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All this talk of manscaping, well I just brushed my hair for the first time in a week. Scalp down and I am super vain, not sure why my poor hair gets neglected so badly. I probably should just borrow Miiiiike's comb and start again.

@Illabeth that sounds awful, and yet I'm sure I've done similar. I remembering vomiting on my Nonno earlier in the year, I advise you do not do this.

And umm... sorry to remind you of it, but what flavour B&J did you have?
 
Haha, @jessy_girl, no plans to puke of my poor grandma, she would certainly not appreciate. And it was couch potato, one of my favourites! I will tell you that it does not taste as good coming up as going down, but it was also mixed with a fair amount of tequila... Also very partial to clusterfluff, triple caramel chunk and chunky monkey. Also don't mind a bit of phish food, but it's really too much chocolate for me. Moral of the story, do not make an alcoholic spider in your tummy, the end results are not fun.

And I don't brush my hair very often either, it's super long (brushing the top of my bum) and gets really frizzy when I brush it, so I just let it run wild. I actually really need to cut it coming into summer, I have split ends like nobodies business, so at least 5cm needs to come off I think :( Also seriously need some layers put in, it's too uniform in length at the moment, I like it a bit shorter at the front.
 
jessy_girl said:
All this talk of manscaping, well I just brushed my hair for the first time in a week. Scalp down and I am super vain, not sure why my poor hair gets neglected so badly. I probably should just borrow Miiiiike's comb and start again.

@Illabeth that sounds awful, and yet I'm sure I've done similar. I remembering vomiting on my Nonno earlier in the year, I advise you do not do this.

And umm... sorry to remind you of it, but what flavour B&J did you have?
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I don't think you can seriously class yourself as super vain if you can go a whole week without brushing!

In fact if you needed an illustration of what is the opposite of super vain, there would be a picture of groomed hair, and another picture of a person who has not brushed their hair in a week.

While I don't class myself as super vain, I didn't even realise not doing your hair each day was an option, even if it just means just a quick brush, dragging a bit of Luxeoil through the ends, then wound into a bun like I am sporting today.
 
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Illabeth said:
Haha, @jessy_girl, no plans to puke of my poor grandma, she would certainly not appreciate. And it was couch potato, one of my favourites! I will tell you that it does not taste as good coming up as going down, but it was also mixed with a fair amount of tequila... Also very partial to clusterfluff, triple caramel chunk and chunky monkey. Also don't mind a bit of phish food, but it's really too much chocolate for me. Moral of the story, do not make an alcoholic spider in your tummy, the end results are not fun.
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I don't mean to go all Fernwood fitness on you, but if you are not feeling well to the point that you shared less than 48 hours ago that you were considering walking to your nearest hospital for a review due to your symptoms, then you really need to take better care of yourself and a good start is by looking at your diet and lifestyle choices.
 
Trala said:
I don't mean to go all Fernwood fitness on you, but if you are not feeling well to the point that you shared less than 48 hours ago that you were considering walking to your nearest hospital for a review due to your symptoms, then you really need to take better care of yourself and a good start is by looking at your diet and lifestyle choices.
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Yes, I can assure you I'm not usually so avant-garde with my health, I mean, aside form the dietary woes, which I am trying to work on. I'm not usually a huge drinker, in-fact I usually only socially drink, and mostly in summer. Last night was not planned and I don't usually drink to the point of obliteration like last night, but well, things got a little out of hand...
 
Illabeth said:
Yes, I can assure you I'm not usually so avant-garde with my health, I mean, aside form the dietary woes, which I am trying to work on. I'm not usually a huge drinker, in-fact I usually only socially drink, and mostly in summer. Last night was not planned and I don't usually drink to the point of obliteration like last night, but well, things got a little out of hand...
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It was probably your timing that concerned me. From what you have shared you sound generally unwell and deconditioned and if ever there was a time to be gentle and nurture your body's systems, it is now.

Your dietary intake is the foundation of good health. Your body is screaming at you to listen, it is weak, your nose is bleeding, you have bouts of vertigo, your blood pressure is unstable, your iron levels are low and yet you continue not to listen to what your body is trying to tell you. What you put into your body will attribute to how well it runs. If you fill it full of shit, it is going to break down. You need your health, and you need to be a positive role model to your little one on how to honour it as best you can.

Hospital beds are full of people who have abused their bodies and then expect medication to save them, you don't want to end up one of them.

Education is the key. When we know better we do better. Make an appointment with a dietitian so they can explain the importance of dietary choices and the knock on effect of poor ones.

Sorry to sound like I am lecturing, but doing what you can to honour good health is an issue very close to my heart.

For you ----> :)
 
Illabeth said:
Happy Saturday all! It's a beautiful day here, the sun is out and it's nice and warm. No nekkid sunbathing for me today though, gotta do a monster house clean, am having my Grandparents around for Lunch, it's my Granddad's birthday today. A few of lessons learnt last night, 1. Don't eat a whole tub of B&Js, you'll be sick, 2. Don't have people over the night before you're grandparents are coming over, they will trash your house and then leave without helping you clean and 3. don't get wildly drunk the night before you have to cook a roast lunch and bake a birthday cake, hangovers are not conducive to either mad cleaning or cooking.
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HAHA oh dear, hope it all goes well. I know that feeling of when you're hungover and I tend to forget things and say words backwards so I'd be hopeless with cooking a roast or even talking in general
 
Trala said:
It was probably your timing that concerned me. From what you have shared you sound generally unwell and deconditioned and if ever there was a time to be gentle and nurture your body's systems, it is now.

Your dietary intake is the foundation of good health. Your body is screaming at you to listen, it is weak, your nose is bleeding, you have bouts of vertigo, your blood pressure is unstable, your iron levels are low and yet you continue not to listen to what your body is trying to tell you. What you put into your body will attribute to how well it runs. If you fill it full of shit, it is going to break down. You need your health, and you need to be a positive role model to your little one on how to honour it as best you can.

Hospital beds are full of people who have abused their bodies and then expect medication to save them, you don't want to end up one of them.

Education is the key. When we know better we do better. Make an appointment with a dietitian so they can explain the importance of dietary choices and the knock on effect of poor ones.

Sorry to sound like I am lecturing, but doing what you can to honour good health is an issue very close to my heart.

For you ----> :)
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doesn't sound like lecturing to me, it sounds more like good advice! diet change is key. I changed mine and my body is thanking me for it. Exercise is key too. A friend of mine who is studying PT said 80% diet, 20% exercise. Speaking of this...I best get on the treadmill for a run :)
 
amac said:
doesn't sound like lecturing to me, it sounds more like good advice! diet change is key. I changed mine and my body is thanking me for it. Exercise is key too. A friend of mine who is studying PT said 80% diet, 20% exercise. Speaking of this...I best get on the treadmill for a run :)
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Yay!

I love strong healthy women!

I have two mantras.

If you don't make time to honour your health now, make sure you have plenty of time for sickness later.

The other one is at my gym, it says:-

I don't find time to exercise, I make time.
 
Trala said:
I don't think you can seriously class yourself as super vain if you can go a whole week without brushing!

In fact if you needed an illustration of what is the opposite of super vain, there would be a picture of groomed hair, and another picture of a person who has not brushed their hair in a week.

While I don't class myself as super vain, I didn't even realise not doing your hair each day was an option, even if it just means just a quick brush, dragging a bit of Luxeoil through the ends, then wound into a bun like I am sporting today.
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You know, that actually makes sense, and it's good to know I'm not as vain as I've been lead to believe. I'm a bit of a hypocrite really, I'm slightly pre-occupied with some aspects of my appearance and I allocate far too much time, energy and money into my exterior, but I never extend this to my hair, and, more alarmingly, anything internal ie my health.

For the record, I don't normally go an entire week sans brushing, maybe just a day or two, or sometimes I even manage to brush my hair everyday. I blame being sick, but that sounds like it could just be an excuse. I've been rocking a messy bun all week, it's so liberating to now wear it out.
 
DigitalCorp said:
Really? It's my dad's favorite steakhouse (and it's his 60th birthday tomorrow my time, today your time).

Is it that bad? Or is it just bad over there?
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Oh well if it's your Dad birthday then you should go.

I think there are maybe like 5 or so in Oz. I ate there once and it was average at best.

The thing is it's an Americans interpretation of Australia. We don't have "bloomin onions" here, they server fosters beer (yuck :vomit:) and the only thing Australian about the food is the names.
 
Haha, I went to Outback Steakhouse when I was in the US, I think it was a novelty for my friends to take the Australian there. I had a steak, rare as I always have it, it was good, but in no way Aussie, there was only one lamb item on the entire menu! It should have been, steak, lots of lamb options and then a good ol' parma chicken. The waitress also looked at me like I had 50 million heads when I said I wanted it rare, and made me assure her that I knew that meant it would be completely red/raw in the middle; I think she thought I would die of food poisoning.
 
Right. It's because we Americans have these preconceived notions of the Land Down Under. All we ever got to see of the country is stuff like Crocodile Dundee. I think if Americans saw BBAU in the mainstream (I mean other than on YouTube), they'd see that Australians are in a lot of ways like Americans (they just have different accents).


Illabeth said:
Haha, I went to Outback Steakhouse when I was in the US, I think it was a novelty for my friends to take the Australian there. I had a steak, rare as I always have it, it was good, but in no way Aussie, there was only one lamb item on the entire menu! It should have been, steak, lots of lamb options and then a good ol' parma chicken. The waitress also looked at me like I had 50 million heads when I said I wanted it rare, and made me assure her that I knew that meant it would be completely red/raw in the middle; I think she thought I would die of food poisoning.
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Lamb is rare to come by in the U.S. It's from New Zealand and costs US$23. The USDA doesn't recommend eating steak rare, I even hesitate ordering anything under well done myself. The fear of e.coli is pretty high here in the States.

You don't have the Bloomin' Onion, eh? Interesting.


Just for future reference (for anyone interested), here are the American menus for dinner:
http://outback.blob.core.windows.net/menus/OBS-lunch/C390.pdf

and lunch:
http://outback.blob.core.windows.net/menus/OBS-lunch/CNL134.pdf
 
Miiiiike said:
Yew! Just won first place in a nail hammering contest at a German Restaurant I went to for lunch.
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Is a nail hammering contest a euphemism for pulling up your wife's skirt, pulling her knickers to the side, and having a quickie in the Disabled Toilet? Because if it is, it is only truly winning if she came in a very very close second ;)
 
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