Sometimes, when you are considered overweight you get a lot of this: You know, I’ve been meaning to tell you, so and so has lost almost a 100 pounds and looks TOTALLY amazing. She just changed her diet and started exercising.. Or this: You really HAVE GOT to try this. So and so looks phenomenal [...]
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I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. In fact, I have a love/hate relationship with a lot of social media, as documented here, but Facebook is the worst. The background information: I grew up in a very small town. When I was in fifth grade, I was very popular. …
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There is this girl who lives next door to me in my dorm, who, after my repeated answers, still seems to ask if I am a vegan/vegetarian, if I work out a lot, and she frequently comments that I eat “so healthy” and it makes me uncomfortable. I have a groin pull, and she’s always [...]
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Thanks to Trop 50 for sponsoring my writing about fabulous bloggers. This year Trop50 is granting 50 fabulous wishes. Click here to enter for a chance to win $1,000 to help grant a friend’s wish! So, this is a bit of a departure from typical Medicinal Marzipan as I don’t usually do any sort of [...]
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Hello hello! So, I’ve been receiving some blog awards on the sly BUT have been so busy with our regularly scheduled programming that I have yet to acknowledge them! And I certainly do not want my fellow blogger to think I am ungrateful so I have decided to compile them into one major award post, [...]
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Welcome to DAY TWO of Marzipan’s REAL marriage advice feature. Did you miss out on Part One? Head on over there now to learn the cast of characters, and the premise behind this project. [Summary is that my beloved bestie is getting married come September, so I rounded up the best of the best to [...]
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dear dear medicinal marzipan, i have just come out of a long-term relationship, don’t know the first thing about dating and find myself reverting quickly to cat ladydom. how do you meet new people who you know are into you and emotionally accessible and trustworthy and won’t hurt you and will understand you???? i’d also [...]
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Dear Marzipan, My mother has always said that one needs to be proactive in preventing circumstances in which your monogamous loyalty to your partner can be disabled by formed feelings, developed desires for another. In terms of preexisting friendships (some with non-platonic histories thrown into the mix), what should I do? Do I…allow for this [...]
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I told you that I was sorry and I wanted to mean it. I wanted to mean it in the real way, the I know what I did was fucked up and I won’t do it again way. Won’t. Not in the way that I had always known it to mean, the way in which [...]
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A recent NPR article entitled, “Happiness: It Really Is Contagious,” discusses a recent Harvard University and University of California, San Diego study which documents the ways in which happiness spreads throughout social networks, rippling in waves like a stone thrown in the pond and touching those in direct contact with you. The article states: They [...]
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