So I was following journal links all over looking for diet/motivation groups and I came across a comment that made me think: “totally skinny people come in here thinking they are fat because they've had it pounded in their heads all their lives that they are”

This is so true. I mean, I personally am fat. Very fat. I used to be fat and healthy, but not so much now. But I see/hear people, coworkers, talking about oh god I'm so fat… I want to smack them and say well how does that make ME feel?? I'm so horrible that I should just crawl under a rock and die?

Fuck that.

Congratulations!! You're a strawberry daquiri!!

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Which is funny 'cause I loooooove strawberry daquiris! Also girly fruity sweet drinks. But also Jack and Coke, so it's ok.

Happy birthday !!

Hope it's a good one! :)

The Curse has arrived, and I can tell because I'm eating like crap. Not really bad, mind you, I've only had like 13 points today, but there you go. I have trouble eating breakfast on a good day – today I just couldn't face it. I did force myself to at least drink a glass of milk, and fill up my water bottle (2 glasses worth).

Didn't eat lunch until 1:30 – and had 2 eggrolls (it's ok, they're yummy and only 2 points each!) and a WW eclair. I won't buy those again – they're ok, but not really worth the price or the 3 points. Angel food cake makes me much happier.

So, I'm drinking more water, but not eating. Sigh.

Dinner tonight is Chicken Fricassee, I hope. It's in the crock-pot but I don't know if it'll be ok. We had this bag 'o frozen skinless chicken breasts, which we hadn't actually tried yet. I put a few in, but they were kinda glommed together, and I'm not sure if the cooking time will work out ok. Oh well, I guess we'll see. It probably won't kill me.

“Sweet Dreams” (by Eurythmics)
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

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I'm tired of being exceedingly overweight. I'm tired of my back hurting. I'm tired of my feet hurting. I'm tired of struggling to put on my shoes. I'm tired of being tired.

I've been fat ever since I can remember. When I was a baby I was definitely fat. There are pictures of me when I was six where I wasn't fat, but then I remember being tormented by my “peers” in third grade. So what happened?

Although now when I look at some pictures I could cry because the child I see was not really that fat. She is now.

I started Weight Watchers on 8/11/2003 – weigh in was 291.8 lbs. I didn't like the Monday meeting, so I switched to Tuesday. Weigh in yesterday was 286.8 lbs – I lost 5 pounds, yay!

It hasn't been too bad so far. The biggest problems for me is eating breakfast, and drinking enough water.

My first goal weight is the 10% body weight goal – 262 lbs. Twenty four pounds to go!

This time it feels different. Somehow this time I feel that I'm ready, that I can lose the weight. I hope that's true. The skeptic in me is tapping her foot saying, “I'll believe it when I see it.”

We'll see.

Blaze of Stupidity
Swiss police report that a Zurich man burned down his apartment and two others in an attempt to kill some wasps. His extermination tools of choice: a full can of insect spray and a cigarette lighter. First, the man doused a nest of wasps living under the roof overhang of his apartment building. When the wasps emerged, raging like… wasps, he whipped out his trusty lighter and poof: There goes the neighborhood. No one was hurt, but the blaze caused $350,000 in damage. The wasps still may be at large. And the man awaits a much-needed visit from Darwin's Committee for Natural Selection.

Jen sez: Those wasps were ASKING for it!

US Republican Party outsources fund raising to India

Also: http://www.business-standard.com/archives/2003/jan/50310103.016.asp

The US Republican Party now has a band of young and enthusiastic fund-raisers in Noida and Gurgaon.

This is the first time such a project has been handed out to a company outside the US. The market research and public relations companies engaged by the party usually undertake such projects.

Funniest damn cat video I've ever seen – click on the Life of a Cat

Here's some pics of my poor yard after they dug a bunch of trenches for the sprinkers, and a gratuitous pussy shot.
Backyard…

And front yard…

And the pussy shot… (just seeing if anyone's paying attention!>