hi anagram-so glad that your dh is doing better! and to see you in the palace.

frogger-glad that your cousin's service was nice. hope you have a good vacation.

amarantha-a halloweeen challenge sounds good to me too. july was the pitts for me, and it is onward and downward for me in this fresh, new month. i agree-taking care of oneself is indeed an excellent way to honor a loved one's memory. i have been trying to remind myself of that of late, in fact, and seeing your words was just what i needed to hear, and at just the right time.

hi aria, arabella, kaylets, wildfire, punkin, and to all our dear royals! i am thinking of you on this blisteringly hot evening. i did well with food and exercise today. at least the heat helps even me have less of an apetite than usual--well, it did today,anyway!
have a good evening, everyone!

P.S., where did Avwoolf (sp?) go? Be she lurkin' ... ?

Inquiring minds wanna know.

Halloween/Samhain Challenge sounds good to me too. I'm longing for autumn, I can always tell when I start dreaming of how good that cold weather food is going to be. You know, soups made with winter squash and stuff like that!

I was wondering about avwoolfe too. Come back! And where's our Ceara????

Also sending a call to Ceara, the Sword Bearer!!! Thought she said she was on vacation, but that was awhile ago!

I gotta go back to bed for awhile ... not feelin' well but will meet trainer later.

Hello all!

DH went to work about 7:30 am, ( both us moved really slowly this am...I even got an extra 1.5 hr sleep)... but I've managed since to get some laundry, dishes, correspondence, vacuuming, watering the garden, done while boiling eggs, some beans for a soup and chickpeas for salads,etc...
Trying get lots done while I have the house to myself and am motivated...


FINALLY we have some ripe grape and cherry tomatoes... evidently the plants growing so tall really was a what saved the tomatoes from this blistering heat as the tall plants made a "canopy" of sorts...
The cucumbers are gone though.... We didnt water enough in the heat...
Peppers look ok though and believe it not, still have blackberries....

Eydie... How is your dad?? I've been meaning to ask and am sorry I haven't...

Yes, I too have been wondering about Ceara and Q Wolf too....


So is it Halloween??

Can we do mini sprints too???

Ok...

Lets just commit to TODAY... WATER...
How did I get away from it??

I dunno...


How's your day going?

K, what about one long thread for Samhain/Halloween but EVERYONE must post a mini sprint for each of the months leading up to that? NO EXCEPTIONS ... everyone must participate or the towel boys will go on strike ... er, sorry, I'm coverin' a strike at the moment and that crept in!! Anyhow, doesn't matter to me ... but hopin' someone will get us off this SEVENTH month thread and into autumn!!!

Hi Royal Ones! I'm home, but feel very much in need of recuperation. It was a bit of an odd trip. The former site editor was extremely elusive throughout, which is not unusual for her but it was to a far greater extent than usual. Before the trip she professed to be very excited that she was going to see me, once we got there she mostly disappeared. We had dinner together the first night, but then she pretty much blew me off the rest of the time. On Wednesday, she suggested I might want to join her and the previous site editor for a touristy day in Boston and said she'd check with me before she left. So I hung around and sent her a message saying I'd like to go, to no avail. I finally realized she must have gone without contacting me. The next day, she sent me a message saying she'd been running behind schedule (without actually apologizing) and added a list of links to everything they'd done that day. Somehow thinking that would allow me to enjoy it vicariously, I guess. What it did, of course, was rub salt in the wound. I felt so much like I used to when I got left behind as a kid. It really hurt, and still does. I'll never even semi-count on her for anything again. Sadder and wiser, I guess.

My trip back worked out okay in the end, but it started out horribly -- had to get up at 3 a.m. to get to the airport for a 6:15 flight. Got there, stood in line for a half-hour before an agent even appeared, stood in line another 20 minutes to get to the agent -- who told me my flight was cancelled, that I could come back and be on standby for a flight out that evening (which would get me as far as Halifax but no farther) or repeat the whole process the next morning. She, also, didn't apologize. I guess that Air Canada was diverting planes to get people out of Toronto after the crash. Anyway, it sounded as if my choices were: A. Make probably repeated trips back to the airport over gawd knows how many days, or: B. Rent a car and drive home. So I drove. Took not quite 12 hours. I must admit I was pretty freaked out by the whole thing, trying to decide what to do and nervous about getting to the highway -- never actually had my mouth go dry from anxiety before, but it happened then. It was okay once I got out of the Boston area, just cranked the classic rock stations all the way and kept heading north. I think from here on in I'm going to drive, at least to the summer meetings. Air Canada -- ptui! I spit on them!

Anyway, I'm home, and intend to mostly just relax and recuperate this weekend. Really feel like I need it. Sorry for the me-me-meness of this. It never ceases to amaze me how this essentially petty stuff can knock me for a loop. Feeling grateful, nevertheless, that I don't have any major issues to deal with. Sending good thoughts to those who do. Love!

Hello all!

Just found this on my WW's site and tried it...

Its interesting but I laughed when it said I should lose another 12 lbs...

Folks were telling me I was getting bony....even my WW's secretary.....

Of course, its the Navy test and for the most part, I am sure mostly for younger folks.....

I agree I am sure I have more body fat than needed ....
although was suprised that I was as high as 27%....

Which I had my measurements from when I began.....

Got to believe I must have been about 48-50%....

Ah well....

see what happens when I'm supposed to be working on my resume and doing housework 15 minutes at a time!

Hi everyone!
I will just keep a low profile until I come back from vacation, lol.

Oh Wood Nmyph! You must be exhausted!~ And you're right about the editor...Just plain old rude... too
next time you'll meet up w/ Royalty!

And I think driving was an excellent decision..... CLASSIC ROCK... yes, indeed...
sorry your trip was such a disappointment.....

This is a cross post from my journal ... sorry if it be against anybody's rules, but wanted to share with my friends where I am at challenge wise right now (having GAINED a freakin' .4, but that's ok 'cause the Fitday PC software data indicates that's what I could have expected from the cal average I had this week). Okay, here's what I posted as to WHY I wanna do a Halloween challenge:

We at the Halloween Hut are ignorin' the .4 weight gain o' Novice Hag Athletea!!! It's a trick she's playin' on us for Halloween, no doubt. She also noteth that the Fitday PC software is alarmingly accurate ... our weekly target cals were slightly up and we gained accordingly. We really gained this .4 pound because we wanted to test the software to make sure we made a good investment!!!

We at Halloween Hut Central wish to announce that we are OFFICIALLY not changing our October 16 goal for A to reach 130!!! We feel that during this Halloween/Samhain season, the season that to us represents the beginning of the new year and the springin' forth of new life (though sometimes we do not see it in autumn because it's disguised as the END of a season, autumn is really when we, the Hag clan, starts to develop the vision that allows us to view and realize that beyond the winter ... just a heartbeat away ... a new SPRING will arise). We at Hag Central wanna be ready for that, so we're gonna work on our goal NOW and move forward into the crisp autumn air!!!