Thursday, March 20, 2008

Cat meets Rat ....


Here are some pictures I took last week of our cat Weasley and a rat who climbed a tree in our front yard. The 2nd picture is amazing!! I cannot believe I actually got that shot! In fact .... I probably need to post all 3 of these photos together and maybe even the little video I got!

Truth is .... I saw the rat climbing the tree and I got our cat Weasley and put him on the tree, too ... and he took off after the rat. The last picture is Weasley backing down. He ended up leaving the tree and I had to get to the gym. When I left, the rat was still out on the branch. When I returned neither cat nor rat were around. We have yet to find rat parts for this particular rat ... notice the tip of his tail is missing .... no tail-tipless-back-halves of rats have shown up.





Sunday, March 9, 2008

Whew .... Finally Recovering!

WOW .... I had a nasty cold!! I haven't been sick like that in 12 years .... It didn't actually take me DOWN down .... but it sure lingered. I still have a little cough left ... but plan to go back to full workouts tomorrow. Yay!! I have really missed it! It is just so hard to swim when you have to cough all the time!

I am also going to add some StairMaster to my workouts .... starting very slowly. They have 4 machines at the gym. I just notice that I find stairs get my heart racing .... we climbed a lot of stairs during the UNT tour with Robbie and I got out of breath way too easily. They say swimming is supposed to be a great Cardio work-out ... but I am not feeling it! I guess I need to really seriously use my heart-rate monitor and push myself more than I am. Play faster music and swim with the beat!!

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Tom and I had a nice evening with La and Allen last night. Champagne and beers and cheese and crackers and fruits and dark chocolate .... yummy! Hot Tub and conversation and laughter. La is such a sweet person and Allen has really begun to open up around us ... he is so shy! I am looking forward to him getting the boat out again and going out on the lake. La's life has kind of opened up now that her tailbone doesn't hurt her as much. I think she actually is looking younger, too! Pain is so wearing and so debilitating. I know she had to feel like a new person without the constant pain!

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Spending time online with The Accountables is going well. Some very nice people on the boards. There are still issues there .... but I think the truth is beginning to emerge. I went into FP to drop a note to Sweeney on her B-Day .... and also posted a note to Catmadam about her inch loss and her weightloss .... so in response, Accountables got a "visit" from WF and Catmadam. I once again posted a nice note to Cat .... no response. ((Edit: Catmadam DID respond by starting a new thread in FP which basically took my post to her as an insult. So ... for you Catmadam fans ... Cat absolutely did NOT forbid me to talk to her. Admin_John suggested I not talk to her. However ... I hoped that giving her a sincere compliment would be okay ... I guess I shouldn't have prefaced it as I did. I apologize profusely to Catmadam and her fans. I sincerely only meant to compliment.)) Sweeney didn't even stop by on her B-Day ... but still, I thought of her!

I do have a couple of new people reading .... one from Carol Stream, Illinois ... and one from Washington DC ..... I know who they are .... but wonder why they care. Q-Ball is still reading but now shows up as being from Holt, Michigan. I have absolutely ZERO idea why SHE cares .... I am pretty sure she hates me ... although I have no idea why.

Ms Owings Mills, Maryland ... whom I believe to be MsWillow ... has learned how to hide her path from the SiteMeter .... and someone else has learned how to hide behind AOL. Why am I so important to these people?



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Tom and I are half-on-half-off SBD .... but we are both doing great with going to the gym and maintaining weightloss .... I think exercise and the routine of going and doing is probably the overall best thing we are doing!! I am FEELING so much better ... it may be the Iron Pills? Fish Oil? Vitamins?? Exercise?? All of the above?? Whatever it is ... it works for me.



Monday, March 3, 2008

Fresh Start ....

Well ... my goodness this BLOG attracted a lot of attention lately!!

Due to a couple of kind emails from people who will remain un-named, unless they wish to be named, I have basically hidden most of the posts which have to do with my dealings with The South Beach Diet Online and the Message Boards there. The posts still exist, they are just not available for public view at the moment.

Kind words and kind treatment of me and my friends will always get Kindness in return from me. And all I ever wanted was a safe place for me and my friends to play and feel welcome. Kindness will hopefully lead to more kindness will hopefully lead to more kindness ...

You will find a few other things changed on here, too .... but hopefully they won't be an issue to any of my readers.

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March 28, 2008

Fresh Start has been canceled. Once again the TROLLS have been messing with me and mine in SBDO. So the truth is once again here for all to read. Lots of trolling activity on the site meter. Most are using software to hide themselves. To me, that sings of guilt ... but ... whatever.