I love those questions of the day....

I just try and accept the compliment, and if I give one and the person declines it, I give a "motherly" and tell them to take all the compliments they can get...just say thank-you!

Ceara

hi everyone!

i have been trying to keep up with your posts and thinking of you all. this is such a supportive group and i miss you guys when i am unable to read through all your posts. i have had to lay low the past few days+, but i'm feeling better now. i have been able to stay op, at least, and am glad about that. well, i just wanted to check in and say hello. take care, all.

wsw

Hello all!!

spring went into the freezer!!

Just temporary but definitely needed the winter coat when we ran out to the library about 4:30 yesterday.

REVIEW IS DONE!! At least, 1st draft to hand in. I 'm pretty sure the foundation is good so I'm glad to be on this side of that project. !!

WSW- hello and so glad to see you on the board! Glad you are feeling more like yourself!! I don't know if I would've been able to stay OP like you did so I give you a big round of applause!!

Today's thought is:

"Ulysses S Grant, failed as a farmer, a real estate agent, a US Customs official and a store clerk. --- Later, he commanded the Union armies during the civil war and was elected 18th president of the United States"


Today's question:
"How do you react when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in a restaraunt?" Question #53 from The Book of Questions, Gregory Stock, PH.D.

Last day of March-- How shall we celebrate???


Take care all!

Well, we should celebrate "non-foodly". I've just been looking around for a way to celebrate this week. Or a new milestone to shoot for in dh's recovery. Nothing inspiring yet but it will come.

Congratulations wsw on staying op, surely a non-scale victory that's doubled by your circumstances. (I have RA and most of my urges to binge seem to come at times when I'm in most pain, etc.)

And congrats to you too, Kaylets. That relief is a non-scale victory as well.

We had heavy snow for all the morning hours and then some lighter in late afternoon. Still some on grass, roads were slushy when I went to church at 11:00. Sunny/cold today - tomorrow promises better.

Is your saloon girl career over, Ceara? Hope you'll retain some of the characteristics (in the most demure way possible, of course). Must have been a really fun time. Porgy and Bess as spectator or is your career still burgeoning?

Lots of good vibes to wsw to carry her back to good times and lots also to our Empress so continue her grand and focussed challenge which has already resulted in a loss of poundage.

Hi, dollar, frogger, Arabella, Eydie and all other Springettes as we head into the second half of our Springtime challenge.

Ooooh am I sore today!!!!

Busy, busy weekend! I did about 3 hours of landscaping and planting bulbs (grape hyacinth, crocus & tulips) then did another hour of potting plants (forcing some bulbs inside, starbrights and crocus) and planted some pansies. THEN, Sunday, more bulbs and over 3 hours working on my new back deck! Then, inside for a nice long bath, then installed the shelves in my laundry room. I'm whooped. I'm sore, but everything looks awsome!

Kaylets - I'm so sorry about your son. I agree completely that it's not always the parents. My ex and his brother were night and day. One was a cop (my ex), the other couldn't stay straight to save his life and was constantly picked up for fighting. Once he threatened to kill us. Same parents - totally different outcome.

There's no yellow ribbon 'round these parts - but a young woman in town has been putting up some 100+ American flags up and down our "main street" and said she'll keep doing it night and day until her brother comes home. I've been putting out my American flag at home too.

Amarantha - Yeppers, I have your email addy. So, if you disappear for too long, I shall hunt you down. I think your gym sounds awsome too! I'm so sore (in a good way) right now I'm wondering why I need Curves this summer....

Anagram - It sounds like your royal visit was wonderful! I used to love when my neice was little and would come over to visit (she's 13 now!). My Mom and I would bathe her, dress her up, feed her, and just have a blast... they grow up too darn fast!
I'm sorry for your snow! We hit 75 over the weekend! Of course, now it's supposed to storm all week...

Ceara - Sounds like your play was a hit! So, any pictures???

WSW - Sending you cyber hugs. Glad you found your way here and enjoy our company as much as we enjoy yours!

Well, I think that's all from me, for now. Gonna go check out Netflix as one of my girlfriends *loves* them and I easily spend $20 a month in rental DVD's.

Toodles for now!
Terri

Yo! I seem to be posting more than lurking, but here I am again ...

Punkin: Had the session with trainer at the gym on the big people machines and realize I must have been kidding myself all this time that I was exercising!!! She wrote up a huge schedule that being the lone wolf I am who does not do what people tell her to, I shall not do but I'd be really, really fit if I did! But I'm going to go six days a week ... it is a better price than Curves and has lots more variety!

Anagram: Thanks for the vibes ... I can use them!

To All:

P.S. Hmmm. Kaylets, no one has ever sung "Happy Birthday" to me in a restaurant! ... or is that a ... dunno!

One time in Mexico an adorable young man with a guitar sang a song to me in a tourist trap restaurant. My Spanish is terrible so I don't know what the song was about but I kept a fixed smile on my face and petitioned silently for him to go away.

Yo! Not sure how I can claim to be a lurker with three posts in a row ... but just catching up on reading ... Kaylets, my favorite smoothie is with frozen peaches and ice up to the line on the machine, then I add some soy milk and Da Vinci (sp?) SF vanilla to the liquid line .... I've also made the same one with ff milk or ff NutriMil (a whey milk product).

Haven't had any smoothies lately but it was in the 90s today so the weather is about to turn to smoothie season.

I don't think I'd use the craft sticks in popsicles but you could stick freeze them in paper cups with a little plastic spoon stuck in ... if they melt you could eat with a spoon.

Ok, I'm really back to lurking now ... I'm taking a few days off work to bead and sleep and go to gym.

Got on the scale and it says I've gained back ALL my weight!
April Fool! - sorry, that's the best I could do....
Not very lighthearted this am- DH recvd a call from DS not 30 seconds after DH came in from work, " If you're not on the lease, you can't stay here, .....what should I do, don't know what to do..." DH mostly listened and finally said, " So, are you going to get put on the lease?" . We are expecting another call " with all the details" --you can imagine. As many of remember, DH is diabetic and stress aggravates all the symptons.

Luckily, this am the dogs are in high spirits this am.

Empress- thanks for the recipe. I imagine frozen peaches would work , don't you think?
Isnt it interesting the two perspectives of "fitness" - Curves vs the new place?? I suspect the middle ground is closer anyway.
Don't let them initmidate you-- you can only start at the beginning anyway--

Did I warn everyone about the dried pineapple at Trader Joes??
5 pcs = 1 serving= 100 calories-- VERY VERY TASTY!! And lots to chew! But I'm starting to think all this dried fruit is dangerous--
Scale went up 1.5 and seems stuck there.

Have made a mental list of projects around the house. Plan is two birds with one stone-- Big Yard Sale and ACTIVITY POINTS--
Feel like I'm swimming in things here.

Punkin- You're yard is going to be spectacular! Could never keep up w/ your pace!

Anagram- Has snow melted? I remember a late Easter about 30 yrs ago in CT that caught everyone off guard as a suprise storm appeared out of nowhere while folks were in church.
It's always something!

Today's thought is:
"Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person. "-- Mother Theresa

Today's question is:" When were you last in a
fight? What caused it and who won?" Question #43 -- Book of Questions by Gregory Stock, PHD

How shall we celebrate April 1 ??

Take care all

What a God-awful night....
my Mom woke me up from a sound sleep last night at 10:30pm to ask me if I'd help her look for her cat. Apparently, my Stepfather let her out *again* (he smokes while standing in an open door and doesn't pay attention) and, well, she's still gone. We looked everywhere, called for her and rattled the kitty treat bag. Mom's approaching devistated quickly and I keep looking out windows and trying not to cry. Sadie's the full sister to my Luna.
Send "safe kitty" thoughts if you can so the little grey bug comes home!

Amarantha - Yes, that's what I was starting to think too. After 6 months I'd think, even if my diet wasn't all that spectacular, that I'd be *seeing* something. And I *miss* feeling a bit sore - I like it! I want to feel like I've worked my body. I'm getting more of a work out doing my yard work than I am at Curves... I also keep reminding myself that the first time I lost 50+ pounds I did it all without the 'help' of a gym. I'd join a "big girl's" gym but honestly, I'm SO turned off by the 30 minute drive. Until I'm really good and motivated nothing's going to make me want to jump in the car for an hour round trip drive to exercise...

Kaylets - I'm sorry the DS saga is continuing. It's got to be so hard to just sit back and let him make his own mistakes at this point. Hang in there, you know what you're doing is right.

Hmmmm.... last fight and who won??? I've only had verbal fights - I can have a pretty sharp, tell-it-like-it-is tongue and quick with sarcastic laced wit, so I most often the other person just doesn't know what to say and drops it - not that I'm always proud of that (with the exception of my ex FIL, the abuser, who was often the deserving target of my tongue - I used to just nail him to the wall verbally). I don't think I've had a good rippin' verbal spar since I was married, thankfully.

Time to toodles, I think they're out looking for the cat again...

Terri

just a quick note to say hi. kaylets-hope things will start to get better with your ds situation as soon as is possible. must be so hard to deal with for your dh and you. punkinseed-you sure did have a rough night--know that i'm sending "safe kitty" thoughts your way. i am thinking of all of the rest of you too and wish i could respond more individually to all of your posts, which i have read, but because of some of my "technical difficulties" off and on (recently, and still, more "on" than "off"), i am unable to. as i have stated many times before though, please know it is not because i don't want to--and as always, i am very interested in how all of you are doing. i am op today, albeit only by the skin of my teeth, but op, nonetheless. i did lose 4 lbs. this past week too, so at least that's something. it's chilly, but sunny here today, so i'm sending some sunshine your way. take good care of yourselves. all the best, wsw.

Yo! I think I'm semi back!!!

Kaylets: Sorry about more troubles coming your way via ds ... not sure I understand what the lease issue is, but somehow it will resolve itself, don't you think? Sounds as though you and dh have done the right things and can only hope for a good outcome.

Re the middle ground of fitness ... dunno, for me, I don't think there's a middle ground ... I need to get strong and reach my goal and the middle ground isn't gonna do it!!! Today I prepaid a year in advance so I'll be less apt to say I don't have the money to continue or some lame excuse.

BTW, frozen fruit is all I use in the smoothies ... it works great!

Punkin: If I had to drive 30 minutes to work out at a gym, I wouldn't do it either ... this gym is very close to me. I also think you can get a great workout at home and in fact I did so for several years ... it's just that I can't get motivated to do it anymore. Re Curves, I think it's great for general conditioning, but for me it got old very fast.

I really, really like this gym, though. I'm getting too ancient to try to jog every morning in the Arizona sun as I did when I had my first weight breakthrough and my own weightlifting attempts have gotten nonexistent. But my little gym room is always there and I don't mean to totally give up home workouts. I think the key is consistency with change, whatever that means.

Thanks for the sun, wsw, but I'm sending my share to our friends up north ... since it was in the 90s here yesterday!

Re the question, I guess the last argument I got into was another of the stupid ones that I often find myself in with total strangers because sometimes dumb things annoy me and I just tell people. This was a few weeks ago at the craft store where the poor tired looking (older woman) clerk asked me what my zipcode was. This is a version of "what is your phone number" or "what is your address" that stores often ask for marketing purposes and for some reason this always irritates me, so my standard reply is "you don't need that." I had cash in my hand and the woman had rung up my purchases. She refused to take the money, saying, "I have to have a zipcode." I told her she did not. She repeated that she did. People stirred in line behind me. The woman said, "Didn't you ever have a job where they told you you had to have something?" which annoyed me further because obviously all jobs are like that. I told her she could just make up a zipcode, at which point she took my money and I left. I think she won, though, because I heard the next person in line murmuring sympathetic phrases and contempt for me ... dunno, I just get annoyed when I'm trying to peacefully shop by myself, minding my own biz and people ask me for information that isn't their business ... which is funny when you think of it, since I'm a reporter and that's EXACTLY what I do for a living!

Stupid story. Ok, back to lurkerdom.

April 1st--a fresh new month! I plan on giving myself a "good behaviour" sticker every day in April. [I only got 16 in March. Wah! ]

I know you've heard it before, but I'm going to do my food journal here every day for all to see--that really helped before. Had a bit of a binge the other day with nutella, then snapped back to my senses. Just because it has some european gourmet mystique about it [why?] doesn't mean that it's not junk food!!! So it got a good quantity of dish soap slopped into it and I 'relocated' the rest of it to the trash.

Punkinseed, best of luck with the cat search. I know how nerve wracking that can be. Have faith.

Ceara, sounds like the play was a huge hit--and there are probably a few gentlemen who see you in a whole new light, if you catch my drift.

wsw, congrats on losing 4 pounds! You're doing great! Any secrets you'd like to share?

Kaylets, sorry about the continuing drama with your son. I'll say it again: be strong.
I'm late, but about the birthday song in public---I love it when people who love me sing it for me, but in public I always worry about how others feel. I'd be willing to bet that the waitpeople hate having to do it, and the other diners probably find it obnoxious---so I'd rather be in a circle of friends at home--seems more sincere!
And the fight question---I honestly can't remember the last time I had a really good one. But the last time I talked with my long-time ex-friend, I went all cool and sarcastic with her. I remember thinking at the time how odd it felt, like I wasn't "myself"--does that make sense?

Hi Anagram! How goes it?

Amarantha, So glad you're semi-back. I know we're irresistable!

Flower, Wildfire, Arabella--come out and play!

Hello all!

Caught myself eating bread w/ honey when dogs needed to go out during the night- now this am, everything is screaming for MORE MORE MORE! ah well, what are you gonna do but just FRESH START???

The lease "predicament" is this: No one not listed on the lease can live at the trailer. And if someone does, the landlord can evict everyone. This is the version we are getting- which may be the exact version DS is getting too-- Had anyone thought of this B/4?? who knows-- don't think I'll ever know the real story on that one.
DH had to pick DS up as DS has yet to figure out how to replace the lost keys for his car. The dealer has a"Closed " sign up, (vacation?) -- and we have not offered cash for locksmith. DS can only stay here provided he leaves the house when we are not here. DS was obviously needing cigarettes and who knows what else-- was actually begging for cigarette money but still very defiant about the new house rules. Started a big pity party about how no one cares about him anymore but no one here came to it. DS has a new "issue" -- he is "stressed, more stressed than anyone can believe"-- He was amazed at our lack of response.
And of course, my job is INTENSELY BUSY this week--

Sorry for the meeeeeeemeeeeemeeee posts lately---- All of your support means more than you can imagine--

Today's thought is
"Babe Ruth was raised in a Catholic school for delinquents in Baltimore.
----Babe Ruth became the first great home-run hitter in baseball history, hitting 714 home runs during his career playing for the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees.

Today's question of the day is: Would you be willing to eat a bowl of live crickets for $40,000.00?
Question #206 from The Book of Questions by Gregory Stock, PHD.


How shall we celebarate the 2nd day of April??

Take care all----
and thanks again