Morning ladies! It is still wonderfully cool so I am sitting here in a nightgown with the door open loving the cool air. Good grief, somebody's car alarm is going off and making horrible noise causing dogs to bark etc. Ruined the beautiful quiet!
I think those jerks from next door have abandoned most of the junk. I noticed they came back sometime and got the kids bikes and a little chest freezer, but the back yard is full of crap they left behind, including a satellite dish on a stand, which you wouldn't think they would leave. Heaven knows what the house inside looks like. I am giving it one more month and if it is still like this, I am contacting the association about it as we have had rodent problems in the garages in the past and an unihabitated house with stuff still in it would be a feast for them. They have left an upstairs window totally open too so I don't know what's with that.
Jean: Sounds like you had a day full yesterday. I got the pants beat off of me in 2 games of Kerplunk last night!
Jack said something to me about letting him win, and I told him, I was NOT letting him win, he was just whipping me! Ian would like it, but it is such a pain having to put those little sticks back in. That is the only thing I don't like about the game. We had a fun time even playing name the word with Thomas. He would call out a letter then I would give him a word beginning with that letter, then he would have to do one. He called out "T" and I said trees and he got a twinkle in his eye and said I know a better one. I asked him what and he started giggling and said, "Thomas, of course!" Well, DUH Nonny, how dumb can you get?
I am hoping the Nutrisystem works for us and can get us to a place where we can control what we eat a little better. The packages are like vacuum sealed, freeze dried or something so they need no refrigeration and most of them either microwave or you add hot water (like their soups, I suspect) I told Jack after 2 weeks I would ask him whether or not he wanted to continue it (ie if the food was tasty to him) and if not, I would cancel his and go back to cooking him meals. I plan on staying on it. I really do better. When I initially lost the 100 lbs, I would have yogurt for breakfast, a ff pudding or something for snack, a lean cuisine type thing for lunch then make dinner and portion control etc. This way, all I have to do is add a couple fruits and a vegetable for dinner or a salad and I have my meals. It is quite expensive ($310 a month per person), but I don't care. It is worth it if I can get this weight off again.
Maggie: With Nutrisystem, you have no meetings consults, whatever, you do everything online, but you have a lot of stuff available to you for free, like a diet coach, a personal trainer, a food diary etc. It is different than it used to be where you paid a fee and went in to a center etc like Jenny Craig. Now, you just order your plan online or over the phone, pick out either "favorite foods menu" or you pick out your own menu from a list of stuff and they ship it to you. You can get on auto delivery so they just ship the next month's to you and you save 10% for the first three months then 15% from there on it and they charge your credit or bank card.
Gloria: I love to watch the travel channel and they had this show on about vacation homes and this large group of women calling themselves "women on the fly" I think vacation together several times a year. They are all avid fly fisherman and range in age from 20-85 or so I think. A lot of them have bought those tiny trailers from the 50's you pull with a truck and restored them. Some of them were quite a site inside and the outsides were all painted and decorated. It was pretty neat. I love the little shops etc. Beale street used to have them and still do, but now they are strictly souvenir and kind of tacky. I watch a BBC program called "Cash in the Attic" and always enjoy the auction part where they auction off the treasures they found in the home. A few days ago they had a man who auctioned off a bunch of war memorbilia from his father and grandfather including a couple empty huge gun shells. Those things sold for like $600 american money or something. Funny to watch what one person's junk is another's treasure as they say. Some things I think are wonderful, they can't get a bid on and others sell through the roof and are the ugliest things on earth.
Talking about sewing etc. I have to show you what I did yesterday. I am including pics of a couple things I made yesterday. The storage cube has all of T's games in it and he has a little table there with his m and m machine. It somehow got a water stain on it and looked horrible so I covered it then made a pillow. I want to make another one, but ran out of time. I am using old pillows people have given me that have like Christmas designs or something on them I don't ever use and have just stored. Better than going and buying them. The fabric is some I bought almost 4 years ago to convert a coffee table to a bench and we moved and gave away the furniture so I was stuck with all this apholstery fabric. This has NO sewing for either project, believe it or not. I think they turned out quite well!
I better get hopping and finish chores and get on the treadmill.
Faye