One of those days

[cjsmith]

I'm tired of being me. I want to be someone else for a while.

I could pretend. If I were sufficiently disconnected from reality, I could have a great time being someone else for a while. It doesn't have to be someone real. I could be anybody.

Comments

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

I can just see you in tights, boots, gloves, cape and mask; thwarting evil-doers and making the world safe for everyone!

*hugs*

I hope you feel better soon.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I love it!! A Spandex suit, cape, and a cane. :-) I'm making the world safe for... hmm, let me think... KITTENS! ;-)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

It's... Super Gimp! ;-)

Mmmmm... Spandex.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Apt icon!

[jupiter29.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I can see that too! But, um, I probably shouldn't admit to it in public. I don't know you that well. :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I'm *pretty* sure -- although with LJ I can never be positive -- we've never met. Correct me if I'm wrong! I can be very unreliable about that sort of thing!

[jupiter29.livejournal.com]

Nope, I'm reasonably sure we've never met. Sorry if I freaked you out there. Apparently, I just like picturing women in spandex and a cape. Who knew? :)

[kennita.livejournal.com]

Spandex is fine, but remember Edna and The Incredibles:

**NO CAPES!!** :-D

[airporter.livejournal.com]

How about a glamorous movie star from the days of silent films?

Oh wait, you've already got that icon. Mmm.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

rfrench took that photo, probably ten years ago. Sort of a silent-film-star-meets-a-Bettie-Page-hairdo kind of thing!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

You can be me today - feel free.

*hugs*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

We can trade! 8-) Somehow, a vacation from my own troubles -- even if I'd take on a whole new set -- still seems like it would be a welcome break in the routine.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Deal! :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

OK, I'm working on clearing these lungs...

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

I could have some fun if she got to be you today. Would that be her in your body, or her totally physically replacing you?

Either way....

;-)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Whatever, just so long as the phlegm is elsewhere. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Don't you worry about phlegm. You get a COMPLETE vacation from phlegm. (Well, every morning you'll have a coughing fit, but the body's used to that -- twenty years running it's done that.) You don't even snore on this vacation. Careful of the knees, don't stand or walk any more than you must, and no caffeine or you'll be in a fetal ball of abdominal pain, but NO phlegm and NO allergies whatsoever. OH!! I don't advise eating fish or seafood, either.

Don't do anyone I wouldn't do. Enjoy your vacation! :-)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I think I could still deal with the coughing fit. From the mid-'90s through about four years ago, when I was at my worst with the allergies and definitely had every cold turn into bronchitis, I used to call it my morning ritual. Won't miss the snoring. Already careful of the knees (since I bike and have had chondromalacia patellae). No caffeine would be a challenge. So would no fish.

And by the way, what time of the month would I get?

Don't do anyone I wouldn't do.

I seem to recall seeing you in a t-shirt that read Anything That Moves. ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Skip the biking during this vacation, 'cause of the feet. Fortunately, it's only a vacation, so no caffeine and no fish don't have to last long! And your vacation body is nice and awake without caffeine. It's downright perky.

You get That Time Of The Month, because every day is That Time. Sorry. At least there's not much of it.

So what should I be careful of during my vacation? I wouldn't want to leave the place in a worse state than how I found it!

Anything That Moves

Um, just be careful, 'kay? :-)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

every day is That Time.

As-Is. No Warranty Express or Implied. No refunds. ;-)

what should I be careful of during my vacation?

No caffeine past lunchtime. No pork products (bacon and sausage are okay, while ham, etc. will be seen and heard from again). No staying in bed past 7:30am no matter what time you went to sleep the night before or you'll have Migraine From Hell wherein you'll want to claw your skull open. And you may get one of those anyway despite everything you might do to avoid it. Extremely high tolerance for medications, particularly those for pain. But no chronic pain at present.

just be careful, 'kay? :-)

Always. Always. Always. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

As-Is. No Warranty Express or Implied. No refunds.

Management apologizes for the inconvenience. :-)

Yikes, no ham, huh? Okay. (That's the same problem I have with fish/seafood.) Any other migraine preventatives? Those sound... unpleasant.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

He doesn't get them very often, at least.

(My initial reaction was "Sex, lots and lots of sex!!")

I'm in a mood today, don't mind me ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

A very good preventative for many things. If you still get sick, at least you had a good time!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Migraine preventatives... Hmmmm... Nothing in excess, food/drink-wise. Other than that, I've yet to put my finger on specific triggers for me. I only get migraines once every few months, though. Sometimes I'll get one after a particularly stressful situation has been relieved.

Oh, and I forgot to list the fact that my skin will break out like I'm 15 at the drop of a hat, no matter what cleansing regimen I'm following.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Darn, excess is fun. And yeah, my skin does that too. It's permanently broken out. On the plus side, it doesn't seem to matter what I eat, so dig into that cheese and that chocolate!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm... cheese and chocolate. I'm impressed that even when my diet does go down the proverbial toilet, my blood sugar and cholesterol numbers have always been right down the middle. Decent metabolism at least, I guess. My caution against excess is merely theory, since I can't trace any specific triggers. I think when I've gone waaaaay overboard with sugar I've gotten one.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

My blood sugar is pretty good SO FAR but diabetes *gallops* in my family so I am cautious. My cholesterol is astronomical, although it's mostly "good" cholesterol -- like yours, apparently unaffected by diet. I hope all this never changes 'cause I wouldn't know how to improve it!

Tracing specific triggers for a thing that happens only once every few months sounds like a monumental task. I'm not surprised you don't have a full spreadsheet with detailed info on that!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

My mom developed Type 2 Diabetes about 15 years ago, so I am concerned about that, but hopefully my cholesterol will be okay. My good cholesterol is actually a bit low, though.

As I was growing up, my dad went through the 1970s and early '80s with chronic, extremely frequent (often more than once a week) bed-confining migraines. He went through all sorts of specialists, chiropractic adjustments, biofeedback, drugs, tracking dietary triggers, etc. Nothing seemed to help for years. I've decided that since I'm not getting them that frequently, I'm not going to try to track triggers. If the frequency increases, certainly I'll track. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

My grandmother had Type 2 starting in oh, her fifties or so. My mother is (so far) OK, but then diabetes sometimes skips a generation, too.

Wow, that sounds awful for your dad. It sounds like he stopped getting them, though. What happened?

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

He still gets them, but not nearly as frequently. I think he's down to maybe one a month or a little less often. In the late 1980s, he ended up retiring early due to a disabling back injury (at my sister's farm in southern Indiana, he flipped a 4WD ATV onto himself breaking some lower vertebrae - no paralysis, just a lot of chronic pain for a long time from which he has mostly recovered). I seem to recall his migraine frequency dropping sometime soon after that. Maybe it was work. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. Maybe it was work! Something in the environment, stress, something in the schedule... Wow. Well, I'm glad he's getting them far less often now.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Since he was a meter reader for the local gas utility, it wasn't a stressful job from my childhood perception for a long time. He'd go in at about 5:30am and be done with his route by 11:00am at the latest. But in the last few years they made a lot of major changes (finally providing portable computers rather than punch cards, increasing route sizes massively, adding lots more paperwork, changes in management, etc.) that I could tell were getting to him. So work stress might not have been the initial cause, but relieving what had built up I think helped.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I *definitely* get to get out of this body -- it's the whole problem(s)! Something tells me both Dan and I would find ourselves very tired when we got back "home".

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Well, if you're trading bodies, I'll put the strap-on away...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Aw, his body doesn't like those? ;-) ;-) (OK, this is getting to be a little TMI!)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know about the body, but the mind inside has never been too keen on the whole Bend Over Boyfriend concept.

(What's a little TMI among friends? ;-))

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

The mind will be on vacation... ;-)

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

The mind won't know what the body's been doing...

;-)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I'd say as long as no permanent damage is done, enjoy!! :-)

[airporter.livejournal.com]

I thought there was this whole, 'between informed, consenting adults" thing happening nowadays.

IMO, go get the toys...!