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From my comments:
Last year you dropped the weight; this year why not eat a healthy diet so you can feel totally amazing too? How? RAW FOOD! Fresh fruit and veggies; the more raw the better.
Silly girl, I don’t know what gave you the impression that I’m already feeling anything less than amazing already – if I felt any better, it’d be illegal. I do eat raw foods, but for me, it’s not a matter of “the more the better” unless I want to spend the entire day in distress. Raw foods don’t go through me the way they did over the summer, but if I eat much more than an apple with breakfast and a salad with lunch, it’s not a pretty sight (I eat more vegetables than a salad with lunch, I must hasten to add; they just need to be cooked). Also, being a gastric bypass patient, my nutritionist and surgeon require me to eat at least 80 grams of protein per day (though I shoot for 100 grams per day, with their approval), and if I fill up on raw foods I might lose weight faster, but I’d probably feel like crap and start losing my hair again, and nobody wants that, believe me.
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Speaking of my hair, it’s been looking particularly good lately, in my opinion. My sister told me to try some of that Clairol Conditioning mousse (it pouffs AND conditions!), and recommended Sunsilk Defrizz as well, so I bought some of each since she has such purty hair and always knows the good stuff*, and my hair has never looked better. I prefer my hair with a little bit of height to it, and since it’s mostly grown back in after the scary baldness after surgery (which a lot of people have to deal with), it’s been a bit flat. But with the mousse-defrizz one-two combo, there’s a little height to my ‘do and I’m happy with how it looks.
*I swear to god, the woman should get herself a job – or start a company! – as a personal shopper. If you called her up and said “Deb, I’m looking for a purple shirt with gold and silver sparklies on it, that spell out “I’ve got your high-five right HERE, bitch!”, and oh yeah, I need it to have fringies hanging off the arms, preferably with three-quarter sleeves (but I’m flexible), in the hard-to-find size 13 3/4, got any ideas where I could find something like that?”, she’d think for a minute or two and say “Oh, I saw that in Macy’s, misplaced in the men’s section behind some solid-color pocket tees**, next to the gray size large section. You want me to pick up a couple?”
**I don’t know if Macy’s would carry solid-color pocket tees in the men’s section. It’s just a guess. Don’t hurt me if I’m way off base. I don’t shop in Macy’s and I don’t know nothin’ ’bout no men’s section. Wait. Does Macy’s still exist, or did they get bought out? I can’t remember.
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This entry would be longer, but I have to scoot out to the Smallville house to meet the chimney guy, who’s supposed to clean the chimneys, check the flue, put caps over both the chimneys, and take the wood stove with him (we’re getting a bigger wood stove). Fred let the electricians in this morning to do their thing (I’m sure one of us will mention that more in depth in a later entry), so I’m going to settle in a corner of one of the rooms and try to stay out of everyone’s way.
On a side note, I will sure as hell be glad when we get the inside of the house done. Every freakin’ day we work out there, I end up with a huge gash on my hand, or bruises or scrapes and it FUCKING HURTS. Yesterday I was prying quarter-round off the stairs (I’m going to clean where paint got on the stairs, then we’re replacing the quarter-round with freshly painted quarter-round so it’ll look better) and I ended up with a painful gash on the back of one of my fingers, and a big-ass bruise on the side of my hand.
But once we’re finished with the inside, it’ll be time to start doing things outside, and I’m sure THAT will lead to plenty of bruising and cuts and scrapes, too. ::sigh::
Still love the hell out of that house, though!
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Sugar McBooger is the happiest, most content cat ever put on the face of the earth.
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Previously
2006: No entry.
2004: No entry.
2003: Note to self
2002: (“Damn, Robyn sure is impressed with herself, isn’t she?”)
2001: Robyn’s Resolutions for 2001.
2000: Exciting, no?]]>
If you actually do find that purple shirt and wear it, you will be dead to me.
I know you miss your mail, but as a government employee, I am loving my day off.
Silly Jane – I could never fit into a 13 3/4!
Infochick – I’m glad you’re enjoying your day off. I bet my mail delivery tomorrow will be twice as big as usual (Mondays being a big mail day for some reason), and that’s always worth the wait!
I went to the post office this morning to mail some stuff (that I just needed to drop in the slot), and there were two guys standing in line, waiting for the desk to open until a woman came in and said to them “You know the post office is closed today, right?” They didn’t know – even though there were two big signs on the door!
I was going to write and gloat about having that day off (I’m another government employee) but Infochick beat me to it. Hey, is that a new logo? I LOVE it! Whoever came up with that one did a really nice job.
And here I was going to say I wanted that shirt. Poo on you Jane!
PS-Nicole HATES the mail. I for one, LOVE IT and was going to write about just that today. But then I’d be known as a Robyn copy-cat and well, I couldn’t deal…
Will you be cleaning the paint off wooden stairs? If so, what works best? I have to clean up some myself.
I’ve been a fan of your site (and the other one, OFBP) for years. I’m really happy to see you so upbeat for 2007; I hope to be, too.
Since you’re clearly an ailurophile, I thought I’d share with you a few pictures of cats I’ve found amusing:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Cats_Go_In_The_Silliest_Places
http://hubpages.com/hub/Cats_Love_Plastic_Bags
http://hubpages.com/hub/Black_Persian_Cats
This one is bittersweet…
http://hubpages.com/hub/My_Freaky_Kittens
When you’re ready to put in your new woodstove, are you going to consider a pellet stove? They make them to look just like wood stoves, and the type of heat radiation from the pellets is similar to wood heat, but they do not grossly pollute the air the way woodstove emmisions do. Word is that eventually there will be a ban on wood stoves, although I think the newer ones are less polluting (better catalytic conversion) and of course who knows how and when the EPA will actually put any type of ban into effect.
No mail sucks. My next Netflix dvd was supposed to come today, too.
Oh, Robyn, you’re so right about the Gerald Ford crap. A DAY of mourning. The man died peacefully at age 93 in his own home. Not exactly an untimely tragic death. Why not have a day of celebrating his life…while keeping the damned federal offices open, of course. Life is for the living.
Oh, more rantiness…the man was never even elected to public office. I swear, Gerald Ford’s death is being publicized more than Ronald Reagan’s. And HE was elected twice (don’t look at me, I didn’t vote for him).
Yeah, check out the men’s clothing section. I buy all my casual wear (except jeans) in the men’s dept. Better quality, more classic styles for less money.
I forgot to tell you yesterday that I loved your photo of the crappy driver in front of you (from Georgia). Cracked me UP, I tell you! This morning some jerkface cut me off and as I’m honking at him, my husband said “You should have brought the camera!”. Perhaps you’ve started a new trend. Or a website full of pics of crappy drivers, divided by states maybe?? 🙂
Of course, Suggie is happy and content. He got to stay with his mommy that would even try putting sugar on his butt to make him feel better!
Have they bothered to put his body in the ground yet? They have been dragging his corpse all across the country. I was almost expecting it to show up in the Rose Parade. Storm Troopers would make awesome pallbearers.
I’ll bet that most Americans can’t even tell the story of how he became president.
I’ll bet that the ghost of James Brown is pissed at Ford for stealing a lot of his press.
Hee hee, you may be safe. I’m pretty sure today’s remembrance of Gerald Ford was actually in celebration of Saddam’s death. 😀 Hubby is a fed agent and when Ronald Reagan died there was no fed holiday involved so we’ve decided we’re celebrating Saddam and his demise and paiting it as a rememberance of Gerald Ford. BUT I’m with you, BRING ME MY MAIL. LOL