Schatzi You're In Bahstin!!!!!
 

You dingledepoop, I have invited you at least twice!! I will send you another invite, are you still getting your embarquadero mail?

OOO I'm so happy! You will get it, you will get it, you will get it!

What are those? I don't nothin' about knittin'. Except that I still like my groovy socks.

I am heading south on Saturday morning, expecting to arrive at the beach Sunday evening. Taking a laptop with me, cuz I have a cool GPS gizmo that sticks to the window and connects to the laptop and tells you where you are. It's about time I figured out where I am.

I am driving a cute little red car today -- DD'sbf is detailing my car in advance of our trip, and lent me his for the afternoon. He will probably not take any $$ for all this work, so I filled up his car with gas :shrug: Doesn't seem like a fair trade, it only took 6 gallons. DD says he's doing it because he doesn't want to smell the dog all the way back on our return trip (he's flying down midweek and will drive back with us). :lol: Whatever works, I say.

I just heard that my first dog's breeder, the person who got me into Belgian Sheepdogs, passed away yesterday, and I can't go to the funeral because I'll be in NC. Bummer. Maybe I could send Jet in my place.

Oh I just thought of another nickname.

Mom ;)

My dear Painty. I can assure you that you are not the worst person in the world, because I did the same thing on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and every other day in the past I don't even remember how many years. I know perfectly well that if I just went to bed at a reasonable time every night, I would erase about 2000 calories from my daily intake. That's why I've been trying to trick, cajole, manipulate and otherwise make myself go to bed earlier, but I've so far had no success whatsoever. What was once a 1:00am habit that often added a bad of popcorn or something to my day is now after 18/20 years of it a 3:00am habit that adds every leftover in the house and every snack food in the house and whatever I can concoct out of whatever else is in the house. It's stupid. Maybe we should start a club.

Kiwi

I was just perusing the posts quickly and i just wanted to say to painty!!===OF COURSE WE HAVE ALLLLL DONE THIS AT NIGHT---i am too freaked out to actually figure out the total calories but last night i ate almost an entire large bad of chips---that has to be in the 1200 cal range!!!! don't beat yourself up dear----STOP IT!!!_+------------ have a fun drive to the beach kiwonk---should be fun with your darling dd---and peach---KEEP IN TOUCH ON THE JOB--SOUNDS GREAT----------shatzzzzzzzzz---i love the charles-===are those skinny bats jogging alongside the sailboats to irritate you???

I noticed that. I think it's a bit of serendipity. I think I will call all bads of chips by that name from now on. Maybe I'll even go back and edit my posts.

I am sitting here in my socklessness.

COWIE GOT SOME GOOOOOD MOOOOOOJO A GOING!!!!
:dance: an interview for a job you really like!!!!! :yay: :yay: we send :yoga: goooood vibes!...and a RAISE to booooot... You are on a roll darlin!

Painty dear...If weightloss was easy we'd all be size 6s. :hug: its frought with all emotional baggage, rationalizations, instant gratifications, :blah: I do the same thing... a lazy night eater. I can go all day and then Boom! I grab whats easy (even though I buy little carrots,and grape tomatoes) I reach for chocolate, and chips. and eat mindlessly..

Kiwi, wth, I added myself to your network ... I'll need to work on my profile...... I hope the weather is loverly at the beach!

Bagzilla... they had somesort of sailboat lessons out there today..it was sooo cute to see all these lookalike boats following each other, and making near misses... they reminded me of little ducks following the momma duck for swimming lessons...

I found out that prolly for the next month I will be here... but Ill come in Monday morns and leave Thursdays, work a t home on Fridays... Ah well, a gals gotta do what a gals gotta do...

I shall sign off with one of my old nicknames,

Scoop

i am laughing about a bad of popcorn---at first i thought you had made the same 'slip' but i see you went and edited !! hi larry *** {a friend of mine wrote and asked me who Larry *** was} i had to tell her hi larry ***= hilarious!---anyway----boston is lovely so i hope you can enjoy it shatz---i love the Quincy Market---go and buy me a fresh bagel for breakfast tomorrow please.

I am still lifting my jaw off my computer. I really thought I was the ONLY one. :hug::hug: We can start a club. Maybe "former night-time eaters" ?

I may have to admit that there are something that I cannot keep in the house. DD told me that if she really wants a chocolate chip cookie (my "drug" of choise) she'll go to Starbucks and order ONE. (At home either she or I could eat a whole plastic bakery container of 'em, but we'd never chow down the whole thing in public.) And rather than be embarrassed that that is the case, use what we know. We eat better in public. So don't keep "bad" bags of food at home.:devil:

I did find out that eating a WHOLE bag of frozen raspberries with ff half and half is 210 calories. That's good for me. (I prefer fresh ones, but they mold here in about 2 seconds.):p

Thanks again. i am not alone. i am not alone. i am not alone.

YOU ARE MOST CERTAINLY NOT ALONE!!!----hey ----kiwok-----have a fun trip down the highway!!! happy beachin it!

Ah, what a lovely picture! One year, hmm 2000 it was, we sailed to Boston for the 4th of July with a group of friends. We were docked at Constitution Harbor for several days (right next door to the U.S.S. Constitution) and on the 4th we had ringside seats for the fireworks by making a reservation for a bbq at the yacht club on the Charles. That club is where those lessons are given out of. We didn't take our boats to the yacht club because we would have had to go through the locks (long wait); we basically just had a place to hang out for the evening without getting squashed by the throngs on the Esplanade. One of the options was to sit in one of the little sailboats lined up along the shore. (We declined because sitting in a boat is not exactly a novelty after sailing all the way down the coast).

I don't know why I'm telling you this. Local color I guess.

You just never know till you ask, eh?
Now she's a smart cookie. :D

Yep, I'm beachin I'm beachin. Hey speaking of beachin, I had a haircut today. She took off about 7" of hair. I have great hair again (it was getting totally out of control) -- too bad I seem to look wider than ever....

I still can't find my favorite sandals or my jean shorts that I bought at Tarjay, wore one summer and haven't seen since. <pout> I'm so tired! I had to get up early yesterday to drag DD down to the in-law's yardsale, then sit in the beastly hot sun for several hours. I was so hot I got nauseous. Then I went home to do more laundry, bake more shortbread (stepdad's birthday while at beach), then back to the in-law area with Jet to hopefully listen to some music; the town is celebrating 100 years and lots of stuff going on. Jet dragged my arm off. Stayed up late. Had to get up early again to take car to the garage. Had to replace muffler ($250!!!), pick up dog, drive her to Stinkytown to the kennel, do errands, get home in time so dd could drive to work. Found her, not packing, but baking :rollpin: . The kitchen's all torn up again. Been trying to get my act together ever since. Tired tired. Have to get up at Larry's *** Crack of Dawn tomorrow to drive. Oy.

Wish me luck. Talk to you on the road maybe. :dizzy:

Oh yeah, this morning when I went out to drive my beautifully washed, vacuumed and shampooed car, I discovered that some bird thought it was so shiny it must be a TOILET. Sheesh.

Love,
Ticky
I just made that one up, what do you think?

i love it KICKY!!!=-----WELL THAT SOUNDS LIKE QUITE A FEW CRAZY DAYS YOU HAD!!! UP AT LARRY'S *** CRACK SOUNDS ESPECIALLY SWEET----I WAS UP EARLY THIS WEEK TOO,MOSTLY BECAUSE I CAN'T SLEEP IN IF I TRY----DS HAD HIS GOLF TOURNAMENT AND ONE OF THE DAYS WE HAD TO HAVE HIM THERE FOR A TEE OFF TIME OF 7:40---SEEMED EARLY TO ME~!!--ANYWAY--HAVE A GRAND TIME KICKY TICKY AND KEEP IN TOUCH--WE DON'T LIKE IT WHEN YOU ARE AWAY~~!!!

Continued expressions of gratitude for y'alls solidarity. :broc:
DH and I went out to brunch after I went to Curves this am, then ended up at bookstore, hardward store, art supply store then meandering around some back roads of Texas (will have photos at flickr later).

Sitting here now, I realize how brilliant I was to really shower off yesterday after the yard work, because I only have small, MILD blisters on my arm from what must have been poison oak. D*mn. I hope they don't get worse.

Must go write down food before I accidentally on purpose forget.
Happy sailing.

we need to start a new thread---i will do the honours!