What a nice Staycation ("playing hooky") day I had yesterday! Went to a pumpkin patch with my pumpkins. The pictures will tell the rest of the story ...

I say pumpkin patch, it was really all about a cornfield maze. And a bunch of pettable animals. And, of course, eating.

(PS to Mezzo - remember when we used to try to define the taste of Blue Moon ( Read more... )

SQUEE squee squee bouncy bouncy bouncy . . .

Another Jonathan Coulton song is now downloadable for Rock Band! And this time it's SKULLCRUSHER MOUNTAIN!!!

And I am going to be at WORK and then at AUDITIONS for a MILLION YEARS until I can go home and download it . . . Why couldn't I have seen this last night? I could have PLAYED it already!! And ( Read more... )

 OK, this kinda bugs me, because, as you may know, "1776" is one of my favorite movies and plays. Barnes & Noble today sent me an email with sale DVDs which included this.

Now, I'm very excited about getting "76" on DVD, especially in a "restored" edition and a "director's cut." Fine. The extras sound cool. I'm just totally thrown by this awesomely ( Read more... )

(I wondered what it would take to get me to post again.)

After a two-year battle with cancer, my stepmom Carolyn Fitch passed away yesterday, Monday, June 30, 2008.

In her more than 10 years married to my father, Carolyn was truly another mom to all of us, and a beloved grandma to Elinor and Natalie ... and many others. Dad said that between them ( Read more... )

THINGS TO WRITE ON ONE OF THE INDEX CARDS AND KEEP WITH YOU:

(One of the orange ones, I think.)

You feel worse after eating fast food more often than you feel better.
Sometimes you feel guilty afterward. I know sometimes you don't, but sometimes you do.
But moreover, you don't like the taste as much as you used to. It's not as likely to even be ( Read more... )

Today, there was a box of Dunkin' Donuts at a morning meeting. Including a couple of my favorite kinds.

But I wasn't hungry, so I left them alone and just drank my water. 

More on  Mr. Pratchett . . .

One more, while I'm playing with the tickers. Big picture, I want to lose 18 pounds. Let's look at the progress there.



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Yes, I lost 5.6 pounds in a week. But that was after gaining, so I'm not sure what I should really be counting as the "starting point." Here's what happened. I re-started Weight Watchers and weighed in. Missed a week. Weighed in, and found that I'd gained 1 pound in 2 weeks. Not a big deal - especially when I thought that I'd really been just not ( Read more... )

Partly because I had my wisdom teeth out, and didn't eat much over the weekend - but ALSO because I was REALLY TRYING last week and this week - I lost more than 5 pounds between weigh-ins, from last Tuesday to this Tuesday!

I've been wanting to try Mezzo's ticker thingy, and thinking the short-term push toward losing 5 pounds could be something I'd ( Read more... )