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Seahawks vs Green Bay... I don't... I can't... what an embarrassment. Does the team have an "off" switch when they play games on the road? They're 0-4-1 this season with 2 TDs. TWO. WTF. Our offense is offensive to me. Not that the D was that great this game, either. I realize Earl is gone, and that was always gonna hurt. I expected them to lose this game -- they were playing at Lambeau, they've been shitty on the road, they were coming off a big home game, Green Bay has been trending up, etc. But JFC. Oh and they snapped an 85-game streak of not losing by more than 10 points.
Almost as bad as the team doing poorly was the crapshow they made of my fantasy football games this weekend. I managed to squeak into the playoffs in both leagues with a 7-6 record (go figure; I have a whole different cast and play entirely different people, but still managed to get the exact same record). One game is now an impossibility to win, unless Ezekiel Elliot gets like 70 points ON HIS OWN, while the other one will take monster games from LeGarrett Blount and Julian Edelman tomorrow night, which, given my luck with these things, they will not have. UGH.
I even drafted Eli Manning with the intention of playing him in place of Russell Wilson. I don't how he'll do tonight, but it certainly can't be worse than how RW played today, good gravy. I didn't end up playing Eli because I felt that I was not being fair to RW or the team coming off a good game, and I would feel really bad if Eli was horrible (very real possibility) and RW was amazing, for multiple reasons.
Next season, I am not drafting ANY Seahawks in my fantasy football leagues unless it would be absolutely ridiculous not to (like the next SEA player is miles above the next-best). It's too fucking stressful. Every week, I end up not playing FF the smartest way because I have to consider stupid shit like "feeling guilty" if RW has a good game. If I have no Seahawks on the roster, it won't matter who I put in; I just have to pick the best players, and the Seahawks doing well or poorly won't affect my FF games (well, other than when my opponent has a SEA player, of course).
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I was felled this last week by some kind of cold or flu or whatever the hell. This one was brutal. When I got sick in New York, it was like a little baby cold compared to this one. That one I was completely over with in less than two weeks, and never even got to the really bad symptoms. This time has been the mother of all viruses. (And how annoyed am I to get sick twice in such quick succession??) I'm still not fully over it, but am on the road to recovery. A few days ago I was like, LET ME DIE, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE. I don't even know how/where I got this thing. And if it's the flu, eff you flu shot for not covering this strain.
Oh, and even better? Aunt Flo came to visit. So I had to deal with that on top of body aches and hacking my lungs out.
On a more positive side note, have you heard of Thinx? It's period underwear, to put it bluntly. It's my second month using them (I have a full cycle set), and it's official, I love them.jade_okelani is a fan as well. You can read this article to learn more; I've read several like it where women tried to use them as their ONLY source of protection, and I think they're nuts. Or their cycles must be quite different from mine.
I use Thinx as they're intended to be used, as a kind of peace-of-mind backup to tampons, especially on my heavy days. On my light days I only use the underwear, and it's perfect. My coworker uses them SOLELY, even at night while sleeping, and apparently for her it works like a charm. I haven't leaked at night wearing them, but I hate washing sheets, so I still use an old black t-shirt to prevent staining, just in case.
Some observations:
1) I am WORRY FREE during the day. I'm always in meetings or at places where it's not always possible to run into a bathroom to change my tampon at the exact right moment. So with Thinx, I can leak, and IT DOESN'T MATTER, because I won't stain my clothes. I don't worry about it at all. I then go to change my tampon at my leisure.
2) They feel like normal underwear. They don't feel like diapers or even like wearing a pad or whatever. They feel like NORMAL UNDERWEAR. That is just so heavenly I have to repeat it. I hate, hate, HATE that feeling of having something THERE, when I'm on my period. And they even look super nice. In fact, they look like a fancy pair of panties! I don't really have fancy underwear, as I prefer comfortable cotton ones, so they're actually fancier than any other underwear I own. O.o
3) They have a bunch of different styles, and I like the hiphuggers best. Again, I'm personally all about comfort. If you prefer something sexier, or sportier, or need something that doesn't show lines or whatever, they even have thongs. O.o Each type has an indication of how much blood they're made to soak up (2 tampons, 1/2 tampon, etc.).
4) They come in two colors, black and nude. I was going to get all black, because who wants to see stuff? But since I was getting a full cycle set, I decided to try out a couple nude pairs. And it turns out that even the nude is lined in black, so you don't... see stuff, and yet you can wear them with lighter colored pants.
5) One thing I'm not super impressed with is the "wicking moisture" part. Maybe I'm just too picky, but it doesn't happen instantly. So let's say I leak, and I go to change my tampon and that's all good. But then when I put my underwear back on, there's a slight moment of "ick" when I can feel wetness. After a few moments that feeling goes away, but it's not like it's just magically dry all the time. (I suppose it also depends on how much you leak.)
6) Cleaning is super simple. You soak them in cold water for 20 min (yes, there will be bloody water... what, you never have to wash your period-stained panties? You'd be doing that anyway!), then throw them in the washing machine on delicate cycle. Then you air dry them. That's it.
It's soooooooooooooooooooooo freeing, and has made getting my period a little bit more tolerable, and that's a win, as far as I'm concerned. Anyway, I guess they even have a trial period now (ha! Trial PERIOD), so if you're interested, here's a code for $10 off. Full disclosure: If you buy a pair, I also get $10 off my next purchase. But you can't use more than one discount code at a time, so I can't hoard them and get a free pair or anything. Anyway, since I have a full cycle set, and the underwear seems well made, I don't see myself needing to buy more.
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I have accomplished the feat of finishing two of my many WIP K-dramas. I finished High School: Love On, which was okay, and Coffee Prince, which was better than okay but had the most boring and annoying side pairing of all time. I've also watched a few more episodes of Oh My Venus, which has gotten to a super angsty part, and I have no idea where they're going to go from here. It's quite disappointing, actually, that it started out so lighthearted and cute and has now brought us to this. Sigh. Henry Lau is still the best part of the drama. Also? Much of it seems to hinge on the viewer finding So Ji-sub brutally attractive. I mean, he IS attractive; he's just not THAT hot (to me).
Because of finishing off two of them, I allowed myself to start a new one -- "Hello My Teacher" aka "Biscuit Teacher and Star Candy." It stars Gong Yoo and Gong Hyo-jin. Gong Yoo is the primary male lead from Coffee Prince that I ended up really loving, and Gong Hyo-jin is the female lead from Master's Sun. She's another one of those actresses who gets a lot of work and critical accolades, and I don't understand why. To me she's basically Korean Maggie Gyllenhaal. Anyway...
Synopsis: Na Bori is a 25-year-old woman who desperately wants to be a teacher at the high school she was expelled from, so that she can work with her high school crush, young art teacher Ji Hyun Woo. However, the only thing that enables her to get the coveted job is by signing a contract to essentially babysit Park Tae In, a 20-year-old troublemaker who starts attending the high school, of which he quickly becomes the king.
I'm sure I found it when looking stuff up on High School King of Savvy. Anyway, Gong Yoo plays the troublemaking high school student. :D I've only seen the pilot, and so far I'm "meh" on it. It seems to have all the stereotypical characters you'd expect of a K-drama, as well as flight-of-fancy fight sequences and such. I suppose such things should be expected, given that it aired in 2005. The content and the format (it's in 4:3 aspect ratio, *shudder*) shows its age. I'll give it a few more episodes to see if Gong Yoo and Gong Hyo-jin can somehow work their magic.
Almost as bad as the team doing poorly was the crapshow they made of my fantasy football games this weekend. I managed to squeak into the playoffs in both leagues with a 7-6 record (go figure; I have a whole different cast and play entirely different people, but still managed to get the exact same record). One game is now an impossibility to win, unless Ezekiel Elliot gets like 70 points ON HIS OWN, while the other one will take monster games from LeGarrett Blount and Julian Edelman tomorrow night, which, given my luck with these things, they will not have. UGH.
I even drafted Eli Manning with the intention of playing him in place of Russell Wilson. I don't how he'll do tonight, but it certainly can't be worse than how RW played today, good gravy. I didn't end up playing Eli because I felt that I was not being fair to RW or the team coming off a good game, and I would feel really bad if Eli was horrible (very real possibility) and RW was amazing, for multiple reasons.
Next season, I am not drafting ANY Seahawks in my fantasy football leagues unless it would be absolutely ridiculous not to (like the next SEA player is miles above the next-best). It's too fucking stressful. Every week, I end up not playing FF the smartest way because I have to consider stupid shit like "feeling guilty" if RW has a good game. If I have no Seahawks on the roster, it won't matter who I put in; I just have to pick the best players, and the Seahawks doing well or poorly won't affect my FF games (well, other than when my opponent has a SEA player, of course).
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I was felled this last week by some kind of cold or flu or whatever the hell. This one was brutal. When I got sick in New York, it was like a little baby cold compared to this one. That one I was completely over with in less than two weeks, and never even got to the really bad symptoms. This time has been the mother of all viruses. (And how annoyed am I to get sick twice in such quick succession??) I'm still not fully over it, but am on the road to recovery. A few days ago I was like, LET ME DIE, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE. I don't even know how/where I got this thing. And if it's the flu, eff you flu shot for not covering this strain.
Oh, and even better? Aunt Flo came to visit. So I had to deal with that on top of body aches and hacking my lungs out.
On a more positive side note, have you heard of Thinx? It's period underwear, to put it bluntly. It's my second month using them (I have a full cycle set), and it's official, I love them.
jade_okelani is a fan as well. You can read this article to learn more; I've read several like it where women tried to use them as their ONLY source of protection, and I think they're nuts. Or their cycles must be quite different from mine.I use Thinx as they're intended to be used, as a kind of peace-of-mind backup to tampons, especially on my heavy days. On my light days I only use the underwear, and it's perfect. My coworker uses them SOLELY, even at night while sleeping, and apparently for her it works like a charm. I haven't leaked at night wearing them, but I hate washing sheets, so I still use an old black t-shirt to prevent staining, just in case.
Some observations:
1) I am WORRY FREE during the day. I'm always in meetings or at places where it's not always possible to run into a bathroom to change my tampon at the exact right moment. So with Thinx, I can leak, and IT DOESN'T MATTER, because I won't stain my clothes. I don't worry about it at all. I then go to change my tampon at my leisure.
2) They feel like normal underwear. They don't feel like diapers or even like wearing a pad or whatever. They feel like NORMAL UNDERWEAR. That is just so heavenly I have to repeat it. I hate, hate, HATE that feeling of having something THERE, when I'm on my period. And they even look super nice. In fact, they look like a fancy pair of panties! I don't really have fancy underwear, as I prefer comfortable cotton ones, so they're actually fancier than any other underwear I own. O.o
3) They have a bunch of different styles, and I like the hiphuggers best. Again, I'm personally all about comfort. If you prefer something sexier, or sportier, or need something that doesn't show lines or whatever, they even have thongs. O.o Each type has an indication of how much blood they're made to soak up (2 tampons, 1/2 tampon, etc.).
4) They come in two colors, black and nude. I was going to get all black, because who wants to see stuff? But since I was getting a full cycle set, I decided to try out a couple nude pairs. And it turns out that even the nude is lined in black, so you don't... see stuff, and yet you can wear them with lighter colored pants.
5) One thing I'm not super impressed with is the "wicking moisture" part. Maybe I'm just too picky, but it doesn't happen instantly. So let's say I leak, and I go to change my tampon and that's all good. But then when I put my underwear back on, there's a slight moment of "ick" when I can feel wetness. After a few moments that feeling goes away, but it's not like it's just magically dry all the time. (I suppose it also depends on how much you leak.)
6) Cleaning is super simple. You soak them in cold water for 20 min (yes, there will be bloody water... what, you never have to wash your period-stained panties? You'd be doing that anyway!), then throw them in the washing machine on delicate cycle. Then you air dry them. That's it.
It's soooooooooooooooooooooo freeing, and has made getting my period a little bit more tolerable, and that's a win, as far as I'm concerned. Anyway, I guess they even have a trial period now (ha! Trial PERIOD), so if you're interested, here's a code for $10 off. Full disclosure: If you buy a pair, I also get $10 off my next purchase. But you can't use more than one discount code at a time, so I can't hoard them and get a free pair or anything. Anyway, since I have a full cycle set, and the underwear seems well made, I don't see myself needing to buy more.
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I have accomplished the feat of finishing two of my many WIP K-dramas. I finished High School: Love On, which was okay, and Coffee Prince, which was better than okay but had the most boring and annoying side pairing of all time. I've also watched a few more episodes of Oh My Venus, which has gotten to a super angsty part, and I have no idea where they're going to go from here. It's quite disappointing, actually, that it started out so lighthearted and cute and has now brought us to this. Sigh. Henry Lau is still the best part of the drama. Also? Much of it seems to hinge on the viewer finding So Ji-sub brutally attractive. I mean, he IS attractive; he's just not THAT hot (to me).
Because of finishing off two of them, I allowed myself to start a new one -- "Hello My Teacher" aka "Biscuit Teacher and Star Candy." It stars Gong Yoo and Gong Hyo-jin. Gong Yoo is the primary male lead from Coffee Prince that I ended up really loving, and Gong Hyo-jin is the female lead from Master's Sun. She's another one of those actresses who gets a lot of work and critical accolades, and I don't understand why. To me she's basically Korean Maggie Gyllenhaal. Anyway...
Synopsis: Na Bori is a 25-year-old woman who desperately wants to be a teacher at the high school she was expelled from, so that she can work with her high school crush, young art teacher Ji Hyun Woo. However, the only thing that enables her to get the coveted job is by signing a contract to essentially babysit Park Tae In, a 20-year-old troublemaker who starts attending the high school, of which he quickly becomes the king.
I'm sure I found it when looking stuff up on High School King of Savvy. Anyway, Gong Yoo plays the troublemaking high school student. :D I've only seen the pilot, and so far I'm "meh" on it. It seems to have all the stereotypical characters you'd expect of a K-drama, as well as flight-of-fancy fight sequences and such. I suppose such things should be expected, given that it aired in 2005. The content and the format (it's in 4:3 aspect ratio, *shudder*) shows its age. I'll give it a few more episodes to see if Gong Yoo and Gong Hyo-jin can somehow work their magic.
