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Bobbie_552001

Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 05:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ladytex....you had more nerve than I did....I saw that joke yesterday AM and thought for sure that I would get modded if I posted it!! So....I went to the person who has the same kind of mind that I have dirty and tried to draw her in...of course you had beat me to it!!!!

Ladytex

Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 10:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm innocent, I tell ya!!! My evil twin posted under my name yesterday! I disavow all knowledge of the previous post!!

Not1worry

Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 10:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I am so tired of the low-carb, no sugar thing. So desperate am I for sweets that I am drinking hot Lime Jello.

Tabbyking

Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 10:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
ick!

anyway, this is what a friend emailed me shortly after ds and i went over some of his college courses lists....these do look easier than calc and physics; however, being a woman, i would probably get all A's without even trying LOL

A new two-year degree is being offered at Life University that many of you should be interested in: Becoming A Real Man. That's right, in just six trimesters, you, too, can be a real man -- as well as earn an AA degree (AA Real Men). Please take a moment to look over the program outline.

FIRST YEAR
Autumn Schedule:

MEN 101 - Combatting Stupidity
MEN 102 - You, Too, Can Do Housework
MEN 103 - PMS Learn When to Keep Your Mouth Shut
MEN 104 - We Do Not Want Sleazy Underthings for Christmas

Winter Schedule:

MEN 110 - Wonderful Laundry Techniques
MEN 111 - Understanding the Female Response to Getting in at 4am
MEN 112 - Parenting: It Doesn't End with Conception
EAT 100 - Get a Life, Learn to Cook
EAT 101 - Get a Life, Learn to Cook II
ECON 001A - What's Hers is Hers

Spring Schedule:

MEN 120 - How NOT to Act Like an A$$---- When You're Wrong
MEN 121 - Understanding Your Incompetence
MEN 122 - YOU, the Weaker Sex
MEN 123 - Reasons to Give Flowers

SECOND YEAR
Autumn Schedule:

SEX 101 - You CAN Fall Asleep without It
SEX 102 - Morning Dilemma: If It's Awake, Take a Shower
MEN 201 - How to Stay Awake After Sex
MEN 202 - How to Put the Toilet Seat Down Elective (See electives Below)

Winter Schedule:

MEN 210 - The Remote Control: Overcoming Your Dependency
MEN 211 - How to Not Act Younger than Your Children
MEN 212 - You, Too, Can Be a Designated Driver
MEN 213 - Honest, You Don't Look Like Tom Cruise, Especially When Naked
MEN 230A - Her Birthdays and Anniversaries Are Important 1

Spring Schedule:

MEN 220 - Omitting f--- from Your Vocabulary (Pass/Fail Only)
MEN 221 - Fluffing the Blanket After Farting Is Not Necessary
MEN 222 - Real Men Ask for Directions
MEN 223 - Thirty Minutes of Begging is NOT Considered Foreplay
MEN 230B - Her Birthdays and Anniversaries Are Important 2

Course Electives:

EAT 101 - Cooking with Tofu
EAT 102 - Utilization of Eating Utensils
EAT 103 - Burping and Belching Discreetly
MEN 231 - Mothers-in-Law
MEN 232 - Appear to Be Listening
MEN 233 - Just Say "Yes, Dear"
ECON 001B - Cheaper to Keep Her (Must Pass ECON 001A)

Tabbyking

Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 10:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
not1, i wish i could send 'scents' to you! dh has been making neiman marcus chocolate chip cookies every day for a week. i go to bed and smell chocolate chip cookies...i woke up at 6:12 this morning and had to smell chocolate chip cookies for 2 hours before i finally got up just to go to another room and get away from the smell. the entire downstairs smells like cookies. there are racks of cookies on the kitchen counter, piled on the dining room table...my dd took 2 dozen cookies to habitat for humanity this morning for everyone to eat them while they work.....the thought of eating something sweet just about makes me ill!
is there a chocolate chip cookie potpourri that you can smell for so long that the thought of actually eating something makes you sick?!
now, if my husband put walnuts in the cookies, i might eat one bite because i think a chocolate chip cookie is 'wasted' on me without the nuts...
anyway, the first night or so my husband made cookies, i would cheat and eat one. now i can't even stand the smell of them!


that reminds me of a 'funny'...several years ago, some expert did a highly overpaid survey to determine what smells turned men on. the results showed that for most men, the scent of cinnamon rolls or hot apple pie turned them on. (didn't say if they had 'mama's boy syndrome' or not....)
my neighbor decided to try it out. one day, she bought one of those hot, cinnamon apple pie candles and lit it. she simmered some cinnamon and water in a small pan. her husband walked in and said, "jeana! what's that awful smell? open a window!"

Not1worry

Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 12:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tabby, I am craving cookies and ice cream in the worst way. I want to come to your house! The Jello just made me feel ick, increasing the craving for comfort food!

Tabbyking

Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 12:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ooh, not1, i feel so bad for you! you can come to my house any time you want.
sometimes, you just have to eat something. one something. i try to have a de-caff in the late afternoon. i take a couple of ounces of non-fat milk, a couple of drops of hazelnut (or other) flavoring and a sprinkle of cinnamon. i put it into a jar and i shake the heck out of it, until it is a foamy mass that has doubled or tripled in size. then i pour in on top of my coffee (de-caff, if it's after noon) and have my own cheap, low-cal, low-sugar, low whatever caffe latte.
i slice a crisp granny smith apple and put a tablespoon of pb on a plate (if i spread the pb on each slice, i would go way over my allowance, LOL) and then dip the tip of each piece of apple into the pb. the tart and the peanut taste are so good. it's also filling.
i cook a cheap roast in the crock pot. i eat slices of it with horseradish, or i put chunks of the meat into a green salad for a 'steak salad'. i use rice vinegar for a dressing, because even though it has sugar carbs, it doesn't take much to flavor the salad. it's a good trade off for an italian dressing with a lot of oil in it. skip the croutons and just picture them all soggy already, anyway!
make a hamburger with all the fixings once in a while, but either slice off part of the inside of both the top and bottom bun to cut the carbs by a third or so, or use crisp lettuce leaves as the bun. sometimes i just have the lean patty with my pickle, crumbled bleu cheese and sauteed (in Pam) mushrooms piled on my plate to eat with a fork and knife.
today i really feel like pasta, so i am using cauliflower in small flowerettes with a marinara sauce for a filling meal. i can even make meatballs, i just won't put any crackers or bread into them. just onions, and some spices and maybe some egg white. i think diced mushrooms would maybe take some of the bread or cracker place.....i'll have to give that a whirl!
not1, pick one night a week when you can have o.j. and fat-free frozen vanilla yogurt whipped up in a blender for an 'orange julius'. fat-free and you can let the sugars go once in a while.
good luck, sweetie!

Ladytex

Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 04:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I finally got my Christmas tree put up. I am such a scrooge mcduck this year. I didn't say that I had the decorations on it yet, but at least it is put up...maybe the decorations will be on there by Christmas ... LOL ...

Maris

Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 05:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hey I havent bought my tree yet.

Reader234

Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 05:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah, I'm not alone!! Just put the tree up, you wont believe what I went thru with the lights, no wonder I didnt want to put that up!! Now decorating! Help!! The kids do so much, you have to chase DD around, then, when she goes to sleep I move them around again, Imean after all Dorothy and her pals have to stay together right? And some of the angels need to be together!!

Mocha

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 06:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Good Morning TVCH.

Lkunkel

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 09:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LoL. I've been reading all of the various holiday threads. I'm a Syncretic Witch and tend to celebrate Yuletide.

My celebration of the longest night took place within and without myself: I lit a candle to bring forth the return of the light inside of me. I am treating this turn of the wheel--until Candlemas--as a time of reflection and introspection; a time to hibernate, and let my creativity stir.

I am focusing on what I want to see in my life in the coming year. I am choosing to put away animosities and remind myself who I am. As part of the Christian aspect of my beliefs, Jesus as the Light is important to me personally, thus I have placed a small image of the Christ child on my altar with a gold (yellow) candle--which I lit last tonight at 11:03PM PST saying: "This is the night of the solstice, the night that the darkness is triumphant over light, and yet on the morrow, the dark begins to give way and the light will return. The spirit of nature is suspended, all living things wait the transformation of the Dark King into the Infant Light. I watch for the coming of dawn, when the Great Mother will again give birth to the Divine Child, The Sun God who is the bringer of the life of Spring and the promise of Summer. I call the Sun from the womb of night. Blessed Be."

This morning, I placed springs of evergreen in a vase with sprigs of silk holly while singing "Deck the Halls. " When I finished the arrangement to my liking, I pulled out the acorns that a friend's son collected for me. I placed them around the base of the vase, saying: "These acorns are the seeds and symbols of how my intent and promise of tonight's rebirth will grow within me--like a mighty Oak--toward my most cherished fulfillment."

I then thanked the God and Goddess for their many blessings and asked that their Light be rekindled in my heart and mind and may I know and share the blessings of peace and love.

With better planning (and checks coming in when they should have), I would have done a more full ritual (and a tree), but for me, today, this is sufficient. I am still figuring out who I am and what I believe.

I've decided that part of the fun of being a Syncretic is that I can do what I want and--as long as it doesn't break any of my own rules--I can celebrate using the images I choose. Hence the Christ Child sitting on a silk ivy leaf in front of a Yellow Candle to invite Light back into my world.

And that said, I am now eagerly awaiting the visit from the mailman with a check from our editor so that Santa can actually pay a visit to us.

Mocha

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 09:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Lkunkel that is very interesting. Can you tell me more info about Syncretic Witches? I'm just curious and you can post it in my folder. Thanks in advance.

Lkunkel

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 10:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Mocha: Done and done. BB and happy holidays!

Mocha

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 10:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks!

Seamonkey

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 11:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Anyone else in SoCal rolling with what seems to be an earthquake? Channel 4 newspeople also feeling it!!

Now reporting.. rocked a wide area..

Very slow and squishy here..

Seamonkey

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 11:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Now being reporte as a 6.5 near Hearst Castle (San Luis Obispo area).. felt in San Francisco and at least as far south as Orange County..

Seamonkey

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 11:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
earthquake near San Simeon, CA..

In Cambr1a they describe it as strong and sudden, not rolling.. but way down in Orange County, it was rolling and rolling..

Ladytex

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 03:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Lkunkel, that was a very interesting post. Thanks for sharing with us. Now I'm off to Mocha's folder to read more, lol ...

Not1worry

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 04:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Guess what, Tabby? The Breyer's Low Carb ice cream is awesome! What a treat. Only 4 carb grams for 1/2 cup. I tried the chocolate. Also, Hardee's has a low carb burger that is 5 grams. I couldn't believe they were charging 2 and half dollars for a cheeseburger with no bun. But it was eat that or go nuts over the smell of the kid's food. It was good, but very messy to eat while driving. They wrap in all in paper and they over did the lettuce. Next time I'll order a regular burger and ditch the bun myself.

Mygetaway

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 06:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
So when the cat has got your tongue, there's no need for dismay.
Just summon up this word, and then you've got a lot to say:
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-doc-ious!
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay


Can't get this out of my head for some reason.

Mygetaway

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 07:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just saw a post that made me wonder...

Are there any of you out there that have a "Gift of The Magi" story to tell?

Where you sold something precious to you, in order to get a more precious gift for someone you love, and then they do the same?

This story plot is so over used at Christmas.. I can't think of a time it happened to me, but what about you? (I didn't want to start a whole new thread, just in case no one answers.)

Mizinvanccouver

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 08:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You watched Young & The Restless today didn't you? LOL

Mak1

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 08:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That was very interesting, Lkunkel. Thanks for sharing!

Mygetaway

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 08:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, that was the inspiration for the question Miz..LOL But I've also been watching a LOT of Christmas movies lately too, so...

I agree about Lkunkel's post too..