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I just finished typing up a long, cute blog, clicked the submit button, and it took me to the login page…again!!!  Another blog lost.  So here’s the highlights.

It’s getting cold.

It’s been raining all day.

It’s supposed to snow tomorrow.

I went to sleep in the recliner watching a movie this afternoon.

I’m having salmon and brussels sprouts for dinner.

I had ambrosia for breakfast & lunch.

I miss Micheal.

Ok.  That’s it.  Short.  Sweet.  To the point.  No cutsies.

And remember:  Don’t let a little slip  ruin your trip!!!  


Ok. I had to slip one little cutsie in there.

I just typed up this nice sweet blog and when I clicked the submit button, it took me to the login page.  My blog was lost!!  Well, gonna try again.

We’re having some nasty weather.  It’s 62 degrees, raining,  and the wind is blowing.  It’s supposed to rain hard tomorrow.  Friday and Saturday it’s supposed to snow.  And Sunday the bottom is supposed to drop out on the temperature!  I hate nasty weather!!

I have the thermostat set at 70 and I’m sitting here shivering.  Maybe I should get Micheal to see if his company has an office in Hawaii!!!

I’m doing pretty good on my dieting.  Had turkey sub from Subway for lunch yesterday and today.  Last night I had leftover turkey for dinner (but not the other stuff).  After the landlord gets the new tires on my truck I’m gonna go get a few groceries.  Think I’ll get some salmon for dinner.  That sounds pretty good…salmon grilled with just a squeeze of lemon and a sprinkle of salt and pepper with brussels sprouts and a nice glass of wine.  Think I’ll just stock the freezer with seafood.  Since it’s just me, I can eat what I want.  Micheal is the beef eater and he’s not here.  I’ve gotten where I just don’t care for beef anymore.  But that could be a good thing.

I hope you all have a great day.

And remember:  Don’t let a little slip  ruin your trip!!!

Buddies, it’s been one hectic morning.  I was wating at the BMV at 8:00 this morning to get my truck tags & drivers license.  They don’t even open til 8:30 and there were already 7 people in line ahead of me!!  It took an hour for me to take the driver’s test (written only) and then get my drivers license.  Then I had to start on my truck tags, but ended up having to come home and get my payment book so they could get the address for the bank that’s holding the title.  It was 10:30 before I finally left with a temporary tag.  I have to go back in 2 weeks to get the permanent tag.  Thank goodness they gave me a temp tag cuz mine expires the end of this month!!  I still have to get the tags for Micheal’s care.  They already expired.  But it shouldn’t be as much of a hassle cuz we have the title for it and I’m not gonna get in a hurry about it anyway cuz it’s just sitting in the driveway since Micheal’s in Minneapolis.

I still have to get some agressive tires put on my truck before the weather gets really bad, but that should be pretty easy.  My landlord owns an auto shop right next door to us and he sells tires.  All I have to do is walk over there and tell him what I need.  He’ll come over and get the truck when he’s ready for it, and bring it back with the bill when he’s done.  That’s what they did when I got the oil changed.  It sure is convenient to have an auto shop right next door, and even better when it’s your landlord (I get a price break)!!!

After I got through at the BMV I went shopping at Big Lots.  I spent close to $100 there and walked around for almost an hour.  I’m gonna go do some more shopping tomorrow afternoon.  That’s supposed to be the last pretty day we have for a while.  We’re supposed to have snow this weekend so I want to go pick up a few groceries to get me through any bad weather.  Don’t want to get out in it unless I absolutely have to!!

And speaking of groceries…I’m getting myself back on track.  On the way home from Big Lots I stopped at Subway and got a turkey sub for lunch.  I still have turkey in the fridge for dinner, and I have stuff for salad, too.  I’m gonna get in as much walking as I can.  I may even go back out for a while this afternoon, since the sun’s shining and I’m already dressed.

And I’m glad BuddySlim is back up and running better.  I sure was having a hard time with BS withdrawals!!!  And I was missing my Buddies pretty bad.  You don’t really realize how much you depend on someone until they’re not there.  Yeah, some of us were using Yahoo instant messenger and e-mail, but it’s just not the same.  Although we did have fun on Yahoo the other day.  There were several of us that conferenced in on a chat and it was a blast!!   If someone had walked up to my door during that, they’d have thought I’d lost my friggin’ mind, I was laughing so hard!!   Wait, that was last week while I was still in Minneapolis!!  But it was still a lot of fun!

Like I said, I’m back on track again and plan to stay there.  I have to get this weight off, but I can’t do it without my buddies.  You guys are my strength!!  Without you I wouldn’t be able to do it.  Thank you all for being here for me.

And remember:  Don’t let a little slip ruin your trip!!!

I’m glad we’re back up and running, even if it is slow and imperfect!  I’ve missed my buddies terribly!

My diet has been horrible the past couple of days.  I keep finding myself with food in my mouth that shouldn’t be there!!  I don’t know if it’s been boredom, loneliness, or plain stupidity, but whatever it is, I have to stop.  I even at a Whopper and frys today!  The madness has got to be stopped.  So far the scale has been kind to me, but it can’t keep it up.  I feel like I’ve gained a ton!  My older jeans are still falling off of me, but they won’t be for long if I don’t get a grip on things.

Tomorrow I have to go get tags on my truck so I’ll be away from home and away from food.  I’ll have some fruit salad or something before I go so maybe I won’t be hungry when I get through getting my tags, but I already know it’s gonna take a while.  I’m gonna try to get there before they open so maybe there won’t be many people in front of me.  The last time I tried, I went in and there were at least 100 people waiting.  I didn’t have everything I needed so I couldn’t get it done.  But that’s been taken care of now.

After I get my tags, I’m gonna do some shopping.  I still have to get the ornaments to fix for the grandkids for Christmas.  And I need to get some wrapping paper.  I also need to start looking for something for Micheal.  I got that carousel for him, but I still want to get something else.  He’s a very hard person to shop for.

It’s 1:00 AM and I’m still up.  My bed is too lonely with Micheal gone so I tend to delay going.  I’ll probably kick back in the recliner and find a movie to watch.

I’ve missed my buddies.  Love you guys!!

I’m seeking a shoulder to cry on!!!  Just left Micheal at the airport to go back to Minneapolis and I’m already lonely!!!    So I’m really gonna need my buddies!!!

I didn’t even attempt to get on here much the past couple of days.  I wanted to spend the time with Micheal since it’s gonna be 2 weeks before he come home again! 

Thanksgiving dinner at Golden Corral just didn’t feel the same so we cooked a late Thanksgiving dinner yesterday.  We had turkey (I have plenty leftover in the fridge) sweet potatoes, dressing, mashed potatoes & gravy, green bean casserol (yuck), fruit salad and cressent rolls.  All the leftovers, except the turkey and fruit salad are going in the trash in a little while!  I don’t even want to be tempted by them. I ate too much yesterday as it was.  I still feel stuffed!!

I’m getting the hang of this new site.  I still don’t like the fact that you can’t see new forum threads from your home page, but I found that if you click on the ‘Forum’ tab you can tell by the dates when the last post was made, then expand that category to find the new posts.  It’s not as good as the old site, but it works.

And not being able to pull up your subscribed blogs is ok cuz before, that was all I read.  Now I’m reading everybody’s, even if they aren’t on my buddy list.  I’ll get to know more people that way.

But I’ll still be using Yahoo messenger, too.  And for anybody that missed it before, my log in name there is harmonmaryc.  And my home e-mail is harmonmaryc@yahoo.com .  And yeah, I do enjoy those silly e-mail forwards!!

And to my buddies, if you don’t mind, I’d like your addresses.  I want to add you to my Christmas card list!!!  You can e-mail them to me if you don’t mind.

Well, the rest of today is gonna be spent on here and trying to keep from missing Micheal so much, but I don’t thin that’s gonna be possible.  Even when he wasn’t working away from home, I’d miss him when he was gone…even though he would be home that evening!  I know.  I’m hopeless!!

We put our Christmas tree up Friday but didn’t get it decorated til yesterday.  We kept it simple…lots of lights, one strand of garland, a dozen or so glass ornaments, a couple of Hallmark ornaments, and a bunch of crocheted snowflakes.  Oh, and of course my baby angel on a cloud ornament.  That one is a special ornament and always goes near the top of the tree.  I was surprised my lights still worked after being in storage for 2 years, but they did!  I figured I’d have to go buy more.

The next couple of days are gonna be busy.  I have to go get tags on Micheal’s car and on my truck.  That’s gonna take two trips.  And I have to get my driver’s license changed.  I can do that on one of the other trips.  No wait.  The license office is closed on Monday so guess I’ll have to wait til Tuesday.  That means I could go shopping tomorrow!  Micheal just got 2 paychecks and an expense check so I’ve got spending money!!  Yea!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess that’s it.  Can’t report on my food the past couple of days.  It was bad.  I didn’t even drink all my water!  Now that’s really bad!  I’m afraid to go near the scale!!  And didn’t do much walking except the grocery store.  We just stayed around here and spent most of our time cuddled up watching TV.  So I’m gonna forget all that happened and just go on from here.

Hope everybody has a wonderful day…and please don’t give up on BuddySlim yet!  Give Dr. Marc a little more time to get all the bugs worked out.  I know that takes time.  Remember, I’m married to a Network Engineer.  I’ve seen this sooo many times in the past with Micheal’s projects.  It just takes a little time finding all the bugs and fixing them.

And remember:  Don’t let a little slip  ruin your trip!!!

Happy day after Turkey Day!!!! 

Hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  Ours was pretty good.  Our drive home was uneventful, except missing our exit off the Indiana Toll Road in the fog!!!  We didn’t get in til 4:00 yesterday morning, and slept in til about 10am.  Then we went and found Thanksgiving dinner at Golden Corral.  BUT, I did good.  I only made one trip to the buffet, and with only one plate.  I didn’t eat salad, but the only thing ‘bad’ that I had was a spoonful of stuffing and a roll.  Oh, and I had 2 small bites of Micheal’s pumpkin pie.  So I did pretty good.

We went to Wally World after we ate and walked around there for more than an hour.  Got a small Christmas tree.  We like real ones, but don’t have room for one this year, so we just got a fake.  Oh, and I got a new pedometer!  It has an FM radio built in with ear plugs.  I’m gonna start doing more walking.  I can go to the mall, clip on my pedometer, pop the ear plugs in and just take off.  I know the results won’t be quite the same since I have to use my cane, but at least I’ll be moving.  And having a bit of music to move to should help a bit!! 

Does some of this sound familiar?  I posted yesterday afternoon, but I can’t find it, so I’m doing it again!

And Dawnie, did you notice you got your status back!!  You’re an Intern again!!  I guess it will just take a few days for Dr. Marc to get all the bugs worked out of the system.

And speaking of Dr. Marc…maybe he does read our comments, blogs and such, cuz I noticed when you go to somebody’s home page, right beneath their picture, it says “member since” as well as “last login date”.  We had a question on the forum about when everybody started.  I’m not seeing that on my page so somebody please tell me what my “member since” date is!! 

Got a bit planned for today.  Gotta go pick up more water.  Micheal has to get the Christmas decorations out of the storage building so we can decorate the tree.  Gotta go to the bank…we had money waiting for us when we got home!!!  I still don’t have my stuff unpacked from the trip to Minneapolis so I gotta get that done.  So it will be a fairly busy day!

Hope everybody has a wonderful day!!!

And remember:  Don’t let a little slip  ruin your trip!!!

We’re back up and running!!!  I’m so happy!   I’ve missed all my buddies, although a few of us did have fun on Yahoo messenger the other day!

So, I’ve been a good girl while BuddySlim was away.  I didn’t cheat and I didn’t binge.  And I drank all my water!

We’ll be heading back to Indiana this afternoon.  We probably won’t make it home til sometime tomorrow.  I’ll be staying there but Micheal will be fly back to Minneapolis on Sunday.  And I’ll be one lonely Buddy!!  Gonna need my buddies for sure! 

And I’m gonna have to see if I’ve lost any more weight.  Haven’t been on a scale in 3 weeks!!

But, I went to buy a new pair of jeans Monday cuz the last ones I bought were getting a little baggy.  I ended up with a pair 2 sizes smaller!!  I couldn’t believe it!  I had to suck it in a little to get them fastened, but you know how it is with jeans…after you’ve had them on an hour or 2 they tend to stretch a bit!  So I’m down a total of 3 jeans sizes since May!  I’ll take it!

Welcome back to my world, Buddies.  I missed you all bunches!!!

And remember:  Don’t let a little slip  ruin your trip!!!

I can’t believe I did that!  I typed up a whole new blog and then I deleted it!  Guess I’ll just have to do it again!!  So, here goes!!  I just hope I can remember what I’d typed before!!! 

We didn’t make our trip to the Dakota’s today.  We decided it would just be too much, considering the long drive we have in front of us to go home Wednesday evening.  That’s a 12 hour trip!  So we’re gonna sit here and veg today.  Besides, Micheal has to be at work at 5:00 tomorrow morning, and will be working late.  And he’ll possibly have to do the same thing Tuesday!  Besides, Micheal will have a 3 week vacation coming next summer so we’re talking about doing a US tour via plane and rental car and go to all the states we’ve not been to yet!  We’ll even go to California and visit his mom, daughter, and the grandkids!  I can visit my family any time cuz they’re only a day’s drive away.

Yesterday was gonna be my splurge day.  We had a late lunch at Burger King, then I only had a corn dog and a handful of Cheetoes for dinner and didn’t even go over my points, so today is my splurge day.  We got up this morning and went to breakfast.  I had an omelet, hash browns, half a slice of dry toast and some oj.  Then we went to get groceries.  Didn’t get much.  Had to have more water…gotta have that.  And we found some Tillamook cheddar cheese.  That is the absolute best cheese there is, but you can’t find it everywhere.  So I’m gonna snack on cheese and reduced-fat club crackers today.  Don’t know what’s for dinner yet.  Maybe we’ll order a pizza!  Like I said, it’s my splurge day!

We went out and bought the DiVinci Code DVD yesterday (only cost us $5) and watched it last night.  It was pretty good.  Didn’t go into the detail that the book did, but I was seeing the detail anyway.  It’s funny.  Lots of times I’ve started watching a movie and started thinking that I’d seen it before only to realize that no, I didn’t see the movie, I read the book!  You see, when I read a book, I visualize what I’m reading.  And I love to compare the movie to what I visualized!  You’d be surprised how close I got sometimes!  I do the same thing a lot of times when I read your blogs.  I see what you’re talking about!  Bet you didn’t know that, did you?  But that’s ok.  My mind knows how to censor if necessary!

Thanks to the forum thread I posted yesterday, my Yahoo messenger list has gotten considerably longer!  I’m hoping to hear from you guys tomorrow and Tuesday while BuddySlim is getting its much anticipated updates.  I’m getting excited!!  And if anybody else wants to link up, send me an e-mail at harmonmaryc@yahoo.com .  I’ll have messenger open most of the time tomorrow and Tuesday.

Micheal is riding in to work with one of the guys tomorrow morning and riding back with another tomorrow evening (he took them to get rental cars yesterday morning, thank goodness!), so I may spend some time out running around.  But I’ll be here off and on, especially tomorrow evening, cuz I’ll be here by myself and it’ll get lonely without my Buddies!

Well, I’m gonna go read some blogs.  Everybody have a wonderful day, and I better see you all back here on Wednesday!

And remember:  Don’t let a little slip  ruin your trip!!!

Well, dinner at the Indian restaurant last night was great!  There were seven of us.  Micheal and me, and then the others are all Indian.  We let them order for the most part.  There were 3 appetizers ordered and 7 entrees.  Four of the others were all vegans, so they only ordered vegetarian entrees and Micheal & me and the other guy ordered shrimp and chicken.  Then we all just passed everything around.

Actually, chicken, seafood and lamb were the only meat’s on the menu.  Some of the dishes were made with the Indian equivelent of tofu.  Except for the appetizers and bread, everything was fairly low-fat and low-calorie.  The appetizers were breaded and deepfried, so they weren’t too good for the old diet, but I only ate one of each of the three.  The bread was flat bread, and there was no butter or cheese or anything like that added, so it wasn’t too bad.

But the food was great…spicy, but great!    I took only a small amount of each dish.  And practically the first bite I took, was the wrong one!!  It had a hot pepper on it and it set me on fire!!    I mean, I had sweat running off me, my eyes were watering and my mouth was burning!!    Ashwini (I spelled her name wrong yesterday) was getting upset because she thought she’d advised me wrong on the dish I’d chosen.  And she and her husband were all over themselves trying to get foods to me that would put the fire out!!  But I was laughing and she realized I wasn’t upset, so she calmed down.  The waitress (also Indian) was trying to take my dish and bring me a milder one.  I told her it wasn’t mine, it was somebody elses and it was ok.  Everybody was scrambling trying to make me more comfortable and I could only sit there and laugh!!  I told Ashwini that I now understood why most Indian’s were so skinny - the fire in the food burns all the fat and calories off!!!  That got everybody else laughing.

One of the guys working for Micheal was sitting next to Micheal.  He started putting food on Micheal’s plate for him telling him ‘try this, try this’.  Micheal ended up with a heaping plate!  The guy was acting as if he were Micheal’s servant!!  Micheal finally had to tell him to stop!

But I did good!  I didn’t eat much before I was full.  And we really enjoyed ourselves.

So far today I’ve only had some yogurt.  Now we’re getting ready to go out running around.  One thing we’re gonna do is go to Borders and pick up the DiVinci Code since it’s out on DVD now.  I read the book a few months ago and I’ve been wanting to see the movie, but I don’t really like going to theaters (except drive-ins).  And we have to go to Best Buy to exchange some memory Micheal got for his laptop (soon to be mine).  He’s already made two trips and both times they gave him the wrong memory.

Well, I’m gonna get dressed so we can go!  I’ll be back later to read blogs and see if anybody else has magically appeared on here.  So far, there haven’t been very many of my buddies on!  And I won’t be on much tomorrow cuz the weather is supposed to be nice so we’re gonna get up early and go to the Dakota’s so I can get some more keychains for my collection!!

Hope everybody has a great weekend.

And remember:  Don’t let a little slip  ruin your trip!!!

I did good at dinner last night.  We went to Boston Market and I had turkey, roasted potatoes, and mixed veggies - broccoli, carrots, green beans & squash.  I did have a corn muffin, but with what I’d eaten earlier in the day, it was ok. 

Now, I just have to get through tonight!  I found out that the restaurant we went to in Los Angeles was Peruvian, not Indian, so tonight will be a new experience.  Micheal said we’d just let the others order for us for the most part.  He said that Ashwanna told him that the place we’re going to has really good, authentic Indian food.  We’ll see.  I may be stopping for a Subway sandwich on the way home!!!    I had toast with peanut butter for a late breakfast and I’m not gonna eat lunch so I should be ok points wise.

Nothing much is going on around here today.  So, I guess this is gonna be a short one!  Can we say ‘bored’?    That’s ok.  We’re gonna do some siteseeing Sunday.   We’re supposed to get freezing rain tonight which means the roads will be slick in the morning, so tomorrow Micheal is gonna spend the day getting stuff loaded on this computer so he can use it for work.  After it warms up a bit I may go out shopping while he’s busy. I do have a credit card I can use!!! 

And remember:  Don’t let a little  slip ruin your trip!!!