Short ABC Meme, from jennlee2

[quidditchgrrl]

A – Accent:  Appalachian, when I'm angry
B - Breast size:  36 B *hangs head*
C - Chore you hate:  Mopping
D - Dad's name:  Donald
E - Essential make-up item:  Mascara
F - Favorite perfume:  Elizabeth Arden's Green Tea
G - Gold or silver:  Gold
H - Hometown:  Ashville/Circleville, OH
I - Insomnia:  I have never had a normal sleep cycle, due to hormones
J - Job title:  Circulation Supervisor
K - Kids:  Not if I can avoid it, and I probably can't.  I'll deal and be a kick-ass mom.
L - Living arrangements:  Ghetto heaven apartment with Honeybunch, Bernie and Omar
M - Mum's birthplace:  West Virginia/Tennessee border
N - Number of apples you've eaten:  One, tonight
O - Overnight hospital stays:  The two last year for surgeries, once for observation
P - Phobia:  Fog and drowning
R - Religious affiliation:  None
S - Siblings:  2 older brothers, an older sister and a younger sister
T - Time you wake up:  If I work early, 7:15 am; If I close, 10ish in the morning
U - Unnatural hair colors you've worn:  Purply-red (probably the same color as jennlee2)
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat:  Lima beans
W - Worst habit:  Biting my nails
X - X-rays you've had: Teeth, chest, upper GI, lower GI.  I've had more radiation than Chernobyl.
Y - Yummy foods you make:  Lasagna, veggie pizza
Z - Zodiac sign:  Scorpio

Comments

[jennlee2.livejournal.com]

Hey our dads have/had the same name! I also love Elizabeth Arden perfumes. I haven't tried Green Tea yet, though. I wore Red Door for ages.

[jennlee2.livejournal.com]

ps. I love that FUX icon. Did you make it?

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Yep, made it myself! So proud, my icon-making skills aren't great, to say the least. :P

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

I have never had a normal sleep cycle, due to hormones

What's up with that? I've never had one either, but I've always put it down to my bipolar disorder. More and more I am beginning to think my bipolar disorder is connected to my hormones.

I think that we are more hormone driven that most doctors/researchers think.

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

I certainly think it could be related to hormones. I am totally ruled by my endocrine glands. :P

I am totally hormone-driven, right now it seems to work out in six-week cycles (which, incidentally, have nothing to do with my menstrual cycle). I have a couple of manic weeks, then a sleepy week, then a couple of lazy, unmotivated weeks, then back to mania.

I've gotten it together, so I can focus on getting things done when I have the energy, and leave things be when I'm too tired/unmotivated to get them done. It's not like I can't function, but I just have a tendency to put things off or not get them done well.

Know what's interesting? I gained a lot of weight when I was 5-6 years old, and that's about the time my insomnia started. Wonder if cortisol has anything to do with sleep patterns.

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

Mine started in college when my depression started. Not sure it had anything to do with hormones at the strart. But it certainly feels like hormones now. >.<

You've had it since you were 5-6? Yowsa! That's a long, long time. I thought I was bad. Mine started when I was around 21 or so.

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, know how they're saying the amount of sleep you get is linked to how overweight you are? That's totally true for me; I think my body reacts very strongly to hormones.

When I get scared (like when I have a near-miss on the highway), my reaction to adrenaline is so strong that I feel like lightining is shooting from my fingertips. My brain slows my sense of time down, and I have entire conversations with myself while whatever is happening takes place in 0.002 seconds. Weird, huh?

I spent a lot of my nighttime growing up watching MTV. :D

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

I've heard that sleep and weight correlation. I wonder about that. I used to fluctuate wildly in my weight - I'd go from anorexic to plump within the span of a year. My sleep patterns were always weird too. Usually on the insomniac side. When I became consistently sleepless, I started being on the plump side most of the time. There may indeed be a link with me.

I'm 99.9% certain that most of what I go through is hormonally related. I don't know why Doctors dismiss hormones out of hand. For the past few years I've had horrible problems with my wisdom teeth (and with my teeth in general) off and on. It always seemed to be cyclic.

When I mentioned it to a dentist in connection with hormones, he scoffed and wanted to do surgery. I walked out right then. I despise dentists anyway, and that really pissed me off. Anyay, I went to a health food store and picked up an Estrogen supplement. The day after using it, the pain in my mouth subsided. Now that I am on HRT with Estrogen I haven't had a single problem with my teeth. I didn't need surgery.

NOT weird with the adrenaline at ALL! OMG! I have the same fight or flight reaction. (It's not MTV. I always thought it was watching Road Runner cartoons. Beep!Beep!) I think it's an excellent reaction to have. (But I always needed it at work.) It's your body going into overdrive - Pulling all of your resources into your central nervous system. When you do that, it allows you to run faster for longer periods of time if you need to or gives you more strength if you need it. The perception of time is such a great thing to have. You are really thinking faster, but hey, who's quibbling? It gives you a thinking advantage over whatever it is you are up against.

Can you tell I have the same reactions? I've been in a few flight or fight situations - Mostly on the job. A couple have been in my personal life. All were when I was much, much younger. Fortunately, my job taught me how to fight and to protect myself. We practiced a lot, so most of it became second nature. So, when we were faced with a dangerous client, we knew what to do without having to belabor the point in the brain and we were all on the same page. *whew*

We are the people who you want to have on your side when something happens, you know? Gryffies. The idiots who rush in? Heh.