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Dec. 4th, 2008 @ 06:31 pm i amaze myself sometimes
of all the things i chose to bring over to my new apt out of my large collection of crap that i could have easily brought over to my new apt, i brought all the pair of pants i need to wear to my elf job. now i have to run by and pick up pants from my future apt in the morning. luckily, it's only a block away from where i currently live.
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Oct. 1st, 2008 @ 05:32 pm happy funtimes!
i started a tumblr account today (because i don't have enough crap to occupy my time with on the internet)

it only has 2 posts so far but here it is: bmug.tumblr.com

you should come and visit it and also start a tumblr page so i can follow you and you can follow me!! (i can't quite figure out how to find my friends on tumblr....same goes for twitter).

no worries - it's in addition to a livejournal - not in replacement of one.

p.s. - if you want to follow me/me follow you on twitter - my twitter page is beccajunior.twitter.com



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Sep. 29th, 2008 @ 01:19 pm the end of the cleanse
friday was the last day of the cleanse (i stuck it out to the bitter end) - and though eating eggs and coffee again on saturday was definitely delicious, i sort of knew that my body would not be happy....i also overdid it this weekend, but i suppose that's to be expected.

first of i have to admit that i accidentally consumed a few bites of cream & sugar on thursday night. they were in some pureed sweet potatoes i bought at balducci's and failed to read the label before shoveling them into my mouth. man did it taste good and i was so hungry, but i closed up the box and put it away until saturday, when i tasted them again and realized that i thought they were gross.

on saturday i made an omlette with cheese. cheese - how i missed you. after doing the detox i think lowering my cheese intake is definitely a good idea, same with sugar and caffeine. i have read a bunch of places that sugar is actually poison - it might just be propaganda, but lowering sugar intake is awesome, and so is eating more fruits and vegetables. i didn't really learn anything earth shattering, but i think the vegan detox is a good way to asses just how much some of the things to eat and drink really affect you.

on saturday i drank 2 cups of coffee and was bouncing off the wall - shaking and everything. 2 cups of coffee haven't done that do me since i was maybe 14. so i'm gonna try to taper it down to 1 cup of coffee a day if i can....we'll see how long this lasts.

on a completely different note - i am very nonplussed about these ads all over my lj page and since i realize there's not much i can do about it, i'm toying with the idea of starting a new journal/blog using another site. all the kids these days seem to be using tumblr, i am not all that connected - would that be a good place to move my journal to move to?
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Sep. 24th, 2008 @ 10:57 am fell off the writing wagon - still on the vegan wagon
well i sort of fell off the updating wagon because life got a little hectic and i got a little lazy. still on the vegan cleanse though - i'm staying on it until saturday, when i plan to eat a big omelette with cheese!

after that whole doodoo disaster last week, i have started looking for a new place to live (my friend offered me the spare room in his apt in brooklyn and i'm looking at a few craigs list shares) - which also means that i have to deal with the massive task of decluttering my life. when you are a packrat light me - and you live in one place for over 4 years - you accumulate a lot of crap - most of which i assume will end up in the trash bin or at the thrift store.

anyway, back to the cleanse. this weekend was the true test to my willpower. saturday night i even stayed out at various bars and had fun getting home at 4:30am (like i would on a night i was drinking) even went to a diner late at night (where i wanted a grilled cheese so bad that it hurt - and got a tossed salad instead), and i stuck with it. i actually had a fantastic time with my friends - maybe i won't drink when i go out more often! what's particularly dorky is that i called my mother the next day to announce to her that i resisted the grilled cheese.

i'm not sure if i wrote about it last week, but for a few days my legs were hurting like they were having very bad growing pains like you got when you were a kid. i told a few people who had done this sort or cleanse before about it, and they all seemed to think it had to do with my body adjusting - possibly adjusting to not having sugar. they do seem to have gone away, so that's good.

at this point i feel really well adjusted and have no problem sticking with the cleanse. another cool thing is that my waist has gotten much smaller! that god damned lady pouch is getting smaller!!

barring any unforeseen circumstances - i will continue to update about it regularly.
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Sep. 19th, 2008 @ 02:21 pm just great....
i didn't get a chance to post yesterday because i had a shitty day...literally.

(warning - don't read this while eating or if you don't like shit stories)
i came home at about 11:30 on wednesday night to find that there was shit (turds) all over the floor of my shower. it seems that there was a backup and since i live in the basement - the sewage back up backed right into my bathroom. it was disgusting beyond words, and what makes matters even more fun is that it had backed up my toilet as well so i couldn't use it either. normally i don't call my landlords late at night, but this was an extreme circumstance - so when i told the landlady the situation she was her usual asshole self about it - and then told me not to use my toilet or shower (NO DUH). she didn't even seem apologetic that it happened.

yesterday morning- i essentially bathed in my kitchen sink and stood as far clear of the bathroom as possible. i even held in my pee until i got to work. i called my landlord again - and this time the landlord answered and he was actually apologetic about the situation, unlike his horrid wife. so i called late in the afternoon to find out what the status was and it turns out that some genius(my new upstairs neighbor i assume) flushed a sanitary napkin and backed up the plumbing for the whole house. my landlady then went on to tell me that she doesn't want me using my washing machine anymore - this is literally the only perk of my apartment and now she's taking that away too?! conclusion: it's time to move.

considering all the shitty circumstances, i didn't know if i would be able to stick to the cleanse because i was not able to make food at home, but i was able to make do with take out sushi for lunch and some takeout stir fry for dinner....so now i'm in day 5 and still moving along ok. i am definitely not crashing and getting sleepy in the afternoon like i used to, but i am getting these strange pains that sort of move to different places all over my legs. really odd - i can only imagine that it has something to do with the detox. i am not sure how much, but i am also pretty sure i'm losing weight - i think my landlord broke my scale when tooling around in my bathroom (one of thousands of strikes against them) so i'm not sure how much it is.

anyway that's the story of this week - this weekend will probably be the biggest challenge. 4 1/2 days down....6 1/2 to go.
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Sep. 17th, 2008 @ 02:14 pm day 2 and 1/2 way into day 3
still chugging along.

the coffee withdrawal headache was gone by yesterday, i was sure that it would last for at least 3 days. it might have not lasted very long because i'm drinking green tea. still, seeing people drinking coffee makes me want one too.

yesterday i ate my breakfast, which was kashi rice cereal(made without sugar), soy milk and banana and all was fine and dandy until my boss announced that she would be treating everyone in the office to lunch. my initial response was NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! they all knew about my diet! but it was the last day for 2 co-workers, so we ordered japanese - what a great idea. at first i thought i would just have the lunch that i had packed, but later realized that i could totally eat the vegan sushi rolls and miso soup. so that was kind of awesome. the sushi rolls were made with white rice, but i'm gonna let that go.

i was going to go to an improv show last night, but decided to go home and relax, which was good because as soon as i passed out about 5 minutes into a venture brothers episode. i'm definitely sleeping well, but getting up in the morning is still rough.

today, so far so good - the morning is still rough and i wish i could have a cup of coffee to break out of the haze. when i was running an errand i saw a woman eating little cookies and another woman eating a sandwich of some sort - i was probably staring at them longingly. it's funny b/c i am normally not even a big fan of sandwiches or box cookies. also, my boss brought in a giant milky brand chocolate bar for the office to share and i went right for it like i normally do until i knocked myself back into reality.

i stil feel kind of hungry all the time and could really go for a bagel or ice cream, but i do feel cleaner (if that makes sense). 2 & 1/2 days down - 9 1/2 more to go.
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Sep. 16th, 2008 @ 10:35 am i survived day 1
ok....that wasn't too bad.

yesterday, i prepared all the food i was going to eat for the day at home and brought it in a giant bag to work with me.

my first obstacle was the coffee - such a huge part of my life/morning and plain green tea without sugar is nothing like coffee. i ended up getting a coffee withdrawal headache a little while into the morning too - i am curious how bad it would have been without the green tea.

the food was fine, but since i am eating exactly the same thing today - i want to figure out how to change up the routine a little bit.

it's become quite apparent what a big part of my life all the food that i cut out really is. coffee and carbs - duh - but also alcohol and sugar. I went to a comedy show last night and the first thing i usually do is head straight for the bar to get a beer, but instead i just sat down in my seat and watched other people enjoy their beer. also, last night i really wanted dessert and was seriously tempted to cheat and eat some chocolate or something, but i think knowing that i was going to have to tell my friends that i failed was enough motivation to keep me in line.

first cool thing i noticed - last night after work i went home for about an hour and took a nap. normally when i take a quick (20 min or so) nap - i don't fall asleep, but last night i actually did! yay - my first benefit ofcutting back on the caffeine!
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Sep. 14th, 2008 @ 08:51 pm Goin on a detox...gonna get cleansed
so starting tomorrow morning - and (hopefully) until september 27th i am going on a vegan detox. i'd say i'd do it for two full weeks - but i have a delusions of spandex show on september 27th, and i want to get a drink after the show and most likely drink a red bull before.

i'm thinking that if i livejournal about it every day - it'll keep me honest - and less inclined to fall off the wagon...which i'm sure i'll be extremely tempted to do.

i decided to do this detox because i have two friends who say that it really helped them. completely not on purpose, but apparently it's very similar to a detox that oprah did back in june.

here's what i can't have:
booze
caffeine - (i am modifying this - since i'm so addicted and letting myself have 1-2 cups of green tea)
sugar (oh man)
meat
eggs
dairy (cheese - how i'll miss you)
a few carbs carbs
gluten (this one is not as big of a deal to me)

here's what i can have:
vegetables
fruit
beans
tofu and meat substitutes that don't have a lot of added crap
rice (i'm going to try to stick with brown rice)
nuts
dried fruit
some very light carbs (not quite clear on what's ok and what's not)

so starting tomorrow morning - the adventure begins. i spent the weekend ingesting all kinds of unhealthy crap in preparation - so hopefully i'll be so junk fooded out that this cleanse will be a welcome relief.
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Sep. 9th, 2008 @ 02:05 pm one of those things only i find funny
i have a feeling this that this is only funny to me because i am ridiculously tired/slap happy, but i spilled some soup on my keyboard (on the m key mostly). so i wiped it up, and when i looked up i had filled in my gmail login with this.

Capture

if only i was smart enough to make that my email address to begin with.....
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Aug. 19th, 2008 @ 10:35 am look what i made!
i am extremely lacking in any sort of decorative skills, but i met a girl back in march who was wearing the coolest bow tie necklace which i have been unable to find. so i decided to make one myself out of a bow tie i bought on ebay and a gold chain! it was so easy to make even a becca can do it!

here is a picture of me wearing my masterpiece. i apologize in advance for looking insane.
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Aug. 6th, 2008 @ 04:34 pm i mad you know it
i am mad.

this is a picture of me being mad. (taken on phaea's computer about and hour ago)
mad becca

after a long deliberation. i decided to eat a quiznos. if you were wondering, i wad deliberating between quiznos and hale and hearty soups. when i got there today, i learned that you no longer can get a soup with your value meal, you can only get chips or a cookie. to which i replied "but what if i don't want chips or a cookie!?". so for more money than i used to pay for a sammy meal, i only got 2 sammies (i'm not calling them sammies to be cute, they call their little sandwiches sammies) and a soup and no soda! this is kind of a big deal when you spend so long planning out what you are eating for lunch. so now i'm angry and without a soda.

i am so damn boring.
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Aug. 2nd, 2008 @ 02:42 pm the woes of having my face
i got carded yesterday when buying a lotto ticket.

out of curiousity, i asked the man who carded me: "exactly how old do you think  i am?" and he said i looked somewhere between 15 and 20.

i was like - dude. i am 27!!

this happened to me last week at alyssa and rick's wedding reception. i got carded when ordering a drink at the bar, and i straight up told the bartender that i was 27 because i didn't feel like going back to get my purse. he didn't believe me and made me show ID. so when i came back with my license he looked at it and acted so surprised that i thought he was going to have a heart attack. he then showed my ID to the other bartender and quizzed her on how old she thought i looked.

now i know this is a good thing- and i hope i continue to age gracefully, but there's something disconcerting about people being so surprised by your actual age. i know it should be flattering, but it sort of makes you feel old. in some strange way i feel like i know how the 30 year old guy who plays hannah montana's 16 year old brother feels.
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Jul. 18th, 2008 @ 11:05 am so proud!
under the cut is the washington post article written by lavanya ramanathan about the fringe festival, and in particular...us! i scanned it actual size, so it's rather large - therefore i had to put it under the cut. we've had some other good press too, which i promise i will put up in another post! right now - just getting ready to head back down to dc tonight for our last two shows....and then i'll be sad that it's over! yay fringe.

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Jul. 11th, 2008 @ 01:30 pm first dc show done!
our first show in dc was great! first off, dc is a great town - and hannah is a fabulous host. its really great because even though it's huge city with a large arts community, everyone is genuinely supportive and enthusiastic.

i'm sure all of these links are becoming tedious, but i just wanted (for my own records) to post our first ever review! and it's a favorable one! i actually talked to the reviewer after our show and he said he really enjoyed himself, which was nice.....it was particularly nice of him to forgive us for some of our opening night snafus.

we later opted to do a little interview for the citypaper while at the fringe opening party. phaea and i did one of our silly dances....and like the dork i truly am.... i fell backwards into the curtain and sort of onto my ass....man, how embarrassing......i'm sure that's the portion of the interview that will end up online.  (for the record: that kind of thing is why i hate doing interviews...i always say or do something horrendously stupid).

we were also featured in the online version of the express (they called our show one of the most highly anticipated!) !

we were also featured in the brightest young things fringe festival survival guide - i have been told that this is a very "hip" website.....that's the word the kids are using these days.

aight. that's probably it for now. i seem to have misplaced my makeup bag somewhere at the theater and feel utterly lost without it....so i'm off to find the nearest metro station so i can go in search of my long lost eyeliner. i just bought this amazing new mac liquid eyeliner on wednesday too....being a scatterbrain is awesome.
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Jul. 7th, 2008 @ 11:24 am We're on a Role!
We got another write up in the washington times!

they actually interviewed us for this (i answered the reporters questions via email...there were a lot more, but obviously they pare it down to the most interesting tidbits).

yay! so excited for DC!

the link:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/06/from-dizzy-to-dorks-at-fringe/
(for some reason it wasn't letting me hyperlink it.......boo livejournal)
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Jul. 3rd, 2008 @ 02:16 pm HA!
I got this email this morning from a friend of mine who just facebook friended me. it's pretty freaking funny!

here's what it said:

"when you confirmed me on facebook, gmail gave me this sponsored link:

Becca Sale - www.oneinfinitemarketplaces.com - 40%-60% Discount Becca (in stock)

sweet!!! i'll take two."

so just in case you were in the market, becca sale down at oneinfinitemarketplaces!


i'm 27 today. 27 years ago today, my mom fell out of a hammock and had me 2 months earlier than expected! it worked out well because i'm a fan of summer.
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Jul. 2nd, 2008 @ 04:26 pm woohoo!
check it!

the show that phaea and i are doing at the Washington DC Fringe Festival was recommended by the Washington Post Blog!

Come see it if you can! Show's start next week!
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Jun. 30th, 2008 @ 01:35 pm watch this!
BOOT BALANCE


my buddies sara and adrienne came up with the idea for this video, and i was honored to be part of it last weekend. i think we have a hit on our hands!
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Jun. 24th, 2008 @ 12:31 pm BEST FLYER EVER
ladies and gentlemen,

i present to you, the best show poster ever made -

June 28th DoS Flyer
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May. 27th, 2008 @ 12:37 pm oh my god! a post about a DoS Show!
May 2008 DoS Flyer
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