My Own Thoughts

Tonight my husband and I had a date. I wore my special red dress. (The one the kids and he gave up a PS2 to buy for me. They spent 10 hours in the mall with me looking for it. They bought me shoes, a purse, and hose to go with it.) We went to [...]

I do not think that there is magic in naming. Although there is some power. George Washington knew this when he refused to be anything other than “Mr. President.” Children on the playground know this when they use namecalling to keep other children where they want them. I have always had a think about names. [...]

161.4 After being extremely slow for two weeks, my weight loss has speeded up a bit. That’s good. I’ve now lost 24.4 pounds. I decided I would walk today and give my youngest a break from watching the dog, so I took the dog with me. We’d been out about seven minutes when it started [...]

Today I went and got my hair dyed again. Jenny did it this time. I like her. She’s much more personable and she seems to know what she is doing. The hair isn’t quite what I was hoping for, colorwise, but it is much closer to what I wanted than it was last time. The [...]

Public school starts August 12th. I can’t believe it! That’s less than 2 weeks from now. The homeschool high school tutoring ministry (see why I call it an alt. HS?) starts when the college does, Aug. 23. I still don’t know if my class will make. It hasn’t made yet. In some ways that’s a [...]

161.8 That’s 24 pounds. In 69 days. That averages out to a pound every 2.9 days. It has definitely slowed down, but the average is better than it was yesterday. I went in today, in jeans, expecting them to say I hadn’t lost any weight. But they said I lost 1.5 pounds since last Saturday. [...]

Okay, so the title’s a little misleading. Actually, Yahoo quotes Reuter’s who says that economists have found that those who believe in hell are less corrupt and more prosperous. Note: Boing Boing presents this as the “bizarro, dubious factoid of the day.” I think it’s interesting that Boing Boing doubts this, but not other things. [...]

162.8 I’ve now lost 23 pounds. My weight loss has slowed down. I heard rumors they will do something different when that happens, but I wasn’t able to go in yesterday and I am not sure I will be able to go in today either. Note: It took me two weeks to lose these last [...]

Yesterday 163.6 Today 164.2 That makes it exactly eight weeks with 21.6 pounds lost. That is still better than two pounds a week. Even better than two and a half. Of course, I liked it better when I’d lost 22 pounds. I am a bit frustrated with the weight fluctuation. I did eat a little [...]

I weighed 164.2 this morning. Basically that makes a week at right around this weight. The BMI stuff says I’m 26.5, which is overweight. So, even though someone told me last night she thought I looked good, I still have a ways to go. Of course, looking good compared to how I did look is [...]

I’m teaching a class on “Heroes, Villains, and Henchmen.” Our first class is on Egypt and Joseph. We’re going to look at slavery, mummies, and general history. I thought it might be interesting to find out how much a slave cost and how much money people had. But, as you can see from the last [...]

This website says that in marriage, the husband paid about the cost of a slave to the wife’s family as part of the marriage contract. This site, whose background looks like lined school paper, is a good intro to basic Egypt stuff, including interesting things like the calendar, medicine, the decimal system, and the Pharoah [...]

R is not liking this diet. It’s mostly greens and beef today. I remember it not being horrible. But I went back and looked and actually the first nine days were pretty bad. After that they got better. Significantly better. I figure that, since he’s a guy, he’s going to lose about 8-10 pounds in [...]

I’ve lost 20+ pounds. But I had some salt yesterday and gained one back. I’m still at 20+, it’s just not as plus as it was. It makes me want to have salt. Then I’d know when I was actually losing weight and not just water. But I think I’ll stick with the plan for [...]

This is the news I look for but don’t see. Why don’t I see it? Why don’t I hear it? Because the media are not proud to be Americans. Get some media who is.

The only Picasso I have ever liked was for sale at Costco Fine Art. “La Folie.” Now it is gone. And I did not buy it. Someone did, though. I know they will enjoy it.

My dad took the boys to Splashtown. My hubby took advantage of the time and took a day off to spend with his wife and car. (That’s even how he turned it in at work.) We drove to Galveston, ate well, drove around, took pictures, and came home. Of course the problem is we came [...]

I have started getting sick a lot. Yesterday, I got sick after dinner, nauseated and having hot flashes. I wondered if it might be related to menopause, but nausea is not one of the symptoms and I’m not old enough yet, anyway. Saturday I was also having stomach problems, throwing up, etc. Today I was [...]

I’ve now lost 21 pounds. I weigh in at 164.8. I am nearing the 25 pound mark. That’s the weight at which I stayed on another diet for six months and didn’t lose any weight. I’m hoping this will not happen with QWLC. I am hoping I’ll just keep dropping. Truthfully I am amazed at [...]

I am over forty. I have two sons, both pre-teen as of this writing. I have two parents, both ill but almost guaranteed by their incredible genetics to hang on for another two decades. For most of our married life, my husband and I lived above our means. However, in the last two years, and [...]