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[SlipperyPete]

just got my own bac!

RudyB;1199106 wrote: there's also some unique percussion that sounds like a fast, hard rainshower.
xo rudy

After I read that, I had to listen to it, just to hear what that sounds like. Pretty cool.

Got any good Salsa music? I kinda wanna learn Salsa dancing. Maybe then I'll finally be able to seduce Shakira :blinkylove:

[Isolde]

just got my own bac!

Roo, I can't believe I didn't put 2 and 2 together with your lack of appetite and Bronkaid use. How much were you taking and at what time?
I take 2, and usually not after 12 or 1 if it's a week night. The effects only last on me about 4-5 hours max, and then I actually end up crashing and sleeping really well! But it works on everyone differently.
Did you miss the part where I vehemently warned you not to take it before you go to sleep as it's a stimulant and is meant to keep you AWAKE? :H

Drugs affect us all so differently. I love the way Bronkaid makes me feel. Happy and energized and motivated to get things done. It gives me that focus that I wish I had all the time. And whose lack I have recently begun to expect might be due to ADHD (check out Veritas's thread on Ritalin). No wonder I love stims so much, I have such a hard time staying focused w/out them.

In any case, I'm glad you figured out what was causing the mania and lack of appetite. I look at Bronkaid as something to use when I'm dragging ass tired and/or really fuzzy brained. It's definitely not a daily use thing (especially as you'll quickly build up a tolerance to it).

[Bruunhilde]

just got my own bac!

Thought I posted somewhere that I can't take bronkaid due to ephedrine in it, that's the stimulant. Used to love getting colds because I could dope up on that stuff and lose my appetite and weight while zooming through the day extra happy.

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

yep, gals, and yep. is, i put many-a-word -and chuckles aplenty- into the whole bronkaid conversation you and i had (and i think red too, and i think i remember bruun's mention), which is what makes the whole thing so funny (well, one of the things that make it funny). you both (yes, red was there) told me about it, and its wakeful-making, and i turned around and thought it'd be just the ticket to help me sleep! ha ha ha ha ha! is, you came back and said NOOOO! i re-read, saw my incredible illiteracy, and laughed and told you not to worry, that i wouldn't take it before bed. and so i didin't. i was using it in a pinch (should say 'am using it'), when, like you said is, i just couldn't plod on without it. i never take two at a time, and never after 3 pm, when i leave work. i completely forgot -or never really knew- what ephedrine was (therefore bruun's reference was lost on me), so the implications of that were not even in my awareness as possible causes of my mania. slow-forward to today (except whilist high on meth, then fast forward), i wasn't going to take any anymore, as benadryl was suddenly the root of all evil (though i don't mind being super-skinny, and i love the energy and focus -so i take that back), but i was so dog tired today, that i, really in a panic, pawed through my drawer in search of that lost tablet that sunk beneath the hubris, to no avail. then, a brilliant notion -an Obvious- came to me: look in your bag! sure enough, a small section of tabs presented itself to me, and i was saved. a few hours later, with one class of four to go (! ~ i am having such a great teaching year!), i was still tipsy with tired, and i took another. here i am, four hours later, happy as a clam, writing here with ustedes before getting my son, in front of a fire i just built (all are welcome to join), not minding one bit that i took the aid of that fine medication. now that i can explain to myself what's going on with me, it's not scary anymore. so thanks so much for checking in on that. i had a feeling you would.

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

pete, salsa, um, i would say start with tito puente and move from there, but i'm guessing you know that. put him into pandora and see what comes up. i don't listen to it much -it's too fast and exciting, doesn't relax me- but i do love it live. fun dancing! and they oft have great horn sections, which are very uplifting. when i was in nyc, i had a friend (jay rodriguez) who played sax for tito, and i felt like i was friends with a rock star.

btw, i've been meaning to get back to you on that post about what music i listen to to ponerme en mente de hacer el amor, and i realize that i didn't really answer your question. you had said poner me en mente (or something like that, which means basically, for those who don't know, 'get me in the mood'), but i answered what i liked during. i still can't really answer your question, though, because i am almost always game to be in the mood, yet i am never, these days, trying to be. you know how it's been going for me, so i doubt i need to explain further.

lemme know what you come up with on the salsa front.

here's a song i discovered today, much to my delight (it's not salsa, needless to say):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLcMEoQyPOc[/video]]Orishas - Madre - YouTube

man, these guys are so cooool! and I LOVE CUBA! i've been showing 'viva cuba'* to some of my classes, and with that i've been giving them some re-education. i am so sick of people -fuckin' teachers!- spouting truisms about communism and how evil it is and how they don't have any freedom and bla bla bla. i show my students where cuba is, what's the lay of the land and the languages in its proximity, a bit of its history and ethnic make up (65% white, 25% mixed, 10% black), and i drive it home that they have free healthcare and education in cuba. (by contrast, don't you dare get sick in the us if you're poor and don't have health insurance. i plan to show them parts of 'sicko'.) in fact, it has the second highest literacy rate IN THE WORLD! i tell them about how, back in the day, before castro and che, cuba was owned by a very few people whose antecedents stole the island from the natives, who died off and were replaced by slaves from africa, all of whom were forced to work the land for the profits of the wealthy elete (how the fuck do you spell that? oh yeah, elite) and their clients in the us. those same few people and their families continued to own the island until '59, while the vast majority of its inhabitants suffered cruel, subsistance existences. no, castro was not all good-guy, he did some very bad things. but anyone who says that the way that it was before castro was any better than it is now, materially or morally speaking, is a total fucking idiot. i rest my case.

* a really sweet film about friendship and two kids who run away together on an important mission

anyway, that song. nice vocals, huh? kinda religious almost, like you'd hear it in a cuban church. the horns, too, they'd be there swooning their songs. (pardon me, i'm just a bit enamored at the moment of that mystical place.) i love about orishas that they are so channeling their culture through their music; you hear it in the instrumentation, the timber in their voices, the rhythms, and you see it in their videos with the technicolor houses and cars, the orishas on the corner, the children playing their integral roles in society on the street. (of course, their videos would hold all of that, the ones that are filmed on the streets of cuba, anyway.)

lemme know what you think!

hiya and bya all! i'm off to get my son. i've had my moment of glory alone here, and now i must tend to my duties with my five year old imp!

vaya con las orishas!

xoxo rudy

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

here's a sweet one, led by the reliable vocals i've come to know and love, scented with late seventies disco, and completed by synthetic horns:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xv10-nV4x8[/video]]Orishas - Una Pagina Doblada - YouTube*

* either 'a strong and robust page;, or 'a deceitful page'. when i've had a chance to look over the lyrics (just discovered the song today), i'll let you know what i come up with. slammin' tune regardless.

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

...no wait, durr, 'doblada' means to say 'folded'! (but i've no idea why it's feminine; 'papel' is masculine.)

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

hiya! just checking in to say that if you don't hear from me for a few days, i haven't gone off a cliff. we're expecting a snowstorm of heavy wet snow and widespread power outages. once again, why the frickin fuck don't we bury our power lines? jesus cristo, all the time and money to keep putting them back up! not to mention the horrid inconvenience of living without power. dammit. cross fingers, please!

[ifulovelife2]

just got my own bac!

Buy a back up generator. Or better still, build a battery storage system to make use of that enormous solar array in your back garden. Just sayin'.

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

no shit!~ we have two $1500 diesel generators that hubby bought, but neither works! he tried to fix one last power outage, to no avail, and he left tools and oil strewn about afterward! sheesh!

here's one for the coming storm:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khyiRPmnGTE[/video]]Macaco.-Zona de Jaleo. - YouTube

zone of confusion.

toes crossed for strong wires. trees intact. sledding tomorrow.

xoxoooo abrazos a todos!
rudy

[ifulovelife2]

just got my own bac!

Hmmm, what you need is a friendly mechanic who you could ask to fix the gennies. I'm sure you could find some way of encouraging his assistance.

[Isolde]

just got my own bac!

Yay sledding!! I wanna come!

[Isolde]

just got my own bac!

We're currently experiencing a sunshower. The sun is out bright in full force and it's raining. I love the effect on the surface of the pool.

It's supposed to be stormy (and muggy) here all weekend. Hopefully the weather here won't impact my party too much either. It's at a club, and my friend got a hotel room right on the beach (the club is also on the beach) because she lives about 45 minutes away and doesn't want to drive home afterwards. So the main concern will be getting from my house to the hotel, and then from the hotel to the club without getting too wet. I'm actually getting my makeup done professionally at MAC to go with my costume and spending time on doing my hair with curlers and all that, so I need for it to last! (I'm never this much of a girly girl.) Roo, I'll cross my fingers for you if you do the same for me!

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

very funny, lover! if you only knew... don't know how much reading you've done here, but my latest escapade in love involved a mechanic who doesn't know he's really gay, so your idea won't work.

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

the power just flickered, had to re-set the internet, and so i'll say what i can while i can, and i'll drop it all into little posts.

the party was a smashing success. i made new friends! mary was the art teacher when i was the humanities and spanish teacher at my son's school, when i used to be able to afford to work there. now she's married to a very lovely man who's a dermatologist and provides her with a charmed life. i mistook him for george, at one point, because george is also bald. i excused myself, saying, 'all bald guys look alike. but i like bald guys!' they laughed hard, as did the dreadlocked antiguan woman sitting next to me (you know, 'all black people...'). further jokes ensued.