It doesn’t have the same ring, does it? Sounds like something the Swedish Chef would say.
Good morning and how are we all? (Never mind when I finish this, it will be afternoon here!) Despite utter exhaustion, sleep did not come well for me. Well, it came well, but whereas my superpower is sleeping, my arch nemesis is peeing all night. That’s not a good sign and sure enough, my blood sugar was (beyond) slightly elevated this morning. So I’m drinking a lot of water today. Means I”ll be peeing more. It’s a never-ending pee-festival. Gross.
I know – damn! That’s TMI!
lots of stuff behind the cut.
Remember this that I just had to have?
Well I have it. Not sure I like the outcome.
Yeah. It’s obvious I’m gaining weight again and it’s apparent I need a haircut and I don’t think the addition of jewelry – which I have – would help the fact I think I look like a cow.
Actually, I got a lot of compliments – especially on the leggings. Not only my kids, but other teachers as well. I’m discovering I’m not the only one who shops at Zulily. This didn’t come from Zulily, it came from my favorite place – Roamans.
Sigh. Diet. And us going into the holiday season.
Sigh again.
This morning, I was going through the dining room – I have 2 large boxes marked HEAVY because I was stupid and filled them with hardbacks. They are going on a bookshelf today!
Either way, I was digging through one box (so I could throw it away because Lord T thinks it’s a scratching post,
but I digress.
either way, I’m going through the box (so I can toss it) and it’s marked ‘permanent memorbilia’ and so of course, I find the newspapers from the Braves winning the World Series and a large coffee table picture book of Chuck and Di’s Engagement and Wedding and Honeymoon (I’m wondering if it’s worth anything.) but I also found this…
and yes, it’s a spiral notebook. But it’s not just any spiral notebook.
It’s full, btw
For some years, this – and several others – stayed with me no matter where I went. Because my muses talked incessantly and rather than have a headache, I wrote. I wrote on breaks, I wrote at lunch, and I would come home and type up what I had written.
When I moved further south in 2006, the notebook I had been writing in at the time – 2/3rd of the way through Rider of the Mark, went missing. My muses didn’t with to repeat themselves so after telling me they were going to the beach, they just left for the entire 4 years. I found the notebook as I was packing up, so I made sure it made its way in my suitcase in the car and suddenly the bastards all showed back up, hungry and ready to talk.
HOLY COW! We have a screech owl in the back yard. I know why they call them SCREECH owls!!!!
ANYWAY!
To find this again brings back memories. The story written here has been years in the mothballs and I took the online version out this summer. I think I’ll finish it. I figure I only have a few chapters left, can’t understand WHY I walked away from it. For the record, it was a LOTR/HP crossover and either loved immensely or hated tremendously. GAFF hated my guts and put my first piece up in their 10 most pathetic and horrid fanfics of all time. As if I care. For the record, I’ve read some of THEIR writings and they have nothing to brag about, believe me.
I think I’ll put this in my drop file of paid bills, records, leases, contracts and olde writings of Zee. Don’t know what Spawn will do with it when I die. But there ya have it.
What are you doing this weekend? I am unpacking boxes and hanging pictures and trying to find the 3rd gift I purchased for the Flat Richie box. I could have SWORN I put all 3 in my top dresser drawer when I moved but apparently I only put two of them up there. Granted it will be no biggie to go BACK to the Riverfront and purchase them again – and take Flat Richie with me because he would like the Riverfront and historical downtown Savannah.
Oh! Things I’m looking forward to:
- The Arrival of Flat Richie, whenever that may be.
- Getting my house set up finally.
- Thanksgiving. (Going home for a week. Hope to meet up with friends!)
- The Arrival of the Robovac a friend got me as a house warming.
- Cooler weather.
- This screech owl going elsewhere!
Now. Are you ready for Guyderday???
There you have it. Guyderday. Or should it be Guyterday?
When I started this is was sunny and bright and no clouds. Now it’s raining.
At least the screech owl is gone.
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Oh my god, your hair is so long. It looks great on you!!!
Hope your blood sugars will come down.
That notebook looks obsessive/impressive 😉
And that second photo – Guy in b/w – is stunning!
My hair gets caught in the seatbelt, gets tucked under my arm when I roll over at night, so I pull it and it wakes me up. It’s also VERY fine, so it snarls and tangles and I”m tender-headed. Come Thanksgiving or Christmas, it’s getting whacked and I”ll donate it like I did the last time. The last time, it was about a foot longer.
I’m drinking water water water. It NEEDS to come down.
That notebook is one of 2 or 3 like that. and it was VERY obsessive.
Guy in black and white…. soooo yummy!
The donation plan is such a good idea, Zee. (I wanted to do that once, too, but my hair never grows long enough, so I never did.)
Right now, it’s very heavy and hot. The only thing I can do with it is keep it up in a ponytail.
Is there any place close to you where you can donate the hair?
Not that I know of. I’ve mailed it in in the past. Need to remember WHERE I sent it to last time. It was NOT Locks Of Love. (They CHARGE for their wigs.)
Well guess I was thinking if you donated they do the cutting and it’s free so you get a haircut and they get your beautiful locks ! Naive and ignorant of me no?
Some places donate for you. They still charge for the hairbob tho.
can you DIY it or have Spawn cut off some of it to shorten it a bit?
If I shorten it, I can’t donate it. It has to be a certain length and I’m just now reaching that length. besides, I don’t DIY hair. Evah! I pay someone to do that.
ahh well I don’t either although I am going to color mine now to tide me over.
Same here. Always wearing it in a knot. Boring 😟
I can’t do anything else with it. It’s stringy and in the way and hot. I’ll take a boring bob any day!
Laying in a hospital,bed, would rather be hanging pictures.
OMG! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE HOSPITAL?????
Not good.I will pm you
,not for a while when I get out of here.
Well our thoughts are with you and massive hugs to you!
I hope all is ok lovely! 😘
Take care of yourself and get well already!
Nothing better than GOOD VIBES FROM FANS to recover, right? Je pense à vous.
So sorry to hear you‘re in hospital! Get well soon!!!
Guy er Day is great any day!!
What is GAFF?
I concur the outfit looks great on you!!
It must have been wonderful to find that spiral notebook
The memories and inspiration for new writings!!
Take care of yourself please and take your meds!!
I love Guy. What can I say???
GAFF – Gawd Awful Fanfiction. A huge website – now defunct – that for many years, destroyed fanfic authors for a variety of reasons. mainly because they themselves a) couldn’t write and b) were insulted someone else was. Now granted, they did have doozies of horrible fanfiction up that they mocked and made fun of. I had the distinction of being well read and the person who ‘reported’ me was angry and jealous that her pitiful offering at the group where it was posted, wasn’t as well received or reviewed as she would like. None of these people had ever heard of the little X on the top right hand corner. The flames left at a few places were priceless.
I like the outfit. I just look like a cow. Moo.
It made my day to find it. I’d like to find the green one with all of my Rohirrim writing and notes. They are going in the file cabinet.
Meds have been taken. I”m drinking a TON of water and I’m starving to death. I just can’t eat enough today. I”m getting ready to dig out the crackers and peanut butter – I”m THAT hungry!
I like very much screech owls. Try to find ball of rejection on the ground, to study their food (bones, debris of insects, lizards, frogs, …)
All in black and white, I find +++ For very cold winter days:
https://www.helochic.com/products/pull-de-grande-taille-decontracte-a-manches-longues-et-a-col-roule-1
This one stayed in my yard for 30 minutes fussing at the wind! He then went from yard to yard continuing. He’s was quite beautiful. but eventually he moved on.
Often they live in uncrowded places, your home may have been uninhabited for a long time before your arrival.
I’ve never seen him here before. Perhaps he was passing through.
We had HUGE woodpeckers about a month ago. Beautiful.
I also have a family of squirrels in my back tree. Fat, healthy things!
I think you wrote something about peckers and me too…I am going to bed, have a good saturday evening.
Good night!!! sleep welL!
grey squirrels like me!
Grey squirrels are darling! Quite smart too!
Aaaaaaaaaaaand I just saw the price tag!!! It will stay gorgeous on the website.
Ahh yup! 😉
): my clothes are expensive; but at work I have to be stylish
I”m stylish, but I have a STRICT budget… and I shop sales and clearance!!!
Squirrel did you buy it? Very cute! Will be ideal for London in February! 😘❤️
I LOVE IT IN THE PURPLE!!!
Yes me too!! I own a small amount of purple though
Purple is def your color!!!
But I can’t afford that!!!! Oh well!!
Ahh lots of other sites for purple to be found!!
I would like to go on losing weight to reach my “Love Love Love” shape…
I bought that:
https://www.armandthiery.fr/fr/robes/affinites/robe-maille-carreaux-p-24948-coul-24.htm
grey with dragonflies, flowers…
https://www.armandthiery.fr/fr/cardigans/affinites/cardigan-fantaisie-p-12894-coul-91.htm
https://www.christine-laure.fr/gilet-bleu-grosse-maille-6.html
Those are GORGEOUS!!!!!
All very nice unlike the third fly away cardigan especially
The colors are beautiful!! The dress would be cute for the theatre with a cardigan or jacket for warmth! 😘❤️👏👏
Thank you Zee and Michele!
I often wear the dress and the cardigan together; both warm and comfortable
Adding brooches of course and black shoes with black, blue or transparent stockings
My son came back with one and a half big cheese.
https://www.aop-saintnectaire.com/
I cooked a cake with pears and a quiche with tomato ham watercress; so I have to be careful.
I thought you were going to bed!bits like 2;30 am by you almost ! I’m exhausted and it’s only 8:30 neatly here on East Coast!! Night owl indeed!!
That pear cake and quiche sound very scrumptious 😘❤️
Yeah!!! You’re still up talking clothes with us!!!
I have sugar cookie mix in the pantry and I’m pretending it isn’t there. I made a pot pie for dinner and Spawn went out and got me a Coke Zero.
Ici on passe à l’heure d’hiver. Je vais gagner une heure de plus de “sommeil” cette nuit. Bonne nuit, donc bye bye définitivement, je baille.
Well, I do hope your bladder comes under control. it is terrible when you try to sleep or are extremely sleepy and have to get up to run to the bathroom all the time. Hoping the sugar goes down.
You are correct it does sound like the Swedish Chef is speaking. But I thank you for the delicious dishes he served up. Tall and sexy and in a leather covering to boot. Awesome.
Gaff? Sounds like a group of pitiful people who love making fun of others because they cannot make the grade. Sadly they are losers and they have to try and take others down with them. You proved your worth as a writer and I am sure you have received more kudo’s then they can think of. Best to you and have a good night’s filled with sleep for your tired body. PS: Most of us do not like the way we look but remember “We never see ourselves as others do”. We are our own worst enemies.
I was up 6 times last night.
Gaff is no longer around. One man paid for the site for over a decade and when recession hit, he up and closed it. DIdn’t ask for help, nada. There was a HUGE amount of wank and nastiness and I was glad to see it gone. There were flame sites on LJ, all of them went toasty cheese when the Russians took over and shut down all hate speech.
Every now and again, I would be targeted and it served to help me create a thick skin. You can’t please everyone and if you try, you’ll go nuts.
Before Spawn, I liked my looks. I”ve never lost that baby weigh and it yoyos. Along with my blood sugar. I desperately need sleep tonight.
I am constantly trying to lose weight, however, I lose very very slowly and walk 2 miles a day at least. But it takes for ever for even 1 lb to come off. But then I do not get the pleasure of eating either with a bad stomach. My medicine keeps it on me. So I keep on trying. It is all you can do. Good luck in all ways.
A lot of women say once they have a child it is so hard to keep their weight down and regulated. So I don’t think you are alone on that.
I will add the older we get it’s hard for the metabolism to keep up with our food intake at least for me so even exercising the little bit I do I haven’t seen great results as
much as I wanted to
That and after menopause. THe previous 2 years, I dieted and walked 2 miles almost every day and drank so much water over the summer and the only thing to come down was my blood sugar. I would weigh the exact same the day before school started as I did in my weigh in when it was over 8 weeks before. So depressing.
That second black and white picture of Guy, is gorgeous, it has a dreamlike feel to it.
I like that outfit on you, you certainly don’t look like a cow! Would an inch or so off the hem of the tunic so that more of the leggings show make you feel better in it?
Menopause has been the killer for me with my weight. I’ve always had a more Rubenesque shape than a Twiggy one😆but I never had a spare tyre – now I have two!! My arthritis is playing up and I’ve read that sugar can cause inflammation, so I’m going to tackle losing weight from another perspective – cut out the sugar and hope that both the arthritis and the kilos are reduced.😏😉 Touch wood, I’m healthy, but I know I’ll feel much more comfortable losing even just a few kilos.
Putting my Mum hat on here for a moment, does Coke Zero have some sort of sugar substitute? Because apparently those can have the same effect on your blood sugar as real sugar. 😉
I’m glad you found your notebook! My Saturday was spent scanning old family photos and loading them into my Ancestry tree. They are in old albums belonging to my paternal grandmother (left to me because I am the family archivist) and all the photos are glued in, mostly of unidentified family members. Consequently I’ve had to do some sleuthing. I found that the old vicarage where my dad’s family lived around 1930 still exists by looking up Google Earth images, so at least I was able to place and date many of the photos. Less exciting today but it still has to be done is the ironing!
I hope you can get some sleep this weekend *hugs*
Sleep has been…. interrupted. Not as bad last night as the night before, but still. Interrupted.
The good thing with drinking the coke zero is – no sugar. It does have aspartame, but it’s like the 4th ingredient, so not that much. Sometimes I can find it with Splenda, but it’s so sweet. I don’t LIKE Coke Zero as much as I like regular Coke, so I do drink less of it and more water. So it’s a give and take.
My heart squeezes when I find things that bring back good memories. My coworkers used to tease me about my notebook, but I wrote anyway. At least when I had it out and writing, people tended to leave me alone.
I should post old pictures of me. I was VERY thin. Slender and now I have a dunlop that I struggle to keep clean and dry. Occasionally, I get yeast infections or heat rash in them and getting rid of it can take weeks. I have one now that just goes from side to side. I’ve started treating the entire range rather than just the rash, so it will go away!
The thing that bothers me with the tunic is the slit is much closer together than pictures on the webpage or the catalog. I have to really MOVE in order for the leggings to be seen, other than the 4 inches at the bottom. Not to mention, I have a dunlop so it’s very visible. If I ever lost weight, I would have a tummy tuck.
Sigh . . . Guy 🎃 What were you sayin’ Zee 👻
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