OK, I lied. I am a gambler. I'm wagering my $7 tomorrow at Bunco. Last month I won $30.00. Maybe apple martinis will be served again. Hope you cows have a good weekend!

You all have been quite busy!! I have not had much time at nite to get online, and errrrrrrr, only check my email from work. DUH!!

Can you tell me why it is freezing outside and my house feels humid? No fire or heat on yet either. Could it be because it is a sty??? Boychild was supposed to have cleaned yesterday. He didn't. Today he called me at work to INFORM ME not ASK me of his plans for the evening. I let him inform me, I let him go. Guess what??? This sty is waiting for his bad attitude, butt gets out of school at 12:30, laze around butt. Tomorrow I am going to soooooo enjoy sitting on the couch, perhaps a pay per view or two, while he gets this whole place spotless. Maybe even pumpkins room!! HA!!!!!!!!!! He thinks he is off the hook. Well, little boy, you think you are so grown up, you just wait till mommy dearest brings you back to reality tomorrow. Gawd, I am evil sometimes.

Kiwi, how proud you must be of DD!!

Sug, you can always send to that address, it is my grannys. Thanks for thinking of me!

Cherry, you doing the nano thinghymabob??? I will have to check you out, but I thought last time I checked, you had closed up shop.(?)

Peachers!! Aww...the memories! Chris G! Hmmmm....Christina M??? Who could that be?! LOL And I am confused, were those really Dusty's the evil dust buckets notes? OH jeez lush, I remember the period thing.

Wabby, you missed the whole Dusty thing?? Lucky you!!

Halloween was a complete bust here too. And what is with this 90 one day, 80 the next and then the next day it is 60 during day, and 40 at night???

KUDOS to bagzilla and all of you that are taking some sort of step to rid yourself of this weight.

Hi lush!

Work is going extremely well (knock on wood!). They had there big Exec Dir meeting the last two days and I was able to sit in on part of it to get a little more how the corporation runs and the various things the legal department does besides litigation/settlement. Very interesting.

Now it is Friday nite, almost 7, am going to put pumpkin (who got an award to day for outstanding speller at the assembly that I was lucky enough to be informed about and able to attend!!) to bed in half hour or so, and probably find some sort of game to play on the net. That is if I don't fall asleep on the couch first!!

Have a great weekend cowsies!

Way to go, Punkin!!

Didja win anything, Wabby?

I'm boring, nothing to post, except that my English friend with the deaf baby and bonehead ex husband moved yesterday and we, along with about 10 other people, had to help her. I'm exhausted. I noticed that she was TOTALLY different with her German friends than she is with me when we're alone. Man, she was yelling and ordering people around like they were cattle. Pretty scary. I should try that with the dh some time.

I was cleaning out her fridge, left a bit grungy by the previous house owners and I thought I was doing a pretty good job of it, considering it wasn't my fridge and considering that my friend does have two hands of her own with which to wipe out her own fridge at a later date if she so chooses, when this Hausfrau Cow Extraordinaire whom I'd never met before sweeps into the room and says "Eeeeeh! Just look at that fridge! Here, let ME do that!" I swear she spent the next two hours scrubbing the thing with a toothbrush and vinegar water (they're big on that over here). What a waste of time. I mean, what's a little mold between friends?

Will attempt Pilates again today. Stomach muscles still sore from Thursday. I'm so pitiful.

Me too, Kiwi...I just polished-off the last of the ice cream and am DYING of PMS...but I'm in...30 by Feb and 5X week? I think I can. Are you going to count points? Counting points always highlights the fact that I eat poorly because it forces me to examine what I eat...always depressing.
I think they have the mass etc to sweeten the fact that the ring costs 400bucks.
We're going to friends' for dinner tonight. It is like pulling teeth to make anyone around here get anywhere on time looking decent. I'm taking a break from the frustration.

This is my last week of work. I'm going to be so grateful for the return of my slug life. Mostly I'm going to be grateful for the first morning that I can stay in my PJ's all day.
Gotta go rally the troops...L

I would count points, but I only have a formula to calculate points and a very old list of food and points. It sounds like a lot of work. Is it easier if you actually join WW and get all their materials?

You're going to be so happy on that first weekday with no work -- pjs and a quiet house!!

k

Kiwi, I think that since the 30 lbs by Feb was your idea, you should take a leadership role. I don't want to join WW. I want to join Kiwi. Kiwi will tell me what to do. We'll lose 30 lbs.

Here's the deal cows - a WW point roughly equals 60 calories. Now, that varies according to how much fat and fiber is in the food, but basically it's 60 calories. You should drink 8 - 8oz. glasses of water per day, 2 servings of milk product, 4-5 servings of fruits and veggies. Take a multi-vitamin. I'm not sure what your particular points range should be - it depends on your weight. At 145 I should have 20 points a day, plus 36 "flex" points that I can spread out over the week.

And that's it.

I didn't win any big bucks at Bunco, but it wasn't a total loss because ...... mmmmm - Vietnamese food was served and it was delish. We had hot fudge sundaes for dessert. A fun time was had by all.

Sugar, you should know not to get in a cleaning competition with a German hausfrau. My German friend is the most obsessive compulsive cleaner of anyone I know. I'm always embarrassed to have her over to my house.

Lush, I'm looking forward to the days when you can post all day in your jammies. This full time working has been hard on me.

Kiwi, what a weekend. Never a dull moment, huh?

Muffie, sounds like the job is going great. Did you have a nice weekend lounging on the couch? That's what I did, too, I read part of The Other Boleyn Girl and watched Legally Blonde II which was horrible.

I did about 15 minutes of my new Firm tape this morning, I couldn't finish because I was late for work. I am so uncoordinated, will I ever be able to do this without feeling like a klutz? I also went and joined the gym for my free 30 day trial. But I was too intimidated to stay and work out!!! I feel like "old & flabby non exerciser" is plastered all over me. Oh yeah, it is in - the form of the flab.

I'm in for 30 by Feb. That would put me at 147. Why yes, I am still gaining weight. A combination of being too tired to exercise and eating too much candy. Blech.

I have news I forgot to blab about earlier today - after 26 years of marital bliss, the last 15 of which I have been ring-less because you all know the story - lost my diamond, lost the wedding band part of my set, blah, blah - I have a new wedding ring - who-hoo for me - anyway I will when it's done having the center stone set and sized. Now all those men that have been hitting on me will lay off. Oh yeah. Nobody ever hits on me anyway. Anyway, I'm surprisingly really, really excited to get it. I'm gonna make DH get down on his knees and ask me to marry him again. If I ask him right before dinner, he just might do it.

I'd read your post, but I didn't have anything brilliant to say. Not that that would usually stop me.

I'm reading The Other Boleyn Girl. That royal stuff is as good as any soap opera I've seen. That Henry was such a pig. And I don't mean in the gluttony department, although he was a pig in that way too.

DS and his girlfriend are maybe breaking up (and even though as a person I like her, just not as my DS's gf) and he is heartbroken. It's hard to see your kid going through a painful experience, no matter how old they get.

Kiwi, I'm going to be 48 next spring. 48 is going to be a wonderful age, right???? You go first and you can tell me all about it.