I so want to have this food and fitness thing already established, habitual and easy. I was complaining about 1.8 pound per week loss and all the journal commenters thought I was in a rush and being ridiculous. Well, what about all those "great" articles in places like t4e Enquirer and the Star that tell you you can loose 50 pounds by Christmas... or something. I want what they're having! I want to be slinky cow, not bovine blimp
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SOOOOO sleepy... stayed up late again... and didn't even attend a wedding or beautiful landscaped isle. My days and nights are getting mixed up.... and here I am again.

I wonder if I'm avoiding my dreams?
Maybe I wish I had more friends who didn't interrupt.. (that's what's SO awesome about these forums... y'all may not agree with me (or each other), but there's no interupting!

DD left me a message today! But I'd fallen asleep right after dinner and she'd turned her phone off when I tried calling her back. (different time zones.) Great to have her take the initiative.

DS called me, too. HE was awake when I called back. He actually has plans for after college graduation... that don't involve sponging off of me... There's a relief! For all the hassle I had finding a room in his college town for graduation weekend, he says the ceremony is HUGE and impersonal, and he was thinking about not going... It seems to me this is one of those things that parents must make their kids attend, just so they have the memory when they're 80. Even if the memory is of how impersonal and crowded it was.

He's thinking about going to Japan and teaching English after graduation, OR applying for grad school at Indiana, Minnesota or Maine.... He's smart, getting away from the Texas summers.... AND closer to hockey!

Need to get another glass of water. Glurg glurg glurg.

your son likes hockey??Painty???? TELL HIM TO COME TO CANADA!!!!!!!!!!!! We ARE hockey!!!~~~!!!! i am up but i am still sooooooooooooo tired---------everyone has gone golfing and i am going to lay down for jusssssssst a minnnnnnnnnnnnnnnniiitttttt

rats...I lost my post. Boy does that ever make me mad. I hit a button and poof. Ach.

Painty, I fully understand your disillusionment upon discovering that the Star and the Inquirer are not 100% reliable in their information. This shocks me, too.

I hate to sound like the masses, but 1.8.lbs is really good. It wouldn't satisfy me, either. BUT I'm not losing any weight, am I????????? It is hard to be realistic. One of the cousins I visited this weekend lost a lot of weight...it took her a couple of years, but she's kept it off for five. She changed EVERYTHING about how she eats, permanently. She says that once she got started she began to notice that certain foods and behaviors affected how she felt. Instead of obsessing on food, she started obsessing on why she kept doing self-destructive things. I have to admit she is kind of a drag, because she is so "self aware" but she's thin.

Overall my cousins visit was fun. There is talk about getting together again on Thursday, but I think I'm going to leave well enough alone. We had a great time, I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard. But isn't that true of emotionally iffy people? When they are up...they're up...when they are down, ick.
I'd hate to get there on Thursday and discover the mood has changed and I'm stuck with it.

Wabby, I only hate to get advice when I know it is right and don't want to follow it. I'm glad to hear your bob is coming along. I wonder how much you'll lose....Linda, remember Linda...had it done and she found that she was much more active after the operation and lost even more as a result of that.

Peaches, I would be furious at that git showing up at the nephew's event. Assuming goodness, maybe he feels a responsibility or mentorship and means well. However we both know that if he really meant well, he wouldn't have been such a jerk. Get the pots and pans. He obviously feels entitled to enjoy the benefits of your life, and the nephew's accomplishments are far more enjoyable than a set of pots and pans.

Bagzie, will we see pics? Were your children in the wedding party???

I'm going to go do my Pilates. I have a Denise Austin, she is so annoying but it was only $9.99 at Walmart. I ordered Winsor Pilates, I'm hoping that woman doesn't grate on my nerves like this perky Austin woman.

Hi Sugar, you need a daughter. They tend to remember they have families while they are away. Usually it is because they want a critical piece of clothing or grooming equipment sent by Priority Mail. They also tend to run out of money faster.

Now I really am going to go do my Pilates...no more procrastinating...

Painty, my average loss is 2 pounds a week and so far it's gotten me 20 pounds off. And that makes a big difference. I think your 1.8 is just fine. And you'll be one fine mama if you keep it up.

I change my pots and pans advice. If he shows up at your DS's boy scout thingie and your DS isn't even there, then you get the cookware. And I thought my opinion of the man couldn't sink lower.

My pre-op Dr. appt. is today. Last time I was in, he told me that he would take off approximately 4 pounds. He swears that will be enough to get rid of my neck and back pain. It had better. Did I tell you my second mammogram and ultrasound came out ok? Apparently they just needed to freak me out.

I have a new purse. I love my new purse. It has room for everything and a place for my keys and did I tell you I love it?

Kiwi has an excuse, but everyone else needs to report in.

I am such a good friend. I had just stumbled out of bed and my 3d friend called this morning at 7 am and wanted to know if I could drop her off somewhere at 8:15 am, and I managed to get dressed for work, give my dog her pill, put them in the kennel and have my friend dropped off by 8:15. Now that's incredible. That's a friend you can count on.

Wabby: you are more than a friend, you are a miracle worker. I am impressed. Sometimes it'd take me 30 minutes just to get 1 pill down my cat.

Lohani: thanks for the reassurance. I'll try to keep the 1.89 as a minimum.... (I'm still sweaty from FBWO).

Re GitEx (I assume)... Warning: I have a radically different point of view than most of you. :
Because of my horrible and horrifying depression when my GitEx decided to divorce me, I chose not to be the custodial parent. Which meant that I only saw my kids on alternate weekends and 1 night a week.... Well, sometimes when the little darling soon to be hockey fan was playing soccer (about 3rd grade, I think), I liked to go to the games. I wasn't obnoxious... just yelled "way to go" once in a while and then left. GitEx called me after and told me that since it wasn't MY weekend, not to come. For once in my life, I had an answer I liked in the moment I needed it. I told him that it was a public place, and that he couldn't make me stay away.... and that our son needed both of us to be the best parents we could, rather than make him a pawn in a game of "boy you sure are lame"....
It worked. DS appreciated it. GitEx even came to some hockey games when it wasn't "his" time... and vice versa... Wouldn't have missed those hockey games for the world.

Aren't there some NEW pots and pans you'd like... Maybe we could take up a collection and give you $$ at target or amazon....
PS: is there actually a definition for GIT? It's not a Texas term... iit just sounds nasty.

i can't stop yawwwwwwwwwwwwning--------i am downloading pics and whoever wants them,tell me and i will send them------brother in law has better photos so i will get his and decide what to send-------------------------------i promise to wake up and say something soon

Oh Bagzie, you know I love pictures!

I love them too.

Painty, the git isn't the nephew's father. The nephew is too wonderful for that. He probably got only 99.999% of his wonderfulness from Sissy. His father was able to contribute something. We're pretty sure the git doesn't have any wonderfulness to give.

Wabby, the reason you have a social life isn't just the big boobs. It's the fact that you're such a good friend, too.

Painty it must have been hard not to live with your kids. What the **** is FWBO. I can never figure out these things. Then when you say, it'll be so obvious that I'll look like an idiot. So make it something hard.

Bagzie, I want the pics. I thought Wabby said she loved YOUR pics, and was mightily offended that she saw them and I didn't. BUT then I saw that I misread and that she likes pics, generally. So now I'm not in a lather about being the last to see. But send them to me first anyway, so that I can brag about them and feel special around here.

Gotta go, I'm cooking dinner. bye

Regarding Pilates, I just can't do that thing they're famous for when your arms and feet are all the ground, then you lie down, then you put them all up again.

I don't know what git is either but I like it.

The puppy is gone. *sob*

Me want pictures.

Thanks to those who clued me in... that Cowie's Git isn't related and that you all know (from a longer exposure and history) that he has NO REDEEMING VALUE.

My sympathies to Cow Princess

Lahani... FWBO is dyslexic for FBWO -- full body work out... at least that's what I meant... Now I ache from nape to toes.

Finally had a cold front here... and it rained... much cooler... To those of you who had hail, tornadoes, etc., I hope you are all safe and dry.

Off to post food for the day. Catch you tomorrow.

I need Kiwi to tell me what to do with this puperdog. She is still here. I finally fed her as she's been here for a day and half and might be hungry. She is on the front steps, whining and pushing on the door with her dog foot. My cat won't come home anymore. I don't want a dog. I don't want anything bad to happen to her. The dogcatchers in this county take the animals OUT OF THE COUNTY to a vet who kills them. They are NOT put in a pound and up for adoption. What to do? What to do?

I hereby relinquish my SweetestCow crown to Wabby, for this week at least, because she is sooooooo kind to those in need and I am not.

Thanks for explaining the water thing, Painty. I saw it in action this week when the PMS water pounds suddenly melted off. Poof. 5 lbs lighter overnight.

Keep the puppy, Peachy. It's a sign. The cat will learn to get along with him and you'll be blissfully happy forever and ever.

I wanna see pictures of Pooh! And Victoria, where I lived in my formative years.

dh has 4 weeks holidays. What in the world am I going to do with him?

Four weeks? Why did you move to a country where DHes have four weeks???? In a row? Ach! You should get a job or go on vac yourself. Why don't you make him clean out the basement?
If my DH took four weeks off, that's what I'd want him to do.

The dog. You need to put up signs at the Piggly Wiggly or what ever your grocery store is. You need to put an ad in the paper. There could be an owner. After that, you need to buy a little dog cage and move the dog in. Puppy chow is just as good as those unpronounceable dog foods. It is a shame your dog won't be cute, little and white.....but labs are nice, too. You must get the dog trained because labs are annoying to those not their parents. Your cat will adjust and will make a better dog out of the baby.

Painty, it is very sweet of you to prove that I am not an idiot.....no one could have deciphered that code. We all know I couldn't have deciphered it even if you'd gotten it right, but we'll ignore that for now.

I'm hungry. I'll go get my wasa and make myself a healthy breakfast before doing my pilates...bye