Curvie Girlie The Diary: Mind Playin' Tricks on Me

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Hehehe, the 'ole "Monday to Thursday good eating streak"... happens to me all the time!!!

Glad you've found a guy who is so good for you! Just in time for Valentine's Day! (sorry, I'm a sucker for it!)
 
I'm a sucker for it, too, Anke :beating:

SIGH! Today is the last day I'll be doing my own job (poorly) and most of my co-worker's job :nopity: Work work work work work! :smash:

Actually, I have a good sense of accomplishment for working so hard :D I do, however, miss hanging out with you guys and gals :grouphug:

As an update, I'm 140.0 lbs this morning! :party: AND I started my period yesterday. This is fucking amazing, being this light and menstruating! I didn't technically gain any weight or lose any weight for the past 2 weeks of the challenge, but have lost and kept off 5.5 lbs since the challenge began!!!!!! :hurray: In this last week, I really think I can drop 2 pounds! I really do!!!!!!!! :Angel_anim:

I have so much more to say: the rave/party mishaps, my boyfriend's naked glowsticking accident, Chris's deteriorating condition :(, a new few gifts I received, excitement for V Day.......but it'll have to wait.

I miss you! :hug2:
 
Wow...busy with work and you still find time for b/f and naked glowsticking accidents. I REALLY need to get in better health so I can have that much energy and that much FUN! lol

Grats on the weight success :) But then you know you're kicking ass! :party:
 
i've been doing mine and my coworkers' job too this week and i can't come and post :( hopefully we'll be here moe next week. i miss ya girl
 
Baaaaaaaaack!

:party:

Still very busy but I bet I'll be able to get around more today :)

Whew! Where do I begin?

Today's stats:

I woke up real bloated--yesterday the bloat set in majorly! I ate within my 2100 calorie range, but this morning I was 142.0 lbs, which is fine, and I peeped what Liz said, and yeah I hope so, girl!!! :Angel_anim: I've taken to organic instant oatmeal and fresh blueberries for breakfast this week. It's pretty satiating!

Anyway, yesterday I worked LATE and then dragged my ass to the gym--I didn't want to do ANYTHING but I made myself hit the weights and do barbell squats, one legged Romanian dumbbell deadlifts, bench presses, hanging leg raises, cable pulls, and side planks--35 minutes well spent, and I felt GREAT during and after!!! :coolgleamA: It's truly awesome to feel STRONG I tell ya!

Afterward I went to Yoga with Alice, and had a great Ashtanga Vinyasa/Anusara class. Lots of "plugging in" of the shoulders and hips, and tucking of the tailbone in the postures ;) Inside joke, inside joke. Then I went home and watched Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 5 as I folded laundry and went to bed :sleeping: That was my day yesterday.

Back in time: Friday night

PZ and I checked into the Pickwick hotel on 5th St, got ready, and headed to the 1015 Folsom club. It was supposed to start at 9pm, but when we got there at 9:15, they weren't letting anyone in! Subwize (the local group of Dubstep DJs from Santa Cruz whom I know) had their set from 9-10--so they got shafted! :cuss: Anyway, I was dressed in my cute new (inexpensive) knee high dark maroon boots and purple mini skirt, with my corset-y brown and green satin/lace top and blinged out jewelry--I guess I had a fairy look going on. PZ had on a cute injoi T-shirt with a picture of a panda (just the black part of it) on his shirt, which was perfect for Chinese New Year. We spent the first couple hours dancing with our S.C. friends in the upstairs room of the club. As time wore on, more people showed up and different DJs spun in the different rooms, hey I have the list:

Main Room
10pm - Neptune
11pm - Sweet Snacks
11:15pm - Mochipet
12:15am - Performance
1am - FortKnox5 & Matt the Alien
2:15am - Vibesquad
3:30am - An-ten-nae vs. Laura
4:30am - Little John
5:15am - Rastatronics


Upstairs
9pm - Subwize DJs-LB, Konfusion, Fire Lieber, 187Sound, Dub Pirates, Rendr801
11pm - DJG
12mid - Matty G
1am - Pinch
2:30am - 6Blocc
3:45am - Rootz vs Murphy
5am - Chlorophil


Front Room
9pm - Tha Scritch
10:15pm - Motion Potion
11:15pm - Ana Sia
12:15am - Performance
1am - EPROM
2am - Mozaic
3am - Rena Jones
4am - Beats Antique
5am - Nanda


Basement
10pm - Comma
11pm - Mr. Projectile
12mid - Mycho
1am - Bass Cadet
2am - Aaron Jae vs Bam
3:15am - R-Kidz
4:15am - Alia​

We spent a lot of time running up and down stairs to different rooms for the best music--my ass actually started to get sore from it--NICE!

You all would trip out if you saw what we saw as far as people and costumes!!!!! :eek:

Beautiful people, interesting people, fucked up people, slutty people, people dressed as GIRAFFES, people dressed in samurai attire, burlesque, hippy, typical Burning Man attire, fishnet catsuits, half-naked sweaty people.....as time wore on, we witnessed scenes. People too drunk, too randy with others, too pushy, people trying to pole dance, people BUSTING OUT DANCING IN ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING WAYS......if you like to "people watch," this party/rave/electronic music festival/whatever was THE place to be! PZ and I were not drinking or on ecstasy, so we had a lot of clarity to the situation. I'm really very glad we're both mature and level headed people, even though we enjoy wallowing with the rest of em! For my own gimmick, I wore a crown of foil wire with little foil stars from a party shop, carried a red velvet pouch with beautiful confetti, which I threw around and made the floor sparkle, and I brought glowsticks on strings to wield. I found "Firefly," this hippy girl PZ and I always see at these affiliated parties, and she's a fire dancer. So I gave her 2 of my 4 glowsticks (the red and orange ones of course) and watched her do her magic :) I, myself, can't glowstick, but after the party, when PZ and I got back to the hotel, PZ was standing up on the bed, naked, demonstrating in the dark, and WHAM! CRASH! The light fixture on the ceiling shattered from a raging glowstick! I laughed until I cried :smilielol5:

My boyfriend's reaction was, "This room is defective. I should go down there and request a new one immediately."

I laughed harder. "What the fuck would you say? 'I was merely in my room doing my regular naked five am glowsticking when the light fixture exploded'? You should totally go down there naked." We spent the next hour chatting and MAN OH MAN is PZ a funny mutherfucka!!!!!! We had a fantastic time together.

Saturday after checkout we went to Cafe Gratitude (raw/organic/vegan restaurant with the BEST personnel) and had a delicious and nutritious brunch. PZ went on to talk about one of his ex ex girlfriends, the one he moved to Santa Cruz with from Ukiah. It was a horrible, sad story about a totally lost girl, who suffered molestation, physical abuse, and was terrorized by a stalker. He and I have an understanding now that it's not bad taste to talk about exes to each other if it pertains to larger concepts, such as, in the case he was mentioning, building up one's self esteem and making one's own destiny. His point was he ex, Asia, was totally fucked up, but she only perpetuated the cycle by expecting life to keep dealing her bad hands, and being drawn to bad people and staying in bad patterns. The whole conversation made me respect him even more as a compassionate and wise person.

Hmmmmmmmm this post goes on, I need to do another one.....

to be continued
 
story continues

Saturday with my boyfriend continued:

I found it easier and more and more pleasurable to talk to PZ. I really like spending time with him and enjoy our conversations. We've had awkwardness in the past when we weren't so sure about what the other one felt about us, BUT now comfort is setting in majorly, and there's no more question: we are close. I feel like we can talk about anything. Still, we haven't had a harsh word or argument. We haven't even really disagreed, because if one of us has a different viewpoint, neither of us are trying to push it on the other. We both intuitively respect other people's logic as valid in its own way--and he's SO REASONABLE :eek2: I'm used to my past 2 exes liking to argue for the fun of it. I don't like argumenting--I like AUGMENTING. What I mean is, say someone makes a statement, and the other person feels like the statement is lacking extrapolation (don't you just love that word? :D "def 2a: to project, extend, or expand (known data or experience) into an area not known or experienced so as to arrive at a usually conjectural knowledge of the unknown area"), but instead of arguing the first person is WRONG, s/he accepts said statement and goes on to add to it--or AUGMENT the first statement. This kind of talk usually leads to new trains of thought by the first person, and the conversation becomes more and more fascinating. To us. HA!

Slinky Peezey

For those of you unfamiliar with astrology, the main characteristics for Scorpio are pretty harsh sometimes. PZ is a double, but the other planets of his natal chart explain a lot of his laid-back characteristics. However, he reminds me of a scorpion in a lot of ways, and this is how I got to nickname him "Slinky Peezey:" At parties and in public, he's actually more demonstrative and affectionate than I'd expect from a Scorpio, although never excessive. The slinkiness comes in like this: PZ is 6'3" and therefore can sort of be in two places at once, so to speak :rotflmao: When he walks, he doesn't bounce around--he kind of glides, slow and deliberate, but his intensity is masked by pretend-casualness. He holds himself like someone who is determined to blend into the background and not draw attention to himself, but has an innate strong self-confidence as well. When we first met, he described himself as "low key" and prefers to dance in the back of a room against a wall. LOL! Talk about a defensive demeanor ;) Anyway, when we're together, I'm sashaying about in front, easily distracted by colors and noises and people. I'm always checking my back to see if he's on my tail, and he always is, but he isn't always where he WAS the last time I looked. Without meaning to, he sneaks up on me--he SLINKS around me, and sometimes I look back over my left shoulder, don't see him, worry I lost him for a second, until I look harder and there he is, quietly behind me on my right side. What makes it even more funny is the whole thing where, you're behind someone, you tap their right shoulder, they turn around, but you've already stepped to the left and tricked them so they don't see you at first--WELL, here's how it is with PZ: We'll be in a crowd at a party and he'll be on my left, and I'll be looking at him and he'll be standing there, not looking at me, and not touching me. I get used to this scenario and my attention starts to wander.....well, when I least expect it, and silently, PZ will put his hand on the opposite side of my body from himself, either on my arm or hip or waist, SCARING THE SHIT OUT OF ME because I'm afraid it's some random drunk guy grabbing me, and draw me close to him and stroke me with that hand. I almost ALWAYS jump and shriek, realize it's just him, and relax into the hug and laugh about it, "You slinky mutherfucka!" When I described him like that for the first time, he grinned, pleased and said, "yes, yes I AM slinky." When he rock climbed, he said he did it kind of slinkily. When he snowboards, he has a slinky quality about him. And of course in his walk--you could almost call it "skulking" but not exaggerated or funky looking. It's very subtle and I only notice it because I'm his girlfriend and I study his mannerisms. LOL!

ANYWAY, Saturday after lunch we drove to the East Bay to my parents house. He got to meet Chad, my awesome stepdad who is 10 years my mom's junior (and only 12 years older than me). He also got to watch Dead Alive, my favorite zombie flick made in New Zealand---and one of the funniest movies out there! :smilielol5: After a nice rest, we went to the Improv in San Jo to see Arj Barker from Flight of the Conchords (which I haven't seen) and he was pretty funny, but the opening acts SUCKED. Then we drove back to his house and snuggled up really good. I know there's a stereotype that men only want sex and not cuddling, but either it's not true for at least the guys I've been with or my body is particularly cuddly :sifone: HA!

Sunday

I made it to 10:30am Yoga in Santa Cruz, then drove BACK to my hometown myself (PZ was spending Sunday preparing for his snowboarding trip) to spend the afternoon with my paternal grandpa, whose 78th birthday was yesterday. Gramps is GREAT--yeah he has Type 2 and yeah he has sleep apnea and degenerative arthritis in one shoulder, but other than that, he exercises and spends lots of time with his friends, arranging his Microwave Radio stuff (he's been into it for 50 years), and hanging out with his radio buddies, going to meetings. He goes to the gym 3xs a week, just got a new treadmill for watching TV, and bicycles in his hood as well. :hurray: Love him!

Then I went to my maternal grandparents' house to chat with them and my second cousin Paul, from Australia, and his wife, who were visiting from Melbourne. The talk was great! Paul hasn't always lived in Australia, so when he visits he ODs on his favorite American things he can't get like Dr. Pepper and Fritos :p YUCK! Well, whatever! He's visited occasionally since I was a baby so I'm well acquainted with him, but it was the first time he brought his wife, who was also cool.

Monday and Tuesday: Work work work, facepeel Monday and Tuesday I already mentioned.

OK! Onward to visit eventually.........:leaving:
 
Just a suggestion. Maybe you could do it all- but in phases. (While doing Yoga year-around to be a master Yogi) For example:

Jan-April: Yoga + workout + belly dancing (colder weather, can do this indoors)
May-Aug: Yoga + workout + running (limit 4 races)
Sept-Dec: Yoga + workout + rock climbing (colder weather, can do this indoors)

That way, you don't get bored of it all, and give your body time to adjust to each activity.

G, you're a genius--thank you, thank you for the suggestion--that's very kind and I had it in my own mind as well! Great idea!

Val, I'm so happy to hear that Chris attempted to climb again. I hope you realize how good you are for him, not just physically.... but good for his soul. He needs that.

TELL me about it! :svengo: But seriously, he's going, fast. I've never seen someone's mind and body slowly deteriorate and it's HORRIBLE. Good thing I'm a tough bitch!

Monday he drove me nuts and I left his house mentally and physically drained. I even emotionally ate--but stopped myself. It was shitty, having comfort junk food for dinner, but I honestly succumbed to stress-induced emo eating because of him. :ack2: Whatever, he's suffering far worse than any of us can ever imagine :( I'm going over there tonight but I chastised him to remember to take all his meds, because when he misses stuff, he gets manic and says weird things and talks a mile a minute, gets flushed, and forgets what's going on, and repeats himself constantly with miserable, sad conversation. It's enough to drive one INSANE! But he needs me, and he's a wonderful friend. I do my best. He knows, he always tells me I help him more than I can know, and that if it weren't for me he'd be dead already. Sigh........

I'm stoked that Chris did some rock climbing with you!!! He must have felt amazing afterwards, even though his body wasn't performing as well as it used to..

He was sore, but not as bad as he expected, and it was great for him. I like that we can do an activity together :)

Sup girly!
How you been?
I like you're new pic you SESSY thang you! :)

HEY there! :waving: I'm good!! Thank you :eek:

Hey Val, just swinging by to say hi. And guess what? I EXERCISED TODAY! About time eh? lol

Miss ya too, Lena. :hug2:

Lisa: Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice! :party: Hell yes! :hurray:
 
Woooooa!!! TALK ABOUT NICE!!!!....I want to eat PZ up...he is so PERFECT for you!!! I love it!!! :beating:....I missed you around here!! :grouphug:...the forum felt naked...LOL!!!!....Glad you are back SWEET BUNS!!! :sifone:
 
Hey Valerie!! Glad you were able to get into the gym even though you didn't want to. You are so right that once you get there and start working out it always feels great. It's the moments before you get there where you are doubting yourself and struggling to stay motivated. I feel that every Tues and Thurs when I leave my house in the wee morning of the hours to go swimming. Each time I have to negotiate w/myself to get my ass in the pool!! LOL If I were not paying for the lessons I would likely bail. Got to love how money or loss of money keeps you honest.

Glad you and PZ are still hot and heavy. You two make such a great couple!
 
Well I'm so glad you found someone so nice for you, you totally deserve it girl :). Your club story reminds me of my good ole clubbin days in this country's biggest city. I used to love to people watch and walk around and leave my boring friends that were all dancing together in the same spot tryign to pick up the same types of guys. So I would venture up to the 4th floor of this club called Webster Hall, where they called it the "Make-Up Room" and you had to look "cool" to get in to this room. Well I couldn't believe my eyes the first time I walked in there because the downstairs floors were fairly "normal" (with one floor of hip hop and reggae in the basement, the ground floor with 80's music (this was in the late 90's) ,the next floor techno (where my tacky friends hung out), and the top one, the Make UP Room full of S&M scenes and freaks, mixed in with a few "normal" people like me (smoking a J in the corner and just bugging out on the scene much like you and PZ). Nude men being lead around on leashes, a big transvestite "nurse" with a guy in leather on a gurney (yes, they had a gurney LOL), drag queens in wild and creative costumes with sky high platforms, and even a chick walking around with a bra and slinky panties..only thing was that the bra was just a push up and her boobs were totally out in a full view (this chick actually had the balls--said in a good way--to walk around the whole club like that as I saw her downstairs with that lingerie later on). I remember this so well cuz I went to that club so often. For some strange reason if I would show up without my friends on the line by myself, the promoters would pick me out of the line and lead me right to the front of the line and hand me a pass to get in FREE (cover was about $20 at the time). I MUST'VE LOOKED DAMN COOL haha :D. So I made sure to meet my friends INSIDE so I could get this cool perk every time it seemed. Always wondered about that... Anyway, I have about 2 decades of wild and totally crazy club days in the craziest city in the world (well back in the day anyway). I'm talking from the end of the Studio 54 days in the early 80's, when I went there at age 15. Just thought you'd appreciate my lil club story..
 
I didn't get to everyone today, like I thought, no offense if I didn't get to your diary, I WILL be by ASAP :auto:

:D HUGS! I'm not exactly sure what I want to do today except Yoga at 7:30pm.....it's rainy off and on, but clear right now AND it's lighter at 5pm than it was (of course, we're approaching Spring) so I miiiiiiiiiiiight take a run on the beach (?) Probably not, I have errands to run as well. Let's see.....

HUGS everyone, have a goal reachin' Wednesday night! :waving:
 
PZ sounds like a lot of fun--glad you two are enjoying each other's company. ;)

My H is from Melbourne. Does your cousin like it there? Those bush fires they're having atm are pretty damn awful, though. Guess they've got two men under arrest. I really hope they charge them with murder, b/c they were intentionally set, and hundreds of people and millions of animals have died as a result. :(

Claudia, those are some wild stories. Makes my clubbing experience VERY tame..lol.
 
Awesome update, Val. Sounds like a blast as usual. Love your descriptive writing.... draws me in. I usually lose attention after someone writes more than 3 sentences.

Not the case here. :)
 
Hugs to you honeychild :)

Glad your having fun times with PZ. He sounds so so good for you. On the other hand I'm sorry to hear about what's going on with Chris. Like I say before and will say again, your really great for him and a true friend, as he is for you I know.

I agree with Steve too. Your updates are always so detailed and descriptive I feel like I'm with you :coolgleamA:

Have a great night,
Sam
 
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