Roswenthe

I try to be polite most of the time, but sometimes it's fun to see guys run away when it's brought up. My balance goes to pot that time of month. It's like I can't walk in a straight line, much less dance or lift things. I'm sort of naturally clumsy and prone to injuring things, but it's way worse during my period. I do find that taking iron for a few days helps the tiredness a whole lot, though it does nothing for my balance. I also read something in the past few days that said women suffer a huge fluid loss, so even more water than usual should help.

The only way I get things done is by gaming myself through it. I've used Mindbloom in the past, and it's fine up to a point where you can't really go much further, so now I use HabitRPG. The gamer in me just has to get to the next level and not leave any quests undone. I also use Daytum to keep track of my writing habits. It lets you input your sessions, then track all sorts of things like daily average and word count total.

I am sitting here with my big glass of water. The cold is better, so I have been trying to get back to it. I did Classical Stretch yesterday, and tracked everything I ate. This morning I made the Soaked Oatmeal Bars from Homemade Mommy. They are pretty good. You have to soak the oats and sunflower seeds overnight, and the texture is a bit odd, but they'd be good for breakfast or on the run. I just built a new desk and rearranged my home office, so I'm a bit tuckered out right now. My old desk was literally being held together with duct tape. TARDIS blue duct tape. I actually got a small kitchen table to use as a desk, though it's a little taller than my old desk. I have a treadmill desk and I hate it. I know everybody always raves about them, but I loathe using it. So I just get up to exercise and move around every hour or so. Dance games on the Xbox are good for that.

I'm in a write-in group on Second Life. It's at 6am and 6pm Pacific Time. I find it helps quite a bit to have a set time to meet and write. I would like something like HabitRPG or Fitocracy for food tracking. Something gamified. I really wish Fitocracy didn't just track fitness.

I have been sick with a terrible cold, so a bit off. Eating hasn't been too bad, but I haven't been able to exercise at all without coughing like mad. It's getting better now, so I'm hoping to get back to it this week. Everybody around me has the same cold, so it must be a doozy.

Hey all, I'm recovering from four days of the flu. I've pretty much done nothing but sleep and sit around all glazed. Didn't eat that much, but I've been so stuffed up I really can't smell anything. Trying to ease back into things today, but I still feel a bit tired.

The healing diet has several components: -emphasis on vegetables and fruits -"functional foods" (probiotic, prebiotic, healing herbs) - kimchi, fermented saurkraut/pickles, teas to help digestion (Currently Throat Coat) or other issues, antibacterial herbs like oregano, rosemary, and basil -low grain, but I do eat sprouted grains and slow rise bread. My digestive issues really suffer without grains. I've tried every version of paleo and was pretty ill on all of them. -low oils, but also a digestion issue, as I have no gallbladder. I eat solid fats, and only eat oils baked into other foods. This seems to make a huge difference -I'm allergic to dairy. I made a bunch of preplanned meals, because I'm less likely to go overboard if I know exactly the proportions, but I allowed myself some room to get creative, such as bentos using bento proportions (which are based on calorie needs), as well as allowing myself cheat meals when we go out. With the dairy allergy, I end up being really limited in what I can eat at restaurants anyway. Yesterday, I never made it to exercise, and I overate a little bit just last night at dinner, but wasn't too far off. Today has been much better. We went out for Korean, and I got tofu soup. I only ate a little bit of the rice, but I ate a lot of kimchi and soup. I also danced for a half hour this morning. Need to work more on my word count, but I tend to be a late afternoon writer.

When I finish chapters, I put them on Google Drive so I can mess with them wherever I am, whether I'm on my phone or tablet. I often will work on bits during commercials of my favorite shows. I also do this with chapters I need to finish and put a transition in. I'm bad about leaving chapters unfinished and moving on, but I get them done eventually. I use New Statpress on my blog, if you have a Wordpress blog. It's got all sorts of analytic gadgets. Some I'm still trying to understand....

IMHO, fun is way better than sounding high scale. There's a lot of really boring high scale books, but it's hard to find books with great characters...

Well, my hobbit side has been getting the best of me with some homecooked meals, but I've been feeling a little under the weather. I think with both my sniffles and the utter cold that has descended on the Shire, all I want to do is snuggle under my blankie with some savory pies. I managed to do Classical Stretch yesterday, but haven't gotten so motivated today. I haven't overeaten, so that's good, and am keeping up with the liquids, but I need to exercise. Early the past couple mornings, we've had a feline visitor, and with the single digit temps, I had to bring her inside. Can't say I'm real happy with my neighbors right now for keeping her out in this weather. So I spent most of my mornings the past few days making sure she didn't get into too much trouble, and didn't stick to my normal routine. I have two other cats, who both seem to believe she's our cat that lives outside, so they were both pretty ambivalent about her visits.

That stinks! I only use it for a few specific things, and so haven't had any trouble with it, but I can imagine if you had a bunch and they all went poof it would be really frustrating. I use it to automate tweets and facebook posts when I post to my blog, mainly.

It's actually a costume example, but I did have a hobbit bard in LOTRO. I didn't want to reload it and get sucked back in, so I found another example. Mine had a jaunty blue hat with a feather, though. And a reference to that actually pops up in my first book.

Hitchhiker's Guide is one of my favorite books of all time. I highly recommend it. I read it in ninth grade to impress a boy, and started a lifelong love of science fiction. I just read All the Paths of Shadow by Frank Tuttle and loved it. It's steampunk fantasy, but with lots of humor. I think it has the best sidekick ever.

I am also a writer. I write YA spy novels right now, and will be doing superheroes and space opera later this year. Just got my first challenge thread up, though I started during the holidays. That was so-so, but I lost a couple pounds, so not horrible, I guess. Viola lessons start up again this week, but I will admit I didn't practice much during the holidays. It was all so busy. Community chorus starts the week after next, as does dance. Taking it easy with dance for this challenge, just going to the tribal bellydance basics drop-in class. The rest of my troupe is preparing for TribalCon, but I'm grounded for that. Might go to the show, but it might make me sad to just watch, too. Not sure yet. My life quest and creativity challenge are the same, and that's to finish this third book in the series so I can move on to completely new series. Ready to give my little band of misfits their epic conclusion. Galaxy Gamer - done quite a bit of reading about platforms myself, and come to the conclusion that if you focus on a couple where you're most likely to make connections, the rest really aren't worth the amount of work to keep up with them. I use my blog, Facebook, and a little bit of Twitter, and then I do quite well on Goodreads. I also automated some things with IFTTT (you can google it), it's pretty swift. I recommend David Gaughren's book Let's Get Visible. It's been useful to me. Many of the platform books I've read are written by nonfiction authors who pretend fiction readers act the same as nonfiction reader, and they don't. I recommend his blog, too.

It's a new dawn, and with it comes a new day and a new year. Snowflakes fall outside my window, rare in this part of the Shire. I just had breakfast, and already my thoughts wander toward elevenses. I am Roswenthe. I am a hobbit, and a bard. As a bard, I dance, sing, play viola and ukulele, and most of all, I make my living by telling stories. Some here assign me the term "assassin", but I love people. Love to tell their stories, and love to hear their stories. Unfortunately, some bouts of ill health, along with many hours penning my epics, and the many snacks of hobbit life, has left me with some work to do to make my next journey. In early fall, I broke my foot, and it sidelined me from many of the things I like to do. I spent extra hours writing, but none dancing, and only in the past few weeks have been recovering to the point where I can dance again. MAIN QUEST I want to lose 15 pounds in the next six weeks, and gain some consistent habits. GOALS 1. 20 minutes working out, six days a week (not on Sundays) - plan to alternate walking with dance and Classical Stretch 2. I created a healing diet over the holidays, and I want to stick to it during these six weeks. It has similarities to Weston Price or paleo diets, but I do eat sprouted grains and slow-rise sourdough, along with more raw foods. I have done paleo in the past, and cannot accomodate the amount of fat since I don't have a gallbladder. 3. Drink at least five glasses of water every day. (Will go up next challenge) LIFE QUEST More than anything, I want to finish my current book, which is the third in a series, and move on to new projects. I'm more than halfway through, so I hope to finish it during these next six weeks.

I love Arrow. It's my current favorite show. Looks like a great start!

ACV and baking soda didn't work for me either. They say you can't smell the vinegar. Well, I could, no matter how hard I tried to wash it out. I use Dr Bronner's and coconut milk mixed together. There's a recipe on Wellness Mama for it. It doesn't leave your hair all weird like just Dr. B's alone, though I do have to watch the back center and make sure I rinse that well. Every few weeks I use a regular low-sulfate shampoo to clarify. Then I just use a cheap conditioner, but I plan to try the detangler Wellness Mama just posted last week. I have extremely fine, oily, wavy/curly hair.

Yes, and this happens every meal, not just one. They end up being underweight, and the parents trying all sorts of tricks to get the child to eat. It scares the parents, pretty badly. I worked in the baby room sometimes, and they had one who would only eat/nurse if he was asleep. If he was awake, he refused. He was very underweight. They had been working with the doctor on it since he was born. He was about 7 months.

There's links to all the retailers on my blog. Viral Legacy is free everywhere except Amazon (I'm working on that!). Smashwords has a Kindle version for download, though. I had quite a busy weekend, and ended up passing out very early last night. The community choir performed several times on Saturday, after I worked at a charity event all morning, and we have our Christmas concert next Sunday night. Looking forward to that. We're doing Christmas music from around the world, so it's a fun set. I'm trying to write a lot the next couple weeks so I can enjoy Christmas without worrying about the book as much.

I had a friend that was a big fan of intuitive eating, but she was one of the pickiest eaters I've ever met. She sort of assumed that because intuitive eating was easy for her, it had to be the same for everybody else, and that's not true. She only ate about 10 foods. I tried it for, oh, I dunno, six months? I can pretty much clock my hunger surges by my hormonal changes each month, and there's a week each month where I'm just ravenous, and I know it's not because my body really needs all the stuff it craves. There's also very few foods that I dislike. The same was true on paleo, even after all the "guides" that told me things should happen a certain way if I did x and y. I worked with toddlers for many years in a day care, and there are some kids that are just not all that interested in eating, or they are picky from the get-go. I do think some of that might have to do with what the mother eats during pregnancy (though if you have real severe morning sickness, you might not be able to control that all that much), but I think some of it is just natural to the child. I kinda wonder if intuitive eating appeals to people who naturally eat that way, but those who push it to others just don't realize not everyone's body works the same way.

You know, chicken pox occurred to me, but I've had it three times and the vaccine didn't take. The pink calamine lotion helps better than the clear kinds. Hope you feel better!

Itchy doesn't sound like pimples. They usually don't itch. It does sound like an allergy. Another possibility is that your clothes are chafing a bit in the warmer weather. You can develop allergies at any time, and on the skin sounds maybe something like a detergent, soap, or fabric softener. Maybe try switching to perfume/dye free detergents and soaps for a bit and see if that helps.

I'm not a runner, but I love the tv show Classical Stretch. It's very unique, It includes some strength training, but that isn't really the focus. I've tried yoga, and I find CS much more effective for flexibility, and she's good about explaining what to do for specific issues.She trains a lot of Olympic athletes, including runners. I got mine off Amazon, but they have it on some local PBS stations. There's a bunch of clips on Youtube.

Thanks! I'm a professional novelist, I bellydance, sing in a community choir, and play viola, ukulele, and bass guitar. Very bardy. In January, I'm going to attempt taking computer science, so I am trying to finish this novel so I can edit and work on short stories while I'm taking classes. I dunno what I'm going to do with it yet, but I had the opportunity to take it, so I will do my best. The current novel is my third to be published. It will finish out a trilogy, then I'm moving away from that series for awhile. Dunno if I'll come back to it. I write action adventure and science fiction.

I'm also a bellydancer. ATS, tribal, tribal fusion. I've been dancing six years, but I have no interest in going pro. I just enjoy dancing. I've been grounded for about five months now from a broken foot (didn't break it dancing), so I've been trying to build back up to a level where I can take classes again. My troupe is supposed perform at East Coast TribalCon, but I think I'm going to sit that out. I didn't know breaking your foot could take so long to heal.