Hey Kat,

Can the next slumber party be at your place?! Huh, huh! Considering we know who is holding the first annual...

Andria

Reporting in from Funville, USA!

Hey, come on down, gals!! Anytime! A slumber party would be a blast!!! Just as long as you don't plan on slumbering!

Last night was...hmmm...interesting. Welllll, amusing might be a better word. Surreal would work too! The show was great...my boy Rod can still belt out a tune very nicely. And for a 60+ year old man, he still looks damn cute in his faded jeans! As well as his tuxedo! Having been a fan forever, (over 30 years, actually, since Maggie May came out in 1971) I knew all the songs and happily sang and clapped along with him. Me and about 5 other people. It was the most subdued audience I've ever seen. Very weird! Granted, the average age of the audience was, well let me put it this way: If they're not members of AARP yet, they will be very shortly! Which is fine...but do you come to a concert and just sit and stare benignly at the performer? I wanted to shout, "HEY! The man is workin' it up there! I know it's past your bedtimes, but how about a little feed back for him?" I didn't of course. I'm much too polite.

On the way there, we called my brother, who works in Manhattan, to see if he could meet us for a few drinks or for dinner. He met us at a fine Irish pub right down the road from the Garden. Dinner and drinks went on his expense account, and a fine time was had by all! Lots of laughs... More chuckles came when sis and I got to the Garden. I think the highlight of the evening was just watching the crowd. Ladies in fur coats, men in their houndstooth sports jackets...I was trying to picture how they must have looked, thirty years ago with their long hair and bell bottoms. I just kept saying to my sister, "Are WE that old, too?"

We managed to miss the 11:30 train and had to wait til 12:30 for the next train. Which gave us a whole 'nother hour of people watching! I love to do that. My kids tell me I stare, but I don't really. I'm very subtle, actually...they just know what I'm up to!

So, today is back to house work...laundry, vacuuming and that kind of fun stuff!

Oh, will the madcap merriment and hijinx never end?!

Just lost big post. No time to redo now.
Off to Curves. See ya later.

BTW, sorry Andria, but next year's Fling is here in Michigan. I got dibs! At least you won't have as far to go. AND I promise, I can be FUN too!!!

Okay... I am STRESSED here....
I am NO WAY as much fun as Thin or Kat.
I hope you still come (visualize me begging here).... I am loving.

I can do fun... you just have to lead me there.

Yay! I am so happy that more of you are coming out and posting with us!

It's been a nice day here - I went to the gym and worked out during lunch time!


DH has mentioned going to Sullivans for dinner - it's a very nice (too expensive) steak house, but we enjoy it for an occassional special night out. I think we deserve to treat ourselves a bit after everything going on! We just have to see what time he gets out of work and see if we can still get a reservation.


I hate scales! I have no idea what I weigh right now. My home scale use to be the same as my gym scale - now they are 7 pounds apart - home showed 285 first thing this morning (no clothes) the gym showed 278 at lunchtime (with clothes). DH is also weighing differently at home and Dr. office. I may change the batteries in the home scale and see if that changes anything. I feel pretty confident that I am not gaining - at least not fluctuating more than a pound or so.

Syn -- Wonderful to see you popping in!!! Any new developments with your old friend??? Inquiring minds want to know. We are also having a nice - nearly spring day! It's so nice. I can't wait for warm, sunny days!

Duckie -- Sounds like you have your hands full with work! Hopefully you'll be able to maintain your Internet access! Keep us posted and pop in when you have time! Don't let the slow loss frustrate you - I know the first week seemed easy - I went through the same thing. Just remember you are making yourself healthier even if the scale doesn't show dramatic results. Little by little you will start seeing a difference!

Andria --- Thanks for filling us in on your new job. Sounds like it can be very rewarding and possibly challenging! Good job getting out there to Curves!!!


Kat --- I can just picture your evening - sounds crazy and wonderful!! DH and I are also people watchers. We always take turns guessing people's career and whatnot! Looking forward to a slumberless slumber party one of these days!

Thin --- Those darn post eating goblins!!! So, Michigan is on the agenda next year? Maybe we can bring things east after that!

2cute --- Don't you dare stress for a minute! I know you are going to be fun! You know I wish I could be there. I'll be there in spirit!!!

Time to go hit the shower so I can be a good-looking, good-smelling dinner date tonight!


Have a great evening!
Barb

Howdy! Very slow here. Geez, no one's been here since 5:00??? What's with that?

I DID do Curves today. I told the girl that my evil self was trying to talk my good self out of going, but my good self WON!!!! Yaaayyyyy!

I'm a "showgirl" tomorrow. I could have done it today, but honey wants to see Passion of the Christ. I'm NOT looking forward to it, but told him that I would go and sit with him since he's certainly sat through enough movies that I wanted to see. I know the story, I just don't think I need the "visual". I also have to do Twisted. Now that's the one I really want to see!

I've been sleeping off and on on the couch tonight. I think the 2:00 - 3:00 AM bedtimes all week have finally caught up with me. And usually when I do that, I'm wide awake (I don't do naps well), but tonight, I can hardly stay awake to talk with you.

Sooooo, that said, I'm going to hit the hay.

Good morning ladies!

Its Saturday!!!!!!!!

We're going to see The Passion of Christ today. I know its going to be very graphic but I'm excited to see it. My mom is coming up and DH's mom and brother are coming over so we can all go together. Then we're doing Chinese buffet for lunch/dinner.

DH and I cleaned house last night. You all were talking about cleaning the guest room so I worked on mine. Our neighbor is coming over next week to paint our kitchen. So i'll be cleaning the kitchen out tomorrow. Which is good, it will force us to get rid of stuff and furniture that just doesn't look good.

I also need to shampoo carpets. More likely, teach DH how to shampoo.

Okay, I've watched Survivor. Richard was quite surprised wasn't he? Although, I thought he deserved it because he kept taking his shorts off. Like anyone wanted to see it. He was just laying back feeling superior.

I need to hit the shower and get ready for the day. Have a great one!

Thin!

OH that was PERFECT...Richard unanimously voted off! He didn't know what hit him! Now I look forward to the day that smug ba$tard, Boston Rob gets the boot!

Gotta run for now...I'll be back!

Hi all! Just dropping in before I run out to play "showgirl".

Cool. We can talk about Survivor now. Wasn't that the best??? To think Richard had just no clue that he was getting the boot.

I'm off. See you guys later. Love ya bunches!

Hi ladies!

Where is everyone - besides Kat and Thin anyway?

We're back from the movie and late lunch and everyone back on their way home. The movie was beyond words, in my opinion. It was brutal. I cried throughout most of it. At one point, I wondered how I could be excited to see it and worried about DH's mom because she's 83 - but then I thought, He endured it, how could I not watch what was done to Him? How could I not face it?

I'm sitting with my feet up and ready for a nap. Have a great Saturday evening!

Hi Chicks!
I'm here - just sat down for the first time today. DH and I stayed up until about 2am playing EQ (EverQuest - the online game we play). Slept until about 10am then cleaned the kitchen, went to the gym, came home showered and changed then ran a million errands --- bank, drugstore, lunch, Kohl's, Pier One, Ulta, Best Buy, Target, Drug store - again and then - FINALLY - back home. Just finished setting up a new DVD/VCR and running new coax. cable - the old was acting up.

Whew - Now I am going to be lazy the rest of the night!

Tomorrow should be a little more relaxed - more cleaning, putting up some shelves I bought today, I want to make the curtain for the bathroom, etc.
OK - maybe it won't be a relaxing day!

Survivor was TOO funny. I loved that smug Rich had the wool pulled over his eyes. Looks like we should expect a good old explosion from Sue next week. My guess it that they show up at the first challenge and realize that Rich is gone - Jeff goes on to ask everyone's reaction and then she goes off on Jeff. If you ask me she is the one that caused the little incident on the beams - she started to go down one beam and then purposely went head to head with Rich!

I am outta here to be lazy! Catch ya'll later!
Barb

I'm here I got up this morning with a migrane headache. It was the first time in 3 years that I called in sick. stayed in bed till 11. sill not feeling normal. We are going to see Passion tomorrow.

Hey! Anyone remember me?

Seems like a month since I've poster, instead of just three days!. As I've said before, work has been very busy and I haven't had time to check in very often, the I haven't been home at night.

Thursday night we went to see the Passion of the Christ. It was very moving, but very graphic. As we left the theater, my mom said "I'm glad I saw it, but it's one movie I don't want to see over again!" I don't think you need to see it more than once. The one thing that was so suprising to me was the fact that it wasn't in English. Of all the hype and everything I'd seen and heard about it, that was one thing that had slipped by me.

Friday night was Bunko night and as usual we had a great time. The lady who did dessert went overboard and made the most wonderful thing I've eaten in a long time, and boy did I eat it. It was an apple dumpling and it was just perfect.

Today I thought I'd have plenty of time to post at work, but we had electricity problems, and couldn't get on the computers until almost time to leave. After we got off work DH need to go a special hardware store that is across town from us. By the time we got through there it was about 3:30 and we hadn't had lunch so we stopped at a "differnt" Mexican food place and had a great lunch, then instead of getting on the freeway to come home, he took the long way and drove through Downtown. Those of you who are not from large towns won't appreciate what a treat this was, but I really enjoyed it. Then we went by the Farmers Market and they have several large nurseries around the outside area of the market, so we stopped and looked at all the plants, and tried to decide on what all we wanted to plant at the house, but they were very expensive, so we just looked. They had one really neat basket that had several different plants in it and they wanted $ 149.95 for it. Dh said I could do one just as nice for less that 1/4 of that. We did buy some plants last weekend and planted some out in the front, but it's really still a little early to do too much.

BarbPa, Glad things are doing better for your DH. It's no fun when they are sick.

Thin, When we were at the show Thursday night they were advertising of Mystery shoppers. Great that you are back at Curves!

2Cute, I'm watching the Antique Roadshow and it's in OKC today. And I bet you are fun!
Terri, Andria, and all the others, catch you next time when I haven't run on and on about myself, and when I haven't run out of colors!

Hi everyone! Max and I are sitting here at the computer. I have a little heater at my feet now and I have it on. Max is curled up next to my chair. He came in begging for treats, which of course I have in here for him, but when I turned on the heater he just layed down and is enjoying the warmth. Poor old baby. He'll be 10 in August.

We did stay to see The Passion today. Having been raised Catholic (and I only say this because I have no idea what other religions put their kids through) I was always forced/encouraged to watch all of the movies that came out that were religious in nature. And of course, this time of year they are not hard to find. Anyway, I wasn't crazy about the idea of seeing the movie, but honey wanted to see it (and offered to see it by himself) so I told him I would sit with him. It truly was "beyond words", I just didn't need the visual. It is very graphically violent, as I'm sure the last moments of Christ's life were.

Beyond the actual movie, I was totally amazed by how thoughtless the crowd seeing it was. All of the showtimes were sold out. Management asked people to move in to fill all of the empty seats and no one moved. They made the request several times and no one moved. Then the manager actually went up into the audience and personally asked people to fill in the seats and then they would reluctantly get up and move over. Another woman, could be heard saying "this is bu!!$hit!" Another couple was seated in two seats that had a space between them so if you brought someone in in a wheelchair you could sit beside them. A lady came in pushing a wheelchair. Do you think they would move to somewhere else? Heck no. She was stuck sitting elsewhere. All I could think was, what the heck are these people here for? They can't even be civil or loving to each other for a moment to let other people sit down. What do they think they're going to get out of this movie? Just totally thoughtless.

Sorry, that was my soapbox complaint for the day. That and the fact that there were far too many little kids (7-10? year olds). I just think there was far too much violence for those little ones.

Well, now that I've discussed one of my favorite subjects to avoid (religion and politics), I'll leave that one alone.

2cute: I liked your oneliner for staying out of arguments: "Everyone has the right to be wrong." My WW leader has one that she likes to use on sabatours , you know the ones, those who think you're doing something wrong all the time. Anyway, her saying is: "you may be right". Of course, as she puts it, "you may be wrong, too". But she only uses the first one to stay out of trouble.

Audrey: Glad you stopped in with your Thankful List. I like reading about everything we all have to be thankful for.

BarbPA: You must have been working from home on Friday, saying you were still in your jammies. Hope you got what you needed to done. * Yup, Michigan's next, then you guys out East can fight over the next location.

Andria: Were you networking again at that awards ceremony??? You sly girl, you! Good for you. You've got such a great talent. I'm hoping one day you can open that catering business. It seems to be your underlying dream. You've certainly got the smarts and flair for it. Your current night shift job sounds like it's rewarding. I'm glad you're enjoying that. Maybe it will be therapeudic and you will find some peace in your life too. Dual duty. I like that.* "Inspiration"? Me? You're the one that inspired me to go to Curves in the first place. Maybe we can just play relay with that inspiration until we're both giving it a good go. Whatdayasay???? Deal???

Syn: Glad to see you posting. I was thinking you forgot about us. * So how was WI (not Wisconsin)? You never came back to say.

Duckie: Good to see you too. I sure hope the new situation at work turns out well for you. Sounds like you're kind of in limbo right now. Stop back when you can. We miss you when you're gone.

Katrina: "If they're not members of AARP yet" Hey, watch that. I am now (eligible, that is ). It's not nice to make fun of us "old" folks! You better watch out, we'll beat you with our canes!!! The concert sounds like it was a good time. Those people in the audience not "getting into it", those would be my honey. The only concerts he goes to, he does it to humor me, and then he sits like a bump. It's down right embarassing! * I'm glad you guys got to meet up with your brother too. That must have been fun (especially putting it on HIS expense account!) Honey and I like to 'people watch' at the theatre. We're there so much that we have even nick-named some of our favorites. Like "studman" because he has piercings everywhere. And "space cadet" because she ambles aimlessly from auditorium to auditorium with that look in her eyes. We have several that are pretty interesting to watch.

Mary: Gosh, I'm sorry you're so under the weather. Hope that your migrane is subsiding by now. That is NOT like you to call in sick. It must have been a doosey!

Barb/ageoldie: The sub-titles surprised honey and I as well. There was a warning note from the theatre on the way in about the graphic nature of the violence and that's where I first learned that it was sub-titled. * Did you see the movie at a Star Theatre. They have their own mystery shopping program. It's almost like a membership. You pay a certain amount and then they guarantee you to get so many tickets and vouchers for the concessions and stuff. It's a discount from what you would normally pay, but you still pay. The stuff I do I don't put any money out for, they pay me. * Forget about you!!! NO WAY!!! I can't wait to meet up with you in April. Sounds like you're getting that new facility up and running. Hope that will give you some time to play soon. * That basket for $149 must have been some basket. YIKES!!! You could certainly do something HUGE for that kind of money. Heck, I don't think my whole perrenial garden cost me much more than that.

Terri: I think you better teach DH to shampoo the carpets. Aren't you supposed to be OFF that foot???? How's it feeling? Better, I hope. Just don't overdo, you'll be sorry in the long run.

Well, girls, I think I've caught up with everyone. Hack is on and I'm going to the family room to sit with honey and watch it. The boys went to see Eurotrip (big waste of money!) Catch ya all later. Love ya bunches.

I am better