can you find a backpack there?

It was DS12's b-day today. We had fun...all we did was sit at B-ball games all day, but it was nice. Can you believe my baby is 12??????? Remember Satanella???? He was so little then. Now he could take Satanella with his hands tied behind his back.

My visions of motherhood are not ALL rosy tonight..DD is mad at me because I refuse to take her out first thing tomorrow morning to buy a new shirt before play practice. Here is her problem...she only has black sweatpants and she has nothing to go with them. NOW, what on earth DOESN'T go with black sweat pants???? AND I would add that to call these microfiber darlings sweatpants is a HUGE injustice..since they cost the GNP of a small country. Bagzie, you know what I mean with the girls and clothes thing. This girl is horrified at the prospect of wearing a shirt twice. Can you imagine that some mother allowed her to get this spoiled???? I blame myself.
Kiwi, though I'm miffed now, I LOVE to hear DD sing. It is so much fun. You're a computer whiz.....why can't you put the video online???? It will give you a project for the week.
I know what you mean about half sibs and step sibs and all the complications thereof. They are such unsatisfying relationships. Of course, I don't like my brothers much better.
Painty, I don't think it ever crossed my mind that my parents would support me after college. This is a fault of our generation. Everyone I know who has kids of that age has the problem you have....namely, these kids like us too much. Maybe you should be more judgmental and harsh. Then he will want to avoid you.
Peaches, don't the people at the backpack store know what kind of backpack to get??? Also, don't they sell these things at Walmart???

Did you hear about Cowpernia's torrid affair with the younger man who works at WinnDixie??? I understand he's the butcher's assistant and that she is ditching it all and moving to an island with him. Her DS is, naturally, puzzled...but he'll get the house so he's ok with it. Don't tell her I talked behind her back.

1: there is no backpack store here
2: walmart doesn't sell them
3: kiwi yells at me when I say walmart

Practicing being mean and cranky
 

Maybe that way I won't have to eat to feel better. I can just take charge! Seize the day! Carpe diem and all that. or Carpe carpum (Seize the carp!).. When my DD was in expensive pants demanded by peers mode (The brand of the day was Cavaricci way back then, I think)... I gave her what even she thought was a lot of money per month and then she was on her own for clothes. She quickly discovered a) money doesn't go very far if you spend it all on one thing and b) her father was a sucker for a story about clothes and how stingy Mom was. Smooth operator.

I ate well today and exercised twice.
Unfortunately one day doesn't seem like much of a dent.
Sleep well, all.

I am a radiant being, filled with light and love
 

:flow1: That's my mantra for today. :flow1:

The neighbours were darling. Well, maybe not darling, but nice enough anyway and they know the latest gossip. That's important for survival here. She made pizza and we had ice cream for dessert and he blabbed the whole time. Dh noticed right away that their tv is bigger than our tv. Oh oh. You know what that means. We asked them about the party the night before and they said "Party? What party?" Must have been someone else. I'm sure I'll be slopping something onto their plates some time soon.
Woke up with a mother of a headache. Feels like this :headache: :bomb: :stars: :faint:

I don't know, Sugar. Isn't it kind of reckless to start associating with 3-D people. Next thing you know, you'll have new friends and you'll DUMP US.
How old are their kids?

Caution: 3-D people ahead
 

Good point, Lohani. I'll be careful. Wouldn't want to go getting a life or anything. But I'd NEVER dump all of yous. You're all too cute.

They have two daughters, 15 and 3 (surprise, suprise!). Non-stop fun as far as I can tell. The 15-yr old is really mouthy and the little one has asthma attacks.

Sugar....they have a babysitter!!!!!!!!! Why did they lie about the party??? Do you think they are into something illegal??? What are you going to make when they come over??? Can I come too???
DD's best friend moved to Mississippi.
I think I"ll take a nap. bye

Me too, Sugar. I've had one for 3 days. Finally got over it today. At least I was feeling well enough on Valentine's Day to let my sweetheart take me out to dinner. No, I meant my DH. Get your mind outta the gutter.

I was the one who moved away from my best friend Robin McCall in 2nd grade. We actually wrote letters to each other for a few years. I remember being so envious of her. She lived in town and had a reasonable number of siblings (2 brothers).

Lush, I have old hands, but even worse, I just realized today that my face is looking well worn. Sigh. It's not going to stop me from hitting the tanning bed later this month. I need a tan to cover up the leg veins. Sob.

Oh yeah, here's what I got for Valentine's Day:

jacksh*t

For Valentine's Day, my DH bought be Dr. Laura's book, "The Proper Care and Feeding of a Husband." Isn't that romantic?

It sounds like everyone is having a wonderful life....parties, dinners, performances by dds. Is this all 3D or virtual?

Kiwi, my office friend's dh gave her a box of thank you notes for valentine's day.

I went out at 6AM on Valentine's morning and picked up the presents for DH because he was too tired. I win the Valentine's award.
However, he did take me out to a lovely dinner the week before, so I guess it's ok.
My best friend, Audrey, moved after 3rd grade. We got together for years..then she had bratty kids and I couldn't stand to be around them...so I figured we'll reconnect after we retire and her kids have moved away.
My next best friend is still a friend...but her husband is very controlling...he made her quit nursing because he didn't want her to see other men's penises. He's too humorless for me.
My next best friend made a pass at my brother at my daughter's christening when his son was there....I felt that was icky. I never spoke to her again.
I don't know if I have a best friend, now. Maybe....but I'm not sure since I don't make time for anyone anymore, even her. But if I had to name one, I'd name her.

Wabby, I feel the only help for my face is a tan. Who cares if I get wrinkled??? That ship's sailed.

I'm going to bed..bye

if you have a wrinkly face,won't a tan accentuate it???If not,i want a tan.good night----last call for law and order

Angry Housewives eating bon bons
 

That's the name of the book I'm reading... Sort of a Minnesotan Steel Magnolias... and almost as funny as Lohani and Kiwi.

I didn't have major traumas with best friends as a kid... one switched to private school and "higher class" friends but I'd see her in the neighborhood, some were replaced when I made the transition to Jr. Hi... My best friend from Jr. Hi is a terrible writer, but for two years she's sent Xmas presents from Australia... We have fond memories of shared adolescent angst...

Oh. and there's the best friend I had after marriage and moving to Texas. After her husband started shagging his secretary and they divorced, the set her eyes on GIT-ex.... they've now been married 14 years... WHY AM I NOT OVER IT? Egad. I need to go get therapy!!

My DH was a peachy valentine. Made a whole weekend of it. His card read "you are the center of my world" and he wrote "I choose again to love you.." From our less than perfect first marriages, we recognized how important it is to know that love and being together IS a choice (not something to take for granted) and it needs to be a conscious choice. I don't know what I did to deserve him... or more accurately, I don't feel deserving.... after all, I'm still fat:ink: :rollpin:

Any of you doing Spring Fling Challenge? My next commitment (aside from mental hospital) needs to be to weight lifting and cardio... anybody willing to join me... (or let me catch up)?

my dh has high cholesteral {sp?}and i have been forcing him to do the treadmill everyday or at least five days a week-----because i am hounding him,i have been doing the same---it is hateful,but i am managing to keep it going-------yesterday,i did the free weights--------------BECAUSE I AM FORCING HIM TO DO THEM!!!-----IS THIS ALL ABOUT HIM OR WHAT??????????????????-----it seems to be the only thing motivating me,so i guess i will make do-------------------last fall i dropped around ten pounds counting points------------THEY ARE STILL GONE--------------i weigh between 150 -153---------------------i haven't told Low arse---cause i know she will get all mad.

That is SOO OO OO wonderful. Teensy little Bagzie!!! Not only did you not tell Lush, but I believe you just plain lied. WAY TO GO!!!!

I have been doing Pilates stretches and I am firmer from it but not smaller. Also, been eating MORE and feeling BETTER. I am trying the Sugar diet though and this week and trying to make lunch more like it should be. Last week I increased breakfast and I should be able to make it through the morning now.

I Lied???? Good For Me-----it's Time I Stopped Being So Moral.

that movie had DH and me howling -- with laughter! It was filmed in Canada, which of course looks a bit like Maine, but some of the details were just a hoot to someone who lives within sight of Mount Katahdin. They were driving an Airstream to "Chimney Pond Camp" -- this just made us scream with laughter. Chimney Pond campground is halfway up the mountain -- you have to hike to it. Not to mention the fact that you can't even drive a camper INTO the park at all. Anyway, we had a good laugh at them.

Good for both Bagz and Peachie and everybody else who is exercising. Come over and make me do it too!

Kiwi

hahahahahhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa----Peachers,you did NOT offend me!!!----i was just trying to figure out my particular LIE-----------however,as far as i am concerned i am still fat------------after all i am just four foot eleven!!!-----ANYway-----that movie with Ted Danson was so ANNOYING and LAME that i fell asleep ---i was hoping it would be good----where in canada was it filmed kiwinder????? i never seen no celeburties around here----Elsie Wayne is a lunatic,but we love her for it.

Bagzie, are you really a teeny 4'11"?? I thought I was the shorty of the bunch. Isn't it unfair? If we could only grow a couple inches we'd be perfectly slim. Congrats on losing the weight and double congrats on keeping it off. Lately I've started sliding back up the slippery slope. I'm going to Weight Watchers tomorrow. I'm getting a handle on this. I watched Dr. Phil yesterday and I've decided he does know something about losing weight after all. He says that everything we need to lose weight is between our ears. He still annoys me, though.

Our little town gets used for movie making occasionally. Whenever they want a depressing little mill town for a backdrop. They filmed Bandits w/ Billy Bob Thorton and Bruce Willis here. Someone on the film crew broke some glass and they hired us to fix it. That's my brush with celebrity.

Painty, you deserve it because he loves you. Nuthin' to do with weight. That will be 5 cents for the therapy, thank you very much.

Kiwi, I'm sorry Jack did that. Flowers would have been nicer.

I'm 6'0"....with my large frame, I'm perfect at 175....

I'd be "perfect" at 8 feet tall... or maybe 18
 

I don't really have anything to say. Did exercise bike this am... and weight machine.... minimal weight and 20 reps... just one set because I'd been off for so long. Will probably stay at this level for the rest of the week and then double the reps.
Cowper..how can you be firmer and not smaller? I don't get that? I don't want to be a hard blimp... I want to be smaller AND firmer. :mad:

One thing at a time. One of the journal responses at least helped me decide to forego sugar for now... a detox plan.

DH is so sweet. and I think I have been depressed.... ooooooooh how I feel it's a "sin" or moral failing..... I hope that as I continue to exercise the sugar bloat AND sin-feelings will evaporate.

It was like spring here today. Sorry I missed the Canada/Maine gaffes. I love it when a show SAYS it's someplace and I recognize where it is in S. California....

I truly, honestly and sincerely believe that once I am past the fifth day of not eating sugar, I am constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed.

Painty, when I look at my thighs now, I see a smoother piece of fat than before. The cellulite stuff is dramatically decreased.

Cowper, smoother fat? Maybe you just filled in the cellulite holes? lol
I am thinking of giving up potatoes for Lent. I should really give up sugar, but I'm not as strong as the rest of you. With the terminal termoil iin my life, I feel like sugar is the only thing getting me thru. The truth is probably the opposite!
dd2's bf is leaving today. i wish she was going with him!

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH----------------I LIED AGAIN WABBY---I AM FIVE SEVEN AND A HALFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF---------------damn i keep getting caught in my tangle web of deceit-------------i am making STEW for supper in my NEW pressure cooker as i just found out that the cat had SEVERAL huddas in the OLD pot {now outside in the GARBAGE}-------------GROSS ME OUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

Baaaaaaaaaaaad Kitty!!!
 

Still can't help laughing though. What a way to get a new pressure cooker! :lol:

I have no idea what to give up for Lent. This is the conversation I had with ds7 the other day:
"Mummy, it says on my calendar that Ash Wednesday is coming up soon. And you're supposed to give something up, right?"
"Right. Where did you learn that? In religion class at school?"
"No, from watching Angela Anaconda on tv. What do you think I should give up?"
"How about whining?"

I'm only 5'5" and shrinking fast (vertically, that is). Haven't exercised in eons. No energy. Maybe after my hair appointment tomorrow when I'll be feeling all bouncy and fluffy. She's going to have a fit when she sees my grey roots but I'd rather hand over the big bucks to Miss Clairol than to her.

Baggz. What is the diff between a pressure cooker and a crock pot? Don't pressure cookers blow up or something? Am I missing a magic cooking tool?

Cats in the pots, bats in the belfry and fats in the fire.
Gonna get rid of sugar. Yupper yupper. Can begin to hear its siren call.
would love to get rid of rear thigh-dimples, too. OK. Stretch two three four.

Hope all our children leave us alone, except to tell us we are wonderful.

Has anyone seen Iron Jawed Angels on HBO? I watched it last night -- I thought it was reeeeally good.
kiwi

yesssssss-------------i am still grossed out thinking about it---the NEW pressure cooker is much bigger and has LOTS of recipes in a book that came with it and i can't wait to make my brown rice in it---------FRAPPE!!!--- pressure cookers can cook stew beef in twenty minutes---til it falls apart and is lovely and tender!!! you most definitely need one---basically it cooks things in around two thirds less time---good for brown rice and stews,pot roasts---even a whole chicken for a soup or whatever---Kiwi will find you a link describing it all-------SO WHO ELSE LIKES THEIR PRESSURE COOKER?????