Mrs. Renfro's Habenero Salsa. I love hot stuff but this stuff is pure HEAT! I used to put it in with two pounds of ground beef & taco seasoning and a bunch of velveeta ("vegetarian spam") in a crock pot and serve with tortilla chips. Yep, it sure was healthy.

i love hot. spicy hotter than hot. Goddess you shoulda seen hubby's face the day he found my container of dried habenero's. mm what's this honey as he popped it in his mouth. wrong of me to laugh at his pain but oh did i.

Noodles, sorry you feel bad still. feel better. :)

Noodles, how about garlic? I'm sick... my trainer just called, and told me to eat raw garlic, so I had some in a toasted sandwich.
Get better soon, hon.

I always go straight for the wasabi when I'm feeling icky. Miso soup and ginger also do great things for the system. Okay, so I use being sick as a good excuse for sushi, but I really do feel so much better afterwards. :rofl:

Noodles - sorry to hear your under the weather. :rain:

By-the- by, I just loved your mother's day balloons. I could use some lessons on posting all those cool icons and stuff. I'm such a novice. :o

It's funny how hot stuff does make you feel better. And Hannah, I agree suishi is always good and so low cal to boot. I had 12 pieces of suishi yesterday for a mere 6 points (WW). Although they didn't give me enough wasabi. :lol:

I'm so stoked! DBF and I got a bike for me for my Birthday!!! Yay!!! (Hmm... no bicycling smilie?) My B-day isn't for another week and a half, but he's been running long distances by himself, so we figured it would be good for both of us if I rode along. Tomorrow we're going on a seven mile ride/run (me riding, him running). I really like the bike, it is light, comfortable and good colors (silver and black).
Whoops, I think I'm bragging, so I'll stop, but I'm just so excited!

Hannah, that's wonderful! What a great gift!! :cp:

Noodles, glad you're starting to feel better, hon. :)

:thanks: Ellis Dearling!!! :smug:



Per your request...this is the only one I could find...naughty bicyclers!! :lol:

http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies...fighting57.gif

Have a nice day and thank you for shopping at bicyclesmilies.com.!! :lol3:

(I've lost my mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) :hyper:

Noodles - congrats for your bowling success. You go girl!!! :cp:

It does sound like it might have been an allergic reaction. 'nuff already - you've had enough on your plate lately. Oh....loved the tric smilie. Too funny.

Hannah - what a wonderful gift. It's great that now you can exercise together each in his/her own way. AND...... Happy Early Birthday!!! :hb:

Happy Early Birthday, Hannah!!
 

Noodles 13 lb balls :fr:

Happy Friday!!
 

:coffee2: Good Morning Folks!! Going to be 96° here and :sunny: !!!

Where is everybody??? I know yer out there!!! Speak up!! :coach:

I have a busy day...Have to run a bazillion errands, then off to dinner and ball game with some friends. Thank goodness hubby gets off early. He gets the title of "Mr. Chauffeur". I still can't drive yet or I would go yard saling!! Pfooey!!! I am going to try to get on the "morning" schedule this week. I have a tournament to judge next Saturday and my butt drags when I don't get enough sleep the night before. 10 hours + 1000+ screaming kids = EARPLUGS!!! :yikes: But I really enjoy the tournaments/judging...I wouldn't do this if I didn't.

Have a good day everybody!! Here's a cute smiley for ya... http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/love/love68.gif

Wow Noodles - I couldn't keep up with you. Enjoy your hectic weekend.

I'm going over to my mom's for dinner and that's the highlight of this weekend. I really need to get stuff done around the house, both in and out. Sigh.

Please fasten your seat belts, we will entering Weird Space immediately...
 

It took me about 10 seconds to process that sentence-- I was trying to figure out how you could sail a boat over someone's lawn... I was at the point of imagining little wheels on the boat, like a desert sail board, and then I finally got it... :dizzy:

Seek :lol3:

Hannah, what a cool gift. i haven't biked in ages. the last time i tried i ran into a horse and buggy and a person walking all in the same week, so my old roomie took my bike away.

just been same old same old blah around here. but i did get a new kitten. :) he is a cutie but my big boy is extemely pissed off right now.between the kitten mews, the cat growls and hisses and the bickering kids i want some calgon.

Lol!!!!!!!
 

:lol3: You crack me up Seek!!!!!!!!!! I mentioned your name in the maintainers "Update on Noodles" thread...

Heather: I WANNA SEE THE KITTEN!!!!!!!! Baby kitties!!! Awwwwwwwwwww.. http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies...1/animal47.gif

Thanks for the B-Day wishes! I can't believe that in a week I'll be 27. This time I'm not having a crisis over my age though.
I really love the bike. I've had a bike for a while, but it was an old heavy thing withmessed up gears that had me worn out in three miles of riding. Yesterday I rode six out of eight miles with my BF. I wasn't tired, but my knee started to hurt, so I sat out the middle two miles while he went out and back. It was great. Then, when we got back to the apartment I was able to carry the bike up to our third floor apartment. I couldn't even get my old bike up the first flight of stairs. I'm a bit, ahem, saddle sore today, but I can't wait to go back out again.

Heather: I ran into a parked Mercedes once, boy was that embarassing when the alarm went off.
I want to see kitten pictures too!

Seek: "Yard saling", too funny, I read things wrong like that all the time! There's a billboard here in town that advertises a fishing pond, but all it says is, "Ahh, the laughter of children... I got one! I got one!" and the name of the place really small at the bottom. It has taken me the longest time to not be disturbed by it.

Noodles: I love that bicycle smilie, hopefully that won't be me though :lol: .

Happy Birthday Hannah! :hb:

Good Morning!!
 

Noodles, is the swap meet like the farmer's markets? sounds like a great veggie deal.
Hannah, no grumbling i turn 30 in less days than i have fingers and toes. :p

well today i took the kids to the america kid day sponsered by the fire dept. needless to say waaaaaaaaay to many kids, crammed into this teeny building i was starting to get clausterphobic. well let me see if i can get kittie pics on here for you guys. :)
well i tried but it says my file is too large. anybody know how to fix that?

Heather, in my mind I do know that 27 is no big deal, but there's this big myth that I'm sure a lot of y'all have heard of. Lots of famous people died when they were 27. Granted, they were mostly overdoses and suicides, but amongst my friends and I, we always thought it was kind of "uncool" to live past 27. One of my friends killed himself last year. He was 27, I've always wondered if that was part of it. Anyway, I guess there's something melancholy about turning 27 for me. On the other hand I'm excited about coming into a new year of life. I have things pretty well together. I should be graduating in Fall. I guess if I had met myself now when I was in High School I would have thought I was pretty cool, but I wouldn't have believed I would be where I am. Okay, no more grumbling ;) from me.

Hannah -
I had the same problem but with 25. :)
I turned 27 last year (I turn 28 this month). 27 was pretty cool. I hope 28's better. Although someone told me about "Saturn Returning." Here's what you have to look forward to:

Many of us approach our thirtieth birthdays with anxiety, even dread. We start looking for gray hairs and paying attention to ads for wrinkle creams. We question whether we are climbing the career ladder quickly enough. We hear the biological clock ticking loudly and worry that soon we will be too old to bear children.

Astrologers call the period between ages twenty-eight and thirty "Saturn Return." That's because it's the first time the planet Saturn completes its cycle through your birth chart and returns to the spot it occupied when you were born. Internationally respected astrologer Rob Hand calls Saturn Return "one of the most important times in your life. . . a time of endings and new beginnings."

For most of us, ending a phase of life that is familiar and embarking on one that is new and untried is unsettling, even painful. Few people describe Saturn Return as a pleasant period. While undergoing your Saturn Return you may find yourself turning inward and reflecting on your individual destiny. You examine your true needs and desires and the role you want to play on the world's stage. You may feel lonely and alienated from those around you, while family and friends think you are shutting them out. But this is a necessary period of consolidation, when you must retreat from the distractions of the outer world and focus on yourself at your most fundamental level. The Saturn Return is every individual's search for the Holy Grail.

Thanks Goddess :yes:, I definitely needed to see something like that. I had a really tough time with 25 too. The grey hairs thing doesn't get to me though, would you believe I started dye-ing my hair when I was 16 because I started getting them. Now I don't dye, I wear them as a badge of honor. I also use them to make my students think I am much older than them ;) .

Anyways, I had a few bad moments yesterday, but I'm in a really good mood today. I talked to my Dad and he's flying me out for a family week in the Poconos in July. :cb: He's also thinking about footing the bill for a road trip to my cousin's Bar Mitzva in August, so that both DBF md I can go! Yay Dad! :cheer:

Tsk, tsk, girls, come on now. Melancholy in your 20's? Please. Wait until you can play hackeysack with your tits. Now that's sad. :lol:

I didn't freak about turning 30 at all. My brother never saw 30 - died at age 29. That kind of helps me keep it all in perspective. We will see what 40 brings when it gets here in a couple more years.

Tiki.

I have been doing that for years now :lol:
i am not really too upset about turning 30. for some reason maiden never suited me mother is a good phase, and i think i will finally come into my own when i reach crone stage.
I am just upset because hubby is going to be out of town, so i will be by myself.

Hannah : all right for dad coming through. Poconos sounds fun.

Angel : I will send you the pics when i get camera back from hubby in the am. on the kitty front Nugs is finally over being P.O.ed about Ziggy now he is trying to play, only Zigs is so tiny it doesn't work to well. and for such a little thing he can be heard all over house.
well this week is devoted to research paper ( which has to be near perfect , I am not losing that 4.0 that i am managing to tough out so far:) ) and tons of :tread: .
I had to go to :mcd: today and was such a good girl no :burger: for me i got the adult happy meal. yep the salad was good but i really got it because i wanted the toy;)
hope everyone had a good weekend. :flow1:

Heather: Keep up the good work on your research paper!
I was curious about the :mcd: adult Happy Meal, does it come with a pedometer? Does the pedometer seem like a good one?

Well, it turns out I may not have been as upset about my b-day as I thought. I started my . today, so it was probably mostly PMS. Thanks for all the support and perspective y'all. I'm ready for it now and I've decided the 27 will be my most fit year of my adult life so far. That gets me excited. I plan to look better at 27 than I did at 17. :cool:

Hannah. What a great way to think about it. Go you. :)
it comes with a stepometer. nothing fancy but seems pretty decent it just counts yoru step. i figure that they prob. won't last too long but i figure once a week, instead of indulging in fast food with hubby i will get a happy meal :)

Yep, go Hannah, go Heather. Although they're going to have to put a little Transformer or a dinosaur in the adult Happy Meal before I go for it. Maybe a water pistol. And I miss my slingshot-- I made my last one out of my Barbie doll.

Seek- "And I miss my slingshot-- I made my last one out of my Barbie doll." :lol3: you are hilarious!

I am much happier in my 30's than I ever was in my early to mid 20s. I have huge attitude now as in ..." I am too old to take crap from anybody and I don't have to bother with the rest of the world if I don't want to and I don't have to care about stupid things that are insignificant in the long run! So nyeah! :p "

Turning 30 can either be a milestone or a millstone depending on your attitude. I personally found it very liberating! I am 30+...hear me roar! :lol:

Yeah...What she said. Ditto!! I don't take crap from people that I use to take crap from. After they realized they couldn't push my buttons anymore, they just faded off into someone elses life. Thank GOD! :p

I am the coolest 39 year old EVER! :smoking:

Yeah - you are ellis! :D

Lookie What I Got!!
 

Well, tonight was our bowling banquet night and...I made off with a few "goodies" that I didn't expect!! :D

Hubby & I both took 1st Place League High Series Handicap--Received a Special Pin & Cash. I didnt think I won because the week before we were done bowling I got bumped back down to 2nd, but apparently I reclaimed my title at the last minute!! Yippee!! :cb:

We also took 1st Place in Team High Game Scratch, Team High Game Scratch Series, and Team Champions. We got cash for all of these and special League Champion pins for winning 1st place. I also have the chance to purchase the League Champion Ring. Oooo I'm going too. I won't see another one of these in a longggg time so I might as well soak it up now while I can. I'm going for the gold one you see there in the middle of the pic, but I am going to get my birthstone (sapphire) in the middle. I am trying to figure out the engraving. On 1 side I will have "Angel" & the other side "Noodles", but what to put on the inside?? Never had this kind of decision before..:chin: Maybe I will put I LOVE RATS inside. http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies.../2/happy17.gif

I decided to go to Wally World after bowling and spend some of my loot. I have had my other fish tank set up and cycled since Sunday, so it was time to get a fish. Well I wanted a colorful one so I went and browsed the bettas. There was this beautiful blue one that kept swimming right up to me whenever I would walk by so I decided he was the one and took him home with me to his new palace in the water. http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies...2/animal09.gif I also bought some dark chocolate :chockiss:'s. Hey a bag lasts me almost 2 weeks so I deserve a little treat!! :smug:

Anyhow, here's a pic of my "loot". Hub ran off with some of the cash so...I only got part of it in there for ya. Time to rob his wallet. <innocent blinking-eyes look here> http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies.../3/happy05.gif

http://www.bobplumb.com/modules/PNph...wling_loot.jpg