Anagram, a very happy birthday!!! I'm so grateful that you came into this world -- not to mention my path!
There's a quote from -- I think -- a Rabbi/mystic/philosopher to the effect that the same energy is present, each year, on our birthdays that we were invested with at birth and thus, we have special opportunities for growth at that time.
Logged in from work...don't start for another 20 minutes and am considered to be in chat... I don't give a rat's behind. Things happened here yesterday while I was away on vacation....there is a pattern of management coming in and just s***disturbing when I'm away....of course they did it again. So I am on work to rule...no more freebies. I should have lots of time to take care of me.
A bright spot though is that it is Anagram's birthday!!!! Yeah! I'm glad her path and mine have crossed too. Have a great time Anagram...and that cake....you can swim later.
Hi to all and special thanks to Ceara for visiting my journal today in the Land-Far-Away!
Glad you've decided to take time for yourself, Sword Bearer ... work is full of Philestines (sp?) ... they are Disturbers. Pay attention to them, not!
Details of my Diet Life (I don't have any other kind) are in the journal ... Elbertine Pep, Elberta Crone and Little Moi are busy behind the scenes planning my personal scary Hallowe'en Challege.
Happy Birthday, dearest Anagram! So honored to be in the same circle as you!
Long day at work. Lunch for 25 today and then had to stay to work our booth at the county fair. Interesting as always. I swear one gentleman greeted me with "How do" tonight. Sweet! Most of the time I just love people, most of the time!
Hmmm, Amarantha..... a Halloween challenge. Maybe that's what I need to shake me out of my doldrums. Now I need to concoct a cunning plan....
Anagram! You are my hero! Happy returns of the day! When I I celebrate my 68th birthday and they ask me why I am busier at 68 than 48, I will say because of women like my mother and Anagram ... that each day is a fresh chance to make a dream reality.
And yes, I agree, early am alone is my FAVORITE time of the day...
Empress, so glad you stopped by... ok, ok, I'll give that Diettalk website another try... I guess it really doesnt matter how many logins I have there..
Why I am letting that stop me really is a puzzle...
And... I was thinking of you lots yesterday as I read about a green/red spinach/green the Chinese use as a green but we use here mostly for its beautiful color called "Aramath"... this green is supposed to have more protein than soy... always thought you had named yourself for the grain but now am wondering......?
Arabella.. maybe if you only experimented w/ some of the seeds? That way, if nothing comes up, you'll still have some for spring...I just read how Chinese snow peas will grow inside in indirect light so well that you need to pick nearly every day ... You know I am plotting which window to use!
WSW-- how did the MRI go?
Eydie-- Keep smiling... today is the 16th!
Cerise-- You too! Keep smiling... you'll figure this out yet! And as for the others... you know what DH always says..." ****'em if they can't take a joke!"
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DS got very lucky in court yesterday. Probation, a driving course (that he must pay for) and court fees ... Dh went w/ him and they witnessed many 2nd time offenders get jail time... no matter what ... ( one woman had just begun a new job.. too bad, 2nd offense DUI = 60 days) DS seemed impressed ... we'll see ....
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Thought of the day :
"Let the voice in your head be your own and be kind."--
'Juju' Julie K Ridl of the Skinny Daily Post
Question of the day :
"Do you prefer to be the driver or the passenger?"
Oh, and BTW, thanks for your kind words about my investigation into becoming a WW's leader.... It's interesting how often the Detour becomes the Destination.....
Ah ha...onto day 4. This not being too rigid is working at the present....I did my walk yesterday and actually got 3 sets of reps with three different exercises with light weights on the weight machine down here....that has been on my agenda for some time and it is mentally rewarding to at least have started it...I planned to do more but the phone rang and I had a bunch of other stuff to do suddenly...poo. So today back to the pavement and the machine. Let the Brain have the world.
Food was also OK....I did have 2 ryvata with 1 wedge of laughing cow last night at 11...but I was hungry and had forstood the temptation of really good looking donuts at the dog meeting...only had water (blub).
Weigh-in was successful last night too...lost 3 1/2 of the 5 I'd put on the week before...that female thing I guess...plus a seefood diet.
I'm consciously trying to drink at least a litre of water daily and take a multivitamin...so far so good...I'm a terrible pill taker!
How was the cake Anagram? Yesterday was my DD's 20th....we are having cake later in the month...likely after my parents get back from the cottage. She went out with her friends to the pubs downtown and stayed at a friends' house last night...she was intending to drink I think. (19 is the legal age here)
Good news on the DS Kaylets! Hopefully that experience has some impact on him and he pulls his act together....What kinda booth at the fair were you working Eydie? The kissing one? .
Anyway...gotta go hit the pavement then the machine and then....
to all, present and MIA....how's the tadpole Frogger?
Haw! Nothing so exotic as the kissing booth, just a plain old information booth about my workplace. Hey, I'm very grateful I didn't have to kiss any of those grizzled old cobs wandering around the fairground, believe me! I don't mean any harm, but the fair really brings them out of the hills!!!!
One more day to make lunch for the art class and then maybe it'll be easier to get back on track. I love making lunch for them but I always end up eating too much because I dine with them. I know I don't have to, but it seems the hospitable thing to do.
Well, I'm posting to report another good water, food and vitamin day....a cloudburst went through just as I got off-line...so I read some of Jorge Cruise's book...8 minutes in the morning etc and then went grocery shopping. This post is an effort to defeat the munch monkeys (why isn't that 'ies'?) 'cause I'm going to bed or the bath right after the send button is pushed. With Jorge.
Tomorrow I will walk the road, and do some weights...Yes master
Fly-by. So much for horoscopes! Life seems harder, if anything, since the 15th. Bah! I know it's because I'm not responding to my needs, but trying to ignore them and just work. And I'm depressed over the end of summer and the fact that I only made it to the beach a couple of times. And the fact that that seems pretty typical in my life now. I'm not happy with the way things are. Maybe I'm unhappy enough to actually try to change? Jumped out of Core yesterday afternoon --- it's so predictable: I feel my needs are really not being met, ignore some more, find myself stuffing my face. Well, that's addiction, isn't it. Substance abuse. I'm going to finish my tea, go do some qi qong and then go for a run. I will not try to get more work done this morning than I can comfortably do while also having time for myself.
This afternoon I'm interviewing an artist who's in the process of losing her vision. She paints the most beautiful, dream-like paintings. There's a lesson there for me.
Sorry for the me-meness! Hope the post-15th energy kicked in better for all of you! I'm going to make a major effort to do my part towards it today.
Love to all! Let's take this day and do the best we can...
Speaking of me ness.... ME TOO!>... was really tired last night but thought it was too early to go to bed... should have... had 3 peanut butter sandwiches instead... I now realize that forgetting my lunch at home yesterday had me eating oatmeal 2x yesterday ... could be why I just couldnt stay away from the PB later... also, DH goes out on Thursday nights...
Lesson learned... better to go to bed too early...
FRIDAY!
Arabella... did you have any luck getting a response from Punkin??
Thanks for sharing about the artist...it was the germ for today's question.
Empress-- I finally asked for help and am now officially registered... but didnt see you! Where should I look?
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Thought of the day:
"I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in focus picture of it in my head."
--Jack Nicklaus
Question of the day:
"What would we see if you painted a self portrait?"
Day 5 was a roaring sucess! Probably not enough water but I'm over that....odd day though. Exercise and food were good although I did eat out twice...brekkie...2 poached eggs, dry ww toast, tomatoes and coffee, lunch salad w/wine vinegar and oil and 1 piece deep-fried halibut, coffee....Okay it was fried....but oh so good. And I feel smarter today...the fish you know
Anyway onto Day 6....have walked already and may do a quick upper body weight routine, then off to work heigh-ho I go! Have to eat some brekkie yet...lunch is already made...left-over salad from dinner and fake crab...yum.
I'm so grateful that you came into this world -- not to mention my path! 
I don't give a rat's behind. Things happened here yesterday while I was away on vacation....there is a pattern of management coming in and just s***disturbing when I'm away....of course they did it again. So I am on work to rule...no more freebies. I should have lots of time to take care of me. 
that cake....you can swim later. 
temptation of really good looking donuts at the dog meeting...only had water (blub).
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to all, present and MIA....how's the tadpole Frogger? 
Nothing so exotic as the kissing booth, just a plain old information booth about my workplace. Hey, I'm very grateful I didn't have to kiss any of those grizzled old cobs wandering around the fairground, believe me! 
