food and exploding human beings, oh my!

[enamoured]

Today I have been walking around worrying that my pants were going to fall down. My pants and my underwear. Somehow, both feel very loose lately, but I can't fit into the size 14 jeans I own.

So I've been losing at least a little weight lately, and I'm thinking it's because I've been running around madly lately and not eating much. Sometimes all I do is grab breakfast and dinner, sometimes just one of the two. And I know it's not healthy and I know I should at least eat something no fewer than four times a day, but it's like... I'm doing stuff and I can't grab something. Or I just forget and get wrapped up in things. I need to eat, yo. Seriously.

Nerdy TV of Tonight: Spontaneous Human Combustion on the National Geographic Channel. The first time I heard of spontaneous human combustion, I was about seven and it was on Unsolved Mysteries. That show used to terrify me as a kid. I watched my first episode after this kid in my kindergarten class was talking about it and how they talked about aliens (he was still obsessed with aliens years later), and I watched one episode about a house being haunted and I was scared to be in the dark for quite awhile afterwords. So I saw this thing about spontaneous human combustion, and for a time after, I was convinced I was going to randomly go up in flames. It's still a small, nagging, irrational fear. It's only overshadowed by my fear of being shot in the head (or shot, period) or drowning.

Comments

[someday22.livejournal.com]

The 1st story I remember on Unsolved Mysteries (it was before it was a weekly show) was about the Uni-Bomber. That police sketch scared the crap out of me. I imagined him standing outside my window. The combustion one freaked me out, too.

[unexplored.livejournal.com]

I'm totally feeling you on the pants issue. My size 18 pants go so low, it's almost obscene (so I don't wear them without a belt). I have two pairs of jeans that are size 17 (oh Target how I love thee, let me count the ways) and I can pull them off me without unzipping them. However, I have two pairs of size 16 jeans and they won't go up past my thighs? What.the.hell?

Unsolved Mysteries had a show about ghosts that scared the crap out of my sister and I so badly we slept with the lights on in our bedrooms for about a week. The night we watched it we refused to leave my mom's bedroom (all three of us were on the bed watching the program) and slept in there.

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

Oh God. Unsolved Mysteries tramutized I don't know how many times as a kid. The damn theme song jingle thing still sends shivers up my spine...

[stephentrendy.livejournal.com]

I think the worst part about Unsolved Mysteries wasn’t the actual content, but Robert Stack’s narration. That man’s voice can still give me nightmares.