New Year Resolutions

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:12 pm

Thank you putaro.. yes.. tuxes are FAR from metro.

HentaiCat · Post by **HentaiCat** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:20 pm

squidflakes wrote:Thank you putaro.. yes.. tuxes are FAR from metro.

But if you have it on EVERY DAY, along with that mask... and a top hat? The air sparkles when he talks!

But I guess the point of looks is how you look to other pepole after all
If only warhammer was a anime...

Putaro · Post by **Putaro** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:42 pm

HentaiCat wrote: But if you have it on EVERY DAY, along with that mask... and a top hat? The air sparkles when he talks!

I only wear the mask and the top hat when I go to the office - it's a Japan thing after all.

But I guess the point of looks is how you look to other pepole after all

No, no! The point of looks is how you look to yourself. Screw everyone else. If you think you look good you will be confident. I have a fairly conventional sense of style and I think I look good in a tux and hence I do. If you think you look like a dork in a tux and hence spend the day slouching around you will look like a dork.

If your sense of style is unconventional go with it. If you think you look good it'll show and you will find someone else who likes your style sooner or later.

Putaro · Post by **Putaro** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:47 pm

And, hey, isn't that cat you're using for your avatar wearing a tux?

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:49 pm

yea, but that cat is completely metro

HentaiCat · Post by **HentaiCat** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:55 pm

squidflakes wrote:yea, but that cat is completely metro

Very, but cat-prince-people are allways metro

Putaro · Post by **Putaro** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:00 pm

It's the bow tie. Note that I was not wearing a bow tie. Though Simon (my avatar) seems to be wearing a bow tie as well and I don't think anyone ever accused Simon Bar Sinister of being a metrosexual.

HoneyNClover · Post by **HoneyNClover** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:06 pm

My resolutions:

Get a job/save enough money to fund my summer trip to Japan.
Be more active. (maybe join the local all-female roller derby league?)
Practice my art more often.

...and futher fill out my H-game collection (damn you, secret wives' club, you still elude me! ><)

Naughty/Bad Tentacle Box · Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:54 pm

My resolutions:

Draw more.
Paint more.
Work out more.
Drink more...I mean less, arggh.

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:09 pm

HoneyNClover wrote:My resolutions:

Be more active. (maybe join the local all-female roller derby league?)

That was one of my resolutions, but I'd want to join as personal trainer/massage guy/sexual healing director.

HoneyNClover · Post by **HoneyNClover** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:52 pm

squidflakes wrote: That was one of my resolutions, but I'd want to join as personal trainer/massage guy/sexual healing director.

Whoa, I must've been on all the wrong sports teams O_o...Sexual healing director...that'd be awesome xD Of course, does it have to be limited to sports teams? Why not a part of every human resources department?

Mebbe this concept will help me fulfil number one on my list?

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:48 am

I don't think many Japanese companies have sexual healing directors anymore. They used to, but that was back in the late 70s/early 80s when they were doing crazy things.. well, crazier more expensive things.

Most of the sexual healing directors went in to business for themselves and are now called Sexual Healing Consultants.

Such are the times though, such are the times.

Mariesalias · Post by **Mariesalias** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:55 am

jackalope wrote: In my case, it's a combination of having taken just about every anti-inflammitory on the market over the last 10 years plus my parathyroid hormone levels are through the roof, which will cause a lot of stomach acid as well. It was to the point that I was throwing up everything I tried to eat (not the recommended method of losing weight). That's when they put me on a double-dose of Prilosec until everything calmed down. And Zantac at night, and the bland, bland diet.

For a while, I was living on a soy drink that's similar to Ensure because it was the only thing I didn't thow up. Then rice, corn mush, beans, crackers. Essentially carbs, carbs and carbs, which was its own problem. Things have now healed enough that I take the normal dose of Prilosec in the morning and Zantac at night and don't need Rolaids or Mylanta or such anymore. I can even take my anti-inflammitory once a day most days now, though I have to be careful about that. There's only one left that I can take anymore.

But yeah, vanilla soy milk and crackers was how I lived for a while. Mmmn, and Cup'O'Noodles soup, even though that stuff is horrible for you. Salted pasta or rice is a pretty common "cure" for morning sickness or chemo hell (been through both before). It just takes a while for all the holes burned in your esophogus and stomach lining to heal. If the Prevacid isn't working, tell your doctor. You may need a different dose or something added to it. But that much pain means there's still damage going on.

I'm glad you've improved. It sounds horrible.

I feel like a total wuss compared with you and Chaszmyr. Especially since I'm used to chronic pain so if this is hurting me (and I'm already on pain meds) this much, I can only imagine what you both have been through.
I hate taking medicine but I did talk to my doctor about swiching from prevacid (the dosage had already been raised). I started Aciphex today. Thanks!

Jackalope · Post by **Jackalope** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:20 am

Ehn. I broke another rib. The good thing here is that it made everything else fade into insignificance. I told my doctor it hurt bad. Given my pain tolerance, that means that most people would be curled up in a fetal ball on the floor, whimpering incoherently. As it was, when he poked at the rib, tears suddenly started pouring down my face involuntarily. I actually said, "Shit, I'm crying! It must be bad." That's the point the doctor pulled out the prescription pad and said, "I can write you a prescription for long-acting morphine. You're not allergic to morphine, are you?"

Oh yes, the weekend sucked. Most of today sucked. However, when I finally escaped the clinic after being prodded, poked, punctured, and twisted into new and painful shapes, I had a decent painkiller in hand. And the ceili did not suck. Without the painkiller, I wouldn't have made it there. Getting up on stage and inciting a whole room full of people to dance made the day suck a whole lot less.

And I got to wear my spiffy new pirate shirt and my red velvet coat. That's a combo that could look incredibly dorky if I less of an extrovert. As it was, I had women telling me how great the outfit looked and wanting to know where I got it. And I'm a fat gimp. Sometimes attitude is everything.

Error of Logic · Post by **Error of Logic** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:08 pm

squidflakes wrote:I don't think many Japanese companies have sexual healing directors anymore. They used to, but that was back in the late 70s/early 80s when they were doing crazy things.. well, crazier more expensive things.

Most of the sexual healing directors went in to business for themselves and are now called Sexual Healing Consultants.

Such are the times though, such are the times.

... -_-; Okay, I gotta ask: are you serious? If so, there must be some pretty snotty or plainly stupid people out there, for those consultants to remain in business. (Preemptive apologies if I've hurt anyone's feelings, but the very concept just seems ludicrous to me.)

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:23 pm

Japanese companies during the boom did employ "corporate geisha", office women who's job was to serve coffee, give massages, and more often than not, relieve "executive stress".

Course, American companies were all over that sort of thing until the late 80s.

As to the Individual Consultants.. a quick look through the Houston Yellow Pages shows 14 entries for "Executive Stress Management" "Stress Management" or "Corporate Relaxation Services" and they aren't spas.

Putaro · Post by **Putaro** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:39 pm

Times are tough in Japan these days. I think they just issue vouchers for the neighborhood "Pink Salon" now.

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:00 pm

You need to start a thread about your life in japan. Do you have a blog?

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:28 pm

putaro wrote:Times are tough in Japan these days. I think they just issue vouchers for the neighborhood "Pink Salon" now.

Thats so sad. I know of a company who, during the bubble, actually rented out an entire love hotel for an employee party.

Naughty/Bad Tentacle Box · Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:15 pm

Love hotel...I realize that that is something drastically missing from my life and I will work to recitfy it.