Being Emo

[batskeets]

I think I'm going to be Tired Emo skeets all week. All I feel like doing is curling up in warm blankets and sleeping. Fortunately, I don't have a lot of plans until the weekend, so I have license to be chill.

I'm eating very sparingly this week, which is HARD, because there's friggin' candy EVERYWHERE. But, I'm doing it. No sodium, few carbs, not much fat and it's all non-animal fat. It actually feels pretty good to not eat sugar and refined flours, because I haven't had much luck staying away from them since... probably PAX? Maybe after a week of this, I won't keep running back to that garbage all the time. The lack of carbs is definitely making it tough to train, though. I'm still debating whether or not I should lift today, or just go to wushu and call it good.

In other news, Nina fitted me for my costume on Sunday, and I got to take it home! It turned out so freakin' awesome. I also picked up the necessary Manic Panic to purple-ize my hair for it, and I'll get the final costume component from spiralshannon hopefully on Wednesday. THIS IS SO COOL, YOU GUYS. I am excited.

After I got back from there, we went to Amy's concert, and it was really nice. We were late, so we had to listen to most of the first piece from the hallway, but they did a cool Brahms piece after intermission. Then Travis offered to make his awesome chili, so we went to their place to hang out, eat chili, and watch C.H.U.D.

Vendor event on Saturday went fine. Attendance wasn't as stellar as everyone hoped, but we still met some great folks, got great comments on our art prints, and sold a couple of them, too. Boy's not-so-secretly hoping to do well in the art photography realm, so that was encouraging. And at least one of the vendors wants to work with us on a new headshot.

Friday night was lovely, too. matrixleap pulled a whole gaggle of Doomies together for a relaxing evening of Apples to Apples. I was only expecting a couple other people, so it was a nice surprise! It was really good to see everyone, it's been way too long. I'm looking forward to the Halloween Party on Saturday even more now.

Anyhoo, I think I may be keeping my head down this week and not post much. I'm a bit out of juice, both physically and emotionally. But I *am* reading your posts. :)

Comments

[bloodred37.livejournal.com]

I need your will-power. I get horrible sweet cravings and carb cravings and I'm not sure how to cut them out. Do you just do it out of sheer determination or do you eat something else that helps curb it?

[skeets.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. I totally don't have it down yet. But I think the primary things I do are:

1) eat fruit or other natural/healthy stuff instead (apples & almond butter are my favorite)

2) plan my other meals so I can have a cupcake or something later without blowing my calorie intake for the day

3) yeah, willpower it out, if I can. I'm totally the type who wants to eat something if it's in front of me, so I kind of suck at this. ;p

[bloodred37.livejournal.com]

I've found that mixes like almonds and cranberries help, I totally forgot about that though. I just moved and haven't gone shopping yet so my eating habits have been way worse than normal too.

It's so easy for me to just eat a cinnamon roll or something and then not eat til dinner. Which is awful too!

[skeets.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, it's way easier to avoid snacking on unhealthy things if you get all your meals in. I used to skip breakfast a lot, and I would always end up buying some sugary fancy-coffee and a giant pastry before lunchtime.

[bloodred37.livejournal.com]

oh no, that's totally me. Hahaha.

[muerte.livejournal.com]

For curling in a warm blanket I cannot recommend the slanket enough.

[tokori.livejournal.com]

too bad im not in PDx aat the moment, I could use an emo week myself.