I think my folks' families must have used different words in the lunch/dinner/supper shuffle, because I will use dinner for either lunch or supper, but I also use the words lunch and supper, for lunch and supper. Clearly, I need more food.

I'd prefer to have the larger meal at midday, and a lighter meal in the evening, but then I'd never cook for my dh.

Yup. The only dinners in my family are Sunday dinner, Christmas dinner, and Thanksgiving dinner, all of which take place in mid-afternoon.

We always had breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but I grew up in Minnesota. I'm pretty much always eat three meals a day, unless I'm under a lot of stress. I just feel wrong if I don't.

ION, my car is giving me headaches. I need to sell it and by another one, but we still owe on the one we have, which is adding to my stress. Why can't I just pay a person to fix this problem for me? (I suppose I could, but if I had that much money, I wouldn't be wrroied about how much I sell the current car for.)

MM could totally be a fake reporter.

But in our family, the third meal of the day was always the big meal, no matter what we called it.

Yeah, that's what I was trying to say.

Anyone else have the dinner=2nd meal, supper=3rd meal thing?

In Arkansas dinner was kind of interchangeable with lunch or supper, although it tended to refer to the latter more. My family always had the big meal in the evening, but I'm tending to larger lunches (take-out) and smaller suppers (soup, sandwiches) these days.

When I grew up, the evening meal was always the main meal during the week and on weekends, the midday meal was the main one.

I now try to always eat my main meal midday.

I have attempted to do the 5 smaller meal thing and although I felt really good doing it, it is hard to maintain.

For us it was breakfast, lunch and dinner/supper with the last generally being the biggest. Now that I'm on my own, breakfast tends to be the smallest, with lunch and dinner generally being equal. Dinner/Lunch plans obviously sway the meal size in the appropriate direction.

And if you already know everything I said, I apologize for wasting your time. I have a bad memory, and don't remember what you do for a living, so I did not know if you are computer sophisticated or not.

I'm a PC Tech, so I'm already on all that. Thanks, though.

I made the mistake of trusting Ad-Aware (it's been a long day and I've been repeatedly running back and forth to this PC between other tickets) and not manually checking what was starting up in msconfig, though so some of it repopulated because Ad-Aware just plain missed it (I was running the scan in Safe Mode. It was able to remove everything it found, it just missed some stuff.) Argh. I'm giving Microsoft's new anti-spyware software a try right now to see if it can find what Ad-Aware didn't and then will do a manual check once it's done. It's users like whoever this night shift yahoo is that make me wish there was a way to rig the keyboard to deliever an electric shock.

Anyone else have the dinner=2nd meal, supper=3rd meal thing?

My paternal grandmother referred to it that way. I think it's definitely a Southern thing.

remember that committee meeting that no one came to on Monday? I called it for today again. 2 of the 4 people who were supposed to show did. I have one person who couldn't make it until 6:30, so I am hanging out hoping they show up. I am losing my ability to hide my disgust in people.