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Your first concert?
What was the first concert you went to? Mine was: Paul Williams at the Cape Cod Melody Tent wayyy back in 1975.
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Your favorite arcade game (NON-VIDEO)
I'm talking about an arcade that has pinball games as their only electronics. All the old wooden, built-into-the-room kind of games. The kind of place that still has Zoltar the Fortune Teller, and the scale that costs a penny and gives you a fortune too. I'm torn between Whack-a-Mole and Skeeball. :bigsmile:
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Frozen Water Balloons
Has anyone seen these on Facebook or Pinterest? A co-worker posted a picture of hers on FB, and I just HAD to try it. I found them after going to three different stores, and paid $2.99 for 15 balloons! They're outside on the deck, as it's about 20 degrees here. I just checked them, and they're still liquid after more than…
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Once Upon a Time
OMG, now I have to wait THREE WHOLE WEEKS for a new episode??
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Joining the YMCA
I saw one local YMCA having a special rate, waiving their 'joining fee' ($25 on top of the usual $50 monthly membership) so I decided to have a look-see. Unfortunately I drove by it and had to double back and try again - found it 10 minutes late for my tour. Luckily the young fellow who showed me around was so nice.. This…
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New Year's Day
Will you be going to the movies on New Year's Day? My roomie wants to, and asked me today. She wants to go see "The Hobbit". Unfortunately (for her) I'd rather go see "Les Miserables". I don't think that's quite her taste.
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NSV - measurements
I didn't have a weight loss this morning, so I decided to break out the ol' measuring tape (and I mean OLD, this poor thing is curled, cracked and seriously needs replacing). I've lost a total of 8.5 inches overall in a little over a month. The most significant is 2.5 inches in the waist, the least is .5 inches in the…
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LOTR - Bakshi's folly
Does anyone remember Ralph Bakshi's version of The Lord of the Rings (1978)? Mixed critical reviews, but it actually was a financial success - it grossed $30 million on a $4 million budget. The animation was a mixed bag, you really didn't know what you were looking at half the time. The story, forget it, characters…
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No more alcohol!
Last night was the first straight Friday night I've had in a longgggg time. I haven't changed my weight log since 11/4 when I weighed in at 242.0 - since then I've been up as much as 5 pounds and then back down throughout the week. But I'd drink on Friday or Saturday, and the next morning there was that weight back again.…
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Terrific Turkey Chowder
I've finished making my famous turkey chowder from the remains of our Thanksgiving turkey - we bought a 12 pounder and must have had four pounds left. Here's the recipe. Two strips of bacon, rendered in the bottom of a large soup pot. Reserve for garnish. Saute 1/2 cup each of finely chopped white onion, carrot and celery…
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I got called a name at work today!!
I came back into the office after a bathroom break, and Roberta called me... a "skinny mini" !! :bigsmile: First NSV at work! No one's said ANYTHING to me before, and I haven't even lost 30 pounds!! :wink:
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Cooking quinoa for the first time..
How do you tell when it's done?
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INSANE sale going on!
At Famous Labels in the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, MA - their lease is up, and they're clearing the store. ALL items of clothing are only $1.50. Shirts, blouses, sweaters, skirts and pants. I've gotten three pairs of pants already, and I'm going to ask my mother if she'll go back and pick up some more. I grabbed a size…
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baby bananas
How the heck can a baby banana, which is about three inches long, be 80 calories?!! I mean, really!! A regular banana, seven to 8 1/2 inches, is 120 calories!! WTF!! :grumble:
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Back from my Annual physical (warning: female content)
Vicky the RN perused my recent bloodwork and told me my lipids were still high, esp. my LDL, and thankfully this time DIDN'T say "I want you to try a statin". She just told me to keep losing weight and have a new bloodwork done in three months so she can see downward progess.She's actually ecstatic about my weight loss!…
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NSV - Red Cross style
I went to donate blood at noon today. When the nurse reached for the blood pressure cuff, I said what I usually say, 'You'll probably have to get the larger cuff for me'. - Guess what, she put the standard size cuff on me, and it fit, no problem! :bigsmile:
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What should I do?
My roomer gave me a belated birthday present this morning. (Thursday I turned 52) She's how I ended up joining MFP. She'd already given me a pair of shell earrings, but she somehow felt the need to buy me... wait for it... a 12 ounce box of Whitman's Private Reserve chocolates. I've already eaten three of them. I told Mum…
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Possum!
There's a possum in the backyard right now, eating all my leftover fries from my splurge dinner Monday night! He's so CUTE! I wish I could take a picture and post it.
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Angry eating!
I got SO upset - I've simmered down a bit, but - after a bit of TV, I looked at my bills. Ugh, money issues. Too mundane to bother you with minutiae.. Long story short, I came downstairs and into the kitchen, grabbed the biggest knife out of the kitchen block and - ATTACK!! I hacked a poor defenseless pineapple to pieces!…
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NSV - in time for Halloween!
I bought a sexy pirate wench costume today, only one left, and it was a Large. I wasn't sure it would fit, since I'm just under 250 pounds on a five foot almost-two frame. Got it home, tried it on - YAY! It fit over everything! Even a bit big, on the bottom (where I'm biggest)! <doing the happy dance> :bigsmile: :laugh:
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Has anyone else noticed..?
In our posts on this forum, there are certain words underlined, not by the poster. If the cursor gets anywhere NEAR that word, it brings up an article, ad or something else that is NOT related at all to MFP. What's up with that?? :huh:
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Chicken Cutlets
I have defrosted chicken cutlets waiting for me. We have no breadcrumbs, and I don't want to use crackers (too much fat). There's no salsa to top them with, and the spaghetti sauce is frozen. I don't know what to do. I can thank my mother for this. I wanted to make Coca Cola chicken - mix a cup of ketchup & a can of Diet…
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NSV - new size
This is kind of funny. I've lost 13 pounds and clothes are fitting better. Still, I had some problem with, um, underwear. :blushing: Just not quite fitting right, always yanking them around, they're actually getting holes from me pulling at them. My mother asked if I needed anything at WalMart and I told her, yes, undies.…
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How 'nutritious' is haggis?!
I'm going to the Scottish Highland games in a week. I'm bound and determined not to be TOO bad about my eating/drinking while I'm there. Definitely staying away from the scotch egg (that's a hard-boiled egg with a sausage patty wrapped around it, battered and deep-fried, served sliced over a southern-style biscuit covered…
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Chia seed
What do you do with them? I've done a little research on the computer (not much) and I'd just like to know, how to use them. They certainly sound beneficial.
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Leftovers!
My manager brought in Chinese food she took home from a party. There was lo mein, crab rangoon, General Tso chicken, coconut shrimp (battered, coated liberally with coconut and DEEP-FRIED?!), and chicken wings. Dummy me, I brought home what was left after my co-workers ate their fill. Yes, I did eat some of it - one of the…
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My Grandma...
My mother's mother, Grandma Langevin (nee Wilson), if she was still alive, would have been 113 today.. actually, yesterday. She was born on September 1st, 1899. Mum told me this just today. She died very early, in 1947 or '48, from cancer. I wish I had known her. I've only known one out of my grandparents, Mum's dad, and…
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What's your costume for Halloween this year?
<This was last year's - Midnight Queen of the Masquerade. (OK, I made it out of bits and pieces of my own wardrobe, plus a KILLER mask, you can't really see the feathers and beads). I've been Flo the Progressive Salesgirl, and Mrs. Turnblad, Tracy's mom from Hairspray, all dolled up in a pink sequin dress and beehive wig.…
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McDonald's breakfast biscuit
I'm at work (Shhhhh...) and my manager gave a egg cheese and bacon biscuit from McD's. After looking it up I couldn't eat it. At least not all of it. Just the inside. How do I count this? Thanks. Be vewwy vewwy quiet.
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I'm really eating too fast!
I had a small bowl of instant miso soup and 7 pieces of sushi for dinner, and ate it all in less than 20 minutes. This is not good. Breakfast (yogurt with high fiber cereal mixed in) is eaten at my desk while working. Lunch is only 30 minutes long, and sometimes I use the microwave so that cuts into my time, so I eat…
