My Own Thoughts

I found out about this show only by chance two weeks before it came to town. (Next to the last weekend in August.) If I had known beforehand, I might have been able to save up some money. As it was I spent about $200 there and my mother spent $500 of my 43rd birthday [...]

Originally written 8/26. Not posted then so I could edit out the stupidity and profanity. (Yes, I think most profanity is stupidity, but I am fairly sure both were in the earlier version.) We’ve spent a year getting out of debt. Gah! It seems like far longer than a year, but I don’t think we [...]

Hubby decided it wasn’t worth a dollar to mail in our vehicle registration. Hah. That’s because he didn’t have to do it in person. He sent me. I spent an hour waiting to get through a 36 person line. Halfway through I gave up. I saw a sign that said I could get my vehicle [...]

155 I’ve lost 30.8 pounds in 99 days. That’s less than one pound every three days but more than one pound every four days. It equals out to a bit more than 2 pounds a week. That’s not as good as they said it would be, but it is way better than I have gotten [...]

Two day protein plateau breaker is not fun. I have no energy and am totally zonked. I did not lose any weight yesterday. I feel a bit sick to my stomach as well. However, hopefully hte change will make a difference.

In looking for something else, I went through my posts. I wrote this as part of an entry on 10/31/03. “Then I would probably move to a three year (7-9th grade) campus where you get introduced to many new things. In my junior high, we had two electives a year. (It is the only good [...]

I am on a two day, approved, protein plateau breaker. You can have: 2 eggs for breakfast 8 oz chicken 2-3 cups lettuce 5.5 ounces beef 2 cups lettuce .5 cucumber 80 oz water 2 supplements Yesterday I weighed in 156.8. I have lost 29 pounds. That’s not 3 lbs. a week, but it’s still [...]

157.2 That’s 28.6 pounds. Not much movement in the last week, but then I did cheat last night. I went to California Pizza Kitchen. I am going to start getting up half an hour earlier to ride my bike. I am going to do it three times a week.

I found a list I made 7/13/96 of my dream house. 2100-3200 sq ft- no more or less white stone min 3 max 5 bedrooms big kitchen with iland, lots of cabinet space in light oak, cherry, or white dining room (not breakfast room- or maybe both) huge living room, maybe smaller second for TV [...]

This guy might make a good choice for our Heroes, Villains, and Henchmen class. Kuro5hin wrote a decent synopsis.

I needed encouragement after that last entry. I found it. “So don’t force the numbers. They’ll come. Here is your job today: adhere to a winning pattern of action that you know will produce results if you follow it consistently. ” Dr. Hussman Goal: to get healthy and look better Reasons: 1. to not get [...]

I am on day 90 of quick Weight Loss. Yesterday I weighed in at 157.6. That was a loss of 28.2 pounds. That’s almost a pound per three days. I have lost a total of 28.2 pounds. I have also lost 13.25 inches. In addition I have gone from a body fat of 38% to [...]

If the point of blogging is to be read, then I have left the best place and gone somewhere else. If the point of blogging is to write, then I am in the best place. The question then becomes, what is the point of blogging? Is it a journal entry in electronic format which allows [...]

Okay, here’s the three day preparatory eating schedule. Two eggs for breakfast. ONE meat, but any and all of that kind of meat that you want. beef veal liver lamb chicken turkey fish Raw green vegetables. As much as you want. But they can’t be cooked. Two oranges a day. They originally said one but [...]

157.6 I’m down 28.2 pounds. I’ve lost one pound in the last five days. That’s not anywhere near as good as I wanted, but it is better than standing still. Unfortunately, I only have three more weeks to get down to my goal weight. I don’t think I am going to lose 22 more pounds [...]

An SF book that looks at war in space. Humanity has already met other races and made some sort of peace with them. This may have happened in some other book, I don’t know. This is the first one I had read and you don’t have to have read the others. This tale looks at [...]

This is a comic fantasy in which the fairy tale princess runs away to live with a dragon. Surely anything is better than the boring required princess lessons. But then, how does she convince all the princes and knights to leave her and her dragon alone? Why won’t her parents just settle down and realize [...]

This book is a fun fantasy written in first person. The main character is a high school English teacher from Oklahoma who frequents estate and garage sales in order to afford furnishings for her home. At one of these sales she comes upon an urn which has a picture that looks a lot like her [...]

This story is a sequel to A Bad Spell in Yurt. This is a wonderful book, lively, interesting, varied. There are at least two, maybe three storylines going on. Daimbert is trying to figure out who is creating magic creatures and letting them lose in the kingdom. A seven foot hunter shows up and starts [...]

This is the story of a newly qualified wizard who goes to work in the tiny backwater kingdom of Yurt. Daimbert quickly learns that the king has been put under a spell. Evil presence suggests that someone in the castle is practicing black magic. But Daimbert is supposed to be creating telephones, a class he [...]