Blog Reccs

One from left field, one from right field.

*Bitch Cakes* A Neurotic Glamour Girl’s Experience and Fitness Adventures

Ms Bitch Cakes

I found this blog, which seems to have become randomly famous after some Apple Tart drama and was linked from the NYTimes. Since I’m currently struggling to eat healthier and workout every day this blog was right up my alley. I like that she is someone who wouldn’t be typically classified as a “exercise nut” and that she shares very practical advice and experience. One thing in particular really jolted me, and I realized — that, that right there is my struggle.

Because of that, you should not measure your success by something you have no control over (the scale). Measure your success by breaking bad habits, adapting new good habits, the extra activity you are doing, the better choices you make, the way your clothes fit, the things you can do that you previously couldn’t, the conviction with which you say NO so many times every day, the positive and healthy changes you are making in your life.

I am trying to focus on the conscious action of choosing to be healthy. I want to be healthy and happy and so I make choices to support that goal. It’s not about “I can’t have Doritos” it’s about not choosing to do something destructive. I think Weight Watchers refers to it as Reframing, and it is my health challenge right now, more than the actual acts of going to the gym or cooking dinner.

So, on that note: instead of eating cake, go laugh at it!

Cake Wrecks

Cake Wrecks: When good cake goes wrong

It’s wrong that I found inspiration in some of these examples, isn’t it? Or that I really want to make tiny cakes shaped like puffer fish. Many LOLs guaranteed.

 

I <3 The Chemist

I love my psychiatrist (hereafter referred to as “the Chemist”) because while he understands that psychiatry is a complete farce, he is able to project this wonderful warm sense of authority and assurance. So when he tells me to take an upper, and then a downer…and then a sleeper, because the downer isn’t working, but I can still hold onto the downers for when I want them…and then a focuser/booster for the upper because it’s not stable, and then the sleeper becomes even more important…well, I like it!

Conversation I just had with the office manager:

Me: Hi, I’d like to have my sleep medication prescription refilled (because you only gave it to me on a trial basis, and I really need to come in and talk to you before I get anymore)

Her:Ok, sure! Where should I fax it to?

Me:Oh, uh…well, I’m in California…so, uh, here’s the number. Does it matter that {X}, {Y} or {Z} and will my insurance have to pre-approve it again?

Her: Nope, you’re all set!

This is in stark contrast to when I had coxsackie virus and scarlet fever at the same time. I got a scrip for penicillin before traveling to New Jersey (which I told my doctor). After a week of no abating symptoms I called her and asked for help.

Her:“Well, I don’t know if I want to fax you a prescription for amoxicillan, even though it’s one of the most common and harmless drugs on the market, because I don’t know if you’re still really sick and deserve a prescription.”

Me: Woman, do you want me to camera phone you pictures of the pus sores in my throat? Because I promise you, they are STILL THERE.