badmilk

has inexplicably strong fingernails, and weak everything else



I'm doing 43 things
 

badmilk's Life List

  1. 1. let my ankle heal
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    1 person
  2. 2. only smoke cigarettes while drinking or after sex
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    1 person
  3. 3. Exercise five days a week
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    28 people
  4. 4. Lose 2 inches off my waist
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    6 people
  5. 5. stop letting the tourists ruin my summer
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    1 person
  6. 6. fight my arthritis
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    2 people
  7. 7. see Tom Waits live
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    12 people
  8. 8. stop saying "awesome" so often
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  9. 9. meditate daily
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  10. 10. practice yoga more regularly
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    7 people
  11. 11. spend more time with my mom
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  12. 12. make a list of 10 things I'd want to do if I were going to die in 6 months
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  13. 13. stop eating chocolate
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  14. 14. Learn to navigate Philadelphia
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  15. 15. eat something green every day
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  16. 16. paint more pictures this summer
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  17. 17. take more pictures of my boyfriend and I
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    2 people
  18. 18. take five good pictures of my best friend and I
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  19. 19. go canoeing with my best friend
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    1 person
  20. 20. read all the Dinosaur Comics in order
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  21. 21. have an affair with a professor
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  22. 22. learn to oil paint
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  23. 23. help others before they hurt others
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  24. 24. Improve my posture
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  25. 25. finish learning french
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  26. 26. have sex in a cave
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  27. 27. learn the thriller dance
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  28. 28. get another tattoo
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  29. 29. donate my eggs
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  30. 30. buy orthopedic shoes
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  31. 31. join Mensa
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    256 people
  32. 32. take the GRE
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    417 people
  33. 33. go zorbing
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  34. 34. have a secret underground lair
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  35. 35. See all the films that have won the Best Picture Oscar
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    287 people
  36. 36. identify 100 things that piss me off
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    115 people
  37. 37. identify 100 things that make me happy.
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    1,756 people
  38. 38. make mixed CDs for my friends
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    4 people
  39. 39. read the top 50 censored books
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  40. 40. take another African Drumming class
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    1 person
  41. 41. read all of the Y: The Last Man series
    1 person
  42. 42. read all of The Maxx series
    1 person
  43. 43. eat five or six small meals a day
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Recent entries
Let my ankle heal (read all 4 entries…)
I made an appointment this morning to see the podiatrist again 2 months ago

But you know what? I don’t think it’s necessary. According to the information I found online, I’m at a point now where there’s not much I can do besides take NSAIDs to help with the swelling and pain and be conscious of my ankle’s movement. I talked to my mother, a nurse, and she agrees. I’ll run it by Bill and see what he says. A severely injured ankle that’s been in such poor condition for so long isn’t going to fully heal regardless of what you do, and I’m fairly certain I couldn’t afford whatever treatment would be available to me anyway (thanks American health industry).

I’ll see what else I can find out about treating it. It may just so happen that I need to keep my ankle wrapped whenever I’m active for the rest of my life.

...Or at least until I move to a country that can offer me medical attention without taking the grocery money for the next three months out of my pocket.


see Tom Waits live
I love the man, but 2 months ago

He needs to better serve his fans, namely me.

Tom Waits tickets went on sale yesterday at 10am. I chose not to attempt to buy them because I knew I wouldn’t be able to afford the entire trip. The tickets alone were going to run me $70-$110 each after fees and depending on seating, and the trip down to Atlanta, the venue we’d most likely be able to charge off to, would have been highly expensive whether we drove ourselves or took public tran all the way from up here in South Jersey.

I hope after his European leg, he decides to tour the nothern part of the US. You know, some New York, some Pennsylvania, maybe….


eat five or six small meals a day
I'm just trying this out 2 months ago

I think this kind of eating schedule would prove to have a few benefits I’m after.

Firstly, it would make me crave less food when I’m hungry, for a number of reasons: particularly, my stomach would probably get smaller from not having to hold entire meals often, and also, even if I am rather hungry, I can put off eating the extra couple hundred calories I’m craving til my next meal.

Also, the frequency with which I’d be preparing and consuming food would probably fool me into thinking I’m eating more. And I would never feel stuffed. I don’t like feeling full.

I have to mention that it would probably cause an increase in the amount of water I drink, as it’s natural for me to have a glass/bottle with each meal.

Finally, it would give me a little more freedom to have many different types of food per day. Instead of having to prepare an entire meal that would give my palate one or a couple tastes to play with while I digest for a span of hours, I can have a temporarily filling smoothie or a small PB&J at noon knowing that I can make a small Thai dish in a couple of hours if I please.

I really enjoy cooking for the week, anyway. For example, I love to make a big blender full o’ hummus so that Bill and I have something to snack or dine on that will last a week or more depending on storage. Hummus more or less always takes the same amount of time to make, no matter how much I’m making, so that works. Anyway, what I’m saying is I can just make sure I have enough fixins lying around the kitchen so that small meal prep isn’t a problem.

It would probably help with eating out, too, as that can get costly. If I only need one roll when I go out to sushi rather than two, I’d be saving a lot of [Bill’s] money. :P

This isn’t a long term goal. I just wanna see if it’s the eating schedule for me.


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