Afternoon, all!
Mama, you are one early girl! Early spinner gets the wool, huh?
Oh, Mama, spiders are freaky! I hate having them in the car because you have no idea where they have gone!!! I'm sure he'll be dead by the time you get back in. I've never seen a spider twice in the car.
I, too, end up rebuying craft supplies...I always lose them, then buy more. Can someone say "Laurie needs to be organized?"
Ruth, congrats on the part! How fun!!! I know you can be a va-va-va-voom girl!
Love that tip about Wal*Mart...good idea! Enjoy your afternoon off! You've never described what's going on with the wine bottling...spill, girl! Are you part of a prohibition-era distillery that does wine on the side? Do you crush grapes a la Lucy? We want to hear all about it!
Sheila, good for you on passing up the soft pretzels!
That must have been hard! I know it would have tempted me! <drool> Good for you!
The syrup sounds great! Is it the B-52 one? That's really good...it's a DaVinci. I also love the Peppermint Paddy. Tastes like chocolate and mint. Yum!
Barb, that walk sounds wonderful! I didn't know you guys got Brown recluse in TX too. We get them in CA (where I'm from...though I live in NY now). Personally, I think running after a bunch of young scouts ought to count as exercise!
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SKHerb, and CONGRATULATIONS on closing on the old house!!! Yippeee! The new drapes sound wonderful! Tell us all about them...I'm a fabric hound, so I love hearing about this stuff!
In the pizza pie...how about onions, mushrooms, peppers, carrots...even zucchini! Yumm! SK, I love the mochas at Starbucks, too, but I am pretty sure they use syrup to make them...and not the SF kind. Check and see, but if they have sugar in them, you have to stay away...they will stop your weightloss and really mess with your blood chemistry.
Sheila had some great ideas for how to make them SBD friendly. Good going, Sheila!
Weezle, those tornados sound terrifying! I'm really freaked out by the idea of them, having never experienced one. However, earthquakes don't freak me out...in fact, they can be kind of fun. My parent's house was hit really badly by the Northridge earthquake, and I know how destructive they can be, but because I have experience with them, they don't freak me out like tornadoes do!
I'm thrilled to hear that you are down to 138, but take gentle care of yourself and avoid beer in the future, Weezle...it can really hurt your body (as you found out. I know you can do this in a great, healthy way (now that you got a jumpstart!
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Peggy, I love it when my boss is gone, too! He creates such a maelstrom of confusion and crazy feelings among my coworkers and me when he is here, that it is much nicer when he is gone. I feel a bit guilty about that, but...
Enjoy that time! You're probably done with lunch now, but just a tip for later...when I have gone out to a nice Italian place (only thrice now in the last four months), I have asked if the pasta is durum semolina. If so, I get a small side with olive oil and garlic. Not only is this delicious and OP, but it really sates my desire for pasta. There are a lot of great dishes at Italian places with no pasta in them...and I always avoided them before! Now it's like a whole new menu...and with that side of pasta, I don't feel deprived.
Hope you had an enjoyable experience with good, OP food!
Me:
I've taken so long to write this, I'm sure ten more people posted...sorry I've been so sporadic in my daily posting. Hello and hugs to all those who come after or that I missed! Work has just been crazy. I could work 24/7 and not finish all I have to do! It's so overwhelming that I'm here posting instead of doing it. Crazy stuff.
I've been working on that baby quilt and actually got to quilt on it last night!
I was amazed to find out that quilting is actually the stiching that holds the pieces (top, batting, bottom) together. The putting together of fabric pieces is called "piecing". Who knew?
Anyways, I had to really struggle with my machine for a while...the bobbin was not happy. I oiled it, cursed at it, petted and cajoled it, and finally it purred through the quilting around two blocks. I had to go to bed at that point, but I'm hoping I'll have enough energy left after Jazzercise to maybe even finish the quilting! I'll need help from my coworker with doing the last step, the binding. She's not in the office today, because her husband has been dealing with some horrific stomach bug for weeks. He's had a bunch of tests run, and she's really worried. I think she just needed some time alone at home to do some crying. If you get a chance to pray for her husband, Pat, please do. I'm worried about him too! Her mother also just found a lump in her breast, and all in all, poor Candy (my coworker) really has a lot of worry on her plate.
I'm still in the middle of my plateau. Not entirely sure why, but think it might have been finishing off the cheesecake I made last weekend. It was OP, but I think it might have had too much fat to keep me losing. It's gone now, and I'll freeze the pieces of the next one so I don't eat the whole thing. It was good, but not really good enough to share the recipe with you guys...it was made with gelatin, so it had the consistency of silicone breast implants. At least, that's the way DH described it.
I start classes week after next, and students start arriving next Thursday.
Lots to do!
Not much else to write...(
and I can hear Ellis saying, "You haven't written enough already? ). Gotta go eat lunch and cooked up some chicken breasts for tonight's salad! Had a great stir fry last night and used arrowroot to thicken it. Worked like a charm! I'll post the stir fry recipe later.
Have a great day, all!