Who wants peectures?

Me me me! I want peectures!

So I'm doing good at the WW thing this first week... down four pounds. But when I check the community there... I just ask myself, what's wrong with these people?

At least the plan works.

Cherry! way to go w/ the 4 lbs. off!

I too, am at or slightly above what my weight ticker thingie says. Should I change it? nah. I went to bunco on Saturday and noticed that all my bunco compatriots are also overweight. We've all gained since we started the group. There was only one person there at her ideal weight and she was only a substitute player. Maybe it has something to do with our bunco snacks. We were discussing what the fate of the hostess would be if she didn't serve dessert, or heaven forbid, served fruit for dessert. It wouldn't be pretty.

I don't know what the prom customs are around here, thankthelord. My nephew and his girlfriend told me that they had gone to her prom Saturday night. They had her mom babysit their baby. What is wrong with this picture???

Peachez, don't worry, your other perfect job is still out there. Sorry you were disappointed, though.

Painty, I love you. I'm sure I'd start to clean house too if I was ruminating on my own mortality. I'd be soooo embarrassed if anyone had to clean up after me. For sure I'd clean out my underwear drawer. I'll be keeping my fingers and toes crossed for you until you get the all clear from your doc.

I've worked my fingers to the bone in the yard this past weekend. Too bad nothing else gets worked to the bone.

My Lucas the golden retriever is sick. He hasn't been eating or drinking since friday, so he's at the vet today. After ex-rays and blood tests they've decided he's not in any immediate danger so they're sending him home w/ some thingie under his skin to hydrate him and some medicine to make him pass anything that may be blocking him up internally and probably a huge vet bill to go with it all. I really started to worry about him when he didn't want to eat his dog biscuit. He'll kill for one of those things usually.

I got an invitation to my youngest brother's wedding. He's 45 and marrying for the first time.

Wabbs-- thanks for revealing your "old" brother's impending wedding date. I have several women friends of similar age, who whether previously married or not, doesn't believe that any single guys of an appropriate age exist... who aren't completely "ruined" by previous marriages or their mother. I see plenty of young married couples who SHOULD have waited until they were "more mature"... and it might take them until they're 45!

I am procrastinating. Need to do business newsletter. Or laundry for vacation. Or something. Even draw. I'd rather just surf the net though. DH will be preoccupied for at least another 36 minutes because he's watching 24!

My friend is going to e-mail me her Chinese Doctor's anti-cancer plan. I am afraid it involves way too many vegetables and NO sugar, fats, chocolate, dairy, diet Coke or iced tea. which is pretty much my usual diet. But in spite of all the years when depression made dying seem like a great solution, I am NOT READY TO GO. I want to see grandbabies... Heck, I want to see my kids marry. (Though I wouldn't mind that much if it were in the 'wrong' order!). I'm hoping my DD will start dating guys rather than pining over her first big love, a perfectly nice but bland woman who went to college on a lacrosse scholarship... or maybe it was soccer. Anyway, she was uber athletic and didn't understand the painter-family knitting thing at all!

If the price of diet Coke slides you'll know it's because I'm not drinking it anymore.

Ciao.

Painty, I just had diet Coke made with Splenda. Yum!

I am going to be gone Thurs. thru Fri. My Stepfather died so I am headed up to Little Rock, AR.

Sorry to hear that, Cookie. Have a safe trip.

I still have a cold. It sux. My mom is having knee replacement surgery this afternoon. She called last night and I was so stuffed up and preoccupied I didn't realize that it was one of those calls that I was supposed to make to wish her good luck today. Bad daughter. But being my mom, she just told me to wish her luck so no harm no foul...

Wabby, I hope your doggie will be okay.

I thought about joining the online WW, Cherry. I wouldn't be able to stand a bunch of twittering nutjobs though, if that's the sort of people who are on there. I know what I should really do is join the local WW, but I can't bring myself to.

Later gators
Kiwi

Kiwi-- I can't stand the boards there (they're free), but WW online has neat menu ideas and the points tracker and weight tracker. Just for the handholding over menu ideas, it's worth it. I can't make it to meetings here, although they were good. Now that I've done the online thing, I'm hooked.

Cookie, have a safe trip!

Wabby, I hope your doggie gets better.

Painty, that diet sounds interesting. I'm cutting back the sugar slowly, as I lose points for losing weight. I've gone from 26 points to 24 points, and I'll have to drop to 22 in a few months.

I exercised today. Yay!

Cherry ---i believe you LIKE excercising---do you still do the Tarts tapes??? once in a while i think about pulling one out to do some weights--------WHERE IS PEACHERS???? STRANGE THAT SHE IS NOT HERE>>>............. WHAT'S UP???? sorry about your loss Cookie-----hope all goes well.sorry about your cold too kiwonk----------this is a gloomy spring up here in canada---all rain and gray days and cool-------------how's the weather down in America????

peaches is not on page three---tell her to get the **** back here.

I am boycotting page 3 because I have been called names like posteraamus which I had to cut and paste as it's unspellable and cruel.

First, I must say I'm sorry to read all the struggles we're going through these days. I am not sharing mine. You already know about my butt and how I must get a booth when I eat out so I can take up one entire side. You already know that I am boring.

Well, here's something you don't know. I have the chance to write as a stringer for this newspaper. They will give me Planters Roasted Salted Fatty Peanuts in exchange for hours and hours of work. Well, one day, anos ago, I accompanied Herbie to an annual dinner of men who had worked on a specific airplane project that lasted decades. I pitched this idea to the editor, she liked it and I asked Herbie if I could meet with some of those men.

His reaction was to say it would make a GREAT story and I could make a series out of it.

A series? This man is intolerably bossy and egocentric.

On the religious front, I have been mellowing. I have felt a softening of my spirit, which is to say for those who need this explained that I have felt content and uncomplainy. In fact, as soon as I find myself criticizing someone, I feel a brittling of the spirit. But it is all complex and whatever there is outside our physical senses, we are certainly not in control of it and can't pin it down.

I will continue this sermon at a later time. For now, let me remind you that school is out on Monday. Bye. posteraamus

somebody check out the fitday software that's reviewed on a link from the fron 3FC page and tell us what we think of it.

I have the Fitday software. It's good. But I like ww online better. The Fitday database is very small, so most of the time, I have to enter information for whatever I eat.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Insane. School here goes until June 14th. Even in NC, they go into June. Oh well.

Mellowing is good.

As you know, Bagz, the weather here is the same as the weather there.

I'm thinking of rejoining the ACLU because of this . I'm wholeheartedly in favor of teenaged abstinence, but if my taxes are going to fund religious conversion, that is just vile and wrong and I am going to fight it tooth and nail. DD read the article and was most disturbed at the idea that they separate the kids into "religious" and "secular" groups -- how damaging is that?

Apparently I am not mellowing.

Kiwi, seeing red

Poor unmellow Kiwonk----- "Jesus --protect me from your followers" works for me!!!----DOESN'T THE WEATHER SUCK AROUND HERE!!!!!-----try this on for size-----school lets out on June 28th!!!!! however we don't go back til the day after Labour Day-------------------PEACHES GOT RELIGION!!!!! let's see if we can tempt her back to the fold of heathen-esque cowdom!!!!!--------[ i really do like Jesus,i just have SO much trouble with some of his "friends"-------------]PTL!!!! gotta go to glass me *** class---later cowpies.---ps-----PAINTY--HOW ARE YOU DOING????

Get this - here school is out on JULY 13 and starts again AUGUST 24!! Beat that. Pthhhhhp!

My biology student will be here any minute. Must go into smart mode and pretend I know what I'm doing. I know a big word: arabidopsis thaliana. Ten points to anyone who can tell me what it is.