Victoria Grace Nation

Realities of Life #1

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Hard as it is to believe, yes. As your body uses oxygen, it produces free radicals that can damage cells and cause everything from aging to cancer. Antioxidants produced naturally by your
body and also found in your normal diet are usually enough to zap them. But a bout of heavy exercise can increase free radicals 10- to 20-fold, overwhelming your defenses.
If you’re a weekend warrior or wannabe marathoner, consider boosting your antioxidant intake with 500 milligrams of vita-
min C and 400 IU of vitamin E each day, says Jeffrey Blumberg, PhD, director of Tufts University’s antioxidants research lab.
On the other hand, if you work out 45 minutes to an hour several times a week, all you need is your five servings of fruits and veggies every day. That moderate level of exercise will gradually build up your antioxidant defenses.”

Reported By: Leslie Goldman
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Foods high in antioxidants:
1. Fruits
Berries (Cherry, blackberry, strawberry, raspberry, crowberry, blueberry, bilberry/wild blueberry, black currant), pomegranate, grape, orange, plum, pineapple, kiwi fruit, grapefruit.
2. Vegetables
Kale, chili pepper, red cabbage, peppers, parsley, artichoke, Brussels sprouts, spinach, lemon, ginger, red beets.
3. Dry Fruits high in antioxidants
Apricots, prunes, dates.
4. Legumes
Broad beans, pinto beans, soybeans.
5. Nuts and seeds
Pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts, ground nut, sunflower seeds.
6. Cereals
Barley, millet, oats, corn.
7. Spices
cloves, cinnamon, oregano

Scientists as reported at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Aug 2009 have found that some vegetables and fruits like berries, grapes, walnuts, olives, and foods like chocolate, wine, coffee and tea and popcorn, and some breakfast cereals contain large amounts of healthful antioxidant substances called polyphenols.

Polyphenols play important role in reducing the risk of heart disease, cancer and other diseases.

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There’s always that transition period from casual dating to honeymoon phase to long-term relationship. For women, it’s hard, we go from waxing our legs, dousing ourselves with fragrance, puting on our faces, to showing the TRUE side of us, the burping, farting, pooping slobs that we truly are.

I still remember my transitioning period, the strategic step-by-step ways to have him accept me as a defecating human being. It’s always easy for men to start passing gas around you, the next step is to have him poop, give that a few weeks (less if you’re staying at his place for 3+ days a week already). Soon he’ll be wondering why you never pass gas or has sensed you pooping.

I was lucky, he had wanted me to pass gas in front of him, it was like a wide open door for me to trample on through, but I’m not THAT dumb.

On one of our trips to the grocery store, I picked up my usual magazine and we headed home, this time, instead of leaving it on the coffee table, I discreetly put in in the bathroom on top of his pooping materials. It’s perfect! Subtle, yet still being quite straight forward. Of course I still don’t let him catch me, the magazine is still there almost in immaculate conditions (no shit stains, pee droplets, or worn out corners…we’re not barbarians ladies).

From then on, things just fell into place, although my case of food poisoning did help a bit.

But with a box of matches neatly tucked away in the bathroom and a small bottle of perfume, he’ll never know what hit him until it’s time. The makeup I put on became less and less, i extended my shaving/waxing schedule one day at a time. Soon I was back to my old nasty self, and him fully accepting me not as the non-farting, non-burping, always perfectly eye lined girl that I was, but Victoria, the normal pooping, sweating, human being that I naturally am. =D

A lot of people have contacted me and asked me why I haven’t updated. I can tell you how busy I’ve been which is true. But really I’ve just been lazy and slightly suffering from writer’s block. Okay no it’s the laziness I have ideas and ideas for blogs but I’ve lost my pizazz….is that a word?

But I’ll be back with a few blogs posts.

So stay tuned!

I dabbled in song writing tonight. Oh ya…it’s wild alright.


So I’m surfing through a local forum I tend to visit and in this section called Speak It Out, members are asked to post anything on their minds about relationships. And this is how I responded to the following Speak It Out Posts:

Originally Posted by min.tee
Fuck it’s been 9 months since I got laid.

Originally Posted by Nvasion
id help you out but your a dude… sry

My Response:

What do you mean you can’t help him out cuz he’s a dude?!

1) you unzip your junk out of your pants
2) he bends and takes off his pants
3) you put your junk in his hole, and on the floor were his pants

Cuz it’s ur junk in his hole and on the floor are your pants, ooh on the floor is his pants, boy.

This is me jumping on the Megan bandwagon with the release of Transformers II: Revenge of the Fallen and her tiny, bouncy, tanned, silicone breasties and her plump lip injections. It’s insane how the topic of Megan or Transformers flooded the media, from Twitter to Facebook to every freakin’ entertainment news. So here it is people, some quotes I’ve assembled from various blogs. Enjoy!

Flipped on a fan who mistaken her for Jolie at a bar in Vancouver - May 2008

On her IQ: “I resent having to prove that I’m not a retard.” - Esquire June 2009

On sexuality: “I think people are born bisexual and then make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I’m also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who was bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I’d never want to sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.” - Esquire

Her thoughts on Olivia Wilde: “I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl - Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She’s mesmerizing.” - GQ

Thoughts on Scarlett Johansson: “I don’t want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson – who I have nothing against, but I don’t want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every single SAT word I’ve ever learned to prove, like, ‘Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.’ I don’t want to have to do that. I resent having to prove that I’m not a retard – but I do. And part of it is my own fault.” - Esquire
On her sex drive: “I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy.” - FHM

On her acting talents: “I’m terrible in [the first 'Transformers' movie]. It’s my first real movie and it’s not honest and not realistic. The movie wasn’t bad, I just wasn’t proud about what I did… If I really buckle down, I think one day I could be a very good actress. But so far, I haven’t done anything yet.” - Entertainment Weekly

On the media’s coverage of her life: “The other day I said I eat a lot of cake and that was the top story on Yahoo.” - GQ

On modesty and vengeance: “Well, I wasn’t topless. I had booby stickers on. They make these silicone stickers that go on over your nipple. If I’d been actually topless, I would have sued someone. But that’s a really unfortunate thing that happened. I know who [alerted the paparazzi] and I never did anything about it. It’s her karma to deal with, not mine.” - Entertainment Weekly

On digestion: “If you eat Chinese food, your farts come out like Chinese food. If you eat Mexican food, your farts come out like Mexican food. And milk, it’s like—you can smell the warmth in the fart. My wardrobe on ‘Transformers’ always smells like farts, and I have no idea why.” - GQ

On Angelina Jolie: “[Angelina Jolie] always seems otherworldly in her power and her confidence. I’m sure she has no idea who I am. But if I were her, I’d be like, ‘Who the f— is this little bulls— brat who was in ‘Transformers’ that’s going to be the next me?’ I don’t want to meet her; I’d be embarrassed.” - Entertainment Weekly

On living with her: “I’m horrible to live with. I don’t clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet. Friends will tell me, ‘Megan, you totally pinched a loaf in my toilet and didn’t flush.’” - FHM

On her sanity:“I think that I’m so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.”

On her looks:“Well, I’m clearly not ugly. “

On Zac Efron:“Zac Efron is my obsession, we’re the same person. We’re not actually here, it’s like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it’s me, and you don’t know that. It’s one of the greatest mysteries of all time. “

On having friends:“I have no friends and I never leave my house.”

On who she’ll ask Megatron to take-out:“I think I would make a deal with him and say instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America?”

Midnight.06.24.2009.

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“5 Things it Means When He Says He Wants Space” was a link sent to me from a friend via e-mail. Thought I’d share.


1. He’s scared.
This I can say for certain. Whether he’s scared because he’s too much in love and is losing himself, of because he’s afraid he’s going to end up married to someone he doesn’t want to be married to, or because, like me, relationships can just plain scare him, I can’t say for certain.

2. Yes, he may want to break up.
The hard truth is that this is what it seems: a break-up with training wheels.

3. He wants to make sure he’s in control.
This is a really selfish thing, and something I’m guilty of. But sometimes men just want to make sure that they are in control of a relationship because not being in control is a feeling that makes them very uncomfortable. It’s the same reason you put the brakes on when you’re driving or skiing or riding a bike downhill: control.


4. He’s trying to be honest.
While, yes, asking for space can be selfish. And hurtful. And really kind of evil. There’s also something a tiny bit noble about it. He needs some time to think about what he wants. And he’s being strong enough to ask for it.

5. What it may not mean is that this is the end.
There’s something holding him back from breaking up. Or else he’d have said, “It’s not me, it’s you … can I have my keys back?” Maybe it’s that he truly does suspect (as it was in my case) that it’s him, and not you.

So why the absence the past 2 weeks? Have I been slaying myself away at every roundhouse kick? Counting every sweat bead that slides down my body? Nope, actually I’ve been busy going in for medical tests (x-rays, blood work, ultrasounds, etc), lying in bed, and digesting the sudden changes in my life.


What’s wrong with me? To be honest, I rather keep that private and it’s still a very sensitive subject to me. But I’m battling through it.


An old injury (I’ll talk about that next time) from years ago resurfaced and it might have been a lot more serious than I thought, after a doctor’s visit. We’ll know soon. So now all physical activity has to be stopped and I have now cancelled my upcoming performance. Bah, it’s okay I’ve already spent enough time crying over it. You win some, you lose some.


I am trying to choreograph something and do a behind-the-scenes thing so I can at least contribute to this gala event that I’ve been DYING to do since last year.


So before I ended my last workout, I checked, in one week I managed to lose 1.5 pounds, and gain a bit of muscle…already!! =) But that was a week ago and I’ve spent this week eating and lying in bed. More tests this week, I think I’ve become immune to needles and doctors.

So it’s a known fact that I’ve been utterly sick to the core the past little while as well, I’ve been dealing with some personal demons and issues. Either way, I found a new focus and after a meeting I was in late yesterday afternoon, it’s pretty official, I’ve been invited to perform! So now I have 6 weeks until I do a short segment which could possibly be a live broadcast as well. I have the perfect idea, but I’ll reveal it when the time comes sooner, I have the song picked and brewing up some choreography. But the biggest issue i have is my health and my fitness level.


I can honestly say that I’m out of shape, and coughing for so many months is really NOT helping my cardiovascular shape in any shape or form. But as of a few days ago (pretty much a few days after I got my mobility back) I’ve been slowly introducing some workouts into my regiment.


If some of you don’t know, I use to kickbox and do pankration a lot, as well as any sort of variation of that kind like Taebo (LOVE IT!) as well I use to be really into Bikram Yoga and Pilates. I started off a few days ago with some pilates and surprisingly, it didn’t go as bad as I thought. I went through the whole session with ease and I can honestly say it relaxed me and made me feel excellent. The day after I did a short 30 minute session of kickboxing and holy…after the first 15 minutes of intense kickboxing drills, I was beat! Realized how out of shape I really am considering the fact that I use to do at least 1.5 hours of intense kickboxing. So I’ve been alternating back and forth and I am sore! And you know what? It feels AMAZING!


Even though I only have 6 weeks until performance, I don’t want to put my body into shock, I’m doing this slowly and probably adding more as the days progress, I feel as though I can do more now, but I’ll take it in stride. Considering the fact that my doctor’s have limited my food choices due to my current health state, there’s really no diet I’m following except lots of water.


I’m hoping within 2 weeks I can start bringing my training outdoors with some hiking, swimming, canoeing, volleyballing, but we’ll see. I’m pretty pumped, I haven’t been this motivated since 6 years ago, back when I was doing my grueling dance training. Now I need to get some new tracks and I’ll be slowly adding the dance practices into my workouts as well. I’ll try and update my progress…but no guarantees! You know how I get with this blogging stuff, I only blog when I feel like it. By the way thanks for all the Twitter responses and Private Messages of support I got from a lot of you guys! You have no idea how much it meant to me and how much easier you guys made things.


Until next time…


Tootles!
Victoria <3


Okay I just sounded super ditzy…this is only because I spent an hour watching youtube videos from a couple of ditzy girls giving out makeup tutorials and introducing their houses….ya…don’t ask.