I've been Tagged!! I'm so excited.

I was tagged, so here it goes... (I’m so flattered!)

A attached or single: attached – I assume this means married, but also very attached to 2 overbearing dogs.

B best friend: Aunty Kate, the late Aunty Fran, Bob Sykes, and Becky McPhie from HS

C cake or pie: Cake. I agree with EmJ. Pie crust is just a plate for the pie filling.

D day of choice: Saturday

E essential item: Diet Coke

F favorite color: red

G gummy bears or worms: worms. Sour ones.

H hometown: SLC

I indulgence(s): Crown Burger Bacon Cheese Burger (alas, too many points at WW)

J January or July: July and lounging around HV. I’ve had it with January

K kids: 3 girls, 1 boy

L life is incomplete without: family, friends, plan of happiness

M marriage date: August 5, 1981. We couldn’t get married on August 4 like I wanted to, because that is the anniversary of my sister Fran and my Cousin Charlie and my Great-Aunt Stella’s birthday

N number of siblings: 2 sisters and 1 brother (Brother and 1 Sister deceased)

O oranges or apples: oranges

P phobias or fears: because I Bob’s profession, I live in mortal fear of hitting a pedestrian. Grasshoppers, any bug that jumps, Bats.

Q quotes: "We eat what we can and what we can't we can." I'll tell you the story behind this sometime.

R reason to smile: wonderful children, a living prophet, that the first day of spring is only 8 weeks away.

S season: Fall

T tag three friends: Rachstickle, and since I don’t have any friends that blog (you know how it is with middle aged ladies) I will send this along with an email to Aunty Kate, and Deborah Cartwright

U unknown fact about me: Can’t think of any. My life is an open book

V very favorite store: Williams-Sonoma

W worst habit: never washing my car. Leaving my shoes scattered all over the closet.

X x-ray or ultrasound: Does an MRI count. I have one every March to celebrate the coming of spring.

Y your favorite food: Fried chicken

Z zodiac: Gemini (explains by split personality)

Give me some Credit

I'm on another rant. It must come from not having enought to eat. Anyway, now that Christmas is over and everyone has stopped sending me catalogs, I am getting overrun with credit card offers. I have just finished cleaning up my/Bob's home office and sorting junk mail to recycle (yes, I do recycle), bills to pay (ugh!!), stuff to file for taxes, etc., and the biggest pile of all it seems, the credit card offers. I collect them and then put them in the big shredding bin at RBSykes & Associates so no one will steal my identify. Not that they could get much with it. Anyway, in the last 31 days, I received 22 credit card offers -- some were specialty cards such as a Disney Visa or an NFL Master Card. No wonder America is in so much trouble financially. It is so easy to get credit and they only tell you in the ultra fine print that the 0% interest goes up to 29.8% interest if you are 10 minutes late paying your bill!! I know how easy it is to get in trouble with credit cards.

So I collect them and then shred. The shredders recycle the shreds so I don't feel quite so bad about all the trees being destroyed. I think that it almost bothers me more that I can't recycle the paper than it does that people are being lead down a path of financial ruin by these less than scrupulous credit card companies.

I'm done ranting now.

Results

I did promise a results show. 2 more pounds have been voted off the island.

A Grand Experiment

Only at Weight Watchers do you get an award for just showing up. I got this "Stay & Succeed" award for coming 16 weeks in a row. Even if I don't lose a pound, I get this cute little clapping hands charm. Woo Hoo. I have lost 31 lbs total so I guess the whole point is that if you show up, something might actually happen.

The past couple of weeks has been a little hard. I have had to recommit to such things as measuring my food. I guess the crackers I eat while I am trying to decide what to have for dinner count, as does the finger-fulls of cupcake batter (or is that fingers-full), or the handful of this and taste of that and a couple of pinches of bleu cheese while I look for the answers to my stress and problems in the fridge. I guess the answer is not in there. Anyway, today starts a new day, with a new committment to try the WW healthy checks -- 6 glasses of water, 2 - 3 dairy servings, 5 - 7 servings of vegetables, a multi-vitamin, and 2 teaspoons of olive oil. That means I need to use up 2 of my 26 points on olive oil!! Ick.

I also got on the treadmill this morning and walked for 30 minutes. 1.37 miles. Not a lot, but not bad for someone who is basically sedentary.

We will see how this grand experiment goes. Stay tuned for the results show next week.

Huzzah!!

2 Posts in one day. However the glorious news I just recently heard can not be ignored.

Masterpiece Theatre, in all its wonder and genius, is going to air the complete works of JANE AUSTEN!!!!

There will be a new Persuasion (which is good because Rachel says that all the people in the old one are ugly), a new Mansfield Park (which is my least favorite especially the most recent one that was disgracefully modernly scandalous), a new Northanger Abbey (I'm not sure there was ever an old one), a new Sense & Sensibility (though Emma Thomson's is hard to beat), the Colin Firth Pride & Prejudice (though all those girls are really plain for being the most beautifuly girls in the county), and the Kate Beckinsale Emma (which is my personal favorite of Emma). Go ahead and diagram that sentence!

I will have my DVR set for January 13th.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/austen/index.html

A Christmas (belated) Update

Our Christmas Eve/Christmas Day was great!!

On Christmas Eve, we went to the Nutcracker for the 20th time! Some of us have gone more, because we wanted to see Kathleen twice. Kathleen has appeared in it a grand total of 28 times on stage over 4 years. This year she was a page. We went to our traditional after-Nutcracker dinner at Lamb’s and came out to a snow storm that looked like it was right out of The Shining.

We played Apples to Apples and opened a couple of presents. Rob, Bob and Sarah went to midnight services at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and then dug a woman out of a snow bank. We had breakfast and then opened presents. We have never been in too much of a hurry to get out of bed on Christmas morning. We later went to a family-friendly National Treasure movie – which we loved, Emily Jones.

I also got a new camera for Christmas. Well actually, I got a new camera for Christmas but Bob’s canmera didn’t do what it needed and did stuff that I didn’t need so we swapped. This is the only picture I have taken.