Good morning gals! I decided in honor of the new Harry Potter movie coming out in a couple weeks, I would make my avatar the three teens that star in the movie. This is their movie premiere pic from last Friday night.

Jean: We don't go to the alter, but sit in our seats and pass the plates, which when you have kids between you can be dicey! Glad the ole perm turned out well. My hair is super thin and can't take a perm without being burned so I haven't had one since I was a kid. I was blessed with a natural wave to my hair so I have very little trouble with it until it starts to grow out then the nape curls up and such and drives me nuts. Right now I am seriously long overdue for a hair cut, but decided to go ahead and wait until the day before we go to Indiana so it will look nice. I am trying something radical......my natural hair color grown out, which is gray or white, we shall see. I have never let it grow out, so I am not sure what it will be. White I will put up with, the steel gray color, it is back to Clairol!

Gail: Sounds like you had a great time with family. Nothing like a mall to drive you nuts though! Jack hates them and I like them. The funny thing is, we have started planning our next sojourn to Vegas, which will be right before Christmas next year and he is talking about going to Nashville next October to the outlet mall to buy clothes for vacation! He HATES buying clothes or going with me to buy clothes. We have been in some great malls, Woodfield in Chicago is huge, I think 4 floors. Mall of America, need I say more, Opry Mills in Nashville is nice, Lynnhaven Mall in Va Beach used to be a nice mall, I don't know what it is like now, don't laugh, but we have been married so long, the mall pretty much didn't exist when we got married, so there were no malls in San Diego except a small shopping center in Escondido if I remember right and a small one in Rancho Bernardo. The Mall of Memphis, here used to be amazing, but they started having murders and the area went down hill and a year ago then tore down the whole thing, lock, stock and barrel. I said I thought the city ought to buy it and make it a huge jr high/high school and help cut down on overcrowding and our out of site school debt, but Jack said that wouldn't work.

Well, this isn't getting the old daily cleaning chores done and I am going to try and get some of the shampooing in our room done for Jack before he gets home, then he can just help me move the bed and do the rest of it. Better get to them as they don't do themselves!

Faye

Good mornin'...

It is still gorgeous outside, in the mid-60's, sun shining. I'm going to walk again on my lunch hour. Walking and drinking water yesterday relieved a lot of the fluid retention. Perhaps today I'll be rid of it all. I'm still going to WW this evening. I'm not looking to lose a lot (fluid retention) this week but perhaps next week I'll be able to get rid of a bunch of pounds. ...which reminds me that I haven't told DH I will be late getting home this evening...

Jean, the last time I got a perm I looked like Harpo Marx. Never again. BUT I do get my hair highlighted and I'm due right now. I'm one of those people that go to beautician's with pictures cut out of a magazine--they must love me--I would love to have a bit of magic!

Faye, I normally love shopping at malls but not with a crowd of people to keep track of. DH goes to the mall about two times a year and one of those times shopping for a Christmas present for me. For himself, he likes ONE store at the mall and he only goes there and then it's out the door where we've parked.

I've been trying to type this post for a long time now. Today is so strange in the office. Two copiers keep jamming, I've spilled water from the water cooler, and people coming in here asking questions of the weirdest kind.

However...DH is home tonight.

Thought you would love these:


JACK (age 3) was watching his Mom breast-feeding his new baby sister.
After a while he asked: "Mom why have you got two? Is one for hot and one for cold milk?"

MELANIE (age 5) asked her Granny how old she was. Granny replied she was so old she didn't remember any more. Melanie said, "If you don't remember you must look in the back of your panties. Mine say five to six."

STEVEN (age 3) hugged and kissed his Mom goodnight. "I love you so much, that when you die I'm going to bury you outside my bedroom window."

BRITTANY (age 4) had an earache and wanted a painkiller. She tried in vain to take the lid off the bottle. Seeing her frustration, her Mom explained it was a childproof cap and she'd have to open it for her. Eyes wide with wonder, the little girl asked: "How does it know it's me?

SUSAN (age 4) was drinking juice when she got the hiccups. "Please don't give me this juice again," she said, "It makes my teeth cough."

D I (age 4) stepped onto the bathroom scale and asked: "How much do I cost?"

MARC (age 4) was engrossed in a young couple that were hugging and kissing in a restaurant. Without taking his eyes off them, he asked his dad: "Why is he whispering in her mouth?"

CLINTON (age 5) was in his bedroom looking worried. When his Mom asked what was troubling him, he replied, "I don't know what'll happen with this bed when I get married. How will my wife fit in?"

JAMES (age 4) was listening to a Bible story. His dad read: "The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked back and was turned to salt." Concerned, James asked: "What happened to the flea?"

TAMMY (age 4) was with her mother when they met an elderly, rather wrinkled woman her Mom knew. Tammy looked at her for awhile and then asked, "Why doesn't your skin fit your face?"

I figure Melanie has the right idea, even being fat my panties are younger than I am!!!!!

I don't think I ever posted this Thought you would get a kick out of it. He waits at his "perch" everyday at the same time for the UPS guy who loves him and lets him jump all over him when he delivers something. Funny how he knows when to sit there!

Here it is 4:30 AM and I sit at the computer. I got up to do the old ladies dance to the bathroom and then went back to bed and started coughing so I ended up having to get up.

Jean: I am vain about two things, my hair and my nails and I have let them both go to pot since coming home from Las Vegas. I decided to give my nails a good long rest from my acryllics and will go back to them right before Thanksgiving and haven't had my haircut since before we went either so I look like a shaggy dog. I went and bleached my hair to get the red out so when they cut it, they should be cutting off most of the red/blond and I will be left with something closer to what it will look like when it is completely grown out. I am hoping the color, whether white or gray or combo blends well and looks ok. I just don't want to age 20 years,you know??? I have enough wrinkles without adding more age!

I went and ordered a Kitchenaid mixer from QVC last night. I was channel surfing and saw they had a Kitchenaid hour so checked in and they had them on special so I ordered one. I have wanted one for a long time, but they were like $400 and I can always find some place other than a mixer to put $400! I even got a nice cobalt blue color for the kitchen. Now all I have to figure out is where the heck to put it on the countertop! I also bought myself a new watch. I lost mine somewhere and have no clue. I only wear it when I am leaving the house and almost always, take it off and either put it in the laundry basket with the clothes that have to be taken upstairs, or take it upstairs and put it in my jewelry box. It is no where to be found so unless Butterscotch the thief took it, I have no clue. (I shampooed the master bedroom yesterday and found the cap to one of Jack's little portable memory storers for his computer under the bed) He is a like a magpie sometimes!

No news here much. Just looking forward to going up north for the holiday. I miss my son and dil and look forward to getting to see them and my sister and our friends. Unless your spouse is a NASCAR watcher, you have never seen this commercial, but they have one during the race where Dale Jarret who drives the UPS car is talking to a guy that handles the trucks for UPS and it is a tongue in cheek thing where he decides to use Dale's old stock cars to deliver instead of the brown trucks to make it faster. It is a funny commercial as you see these guys diving into the cars (as you know the doors are welded shut on a stock car and you have to crawl through the windows) in their UPS uniforms with packages hanging out the trunk etc. What makes it doubly funny for us are these friends we are going to see. He has been a UPS driver for like 20 years and the man is like 6' 10"! Thinking about him crammed into a stock car to deliver packages is a scream!

Well ladies, I am going to crash on the recliner for half hour until Jack gets up and make him some breakfast then I think I will go back to bed for an hour or so if I don't start coughing again.

TTFN

Faye

Hi everyone! I usually post in the morning but it has been a crazy day here in the office so far. I sure hope things quiet down by the afternoon. I have piles of work on my desk with no end in sight. At least right now. I do priortorize!

I went to WW last night. I told y'all I was going even though I knew I wouldn't have a huge loss even though it was my first weigh-in. Fluid retention. Go away! Anyway, I did lose .8 of a pound. Hopefully, next week will be a better loss. I will not give up. I refuse. Yes, I told DH. Of course, he was very supportive.

I wish I could stay but I've got to get back to work...

Good morning gals. Significantly cooler this AM than it has been for a week. Maybe we are turning the fall corner at last. I know I have huge piles of leaves on the deck, but it has been windy so I decided to wait until the darn tree sheds the rest now!

Jean: I don't know why they are bothering with the stuff they are "teaching" you. Sounds antiquated and stupid to me. I don't blame you for being mad. I hate people who leave other people waiting. Jack handles the fur balls, "I ate something I shouldn't have" puking etc pretty well anymore. Fortune does this occasionally because he has a fleece elephant that is his "baby" and he will chew on it. You wake up to gagging and it is everyone off the bed!

Man, the ole bones can tell there is a 20 degree temp drop. Everything but my eyebrows hurt this morning! Gonna be tough on cleaning. I have the upstairs bathrooms to do today so it is kneeling etc! UGH!

Jack has tomorrow off but not because it is Veteran's Day. He has to take a sick day to go and have blood work done for his cardiologist appt the 22nd so he decided to do it tomorrow and have a 3 day weekend. We have to get some work here at home done anyway so it is a perfect time. (He just doesn't know it yet)

Well you girls have a great day!

Faye

Hi everyone! Actually, I was in here earlier but I lost my post so I had to calm down from that. Anywhoo...

Another crazy day in the office. At least the time flies! My fluid retention is still in the process of leaving my body...but it is leaving!

Other than work, not a whole lot is happening with me. I go home at night, eat dinner, watch a little tv and then I'm asleep by 9pm.

TGIF! I have never been so glad to have a work week end!

Maggie, gosh you're doing great! Congratulations on that great loss! I'm hoping for a better loss on Tuesday evening. I do know I feel better since I've been walking and drinking water more often.

Jean, when I lose a post I have to "calm" down a bit...and then I come back! But sometimes when I'm at work and it's busy it's more annoying because sometimes I can't come right back in.

Anyway...After work last night I went to the grocery store for my weekly shopping. I will never grocery shop on a Thursday evening again. Two grocery stores out of 1% low-fat milk. I couldn't buy/find everything I wanted to buy. I have to go back to the stores again tonight.

Good morning ladies! I am up a little later as Jack had to take day off to go and get his lab work done this morning. Poor guy is starving as he has to fast for 12 hours before and they don't open until 8!

**When I found that I was having trouble losing posts, I started highlighting my post and right click and copy then if I lost it, I could repost it or if I had run out of time at the moment, I would put it in a word document and save it then come back and cut it and paste back onto the site.

I am in charge of pies and rolls for Thanksgiving and I usually buy them but they have gone up to like $12 apiece at like Perkins or Bob Evans, etc. I don't care for most of the store bought stuff so I decided to make my own. Jack was my guinea pig yesterday and his was willing to make the sacrifice..... I found a recipe on allrecipes.com for coconut pie and it had 5 stars and 131 reviews, most of which were great. So, I went and bought stuff to make a coconut and a chocolate and came home and made them. He got to test them and give me critique. I love to cook and I feel I am very good, but I really drilled him about taste, crust, creaminess and on and on. He LOVES coconut pie and this was what he told me about mine..."Ok, this is what I think. The best coconut pie I have ever had is either Bob Evans or Das Essenhaus (an Amish restaurant in Indiana) and your pie if not exceeds it is equal to theirs!" WOOHOO! High praise! The day before we leave, I have 2 chocolate, a coconut, pecan, pumpkin cheesecake and a pretzel salad, which is my favorite. On top of that, I have at least 4 dozen yeast rolls to make so I will be hopping as I have to take Fortune to groomers too. I will probably go and get my haircut and my nails done over the weekend before. We usually pack up the night before and we are buying dry ice to take the pies etc up there so we have to go and get that Monday night and buy whatever snacks etc we want to take on the trip. I am looking forward to seeing my son and dil though.

I think we have changed our mind about vacation next year. I know, I know complete surprise since we love sin city so much, but the one thing we always wanted to do was go on a cruise. Several years ago when Jack still had a good job when we lived in Indiana, we booked one not once but twice. Each time, we would book, put down our deposit and with in a month or two from our booking he would get laid off from his job. We thought it was doomed and after that he struggled so much with employment we had to forget it. He was watching the travel channel last night and there were several hours about crusing on last night and we got to talking so I went into Carnival Cruise and looked to see what it would cost. We could go top notch all the way for probably $2000 less than Vegas. On top of that, we plan on going next Dec and it will be in the 50's in Vegas and in the 80's in the Caribbean!

Well, Jack should be home any time so I better go.

Maggie: for all the great losses you are having!

Carol: for starting on a good program to carry you through.

Faye

What a lovely day in the neighborhood. Come lets enjoy a cup of jo together

I do believe the bark control thingie is working. We still have some adjusting to do but all is better along the home front. When we are in the car is another areal we will have to work on. This unit has to remain plugged in ~ no batteries. We will work it out.

FAYE I will have to go to that website and check out that coconut pie. I make a couple every Chirstmas and I got my recipe out of the Betty Crocker cook book eons ago ~ I'm talking when I was barely in my 20's. It always gets raves and I never have any left to bring home. A cruise ~ WOW now that sounds exciting and less money than Lost Wages. You could copy and paste your tickers in your word program then when you get ready to come here you could bring them over and put them in your "User CP" ~ just a suggestion.

JEAN hope you are enjoying your day off. Sorry, but I doubt that packing plant is going to close anytime in the near future. Perhaps the next generation of workers will have better school manners. Even though you get lots of grant money why in the world is it being wasted on such "meetings" is beyond me. If that woman wants to read out loud let her get a group lf kids that can't read and teach them and read out loud to them. Now that would be a good use of the grant money.

GAIL isn't that how it goes ~ when we are doing the right thing for our program like walking and drinking enough water that we feel better. I ask myself why I don't keep that up because I know it makes me feel better. I want to feel better so why...... I ate a banana for breakfast and that made me feel better. Viva la Banana's.

GLORIA you will soon be leaving us for a couple of weeks. Please do enjoy Disney World for me. I love that place. A couple that Will performed the marriage ceremony for last year went to Disneyland for their honeymoon. It is their anniversary this weekend and they are going to the whole week there once again. What fun! If you see Donald Duck laying down on the J-O-B give him a nudge and tell him to get up and get back to work.