oooooooooooooooopssssssss--- i was using the dd's computer and suddenly she burst in with a friend who was very upset--it is impossible to get a computer around here------------there is constant msnnnning all day and night bye bye yankees and confederates!!!!!

Hello!

Ummm.

Hey, who is that kid on Cowpernia's posts?


Somehow, by sleeping 16 hours today, I lost 5 pounds. I would like to know why so I can duplicate it. However, losing the five pounds only got me back down to 180.

Sugar P- hooray for loose bellbottoms!!!

I give up. It won't let me embed my picture.

Hi kids! Had a great 4th of July; hope you all did too. It's beastly hot here again and I will be moaning and groaning and avoiding work until it stops. It's my way of boycotting hot weather.

Kiwi

bikers with no sense of direction ended up in front Sugar's house, right? I watched Wimbledon yesterday, but I missed most of the preliminaries. Trouble with tennis is there are only 2 choices of people to gawk at for each match, and sometimes they're not worth gawking at. Switzerland got its first Wimbledon win.

New hair color? What color is it? This? Or more like this? Perhaps you went with this? Or the ever-popular this?
Yesterday I almost ran into a kid whose hair was sort of this color.

Obviously I have nothing to say. DD is still at music camp. We've heard from her once. Oh and one email to inform me that I shouldn't send her anything to read because she doesn't have time to read. Maybe I'll write to her again and maybe I won't.

Yesterday we went to some friends' camp and enjoyed the cool breezes and a little swimming. It was lovely. Our house is too dang hot this summer, and I never have any energy to do anything.

Kiwhini

Awwww Bagzie, you know I'm totally sympathetic. I personally have dealt with teenagers. I have a mindblower to tell you dearie - it doesn't get much better when they become young adults. Remember how DS had moved out and finally settled into his own apartment? Well his lease was up so he decided that he really would rather rent a house. And he found one. Across the street from me. He is moving into it today. I really really hope it works out. For everybody. eeeeek.

We bbq'd our way through the weekend. We had a big one ourselves yesterday. Perfect weather and lots of friends. I roasted a couple whole chickens and made Ginger-spice salmon and one smokey seasoned salmon, both of them cooked on a cedar plank that makes them all smokey and yummy. Then one day we took a long drive with some friends up in the Mt. Hood wilderness area. Stopped for lunch, nothing too exciting, but fun.

Peach. Please explain the hair color. Platinum blonde?

I almost forgot to tell yous - the weight on my home scale was down to 149 this morning!!! Of course that's not the official WW scale - I weigh and extra 3 lbs. on that - but it was wonderful to see the 140's again!!!!

my hair is brown. Brown Brown Brown. Like Bagz's. Lushies's is black. Kiwi's is caramel. Bagz and I have brown hair.

I was looking at the stuff I have stored in favorites and ran across a web site that inspired me so deeply in the past. Here is a quote from there.
Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path.
Usually those who do are constitutionally incapable of sloughing off
responsibility and blaming others. It is not their fault; they seem to have
been born that way.

for all your SYMPATHY!!!!!--------- i am beginning to see what you are talking about WABBY---------the older teens are VERY stressful for sure----------we thought we would be OUT of the WOODS but we are DEEPER in something that's for sure------ congratulationsssssssssssss on the weightloss----------and poor brown haired,greeen shoed lady----------THROW SOME STUFF OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!