Kiwi: How fabuloso! How wonderful !:dance: You and DH must be so very proud of kiwijr-- and now begin the college years! Yep, you done good raising that one! What is a "chem-free" party? Now I think we should throw you a party or come run a roof raffle for ya! :dz:

All youse cows have such wonderful childruns! :hug:

Wabby: How are the whirlies? Glad you had a nice vacationette! well of course men take care of caves, and a RV is I guess a deluxo mobile cave,eh... That's how I get out a cookin.. just say BBQ and DH becomes Emiril. :s:

Suggie!!!! You svelting minx you! Yes dooooo tell how you are removing fat. I've been thinking about getting back to it -- :chin: usually mulling it over a ring ding or Ho Ho. :sumo: Sigh, I never got to know these wayward cowsies ye speak of...

Bagarina: Same here..rain rain...hail... thunder... tornado... we had one touch down bout 2 miles from here Sunday night.. We have a partially downed 60 foot pine tree in the backyard.. a tree cutter is coming today to take it all the way down as it is poised to fall directly on the back of the house :yikes: I'm not likin this nerth caroliner spring ... all this RAIN and lightning and tornado watches ! And Darby is just a mental case ...I feel like a modern day gunslinger wearing a tool belt complete with salt shaker, and critter killer as I venture out to deal with disgusting slugs and bugs big enough to saddle whilst weeding.

Cowp: are you in Alberto range?? I worry.

Nursie: I'm thinkin I need to develop a love of sweet tea, drop my joisey axsent.. and yeah, maybe leave da uzi home.. :lol:

loosing weight the barfy way
 

Worry, nervous tension and generalized nausea. Oh, and a teensy bit of exercise and trying not to eat cr*p. :D Actually, I did a few of the ol' affirmations every night ("I now weigh xxxlbs. My body is fit and toned, etc etc etc") and that seemed to kind of help too. Not that I'm fit and toned or anything, but at least I haven't gained any more weight.

Peach - I had a killer headache today too. I feel for you.

We have the sweeeeetest cashier at one of our local supermarkets. She needs to have her own TV show. She is always cracking jokes and making people laugh and she never gets mad when the elderly hold out their wallets and make her count out the change. She would make a good world leader, I think. German cashiers are usually the crankiest creatures on earth. Sometimes if you're not fast enough they snap their fingers and sigh while they're waiting for you to pay.

I'm meeting my nice American friend downtown for lunch tomorrow. Chinese buffet. Will probably gain 5 lbs in one day.

Yay Sugar for loosing pounds! I need to loose pounds too! Oh, well, at least I'm exercising.

:lol: I'm with you. Running sounds good, but after a minute, I generally change my mind. So I could jog for 1 minute, walk for 20 minutes and go home, right?

btb, that was Dusty Jane, not Rose. heh heh.. Maybe she'll really find us now.

Wabby, I had also forgotten about the MS. Hope things are subsiding. I have only chronic things, nothing dramatic. Allergies, migraines. Right now I seem to have leprosy of the arms -- I am covered by mosquito bites. It's so damp here that they are really horrible, and I look like a freak. Along with the armloads of bites, I have bruises on my arms, from attempting to hold onto the dog leash in inopportune circumstances (many's the time I've had her try to take off on me and I've slammed my arm into something).

Welcome, telemetrynurse, what is telemetrynursing anyway? If you can stand us, more power to you, eh ladies?

My mother is making sighing and groaning noises because I'm on the internet. You will perhaps have noticed that I have not spent much time on the internet since she arrived. She is a very high maintenance mommy.

There is no secret to killing ants. They don't die unless you squoosh them. That's what I do. Jet likes to stare at them and sometimes eat them. I've stopped worrying about them. I sure can't use real poison; Jet eats everything not nailed down. She ate half a sock last week and yesterday she ate a balloon. Can't wait to see those again...

I also have live mice, nurselady. And bats. Wow, I used to drive for Meals on Wheels now and then, but they didn't real need me, they had plenty of volunteers. We have a ton of retirees around here who are always looking for things to do.

DD is still looking for a job. She has 2 kids lined up for guitar lessons, that should net her about $15 dollars a week... :shrug: Of course if she had more like 8 or 10 students it might be worth her time. But she enjoys teaching in any case. I'm hoping the radio station has some voiceover work for her or something.

I'd better wind this up before the mother comes looking for me again... Thanks for all the kudos, I am very proud of the little skinnykiwi.

Later ladies.
Kiwi

I am so happy about the idea of a cashier becoming a world leader! Movie of the Week!!

So Kiwi ... hmmm ... you've got this jar of peanut butter on the third shelf over the stove and a highway of ants coming and going up the wall and .. you squash?? You squash and squash and squash? Really?

I am going away today to take DS to honors orientation at the university. We will be gone til Friday night. I told him to BE SURE he found the printed material they sent about it. He assured me he did. Naturally, I see printed material all laid out about something entirely different.

I'm thinking about leaving a lot of cat food and pans in the tubs with water dripping in. The big problem about leaving the cats is water evaporates so quickly in the summer. Will they be ok? It's about 58 hours maybe.

This is the program they push these days in the high schools to organize parties for after prom and after graduation to keep the kids from drinking and doing drugs. They have had one after graduation for several years I guess -- they have them come to the bowling alley (I'm sure the kids were really good bowlers from all the practice they had at our party the day before... :smug: ) and they stay all night, and they give out prizes and feed 'em good and let 'em bowl and play pool and arcade games and lots of other stuff. Then in the morning they go out to breakfast and go home. The rafting trip after the prom was part of the chem-free party -- they had to show up at the party after prom and stay all night to get to go rafting. The key to the whole thing is that they can't leave the party and come back, so nobody can go get drunk and return. The kids had a good time. DD won a stereo -- there were also dorm refrigerators and camcorders and other good stuff. Cool, huh?

NC does have its share of thunderboomers, but I don't remember extremely wet springtimes -- maybe it's just this year, because we are practically flooded here this year too. What I mostly remember about rainstorms in Charlotte was in the summer. Every afternoon like clockwork we'd get a thunderstorm. "Everybody out of the pool!" Half an hour or so later, it would all stop and we'd get back in. :D When I got older and was working or driving somewhere, a lot of the time the traffic lights would crap out during one of these. Wow, did I hate that. All that traffic and no stop lights. ~shudder~

No, silly Peachie, close the peanut butter jar!!

As a matter of fact, yes. I have put out several different kinds of traps and they do either no good at all or very little good. So yeah, squashing it is. :shrug:

I think your kitties will be fine. Have fun!

I'm going to take my mom for a long drive :s: Don't worry, it will be fun.

Kiwi

we have left the cats for a weekend and just put out LOTS of food and water {and litter!!}----just put out extra water if you think it will evaporate----lots and lots----make an island in the tub that they can sunbathe on and fill the moat with water!!!----kiwonk---they have an alcohol and drug free party here,but they still manage to have a big drunk fest at another time!!!

We have a chem free grad party here too, so they just postpone the big drunken brawl until the next night.

You know everyone thinks Oregon is so rainy, but from late June until the end of September we can go a month or 2 without any rain whatsoever. My water bill is horrible, then the clouds move in around November and we don't see the sun for months. We very seldom get lightning.

The only ant problem I've had is w/ those huge black carpenter ants. DH sprayed with toxic waste around the perimeter of the house and we haven't had any more problems.

Peach, go to the pet store and buy one of those automatic pet waterers that holds a jug of water upside down and fills the bowl automatically. They're pretty cheap. We had one for my weiner dog when she had diabetes and drank gallons of water every day. Poor doggie.

MMMmmm toxic waste. :hungry:

I have nothing to say.

Kiwi

Is there a place one can go to purchase toxic waste? How intriguing.

Tomorrow is our 16th wedding anniversary - can you believe it? I can't.

It's been hotter than Hades all week but thunderstorms are coming soon to cool us off. My house is a mess and the garden is full of weeds.

Happy Anniversary, Sugar Plum! Wow, 16 years. We are coming up on 20. My mother mentioned it the other day, that we are coming up on 20 and my sister & BiL are coming up on 10 years. Somebody said, "what are you going to do to celebrate?" DH and I looked at each other and I said "Pity party?" and he said "Good idea" :lol:

Had a lovely dinner out tonight, sponsored by my mom. We took Dd and bf along. Then we went for a drive up where I took my mother yesterday -- we saw several moose in the water then so we thought we'd see if there were any tonight. Sure enough, there were several, pretty far from the road, but one big bull moose with an impressive rack was right near the road munching on water plants. Kept looking at us. Made my mom's day. I'm tard.

Kiwi

I took yesterday off to do all the stuff that stay at home wives get to do every day. I paid my household bills, I did a couple loads of laundry, I went shopping for 2 wedding gifts, 1 graduation gift, 4 Father's day cards, 2 Father's day presents, went and took my geezer eye test so I could renew my driver's license that has beed expired since my birthday in April, bought a few groceries. geez. It's hard work to be a domestic goddess. Then DH said "I thought you were going to clean the house". Yes, he still has his head..... lucky for him.

Toxic waste is the stuff at the exterminator's that you have to ask for.... they keep it behind the counter. We also have to take our neighbor, Bob with us b/c he has an applicator's license b/c he has a small vineyard that he has to spray all the time w/ nasty chemicals. Bob buys our ant killer for us.

I was driving home yesterday when my sis in law called. She was stuck in traffic in 110 degree heat on the Phoenix freeway. I was stopped on a country road waiting for 2 deer to sloooowly move out of the way on a perfect 72 degree sunny day. I have a good life.

16 and 20 years of matrimonial bliss.... it will be 28 years for us this fall..... and me, so young and lovely still. I'm sure glad I still like him.

I picture your town like the one on Northern Exposure, Kiwi, complete w/ moose.

I forgot to tell you how devastating it was to get a new picture for my driver's license and to tell them my revised weight. Turning 50 is bad enough, but why do they have to humiliate me w/ this little routine? Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh.--- and excuse me, Peach, but this was not a pleasant experience. I wouldn't mind the turning 50 if I was in good shape, but I'm not. Pictures don't lie. damn it.

I never even thought of exterminators as having a counter. Not having dealt with any since I was a kid in NC -- I always thought you just called them up and they came to your house. :dunno:
Not far off. The town is a lot bigger, but not much more going on... Saw another moose by the side of the interstate while I was driving my mom to the airport.

I'm with you -- 72 degrees and a country road beats 110 and traffic any day.

I'm changing my ticker. A pound is a pound. Apparently I sweated it out while watching 3 dance recital performances (that's about 10 hours of dance) in the stuffy sweaty auditorium. Whatever works, eh?

I am ditching my in-laws today. I woke up with a migraine and figured that was a good enough excuse to be unsociable. It's father's day and I sent a card home with my mom to give my step-dad and I'm calling it good. DD can do the father honors today for DH, she's old enough for heaven's sake.

I don't believe I've told the truth on a driver's license for 20 years. I shave off as much as I think I can get away with. :lol: The only people who get to know how much I weigh are you guys and the doctor's scale (which is obviously set too high...)

Kiwi

I wonder if the police really care what you weigh when they're issuing a speeding ticket? :D

Must go call my dad.

Whooo on the pound, Kiwi! 9 lbs sounds good but 10 sounds fabulous!

I am still not dead.
I am still fat.
Are any of you chalking up weight-loss successes? If so, how and how do you stick with it. I can be "on a diet" for about 15 minutes... usuallyjust AFTER I've eaten.

Miz Painty, I can't speak for the whole herd, but I've not been behaving myself diet wise. It's summer time and I don't want to bare this blubber. I'm seriously thinking of going to the fake and bake b/c I figure tan blubber always looks thinner than white blubber. Either way it ain't pretty.

We went to a wedding on Saturday. The couple was young and sweet. They made up part of their vows. Very touching. Sunday we drove all the way to Seattle to look at a car DH is thinking of buying. A '57 Chev. Don't all men want a '57 Chev? He made an offer. We don't really need it, but he said he'd sell the Harley to buy it so I'm happy. He's had 3 friends wipe out on their Harleys in the last 2 months, so he's getting smart and selling the d*mn thing. I actually forgot to call my Dad on Father's Day. We were soooo tired when we got home yesterday my brain wasn't working. We're doing a belated Father's Day bbq tonight for DH, DS and Gmpa Jim.

My DIL has lost all the baby weight and looks fabulous. 60 lbs in 4 months. Is that possible???? I think you have to be young and nursing a baby and veeerrrrry motivated.

I wonder if he would have called me on it if I would have told the DMV clerk that I weighed 120? I think it's rude enough that they put me through the vision test because I turned 50.

Here's a depressing bit of news: My adorable nephew and his very gorgeous wife who got married in Charleston a little over a year ago, are breaking up already. Her decision apparently. Sux, eh?

DH says his experiment with the dvd didn't work and he's back to square one. Clearly what we really need is to spend big bucks on some new hardware for the computer...

Kiwi

Yes, Kiwi, I have a DVD player and yes, I would like a DVD of the talented Miss Kiwiette.

Kiwi-- What a shame that nephew's marriage didn't "stick" The priest at my former church says that's why he prefers officiating at funerals compared to weddings: you know how they turn out. I hope your nephew finds someone to listen to him and help him figure how what went wrong... so that he can avoid it or avoid doing it in the future.

Wabbs-- DH had a Miata for a while... Had a 58 (?) or so Mustang and VW that kind of used up his "classic old car" juices. We are happy with cars that run and have AC these days.

Obviously I survived the cardio test. :tread: :woops:Nothing toooooo abnormal. Have a referral to a pulmonary specialist. You'd think with my ginormous boobs there wouldn't be a problem with breathing...... Ah, the irony. :rofl:

Sadly, I have only completed 2 of my assigned tasks. But at least that's something. I did a bangup job on the bathroom. I now actually have a little vase of flowers beside the sink. DD got piles of flowers at the final dance performance, so they are distributed around in vases.

DD got the car a shower at the bf's house, so that counts a little.

1. Write thank you notes (not for DD, for people who helped me with the grad party)
2. Clean up the junk next to the bathroom sink
3. Wash the car -- well sort of
4. Trim the weeds around the house
5. Take the dog for a walk -- or a swim!
6. Return defective piano tuning manual
7. Order itty bitty part for Rosie the Robot

Isn't that interesting? Have any of you heard Tom Lehrer's rendition of the The Elements? One of my favorites. The line "Isn't that interesting?" always cracks me up.

I'm glad you're not too abnormal, Painty. Good luck with the pulmonary festivities :woo: .

Kiwi

I am just stopping by to say I have to go. Everything for school is due today and I'm behind. Work from 6:45 to 3:30 then school at 5:30 and must eat something maybe not out of a vending machine.

Kiwi, I closed the peanut butter but the ants opened it again.

I suggested to DS that he not go away to university but he is quite insistent. Isn't this insulting?

I agree that good news about Painty is good news indeed. Also, when I left you we had a nurse. Where is she? Ok, must go.

I have a headache and yet, I still have time to post. I do and do for you ppl. Where are you?

Them's some serious ants. Buy them some chocolate to go with their peanut butter, before they take drastic action.
You are a saint. I just got up and here I am! Should I stop sleeping until noon?

Frankly I'm too p-o'ed at DH to stop sleeping late. After doing nothing at all the past 2 months toward getting the boat ready for the water, he expects me and dd to bail him out in the next 4 days to get it all done. Yesterday DDbf came over and helped out. Then they spent 45 minutes "cleaning up" down at the lake. Ahem. Perhaps I should send the dog down there with them...

Kiwi, contemplating mutiny.

Wabby if you really really cared, you'd be up now and posting. I am doing this homework @*(@ and I don't know how apparently as she told me to beef it up. It's due in .. ummmm ... 8 minutes and I don't know how to beef. I know how to minimalize. Except my butt.

DDbf sounds wonderful. Maybe he'll be a good influence on dh.

blehhhh
 

Ants have opposable thumbs! Run for the hills! :eek: :eek:

Hope you got all yer assignments done, Peachy! When will this martyrdom (is that how you spell that?) be officially over?

Wabs - I had a killer headache yesterday too. :stars: Dh even offered to clean up the kitchen for me last night (and will never let me forget it) so I didn't have to get up off the sofa. Hope you're feeling better now. :hug:

Kiwi - "cleaning up" eh? ;) If my boys ever get girlfriends (and I have the feeling that the little on is going to steal them all away from the big one) I am just going to squeeze my eyes shut very tightly and try NOT to think about it.

Painty! So glad you checked in and are doing OK. Yes, it looks like some of us are actually loosing a little weight. I haven't been feeling myself lately and have been eating WAY less than usual. I'm sure it won't last forever though. Hang in there!

I did 30 mins of Pilates this morning and now I feel like I am about to become violently ill, which just proves my theory that exercise cannot be part of a healthy lifestyle. I have taken a travel sickness pill just in case.

Just a few minutes ago a nice, shiny young man came our door offering me one of those Delicious but Outrageously Expensive Frozen Food catalogues, but I turned him away. He was crushed.

Only one month until we go on holidays!!!! None of my shorts fit!!! I don't have a decent bathing suit!! Somebody save me!

I think you've hit on the Cowsies Summer Weight Loss Plan.

1. It's too hot to eat
2. A little exercise makes you sick
3. Voila! Pounds slide right off! (or for loosers: Viola!)

I'm going to work on that.

I have to go "help". I think I just volunteered to vacuum all the boat berth cushions. Well, I have to sleep on them too.

Kiwi

hey ladies and cows. it's Berrypie aka Frappe. Still in NC, still need to lose 20 lbs., still whining about my life. How are all of you? Any major life changes? and I don't need to hear about change of life.....

Frapppieeeeeee! Wheeee! How ARE you??? Have you met Schatzi yet?

i decide to catch up and who do i find??? FRAPPE!!!!! GET BACK HERE AND TELL US WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE ENTIRE GANG!!!!! I WAS LOOKING AT PICTURES OF US ALL THAT SUMMER SO LONG AGO AND NOW SO MUCH HAS CHANGED WITH ALL THE KIDS------------I TAKE IT YOU ARE NOT ENJOYING YOUR MENTAL PAUSE!!

Frappy.... that's all you can say??? Talk. I was thinking about you and your body cleansing juice diet thing. I always liked that idea. Are you making tv shows in NC? I am so confused.

Hi Frappe!!! It's so nice that you're back! tell us all about what's new. My biggest news is that I have a beautiful little Granddaughter. We want the long version of what's been going on with you.

No, I haven't met Schatzi. Where is NC are you?
Peaches, what are you doing now? Going to school?
Wabs, unfair to be sick. I'm sorry.
Bagz, how is life in Canadia?
Lush? Where is she?
Cherry, Kiwi, SugarP hello!!!!
Hi Nursie who I also haven't met.
Am I forgetting anyone?
Life here goes on...a constant stream of dramas and crises. Took me a year to recover from orbital cellulitis (I think that was the last time I posted.) Truly a drag.
Got a great job as a VP for a new production company in LA that allowed me to live in NC and travel. Unfortunately, turned out CEO was a scam artist.
DD's are both living in LA now, Sasha is an agent trainee at a talent agency (and now 24!!!) an d Gaby is back acting (now 21). They share an apt and are constantly fighting and calling me to complain about each other.
I've spent an enormous amount of the last year and half in LA 'cause my dad was sick and my mom is nuts. Dad died in Feb, mom still nuts.
Marriage unstable as always. DS has been a handful....hates living in NC, waaaay too cool for the state and got himself into lots and lots of trouble. He seems to be straightening out now, will be a senior in high school next year and goes to a program in a jr college...takes a combo of high school and bizarre college classes and seems happier. He's obsessed with the beat generation and when he graduates wants to buy a long term grayhound bus ticket, travel the us and write. Don't ask me.
Out of sheer boredom and desperation, I took a job in retail....for the first time. Actually sort of like it and have plans to take over the company within the next few years because I'm too old to stand on my feet all day!
I think that about sums it up.
I expect short sketches of everyone's lives!
missed you.
love
frappe

Oh, yeah. Who is Painty? Do I know you from another life, another alias?

Wow! Frappie!
 

Nice to see you again! Sounds as though life is eventful as usual for you and your family. Things don't seem any different to me up here in Bugland, Maine, although I guess there have been many changes at that. DD has just graduated from H.S. with flying colors, has an adorable boyfriend, and plans to go to Tufts U in the fall. DH is unemployed, going on 12 months and we're living on savings. The upside of this is that DD qualified for huge amounts of financial aid. The downside is, well, everything else. Out of pure stubbornness I am refusing to think about getting a job until September. I've also acquired a new dog, who is almost a year old now, is huge and yet still very puppyish. She is getting so strong she sometimes pulls me off my feet. Much more training is needed. And I still spend inordinate amounts of time on the computer when I should be doing something else.

Like right now, when I am supposed to be putting in my time cleaning the inside of the boat. Yesterday about killed me, but it's hard to complain when DH, DD, and DDbf also worked their arses off.

Did I tell you that my mother, after eating my cooking for a week, called me a good cook? Note jaunty feather in my cap.

Kiwi

Frappie .. are you kidding? Short sketch of my life ... I live with 2 cats and 1 teenager by myself and go to work in a supermarket (I can discuss standing on feet) and to school. That is it and that's probably showing some sort of denial about how really dull I am.

Lush abandoned us. Really. We replaced her with Shotsy who is also from NJ like Lush and from NC like Kiwi. Shots is very cute. I think Painty was here when you were. She does art stuff and is a therapist.

Oh ... I also knit.

Frappe, I'm not really sick-just a case of the whirlies the other day, but other than that I'm fine. I'm still fat. I'm still whining about being bored with work. DH and I are empty nesters now. We like it. DD is bartending and moved 20 minutes away to apartment. She has a very nice bf that we approve of. DS works for us, got married, bought house, had baby. Not necessarily in that order. Life is good.

Hi everyone! I have nothing to say, but I'm here boring you anyway! DH went with the sailboat down to the coast this morning, so I am finished with the horrible dreaded boat cleaning chores, and can do whatever I please this weekend :carrot:

:chin: Hmm, what should I do this weekend?

Hope you are all out enjoying wonderful weather, or at least relaxing with a good book. Or sumpin.

Kiwi

Kiwe, you should rent "Undertaking Betty." I rented it the other night and laughed a bunch. Christopher Walken is in it playing a funeral director who tries to adds the personal touch ... like making a Star Trek fan (old lady) look like Spock.

I finished another class. One more to go. I have no boat.

Pizza Hut is having a special where you buy a large pizza and get a medium chicken ranch something for cheap. The chicken ranch one is sooooo bad that I can not describe it in words that go with food. I wanted to throw it out the window (was tasting) on the way home.

Frappe is gone for another 5 years isn't she? And so where is Shots?