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Name: Amanda
State: Colorado
Metro: Colorado Springs
Birthday: 5/26/1980
Gender: Female
Interests: hanging out with my hubby, playing with my kids, natural living, attachment parenting, hiking, bellydance, playing guitar, yoga, DDR, running, crafty stuff, punk music, reading, Bible study, programming, anything with snow, and lots lots more!
Occupation: Computer related (Internet)
Industry: Computers (Internet)
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AIM:  ska4myGod
MSN: punkie4God@hotmail.com
Yahoo:  punkie4God
Member Since:
10/18/2002
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| I've moved again. I am really annoyed with Xanga..
I can now be found at HippieMommy and I just moved over all of my entries. Unfortunately I'll lose my comments, but oh well...
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| I usually don't get upset by tv. I really don't. Last night
I was upset. Randal was so selfish. Pooey on him. I
hope that Donald fires him after his contract is up and hires Rebecca. 
Between you and me, I bet Donald would prefer to go into the office and look at Rebecca rather than Randal any day. 
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| A few weeks ago I was at the library. There was a guy dressed in
dirty clothes (he looked like a homeless man) and he was trying to get
something open while he stood in the corner. He was being really
sneaky and looking around like he didn't want to get caught. I
started to feel all anxious and panic because I didn't know what he was
doing. Right then I looked on the shelf and saw "10 Simple
Solutions to Panic" right in front of me. I took it as a sign and
checked it out immediately. 
So for the past few weeks I've been working through the little book,
and I'm really feeling much better. I had never really
experienced panic until after my friend, Nick, was murdered by one of
our co-workers. The next year our first baby died, and then the
year after that was 9/11. Between those 3 events and a few
smaller ones, I started to get really anxious about the safety of my
family. I figured it was time to do something about it.
During the first week of reading, the authors ask you to write down all
of the times that you are anxious, including the thoughts that you have
to yourself and the symptoms that you feel. As I started writing
them down, I realized that it happened more often than I had previously
acknowledged. It was very humbling. I also started to
challenge my thoughts, like my panic attacks that happen whenever Matt
gets REALLY flushed. Even though its scary to see his cheeks
turning purple and getting so flushed (when he's just sitting there -
not running around or anything), the fact is that nothing bad has ever
happened and no doctors have found problems with him. I realized
that I need to look at the fact that he has never had anything bad
happen to him from the flushing, so my anxiety was not proportional to
the risk.
The authors also point out that people who suffer from panic are more
in-tune to their body than the regular person. We notice a rise
in heart rate faster. We notice little symptoms more
quickly. We assume that they're signs of something catastrophic
where most people ignore them.
I also learned that people with panic often recall terrible, flukish
stories when something happens that scares them, and normal people
don't. I didn't realize that it was odd for that to happen.
 I thought that it was normal when
you hear a funny sound of something dragging from your car, then you
think of the Oprah story of the woman dragging her kid for miles... 
Anyways, so I just wanted to share because making a few changes to my
thinking has already given me such amazing relief. Its also nice
to know that I'm not the only freak who worries about this stuff, and
this book has reassured me of that fact..
Oh, and I also learned that I'm really lucky that I don't have panic
attacks where I feel like I'm going to have diarrhea. That's so
horrible. I'll take an inability to breathe any day... | | |
| Thanks to GCM, I found a new knitting blog
that looks really good. She's really funny, and I like her
projects. I think I may make a few for stocking stuffers 
I'm trying to think of lots of other cute little gifts to give. I've been reading some of the stuff from Cindy's Porch and I'd love to make more of our little gifts, but I'm just not sure what I want to do. Time is getting low...
So, what are you giving for little gifts to neighbors/acquaintances/etc?
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6% scored higher (more nerdy), and
94% scored lower (less nerdy).
What does this mean?
" Supreme Nerd. Apply for a professorship at MIT now!!!."
OK, its not that I didn't expect to
score high, because I honestly thought I would. I just didn't
expect to score higher than 94% of the people who TAKE THE TEST.
I mean, we all know that non-nerdy people don't need to take the test...
Maybe I should go put my glasses back on and buy some higher-waisted pants.
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