tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394514009078994555.post3477682243278481012..comments2023-03-26T08:12:37.723-06:00Comments on Fare Forward: Things I Am Wonderinglacremahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07563587952608767538noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394514009078994555.post-9530682709428393212011-12-12T17:11:02.464-07:002011-12-12T17:11:02.464-07:00Looking at pictures of baby animals or people can ...Looking at pictures of baby animals or people can boost oxytocin too (it's the giant eyes in proportion to the head, and large pupils help). <br /><br />This is also kind of interesting - http://www.hugthemonkey.com/2008/08/journaling-can-provoke-an-oxytocin-response.html<br /><br />Does Charlie like stickers? I have stickers from the dinosaur museum... (magnets too)marsandersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10854484545299041113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394514009078994555.post-23994239862907613952011-12-11T22:23:48.216-07:002011-12-11T22:23:48.216-07:00Research suggests that the best ways to up your le...Research suggests that the best ways to up your levels of dopamine and oxytocin are to 1: laugh and 2: hug. I'll bet we can likely help with the first one, but the second's all on Charlie, methinks.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16655318034828876350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394514009078994555.post-32484524530666550002011-12-11T21:48:21.173-07:002011-12-11T21:48:21.173-07:001. I don't know exactly, but I do know that th...1. I don't know exactly, but I do know that the iCarly people make between 50-75k per episode. Can't me much less that that. Hollywood money is stupid crazy.<br /><br />2. Because it does, like you say, temporarily. And just often enough, our problems are made better because we take a minute or two to down a few and in so doing lessen the immediacy of the problem. Then in the morning we say, well, I guess that was not so hugely awful.<br /><br />3. Trains, Trucks, Dinosaurs, Sharks, Space. Then if they have any sense, Baseball. No choice. If we didn't have these things, we would invent them.<br /><br />4. Because in reality, like blue explained, what we perceive as thought is mostly chemical and electrochemical reactions. So figure out how to create anti-stress, and it will start making you feel like a million bucks. Then teach me how to do it.<br /><br />5. Because they put chemicals in it that make you crave it fortnightly!<br /><br />6. When it is too much joy. Or too much money. Or too much peace.<br /><br />7. Just where you should be to get yourself to this moment. Now where you go is up to you, as it always has been.<br /><br />8. All of the good socks go to heaven, where they sit around with each other and tell stories about gold bond medicated powder and hightop shoes. The bad ones go to sock hell where people with sharp and badly trimmed toenails and bleeding athlete's foot put them on and take them off over and over as they cry and bemoan their lot.fmcmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18406747687269295212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394514009078994555.post-73523837754605109362011-12-11T19:25:37.798-07:002011-12-11T19:25:37.798-07:00#4, Stress can make me instantly sick so I SOOO un...#4, Stress can make me instantly sick so I SOOO understand. Argument with someone? excuse me while I poop. Late for work? excuse me while I poop. Run into someone I don't like... You get the point. Everything Blue stated above is fact however on top of that instead of taking priority from immune system for some of us it also takes from digestion and shit too. Lame. <br /><br />#7, you have been preparing for the wonderfulness on the other side of the shit storm that has taken over your life. Just remember that tough times don't last but tough people do. <br /><br />#8, the socks go to the underground sock railroad where they fight to make it to freedom. All those "block parent" signs are just code for "Sock safe house" and those bastards only wear socks they employ and pay.Teelumshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03055292819598760938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394514009078994555.post-55834370083117740252011-12-10T23:37:14.535-07:002011-12-10T23:37:14.535-07:00To #2, how do you account for fuckers like me who ...To #2, how do you account for fuckers like me who almost never have a hangover?Milissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04721237429886592541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394514009078994555.post-52070672448113771452011-12-10T23:27:00.882-07:002011-12-10T23:27:00.882-07:00I can propose an answer to #4: just like there...I can propose an answer to #4: just like there's 'happy' chemicals and neurotransmitters (dopamine, oxytocin), there are 'stress' or 'sad' chemicals and neurotransmitters (cortisol, adrenaline). Part of the action of the happy chemicals is to tell your body "hey, shit's cool up here, nothing to worry about, you can lower the heart rate and stop releasing energy stores," whereas when there's the stressed chemicals around, they tell the body "best be ready to run, keep that heartrate up! Nevermind the immune system, we might have to beat that lion to the nearest tree soon!" Cortisol in particular actively downregulates the immune system. Stupid evolutionary artifacts. I hope things get better soon.<br /><br />As for #5, MSG and salt. Makes pretty much anything taste good.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16655318034828876350noreply@blogger.com