Heh, learning other languages can be odd at times. If I study French for any solid amount of time, English will sometimes begin to look really ugly, with the horrible use of grammar that we have.....
Chunder.
What's it mean.
Chunder means throw up.
"I come from the land down under, where the women blow and men chunder." or something like that.
Yeah, that's the right quote Lyd.
Hmm....not actually sure if I would have been able to have worked that out on my own...darn.
Brilliant. Jesse was asking about it.
By the way, this is 56.
I'm pretty sure that there's a way for something else.
Ooh, 2 away!
I'm disgusting.
WOO 60.
I'm terrible. *dashes away*
hehe I've reached the hall of 60 comments! I wonder if this automatically includes me into one of those huge prize draw things...
Somehow I doubt it.....but you never know.
In fact, me too.
So, are you now aiming for 100?
Good question. Any answers Lyd?
By the way, eight.
100? Why not...we could discuss politics or something (is John Howard completely bald or not?).
And Cory...eight? I'm lost.
Nah, I don't think he is, but I tell you what, my Dad's getting pretty close after taking me driving over the weekend!!!
Lyd's lost? I'll find her!
*dashes into the jungle*
Oi, don't leave me behind.
*runs after Cory*
Wait, on second thought -
*runs back, grabs map, and then runs after Cory*
Heh, I'm not a person who trusts their own sense of direction....:)
I don't know if it's because it's three a.m. in the morning or you guys are just so daggy you're funny. I find this all completely hilarious.
*laughs*
*chokes*
*hides behind bushes*
Well, this map can't possibly be right. It's of Russia.
rofl....this is comment 74?! Only 26 before you hit 100 and we are only half way through March. if you guys keep rambling on at this rate I think you'll hit 150....
Don't keep raising how much we should get to! :) I doubt we'll actually get past....say.....125? I don't know.
Psh. I could make 125 in one sitting. Now 500, there's a goal to want.
500. Oh, my.
Jolene, you darl. Just for the record you're my favourite rocking-bench-totting yankee. You're so much fun.
Me too!
...er, wait. o_O
In fact, I could probably hold a conversation with myself in here and personally get it to 100.
Yeah? I'd like to see you try.
What, you don't believe me?
Never do.
Pah, you don't know what you're talking about. I could do this with one hand if I wanted to worry.
Oh please. You've never even been to France.
What's that have to do with anything?
Plenty, pal.
Come on, seriously. What about those paperclips, eh?
I'm not sure. But I'm pretty sure no one will appreciate this.
Yep, but it's neat, because unlike Wordpress, Blogger doesn't have a 15-second comment timer.
Yes yes, quite handy. That stuff finished printing yet?
No, it's almost done. I think it's one the last page now.
Ah good. Done now?
They keeping you awake, too?
Haven't tried getting to sleep yet, but yikes. "CRICKET. CRICKET."
Ah well. Hey, we're closer now to 100.
Yeah, but I'm going to get the actual 100 hit.
Doesn't matter, since I'm me anyways.
100. My work here is done. Good night.
I just see the 'Comments (100)' and I think 'Cory'.
Lol. That's the sort of thing that I would like to do, given boredom. :) I'm comtemplating whether to try my own hand at that. The trouble is, I'm too realistic - I'd have a serious conversation with myself :) Lol.
There.are.no.words.
Lydia! I've been wanting to send you an email but it always gets too long and then my computer crashes....but I'm worki at it! =D
Hello Lyd,
Try to remember this for future reference. I hope it won't be lost in amongst all these comments.
You've been tagged.
See here for more details -
http://radar14.blogspot.com/2006/03/tag-im-it.html
Lol. I feel like I've stopped the flow of comments because I did a serious one.....
Nah, we all just had something else to do. Now what?
pshhh... I expected the count to be at least 150.
You've all disapointed me.
Now we discuss whether Lydia will be able to resist the call of the internet and world of blogging when she's sleeping in the same room as our computer next week....and it will still be March.....hmm....interesting to see.
Lol. She's been able to keep up with this comments conversation. That means that she has had to keep coming into contact with her blog, in order to get here. If she's been able to deal with that, I think she will be able to keep it up, no problem :)
I think she should let me guest blog for a while XD
Let Cory guest blog. Oh, my. I can just see it now. Green boogey monster images and graphic sword fights. My readers would be gone forever.
O_O How'd you know?
Though I wouldn't do that all the time. Only some of the time XD
Assuming that you only did it while Lyd wasn't blogging, you've only got about eleven or twelve days. How many posts could you make?
Although I suppose I am talking to the person who is responsible for probably a third to a half of these comments.
Assuming that you only did it while Lyd wasn't blogging, you've only got about eleven or twelve days. How many posts could you make?
A lot more than you might realize XD
Just to be completely random, I really wish right this instant I was blogging again. It's four thirty a.m. in the morning. I'm so nauseous I'm about to throw up all over the keyboard. And I wish I could rave about the wonders of dry, tasteless toast.
Don't get up this early. Repeat: Do not let oneself be woken up after only two hours of sleep. Your body will hate you for it and you'll undoubtedly purk all over the keyboard. argh.
See you guys on the other side.
Hmm....that does not sound good at all.
Two hours of sleep....I've always hated not being able to get to sleep, but as far actually dealing with lack of sleep.......I don't know, I'd just wander around, only comprehending what people said to me when they've moved on to the next topic.
Now you know what the soldiers of World War 1 probably felt when they finally got to sleep after about 20 hours of trench fighting to have the enemy start bombarding them with shells several hours later.
Two hours of sleep is like finding out you missed winning the lottery by one digit: Completely uncool.
Andrew: Aye.
Stephen: Argh.
Cory. Heh.
This morning is better. Nice nights sleep. Lovely food. I'm in Sydney! It just seems so unreal somehow.
Yay for the one word responses. Lol.
And glad to see you're feeling better now.
Woahheck. She's in Sydney! That's like...me saying I'm not.
Or like me, saying that I am :)
Or like me, saying that I'm n...
...wait a second O_o
I killed it T_T
Eh, don't worry about it. Just move on.
The 22nd of March. Time for the commenting spree is running out....
I guess we'd better up the tempo a bit then, eh?
What are we aiming for anyway? 150? 200?? 500??? 1000????
Should I go on with another schizophrenic conversation?
lol You guys make me laugh. I almost wish I could have you all over for pizza and we could play twister or something.
Rachel and I have been having a dandy time. Shopping. Lots of shopping. And yesterday...wait, I wasn't going to mention yesterday. Let's just say there was a disaster. Just a little disaster...*shifty eyes*
And 150. You guys have to get it to at least a hundred and fifty. I'll send you all cyberspace chocolates if you can manage to do the schriphenic conversation between at least two of you (which would make four different "persons"). Even better if you could make it about blueberries and dish washing detergent.
People, we have a challenge laid down for us........
Cory, I'm thinking I do this with you, but we'll see. Whatever happens.
Okay, how can we do this? Shall we set a time to come online and have this dual schizoprehenic conversation?
I say let's organise it by the comment clock. So give me a second...
Ah, ok, so that's how much of a difference there is between my time and the comment time (I can't be bothered working out what it's supposed to be set to other than that)
Now, do we just keep commenting and coming back until two of us are online at once? Do we set a time? (Anything between 2 - 9 p.m. SCT, Standard Comment Time is good for me :) Actually, a lot outside that is good too, but it depends how long this conversation would actually end up going for...)
Btw, if I'm going over the top at all, tell me and I'll be quiet. Lol. I take things too seriously.
(And I'm going to find out this 'disaster' story soon Lydia! :) Either Rach, Matt or you are going to tell me....)
Actually, that's probably all way too complicated, and we should just start and do it whenever we're online, taking turns.
I don't know.
Someone decide.
I'm rambling on and on. :)
Or maybe I should start the conversation now, and wait for Cory.
Meh, I'm too tired for that for now at least...I need sleep....
I'll be checking back and forth all day long. My time.
Or something.
Definitely a large time gap between those.
*dashes away*
Okay.
Hmm....I can't remember ever having tasted blueberries on their own. I've had blueberry muffins recently, but that's about it I think.
Ah, but you've never tasted dishwashing detergent have you?
No....that's just bordering on weird....and slightly disgusting.....
Ah, but what if I put them together, then would you eat / drink it?
It'd kind of be a soup :)
That is just really really gross.
But I guess it depends on the ratio you put them in.
Ah, the ratio! The ratio
I wish I had a ratio. Then I could listen to stations.
Did anyone else notice the 3 hour difference?
*sits*
*giggles*
*watches*
oh, btw, there's no way, Andrew you're finding out about the blueberry disaster. Don't ask Rach! Just don't. *poke*
Actually I'll probably see you tomorrow (youth group). Josh, my brother, should be there, too. he's flying up late tomorrow. Have you ever met Josh? He and Hannah visited Sydney something like two years ago.
*backs away* Let the schizophrenic madness continue.
Matt and/or Rach mentioned that Josh was coming down tomorrow. And no, I haven't ever met him. I did meet Hannah when you guys came down last time, but not Josh.
As for not asking....we'll see what happens. Lol.
But now -
I don't use my radio much. Maybe if I did, I would be more aware of current music.
Yeah, maybe. Then maybe you would have broader music tastes.
Or maybe you could just crawl out from under the rock you live under and start to understand what it happening in the world...
The world? Bah. I know about what interests me, and have a vague understanding of everything else.
Just because I know more about history than the current world.....
(And this is the 150th comment!!)
Oh, just go out and do something useful!
Having fun insulting me are you?
Yep :)
Ok, moving on to something else.
Lol. I know. Verbal tennis against myself.
Rules. You must ask questions, without statements. You must not repeat, use synonyms, non-sequitors, etc.
I'm bored, so humour me.
Why am I playing this?
Who is going to win?
Who is going to lose?
Who is out to get me?
By the way, I'm just doing this as the first thing comes into my mind, so there is a sort of justice.
Meh, this is so pathetic.
Foul. Statement. One-love.
Why?
Why not?
I'm lost.
Foul. Statement. Two-love.
Can't you do better than that?
Can't I do better than what?
Than this.
Foul. Statement. Two-one.
Whose serve?
Mine or yours?
His or hers?
Ours or theirs?
Yours or mine?
Foul. Synonym and/or repetition. Three-one. Game point.
Now what?
What do we do?
How do we do it?
What do we do it for?
When do we do it until?
When do we finish?
We finish whenever.
Statement. Three-two. Game point.
Do you think this is taking too long?
To long for what?
Longer than what?
How long till we end?
Will someone win?
Won't they?
Egads. I have been challenged!
I cannot let this challenge go unanswered. I will personally now go to 200.
Which will then equal to near 17 comments in a row.
But of course, I'll go past that.
For nothing's as simple as it.
Woo, Project 86 just got done playing.
And Jesse has APC going in the other room. Loudly.
10 more!
I need to get to 200 quickly.
Why's that, O ruler of me?
Ruler nothing, fool.
Oh, so resorting to namecalling, eh?
I stop at nothing.
Oh yeah? What about stopsigns and stoplights?
...
Dangit.
Never mind. Post the 200th.
Woo! 200!
That makes the 100th and the 200th mine.
We're quite disgusting.
I will not deny that fact.
Just think of all the old ladies that are being frightened because of creepy signatures?
That was a stupid sentence.
204. Time to eatfood.
Did you eatfood?
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