GOOD AFTERNOON MAGNOLIAS

Just a short note as we will be leaving for church in an hour and then on to a reunion with DH's work friends. It is about 1 hour away and we will leave directly from church. I got ready early and had a few minutes to post.
Have had a great weekend so far and it is only Saturday. Yesterday DH took me to a great little restaurant down the coast, and as it is a seasonal place it was their first day open...only opens 6:30Am to 3PM. Exceptional food for such a small place. I'll bet the chef could work any 1st class place in Boston. Had what they call 'Crazy Ceasar Salad'. It had roasted garlic, roasted asparagas, artichoke hearts and roasted red pepper and shrimp over the romaine and with the best dressing. MMM GOOD! DH mentioned it would be my birthday today and they rang the bell over the bar and everyone sang Happy Birthday to me! She brought over what I could just as well have done without but......it was a warm brownie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and strawberry and hot sauce and whipped cream with a cherry on top. I did share and made sure that DH had the biggest portion.

JEANGlad to hear your surgery is over and it won't be long before you are feeling better. Do what the DR. says and you won't be sorry.

MAGGIE Congratulations on the weight loss!!!!! It won't be long before you have to set a new goal. Great going!!

FayeWelcome back. Sounds like you had a great time! Also glad Kelly accident wasn't worse...you can always replace tires. From you pictures it looks like you visited the Venetian and the Paris Hotels. Aren't they spectacular!!!!!! Stayed at the Paris but only visited the Venetian but maybe will try to stay their another time.

Gloria in MA.....need to get going....'see' you all later.

Gloria: Happy Birthday to you! I am so glad you had a great celebration.

Jean: Glad you are up and around and feeling better now that it is all done.

We have been working really hard on the condo and have two of the bathrooms finished. The downstairs bath looks like someone elses room. It is so beautiful. A nice bright aqua with a dark aqua for the cabinet and countertop, a new antique light fixture with matching switchplates, new antique looking cabinet door knobs that are leaves and a pretty chair rail border of plants etc that looks really good. I put my Thomas Kincade painting and music box in there and then did the rest of the room sort of beachy. It looks pretty cool if I do say so myself. Got the upstairs repainted and the wallpaper reglued in places it had come loose. Don't want to redo that room right now. I am going to clean up the deck and get my patio furniture and grill out today and that will be today's project. Tomorrow I start on the kitchen cabinets and repaint them. They are currently an off white and since dummys that we are, we bought all white appliances, I am going to repaint them white.

Jack replastered a couple places in the living room and downstairs bath and used this spray stuff to "re-texture" the ceiling. He put out a big drop cloth but the stuff really goes everywhere and I now have white specks on my red brick fireplace. Oh, well, I was going to paint them to match the mantel anyway! The stuff dries almost instantly so we can't get it off!

Better get some yogurt into me and tackle the deck! The birds have made it their public restroom so I have all of that to clean up too! ICK!

Faye

Yes it is truly Spring ~ our Red Barron Peach tree has peaches on it the size of large grapes. When it bloomed it had huge beautiful dark pink flowers all over he little thing. We just planted it last year as a mere twig. We put a tall wire fence around it so the deer wouldn't eat the poor scrawney thing now we need to do something to keep the birds from feasting on the fruit.

I have been going through a few cookbooks and just taking the recipes that I like out of them. I never want to cook all that comes in them. I filled up two small binders out of 6 large books. Heavy books. I am still weight conscious because one day we will go traveling again. They were the yearly Cooking Light and yearly WW ones.

FAYE your bathroom does sound lovely! How nice that you are happy with your re-decorating. Go get those birds!

JEAN it is nice that your operation doesn't restrict you too much. At least you can do that laundry.

GLORIA and many more! Sounds like you had a wonderful dinner.

Good morning ladies! I have been out and walking this morning already but the humidity is awful! Guess we are in for a hot humid summer, but that means it is almost POOOOOOLLLLLLLLL time and you know what that means for me!!!!

Jean: I tried to take pics, but our bathroom downstairs is so small all I got were the color of the walls! Hope the foot is doing well this morning!

Maggie: Well, I didn't get the birds, but I cleaned up their nasty mess. I felt like a sailor swabbing the decks yesterday but now my deck is all clean and my furniture and grill are all set up. Now I need to tackle my dirt space! I want to put white rocks in it as I am definitely not a green thumb though in the 80's when we lived in base housing I did grow some pretty azaleas. I just am not a gardener (allergies for one thing) but it is pretty nasty looking with tree sprouts etc in the dirt where seeds have landed along with plain ole weeds and a tiny patch of grass around the AC unit that Jack needs to take the weed whacker to.

You ladies have a great day!

Faye

Morning ladies! Went out and walked in a light rain this morning, which I enjoy sometimes, but the humidity is just terrible already! I dread it this summer if it is this bad already.

I am back to sending out resumes again. I have decided if I find a job fine, if not to heck with it. I told Jack last night that because I don't want a high stress secretarial job that no one is considering me for the receptionist positions, A) they want some young doofus, B) I have too much experience in other secretarial areas. I applied at an animal clinic (not mine as no one has even called me about that job and I think they are just filling in with their current workers) and that would be fun I think. Why do you HAVE to have a job that stresses you out? I am not asking for high wages and am satisfied with what they would offer, but I never even hear from them to go on a first interview. I have updated my resume so many times it isn't funny. Even sent it to my sister, who is a legal secretary to see what she thinks and she said it looks great so maybe I ought to send one with misspelled words and incorrect grammer and they would talk to me then? What ya think????

I am on to more painting today. I did the lower cabinets on one side of the kitchen yesterday and am doing the uppers today. I do one section a day and that way I don't get disgusted nor do I get too tired. I need to go out to the garage and get the paint for the countertops and kitchen so I can spruce them up too as I go along. Our countertops chip, which I knew they would, but for some reason, they won't take a coat of polyurethane without streaking really bad so the paint must be incompatible with it or something.

Have a good day everyone!

Faye

Jean: What is the old adage, Idle hands are the devil's workshop? Yeah, that's me ambitious so I don't EAT! Actually, I just do what I can each day. Yesterday was really tough. For one reason, I don't want to take all the cabinet doors down and it was rainy here yesterday, which of course causes the ole bones to ache so standing on a ladder painting really killed my feet, ankles and calves yesterday. The cabinets were called Birch Bark, which is just a fancy name for off-white and I just put bright white semil-gloss on so they would match the appliances. The appliances make the cabinets look like a smoker is in the house, if you know what I mean. Oh, as to your TYlenol PM comment, I read an article by a dr who said that IF you are not taking it as a pain med as well as a sleeping aid, to switch to Benadryl as it is the drug in Tylenol PM and you are not putting an un-needed drug into you system that way. He said Benedryl is pretty harmless and can be taken everyday if needed with no side effects. I changed a few years ago to Benedryl as I take enough Advil as it is. I guess TYlenol is pretty rough on the liver and Advil or aspirin products make the stomach bleed. Sheesh, so much for pain meds!

Oh, yep, I am up early but had to go to the bathroom, AGAIN, so decided to check on a bank deposit and since I was sitting here thought I would go ahead and post. I am now going to go back to bed until the alarm rings at 5:15 and then we will see if I stay there or get up!

Does anyone talk to Bubbles outside of the thread since she doesn't post anymore? I have thought of her many times, but lost her e-mail address when we changed to AOL.

Faye

Good early morning, but I can hear the birdys (darn them) chirping loudly outside!

Boy, I may have taken on something totally stupid, but oh well, it isn't the first time! I have scheduled a reunion for the thread I administer for next year in Chicago. I tried to do this last year, but then the whole thread changed its "members" and I think I only have 3 original members left that are still posting. I took a US map and looked at where everyone lived and then picked a city with the closest proximity to the largest part of the group. I have 2 ladies from Canada, one from the UK, one from Oregon and one from Maine, but the rest are midwesterners, upper south. I don't know if it was wise, but I included everyone in this including those that don't post anymore, hoping to get them back on track, especially one lady that lives in Alabama. She was in my original group and was going gangbusters for nearly a year and then just dropped off. She has had a lot of personal issues that I know of, but I just wished she would go back to her program. I, unfortunately, can mother only so much, it has to be their desire to do this and I know it. I guess it is just that I know what positive things can come from losing weight and keeping it off from my own personal experience and want that for everybody.

Today is commissary day, (oh joy!) and it usually takes up a good part of the day so no painting for me again today. I don't know if I am happy or not about that. It is a pain to do these cabinets, but I want to get them done. I guess I can work on them this weekend. Jack has to get up in the attic and find out why the lighting in our bedroom isn't working and that is going to be a hot and icky job. There was a ceiling fan in the room that they had taken down and left in pieces and we didn't put back up. She told me it didn't work, but I didn't know it was the electrical part that didn't work as we have a halogen lamp in the room we have always used for light.

Well, I best go as it will be time for Jack to get up in just a little while and I will need to get around and get things done.

Faye

GOOD MORNING MAGNOLIAS

I have changed my weigh day from Thursday to this day and have a good report from the Iron Monster who said I am down 3.6 since my last weigh day of the 15th which brings my total loss for the month of April to 12.2 pounds lost of hussy fat. Soon maybe I can get down to losing virgin fat once again. I will NEVER (and I am saying never) gain this weight back again. It is lost forever. Or released ~ if it is lost then it may find it's self back home but if I release it it is GONE. Bye Bye fat!

This is post number 14 so whoever reads this can have the pleasure of starting a new thread.