Well, I just put YOU: On a Diet on hold. I hadn't really looked at it because I didn't need a diet - I know how to eat/and exercise. I just don't always.But I have come to the conclusion that more info means better choices for me.

I had a long story I was going to tell, but it bored me before I finished. the Summary is this . I was working with a nurse over the phone for awhile - and I came to a conclusion. As far as eating well and exercising enough - I'll be spending my life jumping on and off the wagon. I love food and drink , so there will always be a reason for 'just a taste'. My health issues , my general energy level , etc are going to make it easier not to move . So as long as I don't fall to far - and make it easier to take charge of the eating and moving in my life , the better I am .

I definitely need to be better about not eating just because there's food. Or even just because there's GOOD food--like, on the trip to Minneapolis this week, I ended up in first class on the way out here. And they served dinner. I knew I was going to dinner with my boss when we landed, and eating somewhere yummy. I also wasn't very hungry. But did I end up eating almost all of what was put in front of me, even though it was *airplane food*?!? You bet I did. I so need to be better about that.

it could turn out to be an okay compromise. You can send out the P-Cish biodata after initial contact. It's not the first filter (which would be ideal), but it could be a useful second layer.

Totally what I was thinking--her mom is probably looking at them, and would toss it. And then she'd never get to know that P-C is cool, because she (ideal girl, that is) would never see it. So second layer works--but dont' forget to hold your mom to the promise that you can send the "real" one later!!

And, I just got my frequent flyer points email...and I only need 4,000 more points to go around the world!!!! Which I will totally get in the next month or two. OMG! Do I do it? Spend it on several cool (first or business class) trips, or go around the world economy? And time off! I don't know how much time off I could get in! I had kinda been thinking if I quit my job to go to grad school, but now that won't happen for at least a year...do I just sit on the points until then? ACK!

PC, think of it as your REAL biodata having a chance to get beyond the Matchmaking Firewall.

As everyone else has said.

Ah, Cindy. Wish I could make things better.

Aimee, can you re-link the pics? I caught up offline on the bus, so couldn't click 'em.

Dieting: that last ten pounds really is the hard part! I have to step things up, probably on the exercise front. It will help when the molars are through and I'm getting sleep, though.

Also, OMG, want for Lillian: [link]

Yeah ... those pictures were from December. Her bangs are still horrid from the January cut. Jay of the leaving pills around fame said, "It's a good thing mullets are somewhat back in style."

Aims, you know you've gone horribly awry when I think, "It would be better if Joe did the haircutting."

"Mwahaha! Reverse Mohawk, bay-bee! It's what's for dinner!"

((((Cindy & Ben)))) ((((P-C)))) Fuck it ((((Bitches))))

Plei - they start here. [link] There are four.

I really need to organize these in flickr.

Aims, you know you've gone horribly awry when I think, "It would be better if Joe did the haircutting."

I don't get a second chance? I did the bangs you said looked great! This was freak accident!

I don't get a second chance? I did the bangs you said looked great! This was freak accident!

It's not just the bangs, Aimee. You cut the sides short too. You mulletted your daughter. If she were three years older this would a serious hairdo trauma for her. It's a good thing she doesn't know what it means when her daycare buddies whistle "Achey Breaky Heart" when she toddles by.

It looks a lot better now! The sides are long enough to go up into her ponytail if I do a half tail.

Believe me, I hate that I effed up her hair. I am the vainest critter that ever was vain, and some of it leaks onto Em. We haven't taken her anywhere with out a hat on since I effed up her hair.

Puh-leeze. Bad haircuts are a childhood milestone. She'll be doing a worse job by herself at some point in the near future. It's what kids do.

Bad haircuts are a childhood milestone.

Thank you! t leans on Cash