April Cowers Bring May Flowers
 

Not planning on going anywhere. You are stuck with me.

I want blueberry turnover, it is calling to me. Must resist.
Why did DH buy those after I told him I was dieting? :?:

Pick up the turnovers with 2 fingers, hold your nose, and throw them into the freezer.

Painty, how well does your DS speak Japanese now?

Thanks for the sage advice. I did not eat it. I didn't freeze the turnovers but I did put the where I can't see them.

Which progress bar do y'all like best? I am prepared to bow down to peer pressure.

I like the egg.

Wow, Cookie-- That Cow is cool.... I've overstayed my computer time tonight, but will unveil her tomorrow for all who care to see....
And I've just begun fiddling with photoshop... what is photobucket? Does this mean I could make "buttons" for my blog? Are you really html literate, etc.???

Cow-- I don't know that DS has maintained Japanese skills... He ended up with 2 or three years credit in HS... then when he tried to take another course at Indiana U. he found that he hadn't actually "mastered" all of the grammatical ins and outs. (Not too surprising, because kids don't often master the grammar in ENGLISH.) I can still imagine him going back into international business.... but he's going to see about teaching physics/astronomy first.

I must confess (now that we have a stickler for a Pope) that I had an applefritter instead of breakfast this morning.

TPBM is running a long way in her local breast cancer awareness run next month. (I am so mammarily attached that I am not allowed to run in public.)

sunny side up or over easy?
 

I like the egg, too, Cookie. Must look into the South Beach Diet before I explode. Or implode. Or something. The chick from the thyroid site I visit has come out with some new book called The Thyroid Diet that's supposed to be quite similar to SB and helpful to poor hormonal slobs like me.

Today is Queen Elizabeth's 79th birthday. As a faithful royal subject, I will be eating LOTS of cake in her honour. Happy Birthday, Yer Majesty, and Many Happy Returns, eh? :D

While I was surfing around yesterday, I read various commments about Benedict XVl and one person said, "This new Pope is going to make the last one look like a puppy." Scary. Apparently his brother Georg (that's how you spell it in German) is very concerned about Ratzinger's health. So I wonder just how long he'll hold out? He doesn't really look like a well man, but then again, I wonder what I'LL look like when I'm 78?? :o

Painty, I'm not running anywhere but you're the first to ask so who knows. I could run from here to the bed.

Sugar, I think the new Pope looks fine. I am so impressed by the intellectual achievements of these men. John Paul spoke 16 languages? How many does this one do? Where do they get their education? How long does it take?

Now, the queen ... education? Languages? Does she have any sort of achievements in her background? They seem a disappointing lot.

TPBM would rather have dinner with the queen than the pope.

Good Moring Cowlets!

PW I am glad you liked the cow. I used MS Image Composer, I haven't used photoshop. As for html I am moderately literate but I cheat a lot by using FrontPage.

PhotoBucket is a free image hosting service I use.

I must go threaten the boys now so that they will get dressed for school.

I'd like to have dinner with both of them, actually. To be a Pope you have to already speak Italian, Spanish and English. He also speaks German, obviously, and who knows what other languages. Yes, he seems to be very intellectual and all his books have shot to the top of the bestseller list this week. John Paul spoke 16 languages? I didn't know that. I suppose a priest or cardinal would have a set routine and a fair amount of free study time to read and learn all that stuff.

The Queen speaks English and French as far as I know. I saw her speakin' it on tv a while back. The thing with the royal family is that they're just figureheads. They don't really have to do or be or know anything. Just show up for their obligatory appearances and get up to no good in between. I still have a soft spot for Elizabeth, though. Look at all she's been through with that wacky family of hers.

My house is still a pit and getting worse by the minute. Maybe I should get off my huge butt and do something about it. My university student cancelled her tutoring session with me this morning because HER HORSE DIED. Really. She had a very pretty white horse called Donna that fell ill and was operated on last week. There were complications and she had to be put down this week, poor thing. I hate it when pets die. So sad. :(

someone told me it was 16 but I looked it up and he ONLY SPOKE EIGHTTTTT.

It is sad about pets. They're so dependent on us that we feel we've let them down if something happens. Even my bad cat I worry about.

DS is going to Washington DC next week. Needs a blazer or suit. Who's got one?

Popes are able to speak many foreign languages because they were studying them back in the day when all the other young guys were out cruising the strip and picking up chicks.

One of the guys that works here had a horse named Penny that died just last month. She was in her 30's which is quite old for a horse.

I think the life of a queen would be miserable. Always having to put on a show. Ick. The jewels would be nice, though. And I love her Corgis.

Painty, I had coconut cream pie for breakfast. And I'll raise you one, because my mom is taking me out to lunch today. She and dad have just returned from Arizona for the summer. They are planning on selling their big house here and living in AZ full time, except for summer motorhome touring. I can't understand them wanting to move away from all their children and grandchildren, but oh well. Maybe when I get that age I'll be sick of family too. Doubt it, though.

My sister joined Weight Watchers yesterday. The pressure is on.

I really should go change my progress bar thingie. Depressing.

I didn't get all my garden stuff done yesterday. I ended up spending my garden time weeding a huge long bed that had gotten out of control. I'm not going to buy any more plants until I have everything that I already have planted. I did manage to get my car washed and vacuumed, my hair cut and I went tanning (I know, not wise at my advanced age, but I have to cover up the varicose veins w/ some color or I can't wear shorts). I made pasta salad, deviled eggs and grilled DH's salmon that he caught on tuesday. I could really get used to being a haus frau. I even enjoyed doing some laundry. That is how bad I hate my job.

Enough rambling. Gotta do some work.

Thank you Peachblosssom for posting a new thread. I was so sick of seeing peter cottoncow (yes, I'm the one who put it there, what's your point?)

Haven't read the messages on this page yet, but thought I would say hi. We are at Bard today; yesterday we visited Vassar. Weather continues to be awesome, although cooler. Bard is beautiful and funky and weird. DD is taking a freshman seminar at the moment and dh is probably asleep in the car or doing a crossword puzzle somewhere. He is still recovering from surgery and tends to crash about 1 pm every day. Tomorrow will be killer - going to Tufts and Brandeis in the same day.

Kudos to Peachboy for doing the japanese camp. DD will be jealous. A few years ago she won a one-course scholarship to the U of Maine and the only thing she wanted to take was Japanese. They did not offer it (perhaps explaining why she refuses to consider going there).

Well, class is getting out in a few minutes, so I've gotta run. Yay on the Eggplant floors, Bagz, and boo on the ratzy guy, Sugar ( :devil: ), happy to hear from Cookie, and yeehaw on the shindigs everyone's been going to. I have a friend who lost all her baby weight on the SBdiet (and she had had it hanging on her as long as I have). Maybe we should all go on it.

Kiwi

p.s. I have been walking miles every day. not with leslie, but with Jesse, Iris, Laura and I can't remember the name of the guy with the big ears today.

That's our president, Kiwi. He walks? I am heartened to know that after all those years of being a beanpole, I now have baby fat.

I Ate A Bunch Of Bacon Covered Scallops At Ten O'clock At Night Cause I Didn't Have Time For Supper-----hope I Don't Barf.or Maybe I Hope I Do=-===kiwonk-===we Are Vicariously Enjoying Your College Romp!!! What Fun!!! Xoxoxo

Cow--- as one of TPBM/U... If the Pope were American he would (no doubt) BE a queen.

I gave in and bought a tabloid that said I could loose 45 lbs by Memorial day. I read the article and my mind has blanked out. I found out that The Cake Doctor has a new book out on cupcakes and that's all I can think of... besides the new Dark Chocolate M&M's. D*mn!

I don't think I can NAME 16 languages.

Wabby-- I don't remember what I had for breakfast... Oh, yeah, a Jack in the Crack Fajita Pita because i didn't eat until almost 2:30pm after grocery store and other assorted errands. Then I had a big salad with a friend later. This is the binging hour. Most people don't eat at 2:30 am.

Bed or "breakfast"? Bed or bread?
Sleep or Sweets?

Aeiiiiiii.

If I had it to do over I would go to the most exotic college I could stand, even if it meant I was the so-called 'sane" one.

TPBM wants to be a geisha.

False. I read Memoirs of a Geisha. Not my idea of the good life.

Maybe you could do 45 lbs. by Labor Day, but I don't think it's possible by Memorial Day.

I had papaya and pasta salad for breakfast today. Last night I had cauliflower w/ cheese sauce and pasta salad for dinner. I love pasta salad. I may have pasta salad for lunch.

Hmmmm. What's happening today? It's sunny. I'm at work. There's a new coffee place 2 doors down that will deliver lattes and donuts. I don't even have to get off my lard arse to go get them. All I have to do is fax them an order. They have really yummy maple bars. I hope this doesn't become a problem.

If I had it to do over I'd go to college. Exotic or otherwise.

TPBM has secretly taken belly dancing classes.

True. I did. I was best in the group in moving my head from side to side.

45 lbs.??? Why can't I lose anny?? Not even FVIE or TENNN? Why?

How many languages are there?

I am drinking DietCherryVanillaDr. Pepper. It could be named Aftertaste City

TPBM has never eaten fried okra.

You are missing out on on the okra! Leave it to us southerns to take a perfectly innocent vegetable and fry it to within an inch of its life.

I am now making ginger cookies--the kind that have crinkles in them with sugar sprinkled all over them----i will eat six and then barf.

not because i have an eating disorder---because i had two giant margies and i am full,but i can't resist the cookies----i do not approve of forced barfing.

False. I did. When I first moved to Te*as and went to a cafeteria. If I'd ever had it any OTHER way, I wouldn't have had it fried. Fried is the ONLY way....

You wouldn't believe what I just ate. and I'm not gonna tell you. But I figured staying up late (again) was better than heartburn. :dizzy:

Here's a quote:

"Cease cows! Life is short!" is a quote from 100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

Cookie... I'm working on my own painty cow... Thanks for the inspiration.
And I'm inclusing yours so everybody gets to see.

TPBM actually follows the food pyramid and gets adequate sleep.

Coooookies
 

Bagzzy! The cookies sound great. :hungry:
I baked a cake at DS2's request. Chocolate cake with fluffy white icing. It happens to be my favorite. So I fell, no jumped off the SBD wagon and had a piece. The good news is it was fairly small and I had only one piece.

Awesome, Cookie Cow.

Hi Kids, we're back! We decided to skip Saturday night in Boston and drive home instead. I slept until 2PM today. Which was lovely, sleeping forever in my own comfy bed. But now I have a headache. We have no food in the house.

It was overall a very successful trip. The weather was incredible -- it finally started raining yesterday, but fortunately the last tour we took--Emerson College--was mostly indoors due to its being a very "city" campus, so the only casualty of the rain was Boston Univ. It was really too late to do much there anyway.

I'm pretty sure DD is more undecided than ever now :rolleyes:, but at least she has a better idea of what it will be like at college. My alma mater had the worst tour of the whole trip, I was very disappointed. I'm sure I'm not being entirely objective, but the kid who gave the tour was a freshman and had a lot of his facts dead wrong, plus we didn't see half of the campus. DD wrote in her notebook "interior decor of buildings is ICK"--they took us in the most generic institutional looking buildings there. Then I managed to clinch the negative image myself by taking her by my old "frat" house (I lived in a coed fraternity 3 out of 4 years). They'd had a big party the night before and the place was trashed, smelled of beer, and looked disgusting. I'm pretty sure even after they clean it up it will look disgusting. Hasn't been kept up well at all. Oh well.

Well, I'm glad to see you are all hanging out and being chatty. I am still fat. Odd how 6 days of walking, regular modest meals, and early nights doesn't do a thing for me. Well, except get me more points toward my dress. I already bought the dress. It was $60, so I have 20 more to go, 2 weeks to do it in; guess that's doable. It's not that great a dress. I hate shopping.

Gotta go feed my headache. ta

Kiwi

I am depressed. Bagz .. I'm waiting to hear from you and Benedict .. English is the FIRST LANGUAGE EVER to be spoken by more people as a SECOND LANGUAGE than as a FIRST.. Sorry about Lushette's knee. It's so frustrating when our kids are hurt .. I also want to know about the diet. Quickly. I want to be tied to a bed (comfy one) and not allowed to eat for a few days. Again .. I am depressed. Cheer me.

I'm hungry. Hi Lush. Hi Peachcow. I'm tired. I haven't weighed myself since my weeklong walkfest. Should I take wagers on whether I lost or gained?

I don't want kids to have pains in knees and stuff. Too disturbing.

I need a nap. bye.

Kiwi

Oh geez. I wrote a long post, then hit the back button accidentally and lost the whole d*mn thing. It was a boring post anyway.

It went like this: blah, blah, blah, blah, I can't fit into my jeans either, blah, blah, blah, depressed too, blah, blah, welcome home Kiwi, blah, blah, blah, blah, worked in yard, blah, blah, saw movie, blah, blah, blah, blah, Dylan is old, blah, blah, blah, blah, hi everybody else, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.............

I've done that, too.

Ok. Here goes :::::: What movie? blah blah blah. What's the 45 lbs. diet? blah blah blah blah. Dylan is still cool blah blah blah blah. Wabby is sweet blah blah blah blahhhhhhh.

TPBM is Pope Benedict.

False. I only think I'm infallible.

And blah blah blah thank you Wabby. I'm still hungry. I like to think that means I've lost weight. I know my pants are a tad loose. But that might just be from wearing them repeatedly....

I made a lovely chicken stew in the crockpot for dinner and it's ready now!

:hungry:

Kiwi

Blah Blah Blaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuucccccccccchhhhhhhh!!! i just made tea biscuits and ate FIVE of them------------ i must be depressed too====all day long i have no time to eat,so NOW i come home and eat all night long---------note the things i have been making------------margaritas,cookies and tea biscuits=-===i want to make fudge but it has to be a sunny day and we have had nothing but rain lately=----SO nice to hear from lushtank====maybe we could do like cookie and start the second week of the south beach---i can't hack it when they say NO fruit====someone find out what you can eat on the second week and let's give it a whirl===========i am pretty sure it says no biscuits,fudge or gingersnaps.

I have the book. Phase II .. day I

1 cup fresh strawberries
Oatmeal (they tell you how to make it)
Coffee
hard boiled egg
Chicken salad (recipe)
fresh pear with 1 wedge Laughing Cow
Spinach-stuff salmon (recipe)
veggie medley
tossed salad w/ olive oil
choco-dipped strawberries (recipe)

That's 3 meals, 2 snacks and 1 dessert.

salmon recipe:

5 oz. fillets . Heat oven to 400

slit 2/3 way through center. Season with s & P
Mix baby spinach, pesto, sun-dried tomatoes and pine nuts and shove it in.

Can you do this? Bagz you MUST do it or none of us can. You must command and lead. Go Go Goooooo.

Does anybody know what a "wacom" is?
I wish I'd become a painter.
I am reading several memoirs of FAT girls. I don't know whether to be relieved, depressed, hopeful or all of the above.
It hailed hail the size of baseballs north of here this evening. I'm glad I wasn't there.
I have nothing interesting to say.

TPBM actually got 8 hours of sleep.

False. I was in bed for 8 hours, but many of those hours included tossing and turning, analyzing my pitiful life and getting up to pee twice so not much sleeping was done.

Ate a big chunk of cheese for breakfast. I need sustenance to face the library darlings. We are doing prepositions today, eg: The cheese is ON the cracker, the cracker is UNDER the cheese.

That diet doesn't sound half bad. Is that South Beach? I may have to get the book. 165 on me looks like 200 on other people because I am a round blob in the middle and all fat collects there. My face is round and puffy. None of my pants fit. My shoulders look a mile wide. I hate this. I've even been doing Leslie 2 - 3 times a week. When does it start working?

So sorry about your dd Lushy, that's not good news for anyone, but especially for such a young girl.

On Sunday I made a felafel pizza and it was VERY interesting. Ds12 ate it, ds9 wouldn't touch it. This is par for the course.

TPBM loooves cheese.

Luckily the SBD book is out in mass market paperback now.

Gotta run. We are taking DS3 to New Orleans to see the pediatric neurologist today.

True. I loovovovoeeee cheese.

Cookie .. this is a game. TPBM means The Person Below Me. You can play. Some cows boycott but you can ignore that.

The job I want So Much is still being advertised. But so are other jobs. Must persevere. It's raining but not golf sized drops. Must shower. Must stand up straight. Want a waist line.

TPBM likes horseradish sauce on their sandwiches.

everybody go HERE and get your pyramid.