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SCORPIO

Drinking style
Don't ever tell Scorpios they've had enough, for they'll smirk at you and quietly but intentionally keep tippling till they're hog-whimpering drunk, out of 100-proof spite. Scorpios like to drink, and screw you if you have a problem with that. Most of them see the sauce as something to savor in itself, and not as a personality-altering tool -- though if depressed, self-loathing Scorps seek total obliteration. But generally, they're fascinating drinking pals, brilliant conversationalists and dizzying flirts. They also remember everything -- especially what you did when you were blitzed. Only drink with a Scorpio who likes you.

Trademark cocktails
Just as a Scorpio can look you in the eye and smile while secretly plotting your demise, so does the brandy-laced stinger's sweet taste hide a potent amount of alcohol. If you want to get literal, serve them a scorpion -- they may not love tropical drinks, but it shows you're paying attention. Scorpio rules watermelon, so break out the blender and fix a pitcher of watermelon margaritas to seduce 'em -- though red wine will do the trick just as well.

Drinking buddies
Truman Capote, Hillary Clinton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jodie Foster, Bill Gates, k.d. lang, Megan Mullally, Demi Moore, Sylvia Plath, RuPaul

Find yours here: http://www.office-humour.co.uk/g/i/1035

Except that I really don't like watermelon.

Reply to this post, and I'll tell you why I like/love/adore you.
Then put this in your own journal, and spread the love.

Yah, I've done it before, but it's fun.

Speaking of fun:

Wheee!! Some of the questions were tricky. It came up with html links it pulled off my LJ and wanted me to identify them. Um, a lot of them were URLs to quiz sites, or quizzes on OKCupid.

For some reason, I think

sagcat would like the debate happening over here. Lots of HP, and what are we expecting JKR to do, and lots of people argu--I mean discussing the whole Ron/Hermione thing, and if she does that is it awful that she's so predictable, and yadda yadda blah blah. That kinda thing is more interesting to you than me.

Some of the people in that discussion have the greatest fucking icons. This one is still my favorite of

gryffindor_phan's:

OMG, that's so wrong. And so funny.

I saw the new Miyazaki movie on Friday with Athir. Pretty good, but a little heavy-handed with the anti-war thing. Don't get me wrong, I agree with him, but I always cringe when people get too clunky about it. Also kinda sappy. I have to wonder, though, how much of that is just because of translating issues. Lots of stuff that doesn't bother me in the Japanese/literal subtitle version of Princess Mononoke (which is probably my favorite movie ever) is eye-roll worthy in the English dub, where they changed a lot of stuff. *shrug*

But some things are always the same in Miyazaki movies: At some point, the "bad guys" or Evil or whatever will involve black tentacled ooze. WTF is up with that? I guess if a theme works you stay with it. *lol* Wonderful animation otherwise. Le sigh. And he's got such a talent for fantastical things. The movie is called "Howl's Moving Castle," and the moving castle in question is really freaking awesome. Or the helpful scarecrow that bounces around everywhere, or the demons (a word used with less negative connotation than in normal English, which makes me wonder again about translation issues). A lot of the fun of his movies is just the spectacle of them, especially in "Spirited Away." The plot in that one is, for me, hard to follow--and I always wonder how much of that is because I'm distracted by the pretty shiny pictures. ;-)

Made the bean salad, brought it

dragon_mintz's last night, forgot it this morning. *headslap* D'oh! And the person at church who was going to buy hot dogs I'll eat didn't. I could have fucking slept in!! As it was, I skipped the picnic entirely. I was damn tired. I came home and took a long-ass nap. I've been productive the rest of the day though. Did some laundry, cleaned out my crap in the fridge, cooked some yummy food for dinner tonight and lunch tomorrow. Go me.

And now for some randomness:

Sugar cravings: EEEEEEVIL. God forbid I ever actually get addicted to something, because I suck at this.

Best way to make ants leave you alone: Vicks VapoRub. Ants apparently want to use my wall as a highway of some kind. (For the record: I live in an older mobile home in a rural area, so the house isn't airtight and the critters are everywhere.) They're not eating anything in my room, they're just coming in from the ceiling and going into the floor. I smeared some Vick's on the ceiling edge and then put some on a wadded tissue and left it near the spot on the carpet where they're going. I found it really amusing to just dab some on the wall (yay for satin paint jobs, it won't stain the wall or anything) and watch them walk up to it and go "AAAAGH!" and then run off confused in the other direction. So I had ants wandering around going "WTF???" which for some reason, cracks me up. Especially since, inches from their little road, I have an open container of red vine licorice, and they're completely ignoring it.

Ants are interesting--most don't bite, they're not icky like roaches, they're just sort of irritating to most people. Right now I'm getting a kick out of messing with their heads, I don't know why.

Also, now my room smells like Vicks all the time.

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hm, i may have to invest in some vicks vapo rub for my kitchen - heh.

sugar addiction is so brutal, dude. when i tried to give up coffee, the sugar cravings kicked my ass. i'm ok with my current addictions but would happily eliminate the sugar if i could...

My dang naturopath told me to lay off the sugar. I knew she would. Goddamnit. The stuff hides in everything. I went to use a can of tomato paste today--it was in there. WTF?

I've been warned: "Oh, you'll feel really icky the first few days to a week, it'll pass." Yah, I'm starting to feel it. Nausea, yay. I'm going to be all cranky at work, and I have fake ice cream in my freezer. I need to give it away or something so I don't eat it, I can hear it calling my name!! It's the non-dairy equivalent of Cherry Garcia, y'know? It's so fucking good.

I'll go drink some water and hope that helps.

water always helps, dude. this is a truth i struggle with on a daily basis.

yes, i am familiar with the vegan cherry garcia. i was vegan for a number of years. i am recently not so, with alternating feelings of guilt and mmm, cheese.

Ew, cheese!!! *lol*

Do you just have to lighten up on the sugar, or try to completely cut it out? It's hard, but not that hard if you don't have to do it 100%. I had to completely cut it for a while, even including fructose and other natural sugars. You feel really tired for a bit, then it eases and suddenly you feel even better than before!

Near as I can tell, she wants me to give it up completely for a month, and then start adding it back in after that. :-( I so far have proved unable to do this. There's sweets everywhere at work, and then today Cherie took me to taco time, and for non-water drinks my choices were tea (caffeine, would keep me awake) and soda pop. I can't stand diet and it gives me the creeps anyway, so that wasn't an option.

I'm going to the Beaverton Farmer's Market tomorrow and picking up a ton of fruit. I figure if I eat a half-cup of it or so after each meal (which is when the cravings are worst), I can calm them down a bit. *shrug* I was specifically instructed not to substitute dried fruit for all the sweets I normally eat, but I think fresh is allowed in moderate quantities. I'm also going to try the birch sugar (xylitol) she gave me--I may end up making some sort of herbal tea at work and putting the xylitol in it and see how that works.

Hey, no fair! You get to sneak things in like fruit! LOL

I think the first two weeks I was off sugars 100% I did hardly anything. I slept alot, and I just read and watched movies. Yowzers.

I think I might quit for sure over this weekend, so at least I won't be at work when I feel like crap. This week my job is pushing around the cart all day, and trying to do that while tired is hell.

When I was cutting the sugar, it helped me to have a protein drink in between meals to help with my energy levels. Almond milk + vegan rice protein. Helped lots and lots.

I'll remember that.

Where on earth did you find almond milk with no added sugar? I've been sorta cheating on that one. I'm drinking plain silk (the red box, it has 4g of sugar, which is less than most soymilks), but almond milk I've only seen from Pacific, and they pour on teh sweetener.

Almond Breeze has less grams of sugar per serving. I think they do use brown rice sweetener, though. ??

Any kind of added sweetener that affects blood sugar is apparently a no-no. Doesn't matter if it's white sugar or maple syrup or what. Xylitol and stevia are apparently okay.

I'll look up the almond breeze stuff when I go shopping tomorrow, thanks.

I hate ants. Seeing them in those rows of little marching evilness makes me ill. I have literally vomited upon discovering ant hills. Windex will also work to discourage them if you get tired of the vicks smell. Borax will kill them. I'll tell you about my own personal little ant holocaust some day. Ants were at least 50% of the reason I moved from Irvine. Hate them, hate them, hate them. In a previous life I must have been killed and eaten in tiny little chunks by ants. I've taken it as a personal vendetta to rid the world of ants. *shudder* nightmare

We've been getting those BIGASS black ants in here lately. Like the queens or some shit like that. Today there was one that was seriously an inch long. *shudder*

I'll bite... give me the ego booster shot please ;)

I like you because you're almost as talkative as I am.

I adore you because...uh...well, you're hot. *lol* The way your eyes crinkle up when you laugh, some of your vocal mannerisms, soft bits, soft skin. Oh Yes.

I love you because you've been through a lot of crap, but still have this optimistic streak in there--you give people a chance. You still care about and keep in touch with your family, you're still friends with Jason and Len, you're very loyal and caring with your friends--I love that about you.

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