Hi Lisa! way to go for your skincare regimen, and EXTRA way to go for buying the mat and a workout outfit!!! That is such a positive step and I hope you find some workouts on youtube that you like. Starting out with stretching and light yoga sounds great!!

I hope the contractor does get back to you soon.

Hi JesikaBeth, it is so great to hear one of us say they are feeling pretty good! hope you have a good weekend coming up.

Hi to our other friends

Still sticking with my exercise, at least 30 min. 5x a week, I hate to do cardio and would rather do light weights/toning, I'm just glad I'm doing something.

I hit the pavement today with 40 bags of my meringue mushrooms to try to find stores to sell them ...god I hate selling!! my first contact, the lady was such a b*tch. She could have just simply told me 'no thank you'. Apparently I priced them too high but she could have asked if I was open to negotiating price. No, she just got pretty close to my face and said 'do you know how much I spend on TV and radio advertising?' and um, no lady, I DON'T and I really don't care I showed myself out I then made 6 more stops, people were polite at least, and I left my contact information and a sample bag of the mushrooms .

and I drove home feeling like a BFF, a Big Fat Failure ...but when I got in the house, there was a phone message from one of the stores, the biggest store, and the lady left a message that she was sorry she missed me and was excited about my product!! I then called her back but she had left for the day, but I left a voicemail. I really only wanted to do them to focus on something other than hating winter and hating my new neighbors.

Hey ladies,


I am stressed out today. I can't come up with the money to make a car payment. I may lose my car. I am anxious and sad. I took some clonazapam to calm me down and I feel so tired. I honestly don't know what I am going to do.

Lisa, first how did you manage with the trouble about the car payment?? worried about that for you!! It seems sometimes you can call them and just explain that you're in a tight spot for the moment? I hope it worked out!!

the contractor..hmm I don't know what to suggest if his estimate is high..I would just state that you had X amount of dollars from the insurance and that is all that you can put towards it and i hope he ca make it work.

I hope Jennifer had a great time at the Christmas party.

Very good responsibility for wanting to take good care of your lovely self!

thanks for the high five about the mushrooms maybe they will sell, maybe not . At least i can't beat myself up for not trying.

gotta get ready for work, bleh HELLO to everyone else, please say Hi

Hello,

I tried several times to post in the past month, and I lost every single one of them and got too disgusted to try again.

It seems to be working now, so I will do a series of short ones....just in case!

Holly, those mushrooms are adorable....have you considered asking the rat b*stard boss to sell them?
How has your weather been? We have a possibility of snow tonight, but had a very mild November. Every mild day, (actually even a stormy one) brings us one day closer to Spring!

Kathleen, how is everything going for you? This is not my best time of the year - I find the holidays tough, but I get through them. I get restaurant gift cards for the adults in my family, Amazon and/or college fund money for the younger. I have not shopped for family members in about ten years - when my b*tch sister-in-law left the gift I bought her at my mother's and said I had obviously regifted something cheap from a client - that was not at all true, but so traumatic that she has gotten a Dunkin Donuts gift card every year since (she prefers Starbucks LOL!)

It seems the only "real" gifts I am buying are for Yankee Swaps, a child from my church giving tree, my hairdresser and my cleaning lady. They get more personalized gifts than my family members ever since that drama. I wish we would draw names or have a Yankee swap - this is ridiculous....I give gifts to 30+ family members.

My exercising is going great, but my eating has been crazy. In the past week I went to a neighbor's home for a party, a library volunteer luncheon, a law-school reunion and a friend's potluck trim-a-tree. I don't dare get on the scale right now!

Kathleen, how are your son and daughter doing?

Lisa, I think the contractor can negotiate with your insurance company regarding the cost of repairs. That is how it worked when my washing machine hose let go and ruined the hardwood floor in my laundry room on the second floor and the first floor ceiling under it. That was minor compared to your fire...just a nuisance.

Hello to everyone else.

That IS ridiculous! a Yankee swap would be so much more practical!! wow what an awful sister-in-law, but I'm glad you give her the DD card, LOL

Yay for your exercising!! and yeah the holidays mean so much more opportunities for tempting us

Seems the 3FC site has so many more ads that mess with my posts, too. I will log in, type a LONG great post, hit submit, then it tells me "you are not logged in" ...then I will log in, and it takes me to a blank page I have had luck hitting back key, even previous to logging in, finding my post, copying it, then pasting it in another tab . Sheesh!

We got snow last night but I haven't gone out yet to see the damage, will do so soon and see what I have to deal with.

HI to everyone else!!

hello and so good to hear from Kathleen and it is such good news about your son!

Hi to Lisa, Monica, Coop, JesikaBeth!

About an hour ago I was outside shoveling and intentionally, meanly, satisfactorily, snubbed the devious next door neighbor I can be a vindictive person when I want, and revel in it She said 'good morning', I stopped shoveling, stared at her, went back to shoveling It's the first time we've been somewhat near each other since we found out about them submitting false plans to build what they wanted, instead of what was legal. It's gonna be a bumpy next 30 years for them.

Hi all! So sorry for my long absence, I've not had much chance to stop by! I didn't realise how long it had been since I last stopped by... I'll catch up over the next few days!

Our rabbits had a fall out last month, and I've been spending my evenings having to supervise them while they're together. It's very time consuming!

I wanted to say Happy 50th Birthday to Kathleen while I'm here! sorry it's late!