The Doors. Some won’t know who I’m talking about, but those who do - those from MY era, that is, will undoubtedly remember them as being absolutely brilliant. Named themselves after Aldous Huxley’s “Door of Perception” and all that…gotta smile, really. A legend in their own time as the saying goes. Many translations for breaking through….mostly into another dimension, another realm, another universe….or, sometimes just breaking on through a rough situation and getting past it. Which is what I am in the process of doing with my “group” - my comrades, my fellow travelers if you will, on the road to a weight-appropriate lifestyle and all that. Some (few) I am so much closer to than others - we see things so similarly, feel so similarly, etc., etc., and others I am less close to, but still *feel* them if you understand my meaning. After all, we’re women, and being women, we have encountered many of the same situations in life and hey we’ve survived so we have something in common, right? And, of course, on this particular website we’re all slightly faaat, too, and that’s ANOTHER thing in common. I like that pronunciation, don’t you? The long, drawn-out “a” sound, like ohhhhh, feelin’ faaaat….which admittedly isn’t usually a good thing, but you can only be but SO depressed, right? I mean we ARE doing something about our little (Okay - not so little) problem, aren’t we? I mean, I mostly am. I’m at a plateau right now. Been on it for hmmmm…’bout three weeks, I’m guessing. Lost 23 pounds, have 20 more to go, and for the past three weeks I haven’t been counting and measuring and watching like a hawk what I’ve eaten, and over this past week, I haven’t been exercising. Haven’t gained, which is nothing short of miraculous, but certaily haven’t lost anything either. Hey at least I’m not bingeing - not eating unhealthy stuff or anything. But I mean, I’ve GOT to get serious again, here. I’m flying out to LA to visit the darling son & his girlfriend at the end of October, and would really like to be slim and svelte and all that good stuff. Have to get back to work on this.

As far as my *thread*mates, some have jumped ship so to speak and embraced the interloper while others have ignored him. I wouldn’t even mind him posting QUITE so much if he wasn’t all “I’ll pray for you” and “Went to church this morning” and all that religious stuff (this is the SAME guy who on his other posts is talking about his “little blue pill” and what a beer drinker he is)…I mean I just think that a person’s religiousness or lack thereof, is nobody’s business but their own. I mean, I just think we should stay neutral on that issue - that and politics. There are OTHER websites for religious discussion and political discourse…there’s even a “Christian Encouragers” thread, I’ve noticed, on 3FC for those who are so inclined. I mean, what if some of us are Jewish, God/goddess (LOL) forbid? What if those of us who practice (or not) alternative religions are offended? Hah! Too bad, right? Trouble is, I’ll look like a total chronic complainer if I bring that up, too, now, won’t I? I just don’t like this dude. He’s a phony through and through - reminds me of one of those old time snake oil salesmen from the old time westerns on TV when I was a kid.

Oh, jeeze. We need some supper here. I’ve got to stop this rant.

 Slip-sliding away,

 E!