IndigoBanshee

I realized I meant to post this in the guild hall and not the challenge board. Would someone mind moving it, please?

There's a few of us on here, so I wanted to have an ongoing bard discussion thread. It seems like none of us could decide whether bards were adventurers or rangers, so I started it in Adventurer's Guild for now. I'm thinking both are probably true. Tell us a little about yourself and why you're a bard! I'm a musician and bellydancer. I sing, play bass guitar and uke, and I've been dancing for about 4 years now. I also like martial arts, but most of them are really rough on my knees, but I train with a staff or wooden sword once in awhile. Many bellydancers use swords (as in my avatar), but I have to admit the metal ones completely terrify me (as do most sharp objects in general - I'm an awful klutz). I've always liked staves because I like the idea that many nearby ordinary objects could become a weapon. The problem with staves is the amount of space needed to practice them! I eat somewhat primal, though my food allergies make a full paleo diet rather difficult. IRL, I'm a preschool computer teacher, and it's a pretty active job. Lots of standing and sometimes short bursts of running after toddlers. Very paleo, lol! I am on Fitocracy as IndigoBanshee. Was thinking a bard's group on there would be fun, but I already run another group, so I don't really want to lead it, but I'd be open to helping.

I read a tutorial, but I still don't completely understand what I'm doing

I'm IndigoBanshee.... I will warn everybody that if I'm teaching, I only have access to my phone at lunch. We're not allowed to use our cells during classtime. So games with me might be a little slow.

Bacon-wrapped dates. Every time I bring it to a party, fights break out over the plate. Or chicken wings..

However, there are a lot of people who aren't fat who are told they are in this society, and that is wrong. And there are a lot of people that think they have the right to be rude in any circumstance and do, then use "..but I just want them to be healthy" as an excuse to be rude. Neither should be acceptable. You can tell someone you are concerned about their health without arguing and without putting them down, and you can do it in a loving way. And that really should be only someone who is very close to you. You can also accept someone without liking everything about them.

6 is the new "plus size" (some pics NSFW if you click on the link)

I usually drink it like a shot, but sometimes over berries.

I also make time for church every week, and help with the clothing and food bank at church. Saturday is the American Cancer Society kickoff for Relay for Life, which is the charity I work with the most. As a cancer survivor myself, and having lost a parent to cancer, and the other has gone through it, I think cancer is the worst set of diseases in our lifetimes. I also think it's one that can be cured, so I help raise money to cure it. Dance functions in my life both for fitness and to keep me sane. I get antsy if I go too long without dancing.

People recommend Greek yogurt because it's much lower in sugar and higher in protein than regular plain yogurt. I don't like it plain either, but I tend to use Greek yogurt for dressings and in sauces. I tend to prefer kefir, which comes in bottles, for eating.

I really don't understand the wet noodle look phenomenon. I think most women who want to look emaciated look terrible (ie. 99% of Hollywood). They look like if you blow on them, they will fall over. I know that I have friends who could not gain weight if they tried, but they usually don't have that ashy, gray skin and lack of muscle tone that comes with not eating. I have this one size 0 friend who gained 15 pounds during her pregnancy that made her look fantastic after she had the baby. Her husband whined and whined at her that she was fat and needed to lose the baby weight, so she did. I wanted to kick him in the face. The media hasn't just affected women, but men think if you aren't emaciated and 20 pounds underweight, you must be fat.

It's a really boring article, but most of the ones I have aren't about the sulfur in foods. Peanuts can be treated with sulfites, and wines have varying amounts, so you can react to one and not to the next, or you might not notice the next reaction because it happens much later. Sulfite reactions often happen the next day, when they get to that point of breaking down. The biggest symptoms are headaches which feel like a tight band (and aren't helped by meds), and gastro issues. Sulfites are snuck into everything, even organic foods, because they are considered "natural". Try a molybdenum supplement, maybe 250 mcg a day, and see if it helps, because sulfite allergy usually results from a molybdenum deficiency. I have to take the supplement and avoid high-sulfur foods and sulfite-added foods, because I'm sensitive to the small traces, but most people aren't as sensitive as I am.

Eggs/onion issues are likely a sulfite allergy. The sulfur compound in foods breaks down into a sulfite compound before breaking down into sulfur. This journal article talks about it, if you can wade through all the chemistry in it.

I've had a cold for going on a month now. I'm not sure if it's the same cold; I suspect, since it renewed with vigor last week, that it's two colds in a row. I'm a teacher, so getting colds isn't really a surprise or a mystery, and all the kids are sick, too. But - how do you treat a cold, especially if you still have to go into work that day? I've been struggling through this week, though I'm taking tomorrow off for a doctor's appt. I eat paleo, and I try to eat a wide variety of vegetables. I discovered one of the Asian supermarkets in the area makes chicken stew with ginseng and ate some of that this week. I plan to try and make some myself. Any other suggestions on fighting this cold and getting better?

I do have problems with one knee, but the main reason is that we're not supposed to be on our knees and we get chewed out if an administrator walks by and sees. I am with little ones, and we're supposed to be "on our feet" the whole time unless teaching in a circle and the whole class is seated. They don't even let us have desks.