Housework support group!!???!!

Awwwwwwwwwwwww thanks Sharon. What a sweetie.

KAK -- I spent the entire afternoon reading, appreciating your work. Inspiring!

Barb great to hear frm you.  Glad it went well.  You should get an onc and talk about the path report.  Could be nothing!  Glad your getting this all taken care of before the big day.  Hope you are feeling better!  We missed you today.

Thought you all could use a laugh.  I got an email that said this is a new skirt that Walmart willbe carrying next year.  Here it is:

I think she's dusting the bookcases.

Barbe, it's great to hear from you.  Sorry the incision is owie.  Are you swollen at all?  ice?

Sharon, yes, I'm in Rhode Island, the smallest state in the US, so you can be forgiven for not quite knowing what I was talking about.  Quite a few Americans have never heard of RI or know where it is, which is actually fine with us, because it's gotten a little too popular in the last five years, and we don't want it to get too crowded.   It's got lovely coastline and farmland, too.  Kind of a cows-on-the-beach place.   And it's pretty flat.  The highest elevation is about 780 feet, I kid you not!

Faith, thanks for the nice feedback!  I really enjoyed your blog and site.  What fun you must have with all the kids.  The quilts are beautiful, especially as illustrations in the book.  Did you see my photographic "quilts?"  I've got big plans to combine sewing and photography, because I have found a place to get all kinds of natural fabric that can be run through my big photo art printer.  Artisan clothing, maybe?  I've done some experimenting with printing photos on fabric or on other stuff and laying a sheer fabric over them.  All kinds of possibilities.  Got a new sewing machine last year!   I have quite a few UFO's around my house -- Un-Finished Objects -- in various states of completion!

Welcome home Barbe!!  Damn that pathology!  Hope what they sent away yesterday comes back perfect!  But for now.........GREAT to see you back. 

I'm sending this fellow over to look after whatever needs looking after.

Good morning fellow housework lackies!...Hope you are all well this morning......I have a vent.....Ok why are the newbies touting phytoestrogens when everyone knows they are BAD for er/pr+ breast cancer?????...Ok I am thru venting now...Just a retorical question by the way...no need to answer....My one thing to do today is to get the living room cleaned up.....LOL  wish me luck!.......

If you lost over 10 pounds you can take the whole month off.

Barbe - glad you are back - here is a definition of a 'trophy wife:"

A young, attractive woman married to an older, more powerful man.

His role in the relationship is to be her sugar daddy and provide her with power and material wealth. Hers, beyond providing sex, is to remind others that he is powerful or rich enough to be desirable to such a woman despite his age and thus to serve as a marker of this status -- hence the "trophy" part. A specialized type of gold digger.

I miss Coonie too!  I hope she is having a wonderful time!

Linda, when you get the dreaded red X just post the thumbnails.

Mak I can just picture you watching the guys to make a move. ehhehehehehe Good excuse to not move!

2new1s, I can have him do anything????

Thanks all for your good wishes, you are the only regular post I made last night.  I gave Cathi and Jacki a really big hug in another thread so I don't want to hurt them, but I am anxious to hear back. I think that makes for another down day in the housework department. I have to stay glued to my terminal....

That's the other pisser I forgot about yesterday! I've gained 5 pounds! How did I do that? I've lost 2 complete pant sizes!!! I think it's water retention which will be dealt with when my kidney stone gets removed. I take a dieuretic every day with my blood pressure medication too! I had forgotten about that.

Congrats on the weight loss faith!!! Who cares what the house looks like, as long as YOU look that good no one will notice your house. I agree about the trophy wife...they're both shallow and I am sure they deserve each other. 

You'll all be proud... my MOM is still HAPPY!!! I think i hear the vacuum cleaner....hehe 

Arnie. This is the most welcoming of gals.

Thank you for the congrats on the weight-loss, which has been completely s-l-o-w & methodical and has involved eating less and moving more. (Such a concept!)

I, too have water retention-issues and a fairly kerplunkt thyroid, so this is all the old fashioned way of riding my bike while I was in FL & walking a whole lot up north -- all the while putting fewer things into my mouth.

BUT...... the truly, really, absolutely helpful piece of the puzzle for me, was listening to the CD series entitled, "The Four Day Win" blah blah blah the true something something to Thinner Peace. By Martha Beck, which I have from our library.

I've told of this 'miracle' on another thread...... it's a whole lot of 'brain' annalysis/forgiveness/being kind to yourself/new-age stuff from a witty & sarcastic PhD, who starts out with the chapter, "Why are You so DAMN fat??"

(So if that concept puts you off, this may not be your miracle.)

For me it was literally EXACTLY what I needed.

Her basic premise, is that anyone can do 'anything' for four days...... and that's all the time you need to actually see 'improvement' in yourself.

Enough about that..... it's been a gold mine to my brain & now I'll eat all of the cyber goodies, free of calories.

And yes, that's my dishwasher you hear in the background. It's slightly muffled cuz, what with the bed being made I think some of the reverations are diminished. LOL!!