Sunday, June 14, 2009

Hello Kitty Exhibition

Since March I've been part of an online community who count calories and track exercises in the hopes to manage their weight. There are weight gainers, losers and maintainers on the site. I joined because I wanted to keep track of what I was eating. I had some severe stomach cramps and other digestive discomforts that I'd been ignoring for almost 10 years and I finally decided I was going to do something about it. Anyway, I started a food journal and then got to see the other aspects of the site. I just recently started interacting with other people and discovered that they have a group set up for people in South Korea.

The reason I'm writing this is that it largely preludes what I've been up to lately. Having chatted with someone, I found out about a Hello Kitty Exhibition running in May and June in my neck of the woods. Since it was pretty close, I decided to cycle. I took my bike and off I went. Here are some photos of what was in the exhibit. I found so much of it at least slightly amusing. They had all kinds of multimedia displays as well. One wall hanging lit up when you made noise around and beside it. There was also another one with a screen and some rings on the floor. They set it up so that they gave you a seed, you stomped it into the circle (or soil) and then a Hello Kitty flower grew on the screen. The later part of the exhibit was a bit more avant-garde though so consider yourselves warned. Enjoy!

5 comments:

ambearo said...

Wow! My sister Steph would have loved all that Hello Kitty stuff. Looks like you're doing great! I'm loving how you're updating the blog more! Please keep it up! Also what is the website you're using? I'm curious.

ambearo said...

Where is my comment? Why do you have the comment moderation on so hardcore? Are you really getting a lot of spam? :-(

Janeen said...

Have you looked into celiac or gluten intolerance? I've heard that some people with stomach issues have been diagnosed with that. It can be hard to avoid gluten though as it's in wheat, and a couple other things I can't remember offhand.

I SO need to do something with my weight but I'm one of those people who has to be prodded at daily to do it and not by my skinny as a rail husband. lol

Dana Kiemeny Thompson said...

Thanks for your comments, sorry I didn't post. The moderator is off now so feel free to post anything you want! :S I haven't been diagnosed at all yet, I'm more or less self diagnosing. It seems to have gotten better now that I'm eating regularly and fiberlicious things. If you want someone to prod, I promise to be gentle. I have just seen so many benefits and it hasn't been the constant uphill battle that I expected. You just have to put your mind to it. :) If it's possible for me, it's possible for anyone!

Dana Kiemeny Thompson said...

Oh Amber, I thought of Stephie the whole time I was there. She's the reason I took most of these pics!