How exciting Kiwi! I feel almost famous just knowing you!!! If that cute little David Archuleta wins, tell him I think he's adorable. Now, how do you choose between your DD and DH??? Somebody's not going to be happy. Maybe you should solve that problem by choosing ME!!!!

DS has just broken the news to me that he, GF, GF's adorable 6 year old and my Kaydy are moving into a condo next Tuesday. No more Kaydy weekends. No more Alec watching cartoons with me at 5 am. I knew it was coming, but I was trying not to think about it. It seems I need to find a life.

Now for good news------

It's the fabulous Miz Peachez birthday!!!! Ta-Da!!!!! I hope you treated yourself extra special today, because you are!!!!

Ohhhhh Kiwi. This is the most exciting thing to happen since our kids were born. Tell all the details!!! How did you enter? Did you write an essay? What will you wear? EVERYTHING>

Thanks for all the sweet wishes. I got a little book from Europe today. The envelope said don't open til birthday OR ELSE but .. I only got it today so how could I? Perfect timing. Very impressive.

Wabby, I missed the part of your story. Kaydy is not living with ds?? If she's with him on weekends, just go collect her. Kids!! What do they know?

Kaydy is with DS every other weekend and every Wednesday evening. This was wonderful with DS living at my house (he moved in when his house sold last fall) but now that he's moving into his own place with his girlfriend and her son, Alec (my sunny personality adopted grandson) I won't get to see them all as much. My house will be emptied out again. Just me and my doggies. DD, son in law & baby V live right next door in Gpa Jim's old mobile home, but it's not the same.

Peaches, I shouldn't be whining to you, b/c I know you live by your lonesome when your DS is at school..... but I'm whining anyway. I'm happy for DS, though. He needs his own place, I know. Ah well, life is change, isn't it?

...I just spent most of the afternoon scraping goopy green goo out of my vegetable crispers. What a waste of vitamins. I am slowly learning that it's not enought to buy the vegetables, you need to actually eat them before they liquify. Blurghh.

Kiwieeee! Wowzers! You have now acheived pseudo-celebrity status. We are not worthy. Take DD - she looks better in a strapless dress.

S'okay to whine, Wabby. So sorry about the change of accomodation, Wabs. But I'm sure you can work something out so you'll be able to see your l'il darlings on a regular basis. Little kids are so uplifting, even if they are hard work.

Peach - it actually got there sort of on time??? Will wonders never cease?

Bagzzzz - they are doing the baby seal thing again. I can't stand it. What shall we dooooooo? Can't they find other jobs for people who make a living doing that? Too many sides to the story and none of them are very nice.

Wabbs, I am offended. Of course you should whine to meee! Who better to understand?? Whine please so I don't whine alone.

When is Kiwi going to tell the story to us?

Vitamins are messy. I always knew it.

I have whines of my own but will keep them til later.

Isn't it nuts? I entered one of those contests they announced on the local Fox station during American Idol every week. Just went online and filled out a form; it was a drawing. I probably entered it 4 or 5 times. They called from the TV station yesterday. It makes me laugh every time I think about it. The guy says "I have to ask your real age" -- every time I filled out the form, where it asked for age, I wrote "Over 21" or "Plenty old enough" or "Old enough to know better". So I told him 52, and he said "Oh, that's how old I am!" Surely this was supposed to be won by some young kid, right? Not that he said anything of the kind, it's what I'm thinking though.

So yeah, I think you're right, Sugar, DD would look better than DH in a strapless dress. We'll see. I'm not entirely sure she cares about going, I'll have to try to gauge that this weekend. Over the phone.

Sorry to hear the kids are moving out, Wab, everything's always changing, isn't it? Remember when the kids were young and life seemed to stretch way out ahead without great big changes at every corner? Luxurious feeling in a way, wasn't it?

Mmm green goo. Sugar, I know you could whip up something good with that.

I'm reading the Procrastination book. I've gotten through the introduction.. The good news is that I finished another book before I started this one. Granted it was a cartoon book about dog training, but still, I finished it.

All right, what do you wear to Hollywood? Will I be thinner by then? I need a haircut. Do I have to wear makeup? High heels? Oh good grief, I'm not equipped for this. If I take DH, I'm going to have to dress him too. hellllpppppp.............

kiwi!! get the **** back here and tell us the deetsssssssss-----sugar---i will email paul mccartney and tell him to get back here----without that old hag-----he stepped on my friend's foot in the Newfoundland Airport last year--and said 'oh,sorry love!'-------clubbing seals indeed====TERRIBLE behaviour--

I watch The Price is Right, which is in Hollywood I think, and they wear tee shirts that say "Drew for Prez" and "Pick Me Pick Me." Blue jeans, sandals, shirt not tucked in.

Here's one whine. DS just had a summer job interview on the phone. It lasted 30 minutes and they told him that neither of his letters of recommendation have arrived. Indeed!! i want to smack someone's face.

I get the impression from reading about people who've been to the shows that they discourage casual dress -- how about I wear platform heels, sparkly slit skirt and a tee-shirt that says "Paula is a Ding Dong"? And moose antlers.

Oh, and cow earrings of course.

We've decided that DD is going with me. DH agreed with Sugar; DD will look better in a strapless dress.

Apparently the news about this got around the local high school the same day I heard about it. I don't exactly know how. All I can say is no camera crew better show up at my door; I will not be letting them in.

Unless they're from Extreme Makeover.

Kiwi

Belated Happy Birthday Peaches!

Kids and DH were off last week and have monopolized my time plus I had PMS. My house is a bigger wreck than usual too. DH is back it work and kids go back to school tomorrow. Sadly I am looking forward to it.

Thank you Cookie . When your kids go back to school, we can celebrate.

I think Kiwidd would be excited to go. After all, it is a music show and she is a musician. I don't get that channel BUT if Kiwi is shown on-camera, I expect someone to send me a dvd. I know the someone will be Kiwi herself as no one else knows how to do anything here.

This is my complaint about ds. I had one of those days yesterday where I really needed to talk so I called ds but he didn't answer or call back. I called friend in CA and talked to her til I realized she was trying to get off the phone then I felt embarrased as I had said NOTHING. I emailed her today to say that she felt she said nothing either but it's not true. Her mom, a person who used to include me in her family, fell but is ok except for 2 black eyes. That is news! I have a reticent kid who does not give me info to share. I want stories! I want to be able to say that ds's teacher said .... or ds's roommate did .... or in class, ds learned ... All I know is he feel sick right now (cold or flu) and and and .. that's all. Not fair.

I'm confused. Whatchu talkinabout girl? I do identify with the whole got-nothin-to-say feeling. When I talk to people on the phone and they ask what I've been doing with my time lately, I usually change the subject -- I would feel pretty silly saying "playing with the dog and checking my email" but that's what comes to mind. They always ask this question after you've told them everything interesting you had to say, anyway.

I have to go to the Big City today and sign some papers for the television station where I won this contest, waiving my right to my first-born grandchild I believe.

Do you think any of these "pranks" are funny? I would be really ticked off at anyone who did any of that to me. We used to pull April Fool's tricks when I was at college; frankly I haven't thought of any good ones since then (possibly because there are none that wouldn't really p*** the person off).

I was just reading some stuff on the website of a local dog training center that I like, and they had a whole page on how bad the training techniques of The Dog Whisperer are. I had no idea.

I'm up too early today. I need sleep and I'm not going to get any.

ta

Just stopping in for a quick whine... (And so Shad, Mel, Ruth or anybody can give me a smack where it counts).
WHY does a @#$%ing number make so much difference to me?
I knew I was fat before I got on the scale this morning. But the number was up almost 10 pounds... which, of course explains why I'm not feeling BETTER as far as lets and joint pain goes... but aside from that.... why does the numerical change make me think I should go stand in front of a bus?
No I'm not going to DO that... but the mental pain of thinking that is just as bad as the other.

DH asked me yesterday, in jest (after I cussed out a TV ad for lap band surgery -- the speaker seemed smug and it made me mad) "You think you might have an issue about your weight?"

Well, D'oh.
Cripes. Tearfully -- and back to "anorexic thinking" i.e., don't deserve to eat.

Sorry to scare those of you who know my chosen profession. All I can say, I guess is that it takes one to know one.

But here's a painting I did (more of a self portrait than you might know)... when I had more self acceptance on board.


Off to the line at the post office.

I tried to leave a message on facebook concerning a wolf smelling a pile of snow but was informed I didn't know my password. It would've taken a long time to straighten it out with this dial-up so I gave up.

No the prank was just annoying and mean. I only saw one prank from that link.

Yesterday this agitated woman told us today is "rabbit rabbit rabbit" day. I looked it up and learned that if you say those words or other words (lots of variations) you will have good luck al month. This is especially true of children. So I did. I think. Except I woke up in the night and may have spoken to the cat. It has to be the first thing you say.