I just cracked both of my big toes just by flexing them.

u mad?

I just clicked my fingers and wrist to wake up with my morning Earl Grey. :)

Is he hung?


Oh that's right, it's a kind of tea, n/m

You killed your own joke before it left the gate.

Almost like shooting a racehorse before it even takes off.

so it was an anti-joke though.

your face is an anti-joke

:rofl:

why thank you for the lovely compliment.

Cracking knuckles is nasty. My piano teacher cracks his knuckles during the lesson and it makes me want to scream.

Oh I love a good Earl in the morning, its a great way to get up with a bit of milk on my face.

And there's another one with my big toe.

Caffeine. Quit smoking years ago and changed my diet so I guess my other addiction is exercise or I should say life is my addiction and why I live healthy now.

Addicted to caffeine

:laughing:

I miss 'Nilla.

I have a compulsive skin-picking problem. When it's REALLY bad, I pick at my legs to the point where I'm left with 100+ little wounds/scabs. (It was very bad recently, but I'm trying to stop and let my legs heal) But then I'll go years without picking at my legs at all, so I'm sure what triggers it. I pick at my cuticles and lips all the time though. Oftentimes to the point where the skin around some of my fingers will become swollen and red and painful, making it very difficult to do things like twist a lid off a container or do just about anything involving my fingers.

Me too, Doodles.

There are always wounds on my hands and fingers that are healing from where I've been picking myself and peeled off a lot of skin.

In half decent condition atm though.

I don't understand, how do you even "pick" at your skin to the point of making small wounds? You pinch your skin or what?

It's not pinching, no, it's picking. It's just a small repetitive digging/scratching motion with my nail in one tiny area at a time. It's a mindless sort of thing. As a result, when I'm in a leg-picking phase, the entire bottom half of my legs are always COVERED in tiny little scabs and wounds. Showering can be painful as a result. But they're healing now. I tried fake nails for a while, which worked but they come off too easily. (had to use the press on kind since I'd rather not go to a nail salon during a pandemic)

It's so very hard to resist. One thing that helps is just constantly putting on lotion and hand cream so that I'm like an ultra moisturized snail, making my skin too slippery to pick at, but I'm constantly forgetting to do so.

Become a glove wearer like some old timey Southern lady.

Dang. That's rough.

One of my bad habits is picking my nose while I sleep. With time it has resulted in frequent random nosebleeds. I don't see how I can control it unless I put a muzzle over my face before going to bed. :/

Become a glove wearer like some old timey Southern lady.

I bite the tip of my tongue so much that I create a small line/wound down the center

For some reason I like the pain in that one specific region so I do it without even thinking about it/ against my will.

^^ Jesus Christ that sounds painful and annoying!

That actually may not be a bad idea! Put some kind of thick glove on before going to sleep. Hmmm...I'll think about it. Thanks! :D

Actually it's a love hate thing. I know I shouldn't do it but for some reason it feels good. Its like I short circuited some pleasure/pain response in my brain.

I DO actually want gloves as well as an umbrella that has UV protection. OBviously I wear sunscreen as well (Japanese baby sunscreen ONLY) but, as a white person, I'd like to avoid looking like a leather purse by the time I hit 50, so. I'm very mindful of sun damage. Oooh that reminds me, I'd been meaning to ask-- do any of you know of a reliable online canadian/indian pharmacy that does not require prescriptions? There used to be a couple good ones that I ordered generic versions of Tazorac etc before (learned about it through a forum where elderly ladies discuss skincare) but I've heard that they're both kind of a pain to deal with now. I desperately want to acquire some Retin-A and start using that as a preventative measure. (Not that I'm afraid of aging. I just don't want to age prematurely is all. Plus I have bad skin and Retin A is less harsh than Tazorac.)

I need to get over my addiction to animal fat. And as it's in damned near everything I eat my diet needs radical altering. I go for long stretches (a week) at a time without meat or meat by-products and in the middle of cooking a batch of string beans I'll think, Wow, these would be slamming with a bit of pork shoulder or at least a neck bone! Then it's biscuits with (animal fat) butter. Don't get me started with desserts. So cold turkey's (so to speak) is the only way for me. I've really gotta think about what I eat now. Drag. Until I don't have to (death or a new lifestyle). Ha

You trying to go vegan?

I chucked out beef from my diet mostly, but pork is much more difficult. My problem is that I still can't really think of meat production as unethical (even though I know that mostly how the animals are treated is terrible). I eat loads of poultry and eggs and milk also so going full vegan will probably not happen any time soon.

I love trying terrible-looking cheap mystery brand energy drinks from dollar stores and gas stations.

Yes. I'm trying, which is futile. I need to just do it. My roommate offered to make me a BLT tonight after the Bills (and my fantasy championship) win. So I rather readily accepted the offer. (I was celebrating!) Hopeless.

I think the vegan diet is quite challenging so unless you come up with a very strong reason (like meat is murder and animal flesh becomes disgusting) it will be difficult. Why are you trying to go vegan, moral or health reasons?

Mostly health reasons. It's obvious that life requires the consumption of living organisms. The question then becomes what is really necessary to consume to sustain life? Mammal consumption is not necessary in the vast majority of circumstances in the (so-called) civilized world and is, more often than not, detrimental to human health. That fact should certainly trump the pleasure of eating flesh. It doesn't because we'd rather not think about what we're doing. And that fact is destroying the planet (or, at the very least, our civilization).

It is what it is.

I want to quit smoking but don't know how...

It took me much time to get rid of this bad habit. And I succeeded only on the fourth attempt, but I took Chantix, which turned out to be helpful (you can read about it on the Canadian pharmacy site if interested).
You need a good motivation. Choose something you will do when you quit. A trip somewhere, for example. Also, ask friends and family for support. Mine helped me a lot as they controlled me and persuaded me not to smoke when I was about to start again.