Dark And Menopausal Green Shoed Cows
 

What's new? Is summer really almost over? Can't be, I haven't even been kayaking yet. Apparently that will involve actually getting the kayak out of the barn and putting it in the water. Not to mention sweeping all the spiders out of it. That's what's stopping me.

I can't do anything but watch the Olympics anyway.

Kiwi

I'll tell you in a couple of weeks. Keep your britches on.

Last night, I made peanut noodles, a recipe featured in the current Prevention magazine. DS ate it and never wants it again. I'm having the leftovers for breakfast. How could a peanut butter recipe go wrong? Yum. Sugar, do they still not have peanut butter over there?

Glad your DD is staying near, Lushbot. Is that NY she's looking at?

heyyyyyyyyyy guys---i love the olympics toooooooooo Kiki!!!!---i love ALL of it---but i adore the swimming,the diving and the GYMnasties---they seem to be embroiled in controversy all the time [like the skating which i love toooooo} Loho----my sister's children are doing a lot better----my sister however is still very sad and yesterday was tough---she is quite a trooper and would appear to the outside world as perfectly fine but it does seem like yesterday to her and the effects are long reaching--- your daughter is graduating this year!!! how exciting!!! not that i would want to live through all that again but i LOVED it at the time----- the drama!!!! the build up to the prom!!!! {the ten month build up---quite exhausting actually!!!!}------can't wait to hear about peachbat's job !!!!---SUGAR!!! are you alone in the house already!!! how wonderful!!! i can't wait for that either!!!------ i just got a note from an old client of mine { i used to sell painted jewellery} --she says she wants to order some of my christmas cards!!---interesting.----------hi wabbs,painty!! see yas-----

I'm all lemony
 

When we were driving the long and winding road that leads to Tofino, we went over a little bridge and there was a sign: Lost Shoe Creek #1. No one could figure out why I was laughing. Then Lost Shoe Creek #2 came along and they all thought I was nuts.

In a fit of homemakeritis I went out and bought some Pledge today, except here it's called Pronto, and I started spraying and wiping the wooden stairs that go upstairs. I guess the last time they had that treatment must have been...oh...never, I guess, and we've lived in this house for 9 years now. Boy are they shiny. Got bored half way through so the rest will have to wait until tomorrow.


Some strange woman e-mailed me during our vacation saying she found my address on the internet and asking if I could give her English conversation lessons. I said yes. I hope she's not an axe murderer. She claims she's a biologist. We'll see. Along with that I may have up to 5 tutoring students every week so I'll be rakin' in the big money. Gotta save up to move to Dogpatch.

Yesssssss, we have peanut butter but I did have to bring a 4 lb bag of chocolate chips back with me because they only sell those in itty bitty packages and by the time I get to putting them in the cookie dough, I've usually eaten them all (quality control and all that). I also made a delicious noodle thing with a peanut butter sauce the other day and they all hated it. How rude.

Your poor sis, Bagzie. I can't even imagine what she must be going through.

We're invited to the neighbours' for dinner tonight, more for convenience sake than anything else. Apparently Neighbour Lady's brother met some Canadian people when he was on vacation in Canada and now these Canadian people are here visiting and no one speaks a word of English so they want us to do it for them. Food better be good. Wouldn't it be funny if I knew them?

Can someone please tell me the many uses for goat cheese? I bought some today but I don't really know what to do with it other than eat the whole thing as it is or smear it on a cracker or something.

I want to know what Painty is knitting.

ohhhhhhh--i had goat cheese on a whole wheat pizza at an italian restuarant----it had a pesto base,artichoke hearts,sun-dried tomatoes and GOAT CHEESE!!!! it is to die for---AND i like it in a salad or tossed onto pasta after the sauce is on--- I LOVE GOAT CHEESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YUMMMMMMM MMMM

hi guys---i just saw this and went to the site----kind of interesting

Sept 2004
O, The Oprah Magazine
Live Your Best Life: Treats
Page 90

Aviva Goldfarb had one of those ideas - incredibly obvious, yet nobody had thought of it - that immediately make the pieces of your brain fit together with a neat click. A wife, mother, self-published cookbook author, and organizational ace, Goldfarb realized that for most people 6 P.M. was too late to start wondering what to cook for dinner. So she started the Six O’Clock Scramble (thescramble.com), a weekly e-mail newsletter with five days’ worth of dinner recipes, plus grocery lists. The meals (grilled teriyaki chicken tenderloins one night, baked huevos rancheros another) take about a half hour to prepare and are creative, healthy, unprocessed and kid-friendly without being adult-alienating. A subscription costs $5 a month - a small price to pay for a whole new kind of happy meal. Goldfarb herself is happy, having graduated from the self-publishing business: Next fall St. Martin’s Press will release The Six O’Clock Scramble Cookbook.

Originally Posted by Cowpernia:
I'll tell you in a couple of weeks. Keep your britches on.

Last night, I made peanut noodles, a recipe featured in the current Prevention magazine. DS ate it and never wants it again.

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I can't wait 2 weeks. Are you working for the CIA? I know what it is; you got a job covering the Olympics and you won't be home for 2 weeks.

You should have asked me first about the peanut noodles; DD won't eat them either. I think they're excellent, but I don't bother to make them anymore, because I seem to be the only one.

Originally Posted by Bagzz:
Aviva Goldfarb had one of those ideas - So she started the Six O’Clock Scramble (thescramble.com),

Smart lady. Think I'll go look at that.

Hah. 3fc tried to mess me up and lose my message, but I fooled them, I had most of it copied and I can just paste it in here and rewrite the rest. Nyah nyah nyah nyah.

I refuse to believe that you have a DD graduating next spring, Lush. Because that would mean I have a DD graduating the following year, and I am seriously in denial. Mine is going to start teaching guitar lessons next month, if you can believe it. Denial denial denial. NoNoNo :yikes:

Kiwi

Goat cheese with olives in salad. Yum. I think you can use it any where you'd use Feta or even Bleu.

I am in an xmas scarf-making frenzy. Presently doing a loose loopy business with fringe, platinum shiny stuff and a black/white and brown ribbon. AND re-knitting a denim/tan ribbon pancho that dh laughed at the first time I modeled it for him. What does HE know. But He's the one who has to look at it, so it was worth doing it over.

Have now been on plan for 3 weeks. Hooeeeee.

I wasn't wrong. I really was getting sick last week. Ended up having to get the poor DH up in the middle of the night Friday so he could take me to ER. After a lung x-ray (for pneumonia)and cat scan (for blood clot) they decided I wasn't dying after all so they sent me home w/ pain pills and told me I had pleuresy, which is a catchall for inflamed tissue between lungs and chest wall. They don't know what causes it, and it goes away after a week. And it hurts like you have little demons in there. Why can't I just get a cold?

Now DH has some horrible chicken pox looking stuff all over his upper body. Dr. can't figure out what it is, but it's driving him crazy. We are quite the pair.

Excuse this post for being all about ME. I'm feeling quite the big baby lately. And I mean BIG.

Poor Wabby!! My friend who moved to your neighborhood had pleurisy a few years back -- you can blame her for it. She also has various arthritis issues, including in her chest, so it hurt like a b:censored: . I hope you get some rest. Did your DH go swimming somewhere with ducks recently? That's what causes horrible unidentifiable rashes around here.

DD has been gathering lots of stuff for a yard sale her friend is having and she cleaned out the upper hall!! I wonder how I can get her to do the rest of the house -- she's good!

Feel better, Wabbit,
Kiwi

Poor Wabby! I had pleuresy when I was 18...boy did it hurt. Your DH probably has fifth disease or something of the sort. You are sicker.
We have dd's book sale today. Her last one...sob.

two things----POOR WABBY!!!!!!! that is soooooooooo terrible for you---i had bronchitus for 6 weeks once and it REALLY hurt----probably not as bad as pleuresy----we are sending you healing vibesssssssssss--------------the other thing-----poor Lushie-----i know just how you feel-----my dd caught the bus for school in front of the house---everytime i watched her leave i was thinking about this coming year when she wouldn't be there----sigh---------on the last day she took the bus,i took pictures......the time flies sooooooo and now that we have them all grown up and so smart and interesting to hang with---they get ready to leave................----let's talk to wabby about it----she got them back and that was an altogether different slant on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!_-------oh one more thing----I CAN'T STOP EATING NOW THAT I AM AWARE OF HOW FAT I AM.

I never had pleurisy .... WABBYYYY ... get rid of it!! Poor little thing. *huggie hug*

Today, I went to see where I'll be working as I was interviewed in Dogpatch and the job, part of it, is elsewhere. I observed that my new tee shirt collection will not go over well there. Then I went shopping. Bought clothes I don't love but at least I feel I can be appropriate there.

I have been distracted for a big as DS had to pass a swimming test to go white water rafting. I have been affirming, praying, coaching, etc. He did fine.

yay to the swim coach=---come coach us on loosing weight

Heh??? (scuttles off to become one with a bag of Doritos)


Get well soon, Wabby! That sounds awful. Much worse than pneumonia. You take care of yourself, you hear?

Way to go on the swimming lessons!That boy can do anything if he puts his mind to it.

My biggest baby has switched schools so now instead of walking down to Dullsville Elementary every day, he has to bus it to Snobville High, a 9 minute ride on the public bus and a ten minute walk up to the school. Whoopdeedoo. After the "education reform" they now have grade 5 to 12 in one school. This should be interesting. Went to a very scary parents' night last night and was awed by the SuperDebbies and MommyTarts. Ugh. Did I mention I'm socially challenged and have nothing to wear?

the zen information was wonderful-----can't do it-----too much work----------you know you think i am not fat because you can't see me-but i look like a big messy laundry pile with a head perched on the top-------i have to wear my baggy ,ugly clothes to hide my rolls and dollups--------------i am a big saggy ball,and it feels terrible looking out from this vantage point.

have you gone insannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne???? must i lop off some fat and send it in the mail????????????????????????????????????????????

No, I am NOT insane. I am your coach. You can do this. Postpone, postpone, postpone all those bad thoughts. We'll schedule a day for them after 10 lbs. are gone. Not a whole day .. but a few minutes.

Hi. Got tooth extracted. Boy did that suck. Can't eat anything good. Boy does that suck. DH went to sailboat for weekend and DD went to friend's house to help with yard sale for whole weekend, so I'm vegetating, boring and blah.

How fun am I...

yay for white water rafting.

Kiwi (displaying wan smile, rinsed with warm salt water)

At one with...my knee and thighs
 

PT has been awesome. I don't wobble so much. I can finally imagine being glad to live in my body... (although I am still doing considerable remodeling.)

Wabbs... SO SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT THE PLEURISY. It is awful. I hope they gave you state of the art drugs -- for pain and infection. Please let us know about the condition DH's condition is in.... Fifth disease?! Shingles? Actual chicken pops?

Cowsie-- Hope your costume wardrobe has desired effect on new coworkers. Tshirts are so comfy. Best to you as you head off into another part of Dogpatch.

It's late afternoon on Sunday. Everyone else must have a life.....

HEY PAINTY--- just got back from sissy's cottage and am tired out----kids had a ball wearing us out---here are the ages of the SEVEN children i spent the weekend with----two ten year olds {one of them mine}---,one eight year old,two seven year olds,one four year old and one three year old---on sunday another seven year old and a four year old joined us--------------OH MY GAWWWWWWWWWWD I AM OLLLLLD AND TIREEEEEEEEEEED-------and my friends and my sister are all in their forties!!!!!----thank the lord i only have ONE in this age group!!!!good nite!!---ohhhh---i can't forget poor kiwonkers!!!!!! how terrible to be nursing that hole in your jaw----------only good thing---that dang tooth can't bother you ever again!!!!

Good grief, what a zoo, Bagz!! Sounds like a birthday party I put on once. The operative word being "once". I love kids...one or 2 at a time! Maybe 3 if I have reinforcements. More power to your sissy!

Hi Painty. I wonder if they offer PT for sore jaws. It sounds so beneficial, I almost wish I needed it! (Okay, not quite) What I really need is someone to make me exercise. Hey Peachie, you want to yell at me to exercise? Maybe we should start an affirmation email club, how queer does that sound :lol: ? Like something June would do, eh?

One more day of summer vaca until lil DD becomes a junior... Oy. Bright and early Tuesday, I'm putting her on the school bus. heehee

Kiwi

Affirmative, y'all!
 

Kiwonk-- In the interest of affirmations... here are some that a friend of mine filched from a book she was browsing in a bookstore. Have NO idea where they came from. I posted 'em in the journals and people seemed to like them. I do not believe they include any requirement for SCREAMING!! (hope you can chew soon.)

1. I can enjoy all my favorite foods in moderation.
2. I take the time to nourish my body.
3. Every time I eat a food, I enjoy its color, its taste and its texture.
4. I can be more active today than I was yesterday.
5. Today, I keep my body and my mind in balance.
6. I reward myself for every positive change I make in my life.
7. I live by CHOICE not by chance.
8. I am learning to love my body and myself.
9. I accept myself just as I am.
10. I ride the wave of my temptations.:sunny:

Bagzz... seven children is too many... Bless you. That's when I'd want a play pen I could put myself in, and let the wild rumpus go on around me. DH and I are visiting friends of his next weekend. They've got 3... 11, 7 and 5. I hope that I'll be charmed and sentimental... and THEN glad to go home! We're not spending a week either. DH, having never had children of his own would probably need serious medication! :lol3:

Cowper: I like your very LOUD zen message about taking care of ourselves. There is a good side to being high maintenance! :thanks:

cranky is as cranky does
 

Grumpy, frumpy and dumpy, that's me. Did a ton of decluttering but it's still not enough. How depressing. Will go to bed and post inspirational thoughts in the morning. :smug:

I scrubbed the grimy bathtub today, cleaned the cat puke off the carpet, planned dinner and got started remaking my ungrateful felines' scratching post. I am woman. I am toothless. Okay, it's only one tooth and you probably can't ever tell it's gone, but really. I am soooooooooooo old!

But I like your affirmations, Painty. Some of them I will have to copy and find a way of reminding myself of.

Off to finish dinner. Brown rice with turmeric, hamburgers, tomatoes and I haven't decided.

ta
kiwi

Whoa!!! I'm away for a little while and I come back to this!!!! It's a new season! It's a new start! I love the fall even better than the first of the year for resolutions. Remember being a kid and everything seeming to start brand new on the first day of school??? Peaches, I like your zen approach. Very new age.

I went to lunch w/ my sis today. It made me feel like my life is a breeze. She is a recovering alcoholic. She is out of work. Her unemployment compensation ran out 2 weeks ago. Her house is for sale, but no buyers yet and she doesn't know where she is going when it does sell. ---- and yet, she is positive and happy and full of energy. Not always, but for the most part she is. She says she has to exercise every day to keep herself up. I think I could learn some lessons from her.

Bagzie & Sugar,you sound like me. We got nowhere to go but up, girlies.

You are not old Kiwi. You're younger'n me. You didn't need that tooth anyway.

Painty, I've been riding the wave of my hunger pangs, but now I'm ready to switch over to riding the wave of my temptations along with you.

Peach. What about the job. Spill it.

Where's Lush? She supposed to get us whipped into shape.

Can you tell I'm all better?:cb:We went to a beautiful lake in central Oregon this past weekend w/ friends. Adult friends. No kids. Aaaaahhhhhh.

Originally Posted by Wabby:

Can you tell I'm all better?:cb:We went to a beautiful lake in central Oregon this past weekend w/ friends. Adult friends. No kids. Aaaaahhhhhh.

Yes, indeed -- you sound very refreshed.

The lady who runs DD's music school has Bell's palsy. Didn't someone here have that? She's had problem after problem ever since she was hit by a car-twice-while walking 2 years ago. She soldiers on however. Me, I'd be whining and hiding out at home probably. Oh yeah, that's what I do anyway. Heh heh.

I got up half an hour early this morning. How odd. Unfortunately there's not much benefit to it at our house once school starts; we all end up in each other's way--I might just as well sleep until the last minute.

DH wished me a "productive day" on his way out this morning. I'd like to slap him sometimes. When I was up at the road waiting for the bus with DD, I moved a tree out of the driveway that I'd been driving around for 2 weeks. Since when is tree removal my job? I don't think so. Man with pickup truck vs pudgy middle aged woman in sneakers? bull-hudda.

Kiwi

productive days
 

hmmmmmmmmmm--better tell dh to watch it there Kiwonk,--i once had a husband who left with parting remarks of that nature {note:---i once HAD ..................}not that dh meant anything by that!!!!----new dh {well not that new almost 11 years married now--never makes any untoward remarks about my 'productivity'---i head him off at the pass!!!!!---i am getting tired of having no "job"---not a minimum wage job that i may hate {like supply teaching} but a PASSSSSSSSSS--ION job that oprah twits are always blathering about--- i did get an order for my christmas cards BUT i am having the worst time getting them printed for LESS than the wholesale price the buyer wants to pay---for instance,she wants to retail the cards at 3 dollars and pay 1.48 wholesale---so far the printer wants 1.50 per card!!! that's without an envelope and the packing bag {at least another 25 cents} right now i am searching all over the internet for cheap but sturdy RED envelopes--i found some in the states but the duty,exchange and shipping make them toooo expensive!!! WHine WHine WHine---no matter what the issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :devil: :devil: :devil: that's me in a nutshell----------anyway--back to searching CANADIAN sites!!! i can't afford to shop american!!![COLOR=Blue]

That d*mn Oprah, always going around trying to make us live up to our potentials!! It's easier to do when you don't have to do your own laundry, cook your own food, clean your own house, and cater to a husband and kids!!!! Just exactly how much time is left to develop our passion!!!???? My passion is gardening and I have a mess of a yard. I would love to work there every day, but I hardly ever do. DH started his frickin' frackin' gas powered edgetrimmer up yesterday and started whacking on my plants. I really, really hate it when he does that. When DS asked if he wanted help, DH said "no, I'm waiting for your mother to go to Costco so I can carve the bejezus out of this place. See? that's the problem - I had to go to Costco to get HIM food. Then he has the nerve to criticize my jungle. And the thing that really ticked me off is that it did look better when I came back. He can do 10 x's the work I can do in 1/10th the time.OK enough of my rant.

Bagzie, you've got to direct market stuff. You are an artist, not a factory, so you have to be compensated. Are there any artist's guilds where you live? Sometimes they have good ideas on how to get your stuff out there and make some money too. Why should the retailer make all the money on your art? My good friend who is a wonderful artist has an in house holiday show of her work every October. She sells her handmade cards, her handpainted ornaments, and all kinds of really cool things she paints or makes. That way she keeps all the profit. She has hot cider and cookies and it's really a nice way to shop for Christmas.

Kiwi - Ouch. That hurt. Productive???? Did he have clean shorts this morning? A dry towel? Coffee in the house? Of course we know these things are provided by the house elves that come in the night.

Originally Posted by Wabby:
Did he have clean shorts this morning? A dry towel? Coffee in the house? Of course we know these things are provided by the house elves that come in the night.

Apparently so. And apparently when I decide I don't want to be quite so "productive", they will continue to feed him and do his laundry, so maybe I'll just take a vacation.

Grumble.

I don't suppose those envelopes are something available in stores for so much cheaper, that it would be worthwhile for one of us to pick some up and send them to you, Bagz? I know you have to declare what's in packages that go over the border, but if we wrapped them up, we could call them "gifts".

Christmas?

Ohmygoodgod

Kiwi

Passionless in Poughkeepsie
 

Yeah, we need to tell Oprah where to go.

Being visited by evil cramps today, but anything's better than PMS. AND last night I walked 3 miles with Leslie Sansone. I am a SuperFatBurner. She's a bit perky but the tape was OK and I survived. May do this again today if I can stay awake long enough. Made me feel waaaaaaaaay better.

BTW, did y'all here that Cherry's sweet little kitty Bob passed on a couple of days ago? :( Big hugs for Cherry. :grouphug:

I'm so boring I can't think of anything else to say. Bleh. I feel awful, I look awful. Apron gut is getting out of hand. Please send attitude adjustment

My condolences to Cherry. We all know how much those 4 legged children mean to us.

Sugar, Leslie Sansone is one of my more tolerated of the work out women. She seems a little more real than the Firm bunch. I occasionally (very occasionally) do the 2 mile walk with her. I see now she has a pilates tape out. You are not boring. You're just a sweet young thang who jet sets all over the world.

Kiwi, did you have to say the "C" word? :eek:

Hope the pasture is pleasant for the near future. Am heading to the Windy city with DH for a little R&R. Dangerous territory since it is the home of Pizzaria Uno... I hope we'll walk enough that I can afford at least one piece!! Lots of water... and maybe a stash of v8 and "free" yogurt in the hotel fridge. None of that fatening mini-bar stuff!!

Have you all seen these?
www.muffinfilms.com
joetom.com (too bad they aren't ALL cows... but I like sheep, too.)

Ta ta/

Mmmmm...muffins
 

Excellent link, Painty. Hope you have fun in Chicago. Of course you know what I'm going to be doing for the next half hour or so. How do people come up with this stuff?

Well, yesterday we had the cramps and today we're having the Great Flood so I guess I'll be wrapping myself up in the wool of dew-kissed lambs and staying put while I celebrate my womanhood

May do Ab Yoga later if I feel up to it.

Sugar, my Dr. gave me birth control pills to control all that. It works. I can now leave my house the first 2 days of the big P. I know they're nasty hormones and bad stuff, but good lord, I am sooo much more comfortable.

See ya later, Painty, have fun and don't worry about what yer eating too much. It's a vacation. Those calories don't count.

Is everybody sleeping in???