[jbbm]

Goodmorning girls,

Kempy I love the pics. Joe looked so funny. And I also loved the matching glasses that you had on with your hairdresser. I really liked the paint colors of the walls in your house. I really want to paint my walls a different color in my living room, I have these big white walls with a vaulted ceiling and it just seems to white and cold, I would love to warm it up with some colors.
Angie and Kempy I know about the tight pants thing. Yuck! It is nice is summer when I can put on some elastic shorts but in winter its pants with tight waist bands.

Noelle I did watch some of the John Ritter special but I couldn't watch at times I was crying to hard and it was just so sad.

Cherie the cake sounds wonderful. I can only imagine what it tasted like! I love chocolate.

Girls I am really glad I have you guys to talk to too. Well better get the day going. By the way Kempy that golf course looks so peaceful and beautiful. Check in later. Julie

[angieME]

I just did my indoor workout for 30 minutes. I wonder why I cant force myself to do the 45 or 60 minutes?

Kempy, I have a hard time throwing food away too. You will get it thought I know you will. I cant wear my wedding rings because i would have to take them off so much to bake and they are actually too big since I was huge when I got them to begin with. It is kind of scary to think of how big I was when I got them.

Cherie, The cake sounds so good. I love cake and frosting.

Julie,
The show was so sad. I was surprised that they didnt show him at all. I dont see how they will continue the show without him either. How can they turn it back into a comedy?

[Kempyd]

I am trying not to think about the cake. I love chocolate so it is hard. I need to give my candy to my brother's kids but I foget about it. I do remember once I have a few pieces in my mouth though. lol

I missed the show last night. I forgot it was coming on and Joe and I watched Finding Nemo. I bought it at the store and of course we had to watch it right then. I loved it of course and Joe said that it was the best cartoon he has ever seen. I am with you guys though, I don't think they will be able to keep it going with out him. Sad!

Is is lunch time yet? (kind of bored today too) I really need to be somewhere that is going to challenge me. (just like Jacks)

[jbbm]

Do you guys think a cranberry colored paint would be to dark in a living room? I have one wall painted in my kitchen called green tea and love it! My husband hates to paint maybe I am weird but I think it is kind of theraputic. (maybe its the fumes,lol)
I sponged painted one of the kiddies rooms and it turned out great and it was alot fun.

Angie I have no idea how they are going to make it a comedy again.

[angieME]

I wanted to rent Finding Nemo too. It was cute? Maybe I will force Jay into renting it this weekend I will just remind him that he did like Ice Age. Jay had to go to Bangor today to get our back up monitor for the RV and send it to Maryland to get fixed(hopefully it gets back before our vaca) and he had to take our DVD player down to get serviced. We always get the bad electronics when we buy them. We bought one at Walmart and it didnt work right so we took it back and got one at Best Buy (a CD/DVD player and surround sound system from Pioneer and guess what? It hasnt worked 100% since we had it but we never took the time to unhook it and send it away until today.

I have lost enough bloat to squeeze back into my 8's but boy do I have a nice fat roll hanging over the top. *GROSS* I hate when that happens.

Whats for lunch today? I am having Sweet Onion chicken terriyaki.

[angieME]

Julie here is a pick of my living room walls. We ordered our house with plain sheetrock so we could paint it the way we wanted it later. I painted it a dark cranberry halfway up and put a nice thick rose border all around it. I love the way it cam out. It really warms the room up. (short of the screaming tirade I did when I screwed up a whole roll of the border. )

I mixed white in with the leftover paint and painted the lower half of my kitchen with that and sponged a darker pink over that.

I did the girls room pink at the bottom andwhite with pastel green,pink and blue sponged on top with a unicorn border in it. It came out really cute

Coreys room we did dark blue on the bottom with white with blue sponged on the top with a galaxy border and we hung the solar system with glow in the dark stars on the walls.

My bedroom is the only pure white room in the house now.

[angieME]

How is this for a happy dog?

[Kempyd]

I can hear him cussing you Angie. That was from last year right? I really like your fireplace. I want to change mine and yours is really pretty. I will keep it in mind if and when we do ours.

Julie I went to Lowes and pulled color cards that had a few coordinating colors in it to see what I liked. I have 5 different colors in the house. Each bedroom is a differnt color, the kitchen is terra cotta and the rest of the house is what is called shark skin. It actually has a hint of brown in it. I love having color in the hosue. The only bad thing about doing dark colors is if you want to change them later you are going to have to cover them up with a few coats of primer and that can be a pain in the you know what.

I am having left over hotdogs from last night for lunch today. See, I hate to throw away food.

[jbbm]

Angie the cranberry walls are beautiful. I don't know why I am afraid to do color. But when I did my kitchen in the green tea, it was like oh my god I love it! Your fireplace is really pretty too.
Your dog looks like a sweetheart. He looks like he would be a cuddler. When I was sponging my walls I did a little screaming too when I notice I had messed a part up. But luckily it was not dry so I could fix it. I really try to be crafty sometimes but I don't know how good I am at that and decorating. I wish I could get an interior decorator if I had the funds at this time!

[angieME]

Kempy, the fireplace is a gas one that we bought at our local hardware store. Then they make the mantles to go around them so they look like they are built right in when they just sit up against the wall. I think it only cost $800.00 for everything and it actually puts quite a bit of heat out. I would like to buy another for our bedroom for the romantic feel. haha

Yeah that was Rebel from last year. He hated that costume. I have bought them both new Christmas hats and I am going to make them wear them while we go to Florida. I am such a mean doggie mom.

Julie, we were so nervous when we started because we didnt want to screw it up and have to repaint. But I am so glad we did it. It makes everything look so fancy. We actually have our livingroom and dining room attatched together so we did them both the same way and then I bought a nice dark table cover with a lace topper for the didning room table. I love it.

My sis is out of surgery. We dont know if she needed the full ioncision yet(like a c section) because my mom hasnt talked to the doctor to find out for sure. She said they had a lot harder time then expected and now they are keeping her overnight so I am guessing she needed the big incision. So spaghetti tonight and then off to the hospital to visit.

[Kempyd]

Hey when is Dips coming back? I think we lost red too. I see her thread moving so I guess she started another one. Maybe I will pop in to tell her hi and we miss her.

[jbbm]

Kempy I thought Dips was going to be back after her two week trip? I could be wrong, I have a good memory but it short!
I am thinking about making some spinanch dip for lunch and to munch on.

[jldg888]

Hey Girls,

I was so drained yesturday, I needed to go home early and then I went to bed to take a nap. Felt better after I got up. I did yoga this morning which will hopefully help me boost my energy. I have so many damn projects to complete before my boss gets into town, I am so overwhelmed. SO GLAD it's Wednesday. I am hoping to be good the rest of this week with my diet and then reward myself with a small portion of Huli Huli chicken (YUMMY). There is so much food I miss eating! Spam Musubi, Loco Moco, my favorite Munchos chips, chicken katsu...I'm drooling...I'd better stop. Urgghhhh! My clothes are beginnings to get looser though, so that feels a lot better.

Kempy/Angie - your homes are BEAUTIFUL! I would love to buy a house, but the market is so damn expensive here! I'm trying to save up though. Hopefully one day I could live in Hawaii Kai!

Kempy - Love the pics!!! Looks like so much fun!!!!

Angie - Poor dog! I try to dress up my bunny, it's doesn't work as good!

Cherie - The chocolate cake!!! Yum!!!! Why are things that are so good be soooo bad????

Julie - I wish I could the decorator from Trading Spaces or the guys from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Man they have talent! I hope to get some interesting items from Ikea. My place is so drab!

Noelle - I know how those Kindergarten apps are so long and confusing. We are trying to work with schools to streamline it better. Hope you have fun on your trip...I'm sooo jealous!

Hope Dips it doing good. So glad to have you girls here to vent frustrations too! Your support is so great. Much Mahalo to all of you! Well, back to those projects. I'll try and check back later if I don't get bogged down. Have a great rest of the day!!!!
Jacks

[melekalikimaka]

Jacks, whaddya mean expensive? The median price in Hawaii was only $399K...that's pocket change eh? NOT! why do you think I still live in my parents' house? Jacks you're making me hungry! Have you ever heard of Koala Moa chicken? It's like Hulihuli but better IMO. They do alot of fundraisers all over the island and Maui. Well, that's our landlord here at work. They're right next door and sometimes they have the rotisserie cooker going right out in the parking lot. The smell *drool*...the great part is is that Rick has known the owner for over half his life so it's like his second father--we get free chicken all the time.

Kempy/Angie yes your homes are very beautiful. Every day I go walking right outside my neighborhood and see all the new homes coming up. I DREAM about having one one day...I guess that's why Rick and I are busting our butts trying to make a go of our business here. You guys are very lucky.

Angie, still sending healing vibes for your sis. Tell her us at 3FC said HI. I bought the Finding Nemo DVD for Michael this morning at WalMart, only $14. I've seen it twice at the movies and I was almost crying from laughing at one point. It is worth seeing.

I had to take my sister's dog Keaka walking yesterday--he hasn't gone with us for such a long time and he is sooooooo fat. His back is almost flat, if you know what I mean. He's usually around 20 lbs but I swear, he must've put on 5 lbs. That's way too much for a JRT his size. He couldn't even zip his halloween costume.

Julie, I don't have a crafty bone in my body. The only thing I would participate when renovating is probably the demolition . I'm really impressed by anyone who can take on home projects like that.

Cherie, I sort of found recipe for a chocolate cake substitute on one of the threads. Well, it is chocolate cake, but you either use a can of diet coke with a chocolate cake mix, or a can of chocolate slim fast with a chocolate cake mix. Mix together and make 24 cupcakes. Because of the reduced liquid content (vs. the water, eggs and oil), the cake comes out moist and yummy. I cut the cupcakes in half and put a dollop of lite cool whip in between then wrap in plastic and freeze. They come out like Hostess cupcakes. I'm sure it's nothing like that decadent cake you ate but for me, it's a good substitute.

[jbbm]

Hey girls I am back I had some appointments this afternoon.

Angie hugs to your sister. God I know how painful those cysts are. How big was hers that they took out? I once had one the size of a grapefruit. Hugs to her and hope she has a speedy recovery, the small incisions are pretty easy to heal from, I felt better with mine in 2-3 days.

Jacks all that food your talking about is making me hungry. I really do not know what alot of it is but I would eat anything from Hawaii! I saw on food tv spam is big there. Is this true? I love it fried with fried egss.

Noelle I too have heard of the diet coke and chocolate cake mix. I heard it is great with ff cool whip and berries. I want to try it.

Bye for now! Julie