Mooo-nday Bloooes
 

Hi Kiwi, I had an even more boring weekend than you did. - I don't have a diary, and I didn't get a google hit! Let see, what did I do this weekend? It's a sign of old age when you can't even remember 2 evenings ago. Saturday I schlumped around the house all day, with the thought that I would actually get it cleaned, but since I really wasn't in the mood for it, not much got done. Then we went to some friends house in the evening, and had a couple glasses of wine, then got a video and some fast food for dinner. Friday night we went to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding and out to dinner. The movie was wonderful, dinner was only so-so. Sunday I spent hanging out at my Mom's house w/ my older sister, who is not drinking anymore, and I'm so happy because I can have a friendship with her again. She's a totally different person when she's sober. Apparently all my addictive/compulsive behavior got channeled into eating instead of alcohol consumption. Sunday evening I actually made DH dinner - pork loin roast, chicken rice, veggies, focacia bread & bread pudding for dessert. My Goodness, he's a lucky man!:lol:

my weekend report
 

Both Saturday and Sunday I drove an hour to take ds to a swimming pool so he can practice for the boy scout test.

Sunday, we went to church and no one was there. The parking lot was empty. It was so twilight-zone! I asked ds if indeed it was Sunday and he said it was. We went into the empty church and stopped a man who didn't want to stop. He said he also wondered where people were and had just been told they were at the college.

We went to the college. All the choirs sang and all the ministers asked for additional three-year pledges of money to make the church bigger. They said some teenager had pledged $20 a week for three years. I don't like that. Either it's his parents money or he's working toomuch.

Plus, they started with 150 families and raised $2.1 million in pledges.

Made me feel very very small. I'm looking for a new church closer to Dogpatch anyway.

I told Herbie on the phone and by email that I don't want to come get my stuff (as he wished I'd do) and he can just pack it up and send it over. This is all his idea anyway.

That's it. I am dull. Love you. Peaches:dance:

kiwi WROTE IN GREEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!

How's tricks?
 

Hello all,
Life is good around here. :wave: I'm still working and so I'm extremely busy. My kids are busy and fine. DH is too.
((((Peaches)))) :grouphug:
Kiwi, I can't wait until we get to the part of your diary where the roofing guy comes over. :censored:
Cherry, I'm glad/sad you're holding. Holding can be good.....sounds like everything else is going well.:goodvibes:
Wabby, hi...where are you? I didn't read the last post...I hope you're somewhere exotic. :cb:
Hello to everyone else. I hear Frappe was by.....I couldn't find her post so I don't know what's going on with her. :shrug:
Have a great day!
L:moo:

Remember how excited we were when we learned to <p> paragraph????

Good tuesday morning, my lovelies. I'm still in a really b*tchy mood. Even having everyone hanging around here posting has only helped a teensy bit.

Cherry, you should be proud of yourself that you just keep slugging away at it. I'm a huge failure at this weight loss thing. I'm up to 161 as of this morning. I just can't believe it. I've done it again. And you have to remember that this is on a 5'2" person. A short little dumplin' person. :dance: and that ain't the happy dance. That's how I actually look. The thing is, I'm so upset about it all I want to do is do a little comfort eating.

Lush, what ever gave you the idea that I would be somewhere exotic? Have you ever known me to go to exotic places? Have I ever gone anywhere that warranted a post card to my favorite cows? Our 25th anniversary is on the 21st of this month and DH doesn't want to go anywhere. And he promised me Puerto Vallarta. Probably doesn't want to be seen on the beach with this tubby girl. He listens to Geo. Bush and thinks we should not travel because the world is a scary place lately.

Peaches, why would you feel small? Everyone should give to their own ability, God doesn't keep an account book on you.

Excuse me for being such a whiner. For some reason I just feel like laying down and giving up on losing weight. I need a big weight loss revival meeting, but pleeeeesssse don't send me back to weight watchers.

Hi Kiwi, Hi Sugar, Hi Brattie, Hi Frappe, wherever you are. Hope I didn't miss anyone. My mind is starting to go too. Old age.

:dizzy: Hi everyone do you all know what a great group you all are? I posted a comment on another board and got the thread starter all huffy and puffy.:lol: Now she wants the thread closed is mad at the other ladies that posted there is acting like a 6 year old cry baby. It wasn't just me but the other ladies all felt her comment were wrong. '
It is TOM and wow was I a :censored: last week. FIL is back home so I can do the:dance: SS was better yesterday but I am still mad at him. SD had a bad seizure last night and slept from 4 PM almost till 7 AM today. She was up for maybe and hour after the seizure and then 30 minutes max when I got her ready for bed. :mad:
My DH took me to breakfast this morning.:p Biscuits and gravy and 4 slices of bacon crisp. I ate the bacon and one buscuit. They are hugh biscuits like a 3" square each may 4 " square.
I am off to do a few errands wanted to say HI!
Daphne

Did you see how many smilies they let Lushy use?
 

They'd never let me do that.

Took the kids to McDonald's and a movie today (Bibi Blocksberg - never heard of it, right? Kind of Germany's answer to Harry Potter). We had to sit three rows from the front so my eyes were going :dizzy: the whole time.

Mom and Pop got back all right from the Channel Islands and promptly had an offer on their house which they've been trying to sell for a while. They took the offer and have to be out by Dec. 18. That should be fun. Mummy says Christmas will be a non-even this year. They're looking after Max the Wonder Boy (15 months) for a few days and this darling child has suddenly discovered spitting. Apparently he has excellent aim.

Kiwi - soon thousands of people will be flocking to read your diary. I sometimes get hooked reading the journals of perfect strangers and *have* to go back every day to see if they just might have been up to something interesting. No wonder my butt is so big.

Hi Wabby! Excellent news about your sister!

Peachy! I don't like places that make you feel guilty for not giving them money. It's not fair. And you're right to make Herbie bring your stuff over. Just what has gotten into him lately? Male menopause, maybe?

Cherry! You go girl! I've been keeping up with your exercise routine and you are truly amazing. Hope you have a wonderful birthday dinner!

Lush posted! Hi Lush! You're sounding very chipper. Frappe's post was a while back. They're moving so she'll probably check in when they get to their secret location.

Hi Brattie! Man, have you got a lot going on! I don't know how you do it - you're one strong woman. Funny that someone would get all upset with something you posted. We're a pretty easy going bunch most of the time, I guess.

Did I miss anyone?

Next Monday is *Canadian Thanksgiving* so I expect you all to put up a couple of displays in my honour. I suppose Bagzie won't be much in the mood for celebrating *sigh*

My house is still a tip but getting better.
:smug: :smug: :smug:

Bratzie, we used to be mean to everyone who posted with us, then we realized that everyone new was just us. What does SS and SD mean?
I'm going to Orlando on Friday; that is why I'm posting a lot...I'm procrastinating.
Hi Sugar P I'm planning my Canadian Thanksgiving displays as we speak. I think I'll do a major drive through thing this year with the kids acting out the part of the Canadian Pilgrams and Canadian Indians(native Americans)Pixie, Baby Orange and the frogs will stand in for minor rolls. DH will narrate.
I got DD tickets to RENT for Christmas. I am so excited to go. I am listening to the music now.
She is looking at colleges, I don't think I thought about that until I was much older.
Gotta go stuff suitcases...bye

SD and SS step daughter and step son. THe lady was being rude to a poster that has stage 2 of 4 leukemia. Nice lady has 2 buys 11 and 12 I think or close to that she ws honest with them and said yes she could die, mean lady jumped her said she should never say that till it is time basically. I said nice lady was right because kids are smart and somebody would slip and ask how long does Mom have. I lost my Dad and 3 Grandparents to cancer and honesty is the best way to go. Mean lady got all huffy and puffy and said if we knew half what we thought we did we wouldn't be where we were. I had to reply about if she is so smart why is she in an abusive relationship and how does that affect her kids? She hit a nerve and I wanted to make her mad. So see I can be a brat for the right reason. I use to be real mean in chat and had friends with punters and friends that were bad and would crash peoples comps if they made me mad. Now I am just sweet as sugar but have side that wont put up with rudeness. D :)

Wow, Brattie...
 

...I went and read that thread and it blew me away. I would definitely tell children of that age. I don't know why that other poster had such a wierd reaction. I mean, everyone is entitled to her own opinion, but she was so unpleasant about it. Oh well, who knows what people have going on behind the scenes to make them act that way.

We used to only be mean to the reallyreallyreally wierd posters, didn't we cows? Dusty? CRAZY MOM? June? Those were the days.

You *is* purdy, Peachy!
 

You ask a lot of questions for someone from New Jersey
 

Wow.
 

That stretch pant quote is soooo deep, Sugar. I need to think about that for awhile.

I'm getting over being a b*tch because I think I'm going to book a cruise and DH will have to come along or waste the ticket. He is soooo hard to get a commitment from. I can't believe he ever committed to marriage to begin with. :dizzy: Now, the bad news is that I will be cruising at my highest weight ever. :eek: I will be just a quivering lump of blubber, laying around in a deck chair, ordering food.

Where do we find the thread that Brattie is talking about? Nothing like a good cat fight:devil: .

Lush, please post photos of your thxgiving display. Will you have the same display for the US version, or will you have an all new and improved display (hard to do)?

Peachy, why the online writing course? You should be teaching it! After years of posting here, you definitely know how to express yourself. Can you use smileys in your online course? :D

Geez, I'm in a goofy mood today. I told the guys here at work I was going to have a filet o fish for lunch, since it was friday. They had to tell me it's only wednesday. I seem to have shorted out a couple brain wires. :hypno:

Y'know
 

I don't quite understand the stretch pants quote either, but it certainly has a nice ring to it. Ya gotta earn your stretch pants!

DH went to the eye doctor, and he is finally getting bifocals. :fr: I'm :lol: at him, he has needed them for quite some time. About driving me crazy with his not seeing stuff. The other night I was on the computer and he was watching a show I wanted to see, so I asked him if he was recording it, he said Yes. Later he goes Oops, it wasn't on. "I looked at it and it looked like it was on!" :rolleyes: Get real, ya old dear! Sometimes I can't believe this aging thing is actually happening to us!

I'm all for the cruise, Wab. If DH decides not to go, let me know, I'm a lot of fun and I'm available.:twirly:

Hey Peachie, isn't this your day off? Whatcha doin'?

I've got to whip this house into some kind of shape before Saturday. :no: Some old friends are visiting the area and will probably stop by on Sunday. If I remember correctly, this place didn't look quite this awful when they lived around here, so I will be duly embarrassed. Of course I'm on the computer instead of cleaning. Okay, I'm going now. I will do 30 minutes of picking up, okay?:nose: No, really, I'm going.

Kiwi

OK, the cruise is booked! It took all day of calls back and forth between the travel agent & me translating to DH, with him dragging his feet all the way. He acts like he's being sentenced to some horrible fate. We aren't going on our actual anniversary, we're going the first week in November. :cb: The ship leaves LA on sunday, 2 days at sea, 1 day in Puerto Vallarta, 1 day in Matzalan, 1 day in Cabo San Lucas, 1 day at sea, then back to LA. I need to lose 30 ugly pounds fast! Do you think I can lose it and firm up by Nov. 1? :lol:

I need someone to visit so that I'd clean up my pigpen, Kiwi. Send your friends over to my house after they visit you. My house is just like me, as time goes by it gets harder and harder to look presentable.:stress:I'm sure the DH looks very intellectual in his new spectacles. At least you can tell him he does. Just don't tell him it makes him look older.:yikes:

Woo-hoo! It's bunco night tomorrow!!!!

Yay!!!!!!!!!!
 

Wabby's going cruisin'!! Wabby's going cruisin'!!!!! :dance: I'm so excited for you! I love cruises. We went on one for our honeymoon, and it was perfect. Nothing like those lovely waiters and cabinboys at your beck and call. And more meals than hours in the day! There's usually plenty of opportunities to get exercise on board too. Like a morning walk around the deck, swimming, dancing classes ;) Who needs to lose weight beforehand? Just get walking so you'll be in shape for all that fun!

Speaking of walking, I haven't done any at all for so long I can't remember. I can't stand the idea of going for a walk without my faithful hairy companion. And she just keeps getting worse, poor baby. But I've really got to get out there and get some exercise before I melt into the couch and can't get out.

Thanks for the image of DH in his intellectual spectacles, he'll appreciate that, I'm sure. Of course, you're right, that's better than making fun of him... :s: He wears glasses anyway, so I don't know if he'll get anything that looks different, but get this: for his first pair of bifocals, he's getting them put in safety glasses for work. :lol: Just like a guy, eh?

No school here today, so I am enjoying my first cup of coffee right now. And I'm sure I'll get a whooooooole lot of housecleaning done today. That'll be the day :faint:

Kiwi

The Looooooove Boat
 

Wow, Wabby, how womantic. Oh, I mean romantic. I don't know if my queasy stomach would survive a cruise, but it sounds wonderful.

We had dinner with German friends of ours tonight and tomorrow they're expecting a visit from an internet pen pal all the way from West Virginia. Apparently she has pen pals all over Germany and is going to visit three families in the two weeks that she'll be here. She sounds like tons of fun.

Hey Kiwi! I know what you mean about walking. Kids have been off for two weeks and I've barely been out of the house. Flab city.

My turkey is in the fridge defrosting as we speak.

;jsakl
 

MMy teacher is not 18. He is grown. this little British twerp in the class is 18. The class is going well now. People are being nice and helpful and posting stuff. Also, Thursdays I am volunteering at the library at ds's school. Also, Herbie and I WERE GOING TO GO ON A CRUISE and I AM SO JEAOUS OF the WABBYKATEER.

Other than being really confused, you guys are adorable. Except Wabby. I feel much better than I did the other day. Did I tell you how bad I felt? Well, I won't. And YES I AM FAT. Just in the stomach and butt though. I have skinny fingers. Bye. :moo: :ink: :mouse: :chicken:

You're just a bouncy little hamster yourself, aren't you, Sugar?

PeachPie, did you just call Wabby the only one who's not adorable?

Kiwi, Head Troublemaker

:?: :?: Wow I have really made a certain person mad at me. It was never my intention to do that. I am also not suppose to write what I want in my journal? I had to add a page today to see if this dang cat fight can be dropped. It was none of you ladies I love all of you here. It just irks me that someone suposebly asked if I should be censored? I guess then that I need to agree with people when I disagree with them so they stay happy? Thought this was a place to sound off? I will post more laters just needed to asy ARRGGGGG! D

oops!
 

I thought I edited that out. I was trying to get the hamster image to appear here, but it wouldn't work. Oh well. The other day I heard that hamsters are good at weather forecasting. If they lie around in a heap, it's going to rain, and if they run all over the place the weather will be nice. You learn something new every day.

Brattie, you poor thing. Those gals still giving you a hard time? How silly.

After wrestling with a mean, nasty pie crust, I finally have my apple pie in the oven. It's going to look awful and taste fantastic.

party pooped
 

I'm a pooped partygoer. The party I went to yesterday (and made giant potato salad for) was in honor of a couple of friends who are visiting from Fla. They used to live here and all their old friends were dragged out to a camp (read: cottage on lake) to party from early afternoon through the evening. DD brought a friend and a guitar and we had campfire singing (well, actually they sang mostly songs they liked, so there was no older generational singing along, but it was entertaining). My old friends are much as usual. Today we are joining them for a jaunt up toward the mountain for foliage peering.

Doggie is doing not well, I am starting to wonder when I'm going to have to make "the decision". Of course this just gets me sobbing, so I don't think about it too much. Some of this dog nursing can get a bit comical, though -- this morning I got up to take her outside. Had her on her feet, picked her up to take her to the door (remember, she's 40 lbs or so), set her down to open the door, went back to pick her up and she had started hopping toward the door. Now, this must mean she's feeling a bit of urgency so I hurried to pick her up, whereupon she peed down my leg, across the door mat, across the threshold, across the outside mat, and down the steps before I managed to set her down again. Oy. :rain:

Ta ladies
Kiwi

Peaches, maybe this will make you feel better - I'm going on this cruise at my all time high weight. :eek: At least I am unless I starve for the next 3 weeks, and then I'll be a couple pounds under my all time high. This hadn't really bothered me until I went shopping this weekend for clothes. Not only are there no clothes in the stores for warm weather, if there were, I was so depressed with the 3 way mirrors I wouldn't buy them anyway.

I went to bunco and didn't win a dime. We have a fellow bunco'er that is preggers with her first baby at the tender age of 38. Wow! I'm so glad I had my babies when I was in my 20's.

Kiwi, your partygoing sounds like such fun. Isn't it nice to see old friends and connect like no time has passed? Sorry about the old doggie. Although we always know the reality, it's so hard to let them go.

MMMMM. The ugly pies are always the tastiest, Sugar P.

Brattie, please tell me where I can read this melodrama. It sounds to me like this person is just looking for someone to be mad at and you just happened to be unlucky enough to be the target. But don't tell her I said that, because I sure don't want her going after me!:dizzy:

Wabbit, you need a personal trainer! Who wants to volunteer to be Wabbit's personal trainer? Not me ofcourse, I can't even train myself to get up off the couch.

HAPPY CANADIAN THANKSGIVING!! to all our favorite Canadians and

HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY!! to, hmm, everyone who doesn't have school today.

Later gators
Kiwi

Oooh, I shouldn't have eaten all that turkey
 

Still full from yesterday's feast. Kids went back to school today, that's why we had it Sunday. I made sweet potato casserole for the first time (I know, I know, it's *so* 5 minutes ago) and it was wonderful. Kids hated it, of course, but dh actually came back for seconds.

So sorry about the pooch, Kiwi. You are so kind to her. At least when they go you can say they had a good life.

Wabby, you'll look gorgeous on your cruise. Do you have your mix 'n' match outfits all ready to go? Do you know they recommend taking only 3 pairs of shoes on a cruise? Can you believe that?

PMSing like crazy. Gotta go make a turkey sandwich for dh's lunch tomorrow. And the next day. And the next day. Naah, it was only a 10 pounder so it won't be around for long.

It's Columbus Day? How cool.

Hi I'm Chazam & I'm just cruzzing through here. Wabby, you said you made bread pudding. My husbands family taught me that, but I don't know anyone else that makes it. How do you make yours? From NY

Hi everybody I miss my Tony like crazy now. I had my first class to become a na-r. I am going to work with the elderly or I hope to. I went to lunch with 4 other students from class all adults. I came home to a messy house, did the dishes, made dinner and then went to a party. It was a home and garden party. I bought 2 candles for $5 each. I had a diet coke and 2 cookies and about 15 candy corns. I guess what I am getting at is I was with adults! I never realised how much I miss being with adults until today. I loved the class and having my brain work again. If I don't get a job right off the bat I am going to start taking classes. I am going to take classes not matter what with or without a job. I need to feel important and needed. I need to feel alive again. I need to be with adults. Until I do get a job I will take classes in whatever I want. I need to learn and use my brain and it was FUN!
Hope all of you are wll and having a nice sleep!
D

mmmm Bread Pudding
 

Hi Chazam, go to www.allrecipes.com then do a search for bread pudding. I use the Bread Pudding II recipe by Ellen Warfield. Easy and very good.

Bread Pudding
 

Thanks Wabby. I will do that. You girls sound like you have been friends quite a while. It also sounds like you have a good thing going. Have you met each other personally? Chazam:wave:

Hi Chazam I have been posting here just a short time on this thread. We all get to know each other pretty fast. We learn when someone is up or down and how we are doing weight wise. We also lecture when we are really going off the wall and cheer each other up when someone is blasting them online. :)
I know some have met here but I havn't met anyone off 3FC yet. I did meet some off of AOL before I met my DH, I also me him off of AOL. Tell us about you?
Brattie

Well, actually
 

Some of us have been posting together for over 4 years, starting on another forum. :fr: Freaky, but true.

I'm posting my Middle Eastern stuffed zucchini recipe on my journal page (click the button over on the left side).

I am so tired. :yawn: I'm not made for weight-lifting (ie, hauling my 40 lb fur mattress outside 4x/day to pee), plus I didn't get a wink of sleep last night mulling over whether to take her 4 hours away to a neurological vet clinic. I finally made an appt. this morning, but it seems a bit daft. Although she is doing a teensy bit better today, eating well and almost getting herself up on her feet. Thank goodness she can still pee and poop by herself, because I think I've reached my dog-nurse limit right now. :faint:

Today was DD's guitar lesson, which involves 2 hours of driving, making for some interesting conversations now and then. Today we discussed cigarette smoking and pot. DD is quite against polluting her lungs, darling that she is. :angel: She told me that her school has an anonymous stop smoking clinic going on -- very progressive for this backwater. Maybe I should suggest it to DH :lol:

Ta
Kiwi

page three is ridiculous
 

This is dumb...why doesn't someone start a new thread...not me, of course, I'm tired and lack imagination.
I am so sorry your dog is still struggling, Kiwi. Is there anything sadder than a sick animal?
I'm back from DisneyWorld. It was fun, but that's enough. We know many people who go there every year. I could never do that. I feel like I've been hit by a bus. I am sick of listening to other people's kids cry and whine. My kids are old enough and did not cry and whine...they did sulk a little but I can bear that.
DH and the kids are back at work and school. I'm here with a ton of laundry and a house that should have been cleaned before we left....oh well.
I so admire Sissy for taking a class. I am impressed.
Sugar, happy Thanksgiving. Sweet potato pie sounds good. I've never made it either. Is it hard?
Wabby, I am so jealous that your vacation will not include crying kids or cartoon characters. Don't worry about your weight...just avoid mirrors. Where are you cruising to? Is the ocean cold there at this time of year...ours is still pretty warm.
I have a sinus headache. I have lots to do.
L