I got the pics back. The four girls are some friends of mine and the other one is of me and my neighbor. I was a nun instead of a pirate. Now, that I see the pics thought I should have rethought the costum. Man I got to lay off the food.

This is me, my brother and my sister. The other group is who my sister came with except the guy on the end in the different costume. They were from another planet and her car was their pod they the came flew in. Pretty funny stuff.

Kempy love the pics. I also love your costume. I think you look beautiful! Wish I was there. Your dinner sounds yummy.

Cherie how is your day going? WOOHOO about Mary, I am excited now. I have no life either :lol:, I can't wait to watch it. I am thinking about chili for tonight, would have to make the cornbread to go along though :^:. I am not sure yet though.

Angie my hands are dry all ready from this cold weather. It is only in the forties today, yuck. Is everything getting back to normal with you poor family? I hope so. There is alot going around right now.

Well today I did some house cleaning, tub, sink, and toliet, and picked up tons of toys. I am so bummed my husband's work is not having a x-mas party this year. I have the outfit I bought from last year and wanted to wear it this year. Tells ya how much I dress up :lol:! Btw we did not even go last year so it was never even put on! Oh well. Check in later. Julie

Noelle get your puter problems fixed? I miss ya. Hope you are having a wonderful HI day!

Cal you must be busy with school? Where are you?

Summer your life sounds exciting, flying all over.

Hi everyone!

Kempy I wanted to tell you I see that you and your brother look alike, even though he has sunglasses on....I can tell. He is not a bad looking guy :) ;).

Good Morning ladies!!!!

Kempy, I loved the pics. You look great!!!! You look like you all had fun. I wished I was there.

Julie, When are you gonna post some pics? :wink: How has your week been so far? Can you believe that they are calling for snow showers on Friday and Saturday here? :yikes: I missed all the nice fall weather when I was sick now it is just COLD!!!

Noelle, Did you get your puter fixed? Did Micheal get lots of candy? The twins didnt really get anything good. That didnt stop me from nibbleing it all week though. :lol: I need to get back on a diet but I have been stressed out with the food poisoning thing and bleaching everything,etc.

Cherie, How is your ex doing? How are the girls doing?

I watched the show Wife Swap last night. The husband of the fitness lady was such a jerk to the new wife. I would have smacked him if I was there. She had to workout for 3 hours a day just like his wife did but on the second week she got to make them live by her rules and he didnt do any of the stuff she wanted.

Good morning girls. IT IS FINALLY COOL! We are going to have a hig of 69 today. WOW That is great after the month of Oct. was in the 80's. Sorry Angie, I know you didn't get to have a fall. Just fly down here right now and I will share mine with you. :D

Ya know Julie, I never even thought my brother and I looked alike until you pointed it out. Maybe it is b/c we both have on black wigs. He has red hair just like my sister so I can usually tell that they are brother and sister. They both like like my dad and I look like my mom. I found a pic of her when she was in high school and it is scary how much we look alike.

Well, I got my lisence in the mail. Now I just need to get a frame for it and drop off all of my stuff at the salon. I just called and they are trying to finish up the plumbing in the room so I don't want to bring my stuff just yet but I want to have everything ready. I can't beleive it is finally time for me to start working. In a way I am going to miss being a bum all day long :D

Angie I watched that show too. I thought it was funny when the guy said why do they think we hate people from CA? All they do is talk about it. You are right though that guy was kind of rude. I thought it was great though that the family stuck to working out after it was over.

Does anyone have anything fun planned today?

Noelle did your computer die???

Kempy, Did your sis ever find homes for her cats or did her neighbor get a life and leave her alone? Domino(the stray cat) is so weird...he will come in and sleep and eat for the afternoon but at night he takes off and it has been cold at night. The pups pool is freezing and the temps get down to 27 or so. I wished he would stay inside.

My fun for the day is that we have 11 dozen donuts on order plus a reload night so I get to do lots of work. It probably doesnt sound like much but it is when Jay has to roll and cut them all by hand. We dont have any machines to do it.

When is your first day of work? I am so excited for you. I would love to work somewhere other than with food but that is all I have ever done and since we live in the boonies the jobs are very limited to say the least. :lol:

I have a pic of my Mom when she was 12 and at 12 I looked just like her too. Brit found the pic and asked where I had it taken and I had to tell her it was Mimmie not me. :lol: We are so much alike we could be sisters. haha :lol:

Hi girls. My computer is not totally up to speed but it's working a little better than a few days ago :crossed:. I ran a scan last night and it didn't find anything--that in itself is frustrating because I know something else is wrong. My friend can't come out until sometime next week so I have to work around it.

OMG you guys, I have to kill my husband. He came back from Vegas with a huge 10 lb millk chocolate bar. And get this, he knows my sister (who lives with us) prefers dark chocolate so he bought one for her too--I have 20 freakin' lbs of chocolate in my house--right after halloween. :eek: So far I've cut about 5 lbs off and sent it home with 2 of my nieces. My other sisters have refused to take any. I just might take it to the church foodbank!

Kempy, those were great halloween pics! You guys make me feel so old, like I haven't partied like that in a looooonnnnnnnggggggg time. You look good though, so don't put yourself down.

Angie, I cant believe your temps go down that low already. My gosh, we're still having highs of 85 and lows of 75(?) I'm still sweating at night! It's the humidity that gets me too. I wish I could send some heat up to you. Hey, I know how you feel about not being able to get back on track. I have to renew my drivers license next month and I don't look forward to taking that picture and having it for the next 6 years! :ink: **Have fun making those donuts! I think those donut roller thingies are neat (I saw it on the Food Channel once :lol: )

Julie, if you ever moved out to HI I'd let you work in my office. I already know you can type and know how to use a computer ;). Ever since I started working for myself, I haven't been to a fancy Xmas party...I used to like to get all dressed up and eat good food on someone elses dime :lol:. Is hubby's company not having a party for a reason? Why not grab a sitter for the kids and plan a dinner for two for you and hubby anyway?

Cherie, Happy Birthday to Hannah! :hb: :hat: :balloons: :dizzy: :cb: :dance: Did you get to bake the cookies?

Hey Cal :wave:...I know you must be busy.

Summer, how are you doing these days?

Well, I guess I should run and get to work. have a great day all!

Noelle, we dont have one of the donut roller/cutters either. We special ordered a single donut cutter because we make the glazed alot bigger than anywhere else. So he has to roll the dough out with the rolling pin and cut each individual donut one at a time. :lol: He has a routine down though so he is alot faster than I would be. He has been cooking donuts for 12 years so he knows what he is doing. Sad but I dont know how to make the donuts because he insists on doing it all himself.

20 lbs of chocolate? WOW, I would want to beat him too. :lol: I would be so tempted to chop it up and start baking hehe

My sister just doens't pay attention to the lady anymore. Come to find out she is the crazy lady of the neighborhood. She is in and out of the hospital too so she may not be bothering my sis for much longer. (sorry that sounds mean) She still has all of her cats. A few of them are startign to get pretty old so they may be moving on soon. I think she has 3 that are around 14. And you know how old that is for cats.

Noelle is that enough to bathe in? :lol: I would have to be mad too. I don't think they realize sometimes what they are doing to us. I would hate to have to throw that away. Sooooooo, I would probably eat a good portion of it first.

I went to the salon today to drop of some price sheets and they said that my room should be ready for me by Monday. Now that doens't mean I will have any clients, it just means I can go sit up there and wait. I can't deciede if that is a good thing or not. I may just hang out part time for awhile until I get some calls coming in for me. I still need to make a flier but I don't know what to say on it. Do you guys have any suggestions?

Julie come out to play.

Cal you must be busy with school.

Cherie did you run away on your treadmill?

Summer where are you hiding?

whats for dinner everyone?

I forgot to say I was making homemade cornbread and baking a turkey kielbasa with sauerkraut and potatoes. And probally another veggie. Hope everyone has a good night.

Angie House Hunters is on tonight! I love that show so much....I have no life :lol:.....Julie

Well, I just ate mine. I was so hungry I couldn't wait. I had a salad and then I had some left over crawfish pie. It was so good. Our produce stand makes them and sells them frozena dnall you have to do it heat it for an hour and dinner is ready. I will have to go back and get more. I told Joe that it was something that I will makes sure I have in the freezer. It was only $10 and I didn't have to cook it. That right there makes it better.

Hey girls. I'm guiltily enjoying my sushi lunch. Sure, sushi sounds healthy but not the one I'm eating! :ink: It's called a 'volcano'. It's an inside-out california roll with a mixture of scallops, mayonaisse, chili/garlic paste and some other sinful fattening stuff poured all over the top. It's sooooo delicious and probably has tons of fat because of the mayo. But, oh well.

Kempy, :hun: that crawfish pie sounds awesome. Heat and go? That's my style :lol:

Julie, how old is DD? around 3? Do you put her in those pull-up pants? The ones that have the picture on the front that stays there if they stay dry or the ones that the picture disappears if they wet...I dunno, it's been so long since I've been in that stage with my son. Anyway, what worked for me is buying him "big boy" underwear--you know, like underoos? And yeah, letting him experience the feeling when they wet. (Sorry if this potty talk is bothering any of you when you're trying to eat :lol: ) Another thing is that he trained pretty quickly once he went to preschool--I think it was peer pressure, that he wanted to go to the potty like the other kids.

Maybe you can buy her some cute little panties that she can only have if she tries to go potty. I know some bribing (like a particular new toy) was involved with getting my son to go.... I know, Im probably not much help, but I know how headstrong girls can be :lol:. Good luck!