Yay for Healthy Sushi eating ,sparkly new hairdooooos, and chickenbarkeatingtaxincluded cowsies.... I was beginnin to think the herd headed for the barn for the winter...
I'm suppose to be packing for my week in wee people world... I'm procrastinating.. the thought of flyin to newark 3 hour lay over and then another 6 hours has been in a whiny mood.
My eating is terrible.. I will need to take my lead from Kiwonkers. If you keep on track Kiwi you will be 5 pounds lesss in a weeeeeeek!
Congrats Peachers CashierExtrodinarie on the progression of your job!
We went to Furniture land.. they have a 500 foot Dresser as an entrance how hysterical! and floors and floors of all kinds of furniture TOOOO MANY CHOICES!!!! I got a nice office set.. time to return the kitchen table to its rightful place and use... and we picked out a couch and 2 chairs for the formal living room..I suck at picking fabrics so this should be interesting when it arrives.....ok, If I can find a way to connect with my work puter I'll check in - I need my fix of cows...
Cheers!

How appropriate for the Moo Year, to be Perfectly Brand New and Sparkly! I want pitchers.

I'm trying to decide whether you are sorry to have to be at work instead of at home with the kids, Bagz, or whether it makes a good excuse to escape from the mob of teens'n'twenties!

Seriously, a 500 foot dresser? I can't even picture it! Couldn't complain of lack of storage with that, eh? Good luck on the Ireland packing. Do you need an assistant to accompany you on your trip? I speak the language!

We ran out of tennis balls. How sad. I will have to send someone to the tennis ball store to get more.

Kiwi

Who wants to barbecue?

I am not sparkly, I am blah and fat. Too much before bed eating, something that I don't usually do. Kids go back to school tomorrow after a couple weeks off. I blame them. We put a new book shelf up in the bedroom. Whoo.

There were three hefty earthquakes off the coast of British Columbia yesterday so I panicked a bit but when I phoned my parents they were eating breakfast, happy as clams. Still afraid this might set off The Big One but will try to keep worry to a minimum.

I used to worry about the Big One too, Sugar. That's partly why I moved here. DS is going to Los Angeles later this month for a fencing tourney. I will resume worrying with you.

He just drove away. I am so sad. People at work NOTIcED my hair but didn't like it, I think. I don't either. It's ok for a while but brassy.

Can you light a fire in that thing and let the food cook and go back inside while it's doing it? Bagz does that on her back porch.

Blah. I am so .... whatever.

Glad to know you are perfect! I don't want to wait ten years, myself.
I mostly took off the past 5 months.
My dear friend succumbed to the multiple challenges of her melanoma on December 15. She was loving, gracious, faithfilled and even good natured to the very end. She knew she was loved, and we knew she loved her. The services were heart wrenching (her son and two grandchildren and a step daughter remembered her), but again, love filled. Quite a role model. Oddly, I'm not overwhelmed with grief, but I miss her many times each week.

I'm back to the WW plan of writing down everything I eat. This week, I'm not even trying to "manage" what I eat. It's just that if I eat it I write it. Next Monday, I'll start counting points (I'm probably not eating enough right now... but since I didn't hold back over the holidays, that seems reasonable!) In February I'll add Yoga. I hope to get some walking in before that.

Best to all.

How can I lurk if no one posts?

I was wondering the same thing!

OK, cowsies, we need some fascinating subject to talk about. Weather? our dogs or kitties? the disarray of our abodes? our children/grandchildren/misc. family members? Please don't mention loosing weight. Or losing weight. either one. Shall we discuss our exercise plans? No? Have I mentioned I've developed a serious addiction to homemade white bread? I got the recipe off the internet. I think it may be the crack cocaine of bread. I think you all need to stage an intervention.

how about the recipe instead???hahahaaaaa- oh my lord,i need an intervention---i have been soooooooooooooo blahhhhhhh and eating such crap=-===but you are right wabby---let's talk about cats!!hahahaha!!!---how about weather??? we had tons of snow and now it has been raining and 60 degrees farenheit!!! snow banks are falling!! it's great!----AND WHAT ABOUT THAT OLE HILARY CLINTON!!! I WAS HOPING FOR OBAMA AND WHOOOOOOOSHHHHHHHHHH SHE PULLED HER OUT OF THE HAT JUST LIKE THAT!! I still prefer oprahbama though---i might like any other woman ---but she just doesn't appeal to me for some reason-----any more topics????? when are you going to arizona wabs??? where the blazes are kiwonk and peach??? it's pretty bad when the lurkers are forced to post!!! i am at work so i better look busy---i might have to speak to myself for my slacking ways!

Just speaking for myself, I am so depressed I can barely speak, even with my fingers. Pure blah, with crying jags. I was feeling pretty good, probably due to my change in um, I don't want to say the D word, uh food consumables, but for whatever reason, I am now down in the dumps fer sure. The weather changed, it's now soggy and drippy. Our snowbanks are not exactly melting, it's more like they are just getting wetter. Trying to slog through them is like walking through peanut butter (although fat free). Driveway back to ice as soon as the temp goes down tonight. Cripe. DD leaving to go back to school maybe Saturday, 5, yes count 'em 5 days early. Because she hates her mother that much. DD and DH high tailed it out of the house to the Big City this morning, apparently hoping to get out before I got up, but I foiled their plans. Of course they didn't ask if I wanted to go, left asap. They went shopping, returning, going to the movies. I did dishes, wiped up the bathroom, sobbed, drank warmed over coffee. Now I have to go to a meeting for the stupid music boosters I don't even know why I'm still in. Good god, somebody get me a lethal weapon. Oy.

Happy Happy Joy Joy

One thing did make me smile for a few minutes: I read an article in the paper about smoking: they passed a law in Maine that cigs couldn't be sold without Fire Safe Paper, and smokers are complaining about the taste. Made me laugh.

Kiwi, the mean and ugly

kiwi!!! i feel terrible about how you are feeling!!!! my heavens!!! your dd could never think that way about you--you are soooooooo good to her and adore her--!!!!! oh,that makes me feel so bad!!!---it's kind of weird too,cause i was just thinking to myself this week---i feel depressed but i was telling dh that i was blaming it on meno**** and the weather --------------just the absolute WRONG time of year,and maybe of life---i will hold you up in my best of thoughts tonight dear friend!!xoxoxoxoxoxo

Oooooh. Crying jags R us. Did you mention to DD how many hours of labor it took to push her out into the world? did you mention 'roids and stretchmarks and swollen ankles? I can tell you something, Kiwi, if it gives you any consolation, some day she'll have babies and then she'll finally, really understand how hard it is to be a mother and have to let go.

Bagzie, I'm leaving next Wednesday for AZ, and not a minute too soon. It's been nothing but rain, fog and damp here for as long as I can remember. I'm so sad. I told my friend today that I felt like I looked as though I'd aged 10 years, and she said "you look like the same Wabby, but your eyes look sad." She's right.

Kiwi, meet me in Vegas. We can drink margies until we're senseless.

i would be so happy if kiwi would meet wabby in vegas---that would make my day---if i win the lottery tonight {yes--i do have a ticket} i am sending us all to vegas to meet wabby and we will find a way to be happy together-----peachers,bring yer new hairdo,sugar,git on the train,cherry---fire up your treadmill,shatzi,change your ticket,I'LL PICK KIWI UP IN THE BIG CITY,am i forgetting anyone???? LET'S GO TO MARGARITAVILLE!!!!

Sometimes being sad is so RIGHT, although I don't hear that anybody is actually enjoying it.

I think I sort of OD's on sweets a couple of times during "Christmas" and I haven't wanted the simple carbs and sugars as much as in the past... And I DO feel better (not to mention better about myself.)

We have appetites, needs wants, etc. etc. (whether it is warm weather in Vegas, or sunshine in the far North). Let's make some sort of promise to be gentle with ourselves AND kind.

If you need a bazillion questions (that a coach might ask you) let me know and I'll send you a PDF file with a 30 page list! Of course "work" and thinking aren't helpful if what you really need is a good cry and a nap.

Hugs to all.