Oh yeah.  You read that right.  I work with these maniacs who decided that we needed theme junk food for every day of the week.  Yesterday it was Frosting Friday.  Someone brought in a huge box of graham crackers and 3 cans of Betty Crocker frosting, plastic knives and little plastic cups.  These people ate this crap all day long.  Graham crackers ( Read more... )

Latest update on the health issues.

My Health Coach had been after me to weigh and measure myself again.

My total weight loss is 26 pounds which has slowed down a bit.  But in the last 4 months I've lost another 8 inches for a total of 16 inches since March.

What that means is that I am putting on some muscle too because I am smaller than a 3 pound ( Read more... )

I got a little nudge from schnute23  earlier today, so I will make a post so that she and anyone else knows I didn't completely fall off of the face of the earth.

One nice thing is that where I live the weather has cooled off some for the last few days.  I don't have air conditioning in my house and when the temperature is in the mid 90's or higher it is ( Read more... )

It is really hard being in a family where I am the sane one ( Read more... )

I didn't really fall off of the face of the earth, it just felt like that.

I had been having problems with my laptop not loading pages fast enough so found myself not commenting on posts that I would have liked to, though I have been reading all of your LJ entries for the last few months when if anyone noticed, I was conspicuously absent.  I have ( Read more... )

I had the feeling that all the time that I spend online at LJ and my computer in general was just a waste of time. Certainly it has been a great diversion, and it is fun, and writing and posting stories and commenting on other people’s posts and replying to comments to my posts has been very enjoyable.

But I realized recently that there are so many ( Read more... )

I stumbled on Toe Socks the other day.  I'd never owned a pair, but they were so cute and colorful that I couldn't resist.  I bought one pair and I loved them so much that I went back to the store that I bought them at and got 6 more pairs in different colored stripes.


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I saw an advertisement  the other day for Reese's Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups.  I went to several stores and could not find them until I went to the pharmacy to drop off a prescription and they had them.


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I started a new job Aug 31.  I took a little vacation the week before.  These are some pics that I took at the place that I stayed.  It was absolutely beautiful.  I struggled to limit it to under ten pics.  All of the pics except the last one I took when I got up very early.

The grounds were bordered by a cherry orchard and the area was terraced ( Read more... )

After five years of being self-employed, I started my new job on Monday.  So I have three days under my belt.  I think that I am really going to like it.

I had an early morning today, I had to leave my house at 6:30am because we had a 7:30am start.

This is what pisses me off.  I had left in plenty of time to get to my new job fifteen minutes early.  ( Read more... )