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hani_backup) wrote2011-08-22 12:03 am
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Stopped fasting, movies, Museum of Science and Industry, driving lesson, primed
The last time I posted on LiveJournal/InsaneJournal was August 7th, Sunday. Later, at around midnight after I broke fast and continued snacking and drinking water - ever since I was little I've thought of water as the elixir of life and when you're fasting/dehydrated it absolutely is - Matt and I found a scale in their house and I weighed myself. I was a little less than the absolute limit we set up a few years ago when I tried fasting, so I went "Oh, well! I should stop fasting!" Looking back I think I was a little too cavalier, and gave up too easily. Especially after I found an article about a high school American football player in Florida who continues to go to practices in full gear while fasting. It's good for him his coaches watch him for symptoms of heat stroke/heat exhaustion and the practices were moved to 7am in hopes it'd help the player avoid the heat. Though their games are still in the afternoon, I believe. I was talking about it to Matt and mentioned the football player was 265lbs after losing 10lbs after 9 or so days of fasting and Matt said "He must be a linebacker!" I have no idea what a linebacker is or any football positions but I guess they're the ones who attack the opposing players. I know more about European football than American football. So I went back to the apartment and was happy to be able to eat food and drink water whenever I wanted. And eat my ice cream. I celebrated by buying ice cream, yeah. :P I don't remember what I did the days I was back in the apartment, though I think I started feeling like I wanted to be alone... I did visit Matt the following Friday - he picked me up - and we watched two movies that evening with his family/some of them.
Source Code was the first movie we watched during dinner. I had confused it with Paycheck and was a little meh about watching a Ben Affleck film, but luckily I was disabused about the notion of it. It was a little confusing to understand and since we couldn't find the remote to turn on subtitles, I missed some dialogue. But I did like it. The characters were a little more three-dimensional and the premise was definitely intriguing. It was a little disheartening that nobody really seemed to mourn the loss of the teacher's identity and personality, though, because the main character was in his body!
Afterwards we watched The Adjustment Bureau though at that point Matt's father had left beforehand, and his brother midway through. He said he was a little tired of "mind-fucking movies." :P That is true. The Adjustment Bureau is based off a short Philip K. Dick story thankfully called The Adjustment Team. This was another movie I found intriguing to watch. I liked it a bit more than Source Code. It had a few ethical questions. Though I'm glad I didn't watch it before I had experience with relationships. It does rely heavily on the idea of a great love, soulmate-ish, that you just know the second you meet them. Or at least a few minutes after speaking with them. I know I believe people can be attracted or intrigued or feel a connection with someone else - friendship, physical, romantic - after a few minutes of talking/hanging out but I don't think a great, close connection can be felt within those few minutes for both people (or more than two people), until they get to know each other better. *shrugs* I found that premise refreshing to escape to and the overall story line cool but I'm glad I've had experience with friendships and relationships. I know that I can grow to like people when the first impression isn't so fantastic. A few friends and a few people I've been attracted to I didn't particularly like or had favorable impressions of at first. I remember Dora and I had a mutual wariness and jealousy when we first met because of a mutual friend, Beryl, and her friendship with the other person, but we grew to be close.
Matt and I went to the Museum of Science and Industry the Saturday. He borrowed two passes from the public library so we could get in free (for the normal exhibitions). But working the line in the Museum was a former schoolmate of ours so she asked the ticket person to let us into the IMAX for free. :-) We went to Science Storms first. It was fun, but then I started getting a headache from the Nikola Tesla electric coil... Then we watched Tornado Alley in the IMAX. First ever IMAX experience for me and it was nauesating. Motion sickness and all, plus the subject matter of tornado chasing. I developed a migraine and when we got back to the house I went upstairs and took two extra strong Excedrin. I was crying later when the noises from downstairs bothered me and went down in tears to ask Matt if he could turn off the music (they play music during dinner, or watch something). He was an absolute darling and went out to buy me earplugs. ♥
I zoned out for a few hours with the earplugs before I went back downstairs so we could watch Paprika. I've already seen it, but I borrowed it from Netflix so I could share it with Matt. It makes more sense the second time around! Also we watched the special feature where Yasutaka Tsutsui, the author of the book Paprika the movie was based on, the director Satoshi Kon - I can't believe he's dead, and the voice actors for Atsuko Chiba/Paprika and Detective Konakawa had a conversation. It was about the experience of being voice actors, directing, their views on dreams. It was very interesting. As noise affects me more than lights during migraine, I watched the movie and special features with my earplugs in and read the subtitles. :P I missed out on the soundtrack, though, which is disappointing.
Then the next Sunday we had a brief driving lesson in a smallish high school parking lot. :( We were out at noon or something so that was understandable we couldn't find a more deserted area. I still didn't get on the road, and acceleration was scary... I think I went up to 8mph...
The work week was a little WTF and multiple breakdowns.
Saturday - there was free medical check up, dental (extraction, cleaning, filling) and vision (prescription, pressure check, dilation check, glaucoma, free frames - you get free complete glasses with prescription lenses if you got there early enough) offered by Remote Area Medical. Matt and I got there around 5:45am after waking up at 4am for shower (him) and breakfast and to drive there. Doors open at 5:30am. My number was 503. Apparently they started handing out numbers at 3:30am! I got into the building at 10am. I got into vision at 10:30am and was done around 1:15pm. I waited for dental but within being 20 people of getting in they started turning people away who had already gotten something else done. :-( SO CLOSE! I left around 5pm and got back to Matt's at 6pm. More than 12 hours of waiting - Matt had to leave around 9am because he had to help his brother move furniture - with about 4 hours of sleep. I still haven't slept long and well since Friday night. A lot of the people there were also students. I had both an optometry student and an optometrist inspect my eyes. My vision sucks.
Today I primed for the first time! And swung on a rope. And played Mario Galaxy. We had a full day of eating, too. Sausages, eggs, watermelon, musk melon, chicken cajun-cheese-mayo sandwich, more watermelon, musk, mango, chicken enchilada, lettuce, salsa, watermelon, musk, mango. YUMMY. Oh and there's corn leftovers. ♥
Thanks, too, to people I talked to amidst crises moments, who put aside time to talk to me/call. ♥
Source Code was the first movie we watched during dinner. I had confused it with Paycheck and was a little meh about watching a Ben Affleck film, but luckily I was disabused about the notion of it. It was a little confusing to understand and since we couldn't find the remote to turn on subtitles, I missed some dialogue. But I did like it. The characters were a little more three-dimensional and the premise was definitely intriguing. It was a little disheartening that nobody really seemed to mourn the loss of the teacher's identity and personality, though, because the main character was in his body!
Afterwards we watched The Adjustment Bureau though at that point Matt's father had left beforehand, and his brother midway through. He said he was a little tired of "mind-fucking movies." :P That is true. The Adjustment Bureau is based off a short Philip K. Dick story thankfully called The Adjustment Team. This was another movie I found intriguing to watch. I liked it a bit more than Source Code. It had a few ethical questions. Though I'm glad I didn't watch it before I had experience with relationships. It does rely heavily on the idea of a great love, soulmate-ish, that you just know the second you meet them. Or at least a few minutes after speaking with them. I know I believe people can be attracted or intrigued or feel a connection with someone else - friendship, physical, romantic - after a few minutes of talking/hanging out but I don't think a great, close connection can be felt within those few minutes for both people (or more than two people), until they get to know each other better. *shrugs* I found that premise refreshing to escape to and the overall story line cool but I'm glad I've had experience with friendships and relationships. I know that I can grow to like people when the first impression isn't so fantastic. A few friends and a few people I've been attracted to I didn't particularly like or had favorable impressions of at first. I remember Dora and I had a mutual wariness and jealousy when we first met because of a mutual friend, Beryl, and her friendship with the other person, but we grew to be close.
Matt and I went to the Museum of Science and Industry the Saturday. He borrowed two passes from the public library so we could get in free (for the normal exhibitions). But working the line in the Museum was a former schoolmate of ours so she asked the ticket person to let us into the IMAX for free. :-) We went to Science Storms first. It was fun, but then I started getting a headache from the Nikola Tesla electric coil... Then we watched Tornado Alley in the IMAX. First ever IMAX experience for me and it was nauesating. Motion sickness and all, plus the subject matter of tornado chasing. I developed a migraine and when we got back to the house I went upstairs and took two extra strong Excedrin. I was crying later when the noises from downstairs bothered me and went down in tears to ask Matt if he could turn off the music (they play music during dinner, or watch something). He was an absolute darling and went out to buy me earplugs. ♥
I zoned out for a few hours with the earplugs before I went back downstairs so we could watch Paprika. I've already seen it, but I borrowed it from Netflix so I could share it with Matt. It makes more sense the second time around! Also we watched the special feature where Yasutaka Tsutsui, the author of the book Paprika the movie was based on, the director Satoshi Kon - I can't believe he's dead, and the voice actors for Atsuko Chiba/Paprika and Detective Konakawa had a conversation. It was about the experience of being voice actors, directing, their views on dreams. It was very interesting. As noise affects me more than lights during migraine, I watched the movie and special features with my earplugs in and read the subtitles. :P I missed out on the soundtrack, though, which is disappointing.
Then the next Sunday we had a brief driving lesson in a smallish high school parking lot. :( We were out at noon or something so that was understandable we couldn't find a more deserted area. I still didn't get on the road, and acceleration was scary... I think I went up to 8mph...
The work week was a little WTF and multiple breakdowns.
Saturday - there was free medical check up, dental (extraction, cleaning, filling) and vision (prescription, pressure check, dilation check, glaucoma, free frames - you get free complete glasses with prescription lenses if you got there early enough) offered by Remote Area Medical. Matt and I got there around 5:45am after waking up at 4am for shower (him) and breakfast and to drive there. Doors open at 5:30am. My number was 503. Apparently they started handing out numbers at 3:30am! I got into the building at 10am. I got into vision at 10:30am and was done around 1:15pm. I waited for dental but within being 20 people of getting in they started turning people away who had already gotten something else done. :-( SO CLOSE! I left around 5pm and got back to Matt's at 6pm. More than 12 hours of waiting - Matt had to leave around 9am because he had to help his brother move furniture - with about 4 hours of sleep. I still haven't slept long and well since Friday night. A lot of the people there were also students. I had both an optometry student and an optometrist inspect my eyes. My vision sucks.
Today I primed for the first time! And swung on a rope. And played Mario Galaxy. We had a full day of eating, too. Sausages, eggs, watermelon, musk melon, chicken cajun-cheese-mayo sandwich, more watermelon, musk, mango, chicken enchilada, lettuce, salsa, watermelon, musk, mango. YUMMY. Oh and there's corn leftovers. ♥
Thanks, too, to people I talked to amidst crises moments, who put aside time to talk to me/call. ♥
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So, now I am using the online version of Netflix with my Apple TV box. There are a lot of films missing from their online library! The convenience is nice and the quality is usually good (not great) though.
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And did you get new glasses?
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I keep on thinking about seeing Paprika, but generally it gets pushed back because of other things. I'll eventually see it...XD
As far as your fasting is concerned, despite being cavalier about it, you shouldn't fast beyond a certain weight limit just due to the fact that you aren't a big person, and if you get below a certain weight, it could cause body problems above and beyond what you already have to deal with. And that football player more than likely has at least 100-150lbs on you. Completely different body type. You're okay. *HUGS*
Glad to see you posting. :D
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Paprika is a fun movie to watch! :D
Yeah, the lack of water (and fiber, sometimes) throughout the day really messed up my digestive system. BLAH. BLEE. BLOO. I was 91.8lbs when we weighed me earlier this month and I think now I'm about 95-96lbs. Woohooo.
Though I am cranky and bitchy now cause of my period. >_>