< 
I’m working on the new book, tentatively entitled “Arlo & Janis after Dark,” and here I am giving away the merchandise. Yes, production of the new book is behind schedule, but I think it’s going to be a lot of fun. And yes, it’s mostly old material, but if you’re worried that you’ve seen a lot of it already, think how I feel.
387 responses to “‘Oft Go Awry’”
Jimmy, right before I read “Well, quit wookin’ at me,” my husband and I had played a round of middle-aged peek-a-boo. Good relationships never grow up.
Debbe, if you get cravings, would something like mint TicTacs help? Easy to keep handy, two calories each, and maybe the mint would help curb the menthol desire. And hooray for Ian’s clog busting abilities!
Ghost kitty was down playing with my furry sweater tails and decided to scale me from floor via sweater. Then he decided he wanted to lick the salad bowl before Dickens could lick it.. we are having cat squabbles, this is first effort to turn some into house cats.
Thank you for support Ghost, it will take me awhile to get sugars, salts and fats out of my body but weight dropped three pounds already. By next week I will be clean again. I sent all the sweets I had bought home with Kyle, especially the decadent chocolate ones. Gone to Kyle’s wife who is still fat and not dieting, so I don’t feel guilty. Hopefully he gets to eat some.
I am below my calorie allowance and full of salad greens including kale which I actually like.
Ghost is back playing with my tails. This sweater is a long vest that goes over another sweater dress and leggings and boots. It is fluffy like an angora wool and has gray and black large animal spots so he may think I am large cat or cat toy.
Note to Debbe, keep your mouth busy and your hands. Cigarettes are mouth and hand addictions. Remember Kojack and that lollipop? He put it in and out all the time.
Drink something, anything and do it constantly. For me it is iced tea or Diet Coke but it is the hand mouth thing. Get nuts or chips or anything you can chew on, celery, , gum, jerky things that need lots of chewing mindlessly. Ice works too.
If you can phone or text I will give you my numbers. I am entertaining, even more so when I am not online being sweet and polite. You can tell me anything, say anything and I am not shock able.
You do this and do it one day, one afternoon. One hour, one minute at a time. If you fail, turn the page and start over. You can do this.
Home again. Ran out of the rain just as the temp hit freezing and before things got nasty.
Debbe 😉 I love this Christmas carol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT1fA59oH7Q
Missed a couple of tunes; I’ll make it up later.
Good morning. Up for short break. It isn’t cold in house, I am in a tank tee pajama top, but my iced tea glass on night stand has not melted ie. the ice and tea is still there. I went back and looked at posts, so six hours?
So I am drinking it. It says 9 degrees outside. Guess it was sitting close to outside wall. Hope those cats that ran out are OK outside.
Good morning everybody. Hope everybody’s week goes well as we head for Christmas. I haven’t posted much here since I moved, what with getting settled in and other distractions.
Just wanted to say the move has had many positive effects for me, and I feel more upbeat about the direction my life is taking. Getting out more, meeting new people, and eating healthier. So not all of 2016 has been bad.
I wish the rest of you could say the same, but this year’s nearly done and a new one is coming. May all of the Village have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And may God bless all of you and give you the strength and peace you need to carry on! God us, every one!
God bless us! Jimmy, where’s that correction button?
Awake again, it is a whopping 13 outside! I coughed a lot all night and began to fear I was getting ill. Still planning on going to Illinois. Bought fleece lined leggings which I have never owned.
Haven’t found my corduroy or velvet jeans yet.
Debbe and Jackie: Strength and tranquility to you as you pursue your worthy goals. I believe in you.
(I have to add this stupid parenthetical because stupid software will not let me post “same” message twice.)
When Jackie mentioned “suede bras”, my first thought was that they must have been meant to go with Janis’s lederhosen. (Well, OK, my second thought. 😉 ) But I think we can all agree that her lederhosen were more “effective” sans bra.
Good morning Villagers….
Mark, I am so happy for you and post above is greatly appreciated.
All my bags are packed and I’m ready to go……there’s a song there 🙂
Well, I’ve already blew today off…got to go into Home Depot and buy a couple of bottles of liquid Septic Shock.
Jackie, I don’t have your email address. And I won’t have access to the internet so I will be off the radar for two weeks. I hope that one of my sisters will relieve me for a night or two. Sister #3 lives in town, she said she would sit with Dad and I could use their computer.
I’ll be back….need to get to town now. Post your email and I’ll give you Dad’s phone number.
GR 😉 ….oh, babe I hate to go
This for everyone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbKQ7nXx0o8
This morning is messed up, some good, some bad. Weight is down seven pounds from where I began last week but we all know that is fluid, water retention, not fat.
Got up in dark and ran into bathroom, water all over floor from toilet but clear water coming out from toilet bowl. Thank goodness. Bailed out into tub, it is full again. There is an outside faucet right behind. Frozen?
Found some fleece leggings. NOW I can see those extra pounds! I hate layering. So far have the fleece leggings, a sweater, a crocheted tunic, adding a long cardigan over that, a hat, gloves aND heavier shawl or poncho of some sort. So I can peel like an onion. Sun is shining too.
Debbe contact me at jackie.monies2324@gmail.com and do not forget that silly dot between jackie and monies. I will call you on your dad’s land line so it doesn’t cost you anything. You can vent your frustrations on me.
And you ARE going to need someone to talk to. Family isn’t going to work. I am a florist, we have heard and seen most things.
Ghost, my first thought on suede bras were where the heck had I been shopping? I mean I get stuff all the time I do not remember ordering or why? My buying mistakes go to my young house cleaner cum closet organizer or my hair dressers. My new policy is “It ain’t ever gonna fit you” so don’t keep it.
Think about ball caps, they look like these new molded bras that promise you’ll look two sizes bigger. That blonde who was on Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition poses for a lot of “full figured” lingerie ads, she is easily recognized. I want to know where they found one big enough in inventory to shoot the ads?
Since normally they top out at 40DDD or 42DDD in largest, makes me wonder. I honestly think I was 34 or 36 when I was young and no one admitted to being larger than a C cup in those days so we squeezed into the smaller sizes.
Can’t imagine all they “lifting” and “pushing” and “two sizes bigger” are not solely for benefit of men like you!
There was a ’60s college song re ‘Jennifer 44D.’ Among other accomplishments, she made the football team. Am still in annual contact with ‘girl’ who taught it to me. Now lives down with some of you. Houston? Her annual letter is at the other end of the house.
Trouble w/ annual letters = they sometimes contain news you’d not want to hear. OTH, gives you someone to pray for [a couple, standard m/f variety], a top BSU student and her spouse, both now retired, I think. That’s another trouble: former students now retiring or, a few, dying. Student in 1st par. above is close to retirement.
Peace,
There’s a minor planet named 3772 Piaf, among the other good things in: http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20161219/ Peace,
Mark, that is sure some wonderful news. May things be even more positive for you in ’17!
Jackie, please take care of yourself so you don’t miss time with your little baker!
Liquid Septic Shock sounds like probiotics for your septic tank, Debbe. 😉 My only encounter with a septic problem was in a cottage we rented for a week; made this suburban gal thankful for sewer lines.
Travel safely if traveling you do this holiday season, Villagers. I hope it is a season full of the people and joys you most treasure.
Here is another thought from me. From age 13 on I was constantly not eating rather than eating. That was to stay thin and yet I think I was regarded as chubby or at least full figured. I can honestly only remember a girl or two who was actually “fat.”
In 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s the goal was thin, skinny, not even full figured. I was always not eating or on a diet. I moved to Oklahoma in 1990s and everyone seemed fat, no one skinny except in Tulsa.
Now I look around me and people of all ages are fat, children, teens, young adults, older, seniors, men, women. I see them in restaurants, groceries, shopping. When did obese become the norm? And why?
Has it become accepted, like dressing badly, sloppy appearances?
“When did obese become the norm?” When we reached the point of having an abundance of relatively cheap, if unhealthy, fast food, coupled with an increasingly sedentary life-style, I would suspect.
I didn’t have too much leisure time during my three-day weekend trip, but I did get to enjoy a couple of things. One meeting took place at a “dive bar”, or at least a newly built facility designed to look like one. They had a limited but actually quite good “feed-the-drunks-so-they-will-stay-and-drink-some-more” menu. I struck up a conversation with the “cook”, who turned out to be a full-fledged chef from Lafayette. The barmaid/waitress was friendly, efficient, and well-equipped cleavage-wise, due in no small part to her obligatory push-up bra. (As the man I was meeting said, “I keep getting older, but the barmaids stay young!”)
I managed to get some decent goyza and makisushi for lunch yesterday, before the temperature started dropping. Another benefit of being in still-warm climes was the young lady at the next table wearing what a friend once described as “short-shorts, cut off and rolled up”. Annnd she had the legs for it, praise the Lord for small favors.
Debbe 😉 A make up…this version of this song moves me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxDZjg_Igoc
Debbe 😉 Another make up…if you looked up “joyful” in the dictionary, you’d probably see this guy’s picture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9GtPX6c_kg
Debbe 😉 Oh, I’ll bet you could have put that T-SO keyboardist in the shade. 🙂