"the fat tax"

This sucks! Ssomehow I caught a cold! Coughing sucks and I've joined the ranks of the mouth-breathers. This makes working out harder. Why did I get sick? This sucks! I only hhave 4 pill days left & I'm still fat! The workouts are getting a bit easier to recover from tho, so I'm hoping that is a good sign. They're still hard to do but I no longer feel dead to the world for hours afterwards. Yay?
I noticed on Sephora.com the whole Charlotte Ronson line was on sale. Nooooooooooo! That tends to mean clearance! Sephora doesn't do weekly sales like the drugstores do. Sale means trying to get rid of it! Noooooo! So I dropped over $100 getting the Ronson things I knew I liked. Closer powder, lots of lip glosses, and the eyeliner set and selftanner and I even got the kit that had another Closer, and the cream bronzer (love!) And fragrance rollerball and that hairspray that smells odd on me but gives me great texture. I need to write her a letter. Mmostly begging to keep her makeup line even if she doesn't add to it. I really love the lipglosses and the Closer powder. The powder does a great job of hiding my small forehead wrinklies and the gloss is soft and moisturizing and TASTY it tastes like mint. A mild mint. I guess lemon mint is a mild mint? Or am I not sensitive enough to detect the lemon? Anyway they are tasty and yes my fave shade is the one named Samantha but that's not (just) because I have a slight obsession. Her shade is this gorgeous pale pink shimmer that makes my skin all glowy. It's just a perfect match for my pale complexion. So when I saw the whole line get marked down I bought 5 glosses and I don't care that they were $10 each I love that color! And I might well buy more. I don't want them to go bad before I can use thhem tho so maybe I won't buy more. But waaaaa I'm unhappy!

Moving on.... the "fat tax" has a few meanings to me. Paying for a gym membership and then not going = fat tax. Bro's gf has that as her fave definition. She goes less often than I do. She does want to go, but her job is a major timesuck. Another definition is when I pay $2.50 for 900cals of cheetos in the form of a 6pack of singleserve bags. If I had willpower I could spend that same 2.50 on 1500+ cals of cheetos in a big bag. But because I have to empty every bag I open, I must stick to the singleserving bags. Paying more because I have no willpower= fat tax.

There's another way too....bottom line is obesity has a price tag. Fat people, esp the morbidly obese, have more health problems. And when they can't pay for the health care, the hospital has to pick up the tab. Which means the gov has to have programs to help hospitals who can show financial loss because people couldn't pay. And where does gov money come from? Yep, taxes. So taxpayers all pay a fat tax that way. And food stamps are another taxpayer-funded gov program. Food stamps can be vital, I've been there. But if food stamps are only used to buy junk, and then the fattie gets the predictable health issues, then taxpayers get shafted twice over. 1st for the food stamps which the fat person wasted on junk, then again for the health care that was the result of fattie's decisions.
Talk about a fat tax!
I'd be curious to see a study about how many fat people are on food stamps vs how many are self-supporting. Don't people who work need at least some healthy food in order to do their jobs?
Also....there is a huge difference between being big-boned and being fat. There is also a difference between being curvy and being fat. I hate how fatties are demanding to be called curvy or big-boned because they don't want to face the truth. When you are wider than you are tall, you are not curvy, you are fat. When your upper arm puffs down over your elbow, you are not big-boned, you are fat.

Sorry for the rant. Fatass at work is a huge donut and she's always whining about her problems and weight and then she eats junk. And she bought it with food stamps.

I got to try coke zero yesterday. I liked it.

lazy bum!

Well well well....another week gone and I have only lazy daydreams to show for it. I did work on comic #4 it might even be done. I last looked at it on weds. Lost my flash drive again *headdesk*
Also used waaaay too much copy-paste while making comicc #5. I found the eyestrain glasses. Turns out they work by filtering out some of the computer screen's blue light. They are basically a light yellow tint. Which is great... if you don't need to work with colors. So I'm still screwed. I tried to speed things up with copy-paste but the eyestrain still kicked me. Eh. I've always done some copy-paste simply because doing the heads took so long. But this time I copied whole panels. And I still couldn't finish #5 before the eyestrain bit back! And I didn't go to Zumba! I did do 4 10min workout vids tho back on weds. And was soooooooo sore thurs and still sore today. And my pigging out has completely cancelled the calorieburn. My right shoulder is soooooo strained. There is no comfortable position. It just hurts. And my inner thighs are sooo tight I stretch them every time I move or I feel like I can't move. Here's hoping this means I did something right. Some muscle building.

The rest of the time was wasted watching old movies either online or from the huge case of dvds Mom has. I found the old Julie Andrews Cinderella found snippets of the old color Cinderella I remembered seeing as a kid. Estella Warren or something like that. She was good at showing Cinderella's deep sadness. These were both the Rodgers and Hammerstein Cinderellas btw. And I dunno if I spelled their names right. Also found one with Whoopi Goldberg as the queen and Bernadette Peters as the stepmother. Whoopi seriously did not get enough screen time. And that Paolo i-cant-recall-last-name was such a fantastic find! He was wonderful! The girl playing Cinderella was the weak link. Her acting was flat and her voice just wasn't there. I mean she was matching pitch but her voice was breathy and weak and easily lost. I also found a no-singing Cinderella that was very different. It had the lady from Romancing The Stone playing the stepmother and it was very interesting. It was a bit more modern..there were cars and guitars. And instead of a fairy godmother Cinderella went to see a sort of water fairy named Mab.
also found a few Snow White versions, including a terrifying one with Sigourney Weaver as the stepmother.

But my fave find was a version of Snow White that had the dwarves as little engineers who built robots and sought to teach truth to humans. And the court jester turned out to be the prince who married Snow White so she got to actually fall in love with him over time instead of just marrying the guy who woke her up. I need to find that version to buy! Or get my bro to somehow get a copy off the internet. I'd buy it if I could. I found my old childhood Christmas movies, didn't I? I found Nestor, the Forest of Burzee claymation Santa Claus movie the Burgermeister Santa Claus movie, the Rudolph one withe the island of misfit toys... I'm still kinda looking for the cartoon musical The Snowman but it was kinda depressing too so I dunno.
Ow, my shoulder.

oh dear...

Well, this sucks. My plants look pretty dead. I put them outside for a few hours on the one sunny day I had up here. Then i got like 3 days of wind and storms. The days are longer and slowly getting warmer but now the spring storms are here and no way those poor plants can go outside for another month or longer and it's gonna kill them. Thunder had my cats all scared. Well ok just the wimpy cats were scared. This is the first time i've been grateful for no dog.. my sweet dearly departed puppy would have been doing her damndest to climb over me all day and night.

Been thinking of putting them in my car. The car has more windows than my whole floor and there's a chance the good ol' greenhouse effect would keep the plants warm overnight. But only if there was sun in the day. Which hasn't been happening.

I'm having issues getting the bodyrock videos to run, but i can read all i want. Go figure. Probably has something to do with either the antivirus or the javascript-blocker. I suck at computers. Did find a few more youtubes to put on my other page. I'm really loving the popsugar/fitsugar videos. Most seem to be 10 minutes and oh wow am i tired at the end of just one.

In other news.. Sam Lupin has suggested that i may have a SLIGHT obsession with Samantha Ronson.


I have NO IDEA what she is talking about (ignore my tag list over there)

And i certainly don't have a huge folder on my computer of random photos of her.
And besides.. I only just heard her name for the first time the other day and had no idea who she was prior to yesterday

And  I certainly didn't know that she is rumored to be dating the lovely Lauren Andersen (who has worked for Madonna and is good friends as well as makeup artist for Jessica Alba and is apparently Avon's new Global Makeup Director or something...)

Also.. i am a super-skinny model who walks the New York, Paris, and London catwalks and i make well over a billion dollars a year. The world is envious of my very existence. Gwyneth Paltrow sees me as her personal guru. My hair is thick and gorgeous and i tan perfectly and i have never needed glasses or braces. I also have several gorgeous mansions for sale all over the world that i just feel bad holding on to because i never get to enjoy them since i am never in one place for very long.

Just sayin... ^_^

this is not convenient....

Did Mom's whole world take a week long vacation after Easter? I haven't had the house to myself at all! This makes doing bodyrock a bit hard. She's sleeping in her chair. And. The stuff she likes to watch uuuuhhhhnnggg..... law & order marathons, esp SVU the one that makes me especially stabby. It's easier when she's watching NCIS or Big Bang Theory or Bones. I prefer escapism in my tv. NCIS is too realistic sometimes, but I adore the characters so I can usually deal. Abby so cute! Ziva so hot! Is it wrong that I kinda want the to hook up? I think Abby was mentioned as being bi? Onward....I think Bones & Booth make a damn cute couple. And ofc I loooooove Big Bang Theory. Smartly written escapism yay! I think Samantha should do a guest spot on Big Bang....she's a computer geek. And she plays a lot of games. She often mentions Call of Duty: Black Ops.
I bought 2 plants the other day. Work was gonna throw them out. I had to pay full price too. And as I was paying a customer wanted to buy my tulips. Still not sure how I feel about that. How can you properly respond to someone picking up your plants as you are paying? There's no real way to not make them feel bad! Anyway the plants are in my room now. It's not very sunny but it's warm. We're still getting overnight frost but daytime can hit the mid-50s F. The joke in my town is we get all four seasons every day. Ofc that's exaggerated (don't think I spelled that right) but it is crazy how wildly the temperature can fluctuate. (That doesn't look right either. Ugh)
It'll be mid-June before I can safely put anything outside. I soooo want a pop up greenhouse but it can get windy here too. Mom's been watching/sleeping thru the hypothetical if-the-world-ends shows today which really doesn't help the worrying I can get caught in. Last time there was this super smart survivalist guy on tv and I got bad dreams afterwards and was all thinking I could maybe unhook my sump pump & use the sump as a well & build a water vapor distiller thing in the backyard but that would really only work in the summer. I'm not sure it could get hot enough to boil the water in winter. And what about my cats? And here comes the paranoia again.
I should try to get to Mich if the world ends. She's prepared!

must think of something else.....
Samantha released her music video for Summer of Sam. It's kinda cute! She also did an interview and she's soooooo cute in it! She also talks about how she wrote Summer of Sam. Mark was making her cry in the recording booth a number of years ago and she basically got drunk to deal w it and she got soooo wasted she had to ask the security guard how she got home. Once I'm on the computer again I'll pull them up and link them.
ooo maybe I should dig out the cheapo kiddie keyboard and start work on adapting her songs to my viola? Oh wait I still don't have a way to record. My phone's vidcam uses a format my computer doesn't recognize, the keychain camera doesn't tell me when it's turned on, so I'm stumped. My best bet is still the keychain since when it does record, it uses avi format. Ofc it only either takes pics or records sound. The video recording part doesn't work worth shit. I'd still start w something simple like Love Song. Hearing Summer of Sam again reminded me how Samantha uses very close harmonies and it's hard for me to hear all the notes she's using.. also.... I am not a rap fan. At. All. Blech! It is not a SONG unless there is *singing*! Or notes playing. No, a shitty loop in the background does NOT count! Blech!!
ok what else can I blabber about?
oh! Blohan's song "over" has been playing at work a lot lately. This annoys me cuz the "song" is damn repetitive. Then I started trying to come up with different lyrics. Parody lyrics. Like "I watch my face around me crumble, but it's not like I won't build it up again (you know she's had some sort of plastic surgery.. just look at her face!) And "don't you dare tell me that I'm overrrrr!" I don't have a full song, jbust pieces. But if I did have a full song could I post it? Should probably talk to a law type about parody laws. Weird Al makes a living off doing parodies but I don't think his parodies so directly make fun of anyone. Tho I wouldn't be outright lying about anything. Her face has changed, and she does court publicity and she has had constant legal issues. I swear she uses her court dates as her personal red carpets! So really it would kinda be like social commentary on a notorious public figure. But this bitch is sue-happy so maybe I shouldn't.. eh...
ok I should try to do at least one productive thing this week. Har har.