I checked in on “our” thread this morning, and despite the fact that there must be 30+ people who have posted on there in recent history, today there was ONE post from one of the newer people saying essentially, “See ya later; I’m going car shopping!”
Okay. Well, isn’t THAT supportive, motivational, and friendly and all [...]

Home today. Really PO’ed at some stuff going on at work….sometimes it feels like I’m working for a herd of ignorant buffoons; the sad part is when it turns out to be true! Okay. Very negative, I know, and I apologize. Really. But I’m feeling really frustrated and embittered and impotent and FAT…looked in the [...]

   Slowly, and with great difficulty, I seem finally to be developing a more accepting attitude towards life – mine in particular, at any rate – and I imagine it’s fairly common, coming to grips, I mean, with who and where you are in life once you get your kids all raised and have the [...]

Okay, this picture has absolutely no relevance whatsoever except that it tickled me and made me chortle and giggle sitting all by myself at the computer realizing how strange it might appear to someone walking by my office…like “What is that old bag guffawing about?” But I don’t care. I am enjoying my capacity for [...]

So, what is it that calls to us…what piper do we dance to? Why are we doing this? Why are we trying to lose weight, anyway? If the answer to that is anything external to ourselves, then we’re in trouble, right? Well, that’s what “they” say - they being the people “out there”; the ones [...]

We are so many things to so many people, arent we? I’ve been thinking about that lately. And yet, despite all those faces - all those “masks” if you will, what/who are we at the core of it all? Who knows us as we really are? Who knows what we struggle with, hope for, wonder [...]

Okay, it’s been awhile. I have, surprisingly, although I haven’t managed to get back down the rabbit hole recently, stuck faithfully to my *Wendi* plan, and, Tah-DAH….have lost an additional hard-won TWO pounds! Now, I say this knowing full well that if it was say, ten years ago, two pounds would’ve been miniscule to me; [...]