Good morning. Just showing off my new ticker.

skinny beach

Is that really you in your avatar Bagzz? You oughta be in pictures....BEAUTIFUL.

Sorry to have been awol so long. I've been knitting for the holidays. Carpal Tunal here we come. And sleeping. And wanting to bake and eat rather than run jump and reduce. Arrgh. DD and DS are going to be in MA with exH, their Dad, for Thanksgiving. DH and I wangled a feast invite with gourmet cooks with darling grandchild.... We skipped the 8 hour drive to boring in-laws this year.... per DH's dictum.

Is mars in retrograde? I'm post hysterectomy'd and have been feeling weepy and PMS'ish. I think the holidays are making me miss the mother I never had. Other people have mothers who are sweet and adorable to them.....

I'm with you, Painty. Bagzes boyfriend DOES look like a GIRL. IN FACT, LOOKS LIKE HER!! Which is why she loves him. I think people who look like me are the most attractive also.

Painty, I don't miss the mom I never had but now that you mention it, I may start doing so.

I have a pizza hangover. In more ways than one.
ARrrrrrrrrrrgh. Stop me before I beat myself stupid.

I have a rubber bat, Rex, Boo, Roz, Mike Wazowski, a weird looking mouse and a tiny little man in a red suit. Discuss.

I actually put off procrastinating today for a bit and did some stuff for tomorrow that I knew I'd never get done if I left it. Make sense?

I have my wireless adapter on top of my monitor. And dust. Nothing else. Pathetic.

Just tried to whip finances into shape by figuring how to transfer bank/credit card info to computer. It won't work because my version of Quicken is antiquated. How can something named "Deluxe 2000" be defunct? Jeez.The world is f'ing passing me by. I should just sit in my rocking chair and give up, I guess. I am feeling slow and dumb. Dumb and dummber. Dumberer. Oh, and ANGRY, too.
Now that I know there will be A Christmas card exchange, I'd better get cracking on them. Don't dust your mail box until late December though...It'll take me that long to get inspired/organized.
DD and i went out for dinner after a bit of gardening and woodworking. : I had chicken breast (just had half) and brocoli and mushrooms with peppers and onions. Probably sauteed in lard or something equivalent to arsenic, but tasted very good. I want to take a nap. it is 7:41 pm. I don't want to call it a day. The day won. I am lost.

Makes perfect sense to me. I unprocrastinated on the laundry this evening. After roasting a leg of lamb for dinner! Mmm the whole house smells like garlic and rosemary. I'm saving the leftover roast potatoes and gravy for my midnight snack. What do you mean I'm not supposed to be eating midnight snacks!?

Hm. I get the rubber bat and the weird mouse and the tiny little man, maybe (Santy?). But Rex, Boo, Roz, Mike Wazo, not so sure about them. Pets?

Hey, Painty, don't give up! You're doing great -- gardening, woodworking and what sounds like a healthy dinner! DH uses Quicken as well and the impression I get is that they have pretty good support -- maybe they could help you set up for what you want, or upgrade your package.

Kiwi

As you can see, my kiwi has company -- my DD brought me the little piggie from Quebec last spring.

I think with a little work that could make an excellent avatar, don't you?

For sure! Kiwis are the cutest. And the roast lamb just tops it all off. Mmmmmm! You know, eating roast potatoes and gravy at midnight is probably a lot better than eating chips or something. But what do I know?

You would have to be a mom to someone under 10 to "get" most of the stuff on top of the monitor. Mike Wazowski and the rest are McDonald's Happy Meal figures from Monsters Inc. But the things is, they don't even belong to the kids - they are MINE and hold secret meaning which I can't go into here for fear of being struck by lightening or something. The man in the red suit came out of a gum machine last week. He looks like a rapper or something. Definitely not Santa.

Painty! You are FAR from dumb. Don't even think that. Computer software was made to annoy us. Never trust anything with 'Deluxe' in the name.

Bagzie's boyfriend is too, too pretty for me. He needs to go finish his homework and remember to wash behind his ears. Man, 19 year old boys didn't look like that when I was 19. Darn.

I was watching my psychic hotline show yesterday and there was this guy on called Mike Shiva who supposed to be some big psychic star in Switzerland. He mentioned that he was concerned that some people may have looked him up on the internet and not only found his real web site, but also pictures of him in Brazil with naked girls. So he says "That is absolutely not true! Don't believe everything you see on the internet. I swear I've never been to Brazil in my life...unfortunately."

It's 10:33 a.m. and I'm still hanging on the computer when I'm really supposed to be at the post office and grocery shopping and stuff BUT I am showered, dressed AND exercised. Yes, that's right, the cow that hasn't exercised in weeks forced herself to do 3 miles with Leslie this morning because at the rate I'm going, I'll probably hit 170 soon without even noticing.

because I know the Canadian post office does not RUSHHH things, my card to Bagz goes out today. I expect hers by August.

Bagzoid, please explain the Canadian Postal System. Our mailman says there are different postal rates depending on where you mail from. Everybody gets to set their own rate, he says. Why is mail so slow? Expound.