Ok, guys, since I'm preparing for my final exam as a Nutritional Consultant I decided to start up a health-only blog that I'm going to divert to my professional website once I decide to start writing the code (haha). In the meantime, follow my blog posts which will be focused on free health information, articles, Q&A, and reviews of health products. See you guys there! Also, any suggestions for articles or informative posts are welcome. Comment on my blog or message me privately.

http://kombuchadiva.blogspot.com/


This is still my personal life and fanfic blog. I would never, ever abandon El-Jay :)

Because real person fiction has dominated the last few months of my life, in addition to starting back in school and beginning a divorce...

But RPS is just so much more interesting than all that. Haha. I defy you, stress!

http://thefinalhour.blogspot.com/2009/03/hr-875-end-of-organic-farming.html



This includes food you grow yourself!!! No more backyard gardens.



Remember Monsanto? Yeah, the guys that created genetically modified
seeds. Don't give away your right to eat food that wasn't created in a
lab or sprayed with toxins. Go to Elliot's (for those in Sacramento, Rocklin, or Citrus Heights) and sign a petition, or find
one online. Google "bill HR 875".



Get really active and go to www.house.gov/writerep and enter your zip code to contact your congressperson.



At the very least, educate yourself. It's your body. You control what goes in it ( for now).

I'm so on Twitter. I'm under evilday, add me! In fact, I'm under evilday on like, every website ever built, so add away!

I am completely obsessed with Drake and Josh right now. It's...so awesomely slashy. Totally enjoying myself at drakexjosh

And I am hopelessly in love with Josh Peck. Ah. Look at my Josh icon. Sexy.

Can u tell I'm tired? 2 month old babies need a lot of attention, I forgot how much. And 2 year olds DEMAND a lot of attention.

Dude, it's so lame, but it's a secret weakness. I always read a few mpreg fics whenever I get into a new fandom. idk why, it's just something I do.

SO WHERE THE HELL IS THE DRAKE AND JOSH MPREG?!?!?!?!?!

I'm seriously suffering. I need it in my life.

I learned a lesson that I couldn't really avoid learning over the last month. I've been sort of stuck in my house, as we all are when we push living things out of our no no places, and during this time I've been sick quite often, which is really, really weird. I'm used to making fun of my family members when they get sick and cruising by unscathed by whatever illness has passed through, but not recently. Not since I gave birth.

And since I gave birth I've been inside. Inside my apartment, escaping only briefly to doctor's appointments every two weeks or so. Getting the mail. You know...dark and dreary. Normal for me, except instead of leaving the house to get out every so often, I stopped. I couldn't! Walking everywhere, while awesomely free of planet-killing side effects, is way too much exertion right after giving birth.

I've been studying Natural Hygiene now for a little while, and I'm not exactly an expert, but I've never seen the principles so obviously proven as I have this last month. It's one thing to read something over and over again, and it's another thing ENTIRELY to experience it. In order to maintain health and to avoid disease, nutrition is NOT the most important factor. Pure food is equally important to other elements, such as pure air, sunlight, rest, emotional well being, and other simple needs. But I've never experienced such a rapid decline of health, both physical and emotional, as I have over just the last few weeks. Even though I believed that this balance of principles was right and made sense, somewhere in the back of my mind I must have placed pure food at the top, as being superior to the others. But I got sick, and then after I was well I got sick again, and then a third time, in a matter of three weeks. The only change in my life, apart from no longer being pregnant, was that I no longer received adequate rest, and I did not breathe in fresh air or get any sunlight. That's all it took. Literally all it took.

With a few adjustments over the last few days, I am suddenly feeling much, MUCH better than I have since October. Even better than that, I'd go so far as to say that I'm feeling a lot like my old, not pregnant self again. Which is great, cause that person is awesome and I truly enjoy being her. Haha, and you know I'm not joking either. And that's why you love me. :)

The entire situation was pretty much out of my hands, anyway. You just can't sleep enough, or go places and function normally for the first few weeks of having a baby. It's understandable, but still unhealthy at the same time. I doubt there's anything for it but to just let the time pass, and with it the frustration of having your life temporarily put on hold. It's coming back gradually, though, so sooner rather than later you'll probably be seeing me. Beware.

No, I'm not high. I am on tea. :)

Yes, the day for seeing Twilight finally came, and oh, holy crap was it awesome. I kept hearing about how awful it was, but I loved it! They really didn't change that much, and they didn't so much change stuff as just make it happen really, really fast. Come on, why would they make it 5 hours long? idk, I was really impressed at just how much it stayed true to the book. I mean, does anyone even remember what they did to Blood and Chocolate?!?!?! Anyway...I went with my sister Michelle and Victor-chu.

Here's a pic of Michelle wearing a shirt she stole from me, although to be fair, I stole hers. We have basically the same wardrobe, but in different sizes. Yes, we both bought this shirt, and not knowingly. We rock the casbah.

Here's my view of them from the backseat. I am literally wedged between two carseats. The kids went to go play with Grandma. Not that I don't want them to watch Twilight, but I wanted to watch it without them.

The baby sitting next to me, wondering where I'm going to leave him, haha.

Ah, finally, it's me.

Thank you EVERYBODY!!!! :) All your comments on my birth post really made my day!

Aksel Atticus Burden was born at 12:08 am on November 3rd 2008, after 2 hours of natural labor. I'll post a longer story about it later. We've been home since about 5 hours after his birth :)

Yes. Yes, I'm still pregnant. And yes, I'm still hungry. I thought it was tapering off, but then all of a sudden a few days ago I became STARVING all the time! And I gained weight so steadily and so....exactly how I wanted to for my pregnancy, staying right in the middle of my height and weight range, and never spiking. And then...I continued to be pregnant. And I gained 3 pounds in one week, and then 5 pounds in the next. So far, I've gained 33 pounds with this pregnancy, which is pretty high for my range, but not even half of what I gained in my first. So, it's good and bad. My midwife isn't worried about it, I guess a lot of the weight was the baby having a growth spurt (can't you do that outside?).

Even as sick as I've been for the past two days (bad cold), I never lost my appetite. I had a bout of nausea that lasted about half an hour and was almost definitely due to drinking green tea way too early in the morning for someone who's daily diet doesn't include any caffeine. And who's stomach is all smashed up.

The heartburn is worse now. All of a sudden my stomach felt like it was on fire yesterday and no amount of anything will make it stop, and I'm not taking antacids. I'm just...not gonna.

I made DELICIOUS raw stuffed bell peppers awhile ago, I'm gonna post the recipe in a little while. Maybe some other stuff, too. I like taking pictures of the food I make, it's super fun and it makes me hungry just looking at it. OMG, you know what, I should take a picture of all the food I eat in one freaking day. THAT should deter you from getting pregnant if you're thinking about it, just seeing how much it costs to feed yourself. :)

This is not the best day ever.

Still pregnant. I though I would have gone by now, given my pregnancy history, but this baby's either lazy or determined to be a Scorpio like his brother. Well, after 9:08 pm this evening, no more excuses. It's not that I mind carrying to 40 weeks or even past that, it's just that I've never done it before, and I've been having painful contractions for the past two weeks. So...I'm losing a ton of sleep, and I'm very, very tired.

Now, last night, I heard something really weird in my kitchen. I went to investigate, and there were what I can only assume to be rats trying to chew a hole in the wall behind my fridge. Successfully. I taped a piece of cardboard over the hole ( it's like, 2 am then) and sprayed the area with Clorox (does that work on rats?) and went back to sleep.

I wake up this morning to find the water in my apartment block has been shut off AGAIN with no notice whatsoever. I'm assuming it's for repairs, cause I hear a ton of noise. But still. This happens about every other month. Always in the morning, when I wake up and need to brush my teeth and clean and whatever.

I go outside to see if there's a water notice on my door. There's a notice, but it's not about the water. I guess we failed out inspection earlier this week. Our kitchen is too cluttered and we need to shampoo our carpet and have all the clutter out buy November 3rd. My due date is in less than a week, and where the hell am I going to get something to shampoo my carpet with? I'm not a carpet cleaner. Do people just have these things lying around?

Let's throw more onto the pile. My son is turning two this Monday, and I have a huge party planned for him on Sunday. I have an appointment with my midwife this friday which I don't have a ride to because we cannot afford a car, let alone gas or insurance. Every last cent we have goes to either rent, bills, or food. So, I'm not going to be buying a carpet shampoo thingie, however much that is. My mother in law has a Bissell pet spot cleaner thing, and I'm going to try that, I guess. And on top of all that, let's not forget that the County of Sacramento is threatening to sue me over a food stamp issue that WAS THEIR FAULT and the IRS is is after me for over $1000.

I don't want to be a grownup anymore. I quit. Can I do that?

I've been seriously MIA from LJ for awhile now, my bad. I'm just gearing up, preparing to give birth. I've been cleaning up my shabby apartment and getting all my baby stuff ready. Thankfully it's another boy, so all I had to do was wash all my son's old baby clothes and seperate them according to size. I also had to get a brand new bassinet because a) we WAY over-used ours, and it really took a beating, and b) it wasn't the right style for having a newborn and a toddler in the same space. It was one of those that was removable from the base, and you could carry the actual bassinet part by the handle so the baby could sleep in any room. GREAT for a first baby, but not when you've got an almost 2 year old sticking his hands in the bassinet while baby's trying to sleep.

So, if all goes well and I don't go into labor before tuesday, I'll be giving birth at The Birth Center with just my CNM, my doula, and my husband. No doctors, and no interventions. The nightmare that was my first birth experience taught me all I needed to know about that :/ Water tub, here I come!!

Waaaah, I love these and they were on a super-mega-blowout sale at JCPenney's. I know, how weird was it that I was in there? I was shopping with the in-laws for their 30 year re-marriage thingie.

Sorry bout the webcam pics, these shoes are a much cuter yellow irl. I can't find my kodak usb, I haven't unpacked hardly anything, haha, it's already been two weeks :)

Papa To Kiss In the Dark has been licensed by Kitty Media.

Am I mad? Not really. We need more of that sort of thing here. And it's not like anyone's gonna notice besides the people who've already seen it. Haha, yay.



Something else to buy and then leave out for my husband to find. As if the suprise change in desktop wallpaper isn't enough. Lolz, sometimes just for the hell of it I'll change the comp wallpaper to something awful, like that catheter scene from the first volume of You're My Loveprize in the Viewfinder. I always know when he's getting on the computer, too, cause I'll be in the kitchen or something and I'll hear "OMGWTF!" from the living room. TOO MUCH FUN!

Who would have thought it? Evidently, I'm the last :( but I guess there really is good american yaoi.

http://wwww.honeysyn.net/comic.php?p=17

I love this webcomic to little bits and pieces! Love it!!!!

If you like boys kissing, obviously. Which you must, if you're my friend. :D

If you don't like yaoi (for shame!), then you must try http://www.neoramen.com/ It's awesomely funny, and Cory is the BESTEST! I really try to stay away from american works, but these two are just too great.

All of my crap was successfully moved into our new apartment, which I am in love with. I've lived in this particular apartment before with roommates, but this is my first time when it's just family. It's nice, but weird to think of how different I've become since the last time I lived here.

My internet was out until yesterday, which left me for three days with basic cable. Ick.

Aaaaaand my second hard drive isn't working with XP, which I finally got on tuesday, so now I guess I'm gonna have to delete the 118 gigs of yaoi and music and start from scratch. Wonderful.

I'm currently detoxing from fast food (moving + trying to get back deposit = no cooking in the freshly scrubbed kitchen) so I'm back to my regular diet and BOY that fast food really sticks itself inside you and doesn't want to move! Most of my energy is coming back, but my tummy isn't so happy :( Stupid yummy onion rings.

God, what a boring entry. I'm just feeling weird since I moved, I haven't had a chance to get used to seeing differnt stuff when I wake up, and it's throwing me off a little bit. I feel like I'm on vacation and I'll get to home soon. Haha.

I realized that since I'm 25, this is my 10 year anniversary of The Pet Shop Boys being my favorite band. That's dedication, lolz! I wonder if I'll be able to stay married that long ;)

proving once again that my blood most definitely runs in his veins. His father is so pleased, haha!

Oh, man...I slept in. I thought I'd be rushed and yep, I was, cause I decided to spend like, 2 hours on my face and hair. But most of that was having to stop everything to see what was wrong with the Boo-Bah, haha.

So, we all went to Jonny Rockets, and I mean EVERYBODY! We took up like, four tables and had them all pushed together. Here's pics :)

( to save your flist, haha )

If you like Death Note, here's a depressing piece of information :(((

link to DN LJ comm death eyes entry from today

http://community.livejournal.com/death_eyes/857170.html