Here's the conclusion I came to last night: This is my body. While it reserves the right to look slightly different on a daily basis and may look way different 3-6 months from now, it is mine and this is what I look like. I will stop hating it. I will love me for who I am not what I look like. If people want to judge or dislike me because....
...I have wide hips, an ass and some thick thighs, then they can go screw themselves. I'm tired of beating myself up. I have a good life. I have friends who love me. I have a man who loves me for me and doesn't care that I am soft in all the wrong/right places. I have a loving and supportive family. I have no idea why I make myself miserable other than it's always been that way, and I...
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- Mary Carmen
the old saying goes I am responsible for my happiness today. And you have alot of good things going on so enjoy them. Your man, your family, your FFers and of course yours shoes. Happy Good Friday my friend.
- just ZONED
I think you're beautiful, just as you are. And, if you think you're beautiful, then you will be. If you think you're ugly, then you will be. Your outsides reflect what you feel on the inside, so continue to be positive about your body, because there's nothing wrong with how you look.
- Cassandra
Good girl! You're a beautiful woman! It's always the hardest to clean out the junk between the ears than our houses. Continue your fabulousness!
- Hedgehog
*blushes* thank you all. could not do this at all without all your support.
- Mary Carmen
That's awesome. It's going to sound really stupid, but I've been going through the same "overcoming body shame" thing too, lately. Right on, MC!!! (and for the record, you are way better than me at dressing in a flattering way)
- Lo the Baker
I continue to hold the opinion: *swoooooon*
- Johnny
We all have the right to be proud of however we look. Awesome on you for getting there! :)
- <3Heather<3
*gives MC a standing ovation with a few W00Ts thrown in*
- vicster
Great advice for anyone and a great new attitude!
- Paulette
Hi! I don't know you really, but we've 'talked' a couple of times, and I've lurked around a bit. Please forgive me when I tell you that I'm completely jealous of your haircut. It is soooooo cute. I have a weak chin (well 2 or 3 of them :) ), so I have never been able to rock a page boy. I'm sorry that you had a winter of corporal discontent, but you seem like you're recovering well!!! I think that since I can't manage the pretty hair, I will copy the pretty attitude. Happy Easter, and wonderful spring!
- Charleen Mullenweg
Thanks, Charleen! It's an asymmetrical bob and I love it. I part it way on the side and flat-iron it. I love it and I'm definitely asking my dude to cut it shorter next time. I think it is a haircut that a lot of different facial types can wear.
- Mary Carmen
Being comfortable in your own skin is the biggest challenge anyone can face. While self improvement is always a nice goal, loving yourself for being yourself is awesome. Congrats to you! </pseudo-philosophicalism>
- Mike Nayyar
This thread makes me incredibly happy and grateful for all you wonderful people.
- Mary Carmen
Here's the thing that I always yell at myself about: I've been through so much physically, you'd think I would just be happy to be breathing. But some days, I get all on myself about stupid shit.
- Mary Carmen
And frankly, I like adding friends with whom I have a low compatibility. It helps me hear music I never would have found in the first place. I never would have listened to a lot of my favorite music if someone hadn't said, "just try it."
- Ciaoenrico
Heh, "Music you have in common includes ABBA and Depeche Mode"...
- Tyson Key
Your musical compatibility with koltregaskes is Very Low. Music you have in common includes Sneaker Pimps, Hybrid, Snake River Conspiracy, VAST and The Boxer Rebellion. (that's because I listen to a lot of obscure stuff) http://www.last.fm/user/app103
- April
http://www.last.fm/listen... BTW, I send my Blip.FM feed to Last.FM. I fell asleep several times while listening to Blip, so there's some music in there that I don't necessarily like. But, for the most part, it's mine.
- Michael Fidler
If I played my 'best of the best' playlist one day would anyone be interested? It's 45 songs and iTunes tells me it's 4 hours. I can post a FF message when I start and finish and you can check the tunes out.
- Kol Tregaskes
Welp. Ya'll have been friended and oddly enough I only had 4 with high compatibility. Lucky for me that means there is a lot more music our there that I need to be turned on to. Thanks, Kol! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
"There is a huge privacy flaw in Google's new Twitter/Facebook competitor, Google Buzz. When you first go into Google Buzz, it automatically sets you up with followers and people to follow. A Google spokesperson tells us these people are chosen based on whom the users emails and chats with most using Gmail. That's fine. The problem is that -- by default -- the people you follow and the people that follow you are made public to anyone who looks at your profile. In other words, before you change any settings in Google Buzz, someone could go into your profile and see the people you email and chat with most."
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
from Bookmarklet
err I meant to add a word 'off'
- Patrick
from twhirl
Even if you turn off buzz you still get emails. I tried I still got emails when I turned it off for about an hr.
- Patrick
from twhirl
Yeah, saw that article via Scoble. Caveat Emptor indeed. Even though Google is turning into Skynet, I can't help not shunning their products. Sorry for the double negative.
- Peter Avalos
@Jeunelle.Foster I find it interesting that you find Gmail not being efficient in identifying spam. Or do you mean to block them completely? Blocking off users who are sent to the spam folder will create lots of problem as one instance of false positive and you're bust. I have personally found Gmail to be quite good at filtering all my spam - but perhaps my usage data is vastly different than yours and that Gmail filter may be personalized? (that I don't know if it's true or not as I don't work there)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
@Patrick try using Gmail filters and auto-archive subject:Buzz. If you are new to Gmail filters, see my blog post on how I use Gmail fllters to maintain inbox zero: http://blog.seeminglee.com/2009... :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
I used the lifehacker filter telling me to use label:buzz but that didn't really do anything, I have a lot of experience with gmail. I will try that and see if I get anything out of it.
- Patrick
from twhirl
Wow. That Fugitivus has a very valid grievance. There are a lot of things that Google must incorporate to get Buzz right. I'm sure there will be more pissed off people speaking out in the coming days.
- Peter Avalos
That user has a very valid point. Active != People we trust.
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
@Jeunelle.Foster Blocking on FF means only that they cannot comment on your post - it doesn't mean that you won't be able to see them
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
@Jeunelle.Foster It is my view that the only way to maintain privacy is to be as public as possible. See my blog post http://blog.seeminglee.com/2007... - in particular, section "How to unGoogle: Noise over Signal" - hope this helps!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
I am not saying comply or die! I'm simply saying that in order to manage the increasingly public web, the best way to protect yourself is feed Google seemingly valid but bad data
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
@SML that's quite a different statement than saying to be more public
- Tinfoil 2.0
But Google is not controlled by you. It's a business entity. As long as you Google doesn't do anything illegal, you can't really stop it from doing what it does. Since Google is unchangeble by you, the only way you can protect yourself is do what you need to do...
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
I see. So you canceled your Google account because you didn't like Buzz? Interesting. Don't you then lose all your mail? Seems drastic
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Yeah canceling your account is a garbage move, especially since you can disable Buzz ... which I have
- LANjackal
I just pick and choose who to follow. Yeah of course, I am going to get loads of unknown followers. But I can always block them or never follow them back. It's up to the user to determine what they want to do. I choose to follow people who I know from Twitter, youtube, friendfeed. So on.
- Patrick
from email
"I delete that account and google can kiss my arse " - what do you mean by that?
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
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- cysko
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- cysko