Happy Hag

2:30 approached and DS still didn’t have any ideas for a Halloween costume. He had some lame-o ones which I panned. Come on, how hard is it to be “A Golfer”, for cryin’ out loud. If my son is going to go door to door begging for handouts from strangers, he’d better have a costume that says: “Some effort on my part went into this”.

Sponge Bob to the rescue.

It turned out well, but my favorite part that made my DH laugh were the cartoon “shine” on the shoes…

On the back of Sponge Bob’s head, I wrote a big “Thank You!” in a conversation bubble, in case he forgets to say it.

Filed under: General on October 31st, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’m having on of those rare days when I’m whizzing down my to-do list, checking off items left and right. Dabbling in a little bit of everything today, as I’m not scheduled to work at our restaurant, so I’m taking care of the Other Stuff. A catering menu is off to a good start, a notice to our customers about our new online ordering system was designed and taken to the printers.

Emails were sent.

Wash was folded and put away.

A mini Walmart run was completed with minimum impulse buys.

I even emptied my trash cans upstairs. It was getting wearisome trying to balance bits of trash on top of an already full trash can ~ especially since the trash was mostly wrappers of naughty food item things I shouldn’t bring into the house. I always feel I am “wiping the slate clean” when I get rid of all the evidence…

At this moment, I am trying out a new potato salad recipe to possibly use at the store. (Those freakin’ taties stay hot forever! Like molten rocks.) Also bought some likely-looking small rolls to use for mini-sammies for catering. You see how my life revolves around food, doncha?

Okay, enough about me ~ how are all you chickies doing?

Filed under: General on October 29th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

“I don’t know what I’m doing with my hair these days.”

Thank you Patty . I would make an acceptance speech, but I’m too chicken, plus I can’t think of any good yolks.

My ‘track’ has many diversions, ruts and detours, and way too many concession stands but I try to stay within vision of it. Certainly I am slow at this, witness: I am still as far away from my goal now as I was this time last year. Actually, thinking on it, it was about this time last year that I succumbed to Halloween candy and ceased going to the gym.

I still have that pair of size 10 suede pants a-hangin’ in my closet, a-waitin’ for the day…

If I didn’t keep plodding on my wobbly way though, I can only imagine how many pounds would have creeped up on me in their slow insidious way.

Thanks Patty, for thinkin’ up ways to keep us going!

Which came first? The chickn or teh LOL cat?

Filed under: General on October 28th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

DH and I have been wondering if DS has started shaving yet. (He’s almost 14 years old.) DH wondered this because a can of shaving cream that usually lasts him for months is empty. He casually broached the subject last night and DS said yes, he’s shaving. “Be careful”, were DH’s words of advise. DS pipes back with “I am. All those years of practicing with a spoon have paid off.” Heh-heh!

I remember when I was 11 years old, I started shaving my legs with my dad’s razor. Poor man wondered why his blades were suddenly so dull. Neither parent noticed my bloody knees and ankles. That’s one thing us wimins have over the menfolk ~ I can’t imagine having to shave my face every day.

The end of Daylight Savings Time can’t come soon enough here. With the Phillys/Yankees World Series games coming up, I foresee a few late nights in our future. That “extra hour” will come in hand in the morning.

Exercise has turned into a habit pretty much now. I feel antsy if I’m not at the gym in the morning ~ even on my ‘days off’ from it.

Now, about that eating…

Filed under: General on October 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Just finished watching “Survivor” on the computer. So much better than on the TV, as commercial breaks are oh, maybe 30 seconds. This show has been my guilty pleasure since the days of Richard Hatch, that tax evader. Rupert is so far my favorite player. Yau-Man and Bob Crowley, an old high school physics teacher follow close behind. Interesting show to me. I used to think I could “do it”, but the older I get, the more I like my comforts, and the less I suffer fools.

The exercise part of me is doing well. I average about 4-5 hours of hard, steady fitness stuff a week, not counting waitressing. Where I fall flat on my face is the food part. Damn I love food! I like reading about it, shopping for it, cooking it, feeding others and eating it myself. If I’m not doing any of the above, I am probably thinking about it.

If only I loved clothes more than food! …I almost do.

Filed under: General on October 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Thanks Patty. I’m playing it forward~~

Rules:

-Include the award on your blog or post

-Share with everyone six interesting facts about yourself

-Nominate as many bloggers as you like

-Be sure to link the nominees within your post

-Let them know that they received this award through their tagboards or private message them

-Share the love and link this post so that everyone will know the person whom you received your award from.

Six interesting facts about me:

1.  I’m a graphic artist & a waitress at our restaurant.

2.  I love to cook (and eat). (Patty, I saw no reason to change this answer from yours :))

3.  My husband and I dated for almost 13 years before getting married.

4.  I like words. Word puzzles, twists on words, puns on words, books full of words all strung together into a wordy tale ~ I like ‘em.

5.  I like to poke around in antique shops but I’m usually too cheap to buy anything.

6.  I was the 13th generation of our family to live on the same property ~ and then I moved. My DH finds this fascinating, anyway.

Nominations

Patty (back atcha, woman-thanks for all the laughs through the years, yes “years” plural!)

Joy

inkheartmeg

brseay

angela (the new kid)

I’ve used up valuable workout time raking my brain to think of things people might find interesting about moi. I’ve come to the realization that although I know many interesting peeps, I’m just not that interesting. I’m okay with that Guess I like being interested as opposed to being interesting.

Filed under: General on October 21st, 2009 | 4 Comments »

This video had me laughing this morning, and thanks to inkheartmeg, I am able to post a link to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih6W19KTlZo THANKS MEG!

Sorry, Chickies, as hard as I tried I couldn’t get the video to load in here. Actually, I’ve never seen a video on a 3FC blog before, so maybe it can’t be done.

The orange kitty is yelling at her boyfriend for running around with another kitty in the “kitty speak” of escalating yowls and growls. English sub-titles were added that were hilarious ~ take my word for it.

Our dog couldn’t figure out where the kitty fightin’ words were coming from and was trying to look behind my computer.

Filed under: General on October 18th, 2009 | 5 Comments »

So there I was, ellipticalling away at the gym when a segment comes on Good Morning America about the “Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet” and how so-and-so went from a size 22 to a size 6 in six months. I watched with growing hope: “Maybe THIS is the one”, I thought. The cookies are to be eaten with a big glass of water and they will give you a full feeling. The plan is, you have a cookie/cookies for breakfast, a cookie/cookies for lunch, then a 500 calorie dinner, heavy on the protein. I believe you can partake of up to six cookies a day.

Have any of you Chickies tried this diet? I know I should just save my money (it’s about $8.00 for a day’s worth of cookies). There’s always that little voice in the back of my head urging me to try this or that new product. I would be embarrassed of yet another possible failure in front of my DH who may feel he needed to add his two cents on Why Diets Don’t Work.

Hey Dr. Siegal! If you want to throw some samples my way,
I’d be happy to try them and report my amazing weight loss story!

Just want to let you know, the “Susan’s Cake Diet” does not work. I tried a new recipe for a Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake yesterday. It was very good. I ended up employing a trick from my youth. With a bundt or any tube cake pan, you can nudge the two cut ends of the cake closer together so the rest of the family won’t have to know what a hog they live with.

Yeah, I’m that pathetic.

It took me almost an hour on the elliptical to atone for that bit of naughtiness. Plus I owe another 1/2 hour for the ice cream sandwiches I also ate.

I know!!! Can you believe it???!!

At the grocery store, I thought I would have mastery over myself. DH loves ice cream sandwiches so. I know I should leave that crap in the store.

I can imagine myself eating a whole week’s worth of “Cookie Diet” cookies in one sitting…

Filed under: General on October 16th, 2009 | 3 Comments »

DS wheedled a ride to school from me today because we all stayed up late to watch the Philly’s win their ball game. (can I get a YAY here?) I said yes, with the stipulation that he had to give our one remaining pair of ear buds to me for my workout. His last pair went through the wash and were agitated to an early death.

“Okay, Mom.”

Time to leave for school and he can’t find them anywhere. I specifically put them in his hands not 10 hours earlier. He suggested that maybe I could work on my lip-reading skills. I glanced over sharply to inspect his face for any sign of mockery.

So there I was, facing a bank of silent TV’s on the elliptical. I promised myself that I could stop after 20 minutes, but watching the different numbers flashing up on the elliptical screen ~ miles, calories and time ~ I was inspired to stay on it for 30 whole soundless boring minutes.

I reckon there’s no such thing as a “bad workout” ~ after all, I could have stayed home and read the paper while swilling joe and smoking cig’s.

I’ll just call it an “un-sound workout”.

Filed under: General on October 13th, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Made it to the gym again this morning. Honestly, it feels so darned good once I get a half hour under my belt, I feel I can stay for hours. …..Well, maybe not hours.

One of my favorite authors ~ Diane Gabaldon ~ finally has a new book out. I have devoured all her previous ones & stalked her a little on her web site to try and figure out if another book in the Outlander Series was soon forthcoming. DS and I were in a bookstore last night and, ever-hopeful, I cruised the “G” aisle. YAY! There it was ~ a big fat new book! Part of me wants to ration the book out, the other part of me wants to lock myself in a room and read the whole thing in one sitting. Um, that would be the part of me that is responsible for my extra 20-30 pounds, by the way.

Been hearing on the local news that some genius figured out that the local corner grocery store may be making urban kids fat. DUH!

I grew up in a rural area that just happened to have a sandwich shop within walking distance. Every coin that I could glean from under sofa seat cushions, my brother’s coin-filled ashtray (this was done with careful rearranging of coins) or any other coin-likely places went directly into the coffers of that corner store. This was back in the day where a candy bar was five cents. Certainly that contributed to my pudgy girlhood. And cavities. Later, that corner store supplied my first pack of cigarettes ~ forty cents a pack ~ from the cig machine in their foyer. Together, my best friend and I pillaged her brothers coin collection. The creepy guy who owned the store must have had quite a nice selection of collectible coins from our patronage through the years.

So, yeah, DUH ~ it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that corner stores contribute to the early forming of bad habits.

I hope there is nary a DUH in your day today

Later in da day… Sure hope you enjoy these kitteh pixtures as much as I do. I gotta tell you, I feel relieved when I see other people also have a warped sense of humor.

And this one may be a little more relevant to this site:

Problem is, I usually always want both..

Filed under: General on October 12th, 2009 | 2 Comments »