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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Here's Al's latest song and video, Skipper Dan:
ETA: For those wondering, this is not a parody, but has enough Weezer-esque elements that I think it could safely be grouped with "Germs," "Twister," "Dare to be Stupid," and other songs that ape a group's style.
ETA2: And yes, the animator missed two hyphens in the name of the Mamet play.
Monday, July 13, 2009
11:21PM
Hey there folks.
I've got to say, although it's nearly trite by now, how much this community has helped me out lately--although I've spent a long time slowly moving towards not minding the shapes my body has become, it's still something I struggle with....
i work with homeless youth--esp. folks who struggle with drug and alcohol/mental health concerns. a lot of my (usually female, but not always) clients end up using meth, frequently because of the extreme weight loss it causes. these youth are difficult to work with at times, because they will be standing there, talking about how fat they are and how gross that is and all that usual self hate sort of stuff...and it weirds me out, because i'm standing in front of them, usually bigger than they are. i've been doing this job for three and a half years now, but it's only in the last couple weeks that it's gotten pretty bad with a couple of youth....and i think it's only through this community that i've been able to finally say something.
two folks come to mind specifically.
1--a girl who used to be a very tiny ballet dancer, who after some trauma and bedridden stuff, gained a couple hundred pounds. depression and pain keep her on the couch most of her day. she's miserable and is stuck on the fact that she can't do anything to change anything and constantly ridicules herself for being fat. finally, during a conversation like usual, i said "hey, i'm fat too, you know." she seemed sort of shocked and said "oh, but you're pretty too." i talked to her a bit about being the idea of leading a life that she's comfortable with and if that means taking walks and eating healthy, great, if not, that's her choice too--but just allowing her body to find a comfy weight on it's own, instead of looking for a magic number. I talked about my own experience of a lot of years of hating mirrors and refusing to be in pictures and wearing a lot of oversized hoodies. that's not something i would have been able to do before.
2--a girl who runs up to me everytime she sees me and starts exclaiming about i've lost so much weight and thus, i'm looking so good, etc. (it's also kinda inappropriate boundary wise, but that's another topic...) then she tends to ask me whether it looks like she's lost any weight. she's come up to me when i'm eating a piece of pizza or pasta or something and started talking about how she avoids carbs because they make you fat... recently, i've started saying things like "i'm cool with that..." Today, I told her point blank that i refuse to comment on other people's weight... it was in a group setting, so i didn't want to get any more specific than that, but i think that next time i see her, i'm going to take her aside and just say Hey--i'm not comfortable with you commenting on my weight, bigger or smaller. it's my body and that's a boundary that's important to me...and just see what she says. ;p
alright. if anything is offensive or confusing or anything, i apologize. it's late and i should be in bed already. g'night. :)
Current music: Mount St. Helen's Vietnam Band
Sup all, I have a problematic question for ya:
Do any of you know where to find a company/person who sells bright, multi-coloured cyber-rave/Tokyo club kid type platform shoes?
The examples (inevitably) all come from Takuya Angel models - here and here are a few shots of the same pair from SiSen. They're a sort of lavender-pink, very tall, and he wears the hell out of them since they were pretty battered when I saw them (and I'm not surprised, given how short he is). XD Unfortunately I was brainbaked by the summer heat when I was in Japan visiting the Harajuku store, so I didn't think to ask him where he got them. *desk*
Here is another style belonging to Catherine - this pair I especially love, and while I've found similar modelling from Demonia, they're all drab black and not bright blue and red. :(
I'm not looking for these exact styles (and I highly doubt the second pair, for example, are DIY paint customs), but something platform stacked and *colourful*. If anyone could point me in the right direction or even supply the right keywords in Japanese to plug into MBok or Y!JP Auctions (English ebay's got nothing), I'd be really grateful. :D
(And to head it off at the gate, no suggesting those giant Demonia stack boots that only ever seem to come in PVC solid colours like pink or red - I'm strictly looking for multi-coloured or unusually-coloured stuff)
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
2:37AM
I am watching Ivanhoe with the sound off, the better to cap it. Even without the sound, however, I kind of love Aethelstan. He is DWEEBY and UNCOUTH and also badass! He is protective of poor whaled-on Wamba! Awwww.
Olivia Hussey is still the prettiest.
Hey everyone!
So in the spirit of my new journey to body acceptance I want to order some lingerie. I tend to walk around in an oversized t-shirt (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac!)and pj pants with puppies all over them. I'd love to get something silky or satiny to wear for myself, and as a treat for my new husband since he never sees me in skimpy stuff that much.
What are your favorite online lingerie stores? I like mostly retro style lingerie, soft colors, nothing see-through or crotchless please!
I'm looking at Hips & Curves, but I'd love some suggestions.
Monday, July 13, 2009
I'm going to be in a wedding that I'm leaving for in like a month. I got some fabric from the bride to make a skirt out of but I need to find someone in Portland OR to make it for me! Is there anyone out there from PDX who could do this for me for not a super amount of $$? Or do you know of anyone in the area? It's gonna be the most basic thing, probably just a pencil skirt... I just don't trust myself to do it and I'd rather spare myself the pain of messing it up.
Also.. I'm trying to find a top kind of like this: ivory top
I really don't want to have to buy something from anthropologie and am super broke anyways so something slightly cheaper would be good too. It's going to be held outside in north carolina in august, uck!!! I'm hoping for anything that will keep me even slightly cool.
When I was young, we called K-mart Cameapart and nobody wanted to go there...I have not been back there in probably 15 years, but today I needed some camping stuff and decided to try my luck...What I ended up with was a GREAT pair of grey stirrup pants, a pair of xl leggings that are more than ample for me(and I"m FAT 5'6 and 309!) They also had some really cool tops in their jr plus sizes..I will post pics later of a few..
What do you guys think of stirrups? I remember having them in MANY colors back in the day..I am 31 though so maybe I'm just nutso!
8:14PM
I've ordered this dress for my upcoming wedding. I'm clueless as to what accessories (including veil) to wear with it. My flowers are going to be red roses and the wedding colors are black and ivory, so I'd like something that would compliment that.Thanks.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
 Hey Fruits comm! I have not posted here in years. i was going to make a kigurumi pajama last night, then thought I'd practice with a hoodie first. I'm about 1/2 done, it's mostly just pinned together. I need comments/crits/suggestions please on things to do before I finish it. Like I could still do buttons or a zip? More pics and info on my journal.
Thanks! <3
Monday, July 13, 2009
Apparently it's news that NASA is planning to take the ISS out of orbit early in 2016.
I'm pretty sure this was the plan all along. It's just that when they started putting the thing together in 1999, they thought it would be finished in 2004, and the end of the shuttle program wasn't planned to coincide with completion. How time flies!
It will be interesting to see if Congress offers more funding to keep it going and how NASA will respond. Finished or not, there are pieces of equipment up there that have been in service for over a decade already, and the options for expanding the lifespan of the station are probably quite limited.
It just makes me shake my head. Before I was born, people walked on the moon. Now I have kids. Will space travel become more than just an expensive boondoggle in their lifetimes?
These mismatched shoes are a match made in heaven! Mister Blue Bunny with his dapper bowtie and Miss Pink Bunny with her fancy hair bow are all ready to go dance the night away together!
And then they were begging to be vectored...
I'm thinking they'd look cute in a ferris wheel together on a t-shirt...maybe?
Hope everyone's having a nice Monday! I started self-hypnosis sessions today and I feel so incredibly relaxed and in control of everything. It's not what everyone thinks it is, it's actually just a controlled and deep state of daydreaming. Tyler's totally making fun of me for it but I don't care...I'll let you guys know how it goes. :)
ummm also!! harry potter this week! *spaz* and i have a new crafter that i'm going to introduce to the site this week. hip hip hooray!
Hey everyone! I've posted before, but its been a very very long time. I thought I would share my latest recon.
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Current mood: bouncy Current music: James Morrison
Because my husband was laid off in the spring and we have less money to spend, I decided to try making myself some new summer tops instead of buying them.
( Here are a few pics and explanations. )
I think this is a great pattern for my shape, and I had fun figuring out how to fix some of my old clothes into new items. For details on the process of sewing this stuff, check my journal!
Current music: Spider Robinson, "Belaboring the Obvious"
Hello, my lovely Fatshionistas. :) I was introduced to this community recently, and I've been browsing it obsessively ever since. I decided to finally make my first post to talk about two things.
One, this community has, over just the space of a couple of days, boosted my confidence and self-esteem in ways that I didn't even know were possible. I've struggled with warped body image over the years, coming from a family in which there are a lot of fat people (all of my aunts on my dad's side, and most of my uncles) who struggle with self-loathing and make disparaging comments about their bodies. It's never been a very fat-positive environment. I also live with my thin mother and younger sister, both of whom take it upon themselves to critique how I look almost every time I'm around them (whether it be my body, my baggy clothes, my lack of make-up, etc). My mother especially has been on me to lose weight in the past, and it's always been a struggle for me to accept my body the way it is. I'm not thin, and I never will be. And reading this community and seeing everyone's posts and the wonderful, encouraging atmosphere here has really made me feel fantastic. It's also made me want to overhaul my wardrobe and dress beautifully and confidently. So, I want to thank you all for that. It's really opened my eyes to the light. You all are gorgeous and fashionable and all-around amazing. <3
Now, onto the second thing. My lovely girlfriend has just alerted me to something she saw on that show The Doctors. Apparently, they were talking about this new diet that's making the rounds, in which you eat naked in front of a mirror in order to feel so bad about yourself that you start eating better. We were both absolutely appalled that anyone would even suggest such a fat-phobic idea that promotes self-loathing. Has anyone here heard of this? What's your take on it? And for the record, the people on the show thought it was a terrible idea, too (luckily).
Current mood:  awake Current music: Gotta Have You- The Weepies
Hello my fabulous fats, how are you all doing today?
I know that most (if not all of us) have been metaphorically abused into saying that plus sized people should wear black, darks, or neutrals. And for the most part until recently I had believed that, without many exceptions. Blue of any shade supposedly looks good on me, but I always felt quite blah about it.
So I was looking through pictures of me when I was about twelve to fourteen, I forget, and I was wearing a yellow cami and some of those ugly men's pants that were zipped of to make shorts. Does anyone remember the first round of those? What was I thinking. Anyways, I went and tried things on and bought a yellow tank and found that yellow, for whatever reason, is my color.
Go figure, right? The brightest color in the spectrum is my color.
Sorry, no pictures, but I wanted to ask - what's your color? And do you wear it often? What colors do you wear often?
Current mood:  amused Current music: Nightcore - Du och Jag
Hi there, this is a question for all the Bay Area folks on this site. Who has been to the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa? If so, what size are you and have you had any problems with fitting into the seats? I'm between 26/28 & 30/32 on the bottom. I had a slightly negative experience this weekend at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga when I discovered that the seats I fit into last year don't fit anymore. Luckily, I had an aisle seat and they got me a chair when I asked for one. And I was mighty proud of myself that I asked - since I usually just suck it up and "make it work". I want to hit another show this week at Wells Fargo, but I'm a little nervous now. Any help/advice would be great.. thanks!
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