Will PM you w/an address for Punkin from last fall. As you say, don't know if still good.

Hello all,

DH is much calmer tonight which makes things so much easier for me...
He knows how I feel about the situation (ah..... things would've been entirely different.... )
so thanks Anagram and Arabella for the support... The worst of this for me is how it affects DH...

I too have an email address for Punkin but I believe she mentioned a new service .....

So... the weekend begins... one load of wash done since I've come home...
out hanging to dry now. Left a voicemail for my folks, told them I'd call back at 9... storm is pointed at Tampa and I am know their nerves were frayed w/ last weekend's storm.....
I was hoping they'd get in the car and drive north but I don't know what they've done...

always something isn't it?

Eydie... its something how when we think we've got it all figured out....

time to unload the dishwasher...

Empress... I still am fighting w/ Diettalk...
I dunno....

Hello all!

This morning really seems to be putting things in perspective for me...

Was writing a check in the grocery store this morning and it was very strange to write 9/11 on the check...
So many memories, so many thoughts...

I was one of those people who said "Take this as a lesson, live to the fullest, remember your priorties, .."
In many ways, I have. But I know I can do better.....

Not only for this weightloss journey but in so many other ways of my life... I admit, in many ways, the impact of 9/11 had lessened ...
But this 3rd anniversary is making me remember how much I do take for granted or don't appreciate as I should.

More importantly, I am reminded that for as many heroes we remember this weekend, all of these people were just like you and me...
All of the victims, the rescue people, the survivors, all of them could have been you or me...

Personally, I feel an obligation to these heroes... to live my life to the fullest as my tribute to them... to try my hardest even when things seem darkest... and no matter the outcome, try my best to face it with dignity....

***Thought for the day:

"Let's roll"

Question of the day:

"What does 9/11 mean to you?"

****


KETTLE IS ON

Good morning. Off to a slow but good start. Few chores done. Making a salad is next. Always must have a large bowl of salad ready for the Crown Prince. He's such a healthy eater, always loved his salad even when he ate all sorts of other things that weren't as healthy.

So no special plans today. Taking good neighbors/friends to brunch tomorrow

Bittersweet, somber day
 

Today's one of those wonderful late summer/early fallish kind of days here. Perfect temps, sunny, clear air. Not unlike it was three years ago. What a terrible day. For me, it feels like a death still, and I guess what I mourn is a specific sort of American spirit, a kind of New York brash invincibility and vibrance that must now forever be tethered by the shock and sadness of that day. I know that spirit IS invincible. I know that there's good come of that day as well; people focus more on what really matters, etc. But the innocence and the feeling that "it can't happen here" is lost. As a Canadian, well, I don't think I feel any more removed from it than if I were living in some other part of the United States.

Kaylets, that's always the lesson, isn't it. The fact of death, and our inability to know when it might strike us, should teach us to live our lives to the fullest. I guess some part of me remembered what day it was, because that's what I was thinking about when I woke up this morning. Feeling very much like life is too short to be half-lived.

Would you remind me where "Let's roll" comes from?

Anagram, enjoy your visit with DS!

Love to all, much love and peace to America!

Hi Arabella!
You know, this morning when I posted, I couldn't remember his name but as soon as I read your post, I remembered...

"Let's Roll" was what Scott Beemer said on the flight that the passengers fought w/ the terrorists. The airplane that was supposed to either hit the Pentagon or the White House.. Scott Beemer called his wife to tell her that his plane had been hijacked and she told him about the towers... ...other passengers were also making phone calls.. Quickly, some passengers understood what was happening and and they decided to fight w/ the terrorists... even though they knew they the odds were against them....
Scott Beemer's response when asked if he would help fight the terrorists was "Let's Roll".....


I hope I could be as brave...!
.

I did a quick Google search and A, I mispelled Scott Beamer's name..
B, he didnt call his wife, he spoke w/ an operator... He was afraid his wife would be too upset ... and she too said, to have to speak to him at that time would have been very very difficult.. ( she was pregnant w/ their 3rd child too)

How quickly the details fade.....

But the message is still so poignant...

Well, Happy Monday, All!

Had a good weekend w/ds here. And he checked out a few friends and all his old haunts as well. Did some 'puter maintenance stuff for me and a few physical cleanup chores outside. Big Help! He left mid morning and things went downhill. A guy was supposed to come give me an estimate on some work (I've waited 2 and a half weeks and skipped the pool to be here). He calls an hour or so before he's to come and says can we make it tomorrow. Well tomorrow's crazy enough and I'm going to be away the next three days so that would be waiting another week, blah, blah, blah. So I said no. He claims he just got the order today but acknowledges it says I called when I said I did. Probably keeping appts made much later. Anyway I looked at the clock, picked up my gym bag and headed for late class at pool. FORGOT MY BATHING SUIT. So I came home and muddled on after a long lunch. Then BIL/SIL called to say they wouldn't be stopping for lunch tomorrow (this time, a hurray) so fortunately now I can get there tomorrow but still enough going on to make it crazy.

DH cleaned the rug in the family room today so things are all still scattered around other rooms while it's drying. I got all the laundry done and tackled another corner in the garage. Bit by bit I'm getting it done. Not perfectly but......Also still working on files. I do a little on each every day - some days very little - but it's going to get me there. Just like this durn diet.

My weekend was calorically high but not the absolute worst. Rest of week looks like it will be too. Sigh!!!!! Leaving Wednesday to play with the princesses for a couple of days so probably won't get a lot done later this week. But FUN is still one of my goals so I'll have a couple of days of that.

Should be Frogger's little tapole princess soon.

Hello all!

Guess I didnt stop by yesterday... Hmmm... not sure how that happened...

so... here's a Monday Grin for you!

Bear Chugs Rainier ... Leaves the Busch




August 18, 2004




Bear drinks 36 cans of favorite beer
BAKER LAKE, Wash. - Rain-eeeeer .... Bear? When state Fish and Wildlife agents recently found a black bear passed out on the lawn of Baker Lake Resort, there were some clues scattered nearby - dozens of empty cans of Rainier Beer.

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The bear apparently got into campers' coolers and used his claws and teeth to puncture the cans. And not just any cans.

"He drank the Rainier and wouldn't drink the Busch beer," said Lisa Broxson, bookkeeper at the campground and cabins resort east of Mount Baker.

Fish and Wildlife enforcement Sgt. Bill Heinck said the bear did try one can of Busch, but ignored the rest.

"He didn't like that (Busch) and consumed, as near as we can tell, about 36 cans of Rainier."

A wildlife agent tried to chase the bear from the campground but the animal just climbed a tree to sleep it off for another four hours. Agents finally herded the bear away, but it returned the next morning.

Agents then used a large, humane trap to capture it for relocation, baiting the trap with the usual: doughnuts, honey and, in this case, two open cans of Rainier. That did the trick.

"This is a new one on me," Heinck said. "I've known them to get into cans, but nothing like this. And it definitely had a preference."




©Indiana Printing & Publishing Co. 2004


.....
Interesting how even "wild" animals will binge but still have preferences!!


Got to my WW's weighin last night... yesterday am the scale was surreal so I thought I must need a fresh battery... But the official weighin says I have broken thru another barrier...!! Very surreal for me...I see the number but the impact is still sinking in... I feel like I'm btween 3rd base and homeplate...
Really am grateful as I find this weekend loss ( or at least that's when I noticed it) very motivating....

And DH is thrilled too because he thinks our Sunday night bowling should take credit too.... and yes, he's right... one major reason I joined the Sunday night league was for more activity points for me but also for him too!

*****

Thought of the day :

"High expectations are the key to everything."
--Sam Walton


Question of the day :

"Do you recycle?"

*****

I must be off!


KETTLE IS ON!

Kaylets, My Dove, you were here yesterday, but posted on the new thread, Terrific Two Weeks - Sprint VI rather than this, Sprint V. :lol: Don't mind me, I'm reading a book about private detectives and am so thrilled to have solved the mystery.

A HUGE WOOOOOOHOOOO!!! and WTG for breaking into new territory with that loss! YAY!!!