Category Archives: Vanity

Dancing to no reflection – Green Velvet feat. Kid Sister

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It’s no secret I work on my personal development by seeing a counselor.  She’s pretty freaking cool except today we were talking about that blasted sea salt diet and how I signed up for a total fad diet when I didn’t need to lose weight, she goes, ”It’s sad isn’t it?  The hold narcissism has on you.”

Umm – WHAT??? then she tried to back track and be like, “Oh narcissism isn’t that bad – it’s just another way of saying vanity.”  But the damage had already been done.  She called me narcissistic!  Me?  Narcissistic?  I mean I only have a blog dedicated to my life, I participate in photo projects that include taking a picture of myself every single day for a year, and I like to dance in front of the mirror.  What’s so narcissistic about that?
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ok ok – maybe she had a LIL bit of a point.  But only a LIL bit.  Then she goes, “I think you should put away your scale and your mirrors for a week.”  AND to add insult to the injury, she said, “Don’t worry, most people who are narcissistic just have really low self-esteems and we already knew you had a low self-esteem.”

Ohhhhhhh  kaaaaaaayyyyyyyy

Look – I was already FLOORED by her narcissistic accusation.  SHOCK!  Hello??  She wasn’t supposed to be so BLUNT!  And then she tells me to give up my scale and MIRRORS for a week??  And tells me my narcissism is a front for low self-esteem and feelings of inadequacy.  Say WHAT?  I stood up to leave (the session was over) and she added, “Oh and this includes reflections in buildings or glass – but you can look at your face in the mirror if you want.”

I walked out of her office in complete and utter disbelief.  I’m still in a little bit of disbelief.  And then on the way home when I realized how many reflections I had to STOP myself from looking into – HAHAHAHAHAHA that’s when I decided – ok – I’ll do it.  But just because I CAN – even though you all don’t believe that I can.  :)

Tonight – here’s what I’ll be dancing to – with no reflection.  My mirror is covered up.  Oh dang.  Can I really go SEVEN DAYS???

Paradigm Shifts – Half-full cups sound better (plus pics plus sweet cover song)

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When I began this post I was going to title it “What I’m missing out on.” But then I stopped.

Yes – it’s true – I DID miss out on the family party shown below (pics courtesy of my older brother and father) but labeling it as “what I’m missing” makes it bittersweet.  And quite frankly – though I LOVE dark chocolate, I like my life to be a bit more on the sugary side. :)   So INSTEAD – let me show you what I have to look forward to in about 4.5 months.  :)

This Smile

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These Puppies

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My precious nieces

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Family Fun

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Bocce Ball

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Giggles and puppy play

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Unconditional Love

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That’s right – I have a whole lot of GOOD to look forward to – and although I may be missing out on some of it at the moment – it will be waiting for me when I finish here in Australia.

My adviser has been talking to me a lot about refocusing unconscious situational judgments.

I do it ALL of the time.  “Ooh – I missed out on that” instead of “Sweet! I can’t wait for next time!”  Or “Last semester SUCKED!” instead of “Last semester was a good growing experience.” AAANNNDDD I refer to 6 months ago as “when I was fat” when I only weighed 7lbs more than I do now!!  Problems??  I think so.

My adviser ALSO talked to me about learning to FEEL small emotions instead of rationalizing them away.

I’m the queen of logic.  Yes-sir-ee-bob! I sure am!  And guess what??

Emotions aren’t logical!!

So although I tease a lot about “hating” this or being “bugged” by that – I usually rationalize away my feelings and never take the time to ACCEPT that I feel this way.  It’s ok if this sounds confusing – it is.  :)   But the jist of it is that although I use exaggerated negative language to describe situations – I never actually ACKNOWLEDGE my feelings about the situation.  Of course exaggerations aren’t to be taking seriously and I never take my feelings that seriously either.

Anyway – I’m now working on this … and I’m just OVERJOYED about it.  ;)   HAHAHAHAHA!  teasing.

oh and I’m sorry if I haven’t commented for awhile!!  I am still a faithful reader to the people I follow – I just haven’t had time to comment. :)   I will be fixing this!!

Day 39-41
39/365 waiting for class

40/365 carpet in old teacher's college

41/365 - Rozelle - old mental hospital

Bleeding Love COVER by Mystery Jets – LOVE IT!!

Take a pic of yourself RIGHT NOW – oh and I’m for REAL yo!

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If you’re reading this – I tag you.  No take backs!  You’re TAGGED.  Because if I voluntarily agree to play games that force people into taking and posting pictures of themselves at hours in the morning when they shouldn’t even be awake then so do you.  :) Hee hee.  Ok actually YOU are probably not reading this first thing in the morning.  But I read MY tag first thing in the morning.  And see the results?  SUCK!  ah well – it is what it is:

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What are the rules?  Take a pic of yourself RIGHT NOW and post it.  Hope your pic is better than mine.  :) That’s a rice-milk-rice-protein drink – NASTY!  But I drink it EVERY morning and this morning?  I weighed in at a nice and healthy 6lbs less than 2 weeks ago when I flipped out and started this dumb diet.  IT’S WORKING!!!  Hip hip hooray!

Oh and apparently it’s all a buzz on twitter that some chica who I’d never heard of was stealing people’s blog posts and pretending like they were hers.  WTF??  Can we sa “La-who-ooo-ZER.”  Which is a really lame way of saying “loser.”  DUDE MAKE YOUR OWN LIFE!

So guess what?  I decided to tell y’all that – my life is MY LIFE.  The ups, the downs, the craziness.  None of it is manufactured – I’m for real yo!    And all of those soap opera posts – TOTALLY HAPPENED.  Except I am going to admit I do TAME THEM DOWN because this is a family friendly blog.  :D Yeah – I TAME them – I don’t pad them.

K – have to go to some orientation and then talk to a teacher about an assignment.  Then I have to WORK on that assignment then go to some social media event – BUSY DAY!!

xoxo~Daisy

Wobbly bits, the Sydney stone and ANOTHER diet

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They call it the Sydney Stone.  I call it a big sucks.  What are we talking about?  The weight people gain when moving to Sydney.  I gained it the FIRST time I moved here but then I LOST IT ALL when I went home.  But then I moved back and GUESS WHAT?  I bet you’d NEVER EVER EVER guess – btw – I’m on one today – I gained it back.

Bonnie Lad’s GF explained it well.  “Oh yeah the Sydney stone, it takes all ‘em nice firm bits, tha’ones that were so grand ‘n like, yeah it just turns em into wobbly bits.”

Wobbly bits.

I don’t want any wobbly bits.  No, no.  MY BITS – I’d much prefer to keep ‘em grand ‘n like – thank you.  So what’s the next latest and greatest obsession/fad/phase that I’m signing up for?  [shake my head in slight dismay]  I don’t know.  But she (the naturalist) said take this, this, this, this, this, this, this, AND add this, this, this, this to your diet and then also change up your workout routine.  Wow – ok so that’s a lot of stuff.

But fine.  Whatever.  I’ll do it.

BUT THEN she said, “Oh and no sugar, honey, or really any fruit for 14 days. ”

WHAT?

Look – I was willing to take this, this, this, this, this, this and ALL OF THAT OTHER STUFF and I was willing to ADD this, this, this and ALL OF THAT OTHER STUFF and I was even willing to shake up my exercise plan.  But please tell me that she did NOT just say no sugar, honey or fruit for 14 days.

But she did.

And I said, “Ok.”

But I only said ok because this is a “jump start” plan – I’ll be back to NORMAL stuff in 2 weeks (or so she says I will be.)  So what’s the magical new plan?  I’ll tell you:

All Day:  2 liters of water

Breakfast – 400 mg Hydroxycitric acid (pill A,) 500 mg Boulardii (pill B,) 8 oz. Rice Protein Drink made with Rice milk, 1 tsp Psyllium Husks and if I want I may also have gluten-free muesli.

Low Tea – 10-12 almonds

Lunch: Pill A, 1 Glucose Manager (Pill C,) 2 slices multi-grain gluten-free bread, 95 g of Tuna and some veggies if I want.   Or salad may be substituted for the bread.

High Tea – 10-12 almonds

Dinner: Pill A, Pill B, Pill C, some type of meat (making sure to have red meat 2x per week,) broccoli or zucchini, and either a sweet potato or brown rice.

Nightcap – Licorice Legs Tea

I’m just so-gee-whiz-thrilled – or something like that.   No – to be honest – it’s not really all that bad.  Is it?  It will just take a certain degree of discipline and determination (things I have.)  She thinks I should be able to lose 3-5 kilos in 2 weeks with this.  Fingers crossed!!  I’ll let you know how it goes.  :)

Bic is NOT a Venus Razor

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I SHOULD be too embarrassed to admit this. But should-ing yourself to death is no way to die. I want to go out in a blaze of glory where I COULD-ED myself to death because I actually believed I DID turn into a superhero and could do ANYTHING!! YAY!

I LUV the Venus razor. It’s great right? Right! Well the other day I was going to wear a skirt to a club and though I had shaved my legs that morning with my trusty Venus – I wanted a fresh shave for the night. I didn’t have time to run home so I stopped off at the store and bought the necessary ingredients for a Vegas shave (lotion and a razor.) It works like a charm!

Or at least it does with the Venus.

I was in a hurry and just grabbed a cheap-o disposable razor because my girlfriend said it works just as well in a bind.

Umm …

WRONG!!!

I bet you already see where this is going! Did you see about 40 trillion gajillion little pricks of blood all over my cut-up legs? If you did then you must be psychic! Congrats! That’s a cool superhero power. And I bet you also saw that I would NOT be wearing a skirt because of it either. A great way to save time right? I got to waste even MORE time changing clothes!!!

Life lesson? Don’t trust the people who tell you cheap-o disposable razors are ok in a bind. It’s not true.

And on a positive note I felt like a pre-teen again shaving my legs for the first time. Ah – such happy – terrible horrible very traumatic – memories.  Hooray for me!

Oh and I don’t know why but I feel the need to tell you I’m in love with the song “Day N Nite (Crookers Remix)” by Kid Cudi.

A Laugh at My Expense

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Please enjoy a laugh at my expense.  ) On December 12, 2008, Bitterlawyer.com put me in their “Daily News.” I don’t know anyone from this site – I have no idea how they found my site  – but I could do nothing but laugh when I read what they said.

“Girl with one facial expression (the suck-cheeks-and-pucker-to-look-hotter look) pontificates on why she can’t seem to get her law school applications in the mail. Can procrastination signal lack of interest?  That’s what she said.  [AustralianDaisy.com]“

Sigh.  And LOL!!!!   The hours of hard work perfecting one facial expression have finally paid off.  ;) But maybe it’s time to branch out into more than one.  D

Click HERE to see the bitterlawyer post.

AB Ripper X

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RIGHT NOW I’m listening to my favorite Christmas songs and am wondering how a 17 minute HIGH INTENSITY workout could already have given me sore abs.  I only did it like 2 hours ago!

WAIT! Before you think I’m TOO pathetic you should know this wasn’t an ordinary HIGH INTENSITY workout.   No, no.  This was

AAAAB RIPper X

Yes.

We’re not talking about Ab 100, or Ab 200.  Don’t be silly.  This was Ab 339.   Pure torture, compliments of the P90X workout program. Don’t play like you don’t know what P90X is either – it’s only like the coolest infomercial EVER! or so they say – I haven’t actually seen it but thanks to a recommendation from a friend I now own the DVDs. D

Gee I just can’t WAIT until tomorrow! I bet my abs will feel like heaven on opposite day.

But it will be worth it.  Soooo worth it.

Or soooo they say.

Why is your stomach fat?

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Have I mentioned lately that I’m a weight-conscious freak? Anyway – blah blah blah – I gained 12 lbs when I moved here.

I Love Fatty

AGH!  It infuriated me!  But I am pleased to announce that thanks to my pretend detoxing it’s finally starting to come off!  YAY!  I also contribute the weight loss (I’ve lost 7 of the 12 lbs) to Caloriecount.about.com..

I absolutely LOVE caloriecount.about.com.

Love

(and where has this emoticon been all of my life?

This thing measures my protein, fiber, potassium, calories, etc PLUS all the exercise I do.  And all I have to do is type in a few simple things!!  It’s like a caloriecount god.  And if I weren’t already somewhat religious I may just worship the site. Oh wait … Thinking

Oh but that wasn’t even the purpose of this blog. On CalorieCount today I saw the following:

WHY IS YOUR STOMACH FAT?

This is what I learned from clicking on the ad:

  1. Healthy food is a ploy to make you fatter.
  2. Crunches will never give you a six-pack.  It’s a conspiracy.
  3. Cardio is boring.
  4. Diet pills are a waste of money.
  5. Exercise infomercials are a gimmick.

Bucket of Chicken 2

Whoa!  It’s like all of the sudden I understand!  I’m “fat” because of a huge conspiracy theory!!  The world is trying to make me fat!!!  Thank goodness I no longer have to take responsibility!! Thank you stupid advertisement!!  Because BEFORE I read the ad I kind of figured maybe it had to do with diet, laziness, or exercise.  I was so wrong. 

Why is your stomach fat?

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Have I mentioned lately that I’m a weight-conscious freak? Anyway – blah blah blah – I gained 12 lbs when I moved here.

I Love Fatty

AGH!  It infuriated me!  But I am pleased to announce that thanks to my pretend detoxing it’s finally starting to come off!  YAY!  I also contribute the weight loss (I’ve lost 7 of the 12 lbs) to Caloriecount.about.com..

I absolutely LOVE caloriecount.about.com.

Love

(and where has this emoticon been all of my life?

This thing measures my protein, fiber, potassium, calories, etc PLUS all the exercise I do.  And all I have to do is type in a few simple things!!  It’s like a caloriecount god.  And if I weren’t already somewhat religious I may just worship the site. Oh wait … Thinking

Oh but that wasn’t even the purpose of this blog. On CalorieCount today I saw the following:

WHY IS YOUR STOMACH FAT?

This is what I learned from clicking on the ad:

  1. Healthy food is a ploy to make you fatter.
  2. Crunches will never give you a six-pack.  It’s a conspiracy.
  3. Cardio is boring.
  4. Diet pills are a waste of money.
  5. Exercise infomercials are a gimmick.

Bucket of Chicken 2

Whoa!  It’s like all of the sudden I understand!  I’m “fat” because of a huge conspiracy theory!!  The world is trying to make me fat!!!  Thank goodness I no longer have to take responsibility!! Thank you stupid advertisement!!  Because BEFORE I read the ad I kind of figured maybe it had to do with diet, laziness, or exercise.  I was so wrong.