Month: January 2007

1/2/07

* * * 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?]]>

1/1/07

new logo! Thank you to reader Melissa (Melissa, don’t you have a site? Shoot me the url, please, so I can link you!), who created it a few months ago! While I’m talking about logos, I desperately need one for February. I’d like a hearts-and-flowers type logo, but really anything will do! Help a sister out? And include your link, so I can link you!

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So yes, I’m home again. In fact, I was having such a good time that I ended up staying ’til Saturday morning instead of coming home on Friday as I’d originally planned. Fred was happy to “let” me stay, so he could finish up the master bedroom, which he’d done as a surprise to me (the surprise being the color, that is), and I LOVE IT, especially the fact that I need to buy a new comforter to go with it (along, maybe, with new sheets!). I ended up eating more crappy, sugary foods than I should have… and lost three pounds! I think the three-pound loss might be due more to the phenomenal amount of walking we did, rather than what I ate. We shopped our asses off, and thank god I drove there, because I filled the entire trunk area up with the stuff I bought. Just about everything was on sale, which made for some good shopping. The day I got there – Christmas day, and you’d expect there wouldn’t be much traffic on the roads on Christmas day, but you’d be wrong – we had dinner at a buffet place, which was pretty good, and then my mother, sister, and I walked along the main drag in Pigeon Forge, walking off some of the food we’d eaten. The day after Christmas, we went to use one of the gifts I’d given Brian for Christmas – a gift certificate to Flyaway Indoor Skydiving. Part of the gift was that I’d do it with him – and I did! It wasn’t quite what I expected, but it was pretty cool all the same. Brian brought up the idea of doing it again, and now I’m wishing we had, because it was definitely worth doing a second – and third – time. We also talked about bungee jumping (there’s a place on the main drag in Pigeon Forge), but first Brian chickened out, and then I did. Now I’m wishing we’d done it, just so I could brag about it, but oh well. Maybe we can find a place in Maine, and we can go this summer when I visit. We spent a day in Gatlinburg without my father (who was dealing with some stomach issues; something he’d eaten didn’t agree with him), and I drove since I’d been there before (but hadn’t driven!), and at one point we were on a hilly area with a steep dropoff on one side, and I pulled into someone’s driveway to turn around, and Debbie got a little overwhelmed and threw a fit, and at one point she said “I scared!” I thought she was just kind of making fun of herself, but a few minutes later (after we got turned around WITHOUT dying, might I add), she said she didn’t remember saying that at all, and I laughed so hard I thought I was going to pass out. It was fun, vacationing as a family, and we came up with several inside jokes that will most likely live on for years. It was very enjoyable. Annnnd… I could do a day-by-day recap of the trip, but rather than doing that, I’m going to post some pictures, and call it good enough.
Brian in his new t-shirt, which cracked me UP. I call this one “Bitchypoo and her wattle.” We visited Rainforest Adventures, and it was VERY cool. They put on a good show, let you touch some of the animals (here I am, about to hold a TARANTULA. And I didn’t die from the fright!), and are very entertaining. I highly recommend it. And with a ball python around my neck. Fred about died from the jealousy. Brian avec ball python. I call this one “Bitchypoo, confused.” Me and my bebbe sistah. Getting ready to do some indoor skydiving. Lemur, at Rainforest Adventures. Brian bought a cowboy hat while in Gatlinburg. That boy is just so cute I could squeeze him to death. Complete and utter asshole on 75S. Georgians, beware! Thrilled beyond belief that their Momma is home.
There’ll be more pictures in upcoming days – there’ll be a series called “Animals of Gatlinburg” as well as one called “What I Didn’t Buy”, plus Debbie took a ton of pictures she’s going to burn to a cd and send to me, and I know there’ll be a lot of good ones in there – but that’s it for now. Y’all have a good day! (Today’s uploaded pictures are hither)
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Previously 2006: No entry. 2005: Happy New Year! 2004: Happy New Year! 2003: Happy New Year! 2002: Happy New Year! 2001: No entry. 2000: Happy New Year.]]>