Clinical Health Psychology grad student. This blog is where I throw my psychology, herpetology, sociocultural, and food induced ramblings.

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Ok, vain bragging time. 

I now weigh 145 pounds. This means that I have managed to lose 60 pounds eating properly and exercising. And the docs say that my cholesterol is normal AND I am no longer prediabetic. I’m pretty pumped about it.

Ok, vain bragging time.

I now weigh 145 pounds. This means that I have managed to lose 60 pounds eating properly and exercising. And the docs say that my cholesterol is normal AND I am no longer prediabetic. I’m pretty pumped about it.

Hello Internet.
After months of work, I went down from a DD to a D cup. I can wear my favorite dress again. Also, my back and neck and ribs hurt less. To celebrate, here is a picture.

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

Hello Internet.

After months of work, I went down from a DD to a D cup. I can wear my favorite dress again. Also, my back and neck and ribs hurt less. To celebrate, here is a picture.

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

Unpopular Opinions

Sunburned, Bored, Here’s Some Stuff.

Looked like fun, so I stole this from Penwyn. >:3

1. A selection of television programs you do not care for.

Gray’s Anatomy, Glee, Almost anything Reality TV, Grimm, Fringe.

2. A selection of musical artists you do not care for. 

Dave Mathews Band, John Mayer, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber

3. A selection of celebrities you couldn’t care less about.

All of them.

4. A hobby you “don’t get”.

Extensively planning out how one will play a video game before playing it, Magic the Gathering (played it for months, it did nothing but stress me out and steal all my money)

5. A habit you find disgusting.

People who blow their noses at the table while people are eating like my disgusting husband. Also people who rely on the “Nice Guy” system to justify their every move.

6. Something in school you really liked doing that everyone else bitched over.
Memorizing random science facts and categorizations, like anatomy, rocks and minerals, etc. I used to read field classification guides of fossils, rocks, dinosaurs, shells, fish, trees, birds, diseases, and other stuff every night before I went to sleep.

7. Your favorite household chore.

Cooking, cleaning the sheets, and watering the plants :3

8. Popular video games that make you go “meh”.

First person shooters. Demon Souls/Dark Souls, Mass Effect, and WoW as well.

9. PC or MAC?

PC, mostly for the control and customizability.

10. A sport you don’t like, for whatever reason.

Tennis. I don’t get it and it’s boring and I can’t play it. And Max loves it and tries to explain it to me EVERY TIME and I hate it.

11. A sport you really like, for whatever reason.

Baseball. Not so much the sport, but I love going to minor league games with my family and hanging out. And eating nachos.

12. Television programs you love but have gotten shit for liking.

Castle, used to love Ghost Hunters and watch it all the time, Kitchen Nightmares, Food Network.

13. Musical artists you love but have gotten shit for liking.

Eve6, Indigo Girls, Ke$ha, and I really like the song “Party in the USA” when I’m wasted.

14. A hobby you have/find interesting that other people bother you over/make fun of.

My love of animals and plants gets me made fun of a lot, especially when I go over board with the number of plants I’m trying to grow (had about 40 potted plants last year) and if people find out that I love reptiles and have two snakes. I usually just freak them out by talking about the feeder mice/rats in my freezer until they leave me alone.

15. A habit you have that other people bug you over.

My inability to finish a video game. I’ll play it for hours and never actually finish it. I’ve made an effort to get better about it.

16. Something in school you hated doing and it felt like everyone else loved.

Study hall. Everyone loved it because they got to talk and hang out with people, but I thought it was a phenomenal waste of time.

17. The household chore that makes you want to shoot your own face off.

Putting up the clean dishes from the dishwasher and vaccuming. If no one’s around to notice I’ll just use the clean dishes out of the dishwasher until its empty rather than putting them up.

18. A selection of video games that you enjoy that perhaps you really shouldn’t.

The Sims. I love it, but it’s EA and I hate EA. Also it’s basically a racket, since they release an “expansion pack” every two weeks. I’m a sucker for controlling fake people’s lives and playing God though. T_T

19. A celebrity crush that maybe even you don’t understand.

Pink. I think it must be her hair.

20. Free rant on whatever grinds your gears at the moment.

I PUT ON LIKE SIX LAYERS OF SUN SCREEN AND I REAPPLIED AND MY BACK IS BURNED AND IT HURTS. Also, I untied my halter at the beach so I wouldn’t get tan lines and somehow I STILL HAVE HUGE TAN LINES. WHUT.

Also using crutches on the beach is not fun. Sand eats crutches.

Trying to do victory rolls, but my hair ate them. No really, I can’t find one of the bobby pins I put in.

Trying to do victory rolls, but my hair ate them. No really, I can’t find one of the bobby pins I put in.

I’m thinking this style is going to stay with me for a while.

I’m thinking this style is going to stay with me for a while.

I had to put on clothes and makeup to record a 1 minute recorded video about why I want to go to the University of Kansas.
Time to crawl back into my sweat pants.

I had to put on clothes and makeup to record a 1 minute recorded video about why I want to go to the University of Kansas.

Time to crawl back into my sweat pants.

Just going to leave this here.

Really happy with my makeup from last night for the SlutWalk. Also, my cleavage.

Just going to leave this here.

Really happy with my makeup from last night for the SlutWalk. Also, my cleavage.

Survived hiking. Shower time.

Survived hiking. Shower time.

Goal for today: make people think I’m cosplaying.

Goal for today: make people think I’m cosplaying.

Reflection Time

I keep things pretty basic on facebook, mostly because I’m friends with people from many political and religious backgrounds. I never came out in highschool to people in my church or to my family, so I chose to take my sexual preferences off facebook all together. Maybe one day I’ll feel comfortable enough to change it, but I just didn’t want to get gawked at like an animal at the zoo or have to explain who I am to people so conservative that they have sex with their eyes closed to avoid the sin. (MMmmmmm, yummy, delicious sin).

What I did just do was go on a ramble about Planned Parenthood getting defunded, and how much it pisses me off. I’m waiting for shit to hit the fan (though it may not), but at the same time I feel that its important I say something.

For those of you who don’t know, my background is Catholic. I have a lot of old Catholic friends and all of my family members are Catholic. I get pressured constantly by my immediate family to return to church, a place that they have no idea fills me with the self-loathing a anger that dominated me through most of my adolescence.

What I hated most was the homogeneity. The fact that we were handed the Catechism and told “This is how it is. A bunch of old white wealthy men decided it. Now we all believe it. Don’t worry, God said its okay.” I really don’t like that about any religion. If a religion cannot change to fit the time and does not acknowledge that mankind’s bias is present in what is accepted to be “God’s divine will,” I want no part of it. If a religious institution feels threatened and is unwilling to change when new ideas come into light, I want no part of it. If a religious institution chooses to continue to oppress groups for no true, logical reason, and presents reasons for this oppression as fact, I want no part of it.

I would rather retreat into my research on humanity and protect it because I have faith in it. I’d rather concentrate on making life worth living for future generations than to sit huddled in a church doing nothing other than asking an deity to do all the work for me. To me, such actions include my making suborn comments on Facebook about how Planned Parenthood should be protected, despite the backlash and the fact that I know a lot of very conservative people will get pissed off if they see it. Being silent does nothing.