And that was 13 years ago! I’m sorry to have been away so long. Between the rain and the holidays, the routine around here was knocked into a cocked hat last week. I don’t have a lot of time today, either, but I thought I’d better get things moving again. This comic from 2003 seems appropriate to the task.
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Saw the first three episodes of Star Wars (or whatever numbers they were supposed to be). Felt the CGI was impressive (for its time). Noticed the basic plot could have been slipped into any number of eras, settings or genres. Never bothered to watch any other episodes. Certainly never became a fanboy. Can’t imagine I will bother to watch this one. But, whatever blows your skirt up.
Jackie, I am impressed by and urge you to continue with your remodeling project, on both your house and yourself. Sometimes nothing but a radical rebuild will do. Something I myself am contemplating.
Debbe 😉 No, not all of the tunes are workout tempo, because a proper workout consists of a warm up, a workout, and a cool down. I just didn’t bother to put these in any particular order, as I would have if arranging a workout playlist. However, I suspect you’d have been more than able to do any of them justice on the dance floor. Especially this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
Thank you Ghost. You have inspired me and challenged me for past two years. I might be wallowing in fat and pity were it not for you and the Village inhabitants. We’re we to have elected officials you’d be a shoo in for mayor cum gunslinger.
You will be happy to know that soon you’ll be able to follow my adventures on a blog like this complete with members without the necessity of lowering yourself to Facebook. I’ll invite everyone here and all my Facebook friends, you can comment and harass me both here and there and I am so looking forward to it. I have wanted to do this since I was 18 years old and read Travels With Charlie, further intensified by Blue Highways and William Leastheatmoon.
Marginally bound together by boats, it will be about traveling, people, food, lodging, camping, flowers, museums, art, the environment, as little politics as I can manage, some liberal leanings, some not so liberal. Just a big pot of the slurry of my mind. Fun times. Remember that tee shirt I bought that says “I DO MY OWN WRITING STUNTS”? THERE IS ANOTHER ONE THAT SAYS “BE CAREFUL, YOU MAY END UP IN MY NOVEL.”
love, Jackie Monies
A blog would be good, Jackie. I had noted your use of the word in a recent comment and hoped that was what you had in mind. Since you seem to have the same pack rat-featured mind as do I, I think it could be fun.
Yes, I think so too. My editor says he doesn’t care what I write as long as I carry a good phone with a camera and a way to send reports, no subject is off limits, that is fun. He says I attract good people who read and discuss, post. He knows because he has my page visits as well as postings. So I get to have fun but can’t do much traveling until I get release from cardiologist and the docpac that goes along. That just means I’ll have a clean bill of health from all, the Mouth full of caps and an estimate from the plastic surgeon but my own body parts.
I assured his screening employee that I already looked better than some of the case study patient photos in “after” and breasts augmentation was the last thing in world I’d pay for, but the idea was to get an appraisal and estimate, like trading in a car.
Not sure my sense of humor was appreciated but I got my appointment.
I had planned to get me a retirement vehicle, but the way things are looking, it will be a new paint job for the Crown Vic and getting its upholstery fluffed up instead. Sort of what you have in mind, Jackie? 🙂
My new retirement strategy is looking more and more like “Work until I die”.
I don’t do paint, was thinking more of getting some dings and crumpled taken out of the hood and maybe some underbody work. The upholstery is fluffy enoughw. We’ll see what the body shop has to say with the appraisal.
Hey, I need to go shift some laundry again.
Good morning Villagers…
Jackie, you still doing laundry…just be glad we have moved far enough that we aren’t in the wringer washer days…remember them???? I do, every Monday was laundry day, and Mom would use the same wash water for at least three loads (gasp)! Now I have one of those high efficiency washers that does not agitate, but uses water pressure….got to flow with the times I guess.
Fluffing work clothes up now. I come home with so much hen dust on me, all over my clothes and stocking cap. I don’t like to wash my hair every night. And I do wear a dust mask. My little Miss Peep is doing fine, heard a rooster crowing somewhere in that crowd of 79.000 hens yesterday….about the same time as the day before…I plucked two of the roosters out before they were culled, and put them somewhere….I don’t remember where, but I’ll find them.
Think I will make it a short day…..will probably be asleep way before the stroke of midnight.
Have a safe New Year’s Eve…..
It would not take my comment until I deleted a sentence…..something about a URL, ID number….
You guys are way over my head on this gas, at first (don’t laugh) I thought when gasohol was mentioned, you were talking about alcohol…..see where my mind goes, don’t you know 🙂
humpf…..curious, it took the sentence now.
GR 😉 come with me as I go to……..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQS4OE_YoS4
….and we’ll Samba 🙂
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Debbe 😉 Samba is good, hon. I’ve never been to Rio for Carnival, but I’ve always wanted to. From what I understand goes on at the street parades there, these young ladies are grossly overdressed and in fact are wearing the equivalent of overcoats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSScp7AONwI
Well, we’ve touched on various Slavic languages, German, Southern and others. Here’s a link to a list of Scots slang: http://www.firstfoot.com/dictionary/a.html
Well, I see by the old calendar on the wall (well, in my phone, actually) it’s time to end the rather, ah, relaxed approach I’ve had to diet and exercise the past month or so and buckle back down. In my partial defense, Weight Watchers has totally revamped their on-line site on which I depend heavily, (perhaps as part of their transition to becoming “Oprah Watchers”?), and I just haven’t had time to sit down and learn the ins-and-outs of it.
I won’t obsess about it, of course. I’ve been doing it long enough that it’s almost second nature to me, and I’m more in a maintenance mode than a “losing” mode now, anyway. But if any of you have been thinking the beginning of the New Year would be a good time to start shedding those few pounds you picked up over the holidays (or the several pounds you picked up over the past year), I would encourage you to put thoughts into actions. Again, don’t obsess about it (eschew rather than chew that second helping; take a pass on that sugary dessert; park a bit further from your destination and walk to it; etc.), but the really nice thing about weight loss is that it not only makes you feel better, it makes you feel better about yourself. Just ask me. Or Jackie.
Happy New Year!
Very late today, stay warm and snuggle close.
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Jackie feels fantastic. Had a 30 something chef asking if he could call me and for a phone number last night. I spelled my name and told him to Google or Facebook, it was all there. I said you do know how old I am? He said it was the personality, I was beautiful. Folks that is a wonderful thing to hear. No one notices your sparkling personality when you’re carrying around a ton of fat.
Honestly, I could kick my butt for what I did to myself but past is past, we have now and my nows are going to be good ones. I feel guilty for no dramatic suffering to get here but I still have more to lose so maybe I could suffer some in next six months? It’s all about just keep doing as Ghost says. And thank you Ghost, I didn’t need Weight Watchers on line, I had you and rest of the Village. Love, Jackie Monies
(Why is Jackie anonymous? Oversight or intention? Just curious.)
Jackie has had to change her phone/tablet a few times and got tired of having to keep putting her name in the comment box to post. So she started leaving it as anonymous.
Jackie thinks it an ironic commentary on one of the most transparent people on net actually. Mark sent me a detailed Google view of my house and buildings yesterday and we discussed my remodeling projects and all the flood issues, of course the photo is old, it is missing all the work I have done in last two years and am currently doing. Isn’t that neat, Mark in Alabama and me in Oklahoma?
Last night I was chatting with a friend in India, a bariatric and gastric surgeon, another surgeon friend in Idaho, orthopedic, an oil man in Texas, rancher. Isn’t it funny, the anonymity the net gives you or the connections? Well, lots of mine are boat connected but we share a lot more than boats.
It’s all about choice. You choose. Love, Jackie Monies
Cool.
OMG! Jackie the Cougar! 😀
Jean, missing you, dear. Of course, if you hosted as many folks for Christmas and New Year’s as you did for Thanksgiving, I can understand that you may be too tired to type. 🙂