I am 20 and i don't get my period. I have boobs and all that good stuff. I have been given hormorne tests, bone density tests, brain scans,ultra sounds, been put on estrogen, still no period! I smoke marijuana daily though and haven't quit long enough to find out if this is effecting it. Oh yeah, my ovaries were small ( underdeveloped ) and they grew a little bit after i was put on estrogen. But i started experiecing heart pain so they took me off. Will the estrogen effect me otherwise? Like in a bad way?

I have been around 95 pounds for a few years now and my weight isn't dropping anymore. I am 5ft 2in .I have never gotten a period.

Your silly grin for the day, coming right up:

...I KNOW better than this. I really, really, really do. I am 27, and this is the only time I have EVER had unprotected sex. It was totally a heat-of-the-moment deal, and now I'm terrified.

Here's the scoop:

in my September my cycle was only 21 days
in October it was 28
this month, it was 28 days--my period started on November 15 and ended on November 21st--the morning I had unprotected sex.

Let's assume my cycle decides to be 21 days again. Obviously, my chances of becoming pregnant are greater than they would be if it runs for the full 28 days.

I wish I had taken Plan B, but now it's too late. What kind of likelihood of pregnancy is there? I watch my body carefully and can almost always tell when I'm ovulating, but ever since this sexual encounter, I've been terribly aroused (thinking about it), and I've been pretty wet down there. SURELY I wouldn't be ovulating yet....but the "what ifs" are killing me.

Advice??

So I have to preface these with the following. Because this is going to so absolutely ridiculous, you'll question its validity. I swear to you all this actually happened. Nothing has been changed or exaggerated. It stands on its own as a testament to reality being more unbelievable than fiction.

As noted, I spent almost six years working a seafood department, these are the two absolute best from my time then.

First and foremost, The Lobster Whisperer. I was closing one night. Our department closed at 9:00, though the store was open 24 hours. It's customary to get some stragglers who come in, ask questions, and maybe buy something, and it's also customary to wait on them graciously. This one particular night, a woman walks in draped in paisley peasant skirts and gypsy tops, with a myriad of necklaces that jangled as she walked. She didn't ask for help, I kept cleaning, it being 15 minutes from closing.

She stands at the lobster tank for a moment, then stoops over, peering into it, her hands moving on the surface, as though it were a crystal ball of some kind. I ignore it and go about cleaning, trying to get out on time. After ten minutes of peering and whispering into the tank, she calls me over.

Me: Yes can I help you?
Lady: Yes... I was just wondering if you feed the lobsters.
Me: No. No, they're usually sold within 24 to 48 hours.
Lady: Mmhm, yes, see I was just speaking with them, and they said they're very hungry, and they don't like being steamed to death. They're very frightened.
Me: ... thanks?

Secondly, The Vegan Dog. A lady walks up to our seafood service case and orders about three ounces of wild Alaskan salmon. I bring up that a standard portion is usually about 6 ounces, just trying to be helpful. Hate to see people go hungry.

Lady: Oh no, thats okay. This is for my dog.
Me: *looks at the $27/lb. item and blinks* Okay, I have to ask, why are you buying high end wild salmon for a dog?
Lady: I'm trying to transition him into vegan cuisine.
Me: Ah ha.
Lady: See, eating other animals isn't natural.
Me: It's... not? *remembering learning about things called carnivores in grade school*
Lady: Oh no, no. In nature, no animals kill or hurt one another. They've only learned that behavior from the presence of humans. Naturally, animals don't eat each other.
Me: I could swear that's not a fact.
Lady: Oh you can look it up. It's absolutely true. Violence is a human invention.

She leaves.

So I hope you liked it. Sorry if it ran long, not sure how to lj cut, I'm painfully technically inept.

Hello,

I have been following this community for awhile and finally made a LiveJournal account today, I am looking to finding more places to explore. I have found some remains of multiple ghost towns up by Big Bear and Lytle Creek area. Following local legends, mining claims, treasure legends really helps me. If anyone knows of any places in the High Desert (Victor Valley) Area I'd love to hear about them.

I enjoy exploring abandoned places for three reasons, one is history. Going to a place where people once were, where memories happened, where there are stories to be told.

The second is treasure hunting, I metal detect around the properties I find (with permission, if applicable) digging up history is something I thoroughly enjoy, holding something someone else held 50-100 years ago, wondering how it came to be buried in the ground and why its there is something I like. it could be anything from a cash box with the name Miss Marie Blessie engraved on it with a can of Prince Alberts Tobacco with pennies and arrowheads in it, old bottles, silverware I love finding all of it.

The 3rd and final is research, mapping out what was where, finding the little bits of information, legends, historical figures, compiling stories from people that lived there. All the research to me is just as much fun as the hunt its self. Every place has a story to tell, and I enjoy the hunt. >:)

we're leaving singapore in three hours. this is the fifth day of our trip but i'm only on the first day in livejournal so i don't think i'm ever going to catch up to the present. i do, however, need to tell all of you that

i'm going to swing through trees like a gibbon!!!

Hi Cecilia,

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This entry:
http://community.livejournal.com/vaginapagina/17470573.html

is getting some very strongly worded judgmental comments, and rudeness in the comment threads. Some pretty dubious stuff about alternative sexual lifestyles is being said.

I'm quite impressed with myself. I made today's bento (# 554) after coming home from the company christmas drunk feast party and all things considered I think it came out quite nicely...

Bento # 663 Potato/pork stew topped with carrot Kitties and mini corn cob flowers. Fish Fingers. Satsuma and kiwi.

Bento # 664 Pasta with ketchup and parmasan, adorned with carrot. Dates. Onigiri-shaped egg. Corn cob. Broccoli. Ramune-candy.

The other day I made some Maple Pecan Sticky Buns, click on the link for the full saga and the recipe I used. In some ways it was a great success, in others, not so much! I love the dough, it was exactly what I was after but the filling left a lot to be desired. For one pecans are ridiculously expensive and for another the filling was so sickly sweet and sticky that if I eat one more I'll die!

I'd love to be able to make something like these again but I don't know what to put in them. Chocolate would be good but I don't know how to make it sticky and I guess chelsea buns are another way to go but what else could I use as a filling that will neither break the bank nor send me racing into a sugar coma?

I bought a jar of pesto yesterday and I want to make pesto chicken pasta, and also do some sandwiches in my panini press with chicken and pesto. Thing is, I'm not quite sure what to do with the chicken. Should I cook it plain because the pesto will give enough flavour, or can I spice up the chicken with any complimentary flavours?

Thanks for any ideas!

This is my dad's recipe for Rouladen. All the recipes I find on the internet say that Rouladen is stuffed with pickles and mustard. So I don't know where he got this version with pork and bread crumbs. Most of dad's recipes come from his Pennsylvania Dutch mother or from his years of living in Stuttgart.

Have any of you had Rouladen made this way before?

Ingredients
1 lb round or flank steak, cut thin
1 lb ground pork
1 c fresh bread crumbs
1 onion, diced
parsley
salt & pepper
flour
oil
1 cup dry red wine
1 cup chicken stock

Instructions
Pounded the beef flat into 3"x4" pieces (or have your butcher cut them as thin as possible)
Season with salt & pepper
Mix the ground pork, bread crumbs onion, parsley, salt & pepper.
Place 2 Tbsp of the pork mixture on each strip of beef.
Roll the beef over the pork mixture and tie with string
Dredge the rolls in flour and brown in hot oil
Place the rolls in a casserole.
Cover with chicken stock and dry red wine
Cover and cook in 300°F oven or simmer on direct heat about 75 minutes.

Does anyone have a good nut loaf recipe? I'd like to try one for Thanksgiving but I can't seem to find a stand along nut loaf recipe. I've seen ones that are layered with a "stuffing" of sorts but I'm not interested in a stuffed one.

Any recipes or similar ideas for a Thanksgiving main course?

Thanks in advance.

This is kinda my first year as a vegetarian. I have skipped the turkey before but ate the stuffing (which my family makes with the drippings or whatever). But this year I've been a vegetarian since January and I'm making the stuffing meat-free etc. The question I have is what else can I make to eat besides the stuffing, mashed potatoes, bread, yams, etc. I eat with my family of 27 on Thanksgiving so they all have the turkey. I was thinking stuffed shells but my mom shot that down because we have that on Christmas.

Any other suggestions? I'm a fairly decent cook. I don't like meat substitutes and I do eat tofu on the occasion but I didn't want to use that since my family can be less than nice about things I don't want a big discussion on it or 'ewwww'.

Thanks for the help guys!

Sarah Palin, if you haven't heard, 'wrote' a book. She's showing up for signings around the country, now that she's unemployed and living off taxpayer welfare.

Someone had the bright idea to go an interview some of American's brightest who were waiting outside of their local Borders in the hopes of see the new literary light of the world.


THIS IS GOLDEN.




Just a few choice quotes:

'She is the epitome of conservativeness.'

'Compromise is for people that are wrong!'

'We need to get the polar bears off the endangered list so that we can drill there.'

"What are some particular issues of Sarah's that you would like to see her bring to office?
- Oh gee. Help me out here guys!
- Fairness. Realness.
'But any policies, I guess, specifically, of hers?'
- I can't think of the policies right off the bat.
- She's someone who can make a difference.
'And what difference would you like to see her make?'
- Uhhh, haha, I dunno. I guess I never really thought about it.

'What are some issues of hers that you agree with?'
- Uh, I'm not sure where's you're going with that, where, what issues?

'What's some of the spending you'd like to see cut?
- ALL of it!
- Definitely more cost efficiencies, and uh, limit spending, and . . . Cap-n-trade and all that.
'And what are some of the, uh, problems you have with cap-n-trade as proposed by Democrats in Congress?'
- Ummmm, I don't know too much about it, but um, I mean a lot of it's just the whole . . . sp- like, too much spending for . . . it sounds great on paper but it means people are going to suffer in the end so . . .

'Barack Obama wrote two books describing in detail exactly what he's going to do!'
'Yeah, and what do the books describe?'
'Oh, well you know, Marxism, Leninism, you know, socialism!'

'That wouldn't keep me from not voting for her.''

'The way I think the country's going I'm wondering whether or not we're gonna have a Presidential election in 2012, ummm, I know there's some back room talk of martial law. I'll give you one scenario that would absolutely do it, is if an atom bomb goes off in the United States.'

'Well, I watch Fox News - a lot!'

'I think you're gonna see crowds like this wherever she goes.'


It's one thing to not know a list of policies right off the bat, but most of these people are struggling to even put together a single coherent sentence. Most of what they're saying amounts to nothing more than 'blah blah blah weasel word blah blah socialism blah blah dog whistle, dog whistle, blah blah, let's thrown in another socialism, uh, umm, blah blah blah.'


You can't make this stuff up.