Well, Shad, Babel sucks. Machine translation only works for technical or scientific stuff, and even then it needs a human translator to fix up the the non-technical blah-blah-blah. (They've been trying to make people like me unnecessary for a long time - no luck so far. ) The expression just means thumbing your nose at someone. But I thought a little French lesson wouldn't go amiss.

If I could get at my neck I think I'd have taken a knife to the b***er by now, (insert theme music fromPsycho here) or at least made a hobby out of poking at it with sharp needles, but it's hard to even get a hot compress to stay there for long. I have a feeling it'll be antibiotics soon, much as I'd rather avoid that. And once the swelling goes down I need to remember to see a doc and have the underlying cyst cut out. It'll leave a largish divot, but I've already got a couple of scars there, so maybe they can chop those too. Heck, maybe I can slip the doc an extra fiver and ask him to do a quick top-down full-body lipo while he's at it. Canadian docs are always complaining they're underpaid...

Work tomorrow so I'd better floss the chompers, trowel on some wrinkle cream, and hit the hay. Night all!

Hi ladies,

Looks like someone was having a rousing good time last night

Carla - as far as the boils go, here's a website with several suggestions - if not contradictory (ice it vs hot compresses). The most frequent would be a product called Campo Phenique - not sure if they have it up your way. I would go with a drawing salve - something to draw out the infection. I have gotten them once or twice on the back of the neck but fortunately they were small and cleared up on their own. It's just really an infected hair shaft. Hope something works for you as they can be annoying little buggers.
http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/boils.htm

Interesting that you mention you had the conversation with yourself about where you once were and where you are now. Must have been something in the air - was thinking the same. Trying to remember back when it all started downhill. I think it was when I was in my 30's when the doctor put me on some birth control pills that just really messed me up big time - never seemed to recover from that I suppose (and honestly I don't always believe this myself) that the least we can do is commit that yesterday was the last day we'd be at our "worst" - today will be an improvement and go forward from there. Just like quitting smoking or any habit - let me deal with the next hour. Just know we are there for you and rant / moan / complain / away. I do

Shad - I have one of those washing machines (and dryers) that you spoke of. Can program that thing just fine but I will never I mean NEVER be able to figure out the confused mass of remote controls we have that will allow me to play a DVD on the TV. If I want to watch a DVD, I put it in my computer Your washing machine story reminds me of cell phones. Now why would anyone want to watch a movie on a screen the size of a tiny post it note? And using your phone to play music? Isn't that why they invented IPODs?

LINUS!!!!!! Holy Guacamole!!!! So very good to hear from you again. Missed you very much. Please come back and join us again How are things going for you?

Well I would love to stay here more but this morning starts my SAP training. Actually I'll be testing the modules this week. Orientation today. I'm supposed to leave the house in 50 minutes and I haven't even showered yet so I'd better get a move on here. As usual, I lost track of time.

Be back later... hold the fort down. Whatever that means.

Never fear, I am here,
I know the words that will make all your dreams come true.

Remember: a dream is a wish your heart makes when you are fast asleep

Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
Put 'em together and what have you got
Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
It'll do magic believe it or not
Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
Salagadoola means mechicka booleroo
But the thingmabob that does the job is
Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
Salagadoola menchicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
Put 'em together and what have you got
bibbidi-bobbidi bibbidi-bobbidi bibbidi-bobbidi-boo

I was going to post a smilie giving a raspberry and the neener, neener fingers but I thought you all would benefit more from some fairy tale wonderment and light instead. You always had the power, it is within you.

Linus welcome back chicky

The rest of you stop beating yourselves up. We are here to progress, not digress. (I concure with the rants and don't ever feel that you can't lay it all out, this is the best place to get your thoughts down and move on)


We are women, we are not waifs. We are attempting to have strong muscles and less jiggle. It can be done!

The kids gave me their colds. My nose is so dry from blowing it that it hurts. Grabbing a papertowel to catch the drips doesn't help matters. Can't even read a book without my nose trying to run off my face and behind my ears *Note to self, buy tissues.

Meadow--I agree. Each day is a new, always go forward and not backward.

Watched a show on obesity last night which really set my mind to wondering that if I don't get a hold on my food addiction that I too will be in that shape. One man weighed 700 pounds and the woman weighed 600 pounds. I'm at 182 pounds so this could very well be me in the future.

Happy and Carla--I know exactly when I started to gain weight--At age 38-
and yes part of it was the beginning of early menopause (hormones) and this is when my thyroid really got out of hand. My problem is that I love sweet stuff and I binge. Think the sweets is inherited from my dad who had to have something sweet at every meal. I 'm not sure why I binge unless it is the fact that my mom wouldn't let me have chocolate or cola's when I was little because I could not go to sleep when the other siblings did. I just wanted to stay awake until mom and dad went to bed. I still have a problem of going to bed at 9 p.m.

To all the other chicks :hello:




but he never gained an ounce.

Happy, thanks for the link - I had looked for info on the web, but everything I found seemed to want me to spend $100 on some mail-order stuff. Of course that was a couple of weeks ago and I wasn't as desperate then. I read thru the suggestions, and will try to get some of the campho-phenique or other drawing salve. The suggestions with thread and core removal made me nauseous - I'd be less squeamish if it were on my leg or arm, for some reason the back of the neck is extra-gross, maybe because you have to be a contortionist to even see it.

As for rants, I found some good ones when browsing on craigslist one day. Hilarious, and some of the ranters can even spell!

Sorry if I sounded negative in my post, that wasn't the intention. In fact I think I'm finally coming out of the funk I've been mired in since a string of not-so-nice things happened 4 to 5 years ago. And the first step in moving forward required a good hard look at my own passive self-pity. Today I actually refused to listen to the voice that told me it was too cold to walk home for lunch, and here I am in my favourite chair, full of yummy home-made split pea with ham soup, posting madly! (It's only a 15 min walk each way, but it's f****ng freezing out there.) Cats are happier too! Anyway, maybe I should see the boil as a metaphor, and it needs to burst jsut like my bubble of inertia needs to burst. Or something like that... not a pretty metaphor, but it is what it is.

Time to bundle up and head back to the salt mines. Toodles!

Hi Ceejay! I see your little egg lit! I'm a sweet fiend and a bit of a binge eater myself. Time to get it all under control!

Gotta go.

okay since im not banned i take it im safe to come back im not even going to try and explain the pitt ive got myself into but i need freinds right now and guess what gals your them ,MEL,HAPPY thankyou very much for the xmas cards they were so appreciated i cried for 3 hours kids are fine ,satan{christopher}is on my knee having his bottle and ramming his thumb as far as it will go into my right ear,home wise weve still not started the garden or the kitchen and im now on 19 months without a full nights sleep so i dont actually care well bottles finished and chaos reigns back soon
kirsty

Linus!!!! Love you dear!!!!

All is well. I am in an adjusting to my new life mode. Kids are both very sick with a bad head/chest cold. I am certain to be next.Hubby has been supportive and even bordering on down right cheerful. Works for me.

Love to you stellar Chicks!!!!

Ok, new rant. What's with those stupid car makers and the lights? They are making the headlights brighter and brighter. I don't think it does much for improving things for the driver but it's sure starting to blind the heck out of drivers in the opposite direction heading towards them. And if that wasn't bad enough, I noticed they are changing the red taillights. No longer one bulb but now a series of smaller "dots" that apparently are easier to detect? (Still don't work for someone who's color blind). Tonight I was coming home from work and was stopped at a red light. Was zoned out like usual and found myself staring at the tail lights of the car in front of me. A new car, with 3 rows of these individual lights. When the light changed and I looked forward, I had the negative image of the 3 rows of lights obscuring my vision for what appeared to be a couple of minutes. You can't really "blink" them away. I thought - now that's downright DANGEROUS. Just to prove otherwise, at the next light I stared at the tail lights of a car with a typical single bulb. Sure enough, no negative image on the eye balls.

Training was ok today. Tomorrow and the rest of the week is a bloody early start for the test lab (those of us NOT early morning songbirds were complaining). Particularly since this is the last week of testing, we were warned it might involve some late nights. This means forcing myself to an early to bed, early to rise, 5:30am wake up call. I yearn for the day when I can say the corporate life. I secretly envy those who stay home. So you may not hear much from me this week and if you do, it might not be coherent.

Tonight I made u[ a batch of Olive Garden's Zuppa Tuscano soup. with some crusty Italian bread, can you say yum?

Linus, you are always welcome back here and we will always be here for you. I am sorry to hear that CJ is **** bent on not giving you a moment's rest, even after all this time. Please try and sneak a minute in when you can - I've missed you!

I agree Carla. Some of those suggestions on the website were a bit over the top but I had no way to edit it and was hoping that something will give you relief. I had not realized that the little stinkers were quite so germy.

Ceejay - menopause and thyroid - the old one-two punch. I know it well. I think there are major issues with sugar and being hypothyroid. I find that going low fat is not that difficult but giving up sugar is really hard. Really, really hard.

One of my favorite songs Meadow. Thanks for the lyrics. Will bibbdy bobbity boo the kitchen before I crash into bed.

Are you hiding from the old battleax Shad? I was thinking of you all during training today. I am a designated Power User - apparently they have no idea of my multitude of talents in the testing arena

9pm. Means I have 30 minutes to clean the kitchen and get off to bed. Night all. Probably won't be back here until the evening. Enjoy your Tuesday. Hey y'all to the rest of the worldly chicks.

Not hiding from anyone, just that if I don't post first thing then I generally get too busy to do it any other time. Just sneaked in here to get a sanity check. Bibbity bobbity boo!!!!

Carla - why, if you are thumbing you nose at someone, does the foot get a look in (pied) or is it typical French style whereby the main object (ME in most cases in France) is not culpable for any misdeamenor or stupidity such as:
Not 'I missed the train' but that the 'train lacks me'. Ergo not my fault, it is the fault of the train. Aaah well, the joys of language.

Linus - good to have you back. We're always here for you. Only have to write, email or pick up the phone (please remember there is 9 or 10 hours time difference downunder) Time to find a child care centre for 1/2 a day a week by the sounds of it.

Happy - I have to agree with the car lights - and now they are making some of them a bright blue as well - yikes. But apparently the insurance companies are very happy with the gross taillights and the more the merrier since it has cut the rate of nose to tails somewhat - at least over here. The fact that more people drive off the road trying to get away from the ever brighter headlights is apparently unimportant. Some of those death traps (4x4 or 4wd) have so many lights up front you think you are approaching a huge truck and trailer, and do they have to have every single one on????all the time?????

Mel must be feeling the effects of her late night stint. Hello - isn't retirement when you actually give up working???

Ceejay - menopause and thyroid - well that then becomes a problem because after menopause I have found that the fat sets - it just does not want to go away! Most annoying (said with British understatement and not with the usual Aussie slang of f****** frustrating).

Carla - Hey with all those divots in the back of the neck maybe you could make a fashion statement out of inlaid jewellery!

Gotta go. Hi Holly

Ugh... how do you early risers do it? (Getting up in the dark of the night) AND you're perky too.

Mel, Mel - where forth arth thou Mel!!!!!!

Good morning to the chicks, I'm off to fill up the

Is 5:40 considered early? Yeah I guess it is by any normal human's standards.
Just a quicky for now. I've been rethinking my gym workout and have upped the intensity and shortened the time. I also am back to doing weights - a split program that will hit every body part twice a week, though I do weights 4 times a week. I was thinking of the comments on this thread about how you all used to be able to do certain things and stuff has just slid. Same here and it make me try to remember what used to work... Worth a shot. Of course my knee blew out after 15 minutes of cycling…but I did move only the stair machine to finish up. It still felt good and as if I had actually pushed myself for a change. I also bought yogurt to go with my morning coffee instead of a muffin. I figure the small changes will get me there (with luck).

I'll be back later. Yeah, I have a couple of pet peeves to share as well. Don't get me started on people who are walking in crowded hallways during rush hour and suddenly stop.

Later. Look it's SNOWING!!!

Happy--The body clock gets used to getting up at 5.30 a.m.I now have trouble getting used to sleeping in on my days off.

Linus--Hugs-- you are always welcome.

Not much happening again today. Feeling a little blue for some unknown reason and on days like today I have a tendency to binge. We shall seewhat the day brings.

Mel--Where are you?

Shad--Don't work to hard.

Madcat-- Your routine sound like a good plan. Be
careful with the knee.

Hello to Carla , Meadow and Holly.

5.40 is not early!!!!! 4.00 is early

Last night in between watching the NZers beat the Poms at cricket, I watched the Grumpy old holidays programme on ABC. These bods were grumping about travelling cattle class (economy( on long distance flights. One woman stated that she doesn't mind being sandwiched between footballers, sports people, old people, fat people or even (get away) kids, but she has an abhorence of travelling beside people who break wind. Evidently it must have been a feature of her travel since she ranted about it for some time.

Madcat - your exercise theory is correct. Frequent short intense bouts of exercise are apparently better for us and long sessions where we don't push the boundaries. I have heard this from several sources now.

Ceejay - get up, get moving and get rid of the blues. I find it is the only way.

Gotta move, we off to site in the mud today. See ya

very quick one here im ill {yet again} and satan took a head first dive off the setee on to my lovely {ouch}hardwood flooring then promtly threw up so were waking him every half hour {soon to be hourly i hope}though how u check if a 16 month old baby uve just woken up and whos now howling full throttle to see if there cohereant ill never know ??? but there u go if it makes hubby happy and gets him off my case ill submit
night all
kirsty