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1. I did Jillian Michaels  hideously hard tortuous EASY Body Sculpting workout yesterday, the 20 minute wimpy EASY one with the cool down and warm up and all that.  Henceforth Ms. Michaels shall be known in this house as that nasty person, said in the voice like the slimey guy on Boston Legal like naesty peersun.

2.  I will TRY to quit equating my husband who does not do anything necessary on the computer except entertain himself with auction sites and games with a corvette driving down a gravel road slowly.   This happens mostly when I have been trying to get some work done all day and he comes home and gets on the big computer and plays solitaire immediately…

3. I do believe I am justified when we come home after being gone ALL day since EARLY this morning and ending up driving 400 miles in answering him when he asks what I have to feed him (he’s had breakfast and a HUGE DOUBLE cheeseburger on the way home) with ” OH, snarl since I was home all day just lazing around I whipped you up all sorts of good things to eat…completely justified ………

Ms Michels may regain my good graces soon….it didn’t hurt when I was doing it….And I do love my husband, it’s just hard to be nice with these aching tired muscles…

Image from: Mirror

OK people, I need a diet where I can eat everything I want which is basically unlimited after 6 pm when you aren’t supposed to eat?  Before 6 pm I can take food or leave it but after 6 it’s like feeding frenzy time, the dog even gets worried…yes I have to fit into a dress this weekend for youngest sons wedding, it looks OK with the STRONG panties (we won’t call it spanx or a girdle, it’s STRONG panties) but moving is a bit of a problem.
Also I REALLY don’t like pretty boys who think they are Gods gift to women but aren’t because pretty boys usually have a defect (yep that’s it), I will tell them if they ask me.  They need to GET OVER themselves and do their jobs.   I used to look BETTER than their girlfriends so they might as well face facts, they will be the 40 year old or the 50 year old soon and they won’t do it NEARLY as well as I do!    And while they are at it they need to develop a personality because they may have to rely on that later when the face goes….
Snotty people in general are on my hit list for tonight but we won’t go into that…please forgive me if I’ve ever been snotty, catty, or cliquey, I mean I know I can’t open my mouth without being catty sometimes but you must admit it’s entertaining if nothing else?  Rude people who have no reason to be rude in general get my goat, I don’t know why us regular humans try sometimes……I think if people are just unfriendly a small shock would not be out of line….ZAP….did I say that?

Thank goodness I sit here by myself and work on the internet most days…..others may be thankful too, not sure….
End of Rant.

I’m thinking I’ve been on my diet LONG enough.  I opened a new bag of 9-lives cat food just now to give to kitty and it smelled really appetizing…..

Flip flop picture from etsy…. I would still like to call these thongs, flip flops just doesn’t roll off the tongue?

Now picture flip flops like these only with mother of pearl and amber beading? Got the picture. I WORE these outside with cut off GREY sweatpants and a baggy t shirt this morning. TAN flip flops with grey and black. HORRORS!! We were probably 5 miles from the nearest house, somewhere in the desert but…..I could see the fashion police busting out of the sagebrush, dodging the mesquite saying ah HA!!! We knew you were poor white trash and this proves it!

OK, maybe I’m just weird and like to match?

Now lets talk about people who wear pajama bottoms IN PUBLIC IN STORES??? NONONONO, although I did see a man in Wal Mart once who had on full mens old fashioned pj’s and a robe, calmly walking and shopping, nice pj’s nice robe???

Maybe the low carb diet is affecting my brain?

Oh and you’d have to know my husband and what a tease he is but the low carb thing is working, I have HUGE size 6 shorts on and if he tugs on them they start to go down my hips, evidently this is great fun if done where he thinks I will get mad @ him? Of course I’ve always been able to put his jeans on (on me if you haven’t gotten the picture not on him) and button them and take them off without unbuttoning.

Also sharing my daughters famous line from yesterday, “don’t you DARE pee on my flashlight”. Teenage boys, power outage…..

I am sorry I didn’t visit blogs or write while I was gone.  I had internet service.  I am lazy.  lazy lazy.  But I did think while going down the road.

I was thinking about how this is my blog and I write what I want and how because it’s MY BLOG.  Sometimes people don’t understand I use sentences that run together and And @ the beginning of a sentence or aint because it suits my purposes.  (OK sometimes I don’t know any better but we can pretend I catch all my mistakes can’t we?)

I also use hyperbole, rhetorical questions, allusion, illusion, preparation h, simile, and ky jelly if necessary to get my point slid across.

I also tilt @ windmills, the rebel without a cause, I spawned two conservative children and I have NO idea how but they think I am nuts.  BUT I play Don Quixote sometimes here BECAUSE I CAN, because it’s MY BLOG!!  And yes I had to look up how to spell Quixote.

I know the last 3 paragraphs have nothing to do with thanksgiving but I thought of the ky jelly line and it seemed too good not to share? I also thought of a blog post about how I lack the farming gene and my families ability to tell the crop and planting date of any field while I’m doing good to even notice them much less identify them but we will save that for another day.

What I’m grateful  for Thanksgiving day 2009:

The ability to blog and to read others blogs and my dear friends I’ve “met” blogging.

The free internet, news services, and press we have in this country.

Of course family and friends, I do have friends, I was just having trouble remembering some of their names because I hadn’t seen them since July?  LOL

Our family having survived the ups and downs of the previous year.  It’s been triumph and tragedy.  Some lost companies because of lost contracts through no fault of their own.  Some lost jobs because they were too temperamental.  (sorry if I scoff @ that one, they spoke up and told the truth and it hurt so they lost their job, imagine my relative having a big mouth? Moi?)  It was over a year ago that I started but I worked outside the home @ a job for the first time in 19 years.   Anyway I did a “real” job and I took orders from people and was a good employee which is not easy after years of “self” employment.  My husband also got a “job” for the first time in 20+ years when he leased his truck onto construction.  From what I hear he was a model employee (except for the time he asked permission to knock somone’s block off from the foreman, foreman said OK?) and was always ahead of everyone else even though he was the oldest one doing what he did. We are back to self employed but you always “work” for someone, if you are boss you “work” for the employees sometimes I think.   Also my brother is shall we say a senior citizen, I don’t know if he’s in like in his second childhood or what (I have doubts he ever left the first) but for an old man he’s not old.  Maybe it’s the race car he has?  He doesn’t drive it anymore but I wouldn’t be surprised if he did.  My husband is of an age where I remember my parents well and I was going through my teenage rebellion.  He’s not old.  I’m thinking we are oblivious or just not aging like previous generations did (due to superior health care or the bilssful oblivion of many drug trips, JUST KIDDING)

Basically we have triumphed over adversity and turned around and made life better and realized what was important and what wasn’t  because of it and I’m thankful for the opportunity and the ability and the health to do it, especially during this time of financial difficulty.  (this is starting to sound like one of those bragging Christmas letters, little Johnnie is now the president of the cub scouts in North America and little Sally has been voted high school prom queen while in kindergarten and they will both attend Yale next year on a full ride scholarship, those kind of letters)

I’m grateful for my home and the ability to not live too close to people most of the time.  I’m grateful for all the “luck” and blessings that have enabled me to enjoy some(most) of lifes riches.

I’m grateful our relatives are still with us this year that were with us last year for the most part. I will miss Lester and Louella (my moms first cousin who married the widow of my dads best friend, got that?) because they were one of the links to my past.  I’m grateful that I was here when one of the closest family friends died.  I’m glad I got the opportunity to know our dog Mugsey.

I’m grateful I’ve sort of beat the fat genes that run in our family and have never seriously been over 160.  I shouldn’t say that because I will blossom (my brother has called me squatty body (say it it rhymes, he’s sometimes amusing, this isn’t one of those times) for years, we cant all be 6′4″ BRO!).  The last time I had a skinny woman ancestor was my great grandmother and her having no teeth may have had something to do with that?

I’m grateful for the man who is sleeping in my bed, (it’s my husband silly) and the dog who is sleeping in the chair, the dog sleeping on the porch, and the cat sleeping in the log cabin.

I’m grateful for the ability to overcome the health problems we have faced over the past year and the ability to “get healthy” disgusting and boring but we are doing it.  No drink, no smoke, no fatty foods, vegetables, very few sweets, sleep regularly, walk, drink water, blaaaahhhh.   BTW I never said I ever quit drinking, I’m the type of person who can have one and quit, or one potato chip.  I’m a sick sick puppy I know.  My husband will tell you how healthy he is and now he’s losing weight.  Did I mention the term ad nauseum?  I would never say those words? 

I’m grateful for the ability to go and stuff ourselves silly tomorrow with many of our close relatives and talk to the others. I am also grateful I can now distinguish most of  my grand-children’s voices over the phone and not call the boys by their mothers names which makes me NOT favorite grandma.  I’m also thankful we all have a way of making a living and/or our driving privledges left.  You know who I’m talking to.

Donnie Osmond won Dancing With The Stars and we missed it!  Sorry but I just couldn’t get behind Mya, I even sent a text vote for Kelley, first time I’ve ever done that and Johanna was GOOD and I think Derek is my nephew, that’s good and clean isn’t it?  When the show came on I thought it was the stupidest thing ever.  Now I’m usually pretty close with guessing how the judges are going to score the couples and how they will criticize them.  I know NOTHING about ballroom dancing or didn’t.  Just thought I”d throw that in there.

I’m grateful I learned how to spell quixote.

I’m on an angels on twitter list! Thanks Starlingpoet!  My family would say if she only knew me……..

I’d better quit.

Happy TURKEY DAY amigos!!

I wrote about Dispatches truck trip on animals that give pause.

I can be truthful and say I’ve been self absorbed the last week. In between the dog and the husband being sick I really haven’t had that much me time except I’ve done more Sudoku than I’ve ever done in my life. Talk about mindless brain activity, thanks MARY, that’s my cousin who got me hooked on it.
This is a picture of my husband not long after we got married, we had a farm thus the t shirt and hat. The baby is drinking iced tea (evidently it didn’t stunt his growth, said baby is like 6′4″ and graduating from high school next year).

Husband and grandson

So why a picture of the husband?  I liked it and he doesn’t want too many pictures of him on my blogs, this one doesn’t qualify because it’s like 16 years old!   See how cute they both are!!  Well this week we thought my husband had the flu, he’d had problems with blood sugar before when he had a concussion.  I have no idea if he had an infection or the flu this week but he has full blown diabetes we found out yesterday.  Not on insulin and the pills seem to be doing the trick.  The doctor said if husband lost 40 lb he would probably not be diabetic anymore.  So we HAVE to start exercising and dieting.  If husband lost 40 lb he would still be 20 lb heavier than he is in above picture, he was SO CUTE.  Well except for the dirty hat.  He is still cute don’t get me wrong but he did admit it’s really hard to put on his boots now.  Oh and BTW the grandson is sitting on the table, we still have the table, was a huge one with a formica top, we’d put babies on it and all sit around the table and let them crawl around and cause chaos and mayhem and a good time was had by all.  Also husband quit smoking which made him gain quite a bit of weight.  He is strong willed, he hasn’t had a drink in 18 years because he’s afraid to take the first drink and he quit smoking the same way.  I’m more of a take it or leave it person, but I find it harder to kick habits.  Anyway he started eating more and more and his blood sugar just went zoom.  I’ve taken care of my father who had diabetes and was insulin dependent for awhile so hopefully we can get back on a healthier track with diet and exercise.

Also the dog has been sick still more on that on my animals blog.  His anti inflamatory  medicine has given him diarrhea, I quit giving it to him.  I sent a text to my daughter last night asking her to pick up some pepto bismol for the dog since she was going to town to get contacts for a kid.  She called and wanted to know if  the precious one (her exact words, told you the kids  were jealous of the dog) could take generic or had to have name brand pepto?  I told her generic was just fine and then she got to the store and they were COMPLETELY out of generic pepto.  She said that will teach her to make fun of the precious one.  tee hee hee, I think he’s a bit better today, actually he’s much better than he was when he was sick, he’s running and jumping, just a touch of an upset tummy.

Oh and NOW they say maybe dogs and cats can get h1n1.  It would NOT be funny if that’s what my husband and the dog had the whole time.  The story in the Washington Post is here.

I’m only half way through but it makes sense to me.  If you want to buy  Naturally Thin from Amazon, you can click on it there.  Bethenny Frankel writes well and despite the differences in our upbringing I didn’t find her approach spoiled or unrealistic (she grew up eating in restaurants, she lived in cities, I grew up on the farm where everyone gained weight as they got older).  The food bank idea is rather depressing since I’m one of those people who used to be able to eat and eat and stay @ 110 if I kept up my physical activity level.  I won’t say exercise because I don’t exercise, I work, I hate to exercise for exercise shape and I can’t see exerting that much energy and not making a physical difference in anything but myself.  I suppose that is the immigrant farm person coming out in me?  Back to the food bank, it seems that you have a food bank, like a bank account, makes sense, the more you exercise the more food you can take out of the bank, (the way I can think of it) if you take out too much with fudge cake for breakfast you will have fruit and vegetables and an egg white for the rest of the day?  Make sense?  AND the food bank continues from day to day but you shouldn’t just quit taking food out or only take one kind of food out (starvation or fad diets) or the bank will get upset and not let you take so much out?  Now that I’ve explained the whole premise of Naturally Thin (just kidding)Bethenny’s  recipes are a little ingredient happy and if you don’t like portobello mushrooms you are pretty well up a certain creek but they are more intesting than most by far.

On a scale of 1-10 right now I’d give the book an 8 right now.  Talk to me in a month if I follow it which of course I’m trying to do right now. Why?   I weigh 150 again.  I’m 5′4″  and I can still wear a size 6 in stretch  jeans, it’s not so pretty as it was when I weighed about 140 a couple months ago.  I’ll keep trying to post about how this book does in the diet department.  What made me decide to write about it this morning?  It’s what is going on in my life (besides having to give the dog a bath and defrost the fridge, it’s an RV fridge evidently they are not frost free?)  My husband quit smoking in June and has gained weight, surprise surprise.  I cut down far enough where some days I have none and some days I have 3 or 4 which I consider pretty good for me.  I will make no bones about it.  I had to quit, I had blood clots and I’m not old or I don’t think I am.  Therefore I am gaining weight too.  My parents were both overweight and I know what it does to you.  I’ve never been obese and spent most of my life thin till I started working @ a computer.  My husband and I  plan on walking , haven’t done so yet, the new tv season started!  I did buy him Nike walking shoes though.

Back to the book, it’s a GREAT idea and more sensible than most I’ve read.  I started to pick up the one by Jillian Michaels because lets face it that is the body we want.  Jillian Michaels book  involves exercise, I won’t do the exercise (I decided to quit fooling myself), I’m very muscled for my size which is a good thing and WHY I can wear a smaller size and eat more.  It’s hereditary, so is the fact my relatives are mostly all fat.  So I’ll let you know in this blog how it goes with the book Naturally Thin and my diet.  I’m also trying to drink 8 12 ounce glasses of water or crystal light drink mix ( I HATE WATER) .

The book isn’t bad and I ate sensibly yesterday because of Naturally Thin and it’s entertaining enough I’m not skimming through.  Buy it and judge for yourself.  BTW this is only like the 2nd diet book I’ve bought in my life so that says something.

1. Waiting till I think world is safely awake to go to Wal Mart for groceries etc. because I have to stop by the landlords (RV Park owner) house to get mail so I can maybe get my google adsense straightened out.
2. Back in TX which is where we call home even though it isn’t our native state?
3. Wondering if I should start wearing t-shirts instead of summer sleeveless tops?
4. Thankful we had such a nice “vacation” @ home and @ my brothers.
5. Listening to Good Morning America about the parents who took pictures of their kids naked, wal mart turned them in, and the children were taken from them for a month.  ?????  Everyone who hasn’t taken a picture of their kid naked please get busy because you will be the only ones out of jail and you are about 1% of the population.
6. Wondering if there is anything I can do about my step daughter who has a baby who lives in a tent with her husband whom the family doesn’t consider suitable.  We have reason trust me.  Think a record for one.
7. Thinking I’ll have to take some sort of nap because I got 5 hr sleep because I stayed up playing with my blogs or I can tough it out today without a nap?
8. Thinking I’m going to have to figure out a way not to eat 2000 calories a day even though I want to.