[bought] Wal-mart + other stvf
Sande
I'd been feeling dizzy, somewhat fainting, not from lack of food
maybe an ear infection or exhaustion.
I WORE a BLACK lace tank top (which my mother still rues that she
did not buy another. She got it at a street market in Asia, would
convert to four dollars or so), silver glittery *bouncy* butterfly
hair clips, silk orange shorts/skirt that before had hung loose
but now fits again, my np is chipped BLACK Cat BLACK, Revlon
Love That Red over it and Sally Hansen Radar over that. I have
examined my nails closely and decided that these are the images
that come to mind from serendipitous overlay:
1) The chipped BLACK np on the thumb looks like a manta ray from
one side. From the opposite direction, it looks like a woman
with a resplendent gown surrounded by dense fog.
2) Next, an abstract impressionist painting of a flower
3) a BLACK bird crouched on the ground
4) a cowboy on a bronco
5) ominous cliff
First, I went to the library, checked e-mail and all that stvf -
Went to pick up books I had reserved, which included the Norwegian (?)
fairy tale, East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Because it
features a great big white bear!!!) Ack. While reading it as
the computer loaded, I thought perhaps it would be a variation of
Beauty and the Beast, but the story turned out to have a lot of
twists and turns. Which reminds me... I discovered that Tuscavi
makes seal-shaped Bath Gems in BLACK and turqoise!! Eeek Eeek...
but I already have the penguins, ducks, and whales, so no goodies
for the gundies...
Then I went to the gundy store because I had been called to pick
up the gundy shampoo. I can't wait to try it out and see if it
works. I liked the beaniedragon named Scorch.
Wal-mart was a strange scene... There was an outside venue labelled
'Clearance' and prices would get shouted out and when they got down
to $1.50 or so, people would shout out, 'I want one. Save me one'
Mostly, it was 50% off, but more and more stvf was arriving and
if they needed shelf space, the price got slashed again.
I bought:
- 2 bottles of Naturalistics lavender bath/massage oil
- Naturalistics orange, lavender bath/shower gel
- a digital scale
- 3D 771 piece puzzle, the 1700's grandfather clock
They were pretty good buys, especially the puzzle, which came out to be
about $11. I wasn't too sure about the scale, but I was sick of
guessing about my weight. When I got home, I set it up and it was
still giving me varying results, oh well?
I'm appreciative of the feedback I've been getting on the Giftbasket
Swap. I'm thinking of running a test run based on the feedback,
another giftbasket swap, except instead of basket, a card, and it
would have to be through the mail. The feedback which concerns the
timing will just have to wait until C6 to be utilized. So toss-up
bet/ this or tackling a.g.f. zine, v.2
Feedback collection is the same as what goes on in the [meta] threads.
I don't mean to make anyone paranoid about a.g.f. tags. I personally
don't care if it's [] brackets or () parentheses. I am noticing threads
labelled OT that I would never consider OT, but I also see that
suggested tags are being used. In a way, it's just an expansion of
labelling ADS with [AD]. I think that tags will be beneficial in
the long run, especially with the increased traffic.
Sande
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VENOM MlSS
>I'd been feeling dizzy, somewhat fainting, not from lack of food
>maybe an ear infection or exhaustion.
>
Not to sound too much like a nagging mom or anything.. but please go see a Dr.!
If youre dizzy and near fainting.. something is wrong. Please get it checked
out.
^v^ (\/)ariah ^v^
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Sande
>Sande(remember to attrib)
veno...@aol.com (VENOM MlSS) wrote:
> > Today was the first day I was able to go out and enjoy myself.
> >I'd been feeling dizzy, somewhat fainting, not from lack of food
> >maybe an ear infection or exhaustion.
> Not to sound too much like a nagging mom or anything.. but please go
see a Dr.!
> If youre dizzy and near fainting.. something is wrong. Please get it
checked
> out.
I found out the reason. I only mentioned the ear infection and
exhaustion/lack of food because when I had gotten dizzy and near
fainting before, those were the reasons. Well, the chair I was
sitting on, the seat was broken and someone had wrapped wire
around it to hold the seat part of it up, so everytime I would
sit on it, it felt like I was about to fall. The chair wasn't
really fixed or anything and if the wire broke, the seat would
just fall out.
lXs
WEARing a BLACK London T-shirt and short BLACK lace leggings
just wond'ring if anyone using Deja even bothers to read
'What are you WEARing today' with 380 replies
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> WEARing a BLACK London T-shirt and short BLACK lace leggings
> just wond'ring if anyone using Deja even bothers to read
> 'What are you WEARing today' with 380 replies
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yeppers me!
hehe such sillieness...
Jenn
<19990527041531...@ng-cq1.aol.com>...
>Not to sound too much like a nagging mom or anything.. but please go see a
Dr.!
>If youre dizzy and near fainting.. something is wrong. Please get it
checked
>out.
Not necessarily. I've got very low blood pressure, and standing for long
periods of time will make me dizzy, once I had to stand for nearly an hour
during a group presentation and had to pull up a seat because no matter how
much I tried, I was just totally greying out. I apologized to the teacher
after class and she said it was not a problem, she cuold tell I was having
troubles. Anyways, I also get dizzy if I stand up too quickly, and I've
fainted once after getting out of bed and attempting to walk down a hall
while trying to keep from greying out, I scared the living hell out of my
boyfriend at the time, it took a LOT for me to keep him from calling 911.
Ofcourse, he made me drink three glasses of water before he wuld even let me
attempt to stand up, another three before he'd let me drive home (it took me
a good long while to drink that much water, I don't like water). There are
just some of us who get dizzy or light-headed quite easily...'
Celestyna
Sande mused:
>WEARing a BLACK London T-shirt and short BLACK lace leggings
>just wond'ring if anyone using Deja even bothers to read
>'What are you WEARing today' with 380 replies
i used to steal the best little tips from WAYWT posts. now that its summer
there arent as many tips to steal. the layers are shedding *sigh*. Hope
you're feeling bettah'!
Now officially a DeepSouth Goth,
Celestyna
Wearing earlier today: black and white 50's daydress black superopaque
tights and frankenstein shoes.
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Teleute0
>WEARing a BLACK London T-shirt and short BLACK
>lace leggings
ahhh.. i was *just* thinking about this the other day.
does anyone remember the fad (80's) of footles stights,
either plain at the bottom or edged in stretch lace? i
used to have *tons* of those tights.. but i'm far from
the same size i was in the 80's, and i haven't been able
to find these tights/leggings *anywhere* near me, or
online. IIRC, they were very inexpensive and during their
height could be found almost everywhere.
has anyone seen them online recently or know of where i
could start searching? thankyoo.
--teleute.
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of idiots & posts in a way that reflects that. She generally
*is* rather harsh on what she deems idiotic posts & I can't
say I blame her. --Em
Jynxx6969
>footless tights, either plain at the bottom or edged in stretch lace?
>has anyone seen them online recently or know of where i
>could start searching? thankyoo.
>
catalog. Maybe they still have them? The ones I have, have lasted for a long
time and they're black, very very tight with black lace at the bottom. I'll
have to dig those out :) Hope that helped.
Jynxxy...
The Lyttle Mynxxy
Little Black Riding Hood
>does anyone remember the fad (80's) of footles stights,
>either plain at the bottom or edged in stretch lace?
Much giggle... I still have some of those, though unfortunately the
only ones that fit are (a) baby blue and (b) a murky sort of grey. I
used to wear them both with pink legwarmers.
ah, the sins of the 80s.
LBRH
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Robin Colleen Moore
<nods head> I know what that's like, alas. Did the water help any,
BTW? I know dehydration--which is more common than you'd think--can
lead to dizziness and faintness, among other things; and one of the
reasons they tell you to double your fluid intake after you've given
blood is to rehydrate you so you don't keel over the next day (says one
who got absent-minded and had to find out the very hard way...). I also
ended up having to have a former roommate haul my butt into the ER about
4-5 years ago because I woke up dizzy and only got worse...breakfast did
nothing to help, and in fact made matters worse, so up it came a while
later. :-( After the third retching spell in the bathroom, we decided
it was time to go to St. Mary's (I *hate* vomiting, so if I start puking
uncontrollably, you KNOW I'm a sick puppy), where it turned out that I
was having a vertigo attack ("Vertigo?!?" said the housemate. "I didn't
think people even *got* that any more!") I ended up on some kind of meds
for a week that, according to the PDR, were some kind of anti-psychotic
(WTF??? I'm dizzy, not crazy!), but did eventually seem to help. Still,
it's not something I ever want to repeat, and my sympathies to anyone
else dealing with it.
Robin the mad photographer (holding the wall with one hand and the floor
with one foot helps a little, but not enough...)
Jenn
<1dsje9g.dsz...@user-2ive8eo.dialup.mindspring.com>...
><nods head> I know what that's like, alas. Did the water help any,
>BTW? I know dehydration--which is more common than you'd think--can
>lead to dizziness and faintness, among other things
The water helped, I think. When I came to, I just realized that my butt was
on the floor and I wasn't holding my shoes (I had been holding my shoes
because they were loud shoes and it was 5 am and I didn't want to wake
anyone in the house up, I was going to put them on after I got outside). My
head was also buzzing like an SOB, that faded fairly quickly after he got
some water in me. It probably was a combo of dehydration and the fact that
it was that time of the month (evidently it's not too common for women's
blood pressure to drop right before their period, and after observation
since then, I've found that mine drops quite a bit, 5-10 points on each
scale, when I've got an already fairly low 65-70/100).
I tend to force myself to drink water during the summer, on the rare days we
don't get humid hot days, the dry air is hell on my asthma, somehow drinking
the water helps. Also, I will get very dizzy very quickly if I do a lot of
walking in the heat if I haevn't had much to drink, so I try to bring along
a water bottle. I've gotten into the habit again of freezing a bottle of
water overnight, and when I leave in the morning, sticking it in my car, it
melts slowly during the day, allowing me nice cold awter. I know I shoul be
drinking warm water, but god I can't stand it, then I wouldn't drink any.
I've also learned my lesson about that time of the month, I may get cravings
to drink lots and lots of milk (bad thing for me, I'm slightly lactose
intolerant and a little isn't bad, but a lot is not a Good Thing), but
instead I drink lots and lots of water, somehow it also seems to help my
cramps...
Water here may taste funny out of the tap (I MISS Portland water, it tasted
yummy, even if it did have protein in it!), but I still force myself to
drink it...
The Red Queen
> It probably was a combo of dehydration and the fact that
> it was that time of the month (evidently it's not too common for women's
> blood pressure to drop right before their period, and after observation
> since then, I've found that mine drops quite a bit, 5-10 points on each
> scale, when I've got an already fairly low 65-70/100).
Sure it's not 100/65? I've never seen the higher # last. :) My resting blood
pressure is 90/60 and it drops to below 80/50 when I stand up. That was the
same blood pressure my godfather had in the hospital less than an hour before he
died. This mystified my school nurses when I was in the infirmary for
dehydration (that's what not having time to eat will do to ya).
so they told me not to donate blood anymore. *sigh* the one nice thing I can
do for the community and no more...
Stupid friggin' circulatory system. My heart also has this little quirk where
it skips beats or races with no provocation. They say it isn't dangerous, but
it does cause gray-outs when it goes on too long.
Mebbe someone should just put me outta my misery. :P
But remember, for people with low blood pressure, getting enough water is key,
and also don't let your salt level drop too low! When I feel woozy in a certain
way, I eat a couple pinches of salt and feel much better. :)
Megan the Red Queen (picked up a slight flutter)
ImPuRiTy
>does anyone remember the fad (80's) of footles stights,
>used to have *tons* of those tights.. but i'm far from
>the same size i was in the 80's, and i haven't been able
>to find these tights/leggings *anywhere* near me, or
>online. IIRC, they were very inexpensive and during their
>height could be found almost everywhere.
Ahh. I remember it well. I still have a pair of bright-neon orange ones, a
white pair, and a green pair. And they still fit. But then again, I was fat
in the 80's, and I'm fat in the 90's. Go figure.
>
>has anyone seen them online recently or know of where i
>could start searching? thankyoo.
Don't know if you have any "D&K" stores, or "Odds & Ends' stores near, you,
but check those. Believe it or not, my father was at one a few weeks ago,
and picked up a pair for my mother. When I saw them on her, I asked where
they came from... and to my surprize... D&K had em! In black, in blue, and
even in purple! I was all happy I ran down and bought 3 pairs. Check the
local dollar stores, and the cheap-close out stores too. You'll be
surprized!!!
ImPy - queen of the bargain-close-out store :)
VENOM MlSS
>> periods of time will make me dizzy, once I had to stand for nearly an hour
>> during a group presentation and had to pull up a seat because no matter how
>> much I tried, I was just totally greying out. I apologized to the teacher
>> after class and she said it was not a problem, she cuold tell I was having
>> troubles. Anyways, I also get dizzy if I stand up too quickly, and I've
>> fainted once after getting out of bed and attempting to walk down a hall
>> while trying to keep from greying out, I scared the living hell out of my
>> boyfriend at the time, it took a LOT for me to keep him from calling 911.
>> Ofcourse, he made me drink three glasses of water before he wuld even let
>me
>> attempt to stand up, another three before he'd let me drive home (it took
> me
>> a good long while to drink that much water, I don't like water). There are
Yes.. I Know that many people get light headed or dizzy easily.. and there is
nothing wrong.. but I still would suggest someone experiencing this to FIRST go
to a physician so you can rule out anything wrong.. I have very low blood
pressure normally usually 90/65 ... and if I stand up too quickly.. I get
posterial hypotension.. which basically just means blood rushes from your head
and causes a drop in the blood pressure.. but I went to a Dr to get that
diagnosis.. way back 100 years ago when I was 12 or 13 or so... just to rule
out anemia.. or inner ear infections.. or anything else.. better to know its
nothing.. than to assume its nothing.. Just concerned... thats all!
Sk8gundy
I've got low blood pressure too. Actually, I'm rethinking my
'dizziness self-diagnosis' because my right ear hurts incredibly...
and I've had two or three ear infections in that ear before. I
put drops of hydrogen peroxide in both ears in the meantime, since
it is a long weekend and I don't think a doctor's office will be
open. lXs
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Jenn wrote:
> Not necessarily. I've got very low blood pressure, and standing for long
> periods of time will make me dizzy, once I had to stand for nearly an hour
> during a group presentation and had to pull up a seat because no matter how
> much I tried, I was just totally greying out. I apologized to the teacher
> after class and she said it was not a problem, she cuold tell I was having
> troubles. Anyways, I also get dizzy if I stand up too quickly, and I've
> fainted once after getting out of bed and attempting to walk down a hall
> while trying to keep from greying out, I scared the living hell out of my
> boyfriend at the time, it took a LOT for me to keep him from calling 911.
> Ofcourse, he made me drink three glasses of water before he wuld even let me
> attempt to stand up, another three before he'd let me drive home (it took me
> a good long while to drink that much water, I don't like water). There are
> just some of us who get dizzy or light-headed quite easily...'
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Sk8gundy
> Sande (and assorted gundies) wrote:
> >WEARing a BLACK London T-shirt and short BLACK
> >lace leggings
> either plain at the bottom or edged in stretch lace? i
> used to have *tons* of those tights.. but i'm far from
> the same size i was in the 80's, and i haven't been able
> to find these tights/leggings *anywhere* near me, or
> online. IIRC, they were very inexpensive and during their
> height could be found almost everywhere.
> could start searching? thankyoo.
Those are the only kinds I have - the leggings have the
stretch lace on the bottom and the footless tights don't
have lace but frills or outlines of geometrical shapes on
the bottom. Then I have ones that are just leggings that are
just stretchy lace. I wouldn't call it an 80's fad because I know
I bought the majority of them not in the 80's. Unfortunately,
I bought them at various places, mostly discount stores.
Filene's Basement, Boston - the lingerie section
$7 store (which basically means I got it for $3.50)
department store clearance
The best pair of lace leggings I bought from Contempo
Casuals, Boston (which prob. does not carry it anymore
bec. last time I was there I think it was in some kind of
70's revival)
The ones without stretchy lace, these are easier to find -
major deparment stores or look for exercise wear. The
worst ones I bought were from (I think) Antique Boutique or
UNIQUE in NYC (and one of these stores no longer exist) This
was when leggings first came out. It was more like dyed
thermal long underwear and I'd end up with these baggy knees.
That was the first time I bought leggings and then I learned
about lycra.
I recently bought a BLACK velvet one from Sam's Club Warehouse
for $7.
And I got these leggings with b/w prints (stick figures of Dick
and Jane in various pictures, e.g. it'll say Work Jane Work and
there'd be a picture of Jane at the computer.) from department store
clearance.
Someone recently posted about leggings, from an on-line source,
I didn't check it out, but the company was called jumping joy.
lXs
WEARing a BLACK baby doll dress with gray and lavender flowers
listening to vaportrail (SF local band)
whose pink eigengundy sez that after the polar bear makes a
kill, the snow soaks up the blood and then people don't notice
that the polar bear is pink
Sk8gundy
> I've also learned my lesson about that time of the month, I may get cravings
> to drink lots and lots of milk (bad thing for me, I'm slightly lactose
> intolerant and a little isn't bad, but a lot is not a Good Thing), but
> instead I drink lots and lots of water, somehow it also seems to help my
> cramps...
(!) I've never heard of milk cravings. I get sugar cravings, which
I read is quite common and it is better to eat a complex carbohydrate
food like pasta rather than a candy bar.
I take evening primrose oil daily. It has helped a lot w/ cramps.
lXs
(got her period today. Eep.)
listening to Swallow
Lisa Tomlinson
reason... they actually stimulate your body to produce endorphins... your body's
natural painkillers.... ladyink
Jenn
>(!) I've never heard of milk cravings. I get sugar cravings, which
>I read is quite common and it is better to eat a complex carbohydrate
>food like pasta rather than a candy bar.
Well, I think my milk cravings are mainly psychological. I do have a slight
calcium deficiency despite the amount of milk I drink, but I don't think
that has much to do with it. It's just, I've had milk ever since I was
little, practically every day, it's almost like a comfort food to me. I've
noticed that on particularly stressful days, especially if I haven't had any
all day, I'll really really want some milk. And it just so happens that I
start to crave it when it's that time of the month.
Ofcourse, I also tend to get thirstier overall then, and a lot of times when
I get a craving for milk, I can just drink *anything* and the craving sort
of goes away...
emmy-bat
> reason... they actually stimulate your body to produce endorphins... your body's
> natural painkillers.... ladyink
*GASP* oh my gawd!!! you have just given me an EXTREME excuse to eat
chocolate! *bounce* wooohooo!!!
*evil grin*
though I see no reason in needing to justify eating choco for myself...
calories and fat don't exist if I don't read the label. :) but for some
reason the rest of the world doesn't agree with my position. :P
Em
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>nothing wrong.. but I still would suggest someone experiencing this to FIRST go
>to a physician so you can rule out anything wrong.. I have very low blood
>pressure normally usually 90/65 ... and if I stand up too quickly.. I get
>posterial hypotension.. which basically just means blood rushes from your head
>and causes a drop in the blood pressure.. but I went to a Dr to get that
>diagnosis.. way back 100 years ago when I was 12 or 13 or so... just to rule
>out anemia.. or inner ear infections.. or anything else.. better to know its
>nothing.. than to assume its nothing.. Just concerned... thats all!
>
>
> ^v^ (\/)ariah ^v^
> VENOM Ml...@aol.com
> Raven Hair.. Ruby Lips.. sparks fly from her fingertips...
>
Whenever I stand up quite quickly I fell kind of dizzy for a second, and
if i stand up after lying down/sitting for a long time my vision blurs
for about 2 seconds. Occasionally I get dizzy and have to sit down
because i can'd stand up. I thought this was normal, and everyone gets
it, but i asked my friends and family and no-one does. I'm kind of
worried now. I'm going to the doctor soon.
hugs, rosie
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SaraiCat
> > Those chocolate cravings you hear so much about at that time of the
month have a
> > reason... they actually stimulate your body to produce endorphins...
your body's
> > natural painkillers.... ladyink
>
>
> *GASP* oh my gawd!!! you have just given me an EXTREME excuse to eat
> chocolate! *bounce* wooohooo!!!
Orgasms also release endorphins.
Just another fun fact. :)
-Sarai
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VENOM MlSS
>worried now. I'm going to the doctor soon.
>
>hugs, rosie
>
Im pretty sure he will say you have "postural hypotension".. (like I have)...
you just kinda have to learn to not to jump up quick.. and if you do, to lower
your head till you feel better. Its good that you are gonna check with the
Doc.. but I wouldnt worry , I am almost postive thats what he will say it is..
let me know!
Atheris7
he hehe- *I* knew that!
:)
Atheris
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The Red Queen <red-...@prodigy.net> wrote in article
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> But remember, for people with low blood pressure, getting enough water is
key,
> and also don't let your salt level drop too low! When I feel woozy in a
certain
> way, I eat a couple pinches of salt and feel much better. :)
I actually have a sodium deficiency and quite low bloodpressure... one thing
that really helps is to never eat low-sodium anything... because lots of
crackers and chips and such are now available with low Na, but it's not
particularly healthy for you if you actually *need* the sodium!
As to something Jenn said about drinking water, and tap water especially... I
come from an area with great tasting tapwater, but when I moved to FL, the
tap water tasted so sulphuric that I couldn't stand to drink it. I buy
bottles of spring and distilled water... usually like 2 gallons a week. It's
pretty cheap, only like $1 per bottle, and you can even get large jugs that
have spigots and cost even less. Check around. Water is so important... you
don't have to go as spendy as something like evian, but spending a couple
bucks per week on water isn't too badly frivolous. :)
frogs and fishes from T.
water fiend with runaway sig! oh, no! ;)