Have you ever noticed how every community site needs a place for blogs these days? DeviantART, Gothic.net, Vampirefreaks, Gaia Online, Yahoo!...

How many blogs does the Internet think I need? Silly Internetz, with all your blogeraries....

~Lady Tam~

Life seems full of beginnings, middles, and ends for me. Right now, it seems to be all three at once.

It's a beginning, because I'm finally getting serious about my personal health and dental hygiene. After a trip to both the physician and the dentist last week, it seems that I have high cholesterol [surprise surprise] and receding gums.

I do -not- have cavities, which was something of a shocker; I haven't been to the dentist in several years, and I thought for...

[QUOTE=Emerald;586566]Yeah this, basically. My main issue with the whole "I hate the poseurs ruining the scene because *insert reason no. umpteen dozen and one* is because it's verging on taking this all way too seriously. I do agree it can be annoying to see the mainstream media putting out their stereotyped images, and reports, and then kids thinking being Goth means you have to folow some set of ultimate rules of Gawth about how to apply your eyeliner, and practice looking apathetic and...

That's the sound of me hitting my head against the keyboard.

Sometimes, I wish I could slap people through t3h Interwebs. Or, at the very least, give them a really weird look.

[I'd love to be asleep right now, but apparently getting off Paxil has made me a little too sensitive and imaginative, and the horror movie I saw earlier is now keeping me awake.

So...tired....]

~Lady Tam~

[QUOTE=honeythorn;584703]I seriously doubt you [I]need[/I] a gastric band at your age. Saying that something like food addiction runs in the family is just bullshit. Things like [I]body frame[/I] run in the family, not addictions. Things like that are either learned or developed over time. [I]You are not born with them[/I].

There are plenty of things you can do to start losing weight, one of which is [B]really[/B] reducing portion sizes and not cooking/frying things in fat [I]or allowing...