Monday begins Perfect 2009. Please stay tuned.
Dahlia, you are on probation. Watch it. Anymore remarks like that and we're going to make you read that obnoxious Dragonfly Lady every day. Honestly, how can you guys like her? She has a housekeeper, fGs, and NO KIDS. She has NOTHING to tell us except how to raise self-promotion to an art. And have you read her bio? She's a lifelong looney tune who just happens to have landed on her feet temporarily.
Did that sound cranky?
Naturally, it is the first sign that Perfect 2009 is within my grasp.
I think we should have a new thread for it, so I will not go into detail. Let me just say that this plan will wow even the most devout fat slobs in our midst.
Dahlia, years ago....I guess in '98 since '99 was the first year we failed at becoming perfect, Cherry promised to lead us all to perfection. She is our baby and she must have had energy, for in fact she did make many positive changes in her now (almost) perfect life. Sadly, the rest of us did not follow and we remain chunky and slovenly.
My life became very stressful. My brother, my folks and my husband's parents all became very sick, two passed away, so perfection wasn't within reach for a while. I tanked up but then took MOST of it off. Well, this holiday season, I've ballooned up again. SO I am starting Monday with my new plan. Of course, this weekend is jam-packed with stuffing myself on my one last binge before my new life starts.
Listen to this. My DH is the 6th grade boys basketball coach. He must go to every game and every practice. I have two other kids, so when they are doing that, I drive the other two around. Therefore, I rarely get to practice. This week, with DD's knee, I was free to stop by practice and to get to the game. One of those stupid parents admitted to me that all season long they have been gossiping about us, assuming we were split up. Can you imagine, first- having time to think about other people that much, then second, being stupid enough to tell them? DH was amused, but I'm cranky today so I was pi**ed.
Perfect 2009 will include elimination of coffee and sugar, daily stretching and long hard consideration of aerobic exercise every day. It will be a standard hypoglycemic diet. All the energy it gives me will cause my sty to perk up naturally.
OK?
Who's with me?
PS....Wabby, have you told me about Curves....expense, do you like it?

ok Lush,, I have been warned... and shall try my best..... ok so how about telling me how old each of you are and info so I can get to know you better...

I live in Michigan, where are the rest of you at? Do you (meaning all of you) work outside the home and if so what do you do? How many chidren do you all have? You will learn I ask a lot of guestions.. I geniunely like to learn as much as I can about everyone....

As I"ve said before I have 5 sons. DH and I own and operate a commercial greenhouse. We've been in business for 33 yrs. He runs the production part of it, I run the business side... doing all the office work as well as actually working beside him in the greenhouses.. we started with 5 and now have 16.. having just added another one this past fall, we do both wholesale and retail... so being organized comes in handy, but I won't mention it again...

I am going to try to limit my portions and get in more exercises... and eat healthier... did anyone see Shallow Hal? it is a cute movie and more people should be hypnotized like Hal was... it taught a good lesson...as well as being entertaining..

Ok...later
Dahlia

i just ate two gingerbread peeps and now that i have read how lush is planning to pork out all weekend ,i feel i must finish the package----on MONday i will begin my "diet" that was actually beginning to work for me BEfore this dreadful christmas pigOUTfest-----my regime is thus:----i can have as many VEGGIES and FRUITS as i want---even if it is CORN or BANANAS {like they try to LIMIT these animals in the 'traditional' diets like WEIGHT WATCHERS---assigning EXTRA points to the starchy HEALTHY foods----THAT MAKES ME SO MAAAAAAAAAD !!!!!!!!!ANYway----i must try to include some protein at least twice a day--chicken,yogurt,etc---and i must limit the simple carbs like CHIPS AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH---i try to have a small bagel for me carbs or cereal-----i was doing okay on this from october til christmas and at least was not gaining any weight----i also try not to eat too much at night---fruit or cereal----i watched OPRAH!!!! and that stupid Bob Greene has her eating like a bird and wouldn't even let her have a glass of champagne at the emmys----SHE WILL CRASH AND BURN WITH THAT KIND OF ENFORCED DISCIPLINE---SHE HAS MADE HIM A MILLIONAIRE!!!! THAT MAKES ME MAAAAAAAD WELL-----enough ranting---- i live in canada [eastern] dahlia----we are having a MAJOR snowstorm today---even the MALLS are closed!!!!!we have been in all day---i have three children and three stepchildren {lovely teen girls---they are sweet} they leave for home tomorrow---have been visiting over the holidays-----they live in Colorado.---and one other thing--- I HAVE A BABY GREENHOUSE AND SO DOES WABBY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND MY FAVOURITE FLOWER IS DELPHINIUM!!!!! WABBY AND I CAN SEND YOU GARDEN PHOTOS IF YOU LIKE-------I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOURS!!! DOES YOUR COMPANY HAVE A WEBSITE?????? gotta go eat the rest of the peeeeps---love yas all!!!!

I can't wade through all these posts!! Don't you people have anything better to do than write fascinating messages that I can't skip?

Thank you Brattie and Sugar and Wabbit and Cherry for the delightful Christmas cards!! I think I already thanked Bagz, but it deserves a 2nd thank you. I love them all. We just picked up the mail that was held while we were gone, so I got a whole bunch in one day. I also got my internet bra, and it looks brand new, so I'm going to wear it despite all the shudders I hear out there from you sensitive souls.

It's good to see you back Daphne and Dahlia, both. By the way, Dahlia, Perfect 2009 is the sequel to Perfect 1999, in which we were all going to be fit and beautiful and live perfect lives by the year 2000. We are of course all beautiful already, but the other two things are on hold until there are 29 hours in every day.

Lushie darling, I have been unsubscribing spammy types from SG for months now. I also changed some setting in there so that new members can't post without me seeing it first, so the group doesn't generally have to see any spam at all. I'm on several Yahoo groups, so it's no big deal.

Sorry to hear about DD's knee. My dd broke her ankle one winter and it cut her blooming basketball career short. Just kidding, she hated basketball, but it was a real pain for her what with ice and snow etc.

Well, I really thought my new year was going to get off to a flying start this Monday when DD and DH went back to school and work respectively. I mean I loved our vacation; it was a blast. But I was certainly looking forward to a little routine again. And I got my package of exercise DVDs which is going to remake me in 90 days, money back guaranteed -- but here's the kicker: DH's company was shut down for 2 weeks due to lack of orders, lack of money and generally lackingness, and they are supposed to start up on the 6th. However, due to their general lackingness, they have requested that DH's whole department take another week of vacation or no pay and stay home. Referring to them as "non-essential personnel". Doesn't that sound ominous? I mean if they are really non-essential, why would they ever want them back? It is worrisome, but mostly I have to put up with DH hanging around for the week Of course he is not ignorant of the fact that his hanging around home for a week is going to drive me up the wall, so he is planning to spend the week shopping for my new (used) car. This, as you may know, is only right because he is the one who totalled it.

Anyway, on Monday I am still planning to start my new exercise tapes. Right after DH leaves on his car-shopping expedition.

No, Sugar, I agree with Wabbit. The in-laws aren't trying to annoy you, they are trying to drive you stark raving mad. Or perhaps they are the ones who are mad. Hope the turkey is good anyway

See yas.
Kiwi

I loved Shallow Hal, it was sweet.

To answer your questions (you ask a lot of questions for someone from New Jersey... R. Rosannadanna), I live in the wilds of northern Maine, not on the coast, not near a city of any size, just outside a paper mill town. I haven't had a job other than mommy since 1986 when I got laid off by the paper mill as a wedding present. I only have one child, a daughter 14, who is gorgeous and smart (just ask me), one husband, 2 cats and I still think I have a dog, but she died in October. All my real life friends have moved away from this dying town I live in and my family mostly lives in N.C. So it's really nice to have people here to talk to every day or so.

I am definitely not cutting out coffee or sugar, Lush, but I'd be willing to stretch and contemplate aerobics. Can I be perfect too?

Oh yeah, Dahlia, I live near Bagz, only in a different country!! How much snow did we get, Bagz? I haven't looked outside yet.

My plan is to bust my with these new exercise tapes, eat lots of healthy food but try to skip the chips, crackers and mass quantities of cheese, drink gallons upon gallons of water and go to bed 3 hours after my last meal or snack of the day. Oh, that's not quite right, is it -- if I have a snack right now I'll have to stay up till 3:30.

Kiwi

Hi everyone,

Kiwi, I grew up living next door to a paper factory. The town that one is in is not to prosperous either,,I moved away when I got married, not to far, 30 miles, but far enough, this little town is growing all the time.

I'd love to see pictures of your gardens.... what do you do in your small greenhouses? How small are they? Ours cover over 50,000 sq. feet, are all under plastic and by the end of April will all be filled to the brim.. we already have some filling up. We do bedding plants and containers, baskets etc. Like I said we sell both wholesale and retail, and no we don't have a webpage..
We just enlarged our retail center, put up another greenhouse and turned a few others around to accomodate the customers better... will be fun getting it organized for spring opening. Am thinking about having an opening party to let everyone know about the addition...they love it... and it usually draws a lot of new people too..


well, enough about me... I get caught up in my work.. so
you'd think I'd be to busy to eat wouldn't you...

Hi to everyone... hope more of you answer like kiwi did..

Dahlia

went into the forum's chat last night, met a nice bunch of ladies from some other forums.. never even knew we had a chat..would be nice to meet some of you gals in there for a real chat.. we should set up a day and time to try to meet there...

I'm trying to think of a nice way to say this. ...... I can't think of one. Here it goes:

I am more open-minded and tolerant than most cows and I always welcome any new interesting people to join in the conversations here. However, I feel that questions that are personal are just personal. To be specific, I was a bit put off by comments the other day about parents of a certain age since ... as most cows know ... my arches had fallen and I was reminiscing about the good old days when our favorite toy was a wooden rooster on a stick that we ran around the yard waving happily ... when ds was born.

So I am not putting my age, sex, location on any computer screen without a long courtship. I do not bond easily. I am too old and suspicious.

Anyone who reports this to 3FC and gets me fussed at AGAIN is in you-know-what.

Sugar, have you looked at that bookcrossing website that was mentioned in a Flylady email (not by her). www.bookcrossing.com. There's a copy of Lovely Bones (which I want to read) circulating through your neck of the wood.

I am a little miffed at Kiwi. How rude of her to mention TWICE that chips will have to be eliminated when I am eating chips RIGHT THIS MINUTE(with ham salad for dip.) Better yet, I am eating the REALLY good chips that are fried in lard, no healthy fats for me today.
The only reason I forgive her is because she is being so sweet aboutSystem Goddess I notice upon checking the website that she isn't even mentioned. Shame. Peaches, Cherry, Claudia and Enigma Blast are mentioned. I would fix this, but I don't know the password to do such things.
I have to do stuff today. I'm taking my poor gimpy DD to the movies with my poor gimpy mother. I need to get off the computer.
Kiwi, please inform on your tapes. Bagzie I agree with you about corn and bananas. I feel the same way about potatoes and brown rice. Tomorrow is the day....who's ready!!!!!!!!
PS. Can I report Sissy for remarking upon us being mothers of a certain age? True, she is the MUCH older sister, but this information could lead potential stalkers to ME, the youthful one.

True, Lushella, but I look younger because I eat brown rice. Please answer my email. I am so accustomed to being bossed around by you that I don't know what direction to go in my life right now.

Well, that's what I get for not reading each and every FlyLady testy-monial in detail. You are so clever, Peachy! Went to take a look and found there have actually been a couple of books released close to where we live. Not the one you want to read though . What a novel concept.

Peachy, someone fussed at YOU? I can't believe it.

For Dahlia: 39; former resident of Canada; in Germany since 1990 due to loooooooove;2 boys,; don't work outside the home and don't work *in* the home unless it's absolutely necessary;no greenhouse.

In a matter of minutes I am going to start my weight routine as featured in a November 1998 issue of Canadian Living magazine. Some chick wrote to them and said it changed her friend's life. Probably because she actually did it. Will be contemplating aerobic activity very hard this week.

Did I really mention not eating chips twice? Of course I didn't mean you, Lush darling. You are entitled to all the chips your little heart desires. After all, you are planning to give up coffee and sugar. That is a level of sacrifice that I can only aspire to in my most remote dreams. Oh and I think if you eat chips with a dip that has been homemade, they cancel each other out, don't they?

WOW, PEACHES, that is one amazing concept, that bookcrossing thing! I've seen a site where they do that with dollar bills (Where's George?) but this is actually useful as well as fun! I have some books that need doing that to. Good books, but everybody I know has read them. Would you mind if I "released" that App. Trail book with the bear on the front? I tried to give it to people I know, but they are either not interested or have read it. If you prefer I can return it to you. It was very useful to me; I never have to wonder if I want to hike the Appalachian Trail now.

Later babes
Kiwi

I'm starting my new eating program this evening, when I have my last meal before surgery tommorrow at 6!!!! am. When I wake up from the anesthesia, it will be as if waking from a bad dream. A dream in which I have struggled all my life with a weight problem. When I come to, I will have an altered mental state, in which I am in total control of my eating, in which I love to exercise, in which I actually dislike chocolate and fatty foods. But geez, Lush, I can't give up coffee!!!

Dahlia, don't mind Peaches. She gets that way sometimes. I don't mind telling you all about my totally boring life. 47. married. 2 kids, dd 22, ds 19. still at home. Work alongside DH in our construction related business (I don't actually construct anything, just the books and paychecks, etc.) live in Oregon. hobby greenhouse. thats about it. I want to see pictures of your growing operation. Commercial greenhouse production is big business in Oregon, but it is hard work!!!! How many ppl do you have helping you?

I like Shallow Hal, if only to see that Gwenneth Paltrow w/ some meat on her skinny bones.

See you lovely cows in a few days, the one good thing about surgery is that I've arranged for a girl to work in the office for me for 2 weeks! I get a surgical vacation!!!!I'll keep DH's notebook puter w/ me so I can check in. See yas.

ps I won $20 at bunco last night!!! wooo-hoo for me!!!!!

Oh, man, Wabby! Forgot all about your Epiphany surgery. I'm sure you'll breeze through it, then you can throw away all your old bras and go shopping! Woo hoo!

Did my weight routine. How long does it take to look buff?

Lunch at ILs was as usual. FIL wants to buy us a dog, BUT he also wants to tell us what kind of dog to get. I told him German Shepards are OUT (sorry to all German Shepard lovers out there, but we don't have room for such a big one). So what kind should we get?? Any suggestions? I have experience with poodles, huskeys and dachshunds (is that really how you spell that?). Dh likes the beagle a few doors down but I told him they're pretty ornery sometimes. Nothing that slobbers too much. I like Jack Russel Terriers but have heard that they are stubborn as mules and only do what they want. Isn't Bugsy (bless his little heart and has anyone heard from Frappe?) one of those?

There's been a lot of flooding lately. Last time it happened, water rushed in from the street into the ILs basement (also shared by other apartment block dwellers) and everything got wet, so FIL says to dh "We want you to build a low wall in front of the basement door so the water can't get in next time." Fine, wall was built with cement and stones. More flooding this week. This time it was ground water that came up through the basement floor. FIL says, "We could have swept the water out with a broom, but that wall was in the way!". I think you guys are right about them trying to drive us slowly insane.

Turkey was dry.

I think Wabby's is having gall bladder surgery. What does this have to do with a bra?

Kiwi ... feel free to release. I've released a few and on the last one I took the advice of the website and put a sticky note on the outside saying "Free Book. Look Inside." That one worked. The person who picked it up posted that she'd found it.

The site also lets you mail books to people. *hint* *hint* What do you have??????

Dahlia, since you have such a nice yard I'll be nice so everyone can talk about gardening. Life is stressful enough for me without getting onto my favorite site and reading that moms who have their babies when they're older and in some way not as good. We need to go to a sensitivity workshop together. You fall back and I'll catch you.

BTW, Lushina, by the time you were born, toys were made of painted tin and you never had a wooden rooster on a stick of your own. You were SO JEALOUS of mine. Get over it. Mom also said you were petty.