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[KnottedYet]

I love my cleaver.

Other cooks may have their Wusthof cook's knives, their Wetckersbach (sp) their beautiful expensive makume gane. Me, I've got a $14 ancient nicked and re-sharpened Chicago Cutlery cleaver. I can do just about everything with my cleaver. Delicate chocolate shavings, great whacking chicken dismemberment. My cleaver can handle it.

And I sharpen it myself on a flatstone.

I am Butch Island Girl cook, hear me roar!

[Kitsune06]

NOOO!!!! CWR!!!!!
Updates for Windows systems can mean that your computer will NEVER WORK RIGHT AGAIN!!!! (can you tell I'm a mac fan?)

I'll look into Columbia etc, but while I'm working on a tight budget for now, I'm just going to have to try on a million different things, I think... =P

*glances upward* Not going there. This is a family forum. *pulls out a fire extinguisher just in case*

[Bikingmomof3]

Kit, those pants boochy out at the waist/kidneys because you and I have hourglass figures. Curvaceous hips and slender pinched waists. Most women's clothes are made with wider waists than we have, cuz most women have wider waists than we have. Or is it that we have wider hips?

Let me join in the curvaceous hip club, please, since these hips are not going anywhere. I like the idea of a "slender pinched waist" instead of a wide bum.

The only jeans I have found to fit without the pooch are Gap Long and Lean (the 100% cotton ones with button fly).

[KnottedYet]

Mac Rulz, Windows Droolz!!!!!!

[Kitsune06]

I don't know how I could *manage* a big butt/wide hips at my size. It's gotta be that hourglass figure thing.

My ex is such an a**. He had the audacity to tell me I didn't have "a feminine figure"... just b/c his gf is a belly dancer and has big t*ts. ARGH.

[Bikingmomof3]

I have had it. Here begins my mini rant-feel free to skip this part.

I cannot find/choose a jacket for running.

I layer. I luuuuuuuuve Under Armour. I have a sick obsession with it. I cannot help myself, it feels so good.

Maybe I will just buy their jacket and get it over with.

Cold never used to bother me until this year. Now I find running in damp 20 degree weather chilly.

Rant over.

DH is bringing home donuts. Yes they are fattening and completely devoid of nutrition, but I have been craving them for 2 days now. I even dreamed of eating them. I caved.

[KnottedYet]

Let me join in the curvaceous hip club, please, since these hips are not going anywhere. I like the idea of a "slender pinched waist" instead of a wide bum.

The only jeans I have found to fit without the pooch are Gap Long and Lean (the 100% cotton ones with button fly).

Good old fashioned shrink-to-fit button fly Levi 501's will work, too. As will Levi 560 (men's, they don't make women's anymore)

I wear 31w 32L men's 560s, or women's 12 long 560s (still have one pair left from 5 or 10 years ago)

What I wear in s-to-f 501s is, of course, very different. But they do shrink, and they do fit. Though mine get so loose after a couple days that I have to wash and dry them again to get them snug enough. Next time I'll get smaller ones.

[Bikingmomof3]

I don't know how I could *manage* a big butt/wide hips at my size. It's gotta be that hourglass figure thing.

My hips came with each delivery. Prior to kids I had no figure to speak of.

My ex is such an a**. He had the audacity to tell me I didn't have "a feminine figure".

What a horribly cruel thing to say. I am sorry he said such a mean thing to you. And what exactly is a "feminine figure"? I like that we all come in various shapes and sizes. Imagine if we all looked the same.

[Bikingmomof3]

With the tap, they probably took a sample of cerebral spinal fluid and tested it. While they were there, they should have checked your pressure. Since the spinal fluid runs into your ventricles of your brain, they can look to see if it's too high, causing undue pressure. It can affect you with headaches, migraines, dizzyness, pains all over your body, syncopal episodes... If they find you run very high normally, and taking some out relieves symptoms, they may be able to do a shunt type of thing. Just a thought.

(Shudder), that sounds painful. I will eat my donuts (they are almost here) and hope the neurologist only has pleasant things planned for me.

[CyclChyk]

BOM3 I am pretty sure that with all the other stuff on your plate the donuts will be void of calories so you should feel no guilt for caving. You deserve to eat them.

And as for the jeans thing, I must offer my rant: I loathe (yes loathe) that I can never find jeans that fit both my waist and hips. Is it a rule that if a woman has even a smide of "junk" that the waist will be big too?? Jeans for me are always too big in the waist. This is why I usually wear low rise. They at least come close.

[Bikingmomof3]

BOM3 I am pretty sure that with all the other stuff on your plate the donuts will be void of calories so you should feel no guilt for caving. You deserve to eat them.

That is what I told myself, now I feel ill. One too many donuts.

And as for the jeans thing, I must offer my rant: I loathe (yes loathe) that I can never find jeans that fit both my waist and hips. Is it a rule that if a woman has even a smide of "junk" that the waist will be big too?? Jeans for me are always too big in the waist. This is why I usually wear low rise. They at least come close.

I forgot to mention the jeans I am wearing (smacks head). Lucky Brand Button Fly. They go by waist measurement and so far have never failed to fit me. I refuse to pay the high price charged in stores, especially since I kept losing weight (YAY ME) and then when I began cycling my shape changed. I buy all my jeans off ebay (new with tags).

[Xrayted]

I lied. I'm back already. I'm getting quicker at positioning and technique, what can I say? (Oh, you know what I mean.)
You're a real bunch of chatty Cathy's tonight aren't ya?
BMo3 - actually doesn't hurt except for a needle pinch. For the pressure, they go in at L3-4 level of your spine, below the cauda equina. There is no spinal cord there, just "shooters". No chance of paralyzing or damage. They use a manometer (barometer) to measure mm of mercury of pressure. (I say "they" but I actually help with these.) Takes about 30 minutes. Can tell them a lot. But like I said, they probably did that when you had the tap. It's standard to do it while you're there.

Eat the donuts and don't look back.

Knot - Looove my BF Levis. I've got the hourglass curves too. I'm getting looser in my 8's and heading back to a 6 I hope. Next year maybe. 29 inseam tho so I'm right in between a short and a medium length. I'd really love to pull out those old, comfy, tore up, broken-in size 6 BF's and take 'em for a spin. Of course, I don't have the cut abs you've got. And NO, it wasn't just the lighting and ya know it. You earned 'em so show 'em off.

Kit - don't let him get to you. Big ones just become looooong ones anyway.

Oh, I see you're wondering about last year's "dance", huh? It was hilarious and crazy and totally unexpected. I'm not gotten easily and they got me good. But not telling on here. Sorry. **blushing**

I'll check back later if I'm not too plastered. (cheap date=early night )

X.

[Fredwina]

Couldn't resist:
http://www.rogerkramercycling.org/HTML/Donut.htm
and
http://www.tourdedoughnut.com/
I've been told that One rest at El Tour De Tuscon is stocked with Krispy kremes. Maybe I'll report in a couple of weeks when I do the ride

[Kitsune06]

My last post suddenly seemed really dumb after recent events. I'd just posed it when a lady comes crying to my office and says a man is outside "who shouldn't be here."
Who is he?
Her ex, who said he'd kill her new boyfriend and her if he saw them together. He's pacing the parkinglot looking for her.

I go over our policies and procedures because I've been written up enough for not using policy (and instead, *gasp!* using logic...)
Policy says: If you're the only officer on duty and there's a suspicious person on property, take the cell phone and radio and call a manager to inform them when you're leaving and ask them to check in on you every 5 minutes.

The manager on deck instead comes to the office and says he wants to speak with me in person, will check in, but will also watch to see when I come back. I could kiss him.

One of our emergency personnel overhears this and says "I'm going with you- you're not going alone." I could kiss him, too. He calls a big bear of a guy over and says "You come with us." Bear-guy nods. The woman points the guy out and we start out. Me in front (though at my size, I'm not all that excited about this...) and the two big guys behind me. I ask him if he works here, no, he's looking for his wife... well your wife starts shift now, she's not available for discussion... ...well, she doesn't know what she's doing, ending our relationship I need to talk to her... well, you have her phone number... you can speak to her outside of work with a mediator...
He keeps stepping toward me and then backing away a little as we converse. The big guys behind me get closer. He assures me his life is over and gets in his truck.

Eventually he leaves, telling me I can't possibly understand, and all the while I'm thanking everything Good that my divorce wasn't that way, and that things didn't go bad. The guy burns rubber out of our parking lot and I'm standing there in the pouring rain watching to make sure he leaves the property without hurting anyone.

I'm positively shaking as I come back into the building, thanking the guys who went out with me and the manager who waited.

Now I know I face getting written up (again?) for violating procedure because when the ERT guy volunteered to go outside with me, I should have said no and recruited a manager to go outside with me instead (liability issues) and probably also that I called a manager in the first place (who knows?)

Security officers are some of the most sh*t on people out there... 9/10 of the time if something bad happens, it's either my *ss or my manager's if things aren't done *exactly* the way people want them done, regardless of the situation. If I'd have taken the time to call another manager down, I'd get pinched for taking unnecessary risk in allowing him to be on the grounds longer than necessary. If I'd have refused the guys' help, I'd be pinching *myself* for going out there alone to inform a 6'8" bull of a guy that his (ex) wife no longer wanted to speak to him.
I kinda want to cry. I wish I didn't have to write that f*cking report. Thank god I'm leaving this place.

[DebW]

Good old fashioned shrink-to-fit button fly Levi 501's will work, too. As will Levi 560 (men's, they don't make women's anymore)

I wear 31w 32L men's 560s, or women's 12 long 560s (still have one pair left from 5 or 10 years ago)

Most of my wear-to-work pants are men's Dockers 30x32. Great fit with just a little extra in the waist (should remember to wear belt). In Levis I got 31x32 but they're always drooping. I have given up on women's pants because they either don't have pockets, don't have enough pockets, or the pockets are so shallow that things fall out. I don't really like the front pockets on jean because you have to put your hands in from the top, and they cut off your circulation if you leave your hands there very long. The side-entry pockets of Dockets are much better.