Blogger Addict Award time!! Hence the title. Again, I want to thank Ell for giving me this award!J'adore
1. My cat.
He doesn't care how busted I look, how much I eat, who my friends are, or how much money I have. He is the one person (I'm a vet student, he is a person to me!) who provides me with pure unconditional love, day in and day out, no matter the season or who I pissed off the day before. Without him, I would be much more crazy than I am now. He keeps me on the saner side of insanity.2. Skiing. In high school, I was a downhill racer, and I almost raced in college, but I had to choose between my major and skiing. The major won out. But skiing is like therapy for me. Whenever things get to be too much, I head to the mountain and take out all my frustrations on the slopes. It's exhilarating and peaceful and reckless and controlled all at the same time. I just wish I could ski all year long!
3. The movie "Something's Gotta Give" with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton. I don't understand it, but anytime I am feeling stressed or anxious or I just want to cry, I watch this movie, and it calms me.
4. Books. I LOVE to read. I wish I had more time to spend reading for pleasure. A good book can take you on an adventure while you are sitting curled up in your favorite armchair. A good book can make you look at your world a little differently.
5. Vermont. I am so cheesy, but I love my state. I have traveled to a number of places and countries, but nothing beats Vermont for me. The people here are so individualistic, and you have to be a hardy type of person to put up with winters here. Life moves at a slower pace here, and people take the time to admire the view. There isn't any place I would rather live :)
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1. Cheesecake. It's just disgusting in so many ways!
2. When people comment on my eating. It gives me so much anxiety. People don't understand that it would make everything so much better if they just didn't say anything.
3. Mediocrity. I want to excel. I will not be content to take the middle road through life. I suppose this relates to my perfectionism and my ED.
4. Animal cruelty. How anyone could torture an animal is beyond me. One would have to be a truly sadistic person to commit some of the crimes I have seen against defenseless animals.
5. When friends are fighting. I try to stay out of the fight, but they always try to drag me in. I thought the drama was supposed to be gone when high school ended, but hello vet school? High school called and they want their drama back.
So now to my nominees! In no particular order:
Liz from Adventures in EDNOS
Kristal from beautiful relic. -- I just started reading her blog, but I am already totally addicted!
rain from dancing through raindrops
dreams and bones from (what else! lol) Dreams and Bones
embre from leak
Those are my five, but I love all of you ladies, and I am addicted to each and every one of you! xoxo
In other news, I was supposed to leave this Sunday to drive down to Connecticut and stay with my aunt and her fiance so I could visit another vet clinic Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. However, I have spent the last week thinking up an excuse I could give to the clinic about why I am no longer coming, and to my parents and aunt about why I am no longer going. It's just too much for me right now. You know those times when you just feel like you physically and emotionally can't leave the safety of your house? Yeah, I am having one of those times. I feel fat, and I need to lose weight, and I am scared of gaining weight (which is a double fright when away from home), and I am too anxious right now to meet a bunch of new people and pretend to be happy and smart and charming. It would be my soon-to-be new cousins, and my aunt's fiance's parents, and all the vets at the clinic, and the vet techs there, and I need to be perfect ALL THE DAMN TIME and it is just too much for me to deal with right now. I just want to stay home and read in bed and post on Blogger until I have to leave for school. But I am going to Atlanta next Friday for a veterinary conference. I wish I could back out of that, too, but my dad gave me his airline miles for the ticket, and those are non-refundable. He would kill me if I lost those for him, so I have to go to that. Hopefully I will be feeling a little less social anxiety by then, but it's unclear.
Nighty night, ladies. I am off to watch a Supersize vs. Super Skinny, and then bed.
Love you, Skinnies!
~Sottile
Yay, I was starting to miss reading your blog! I destest the same 5 things... Good luck with everything! :)))
ReplyDeleteOOOO, I used to be a book junkie, but I haven't been able to read in a really long time. Hard to get into a story when you don't have much free space in your head, I guess. Keep going, it'll keep your brain sharp!
ReplyDeleteOh, and sorry about the lack of social energy, that's tough. Just put on a smile and pretend everything's fabulous, you'll convince other people and perhaps yourself!
xoRoseox
I had that damn song stuck in my head all day. Better than Barney or Britney I suppose. I can't ski to save a snail's life (I'd try for my own). I can't let this go unsaid, your Vermont joke did get a small eye roll followed by a smirk.
ReplyDeleteI'm a newly graduated pharmacist (class of 09) and it was the exact same shite in pharm school. Some mean ole bitches and bastards. I can also relate to your anxieties of peoples but mostly I'm opposite. I need people and socializing to an extent. When I'm alone is when I'm most destructive.
Thank you for the award especially considering I'm such a new reader. It's about time that subliminal message I put prior to entry to my blog is working. I gots a feeling we're going to be swell friends. I gots no feeling in my leg as it's asleep.
I love reading too, Oh my word I'm such a geek about it too. I can read anywhere, so true about it being able to make you look at the world differently. I hate it when I finish a really good book.
ReplyDeleteuniversity is currently giving me enough to read but I'm in a bit of a slump. I can't find anything decent to read,haha maybe I'm just being fussy.
I've never skiied (sp?) in my life, maybe one day I'll go somewhere where the weather permits skiing.
hope you feel better aka have more energy to go out (or that you find an excuse to stay home)
glad you're back to posting, you disappeared for so long :)
I LOVE Supersize v Superskinny!!!
anyways sorry for random post (",)
Aww, thanks! I appreciate it! I love my kitties too, although I don't get to see them because they live in Oregon and I live in Wisconsin :( I hope your weekend was fabulous! Stay strong <3
ReplyDeleteYour kitty is cute! I have 2 kitties!
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