Miss Friendship wrote:What do you think of all the threads honoring Helios?
It's juvenile, but I used to engage in such things on chat rooms...you know, when I was FIFTEEN...and enjoyed it immensely, so I just smile and move along, YA'LL PEEPS can have your silly fun.
Miss Friendship wrote:Do you ever get sick? How do you cope?
For the majority of my life, I only got sick once per year, a terrible cold a few weeks before Christmas. I literally NEVER got sick any other time, and never had any health issues, and never caught any of the things my cousins were always cycling through. I've never had any of the "normal" things...strep throat, chicken pox, mono, pink eye, etc. etc. The chicken pox one is actually dangerous, apparently, because you really should get it as a child because it's safer then, whereas you can DIE OR STUFF, if you get the adult version without any immunity built up. Sooooo if you ever feel vengeful, you know, you can always just put a pox upon me, and the Dom shall cease to exist.
ANYWAY, to answer your question, yes I do get sick, more often the past several years as I moved to a new place and I think maybe there are some allergies going on, though I'm not allergic to anything I know of, but I started getting sinus infections which is really just similar to having a cold as far as symptoms go. I also had the FOR REAL flu, a few Christmases ago, and it was hellacious. I cope by trying to get on meds as early as possible, because despite my VERY medless childhood, I have discovered that some really are helpful and make being sick VERY bearable, rather than suffering like an IDIOT just because "pills are evil".
TO BE MORE SPECIFIC, I cope with being sick by trying to take care of myself, staying off all sugar, slurping water CONSTANTLY, usually with some sea salt to boost the electrolytes, staying in bed or sleeping as much as possible to give my body rest and let all my energy pour into getting better, and taking lots of steam showers. My secret right now is taking Zinc, which is just a supplement that has apparently been proven to shorten the life of a cold. Ever since I learned about it, I've started popping it the second I feel my nose or throat acting up, and thus far, I have not once been sick.
We'll see how long that lasts, but it's been AWESOME, thus far.
Lastly, I have a heating pad that is amazing when I'm sick, and it has a washable cover and you can wipe it down, so it's SANITARY and all that good stuffs.
I also wash my sheets constantly when I'm sick, change out my toothbrush, and wash my thermos tons, so I'm not perpetuating things by letting germs hang around.
Anything ELSE you'd like to know, I'm sure that answer wasn't long enough for you. =| Oh, I also keep a Word document when I'm REALLY sick, and type up what meds I take at what time.
Miss Friendship wrote:What do you do when you are really angry?
If it is severe, I start to mildly dissociate, honestly. My body tingles and goes numb, and I feel like my brain is floating off somewhere or trying to explode. Basically incapable of forming words and just feel like the world has gone white hot. It is extremely unpleasant.
If I am just your average angry, it depends on who I'm with/what it's about. If it's my mom or brother, I have no issue yelling at them in the moment, but I usually just leave the situation, it's pointless to yell. I will hole up in my room or just leave the house, or whatever the situation is, and focus on something else until I'm calm. Then I go into silent mode and just ignore them until I feel they are worthy of being spoken to, again.
There's usually no point talking things out with them, my family was famous for sweeping everything under the rug and never dealing with anything.
If it's someone other than my immediate family, I typically try to remain as polite as possible. I have never yelled at anyone outside my family, and you would be hard-pressed to even find a situation where I have ever been rude. I am a silent seether, for the most part. (And yes, in case you're about to GO THERE, if I've been rude to you, it's probably something I would NEVER say in "real life". I'm way more blunt, online. I'm way more everything, online. Friendly, confrontational, blunt, confident, honest, sexually explicit, etc. etc. I like to think this is the real me, and the one people meet in person is the muted, socially acceptable version. The online me is technicolor.
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Back to being angry, if it's someone I'm in a relationship with, I'm not often angry, usually if something "should" make me angry, I feel hurt, instead. On the occasion I do get frustrated or irritated or angry, arguments happen. Mostly they don't even qualify as "fights". Just heated arguments, raised voices but not yelling. Things will just escalate until there is a breaking point, at which time all my frustration disappears and I am just awash with love and feeling bad for what has happened, and just want to be close and happy again.
Miss Friendship wrote:What is Stand By exactly?
Stand-by is where you don't have a guaranteed seat on a plane, you only get on if someone cancels or doesn't show. Depending on where you're going and what time of day it is, sometimes you can ALWAYS get on, other times you may end up sleeping in the airport for two days, waiting.
Miss Friendship wrote:Do you like the prices of food in airports?
I was in two airports recently, but I shot through like a bullet. Prior to that, the last time I even would have had a chance to buy airport food would have been 2011, and I don't remember if we did. I certainly don't remember the price. *shrug* I imagine it's expensive, BECAUSE IT CAN BE.
HomeschoolCowgirl wrote:A guy sitting next to you got sloshed? By whom, and with what?
Refer to Ox, below.
HomeschoolCowgirl wrote:Do you plan to join the overwhelming surge of Heliositic thread titles?
I do not.
Isaiah the Ox wrote:HomeschoolCowgirl wrote:A guy sitting next to you got sloshed? By whom, and with what?
*coughs* Do you know what "
being sloshed" means?
Indeed. WAIT, WHY DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS, YOUNG MAN?
Isaiah the Ox wrote:What's the smartest animal you've ever met/owned/etc.?
I think a lot of animals have the potential to appear extremely smart, they just don't have owners who take the time to train them in ways that exemplify that.
The smartest-appearing animal I've met would be a pit bull belonging to a dog trainer I met at work, once. She was trained to his whistles and was pretty much at sheep-herding levels of directability, like so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpjP3mxv21s
The smartest one I've owned would be my Australian Shepherd, who I miss.
Dom