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Massive Health Data

May26

Someone on a forum posted a link to this site which I have never seen before. It’s called Massive Health and it talks about facts about our health and eating habits.

http://data.massivehealth.com/#

I don’t know how much of everything on the site I actually agree with, but I know the anti-dieting advocates will have something to say about some of the things on there. So feel free to say what you think about the statements. Here are some highlights.

We eat less healthy than we think. For most, 12.4% less.

Eating breakfast helps us eat less and eat healthier throughout the day.

We eat more unhealthy food on the weekend.

We eat 12.7% healthier when we eat at home.

Our friends influence us of what we choose to eat by 34.5%

My thoughts are that generally we do think we are eating healthier than what we actually are. I don’t exclude myself from this either. I would like to start eating healthier, not to lose weight or anything but generally because I want to live longer and I want my future kids to eat healthy. Having a long term history of eating crap will have an affect on your body and I don’t want that.

What do you think about the information presented on the Massive Health site?

What is the hardest thing about being a Miss?

Apr15

On my pageant bio page that is located here but not yet updated, are questions that each contestant will answer. The first question is  ”What are the three (3) hardest things about being a Miss?“ In this case, Miss means a grown and unmarried woman.

I thought this was such a fabulous question, and I already have my answer but I don’t want to post it until the page is updated. So for now I want to ask you ladies…

What is the hardest thing about being a Miss in today’s world?

Stupid Things Men Do

Apr7

You knew it was coming. Here are some things that some men do that I personally just don’t understand.

Ogle underage girls.
A girl is walking and she is cat called. She has definitely developed, but she carries a Hello Kitty backpack and is still wearing braces. Doesn’t that indicate to you that she is still a child? Just wait until you have a teenage daughter, or try to hit on some 15 year old and get a bullet in your ass from her dad’s AK.

You think she won’t find out. (What you did last night, what you lied about, that you looked at porn on her computer even though you deleted the history, etc)
She will. Never underestimate a woman’s ability to find things out.

You like girl on girl action.
Why? I don’t get it. Chances are you aren’t going to be getting any.

You don’t understand when to back off sexually.
When we are sick or not feeling well, don’t say “I know what will make you feel better.” *wink* No. Here’s a magazine and some tissue and call me in the morning.

Going to strip clubs.
Why do you go to strip clubs, a place where you have to pay to see some (probably) average looking girl’s boobs when you have a good looking woman at home that you can see for free, plus more? I don’t get it.

You forget romance.
Sure you can pull out your smooth moves while trying to pursue us, but you think it’s ok to just throw that out the window 5 years down the road. If you hate romance, don’t be fake in the beginning. Oh and saying “I love you” every now and then doesn’t really count. See here.

When you get all upset and then say “I don’t give a F***”
Clearly you give at least something, otherwise you wouldn’t be fuming from your ears while you say it.

You eat a full meal in 5 minutes.
Do you chew your food at all? Did you even taste it? Men take 5 minutes to eat and 30 minutes evacuating it. What is up with that?

Thoughts?

Stupid Things Women Do

Apr6

There are lots of things people do that I will just never really understand. Let’s start with the ladies.

When you say, “I’m fine.”
There’s a chance you might mean this, but most of the time when a guy asks you this, you are not fine and you were made even more not fine because he had to ask you this instead of knowing what he did wrong. Just tell him what your problem is and don’t expect him to already know. You are just setting yourself up for more disappointment. Men have be often be told anything in very plain English.

“Does this make me look fat?”
Why? Why ask this? It makes you seem so insecure.

Go to the bathroom in groups.
The only time I have done this is at a crowded bar or club and feeling like parting ways with my group even for just a few seconds will leave me vulnerable to being approached by man I don’t want to talk to. It’s happened to me before and it can be nice to have your team help you keep them away. Otherwise, I don’t understand why women have to go together to check themselves out and go, “Omg did you see what she was wearing?” or “Ugh I look like shit.”

Wear heels every day.
I’ve seen this where women overdress on a daily basis. They wear heels at the most inappropriate times and they almost always looks ridiculous. If you are going grocery shopping, you don’t have to pretend you are going to be walking the red carpet. We all know you are dying to get back into your sweat pants so don’t pretend like you are glamorous because you don’t fool anyone.

Continue to declare your love for your boyfriend in facebook statuses while none of his statuses are about you.
I see this all time. Everyday it’s “I love so and so forever!” or “Can’t wait to be Mrs. So and So” and you go over to his profile and his updates are “Gotta love those Giants” or “Goin to Bubba’s Bar after the game. Txt me.” You wouldn’t guess he was in a relationship with Miss Clingypants. In fact if you didn’t know any better, you’d assume he was single.

Try to change your boyfriend.
It’s like you take the first guy that bats his eyelashes at you. You think he’s cute enough but he’s got no job, has a drug or anger problem, and plays video games 24-7 and you think that he is magically going to change all this for you. He might change his underwear a few times through your relationship, maybe, but that’s all he’s going to change.

Dieting.
You obsess over ever calorie, torture, and deprive yourself. You go back and forth between that and saying “F___ how society wants me to look, I’m going to mow down on this cake!” Then you pretend your diet really starts tomorrow. Mmmkay.

Excessive contact with boyfriend.
Of course you love him, but why is it that after your evening with him, you text him before he even gets back home with how much you miss him and have a text session unless you fall asleep with the phone in your hand. Can you not go half a day without contact? Or even a whole day? If not then that’s just stupid. Take a breather from him. Don’t make your world revolve around him. You have a life too, remember?

I’m sure there’s more, but these are the main ones. Thoughts?

Indonesian Politicians Call For Mini Skirts Ban For Provoking Rape

Apr2

Two separate Indonesian politicans have cited mini skirts as pornographic and called for them to be banned.

The first politician is Indonesia’s parliamentary speaker:

Earlier this month, the country’s parliamentary speaker Marzuki Alie announced he would draft rules banning female politicians and staff members from wearing mini skirts, saying, “there have been a lot of rape cases and other immoral acts recently and this is because women aren’t wearing appropriate clothes.”

“You know what men are like. Provocative clothing will make them do things.”

The second politician calling for a miniskirt ban is the religious affairs minister, and head of a new “anti-porn” taskforce:

Indonesia’s powerful religious affairs minister believes that mini-skirts are pornographic and should be banned under the country’s tough new anti-porn laws.  Minister Suryadharma Ali has been appointed to run Indonesia’s new anti-porn taskforce, announced by president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono earlier this month.

He told reporters in Jakarta yesterday that before deciding what they must ban as pornography, the taskforce would consult widely to come up with “a set of universal criteria”.  However, “one [criterion] will be when someone wears a skirt above the knee,” according to the Jakarta Post.

Wow, mini skirts are pornographic and cause men to “do things”… like rape?  And this is “because women aren’t wearing appropriate clothes”?!  Talk about blaming the victim!

Reblogged from Lovelyish

Bad Humor

Mar11

Right before my little hiatus, I wanted to post something that someone on a forum made a thread about a little while back. These are tweets from women about Chris Brown that have seemed to spark a bit of controversy around the internet.

Ok so I understand these were meant to be funny, but these are just distasteful in every sense of the word. I type of humor is just awful. Maybe the fact that the issue of domestic violence hits home to me, but that aside, these puns aren’t even funny. What is up with this mentality anyway? Does Chris Brown’s looks make up for the fact that he beat the woman he claims to have loved? Does it excuse the fact that he still obviously has anger issues and temper tantrums 3 years later? This is definitely not a turn on for me, no matter how good looking a guy is.

Signs Of An Abusive Relationship

Feb12

The following questions ask you about your relationship. If you are not currently in a relationship, these are signs or “red flags” to assist people in identifying a potentially abusive person.

  • Do you feel nervous around your partner?
  • Do you have to be careful to control your behavior to avoid your partner’s anger?
  • Do you feel pressured by your partner when it comes to sex?
  • Are you scared of disagreeing with your partner?
  • Does your partner criticize you, or humiliate you in front of other people?
  • Is your partner always checking up on you or questioning you about what you do without your partner?
  • Does your partner repeatedly and wrongly accuse you of seeing or flirting with other people?
  • Does your partner tell you that if you changed, he or she wouldn’t treat you like this?
  • Does your partner’s jealousy stop you from seeing friends or family?
  • Does your partner make you feel like you are wrong, stupid, crazy, or inadequate?
  • Has your partner ever scared you with violence or threatening behavior?
  • Does your partner say, “I will kill myself if you break up with me” or “I will hurt/kill you if you break up with me”?
  • Does your partner make excuses for the abusive behavior? For example: saying, “It’s because of alcohol or drugs,” or “I can’t control my temper,” or “I was just joking”?

You do not deserve to be abused. Create a safety plan or call someone to talk about your relationship. You may also want to contact the police or a local domestic violence center or call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at (800) 799-SAFE.

Source

Facebook’s Timeline

Feb11

It seems that a few of the major social media that most of us use are changing their designs lately. Most of us are aware of Timeline. If we haven’t switched our facebook profiles to it yet, many of us are awaiting the day that it becomes mandatory for all users. I haven’t changed mine yet. I was not a happy camper when I was first introduced to timeline either. I thought it looked too busy and I saw nothing wrong with how facebook profiles have looked before. Then I decided that this was probably going to be the beginning of the end of facebook, because this is exactly how myspace went down…when all these changes came about to the site’s design. I know of a lot of people who have timeline or have seen it and they hate it, and I mean I personally know at least lots of people who claim they will delete their accounts on the day it becomes mandatory.

Not only this, youtube has changed their site’s design as well. I changed it for a day, realized I hated it, and switched it back to the old version, but like facebook this new design will be mandatory for all users on a certain day. I have also noticed that google is playing around with different looks too.

Now let me go on a personal rant here for a second.  I am starting to get irritated because they seem to paint it up like these changes are for the purpose for making it user friendly, but is it? Highly doubtful. In the past week, I started noticing youtube being plastered with flashing and moving ads all over the place, as if ads and commercials in the videos aren’t bad enough. I started digging and sure enough I found articles about how the changes are really because they are trying to figure out ways for better ad placement (more in your face ad placement, easier for them to make money).

Reading the comments in these articles are usually never surprising with comments like “Do we really have a right to complain when these sites are still free? Running ads are what keeps it all free for us.”  And yeah, I totally get that. I’m not saying that should be completely done away with, but sometimes I honestly feel I would rather pay a small fee to browse a clean page free of ads than to have to fish for the content I am looking for  in a pool of ads. They can only go so far before people will stop using the site all together.

What do you think of the changes being made to facebook and youtube? Do you like the changes and do you care about the ads they run? 

 

 

Is Poetry Dead?

Jan21

I have always been a fan of poetry. I started writing poems when I was little, not long after we moved to Indiana and got settled in to a house outside of Albany, so  I was 6 or 7. I wrote poetry off and on pretty much ever since. I rarely showed my work to people though because I always felt like my stuff was unfinished and could be improved and I didn’t want to show it to anyone unless I felt it was the best that it could be, but I undoubtedly always had a knack for writing and a love and appreciation for the art of it.

However poetry is not as popular as it once was, or at least it doesn’t seem like it is. The only poetry I ever see these days exists in the form of song lyrics, and even in that the quality of poetry in lyrics seems to be dwindling, especially in mainstream music. The lyrics of most popular songs these days rivals the quality of stuff I wrote when I was 10, so what does that tell you?

I don’t know, maybe I am just not looking in the right places. Maybe there is still a community of poetry fans out there. If so, where are they?

Do you enjoy reading or writing poetry? Do you think poetry is dead? 

Oh, The Miss America Organization

Jan15

Ok so I love the Miss America Pageant and everything their organization stands for.  After having watched the 2012 broadcast last night, I was disappointed to see how much they are trying to turn it into a reality show. I understand that for the past few years, they have been trying out different ways to tweak the show and make little changes to improve and boost their ratings, but I don’t think that doing contestant “saves” and “vote outs” are the best way to go. All it did was cause humiliation to some of the contestants. It was actually kind of distasteful how certain things were done. I guess they think that is what the public likes, but I think they missed the mark.

In my opinion, if they want the general public to become more interested in the organization and annual show, they should put these contestant and winners into the mainstream and really showcase what these women do with their reign all year round. As soon as these women win their local title, they are out there doing events, appearances, promoting a platform and I think the organization should focus more on the women and their accomplishments rather than just what’s going on in the show that one night only. The public doesn’t understand how Miss America is relevant in today’s society, and that’s because they don’t actually see it and that is because the organization doesn’t put much effort into showing anything other than the live broadcast of the new winner. There’s SO much that goes on after the winner is crowned, let’s see it!

On that note, congrats to Miss Wisconsin, Laura Kaeppeler!

What did you think of the show last night?