Hi Raquel! Big hug! So good to see you have access again. You have been missed.

When I have guests for dinner I usually suggest they arrive about whatever time and plan to eat some time later.

Yeah, me too. It was rather strange. Oh well, in a few more weeks I will have the worlds greatest excuse not to socialize when I'm not interested.

Raquel, so glad you are back on the Internet. how's Mal doing?

RAQUEL!!

I was going to do the same for each of the morning crew, then remembered that I am not a morning person.

Hi Raquel. I know. I could only skim the report.

It's so great to have you back online. How is everything? Have you heard any more on the job? How's your baby sleeping?

Laura, I read about your son's award. That's so cool.

Hi Perkins, you morning glory.

Cut down carbs AND fat?? Dude! What does that leave me??

hm, well, not to turn it into a diet convo, but I will say that the South Beach plan emphasizes good fats (moni-unsaturated, like olive oil, fish oil, etc.) and good carbs (like fruits, veggies, whole grains.) It's a tough haul when doing the most severe phase, but if you apply the general principals of it to your eating habits, I think it's a nice healthy way to eat. I try to stick to the "for the rest of your life" phase of it most days, with occasional deviations for nummy treats. Anyway, I wouldn't have brought it up, but the way your question was worded, it seemed like I *had* to!

Anyway, the awfulness of the dad murder thing and erika's neiborhood block party is pretty much bumming me out.. off to do lots of work!

Yay, vw!

(yell at me if y'all see me too much here- I have TOO MUCH work to do, to justify coming in today. Dammit)

Nora, do you think if someone started on the "for the rest of your life" phase of South Beach, that she'd eventually see results?

I have come to the conclusion that I no longer have the patience or motivation to follow an actual weight loss plan. I have been eating horribly lately, mostly because real life has gotten in the way of both shopping and cooking (heh--typed 'cookie'). I've been toying with the idea of getting the South Beach book, and going straight to the "for the rest of your life" phase. I don't mind, and in fact prefer to eat more healthily than I have been doing. I do need to lose some weight, but the thought of dieting is turning me off to the extent that I'm not even eating well. I'm sort of stuck in a "why bother" phase, which I think is pretty typical of me. I want to be perfect, but if I can't be perfect, I don't try at all.

"Gimmie a C! A bouncy C!"

Half inch of snow in the yard this morning. A foot of new snow in the mountains. They're advising tirechains in some parts of the passes.

May 11th. The retailers are displaying swimsuits and shorts. I'm regretting taking out the heavy liner of my leather coat.

who had the Only Real In Anime & Comic Books Super Perky C-Cups.

I don't believe in these. Damn it. I *love* my boobs, but I hate gravity. I remember when I wasn't droopy. (Though I was also a B cup back then. I drove my DD+ roommate nuts when we went clothes shopping, b/c I'd try on sweaters without a bra and then jump up and down for effect. Though gravity has now paid me back for my smugness.)

(Though I'm more like to shove something between them for storage. The something has, of course, include shot glasses and beer bottles, iffin I was at a F2F at the time.

Or Pez.

(looks down) They're pretty perky, I think. Nope, no gunplay through my window. I wouldn't think so, though. My mom keeps saying he should have retired after he got his twenty in, or as they say on the Wire, "put in paper". Joseph Wambaugh wrote about that a lot.