OK gone a few days and am amazed to see this tread still afloat...
Does anyone watch "American Next Top Model" or am I the only one?
Edited to add: 9 pages and counting....
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OK gone a few days and am amazed to see this tread still afloat...
Does anyone watch "American Next Top Model" or am I the only one?
Edited to add: 9 pages and counting....
My skeleton weighs about 120... :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by DrBee
(Actually, my lean body mass weighs about 135 lbs. How scary is that? Oh well. I am a bit over 5'6" :cool: )
I'd be very pleased to see 135. I'd be pleased to see 145. :o
I will never see those numbers while still breathing. Possibly after being flayed and boiled.
At 5' 1 1/2" I was pretty happy at 120 ish (usually 122)....
At 130ish (132 last I checked) I am trying to accept myself, but wishing for closer to 125.
It's really quite ironic that I've been diagnosed with a disease whose primary symptom is usually dramatic weight loss. Can you imagine? Just a few pounds....it would be such a relief! heehee
Actually, if I could just get my energy to stay for good I know that I can lose it - with energy I can bike, with biking I can lose weight! I can't wait!!
Hugs and butterflies,
~T~
Anybody go see Body Worlds?
i've watched america's next top model, but reruns, not the one that is on now. soon to change that though.
There are "auditions" in Cinci for some model show (I do not pay close attention to these things) BUT I noticed I could not even try in my wildest dreams (looks and weight aside) I am older then the cut-off of 27 and I am not the minimium height of 5'7. *sigh* :rolleyes:
Yeah, I'm not anorexic and 6 feet tall so I probably wouldn't qualify either. That, plus being almost 53 they'd consider me nursing home material, practically DEAD already!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3
Sigh...I'll have to try to find a life somehow, some other way.... :cool:
We just spent the day at the zoo with the in-laws. It was a fun time - a special weekend at the zoo for families, so they had lots of extra activities. It's sooooooo nice to live somewhere that has stuff to do!
I think we're getting crawfish again tonight. I'll eat some for you MP.
The new pup seems to have done nothing bad while we were out. :eek: She does have a thing about laying on the sofa, though. Ah well.
YES! I did! Very cool! My sister and I had a great time! We kept laughing and saying to each other in a groovy german accent, "Gunther vants to plastinate you, ya!"...."Gunther vants your body, ya!" :DQuote:
Originally Posted by crazybikinchic
Our talking like silly German tourists did not ammuse others however. They must have thought we were nuts! Did you sign up to donate your body?? Eeeww.
Hey, folks!
The new outside living room is beginning to take shape. I have erradicated the lilac (lots of digging - that was fun in the warm sun!) and tomorrow we will remove the debris, do more digging and levelling and try to figure out what our temporary cost-free plan is. We'd like to use the area this year, but it will probably be next year or the year after before DH installs the outdoor gas firepit, and we can afford to put proper rocks down, etc. We might decide to pay a little less down on our debts in order to do the rock this year, but we'll be sticking with the cheap plastic furniture for now.....etc.
And the peach tree looks a fright. I bet it has been 8 years or longer since it has been pruned. Since we have no idea what we are doing, it may not recover. We enjoyed having a few peaches last year, but I could easily do with twenty peaches or so, not the hundreds we got last year. Sad thing was, the tree lost several large branches due to the weight. Apparently we should have thinned the peaches out. :eek:
Time to get the veggies cooking. BBQ steak, too. yummy
H&B
~T~
9pm Saturday Night at the mimitabbyraleighdon house. Just me and the catz.
One more load of laundry and then lights out. Pretty exciting life I lead.
I am watching The Queen on "Lodgenet" in my hotel room.
Hockey game on in our living room. Lots of time to surf the TE TD threads. :D
Debating on getting a movie, but the wine is making me sleepy already.....
;) :p ;)
H&B
~T~
Just woke up from a nap. will be going to bed soon.
Crazybikinchic---I saw Body Worlds in Philadelphia. Verrry cool. Here is a link from wikpedia for those of you who are not familiar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Worlds
There is also a similiar exhibit in Las Vegas at the MGM, I think, but it is old and ratty looking and not as detailed.
Is this a thread for those of us with ADD. I think I have that oh look, shiny....
Laura
One of my dogs just woke me up at 7:30. I am not happy. Why didn't the light sleeper (DH) get up?
Maybe I should start early on the weeds in my backyard? I really want them gone so we can build a retaining wall. :rolleyes:
Hey, Aggie
'Cuda woke me up before 7:30 too. I'm still trying to decide - yoga and get my day started? or back to bed to cuddle? DH is still fully asleep.
hmmm
And yes, although I am the heavy sleeper, I am also the one who is up with the dogs, occasionally that happens 3 times a night, but usually it is just once.
Did you go weeding?
H&B
~T~
My last dog was awesome. He loved to sleep and wouldn't even think of getting up until you were already up. Unless he had some sort of very rare emergency situation. My dog before that, had DH up at the crack of dawn. In winter in Edmonton, that's no big deal. In summer, that means 4:30 or 5 AM!! Thank goodness DH would walk her, feed her and come back to bed. I just had to roll over and go back to sleep.
Body Worlds is coming to Portland soon. I'm definitely going.
Of course I should clarify. Dogs wake me up. I let them out, I use the bathroom, I let them in, they go back to bed. On a weekday, it's usually time to be up anyway, and I do yoga all on my own while the rest of the family sleeps. I should do this on weekends, too, but then I'd miss out on "cuddle" time. ;)
It was a good cuddle today. ;) ;)
Hugs & Butterflies,
~T~
Anybody get April fooled? I thought maybe it was a joke when DH phoned to say I had to pick him up because he'd had a flat about 20k from here. But it wasn't a joke. He'd really had a flat on his way to H€ll. Still, it was a convenient one in terms of timing. I'd just got in from pruning the currant bushes and had not yet gone out again. I drove out and picked him up, making it back home just in time for coffee at the neighbors'.
When we got back from coffee, I washed the kitchen floor and made supper* while DH, unasked and unannounced, Spring cleaned all of our bikes. :D RubySlipperz lookes absolutely jewellike, and Big Red is pretty gleaming too, though (s)he badly needs a new saddle.
*cassava melon, tomato/fresh basil/marinated feta salad, mashed carrots-and-potatoes, and thick-sliced ham steamed on top of the c&p as they boiled. A menu I learned while on a low-fiber diet. Should work for the gluten-challenged too.
with the new living arrangement in the morning now i let peanut crawl into bed for a bit. she loves it. she's such a cuddle bug! thankfully she's one of those that once you get out of bed then she does the ok.... i'll get up too.
I'm pleased (in an angst filled gruesome way) to read on Wikipedia that all the doners for Body World were "willing donors". Don't know if it was that I read or heard that the donors were prisoners of some sort and well....that means not exactly willing. Either way not sure how I feel about it for art or education. I suppose if it inspires someone to learn more about medicine or to take better care of themselves....maybe it's all good.Quote:
Originally Posted by horsemom
WTH?? I thought this was some wrestling show or something.. but after that post.. I've gotta go look up what the heck this thing is...Quote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
There are two body shows making the rounds. One has "willing donors" the other is mostly executed Chinese prisoners. The prisoner one is the one that's here in Seattle. Had a long discussion about it with one of the PT student interns at our clinic. He was boycotting the show because of the $$ paid to the Chinese government for the bodies and the shady documentation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
AH, now I understand! i was totally confused about the German thing
because I know they are chinese. There are 2 exhibits! ah!!!
Yes, I couldn't see going down to view someone whose mother is crying somewhere because she couldn't bury her son's body.
Personally, I think the whole thing is incredibly creepy.
The weeds are gone! The retaining wall is built. The tree rings are not done, but darn I am tired.
Why didn't I stop to put on sunscreen before venturing out? I slapped in on my face and went to work on the yard. Now I am red. I usually try to protect my fair skin, why not today? I just wanted one more thing to bother me. :rolleyes:
The body worlds is kind of creepy to me. That is just not my thing.
We (mostly DH) pruned the peach tree, and some mystery trees at the back of the yard. I moved the peony, hydrangea and english ivy. We hauled all the branches and cuttings out to the front lawn for chipping when the guys come around. Can't remember if that is this week or next week. We moved some stuff around in the carport and changed the position of the BBQ so it will be adjacent to the "outdoor living room". We hauled all the bags of leaves and other rakings to the curb also, for pickup - hopefully this week.
The dogs had a run in the park. 'Cuda has not licked his foot today. He'll have to wear the cone when we go to work tomorrow though.
We installed the new light in the kitchen. It looks magnificent. :D
I made a nice dinner with loads of vegetables, and chicken in a home made curry sauce.
And DH and I spent some time with the mardis gras mala's, and did a pseudo meditation session. And he wants to do it again tomorrow.
Now, if only I could focus on assignment number three of my course.
All in all it was a good weekend, despite that there was no time on the bike. Hopefully we'll get a ride in this week.
Hoping for good evening weather.
I hope you all had a super fabulous weekend! Hugs and butterflies,
~T~
Dum-de-dum, twiddling my thumbs.
I'm up in the middle of the night waiting to register for a race. Registration was supposed to open today, so I thought I'd wait up for midnight. But apparently the race people aren't up waiting to let us register. :mad:
Does this make any sense? Boy, am I tired!
Went for my bike ride last night after eating deep fried chicken...it came with me on the ride, was with me when I got back and is still sitting on my stomach this morning. I guess it just loves me!!! (but it was gggooooodddd)!
That peony prob'ly won't flower for another few years now. They don't like being moved. But they can't always get what they want. Sometimes ya gotta move'em, and they do survive it. They just take some years settling into their new home.Quote:
Originally Posted by LBTC
Good morning, Duck! You're right, and it's a risk I've had to take. I'm not terribly worried, though. When we moved in in June last year, there was no evidence that it had bloomed at all last year. And when my SIL, the award winning landscape designer, gave her recommendations for what to do with our overgrown yard, it was the only plant she recommended I move. When she said it was a peony, I was shocked. :p It didn't look like anything to me at the time. Besides, it was right in the middle of the corner we'll be developing as our "outdoor living room", so it had to go. It's now in a sunnier part of the yard, which I hope it likes, and as long as it grows, even if it does not bloom, I will be happy. Really, I'll be amazed at everything that survives and thrives under my care. I am so not a green thumb!
Hugs & Butterflies,
~T~
MOrning...
Waaaahhh.. I don't wanna go to work... sigh. Any lottery winners wanna adopt a tax write off???
AuntieK - man.. that is dedication!! Is there some limit to the number of entrants or something?
Violette - Sounds yummy. Isn't that a sign of good fuel - it stays with you and doesn't burn quickly?
One of mine bloomed for the first time last summer. I think I'd moved it once, thus delaying first bloom til age 4 or 5. Worth waiting for, though. Lovely! And yes, they like sun. Good luck with yours!Quote:
Originally Posted by LBTC
I have registered my oldest for kindergarten! Wow, what a weird feeling.
The new pup is doing great - she's adapted well to her new family and thoroughly enjoys "treeing" the cats and baying to her heart's content when she does.
I'm going to have to look up this body worlds thing now. It does sound exceptionally creepy. Ewwwww.
Have a great day!
a stranger feeling is cutting your son's hair and discovering grey hairs above his ears.
Mimi- I found my first grey at 19, wonder how my mom felt hearing that? MY dad has a gorgeous head of silver hair, I know who to thank for mine!
Why did my doctor feel he had to tell me ways to prevent a UTI? I do all those and still got one, thanks buddy! At least my boss told me to take the afternoon off without asking questions. Must be that I wasn't wearing makeup and looked pretty rough. :o Might be because he admitted having a hangover. Who has a hangover on Monday?
Your boss has a hangover, apparently. I hope you feel better soon.