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@Kits - You know, I think I'm rather energetic when I'm not lazy too ^_~.

I don't think I've ever gone days without one or the other, I love them both so, especially sugar, especially since my dental hygienist final convinced me to give up carbonation (though the upside to dropping soda, lost like 6 pounds. Didn't need to, but there's just something about that extra X chromosome that inherently makes this a good thing *is shot* stressed ). But yea, I don't think I actually need either, my brain just doesn't like to shut up so I can go days based on that. Stupid brain, JUST SHUT OFF FOR A LITTLE BIT SOMETIMES!! AT LEAST AT NIGHT SO I CAN SLEEP!! But yea, I am definitely a huge carb fan as well, so perhaps that's my aide as well.

@Morgey - oh I know, here we go again, being all selfish and forcing "effort" upon you. We really are too cruel.

Back in HS I would have thought the same, but when I moved to college the fact that soda is expensive really helped me cut it out. I always had it around the house, but when I moved I didn't want to buy it myself. Freshmen year when I was in the dorms and could have gotten it in the DC (dinning commons) just as easily as anything else, it was just easier to go with something else because it was all part of the same machine. Other than this last time once I gave it up it was no problem. I've always been good at cold turkey, it's moderation I can't do.

However this time even though I gave it up last August I'm still itching for it. But I went to the dentist last month and for the first time in years had 0 cavities, I mean I've progressively been doing more and more to take care of my teeth (prescription toothpaste, fluoride floss, stronger more fluoride heavy mouthwash, etc) but it's finally made the difference. Carbonation really is horrible for your teeth. Now she (my hygienist) wants me to stop putting sugar in my tea. NO! That's my only solace left, and I had 0 right? So I'll just keep taking care and I'll allow myself a soda once in a blue moon, when I go out or something. It's expensive, bad for my teeth and my weight (and while my weight isn't a huge problem I worry as I age, I feel so aged!! haha, oh 23 ~_~) so blah, I love it but it had to go. If I could do once a week, but I just can't, I have one I NEED more. And I can't keep "quitting" once a week, that would kill me.

I just love the taste of carbs, they are so carbalicious! razz

Living at home I don't cook often, my mom usually does. I wish I liked cooking, but I don't, so it's hard to motivate me. When I live on my own IF I ate properly (as in don't count jelly beans or pop tarts as a dinner) it would be noodles usually.

My family are soda machines, I blame them!! Hehe ~_~.

Yea, I have really soft teeth, it sucks! My grandma did (well does I assume, she is still alive even if we don't talk to her anymore sad ) too. I shall blame her. BLAME EVERYONE BUT ME!!! xd

My baby teeth were amazing, they never got cavities. I have that same consolation!! I never had braces (nor a car accident to give me problems - that sucks, sorry about that!) either, and my teeth are rather nifty! Cosmetically I'm appealing, however internally I'm a mess, it's hard to decide if it's worth it, especially as I still can't attract a mate, hahaha sweatdrop .

I dunno if I ever told you about a conversation that made me feel AWESOME:

My mom: So your dad was asking me if you're asexual.
Me: Excuse me?!
Mom: Don't worry honey, I told him you just don't know how to attract a man.
Me: eek

Oh mom, you sure know how to make me feel better *is shot*. Oh well, at least I get a funny story out of it, and I can make a comic out of this I realize, I shall do that later. Not tonight, finishing this and going to bed!! Ah I really REALLY hope I don't have work tomorrow ~_~.

Soda everyone once in awhile definitely won't hurt, I just wish I could do moderation myself! Come on self control!! It's probably the OCD thing. I need to create a pattern, unfortunately a pattern requires a lot of elements stressed .

Yea, in part I think I don't really like my kitchen, or any kitchen in any place I've lived (since I've been old enough to cook), so I hate spending significant time in there. I'm hoping if I have a nice kitchen I'll like it more.

Hahaha, when people say your teeth are soft that don't mean they are literally soft and squishy. Just that the enamel isn't as resistant and you are more susceptible to cavities and the like.

Yea, I get my mom had kind of an abusive relationship with her family, but it sucks that because she decided if she can't have a functional relationship she'd have none that I ended up drifting by default. And then my dad is so formal with his family and they just aren't really around. My immediate family is all I've got. I'd go on vacations with my friends family, her aunt/uncle/niece and her uncle/aunt/niece/niece/niece and her grandma and I'd be like God what I wouldn't give for just some extended family. My other best friend has grandma across the street and aunt/uncle/misc cousins (in various states of living on their own now, but still visiting the family home) a few blocks away. The last guy I dated a big part of why I broke up with him is because he hates his family, I mean it's sad, but, I just have such a pathetic family. I just don't want more dysfunction, at the very least, I want a different dysfunction. The dysfunction you at least talk to and have good times with in addition to the bad (rather than no times at all).

It is, it's just as bad as being worried about for being too fast or something. Now they worry that I'm broken ~_~. Not that asexual is broken, but I know I'm not, and I really don't want to be. It's good your mom can be accepting though, my grandma probably wouldn't be able to stand a conversation about how my mom isn't Catholic anymore (Christian, maybe, Catholic no). However at this point she'd maybe take anything at all. My parents both had too much religion and thus my dad is agnostic/atheist and my mom is faithful but not Catholic. And religion is for me to make up my own mind about. I guess that's a mixed blessing. I want the freedom of self-discovery in relation to faith, but it's also hard when it's just not something that was a part of you. I dunno. At least no pressure?

Yea, I definitely wouldn't be doing that, I'm not as particular to the details of others but rather to the details of myself. Anyhow glad you did that, because it will help me keep myself organized, haha.

I probably just hate it too, but I hate so many domestic things. I really don't want to, because again being OCD makes me want control of so many domestic things. But I'm of the mentality that I don't want to control what I won't do myself, which means I MUST do it all. So it'd be really nice if I liked it xd .

Probably lol <<--note the toothy grin xd

Yea, I guess the grass is always greener on the other side right?

Mmmhmm, I think if it's indoctrinated in you it's a worry that it isn't personal, but if it's not it's hard to learn how to find it on your own when you are older. I feel, that just like languages are easier for children to pick up than adults, so is faith. I think it's good to have support for wanting to go a separate way from what you were raised in. My friend was Muslim, but his dad took him to temple, church etc, so that he could taste other things. I think that's kind of a good way to go about it. Finding religion, as a family, when you are young.

Ya know, phrased like that, I get the feeling most people are like that, haha.

Yea, but I think it's getting better these days, especially in this country. Hooray for tolerance, and people deciding that doctrine might be flawed, and that discrepancies with the exact word are not a discrepancy with faith. I mean the majority of people aren't really likely to take THAT route with religious education, but at least they can be more open minded to alternate faiths, and thus to the idea of their children pursuing alternate courses in life.

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