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Thanks for the ducky Moi- that was very cute. Hope you have a wonderful Easter!! (I'm on a diet and can't eat my kids' candy. Sooo not fair.) I've decided that fruit snacks don't count as candy- they are "fruit" so I can still swipe the occasional one of those. :)
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The rewrites were wonderful, how could they not be :]
Wishing you a day filled with a "dog free yard" and tons of "real" Easter Eggs to hunt ;]
HUGE HUGS
Happy Easter Dear Friend!
Good Morning UM!I hope your bunny day is wondrous!
:D
Wendy wrote: "Thanks for the ducky Moi- that was very cute. Hope you have a wonderful Easter!! (I'm on a diet and can't eat my kids' candy. Sooo not fair.) I've decided that fruit snacks don't count as cand..."You're welcome, Wendy! And thank you...having family over...it will be fun.
Regarding candy, I've never been big on sweets, though every so often I need chocolate in a bad way... hook me up to an IV bad way. But it's not often. I don't do cake or icecream either. My downfall is rich, buttery, friend foods. The past 6 months I've been on a bacon binge. Man, it's gotten bad. So yesterday I told my daughter that I am on the bacon wagon. No more bacon for me. I mean geeez, you have to make sacrifices somewhere and I can't just eat one or two pieces... so yeah, while it's not candy there's nothing good about bacon except the taste. I will miss it *sniff, sniff*. So now you know more than you likely wanted to know about my eating habits. LOL
Here's wishing you a most wonderfilled day!
Julie wrote: "Good Morning UM!I hope your bunny day is wondrous!
:D"
Awwww, thank you so much, Julie! Do you have fun plans for today? Just a small get together here with my kids, grandkids and parents. Lot's of food...first thing my dad says when he comes through the door, right after he waves and says "howdy" is "Where's the food?" Followed by "Where's everyone elses food?" LOL
Have a terrific, wonderful and amazing day!
Dee wrote: "Hey UM,The rewrites were wonderful, how could they not be :]
Wishing you a day filled with a "dog free yard" and tons of "real" Easter Eggs to hunt ;]
HUGE HUGS
Happy Easter Dear Friend!"
Awwww, *hugs* back at you, Dee! You're such a doll and I am truly, truly blessed to have your friendship!
I'm glad you like the rewrites. My hubby read them last night and said he loved them, too. He had read bits and pieces of the different sections, but when it was all put together he said "I don't know how you do that...have so many different parts going on and then bring them all together perfectly." That was huge from him, the man who never compliments me on anything. *beaming*
I see you're going to go to an Easter dinner with friends. I'm so happy! I didn't like the idea of you sitting home with nothing more exciting to do than cleaning up doggy land mines!
*hugs* for one of the sweetest, dearest friends I have!
Moi- My mother was very careful to make all my babyfood and yogurt even so I never had that nasty sugar when I was tiny. But then- when I DID have my first taste... A bigger sugar-monger the world has never seen! I love licorice, candy hearts, pretty much any easter candy, yum yum! CHips, I can take or leave, the same for cake, bacon and big butter items- but candy... *sighs* but fear not- because for one- I'm poor and a cheapskate besides so I usually can't reationalize buying any, and I've gone a year without having any- it's just the whole moderation thing that kills me. 1 jelly belly = whole bag.
I feel you on the moderation thing...it doesn't work for me. My mom was/is a candyholic! She lives on the stuff. Frail, sickly now, she still keeps a candy bar in her pocket and picks at it all day. My dad put us all on a "mom gets no more candy" restriction because she won't eat real food. When my daughter stayed with her while my dad was in the hospital, she came home saying that grandma ate coconut cream pie for breakfast every morning! Gads...I'd be sick if I started my day that way every morning. LOL
I've heard it said that you reach a certain age when you might as well eat dessert first since who knows if you'll still be around after supper. Sounds like you mother has taken this advice to heart!
(though I second the thought that I'd rather have eggs & hashbrowns at that time of day)
Wendy wrote: "Happy to see you over in WWW Moi! :)"Thanks, Wendy! You know, when you become a Black Dagger Brotherhood fan we will start calling you Whendy ;) I'm known as Mhoi on that thread. LOL The Brothers' names all have an extra H in them, like Rhage, Tohrment, Phury, Rehvenge...so we have altered our names as well. *sigh* I am addicted, 'tis true and wonderful!
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Dee wrote: "Wishing you a great getting over the holidays week :]"Thanks, Dee. I need it. I was telling a friend this morning that I can't seem to get my head back in the writing game.
Although, it might have to do with my abstinance from bacon. Yes, that must be it! I've been bacon free for 4 days and lately Simon has been so grumpy. Everytime he sees a pig he starts to fidget. I may have to partake of the bacon from time to time so he can get back into my head.
Any excuse...
UM- be strong!! You know if you pick off the fat parts and only eat the "meat" part of the bacon I bet it's only 999 calories instead of 1,000! THat's what I do!I was having trouble getting back into writing again, but you sit down and make yourself write- even if it feels like it's all crap- then your brain starts to get the hang of it and all of the sudden it's not so bad!
Wendy wrote: "UM- be strong!! You know if you pick off the fat parts and only eat the "meat" part of the bacon I bet it's only 999 calories instead of 1,000! THat's what I do!I was having trouble getting b..."
Thank you, Wendy. You and Dee can be my bacon-free support group.
I'll tell Simon to try turkey bacon. LOL
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Dee wrote: "Hey I have no problem with telling Simon to "save a piggy, eat a carrot!" "That should be made into a license plate! I'm going to add it to my favorite quotes!
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I am glad it made your day :]
*Hands UM a bag of sweet tasting baby carrots*
Dee wrote: "HeheI am glad it made your day :]
Thanks, it was very funny and I've added it to the beginning of this thread.
"*Hands UM a bag of sweet tasting baby carrots*"
Thanks, I'll save them for lunch :)
Oh, I sent you a backstory snippet. Should take all of 10 seconds to read. LOL
All these candys were still hanging around here from easter. THe wreched things were laughing in my face every day taunting and torturing me. SO I showed them! I ate the last baggie full of them- now they'll never bother me again, Ha HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!...until the next holiday anyway.
Sorry Moi- I'm a bad example.
Wendy, I can just see you with your baggie of candy, showing it who's the boss! -
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I went to Costco today and they had this huge display of... bacon! Maple bacon, Black Pepper bacon, Turkey bacon, Applewood Smoked bacon... I managed to escape free from bacon, but had they been giving out samples, someone would have gotten hurt. And it wouldn't have been me!
Yumm Yum! Costco samples... aahhh. My kids's fav's are the panda potstickers- yum- and shrimp- and the ice cream that comes in it's origional shell (pinacoloda in a coconut shell, orange sorbet in a half an orange... YUM!)
Wendy wrote: "Yumm Yum! Costco samples... aahhh. My kids's fav's are the panda potstickers- yum- and shrimp- and the ice cream that comes in it's origional shell (pinacoloda in a coconut shell, orange sorbet i..."Oh, those fruit sorbet cups were a huge hit at a bbq we had over the summer. Aren't they wonderful!? And I love that they come in the original "skins".
A couple weeks ago they were sampling Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes and OMG, we were in heaven!
They have so many things that I would never buy without the samples. Another thing we love is the Phillipine brand dried mangos. They are amazing, but at $13.00 a bag, not something we can afford to buy often. That particular brand is better than the one they have out usually.
For me, Costco is like a trip to Disneyland. I get all excited when the new coupons come in the mail.
The coupons bug me because they say how much off- but that still leaves me to wonder, how much is the item in the first place? I wish they'd just say this is now (____) price for you- period. Don't waste paper telling me how much I'm saving- just tell me what I have to pay!
I can see that. Generally though, the items I buy with the coupons are items I buy all the time so I already have a pretty good idea of what it would cost.Have you ever heard of The Grocery Game? I saved tons and tons of money that way. www.thegrocerygame.com
I know people who are able to keep track of this and do it on their own. Not me... I can go week to week, but to save up coupons for 4 months and keep track of what stores have on sale... no way.
Please... all this talking about food is making me hungry.Gah!
Have to run an errand.
Be good.. or at least have fun.
Gwendolyn wrote: "Please... all this talking about food is making me hungry. I feel ya, Gwen. I'm looking at the clock and thinking... 2:16pm isn't too early for dinner. LOL
That game looks hard. I have a milk man deliver to the house so I can shop less. I hate to shop- unless it's for books, then it's fun.
Wendy wrote: "Where are you moi?must be west coast
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California, born and raised. Kinda like Zacky Farms chickens. LOL
You're in Idaho, isn't that what I read somewhere?
yup- but I was born in Sacramento, CAI've family in Santa Barbara, LA, Cameron Park, etc. They are the affluent side of the family. We moved here because my dad loved to fly and the weather/bugs was good here for cropdusting.
Affluent... that words bugs me because we moved up here 2 years ago, from an "affluent" area. However we were not affluent and too many times, even in church, we felt the outsiders.Where we are now, I suppose we are considered affluent and it still bothers me because we are not!
It's all relative I suppose.
Affluent to me means that Grandpa & Uncle can fly their own plane around and then land on their closed community's private air strip and then taxi down the block to park in their hangar that is attatched to the house. They have summer cottages here and there, and have huge fancy houses/cars. Now this is not to say they are stuck up or anything- in fact they are great. THey were fortunate enough to love a job that paid well, where as my dad loved cropdusting. As a result, everyone is happy with where we are and what we've chosen for our lot in life.
I've one cousin that is an actor, another that is in special effects, and another that is launching his own clothing line in europe- all things that are so far out of my scope in life that I can hardly imagine. But they are family and I'm glad they are happy.
I am thrilled for the people who have the means to do the things they love to do and wouldn't otherwise be able to!I often make fun of my dad's side of the family. Rednecks through and through, and often times when I hear a redneck joke, I can honestly say "that's my blood ya'll." BUT, truthfully, they are some of the smartest, hardest working people I have ever met. If we all woke up one day and there were no more computers, no electricity, no modern conveniences, those people would survive quite nicely.
There's a lot to be said for being affluent, as well as not being affluent...in a money sort of way.
I personally wouldn't mind being affluent!I suppose somebody has to suffer through it, I may as well volunteer!
Wendy wrote: "I personally wouldn't mind being affluent!I suppose somebody has to suffer through it, I may as well volunteer!"
LOL I agree... I would be willing to sacrifice my current circumstances for one with a bigger bank account.
We are both, very selfless! LOL
If we ran into a big wad of cash, my hubby would probobly come across a big farm expansion piece of equiptment/land/whatever that we just NEED soooo bad and then it'd be gone anyway. The good news about being less than rich- there's only so much crap you can buy and then the money's gone. Sort of forced self discipline.
That is true about the forced discipline. When I was a kid it was my job to bring up the garbage cans on trash day. On my way home from school I stopped to bring up the cans one day and there was a wallet with hundreds of dollars laying loose in the bottom of the can. Of course we contacted the police and they took all the cash, but man-o-man that money would have meant the world to my family. Never did find out who it belonged to or how it got there.
Yeah! Spring is here and my roses are blooming :)
This is today's picture. The rose: Rio Samba.
Today's Rose Installment Photo--
This is actually from the same bush as the first picture, Rio Samba. I love my roses that start out one color then end up another.
I'm hopeful that my Weeping China Doll rose tree will bloom this year. They are gorgeous!
The little Japanese lady who lived here before us LOVED roses. I have 35 or more plants all over the place- but I hate it! THey are pretty to look at, but I've scars up both arms from pruning the stupid things each year. Finally last year I dug up every third one in a hedge area so that it was at least possible to weed around the things. Roses are not fot young working mothers- at least not growing them- getting them in vases from romantic husbands is just fine!Glad you're enjoying yours!
I live in the high desert of So Cal and there are not a lot of beautiful, colorful things that grow up here. Believe it or not, roses THRIVE!Our house had no landscaping other than a small grass area in the front. We have planted several trees and 96-yes, I said 96-rose bushes. I may drive everyone insane with my rose pictures as they bloom this season.
I like to look at them UM, I even like to smell them and recieve them- it's the pruning and weeding part that I hate.Last year I was looking at my arms, realizing how many scars I've gotten over the last 10 years of weeding them and I thought- WHy am I doing this to myself? No matter how careful I am I get new scratches each year and I'm only 30- so by the time I'm 50 I'll be covered in scars- and for what? For flowers? Tulips are much softer.
Good job your hobby isn't growing cacti then ;)
Wendy wrote: "I like to look at them UM, I even like to smell them and recieve them- it's the pruning and weeding part that I hate.Last year I was looking at my arms, realizing how many scars I've gotten ove..."
Yeah, pruning roses is a pain, literally. And to do it right they all need to be pruned in Jan (all 96 of them) and it's frequently in the teens (degrees wise). I am totally with you on the maintenance aspect. No fun at all :(
Paul wrote: "Good job your hobby isn't growing cacti then ;)"One of my neighbors asked me why I was planting so many roses and I told him it was because I wanted color and living things. He then asked why in the world I moved to the high desert.
BUT, the woman who bought my house down the hill tore out all my roses and planted a cactus garden. LOL
I must admit I've started just wacking them all off at about a foot and a half high strait across- I'm still careful when I prune all the fruit trees- but the roses I almost dare to die.
Wendy wrote: "I must admit I've started just wacking them all off at about a foot and a half high strait across- I'm still careful when I prune all the fruit trees- but the roses I almost dare to die. "And they will laugh at you, mocking you because they are heartier than a weed!
Have you considered asking neighbors if they want them? All they have to do is come dig them up :)
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Loved the story. I can hardly wait for future chapters. Outstanding dialog. You have a way of bringing your characters to life. The signs of a real artist painting with words :]..."
Thank you, Dee. The paragraph rewrites were ok?