they lace that with crack, you know

I started the Atkins "diet" in September. I followed it religiously for a little while, then I got to the point where I figure I'd just go easy on the carb intake but not totally forbid myself from eating things that tend to be carb heavy... If I did have something like that (for instance, three or four hard shell tacos, which really isn't TOO heavy on the carbs, it's actually very modest), I'd cut back on carbs the rest of the day or the next day.

I guess it's my own bastardized version of Atkins. It's working OK. Still losing weight, albeit very slowly. Now and then I teeter-totter with a couple pounds, but it's still on a downhill run. For instance, yesterday I was down 19.5 lbs from when I began, but this morning I was at 17.5 lbs from when I began. (I weigh myself every morning after I wake up but after I use the facilities)

One of the things that probably doesn't help this teeter-tottering is when I eat a taco salad. Including the crunchy deep-fried flour tortilla shell. It's hard to resist, though, eating that shell. I take a nibble and tell myself, "just a little bite". Then a little bite turns into the entire shell, except the mushy ick that is the bottom part of the bowl.

I guess it's kind of like how some people are with french fries, or those little cookies that come in the big plastic "economy size" packages that usually are bought for picnics or barbeques. The cookies that are about the size of a quarter and once you eat one you find yourself trotting back to the bowl to grab a handful more, 'cause, you know, they're laced with crack! Why else can you not stop at just one?

and let the nuts gather..

I'd nearly forgotten that today is the day when the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King is being shown along with LotR I & II. That is, until I saw a couple of weirdoes at the mall dressed up in LotR garb.

I had an eye appointment this morning and rather than go home afterwards, only to leave within minutes of arriving to head to work, I just went to the mall near work to kill some time. I saw a lady dressed in a LotR type dress and thought it was odd. It didn't click until I saw a man/geek decked out in an elven robe, complete with the little elven leaf brooch/clasp at the neck. And wearing LotR garb underneath the robe.

A lady in the store was talking to him and I over heard him tell her that a whole bunch of people were lined up outside the movie theater all dressed up for the occasion.

I can understand dressing up for something like the Renaissance Festival, 'cause, you know, you wouldn't look out of place. Or, even a convention (like the Trekkies do). Or having a medieval themed wedding. But for a movie showing? Sorry, but I think that just makes you a weirdo.

Now THAT’s a Christmas gift!

I wish my employers were this generous.

That would make for a very nice Christmas. And that's the kind of thing that makes an employee feel appreciated. We might be lucky to finally get raises this year.

Bah humbug.

you blink and nearly a week goes by..

Yeah, still alive here. Just haven't been inspired to post much.

Posted in my "Super Secret" category.
If you don't have the password and I am familiar with you or your blog, e-mail me.

I'm a little bit behind here, but yay! They caught Saddam! It was about damned time.

Off to go start a load of laundry or something. Maybe do a little more work on Beth's little dragon. It's coming along, I just gotta get myself motivated to finish it. :o)

all the pretty lights…

I put the lights up on the house this afternoon. I figure I should do it soon since nearly every house on our block has done theirs and I didn't want to look Scrooge-ish.

They're just plain white icicle lights. Icicle lights seem to be popular here, but I think that's mostly because it's a rare moment that we'd ever see REAL icicles hanging from the rooftops here. The day we see icicles hanging from roofs in Phoenix is probably a day most of us will wonder if Hell has started to freeze over.

Now on to the lights on the 9' beast of a Christmas tree. Which I also will have to use our 8' ladder in order to put them on the tree....

I fought the law, and the law won

In this case, the law = 9 foot Christmas tree.
I swear that thing wants to eat me.
My forearms and hands are starting to look like I got into a fight with one of my cats.

And I'm only half done spreading its branches to fill it out. I haven't even started decorating the thing yet.

And it won't fit in the front window (the front of the room is only 8 foot ceiling), so it got put in the corner by the 3/4 wall. I'm going to tempt fate and leave the kitty tree where it's at and see how long it takes one of the cats to dive bomb it from the top of the 3/4 wall.

So far both of them are in hiding. We'll see how long that lasts.

Mmmmm.. meat group!

I always love finding bugs in my food.




In this guys case, he was in a head of cauliflower. That had been in the bottom of our refrigerator, which was beginning to freeze (bottom of frige very cold). And it was still alive.

After I cut the piece of cauliflower it was attached to and dropped it into a bowl with the other leaves, watched some t.v. and came back to the kitchen to clean up, it had moved from where it landed in the bowl, and attached itself to the leaf shown in the picture. Hardy little fellow.

I put him outside in the backyard in a cluster of weeds since I didn't want to kill it. Granted it may have gotten chilly outside, but it survived sitting at the bottom of a fridge nearly frozen for three days, so if anything it'll become bird food rather than die of exposure.

Where shall we put it?

Evidently, we've landed ourselves a 9' Christmas tree. It's artificial, and is probably just a loaner. It belongs to Josh's dad, but it won't fit in his current house. But our house has vaulted ceilings, and I've been pining (get it, pining? Ha!) for a Christmas tree ever since we moved into our house. The only trees we have are these little 1'-2' mini-trees.

I've got a few ornaments that I've been collecting & making over the last few years, but that tree is gonna be rather nekkid until I get more.

But, that will probably be a good thing, 'cause our cats will probably take the tree down more than once in their curiosity over its presence.

I have an idea of where to put it, but I can't remember how tall that part of the house is (I'm at work at the moment, so can't run out & measure). There is one other place I can think to place it if my first idea doesn't work, but the problem with that spot is I will have to move a piece of furniture as well as the cat tree. Where the cat tree is currently located, the cats climb up it and onto the 3/4 wall that separates the kitchen & the living room ('cause you know how cats love high places). And if I leave the cat tree there, I can just picture the cats diving off the wall and into the tree. Whee!!

This should make for a rather interesting holiday season. I think I'll keep a tally of how many times I walk out to find the tree flat on its face. We'll see how long it takes the cats to get bored with it. Knowing my cats, either they will ignore it, or they'll knock it down over and over again because they're short a few marbles and can't grasp the concept of "stay away!!". Heh.

eBay blues…

I think I may be experiencing my very first non-paying bidder soon.

The guy did a "Buy It Now" on the mini-disc player, on Nov. 27. I've not heard hide nor hair from this guy yet, and he only has two days left (as of midnight tonight, it will be 48 hrs) before I bash him as a non-paying bidder.

I even sent a payment reminder. And he had such a good record, too.

It almost makes me wonder if something happened to the guy? Maybe he was in some sort of freak accident or something?

I guess we'll see when two more days pass, whether I hear anything from this bidder or if I end up starting to go through the motions of getting my final value fees refunded.

And I also had a bloke in the UK snap up the Sony Ericsson phone that was up for bid, without e-mailing me first to ask if I'd even consider shipping overseas. I mean, it does say in the shipping area that I would only ship to the U.S. But, I'm not adverse to trying to ship out of the country if someone asks.

Anyway, this guy ALSO has yet to make any attempt to pay, or choose which shipping method of the two I offered he wants so I can send the proper invoice. But this auction only just ended in the wee hours of Dec 1st (almost 48 hrs ago), so I will give this person the benefit of the doubt and hope that I hear back from them soon.

The other two auctions were paid for promptly and the items already shipped out (the two PDAs).

The fifth auction is almost overwith, and a guy in Sweden looks to possibly be the winner. And yes, he did write me and asked if I'd consider shipping to Sweden before he made any bids. So some people have manners. :o)

For your viewing pleasure..

As promised, a few snapshots of the finished gold dragon.

   

   


The width of some of them is pretty big, and I think the largest file size is 90k. So if you're on dialup, sorry about that, but I wanted to show good shots at a higher resolution.

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