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Saw Predators last weekend. Excellent film. Exactly what I was expecting from a Predator film. Loved it.
'Kik' wrote on '17:I'm a massive Batman fan too! Phoenix saga, seriously? Are you actually Prof Brian Cox with a psuedonym? 😀
As for comics/ graphic novels my bf is the Neil Gaiman fan whereas I'm more of an Alan Moore buff although recently I have been pinching his Lucifer graphic novels – so far he hasn't noticed.
Love, love, LOVE the Batman tat and the long sleeve T you're wearing in the pic – I have the same top 😀
LOL You have to be either a dedicated fan or have a PhD to understand the Phoenix Saga. 😀 I was a fan of the Sandman comics, but that's about all I've ever liked of Gaiman. I do, however, worship Alan Moore, Chris Claremont, and Fabian Niceza. Well, and more, but that's a very long list.
I've been registered as an organ donor for…well, about half my life now. Which isn't that long, admittedly. Both in the States and in the UK. I can't give blood, so I guess this is my way of making up for that. As for whether or not some doctor would, well, let me die, just for my organs… *shrug* If I'm dead, I won't really care, will I. It doesn't bother whilst I'm alive either. Although I think the chances of that ever happening are so slim, and it's ridiculous shows on telly that put that fear into people. So don't let the media influence you. You'd be doing someone(s) a huge favour one day by ticking that box.
'Martin' wrote on '20:Rome
Plane or Train?
Train. Planes gives me horrendous panic attacks.
Listening to music or making your own?
There are a lot, and some too personal to relate, of course, both good and bad. A few:
The first time I saw someone shot.
The first time a good friend died from gang violence. The second time, the third time… We lived in a gang area in the states when I was a teenager. It was traumatic.
Finding out I was pregnant even though I was on birth control. I was probably almost an alcoholic by that time (at 18 nonetheless, and had only been married for a little over two months too). Solved that problem well enough and I rarely drink at all any more. I tell my children they saved my life, and this is more true than they realise.
Having a stress breakdown/majour depressive episode and finally moving back to England, to live with my mum. I couldn't get out of bed for more than an hour or so for over six months, and even now, three years later, I haven't fully recovered, and my doctors are still advising me to not go back to work for the foreseeable future. On the one hand I get to stay at home with my kids (we're in our own house now, I have managed to progress that far), but on the other hand, even though England is magnificently wonderful for supporting me and them and for giving us a house five seconds walk from my mum, brother and sister, it's still not a lot of money to pay bills with.
But I'll take it. As opposed to being back in America, a single parent, working 60+ hours a week in a medical office, six days a week, sleeping a few hours a night, seeing my kids a couple hours a day because of my schedule, dealing with an autistic child (higher functioning, but still hellish to try and deal with when you don't know what's wrong with him).
Hm. Let's end on a positive? Having my son diagnosed with ASD last year (finally, as he's just turned 14). Now, finally, he can have the support he needs at school.
'emmaree' wrote on '18:Pen (black)
snow or rain?
Rain, always rain.
Music or silence?
I'm lucky that I get my comfort food every Friday 😀 Mum makes pizza from scratch, which she started doing again about six months ago. She did it every week when we were growing up, well into my mid teens. There isn't anything at all better. Not even coffee. And you won't hear me say that about anything else.
Bad Times: TMI- endometriosis sucks and makes me want to stab things.
Good Times: Even after three+ years being back in England still makes me happy every day.
Bad Times: My son (higher functioning autistic) lost it big time yesterday in a way he hasn't for years.
Good Times: Steam for Mac. No really, this was a highlight of the year for me.
I have OCD as well, diagnosed when I was in my late teens. I don't do the obsessive cleaning thing, I'm not the best housekeeper. But I can't have doing my laundry, or my dishes, or cooking my food (I almost never eat out for various reasons, and this is one of them; I don't mind mum cooking, though). And if anyone rearranges anything or borrows something and puts it back out of place, it drives me up the wall.
It's interesting reading a post about other people with OCD! I do the checking thing as well, and the pushing the little buttons on top of soda lids (to avoid this i never buy drinks from places with those cups so I never expose myself to them now) 🙂 I also have to be on time, and I hate people touching me in anyway (it's a lingering germ thing, which I've mostly managed to control but there are still things). And I never touch door handles or rails with my bare skin. *shudder* Does anyone else count? I don't do it out loud (at least I think I don't) but the first couple times I'm at a new place I count everything and embed it in my head.
Anyway, it's the source of my chronic anxiety and panic attacks, because people do not act in the orderly way I should like, and I can't handle interacting with them in person. Not unless heavily medicated, at least. And the anxiety is part of my insomnia. Even with medication I still rarely sleep more than a few hours at night, but at least I don't spend the rest of the time worrying about everything.
'yamerias' wrote on '01:I use songs as background noise to get to sleep but the really odd thing is the heavier the music the better…how odd!
I often go to sleep listening to Pantera and Ministry on my iPod. 😀
Also, I have a playlist composed of music that has a certain tone and pitch to it that acts like a switch to stop m brain racing. It's weird. It doesn't put me to sleep, but it calms my brain enough to where I can at least try to sleep without a million things going through my head.
Whilst I generally don't like being labelled at all, I will say chronic insomnia, since it's been a life long thing for me (and I want to hit people who try and tell me all their remedies for it; like I haven't already tried everything?). Although telling people I have insomnia generally doesn't seem to register with them. And I don't want someone using that term on me either if they don't understand it.
Hallo! Welcome 🙂 The group here is very welcoming, so you should get along just fine. Will check out your blog as well.
The internet owns my soul now, I don't have time to read. lol not really. I would recommend anything by Graham Hancock, but Underworld is my favourite. Against the Grain by Richard Manning. The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson.
